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Oxbow BooksOxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology publishing over70 titles a year written by leading academics and individual researchers from aroundthe world.Bosworth 1485A Battlefield RediscoveredBy Glenn Foard & Anne CurryBosworth stands alongside Naseby and Hastings as one of the three most iconic battles everfought on English soil. The action on 22 August 1485 brought to an end the dynastic struggleknown as the Wars of the Roses and heralded the dawn of the Tudor dynasty. However,Bosworth was also the most famous lost battlefield in England. Between 2005 and 2010, thetechniques of battlefield archaeology were used in a major research programme to locatethe site. Bosworth 1485: a battlefield rediscovered is the result. Using data from historical documents, landscapearchaeology, metal detecting survey, ballistics and scientific analysis, the volume explores each aspect of theinvestigation – from the size of the armies, their weaponry, and the battlefield terrain to exciting new evidence ofthe early use of artillery – in order to identify where and how the fighting took place. Bosworth 1485 provides afascinating and intricately researched new perspective on the event which, perhaps more than any other, markedthe transition between medieval and early modern England.9781782971733, £45.00, Aug 2013HB, 264p, colour throughout, Oxbow BooksEveryday Life in Viking-Age TownsSocial Approaches to Towns in England and Ireland, c. 800-1100Edited by Letty ten Harkel & D. M. HadleyThe study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, thesearch for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristics and the chronologicaldevelopment of towns. Far less attention has been paid to the experience of living in towns.The thirteen chapters in this book bring together the current state of knowledge about Viking-Age towns (c. 800–1100) from both sides of the Irish Sea, focusing on everyday life in and around these emergingsettlements. What was it really like to grow up, live, and die in these towns? What did people eat, what did theywear, and how did they make a living for themselves? Although historical sources are addressed, the emphasisof the volume is overwhelmingly archaeological, paying homage to the wealth of new material that has becomeavailable since the advent of urban archaeology in the 1960s.9781842175323, £42.00, Sep 2013HB, 272p, b/w & col. illus., Oxbow BooksColchester, Fortress of the War GodAn Archaeological AssessmentBy David Radford, Adrian Gascoyne & Philip WiseThis volume is a critical assessment of the current state of archaeological knowledge ofthe settlement originally called Camulodunon and now known as Colchester. The earliestsignificant human occupation recorded from Colchester dates to the late Neolithic, but it wasonly towards the end of the 1st century BC that an oppidum was established in the area. Thiswas superseded initially by a Roman legionary fortress and then the colonia of Camulodunumon a hilltop bounded on the north and east by the river Colne. There is little evidence for continuing occupationhere in the early post-Roman period, but in 917 the town was re-established as a burgh and gradually grew inimportance. After the Norman Conquest, a castle was built on the foundations of the ruined Roman Temple ofClaudius, and a priory and an abbey were established just to the south of the walled town. Although the town,as elsewhere, was affected by the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the English Civil War it remained essentiallymedieval in character until the 18th century.9781842175088, £45.00, Jul 2013HB, 352p, 100 b/w illus., Oxbow Books2Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.uk

Oxbow BooksOxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology publishing over70 titles a year written by leading academics and individual researchers from aroundthe world.Quaternary History and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the Axe Valley atBroom, South West England Edited by C. P. Green & Robert HosfieldThis investigation of the Lower Palaeolithic site at Broom, Devon, highlights the hugepotential of old sites and the importance of the archaeological and geological legacyresulting from more than 150 years of field investigations. The site is generally regardedas the most important open-air archaeological site of earlier Palaeolithic age in southwesternBritain. The primary focus of the volume is the Broom site itself, seeking to explainthe distinctive character of its Acheulean archaeology, the environmental conditions inwhich the hominin occupants of the Axe valley flourished, and for how long. The setting of the Palaeolithicarchaeology within the unusual terrace deposits of the River Axe is explored and the local and global factorsaffecting it, including bedrock geology, tectonic uplift, climatic conditions and changing base-level, examined.The findings add significant strands to the growing understanding of Pleistocene fluvial sequences at both a nationaland a global scale, the nature and technological attributes of Palaeolithic assemblages and highlights the value of thedata that can still be extracted from such assemblages across the Acheulean world.9781842175200, £60.00, Aug 2013HB, 384p, 320 b/w + col illus., Oxbow BooksStairway to HeavenThe Functions of Medieval Upper SpacesBy Toby HuitsonMedieval stairs, galleries and upper chambers in cathedrals, abbeys, and parish churches havebeen an enduring source of fascination to historians and archaeologists since the eighteenthcentury, but their practical purposes have long been shrouded in mystery and speculation. Fromlibraries to lights, clocks to dovecotes, from secret games of skittles played over the vaults tothe daring exploits of the twelfth-century Flying Monk, Toby Huitson explores the lofty spaces,nooks and crannies of medieval upper spaces though the interrogation of a wide range of documentary, visualand archaeological materials. Evidence is revealed for over 30 different functions during the period from aroundAD 1000 to 1550. Generously illustrated and fully-referenced, the text is accompanied by a set of special featuresand a quick-reference section, making it indispensable to all those interested in medieval history and architecture.Dr Toby Huitson teaches at the University of Kent, Canterbury.9781842176658, £35.00, Sep 2013PB, 208p, b/w & colour throughout, Oxbow BooksNewcastle upon Tyne, the Eye of the NorthAn Archaeological Assessment By C. P. Graves & D. H. HeslopNewcastle upon Tyne is one of England’s great cities. Many think of it simply as a product of theIndustrial Revolution when abundant natural resources of coal, iron ore and water came togetherto create a Victorian industrial powerhouse. In fact, Newcastle’s long and proud history began inRoman times when Hadrian’s Wall marked the northernmost point of the Roman Empire. The firstsuitable bridging point the Romans found was 10 miles inland from the North Sea. They built PonsAelius close to where the Tyne Bridge is today and it marks the birth of Newcastle upon Tyne as asettlement. Following the withdrawal of the Roman army, the local inhabitants employed the decaying fort as a cemetery,eventually with its own Anglo-Saxon church. After the Norman Conquest, the same strategic site was used to plant a castleof national significance, as the town became the King’s northern bulwark against Scottish Aggression, and termed the‘Eye of the North’. Prosperity followed the erection of a new bridge and as a result of its advantageous position as a port,the town developed an active waterfront, marketplaces and guilds. As the nexus of the coal-trade to London and beyond,Newcastle retained its significance into the English Civil War. The protracted siege concludes the period covered here.9781849781842178140, £45.00, Oct 2013HB, Oxbow BooksLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 3

