Welcome We are delighted to bring you our latest collection of new and forthcoming titles for the first half of 2013 from our own imprints Oxbow Books, Windgather Press and Aris & Phillips alongside our many distributed publishers including the British Museum Press, British School at Rome, Maney Publishing and many more. We are delighted to welcome Pindar Press to Oxbow’s distribution list. Specialising in the art, architecture and archaeology of the Middle Ages, Byzantium, Antiquity and the Islamic World amongst other areas, you can see Pindar’s full back-list on our website, all available at our usual trade and library terms. Whether you are looking for your bookstore, your library or your own personal reading pleasure we’re sure you’ll find plenty of interest. Here are just a few highlights that await. The Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone See Page 31 Warwick Rodwell (Author) Constructed in 1297−1300 for King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranks amongst the most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from the Middle Ages. It incorporated in its seat a block of sandstone, which the king seized at Scone, following his victory over the Scots in 1296. For centuries, Scottish kings had been inaugurated on this symbolic ‘Stone of Scone’, to which a copious mythology had also become attached. Edward I presented the Chair, as a holy relic, to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey, and most English monarchs since the fourteenth century have been crowned in it, the last being HM Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953. 9781782971528, £28.00, June 2013 HB, Oxbow Books Celtic from the West 2 The Cyrus Cylinder Rethinking the Bronze Age and Ancient Persia and the Arrival of Indo- European in Atlantic Europe A New Beginning for the Barry Cunliffe (Editor) Middle East Irving Finkel (Translator); John T Koch (Editor) John Curtis (Author); Neil MacGregor (Author) Until recently the idea that Atlantic Europe was a The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous wholly pre-Indo-European world throughout the objects to have survived from the ancient world. Bronze Age remained plausible. Celtic from the West 2 Often described as the first bill of human rights this explores the rapidly expanding evidence for the later catalogue also contains sixteen other objects from prehistory and the pre-Roman languages of the West the Britsh Museum’s collecton. increasingly exclude that possibility. 9781842175293, £40.00, January 2013 9780714111872, £18.99, April 2013 HB, Oxbow Books HB, 144p, 110 col illus., British Museum Press Welcome See PAge 10 See PAge 18 Cover Image: Late Bronze Age shale vessel from Caergwrle, north Wales, with applied tin and gold, representing a ship, shields, oars, and waves, by kind permission of the National Museum of Wales. All prices and publication dates are accurate at time of printing but subject to change without notice. Contents Method and Theory Page 2 Contents Contents Landscape & Gardens Page 5 Journals Page 6 Anthropology & Family History Page 7 British Archaeology – Multi-period excavations Page 8 Prehistory – Britain & Ireland Page 9 Prehistory – Europe Page 10 Prehistory – Aegean Page 14 Prehistory – World Page 15 Ancient Near East Page 17 Ancient Egypt Page 19 Classical World – Ancient Greece Page 23 Classical World – Ancient Rome Page 24 Classical World – Roman Britain Page 26 Classical Texts Page 27 Late Antiquity & Byzantium Page 28 Islamic World Page 29 Anglo Saxon & Viking Page 30 Medieval/Post Medieval Page 31 Underwater & Maritime Archaeology Page 33 The Americas Page 34 Sociology & Psychology Page 35 Language & Literature – Hispanic Classics Page 36 Language & Literature Page 37 Architecture Page 42 Art - Renaissance Page 44 Art - Modern Period Page 46 Military History Page 49 Medical Sciences Page 50 Insights and American Landscapes Series Page 51 Publishing Index Page 52 3 Mobility, Meaning and Transformation of Things Shifting Contexts of Material Culture Through Time and Space Hans Peter Hahn (Editor); Hadas Weis (Editor) Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, as the earliest traces of long distance trading show. This book investigates the mobility of things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Material Objects are characterised by temporal continuity, embodying a prior existence with lingering effects. Yet the material continuity disguises the transformations they may undergo, which only become evident upon closer examination. Objects are in perpetual flux, leaving visible traces of their age, usage, and previous life. While travelling through time, objects also circulate through space, and their spatial mobility