New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

The Archaeology of the Dead
by Henri Duday, translated by Anna Maria Cipriani and revised by John Pearce
Henri Duday is Director of Research for CNRS at the University of Bordeaux. The Archaeology of the Dead is based on an intensive specialist
course in burial archaeology given by Duday in Rome in November 2004. The primary aim of the project was to contribute to the
development of common procedures for excavation, data collection and study of Roman cemeteries of the imperial period. Translated
into English by Anna Maria Cipriani and John Pearce, this book looks at the way in which the analysis of skeletons can allow us to
rediscover the lives of people who came before us and inform us of their view of death. Duday thoroughly examines the means at our
disposal to allow the dead to speak, as well as identifying the pitfalls that may deceive us.
230p, b/w illus, paperback, 9781842173565, $60.00, Oxbow Books, August 2009, Studies in Funerary Archaeology 3.
New in paperback!
The Social Archaeology
of Funerary Remains
edited by Rebecca Gowland
and Christopher Knüsel
Human bones form the most direct link
to understanding how people lived in
the past, who they were and where they
came from. The interpretative value of
human skeletal remains (within their
burial context) in terms of past social
identity and organization is awesome,
but was, for many years, underexploited
by archaeologists. The nineteen papers
in this edited volume are an attempt to
redress this by marrying the cultural aspects of burial with the anthropology
of the deceased.
320p, paperback, 9781842173657, $70.00, Oxbow Books, June 2009,
Studies in Funerary Archaeology 1.
Childhood in the Past
Volume 2 (2009)
edited by Eileen Murphy
This journal provides a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, international forum
for the publication of research into all aspects of children and childhood in the
past, which transcends conventional intellectual, disciplinary, geographical and
chronological boundaries.
Contents include: Natural History in the Periodical Literature of Victorian
Working Class Boys; Children in a Changing Social Landscape: A Case Study
from the American Southwest; Saving Childhood in Everyday Objects; Hearth
and Home: The Burial of Infants within Romano-British Domestic Contexts;
Breastfeeding and weaning behaviour in archaeological populations.
160p, paperback, 9781842173787, $50.00, Oxbow Books, November 2009.
world archaeology
Archaeology and Memory
edited by Dušan Borić
This volume seeks to examine how the notion of memory can significantly structure
the research efforts in the empirical field of archaeology. The archaeological approaches
enable the diversity of mnemonic systems and their significance in past contexts to
be explored and to examine what can be put under the heading ‘past in the past’. The
twelve substantial contributions by distinguished contributors cover a diverse set of
regional case studies and focus on a range of prehistoric and classical case studies in
the Eurasian regional contexts as well as on predicaments of memory in examples of
the archaeologies of ‘contemporary past’. Archaeology and Memory shows the importance
of memory as a unifying term for thinking about past contexts and the way in
which people thought about their own pasts, as well as wider theoretical reflections
on materiality and archaeological methodologies.
272p, 78 b/w illus, hardback, 9781842173633, $110.00, Oxbow Books, December 2009.
Food and Drink in Archaeology 2
University of Nottingham
Postgraduate Conference 2008
edited by Naomi Sykes
and Claire Newton
This is the second volume of a series from the
Department of Archaeology at Nottingham
University. Save for the keynote essay, all the
authors are postgraduate researchers. While the
importance of nutrition for survival has long
been recognized, increasing emphasis is being
put on the cultural significance of the production, distribution and consumption of
foodstuffs throughout all archaeological periods. These papers reflect an interest in
the sorts of foods consumed, the ways in which they were consumed, and the consequences
of their consumption. Contributions range widely over Europe and Asia and
cover several forms of historical or archaeological investigation based on documentary
and visual records as well as excavation and chemical analysis. In like manner, a
number of different historical and prehistorical eras are under discussion.
160p, 36 b/w illus, paperback, 9781903018682, $40.00, Prospect Books, December 2009.
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