Oxbow BooksOxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology publishing over70 titles a year written by leading academics and individual researchers from aroundthe world.New in PaperbackImage, Memory andMonumentalityArchaeological Engagementswith the Material WorldEdited by Andrew Meirion Jones,Joshua Pollard, Julie Gardiner &Michael J. AllenLeading scholars in these 29 commissioned papersin honour of Richard Bradley discuss key themes inprehistoric archaeology that have defined his career,such as monumentality, memory, rock art, landscape,material worlds and field practice. The scope is broad,covering both Britain and Europe, and while the focusis very much on the archaeology of later prehistory,papers also address the interconnection betweenprehistory and historic and contemporary archaeology.The result is a rich and varied tribute to Richard’s energyand intellectual inspiration.9781782973928, £30.00, Aug 2013PB, 366p, 60 illustrations, Oxbow BooksLife in the LimesStudies of the people andobjects of the Roman frontiersEdited by Rob Collins et al.Lindsay Allason-Jones has been atthe forefront of small finds andRoman frontier research for 40years in a career focussed on, butnot exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassingan enormous range of object types and subject areas.Divided into thematic sections the contributionspresented here to celebrate her many achievementsall represent at least one aspect of Lindsay’s researchinterests. These encompass social and industrial aspectsof northern frontier forts; new insights into inscribedand sculptural stones specific to military communities;religious, cultural and economic connotations of Romanarmour finds; evidence of trans-frontier interactionsand invisible people; the role of John Clayton in theexploration and preservation of Hadrian’s Wall and itsmaterial culture; the detailed consideration of individualobjects of significant interest; and a discussion of thewidespread occurrence of mice in Roman art.9781782972532, £45.00, Nov 2013HB, 264p, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow BooksThe Medieval Kirk,Cemetery and Hospice atKirk Ness, North BerwickThe Scottish Seabird centreExcavations 1999-2006By Thomas Addyman et al.Kirk Ness has long been consideredlikely to be an early Christian centre, whose dedication toSt Andrew may perhaps be linked with the 8th centurytranslation of the relics of St Andrew’s to Fife. Such earlydating was confirmed by a new sequence of radiocarbondates from excavations carried out in 1999–2006. Anumber of finds support this interpretation, includingpottery of a previously unknown type, perhaps from amonastic community associated with an early church.Finds include a number of items of particular significance– coarse stone tools, lead objects, ceramic fragments anda bone of a great auk from early medieval deposits. Theassociated medium-sized cemetery population of 12th–17th century date displays notable contrasts in burialpractice. Grave goods included a 12th century hair pin anda 17th century silk-covered tunic button with silver wireembroidery found together in the grave of a young female.9781842176634, £30.00, Oct 2013HB, 256p, b/w & col. illus, Oxbow BooksMemory, Myth andLong-Term LandscapeInhabitationEdited by Adrian M. Chadwick et al.Memory and forgetting arefundamental to human existenceand experiences of the world.Within archaeology, there has beenincreasing interest in the role of the past in the past. Todate, however, there has been little specific discussion ofhow such long-term persistence of place and practice waspossible; and why this was the case. The 16 papers in thisvolume use detailed contextual evidence to address thesequestions. The case studies focus on British archaeologyfrom the Neolithic to the early medieval period, but othercontributions deal with Neolithic Central Europe, ancientEtruscan and Egyptian landscapes, and historic NativeAmerican practices. The volume interweaves theoreticalconsiderations of memory, materiality and landscape withexciting evidence emerging from research and developerfundedcommercial archaeology, challenging existingmethodologies and proposing new research questions forfuture fieldwork and post-excavation practice.9781782973935, £38.00, Dec 2013HB, 336p, 166 b/w and col. illus., Oxbow Books4Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: +44 (0)1235 465500

Oxbow BooksOxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology publishing over70 titles a year written by leading academics and individual researchers from aroundthe world.Gristhorpe ManA Life and Death in the Bronze AgeEdited by Nigel D. Melton, Christopher Knusel & Janet MontgomeryIn July 1834 excavation of a barrow at Gristhorpe, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, recovered anintact, waterlogged, hollowed-out oak coffin containing a perfectly preserved Bronze Ageskeleton that had been wrapped in an animal skin and buried with worked flints, a bronze daggerwith a whalebone pommel, and a bark vessel apparently containing food residue. Analysis of theskeleton included an examination of its skeletal morphology and palaeopathological conditionscombined with isotopic analyses of the bones and teeth in order to investigate mobility, diet, and status of theindividual whose unusual large stature, dentition, and novel methods of conservation were of particular interest. Theseanalyses, combined with examination of the surviving coffin lid, including the unique ‘face’ carved onto one end of it,the grave goods, and radiocarbon and dendrochronological dating, reveal fascinating insights into the social position,inter-regional contacts and the burial rite associated with this enigmatic mature man who probably saw active combatand who suffered from a benign brain tumour that may have seriously altered his personality in his later years.9781782972075, £50.00, Dec 2013HB, 256p, b/w and col. illustrations, Oxbow BooksBefore the MastLife and Death Aboard the Mary RoseEdited by Julie GardinerThe Mary Rose carried a crew of naval officers and sailors, a fighting force of gunners andsoldiers, a Barber-surgeon, several ship’s carpenters and skilled navigators. Of nearly 500men, fewer than 40 survived the sinking on 19th July 1545. Trapped by netting, or belowdeck, they stood little chance, and their bodies and belongings went to the bottom of thesea. Excavation of the hull and contents produced a huge collection of objects that togethermake up a detailed picture of what life was like on board. Before the Mast explores how the men of the Mary Roselived, through their surviving possessions; how they were fed; their music and recreation, medicine and provisionfor illness and injury, as well as working practices: carpentry and maintenance, stowage, navigation and ship’scommunications.Before the Mast is now available again in a two volume edition published by Oxbow Books.9781842175040, £60.00, Jul 2013HB, 2 vols, 760p, Archaeology of the Mary Rose 4, Oxbow BooksA Maritime Archaeology of ShipsInnovation and Social Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern EuropeBy J. R. AdamsIn the last fifty years the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastalzone and in their interconnecting locales, has emerged as one of archaeology’s most dynamicand fast developing fields. In this book Jon Adams evaluates key episodes of technical changein the ways that ships were conceived, designed, built, used and disposed of. As technologicalpuzzles they have long confounded explanation but when viewed in the context of thesocieties in which they were created, mysteries begin to dissolve. Shipbuilding is social practice and as one of themost complex artefacts made, changes in their technology provide a lens through which to view the ideologies,strategies and agency of social change. Adams argues that the harnessing of shipbuilding was one of the ways inwhich medieval society became modern and, while the primary case studies are historical, he also demonstratesthat the relationships between ships and society have key implications for our understanding of prehistory inwhich seafaring and communication had similarly profound effects on the tide of human affairs.9781842172971, £29.95, Oct 2013PB, 160p, b/w & col illus, Oxbow BooksLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 5

Oxbow BooksOxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology publishing over70 titles a year written by leading academics and individual researchers from aroundthe world.Violence and CivilizationStudies of Social Violence inHistory and PrehistoryEdited by Roderick CampbellThis collection of essays beginswith the premise that violence,in its relationship to order, is acentral element of history. Takinga broad definition of violence, including structural andsymbolic violence, the contributions move beyond theproblematic of civilization’s mitigating or foundationalrole, instead seeing violence as inherently social, and,perhaps, socially inherent (if variable). The questionthen becomes what forms of harm are authorized orbanned in which social orders and how they changeover time. Beginning with a theoretical introduction,this interdisciplinary volume includes seven papersrepresenting cultural anthropology, history, archaeologyand international relations. The papers range fromChina to the Americas and from the 2nd millenniumBCE to the 21st century CE. Together, the volume aimsto paint the outlines of a deep historical anthropologyof social violence.9781782976202, £25.00, Dec 2013PB, 160p, b/w and col. illustrations, Oxbow BooksRe-Presenting the PastArchaeology through Text andImageEdited by Sheila Bonde et al.The archaeological past exists forus through intermediaries. Someare written works, descriptions,narratives and field notes, whileothers are visual: the drawings, paintings, photographs,powerpoints or computer visualizations that allow usto re-present past forms of human existence. Of Ninepapers, two explore the classical past and medievalvisualizations. Three treat the Maya, and one considersthe imaging by eighteenth-century antiquariansof British history; yet another ranges broadly inits historical considerations. Several consider thetrajectory over time of visualization and self-imaging.Others engage with issues of recording by looking, forexample, at the ways in which nineteenth–centuryexcavation photographs can aid in the reconstruction ofan inscription or by evaluating the process of mappinga site with ArcGIS and computer animation software.Global AncestorsUnderstanding the SharedHumanity of our AncestorsEdited by Rebecca Redfern et al.Reflects on modern museologicalresponses to the often complex andemotive relationship that peoplehave with the ancestors and objectswhich they created. Set out in three broad themes,the first collection of papers explore how indigenouspeoples are represented in museums in Panama andChina and how more can be gained by working withindigenous communities to further our understandingof the ancestors. The second section examines changesin British and American museological thinking regardingthe repatriation of human remains and objects toindigenous peoples. Case studies include materialfrom the British Museum and Glasgow Museum. Thefinal section explores the ways in which archaeologistsand indigenous communities interactusing case studiesfrom South Africa, Finland and Canada, how bothgroups have worked together for their mutual benefitor to change the majority viewpoint.9781842175330, £30.00, Sep 2013PB, 168p, b/w & col. illus, Oxbow BooksThe Archaeology ofHouseholdEdited by Gabriella Kovacs et al.From the simplest hunter-gatherersociety to the most powerfulEmpire, all societies are built onbasic daily life, developed day to daywith its specific material conditions.Household archaeology looks at the detail of the livingdomain, exploring the most essential elements of anysocial dynamic, the archaeology of the small scale.The Archaeology of Household looks at this importantaspect of archaeological investigation in a varietyof different ways using a range of theoretical andmethodological perspectives, deep thinking about themathematical nature of household space, and howsocieties world view was reflected in domestic space.Case studies include hunter-gatherer societies inAmerica, Neolithic and Bronze Age lakeside settlementsin Switzerland and the Alpine region, Bronze Age sitesin Hungary and northern Europe and Archaic periodSicily.9781782972310, £25.00, Jul 2013PB, 215p, 46 b/w figs, 12 col figs, Oxbow Books9781842175170, £49.95, Aug 2013HB, 248p, 125 b/w + col illus., Oxbow Books6Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.uk