alters their meaning and use with respect to new cultural horizons. As objects transform through time and space, so does the value attributed to them. Mapping out itineraries of value in the realm of the material, allows us to grasp the nature of a given social formation through the shape and meaning taken on by its valued ‘stuff’. It also provides insights into the nature of materiality, through the value ascribed to objects at a given point in time and space. This edited volume brings together studies of material culture, materiality and value, with regard to the mobility of objects, with the aim of tracing the ways in which societies constitute their valued objects and how the realm of the material reflects upon society. 9781842175255, £35.00, January 2013 9781842175255, £35.00, January 2013 PB, 176p, b/w illus., Oxbow Books PB, 176p, b/w illus., Oxbow Books Geophysical Data in Archaeology A Guide to Good Practice Armin Schmidt (Author) Anyone who has tried to archive archaeological geophysics data will have wondered what might be the most comprehensive and practical approach. This question is addressed by this Guide’s extensively revised 2nd edition, which systematically explores what should be included in an Archive, illustrated with relevant examples. A conceptual framework is developed that allows assembling data and meta-data so that they can be deposited with an Archiving Body. This framework is also mapped onto typical database structures, including OASIS and the English Heritage Geophysics Database. Examples show step-by step how an Archive can be compiled for deposition so that readers will be able to enhance their own archiving practice. Geophysical data are sometimes the only remaining record of buried archaeological features when these are destroyed during commercial developments (e.g. road schemes). To preserve them in an Archive can therefore be essential. However, it is important that data are made available in formats that can still be read in years to come, accompanied by documentation that gives meaningful archaeological context. This Guide covers the creation of the necessary metadata and data documentation. There is no point preserving data if they cannot be used again; therefore this Guide is essential for anyone using geophysical data. Method and Theory 9781782971443, £15.00, February 2013 PB, 88p, Oxbow Books 4 Bones for Tools – Tools for Bones The Interplay Between Objects and Objectives Krish Seetah (Editor); Brad Gravina (Editor) Animal procurement and tool production form two of the most tightly connected components of human behaviour. The interaction between these fundamental Method and Theory activities has been a subject of archaeological inference from the earliest days of the discipline, yet the pursuit of each has tended to encourage and entrench specialist study. This volume begins the process of integrating what have all too often become isolated archaeological and interpretative domains. In taking a more inclusive approach to the material, technological and social dynamics of early human subsistence we have returned to the earliest of those archaeological associations: that between stone tools and animal bones. In revealing the inter- dependence of their relationship, this volume takes what we hope will be a first step towards a revitalized understanding of the scope of past interactions between humans and the world around them. 9781902937595, £45.00, January 2013 HB, 164p, 99 b/w figs, 26 tables, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Preserving Archaeological Remains in Situ Proceedings of the 4th International Conference David Gregory (Editor); Henning Matthiesen (Editor) The PARIS 4 conference, which took place at the National Museum of Denmark in 2011, attracted over 100 participants from 18 countries. Delegates presented and discussed the latest developments in the field of Preserving Archaeological Remains In Situ. These proceedings explore four major themes: rates of degradation in archaeological remains and the limits of acceptable change; the techniques and duration of monitoring on archaeological sites; the role of multinational standards when the sites and national legislations are so variable; reviewing the effectiveness of in situ preservation, after nearly two decades of research. 9781907975875, £55.00, Available Now, HB, 489p, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites Special Issue, Maney Publishing The Value of an Archaeological Open-Air Museum is in its Use Understanding Archaeological Open-Air Museums and their Visitors Roeland Paardekooper (Author) There are about 300 archaeological open-air museums in Europe. Their history goes from Romanticism up to modern-day tourism. With the