Oxbow BooksOxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology publishing over70 titles a year written by leading academics and individual researchers from aroundthe world.Experimental Archaeology and TheoryRecent Approaches to Archaeological HypothesesEdited by Frederick W. F. FouldsThis volume aims to bridge the gap in archaeology between empirical testing and humanisticapproaches to understanding the material record. The contributors explore a wide varietyof different fields including how a phenomenological methodology can be used to increaseour understanding of how a Bronze Age temple was ‘experienced’ by people in the past; howexperimentation in the production of materials such as rawhide, glass and wine-making canbe used to test theories or written sources and the possibilities of studying the three-dimensional morphologyof Acheulian handaxes to search for possible idiosyncratic indicators during the Lower Palaeolithic. The papers inthe volume reflect the continued diversity of work that experimental archaeology is able to produce and showhow experimentation can be integrated with theory to substantiate a variety of hypotheses, whether validatinginformation from written sources or testing the inferences of more recent theoretical ideology. ExperimentalArchaeology will set a new precedent for the role of experimentation in future archaeological research.9781842177662, £35.00, Sep 2013PB, 144p, b/w illus, Oxbow BooksLocating the SacredTheoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of ReligionEdited by Claudia Moser & Cecelia FeldmanRitual happens in distinct places – in temples, in caves, along pilgrimage routes – and religiousactivities there incorporate a diverse set of objects such as holy water, cult statues, and sacred texts.Understanding religious ritual requires viewing it not as a disembodied event, but as emplaced,grounded in both built and natural surroundings, and integrated with its associated material objects.Here authors examine various religious practices in the Greco-Roman world and pilgrimage routes incontemporary Israel. Other contributions focus on the East, on domestic religion in prehistoric Taiwan, and the palimpsestof ritual activity in Buddhist China. One author considers not just ritual’s built and natural setting, but also the landscapeof the human mind. By way of conclusion, many of the recurring issues concerning the material and topographic matrix ofritual practice are expanded upon in a final meditation on sacred space. The papers in this volume, with their disciplinary,geographic, and chronological diversity, will serve as a resource for theoretical approaches to the study of ritual practicethat may have broad cross-cultural application and provide new insight into the relationship between ritual and place.9781782976165, £25.00, Dec 2013PB, 144p, b/w and col. illustrations, Oxbow/Joukowsky Institute Publication 3, Oxbow BooksModelling archaeology and palaeoenvironments in wetlandsThe hidden landscape archaeology of Hatfield and Thorne Moors, eastern EnglandBy Henry P. Chapman & Benjamin R. GeareyThe measurement and analysis of space is central to archaeological study, such as through therecording of site plans and sections and the interpretation of spatial relationships betweenartefacts and features. This book details a different approach to the study of past patterns ofenvironmental change within the broader framework of landscape archaeology. It utilizes arange of quantitative and qualitative methodologies and GIS modelling to investigate spatial andtemporal patterns of Holocene landscape change for two raised mires in south Yorkshire: Hatfield and Thorne Moors.The volume aims to illustrate the synergy which is generated through integrating spatial models with chronologicalmodelling and stratigraphic, cartographic, topographical, environmental and archaeological information in orderto better understand past landscapes, human activity and the archaeological record. Building on a rich legacy ofprevious palaeoenvironmental research on these moors, the data generated by this combined methodology haspractical applications for current management concerns, including in situ preservation, heritage and policy.9781782971740, £30.00, Dec 2013HB, 216p, b/w and col. illus, Oxbow BooksLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 7

Oxbow BooksOxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology publishing over70 titles a year written by leading academics and individual researchers from aroundthe world.Shell EnergyMollusc Shells as Coastal ResourcesEdited by G. N. Bailey, Karen Hardy & Abdoulaye CamaraShell middens are ubiquitous archaeological features on coastlines throughout the world thathave been variously analysed and interpreted as mounds of food, burial places, or simply asconvenient receptacles for the preservation of stratified remains. This volume brings togetherinformation about little known, or recently discovered, concentrations of shell mounds inareas including Africa, the near East, South-east Asia and the Americas as well as new workon mounds in the classic areas including Denmark, the Pacific NW coast and Japan. Discussions are presented onnew approaches to interpretation involving the use of ethnographic studies, analysis of molluscs, the use of shellas a raw material for making artefacts and in construction, and the variable formation processes associated withmound formation.9781842177655, £50.00, Aug 2013HB, 320p, b/w & col. illus, Oxbow BooksPast BodiesNew in PaperbackBody-Centered Research in ArchaeologyBy Dusan Boric & John RobbArchaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objectsit studies. Even when dealing with skeletal remains archaeologists routinely reduce them tolong lists of figures and attributes. Such a fragmentation of past subjects and their bodies, ifanalytically necessary, is hardly satisfactory. While material culture is the main archaeologicalproxy to real people in the past, the absence of past bodies has been chronic in archaeologicalwritings. This collection of papers is a reaction to decades of the body’s invisibility. It raises the body as the centraltopic in the study of past societies, researching its appearance in a wide variety of regional contexts and acrossvast spans of archaeological time. Contributions in this volume range from the deep Epi-Palaeolithic past of theNear East, through the European Neolithic and Bronze Age, Classical Greece and Late Medieval England, to pre-Columbian Central America, post-contact North America, and the most recent conflicts in the Balkans. In all thesecase studies, the materiality of the body is centre stage. Possibilities are highlighted for future study: by puttingthe body at the forefront of these archaeological studies an attempt is made to provoke the imagination and mapout new territories.9781782975427, £25.00, Oct 2013PB, 160p, Oxbow BooksAncient Textiles, Modern ScienceEdited by Heather HopkinsThis book is the publication of a series of lectures and experiments that were undertaken at theFirst and Second European Textile Forum in 2009 and 2010. Each had a new approach, exploringa question of textile manufacture in a scientific way, revealing answers and outcomes thatwere unavailable before. The First European Textile Forum hosted an experiment that foundthe relationship between archaeological hand-spinning finds and the yarn they produce: onlya meeting such as the Textilforum could generate sufficient data for analysis. This scientificapproach reflects in contributions describing the reconstruction of tablet-woven artefacts, with explorations of themethod of tablet-weaving and a reassessment of archaeological finds and depictions. The Second European TextileForum explored the practical aspects of undertaking reconstructions such as Stone Age fabrics, Roman dyeing or theclothing of Gunnister Man, including the deconstruction of the original artefact, allowing for the unexpected and theimplication of new findings. Techniques for treating raw materials, creating fabrics and finishing artefacts are explored.The wider purpose and legacy of the European Textile Forum is as a foundation for the coming years.9781842176641, £35.00, Aug 2013PB, Oxbow Books8Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: +44 (0)1235 465500

Oxbow BooksOxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology publishing over70 titles a year written by leading academics and individual researchers from aroundthe world.Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman TimesPeople, Places, IdentitiesEdited by Margarita Gleba & Judit Judit Pásztókai-SzeőkeTextile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past. While mosttextiles were manufactured at a household level, valued textiles were traded over long distances.Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman times explores the abundant archaeological and writtenevidence to understand the typological and geographical diversity of textile commodities. Beginningin the Iron Age, the volume examines the foundations of the textile trade in Italy and the emergenceof specialist textile production in Austria, the impact of new Roman markets on regional traditions and the role thatgender played in the production of textiles. Trade networks from far beyond the frontiers of the Empire are traced,whilst the role of specialized merchants dealing in particular types of garment and the influence of Roman collegia onhow textiles were produced and distributed are explored. Of these collegia, that of the fullers appears to have beenparticularly influential at a local level and how cloth was cleaned and treated is examined in detail, using archaeologicalevidence from Pompeii and provincial contexts to understand the processes behind this area of the textile trade.9781842177679, £30.00, Oct 2013HB, 240p, b/w & col. illus, Ancient Textiles 13, Oxbow BooksShuffling Nags, Lame DucksThe Archaeology of Animal DiseaseBy László Bartosiewicz & Erika GalThe analysis of animal bone assemblages provides much valuable data concerning economicand husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritualactivity. Animal palaeopathology can identify diseases in archaeozoological assemblages butlittle interest has been expressed in investigating and understanding the cultural aspects ofthe diseases identified. Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks provides provides a clear methodologicalapproach for such investigations, and describes and explains the wide range of traumatic lesions, infections,diseases, inherited disorders and other pathological changes and anomalies that can be identified. In so doing, itexplores the impact that “man-made” decisions have had on animals, including special aspects of culture that maybe reflected in the treatment of diseased or injured animals that often incorporate powerful symbolic or religiousroles, and seeks to enhance our understanding of the relationship between man and beast in the past.9781782971894, £38.00, Nov 2013PB, 264p, Oxbow BooksFrom These Bare BonesRaw Materials and Worked Osseous ObjectsEdited by Sonia O’Connor & Alice ChoykeA fundamental component of the study of worked osseous objects is the identification of theraw materials chosen to make them. Correct identification is crucial to the investigation ofobjects, their conservation and future curation. Above all, understanding raw material selectionaids our understanding of human-animal interaction in the past both on pragmatic and symboliclevels since the choices made by artisans vary by cultural tradition as well as availability.It is demonstrated that the issue of raw material identification has numerous implications for conservation work,reproduction of objects, the physical characteristics of the tool or ornament, availability of raw materials, the materialschosen for procurement and the cultural reasons that lie behind the choice of raw materials from particular species andskeletal elements to produce planned tool and ornament types. Together, these papers emphasize the need for confidentand correct materials identification and demonstrate that functionality is by no means the only, nor necessarily the mostimportant, factor in the selection of osseous raw materials for the fabrication of tools and other cultural objects.9781782972112, £45.00, Dec 2013PB, 256p, Col. illus, Oxbow BooksLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 9

Oxbow BooksOxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology publishing over70 titles a year written by leading academics and individual researchers from aroundthe world.New in PaperbackMateriality and SocialPracticeTransformative Capacities ofIntercultural EncountersEdited by Joseph Maran et al.Investigates the transformativepotential arising from theinterplay between material forms, social practicesand intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitatesan approach that takes a transcultural perspectiveas a fundamental methodology and, then a broaderunderstanding of the inter-relationship betweenhumans and objects. Adopting a transcultural approachforces us to change archaeology’s approach towardsitems coming from the outside. By using them mostly forreconstructing systems of exchange or for chronology,archaeology has for a long time reduced them to theirproperties as objects and as being foreign. This volumeexplores the notion that the significance of such itemsdoes not derive from the transfer from one place toanother as such but, rather, from the ways in whichthey were used and contextualised.9781782975410, £28.00, Oct 2013PB, 224p, b/w illus, Oxbow BooksExploring PrehistoricIdentity in North-WestEuropeEdited by Victoria Ginn et al.Identity is relational and aconstruct, and is expressed ina myriad of ways. For example,material culture and its pluralistmeanings have been readily manipulated by humansin a prehistoric context in order to construct personaland group identities. Artefacts were often from orreminiscent of far-flung places and were used todemonstrate membership of an (imagined) regional, orEuropean community. Earthworks frequently archivemaximum visual impact through elaborate rampartsand entrances with the minimum amount of effort,indicating that the construction of identities were asmuch in the eye of the perceivor, as of the perceived.By using a wide range of case studies, both temporallyand spatially, these thought processes may be exploredfurther and diachronic and geographic patterns inexpressions of identity investigated.9781842178133, £35.00, Jan 2014PB, 176p, b/w and col. illus, Oxbow BooksAncient Irrigation Systemsof the Aral Sea AreaThe History, Origin, andDevelopment of IrrigatedAgricultureBy B. V. Adrianov & SimoneMantelliniAncient Irrigation Systems inthe Aral Sea Area , is the English translation of BorisVasilevich Andrianov’s work, Drevnie orositelnyesistemy priaralya , concerning the study of ancientirrigation systems and the settlement pattern in thehistorical region of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea(Uzbekistan). This work holds a special place withinthe Soviet archaeological school because of theresults obtained through a multidisciplinary approachcombining aerial survey and fieldwork, surveys, andexcavations. This translation has been enriched by theaddition of introductions written by several eminentscholars from the region regarding the importance ofthe Khorezm Archaeological-Ethnographic Expeditionand the figure of Boris V. Andrianov and his landmarkstudy almost 50 years after the original publication.9781842173848, £20.00, Dec 2013HB, 300p, Oxbow BooksPrehistory of the WesternSaharaA Synthesis of Fieldwork,2002 to 2009By Jo Clarke & Nick BrooksDuring the last ten years,the Western Sahara Projecthas undertaken large scalearchaeological and environmental research that hasbegun to address the gaps in our knowledge of thearchaeology and palaeoenvironments of WesternSahara, and to develop narratives of prehistoriccultural adaptation and change from the end of thePleistocene to the Late Holocene and place it withinits wider Saharan context. A detailed discussion of pastenvironmental change and a presentation of resultsfrom the environmental component of the extensivesurvey work are provided. A typology of built stonefeatures – monuments and funerary architecture ispresented together with the results of the archaeologicalcomponent of the extensive survey work, focusing onstone features, but also including discussion of ceramicsand rock art and the analysis of lithic assemblages.9781782971726, £55.00, Dec 2013PB, 328p, b/w illus with 32pp colour plates, Oxbow Books10Trade Trade customers can can order order from from Orca Orca Book Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.ukorders@orcabookservices.co.uk

Oxbow BooksOxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology publishing over70 titles a year written by leading academics and individual researchers from aroundthe world.Textile Terminologies inthe Ancient Near Eastand Mediterranean fromthe Third to the FirstMillennnia BCEdited by Marie-Louise Nosch et al.Written sources from the ancientNear East and eastern Mediterranean provide a wealth ofterms for textiles. The 22 chapters in the present volumeoffer the first comprehensive survey of this importantmaterial, with special attention to evidence for significantinterconnections in textile terminology among languagesand cultures, across space and time. For example, theGreek word for a long shirt, khiton, ki-to in Linear B,derives from a Semitic root, ktn. But the same root inAkkadian means linen, in Old Assyrian a garment madeof wool, and perhaps cotton, in many modern languages.These and numerous other instances underscore theneed for detailed studies of both individual cases andthe common threads that link them. The survey of textileterminologies in 22 chapters presented in this volumedemonstrates the interconnections between languagesand cultures via textiles.9781782973911, £30.00, Aug 2013, NEW EDITIONPB, 326p, Ancient Textiles Series 8, Oxbow BooksCentral ZagrosArchaeological Project:The Earliest Neolithic of Iran2008 Excavations at Sheikh-EAbad and JaniEdited by Roger Matthews et al.Over a period of several millennia,from the Late Pleistocene to the EarlyHolocene, communities in south-west Asia developedfrom hunter-foragers to villager-farmers, bringingfundamental changes in all aspects of life. Building onearlier campaigns of archaeological investigation, thecurrent phase of the Central Zagros ArchaeologicalProject is designed to explore these issues in one keyregion, the Zagros zone including central west Iran.Two Early Neolithic mounds were excavated: Sheikh-eAbad in the high Zagros and Jani, in the foothills of theMesopotamian plains, each comprising up to 10 m depthof deposits indicating occupation spanning over 2000years, and providing great scope for diachronic and spatialanalyses. These two sites make major contributionsto knowledge regarding the origins of sedentism andincreasing resource management in Southwest Asia.9781782972235, £40.00, Dec 2013HB, 224p, b/w illus, CZAP Report 1, Oxbow BooksNeolithisation of IranEdited by Roger Matthews et al.The period c. 10,000-5000 BCwitnessed fundamental changes inthe human condition with societiesacross the Fertile Crescent shiftingtheir alignment from millenniaoldpractices of seasonallymobile hunting and foraging to year-round sedentism,plant cultivation and animal herding. The significantrole of Iran in the early stages of this transition wasrecognised more than half a century ago but has notbeen to the fore of academic consciousness in recentdecades. In the meantime, investigations into Neolithictransformation have proceeded apace in all other regionsof the Fertile Crescent and beyond. Here, 18 studiesattempt to redress that balance in re-assessing the roleof Iran in the early neolithisation of human societies.These studies, many of them by Iranian scholars, considerpatterns of change and/or continuity across a variety oftopographical landscapes; investigate Neolithic settlementpatterns, the use of caves, animal exploitation andenvironmental indicators and present new insights intosome well-known and some newly investigated sites.9781782971900, £38.00, Nov 2013PB, 272p, British Assoc. for Near Eastern Arch. Oxbow BooksAncient Iran and ItsNeighboursLocal Developments andLong-range Interactions in the4th Millennium BCEdited by Cameron A. PetrieThe fourth millennium BC was acritical period of socio-economicand political transformation in the Iranian Plateau and itssurrounding zones. This period witnessed the appearanceof the world’s earliest urban centres, hierarchicaladministrative structures, and writing systems. Thesedevelopments are indicative of significant changes insocio-political structures that have been interpreted asevidence for the rise of early states and the developmentof inter-regional trade, embedded in longer-termprocesses that began in the later fifth millennium BC.The 20 papers presented here illustrate forcefully howthe re-evaluation of old excavation results, combinedwith much new research, has dramatically expanded ourknowledge and understanding of local developments onthe Iranian Plateau and of long-range interactions duringthe critical period of the fourth millennium BC.9781782972273, £65.00, Dec 2013HB, 400p, b/w and col. illus, Oxbow BooksLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 11

Oxbow BooksOxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology publishing over70 titles a year written by leading academics and individual researchers from aroundthe world.Beyond the Fertile CrescentLate Palaeolithic and NeolithicCommunities of the JordanianSteppeBy Andrew Garrard & Brian ByrdThe natural arc of resource-richland which forms the ‘FertileCrescent’ of South-West Asia isregarded as the earliest centre of village-based farmingin the world and has been the focus of much of ourunderstanding of the transition from Epipalaeolithichunter-gathers to Neolithic farmers. Beyond the FertileCrescent is the first volume of the Azraq Project, alarge-scale archaeological and palaeoenvironmentalsurvey and excavation project undertaken between1982 and 1989 in the ecologically diverse sub-regionof the Azraq Basin in north-central Jordan: an arearich in Palaeolithic and Neolithic archaeology. Beyondthe Fertile Crescent explores the geology, stratigraphyand dating of the Late Palaeolithic sites and provides adetailed description of the technology and typology ofthe lithic assemblages from the sites. These are thencompared with those from the wider Levant.9781842178331, £45.00, Nov 2013HB, 448p, Levant Supplementary Series 13, Oxbow BooksThe Proto-ElamiteSettlement and Its NeighborsTepe Yaya Period IVCBy Benjamin Mutin et al.The site of Tepe Yahya in southeasternIran is famous, among otherimportant aspects, for the Proto-Elamite complex dated to around3000 BC (Period IVC). The material culture of Period IVCis not exclusively limited to its Proto-Elamite component,but is also characterized by the presence of elements fromother Middle-Asian cultural ceramic traditions. In additionto a synthesis of the Proto-Elamite period and the materialassemblage at Tepe Yahya, The Proto-Elamite Settlementand Its Neighbors provides an updated review andcomprehensive discussion of the Proto-Elamite sphere, itsrelations to Mesopotamia, and its eastern Middle Asianneighbors. This innovative book illustrates that the “multicultural”situation at Tepe Yahya Period IVC was presentacross many sites in Middle Asia and that, in addition tothe Proto-Elamite sphere and the cities of Mesopotamia,Middle Asia around 3000 BC was incorporated within aninteractive “multi-players” network of polities.9781782974192, £25.00, Jan 2014HB, American Sch. of Prehistoric Research, Oxbow BooksSouvenirs and New IdeasEdited by Diane FortenberryEarly travellers to Egypt,Mesopotamia, Greece, Turkeyand the Levant recorded andremembered their journeys bycollecting or creating mementosof places they visited. This naturalinclination took many guises, ranging from paintinglandscapes or, later, taking photographs to acquiringsouvenirs, very often antiquities. The collection ofantiquities, a controversial and usually illegal practicetoday, was in the 18th and 19th centuries not necessarilyeither, and many privately assembled collectionsnow form the basis of major national museums.Souvenirs and New Ideas explores the human desireto retain the memory of a foreign journey, in a seriesof essays that examine the collections of a varietyof travellers, from intrepid female solo voyagers toEuropean royalty. Their acquisitions included souvenirsranging from Egyptian mummies and ancient artefacts,to paintings and sketches of places visited, to the rawmaterial for books written at leisure, both scholarly andpopular.9781842178157, £25.00, Available NowPB, 200p, Oxbow BooksConstantinopleArchaeology of a ByzantineMegapolisBy Ken Dark & Ferudun ÖzgümüşA major archaeological assessment ofa key period in the development of thishistoric city. It uses material evidence,contemporary developments inurban archaeology and archaeological theory to exploreover a thousand years of the city’s development. Movingaway from the scholarly emphasis on the monumentalcore or city defences, the volume investigates the intermuralarea between the fifth-century land walls and theConstantinian city wall – a zone which encompasses half ofthe walled area but which has received little archaeologicalattention. A range of themes are explored including thesocial, economic and cognitive development, Byzantineperceptions of the city, the consequences of imperialideology and the impact of ‘self-organization’ brought aboutby many minor decisions. Constantinople casts new lighton the transformation of an ancient Roman capital to anOrthodox Christian holy city and will be of great importanceto archaeologists and historians.9781782971719, £60.00, Dec 2013HB, 208p, b/w and col. illus, Oxbow Books12Trade Trade customers customers can order can from order Orca from Book Orca Services: Book Services: orders@orcabookservices.co.uk+44 (0)1235 465500

Oxbow BooksOxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology publishing over70 titles a year written by leading academics and individual researchers from aroundthe world.Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and TraditionsContributions to Current Research in Indology Volume IEdited by Nina Mirnig, Peter-Daniel Szanto & Michael WilliamsIt is perhaps commonplace to say that India is one of the world’s richest and most enticingcultures. One thousand years have passed since Albiruni, arguably the first “Indologist”,wrote his outsider’s account of the subcontinent and two hundred years have passed sincethe inception of Western Indology. And yet, what this monumental scholarship has achievedis still outweighed by the huge tracts of terra incognita: thousands of works lacking scholarlyattention and even more manuscripts which still await careful study whilst decaying in the unforgiving Indianclimate. In September 2009 young researchers and graduate students in this field came together to present theircutting-edge work at the first International Indology Graduate Research Symposium, which was held at OxfordUniversity. This volume, the first in a new series which will publish the proceedings of the Symposium, will makeimportant contributions to the study of the classical civilisation of the Indian sub-continent. The series, editedby Nina Mirnig, Péter-Dániel Szántó and Michael Williams, will strive to cover a wide range of subjects reachingfrom literature, religion, philosophy, ritual and grammar to social history, with the aim that the research publishedwill not only enrich the field of classical Indology but eventually also contribute to the studies of history andanthropology of India and Indianised Central and South-East Asia.9781842173855, £38.00, Oct 2013PB, 486p, b/w halftones, PUSPIKA 1, Oxbow BooksPuspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and TraditionsContributions to Current Research in Indology Volume IIEdited by Giovanni Ciotti, Alastair Gornall & Paolo VisigalliPuspika 2 is the outcome of the second International Indology Graduate Research Symposiumand presents the results of recent research by young scholars into pre-modern South Asiancultures with papers covering a variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of theregion. Focusing on textual sources in the languages in which they were composed, differentdisciplinary perceptions are offered on intellectual history, linguistics, philosophy, literarycriticism and religious studies.9781782974154, £28.00, Dec 2013PB, 224p, PUSPIKA 2, Oxbow BooksRecent Highlights from Oxbow Books and Windgather Press9781905119455, £25, PBWindgather Press9781905119462, £30, PBWindgather Press9781842174784, £29.95, PBOxbow BooksLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 13

Windgather Press is an imprint of Oxbow Books specialising in publishing accessibleand attractive books on landscape history, landscape archaeology, and the history ofBritain’s countryside and further afield, including garden history.Building the Great Stone Circles of the NorthEdited by Colin RichardsOf all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circles that werebuilt throughout Britain and Ireland. From the tall, elegant, pointed monoliths of the Stonesof Stenness to the grandeur of Stonehenge and the sarsen blocks at Avebury, circles of stoneexert a magnetic fascination to those who venture into their sphere. In Britain today, morepeople visit these structures than any other form of prehistoric monument and visitors standin awe at their scale and question how and why they were erected. Building the Great StoneCircles of the North looks at the enigmatic stone structures of Scotland and investigates the background of theirconstruction and their cultural significance. Beginning with a consideration of how the stone structures of WesternScotland can be interpreted, the volume looks in detail at the context of the circles and cairns from Orkney and theOuter Hebrides – from quarrying the raw material to their symbolic role within the landscape – before wideningout into a consideration of the societies who built and used them and the myth and folklore that is now embeddedwithin these megaliths.9781909686120, £39.95, Nov 2013PB, 320p, b/w and col. illus, Windgather PressNorfolk Gardens and Designed LandscapesBy Patsy Dallas, Tom Williamson & Roger LastNorfolk Gardens is a celebration of the rich history of gardens and parks in the county of Norfolk.Beginning with a detailed exploration of the history of gardening in the county - from the pre-18th century ‘medicinals’, through the establishment of the great country house gardens andcivic spaces of the 18th and 19th centuries, to the impact of modern ideas of ‘ecology’ and‘minimalist’ gardening – the volume gives detailed descriptions of 330 of the most beautifuland significant gardens, parks and open spaces in Norfolk. It explores the impact gardenerswith national reputations – such as Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll – have had onthe development of garden, landscape design and planting, both in the county and on the wider national stage, andexamines the influence that these landscapes have on our ideas of gardening today. The volume is more than just aguide to gardens and spaces open to the public: whether large, well-known public spaces or small, private gems, allthe gardens included are of particular importance in the history of gardening. Lavishly illustrated throughout in fullcolour, with an introduction by the distinguished landscape and garden historian Tom Williamson, Norfolk Gardensis a comprehensive and detailed account of the history and heritage of gardening.9781905119929, £25.00, Oct 2013HB, Windgather PressCipièresLandscape and Community in in Alpes-Maritimes, FranceBy David Austin, Rosamond Faith, Andrew Fleming & David SiddleCipières, in the Alpes-Maritimes, is a French upland landscape rich in archaeology anddistinctive in its topography. Cipières: Community and Landscape in the Alpes-Maritimes is aunique exploration which brings together a wealth of documentary sources retained in thevillage with material evidence in the landscape to produce an interdisciplinary and holisticaccount of the development of one community and its lands. Beginning with a history ofthe Project, the volume examines the village’s morphology and archaeology, including a landscape survey andinvestigation of the agrarian systems of the Plâteau de Calern, before moving on to examine settlement patterns,population, politics, social structure and the local economy from the fifth century through to 1900. After a periodof decline, the area is now undergoing regeneration, and history is bought up-to-date and placed in its moderncontext through reflections of the modern day region.9781905119998, £38.00, Nov 2013PB, 432p, b/w and col. illus, Windgather Press14Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.uk

Aris & Phillips is an imprint of Oxbow Books. The Classical Texts series publishesmodern editions of Classical Greek and Latin texts, with substantial introductions andcommentaries as well as the original text with facing-page English translation.Aeschylus: Suppliant WomenWith a translation, introduction and commentary by A. J. BowenAeschylus’ Suppliant Women begins with a procession of girls, dressed in foreign costume andcarrying boughs – tokens of supplication – arriving in Argos. Fugitives from Egypt they are inflight from their cousins, the sons of Aegyptus, who want them as wives and they seek asylumfrom King Pelasgus. Accepting the girls’ claim to Argive ancestry as descendants of Io, the kingperceives that if he grants the petition there will be war. It is only after much discussion andthe threat that, if rejected, they will hang themselves from the gods’ statues, that the king ispersuaded to put their case to his people, who unanimously vote in favour of granting asylum. The sighting of anEgyptian fleet leads the girl’s father Danaus to abandon his daughters and go in search of help, leaving the girlsto exchange threats and insults with the Egyptians before the king arrives in the nick of time. He persuades theEgyptians to yield and withdraw, which they do with the warning that, when they hear the news, the sons of Aegyptuswill wage war. Assured of sanctuary the girls’ rejoice and pray to Artemis to protect them from forced marriage.This vibrant and lyrical new translation of one of the lesser known of Aeschylus’ plays is accompanied a fullcommentary on the text and substantial introduction.9781908343345, £19.99, Aug 2013PB, Classical Texts, Aris & PhillipsEuripides: Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric DramaEdited by Patrick O’Sullivan & C. CollardSatyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been theoldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy. By the 5th Century BC at Athens itshared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for atthe annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only together with, and after, the threetragedies which each poet was required to present in competition. It was in contrast with them,aesthetically and emotionally, its plays being considerably shorter and simpler; coarse and halfwayto comedy, it burlesqued heroic and tragic myth, frequently that just dramatised and performed in the tragedies.Euripides’ Cyclops is the only satyr-play which survives complete. Our knowledge and appreciation of the genrehave been greatly enlarged, however, by recovery since the early 20th Century of considerable fragments ofAeschylus, Euripides’ predecessor, and of Sophocles, his contemporary – but not, so far, of Euripides himself.This volume provides English readers for the first time with all the most important texts of satyric drama, withfacing-page translation, substantial introduction and detailed commentary.9781908343772, £24.99, Sep 2013PB, Classical Texts, Aris & PhillipsApuleius’ Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass: Book 1With a translation, introduction and commentary by Regine MayApuleius’ Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, our only complete Latin novel, tells the story ofLucius, a young man turned into a donkey by magic because of his unfettered curiosity. Aftermany adventures he is finally saved by the goddess Isis, whose follower he becomes. Thefamous first book of the novel introduces the protagonist’s character, his interest in magicand his gullibility, but also important themes of the novel such as metamorphosis from maninto beast. This new edition presents the Latin text with a modern translation, substantialintroduction and accompanying commentary. The author Apuleius is discussed in the literary environment of thesecond century AD together with key themes of the first book and the novel as a whole. Special attention is givento ancient magic, the roles of philosophy and the goddess Isis in the novel as well as the extensive reception ofthe first book in literature up to modern times. The commentary illustrates Apuleius’ text as a densely constructedliterary work and explains literary allusions as well as philosophical, historical and religious contexts.Regine May is Lecturer in Latin Literature in the Department of Classics at the University of Leeds and the author ofApuleius and Drama: The Ass on Stage (Oxford 2006) and numerous articles on Apuleius and the ancient novels.9781908343819, £19.99, Dec 2013PB, 320p, Classical Texts, Aris & PhillipsLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 15

The Hispanic British Museum Classics publishes series publishes a wide editions range of of academic Hispanic titles texts which from the are Medieval the result oftexts research through and scholarly the Golden study Age undertaken to 21st century by the literature staff of including the British plays, Museum poetry and and othernovels. leading Presents academics the original text with facing-page English translation.Cervantes: The CompleteExemplary NovelsBy B. W. Ife & Jonathan ThackerMiguel de Cervantes is probablythe greatest writer of the SpanishGolden Age, whose influence onthe Spanish language has beenprofound. The Novelas ejemplaresare a narrative tour de force, an exhibition of sophisticatedstory-telling, daringly original in concept, executed withsubtlety and imagination, wide-ranging, entertainingand amusing, to be read for pleasure as well as profit.Taken together, they provide an overview of many ofCervantes’ recurring themes – the complexity of humannature and the unpredictability of human behaviour.They provide a series of working models of whathappens when people are put under extreme pressure,all viewed from Cervantes’s typically ironic standpoint.Now for the first time all twelve stories are collected inone volume with the original Spanish text and facing pageEnglish translation including more of the important originalpreliminaries, edited and translated so that the reader hasa greater sense of the context of the 1613 publication.9780856687747, £30.00, Sep 2013PB, 960p, Hispanic Classics, Aris & PhillipsUnamuno: MistBy John MacklinMist (Niebla), published in 1914,is one of Miguel de Unamuno’skey works; a truly Modernist workof Europe-wide significance whichaims to shatter the conventionsof fiction, using the novel asa vehicle for exploration of philosophical themes.The plot revolves around the character of Augusto, awealthy, intellectual and introverted young man andhis love affair with Eugenia, which eventually endsin heartbreak. Augusto decides to kill himself, butdecides that he needs to consult Unamuno himself.When Augusto speaks with Unamuno, the truth isrevealed that Augusto is actually a fictional characterwhom Unamuno has created. Augusto asserts that heexists, even though he acknowledges internally thathe doesn’t, and threatens Unamuno by telling himthat he is not the ultimate author. Augusto remindsUnamuno that he might be just one of God’s dreams.Following on from his translation of Abel Sanchez , JohnMacklin’s edition provides a much needed new Englishtranslation together with a substantial introduction.9781908343208, £19.95, Oct 2013PB, 400p, p,, Hispanic Classics, Aris & PhillipsGoing Down to MoroccoBy Jose Luis Alonso De santos &Duncan WheelerGoing Down to Morocco(Bajarse al moro), is one ofthe most emblematic andbest known theatrical workof recent times in Spain. Itboth contributed to and documented La Movida, adrug-fuelled youth movement that placed Madridfirmly on the global cultural map in the early 1980s.The comedy explores opposing lifestyles of youngpeople in 1980s Spain, during a period of radical socialchange. It is characterised by humour, creative use ofcontemporary slang, and intertextual film references.Duncan Wheeler’s translation of the original play markswith footnotes the changes made in the new versiondone in 2008 for a high-profile revival to celebrate itstwenty-fifth anniversary. This edition also includes anunpublished interview conducted by Duncan Wheelerwith Alonso de Santos in 2010.9781908343260, £15.00, Sep 2013PB, 120p, p, Hispanic Classics, Aris & PhillipsUnamuno: Aunt TulaBy Julia BigganeAunt Tula (La tia Tula), publishedin 1921, is one of the few novelswritten by Miguel de Unamuno tocentre on a female protagonist. Itis a vivid, nuanced portrait of theintelligent, wilful and yet vulnerableTula. Despite having no biological children of her own, theunmarried Tula becomes the primary maternal figure forsuccessive generations of children; some related to her,others not. Her chaste maternity is presented as a complexresponse to her long-held, self-sacrificing romantic lovefor her brother-in-law, her antipathy for the submissiverole expected of bourgeois married women, and Tula’sfear of her own physicality. Julia Biggane’s translationcaptures the accessibility of style and richness of literarysubstance in the original, and the introduction equips thereader with an understanding of the text’s wider materialcontexts and historical significance. Of special interest isthe novel’s representation of womanhood and maternity,itself inflected by wider social changes in countries acrossWestern Europe and Russia during the first two decadesof the 20th century.9781908343222, £15.00, Dec 2013PB, 200p, Hispanic Classics, Aris & Phillips16Trade Trade customers customers can order can from order Orca from Book Orca Services: Book Services: orders@orcabookservices.co.uk+44 (0)1235 465500

Founded in 1858 , the American Numismatic Society is the national institutionadvancing the study and public appreciation of coins, medals and related objectsof all cultures as historical and artistic documents.Coins of the Holy LandThe Abraham and MarianSofaer Collection at theAmerican Numismatic Societyand the Israel MuseumBy Ya’akov Meshorer et al.The Abraham and Marian Sofaercollection consists of 4,000 coins andrelated objects produced by the peoples who inhabitedthe Holy Land from the Persian period in the 5th and4th centuries BCE through the Crusader Kingdom in the13th century of the modern era. Assembled over morethan 30 years, the collection contains gold, silver andbronze coins of the Persians, Greeks, Samarians, Jews,Nabataeans, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, and Crusaders.Highlights of the collection include a rich selectionof the fractional silver coinage of Samaria; acomprehensive assemblage of the coins of theHasmonaean and Herodian Jewish dynasties; rareexamples of the Umayyad and Abassid coinagesproduced in Jerusalem and elsewhere and more.All coins are fully described and illustrated on 238plates.9780897222839, £130.00, Available NowHB, 588p, 238 plates, American Numismatic SocietyFrom Crime to PunishmentCounterfeit and DebasedCurrencies in Colonial andPre-Federal AmericaBy Philip L. MossmanEver since coinage was developed inancient Lydia, an element of societyhas sought to debase the coin ofthe realm for personal gain not only by counterfeiting,but also by shaving away precious metal. Currencydebasement was not confined to the proletariat sincethroughout history various monarchs increased theirroyal revenues, or seigniorage, by reducing the qualityof the coins’ specie content or its weight standard. Thecurrent text follows closely the course of royal Englishcopper coinages whose high potential profit made theman ideal prey for counterfeiters. These forgeries flowedfreely into the colonies where they overwhelmed, andeventually collapsed, the small change medium but notbefore various states sought to correct the evil of thisimported copper trash.9780897223270, £95.00, Oct 2013HB, 304p, full col throughout, American Numismatic SocietyNew Jersey State CoppersBy Roger S. Siboni, John L. Howes& A. Buell IshBy way of introduction, the authorsfully discuss the often tumultuoushistory of the New Jerseycopper coinage and its creatorsalongside the equally compellingstory of the men who first appreciated the “livingwarmth and personality” of the coins and formedthe great collections of the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies. Every known New Jersey die variety ispresented in minute detail with lavish enlarged fullcolorillustrations, condition censuses, as well ascommentary on die states and other notable features.The authors also include such supplementary materialas the original documents related to the eighteenthcenturycoining venture, imitations created for thecollector market in the nineteenth century, as well assuggestions for developing a personal collection. NewJersey State Coppers will surely become the primarytool for the study of this coinage and the basis fordeepening the understanding and appreciation of itscharm as old copper.9780897223287, £177.00, Sep 2013HB, 492p, full col throughout, American Numismatic SocietyCorinth XVIII: The Sanctuaryof Demeter and KoreThe InscriptionsBy Ronald StroudExcavations conducted by theAmerican School of Classical Studiesat Athens in the Sanctuary ofDemeter and Kore on Acrocorinth,1961-1975, produced more than 170 inscribed objects ofstone, bronze, and bone, as well as lead weights, mosaics,dipinti and graffiti on pottery, clay pinakes, and magicallead tablets. All of the inscriptions in this volume aretranscribed, and the author relates them to an overallinterpretation of the activities, secular and religious,attested in this shrine during its long period of use fromthe 7th century B.C. until the end of the 4th centuryA.D. Where possible, the author also draws out theirimplications for and contribution to the history of ancientCorinth, the worship of the goddesses Demeter and Kore,and the practice of magic, especially in the Roman period.This is the final publication of all the inscribed objects fromthe sanctuary, excluding stamped amphora handles andloomweights, which will be included in a later fascicle.9780876611869, £95.00, Sep 2013HB, 200p, American School of Classical Studies at AthensLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 17

Founded The British in Museum 1881, The publishes American a School wide range of Classical of academic Studies titles provides which graduate are the result students ofand research scholars and from scholarly affiliated study North undertaken American by the college staff and of the universities British Museum a base for and otheradvanced leading academics study of all aspects of Greek culture, from antiquity to the present day.Funerary SculptureBy Janet GrossmanFunerary Sculpture is the firstvolume on sculpture from theAgora in over 50 years, bringingtogether all the sculpted funerarymonuments of the AthenianAgora, Classical through Romanperiods, which were discovered during excavation from1931 through 2009. The wide chronological span allowsthe author to trace changes in funerary monuments,particularly the break in customs that took place in 317B.C., and the revival of figured monuments in the Romanperiod. The study consists of three essays followed by acatalogue of 389 objects. The author places the Agorasculptural fragments within the greater context of Atticfunerary sculpture, moving from a general to a specifictreatment of the funerary sculpture. The first essay isan overview of the study of Attic types of sculpture;the second discusses the specific features of funerarysculpture from Athens and Attica; and the thirdexamines the characteristics of the funerary sculpturesfound in the Agora, thereby forming an introduction tothe catalogue that follows.9780876612354, £95.00, Oct 2013HB, 700p, American School of Classical Studies at AthensThe Athenian AgoraMuseum GuideBy Laura GawlinskiWritten for the general visitor, theAthenian Agora Museum Guide is acompanion to the 2010 edition ofthe Athenian Agora Site Guide andleads the reader through all of thedisplay spaces within the Stoa of Attalos in the AthenianAgora — the terrace, the ground-floor colonnade, and thenewly opened upper story. The guide also discusses eachcase in the museum gallery chronologically, beginningwith the prehistoric and continuing with the Geometric,Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantineperiods. Hundreds of artifacts, ranging from commonpottery to elite jewelry held in 81 cases, are describedand illustrated in color for the very first time. Throughfocus boxes, readers can learn about marble-working,early burial practices, pottery production, ostracism,home life, and the wells that dotted the ancient site. Atimeline, maps, and plans accompany the text. For thosewho wish to learn more about what they see in themuseum, a list of further reading follows each entry.9780876616581, £15.00, Dec 2013PB, 168p, American School of Classical Studies at AthensTombs, Burials, andCommemoration inCorinth’s NorthernCemetery (Corinth XXI)By Kathleen SlaneRescue excavations were carriedout along the terrace northof Ancient Corinth by HenryRobinson, the director of the Corinth Excavations, andthe American School of Classical Studies at Athens onbehalf of the Greek Archaeological Service, in 1961and 1962. They revealed 70 tile graves, limestonesarcophagi, and cremation burials (the last rare inCorinth before the Julian colony), and seven chambertombs (also rare before the Roman period). The burialsranged in date from the 5th century B.C. to the 6thcentury A.D., and about 240 skeletons were preservedfor study. This volume publishes the results of theseexcavations and examines the evidence for changingburial practices in the Greek city, the Roman colony,and a Christian town. This study will be of interest toclassicists, historians of several periods, and scholarsstudying early Christianity.9780876610220, £95.00, Nov 2013HB, 500p, American School of Classical Studies at AthensIndustrial ReligionThe Saucer Pyres of theAthenian AgoraBy Susan RotroffThis study focuses on the “saucerpyres,” a series of 70 depositsexcavated in the residential andindustrial areas bordering theAthenian Agora. Each consisted of a shallow pit, itsfloor sometimes marked by heavy burning, with avotive deposit of pottery and fragments of burnt bone,ash, and charcoal. Most of the pots were miniatures(including the eponymous saucers) but a few largervessels were found, along with offerings associatedwith funerary cult. When first found in the 1930s,the deposits were interpreted as baby burials. Recentzooarchaeological analysis of the bones, however,reveals that they are the remains of sheep and goats,and that the deposits were sacrificial rather thanfunerary. The present study investigates the nature ofthose sacrifices, taking into account the contents of thepyres, their spatial distribution, and their relationshipto buildings around the Agora and elsewhere.9780876615485, £45.00, Dec 2013PB, 200p, American School of Classical Studies at Athens18Trade Trade customers can can order order from from Orca Orca Book Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.ukorders@orcabookservices.co.uk

Arabian Publishing Ltd is a niche publisher based in central London, focusing on theArabian Peninsula countries and related regions and topics.Living to Some PurposeMemoirs of a Secular Iraqi and Arab StatesmanBy Adnan Pachachi & Peter SluglettIn a life spanning nine decades, Dr Adnan Pachachi has served his country as Ambassador tothe United Nations and as Foreign Minister, and has worked tirelessly to establish a secularand anti-sectarian political culture in Iraq. At the UN, where he was an eloquent advocate ofthe Palestinian cause, he was much admired for his mastery of procedure and his formidabledebating skills. In 1969, a few months after the Ba‘athist government took power in Baghdad,he resigned from the Iraqi foreign service while at the United Nations in New York. He would not see his countryagain for thirty-four years. He played a central role in establishing the United Arab Emirates as a newly independentstate. In 1991 he re-engaged with Iraqi politics when he became involved with the expatriate opposition. In 2003,at the age of eighty, he made the courageous decision to return to Iraq in the aftermath of the US invasion and thefall of Saddam Hussein. He became a member of the Governing Council, its President in January 2004, a memberof the Interim National Council in 2004–05, and a member of the Iraqi Parliament from 2006 to 2010.9780957106031, £25.00, Available NowHB, 240p, 17 photographs, Arabian Publishing LtdYes, The Arabs Can TooBy Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber & Michael WortonMuch has been written about the role and presence of the Arabs in the world at the beginning ofthis millennium, and their ability to meet the challenges overwhelming our planet, bristling as it iswith science, technology and latest lethal weapons. Now this new book by Sheikh Mohamed BinIssa Al Jaber penetrates to the heart of the Arab situation by a new route, hitherto uncharted. Theauthor gives us a practical and precise summary of his own contemporary Arab experience froman intercontinental perspective, notable for its success, variety and modernity. Sheikh Mohamedhas been able to scale the peaks of international corporate and institutional life, and impose his presence and voiceupon them. Here, in a distillation of wisdom drawn from a unique career, he presents us with a practical account of thelessons of his success, so that they can be applied to economic and social institutions and thence to society at large. Thisbook is a translation of the Arabic original, first published in 2009. It therefore pre-dates the events of the ‘Arab Spring’and other recent upheavals in the Arab world. Its insights are none-theless valid, and are just as applicable to the Arabworld today as they were four years ago. Indeed, they have taken on extra urgency in the light of the author’s prescientdiagnosis of the Arab peoples’ thirst for democracy, human rights and proper citizenship in their own countries.9780957106093, £20.00, Sep 2013HB, 176p, Arabian Publishing LtdThe Chapel of Kahai and His FamilyThe Tombs of Nikaiankh I, Nikaiankh II and KaihepBy Miral LashienThe tomb of Kahai and his family was previously published only in black and white photographsby Moussa and Altenmüller under the title of The Tomb of Nefer and Ka-Hay. As one of themost colourful tombs of the Old Kingdom, the present publication offers magnificently richcolour plates and context line drawings showing all the intricate details of the scenes andinscriptions. As such, this monograph is a significant addition to the study of Egyptian artin the Old Kingdom. Contrary to the belief that Nefer prepared the joint tomb for himself and his father Kahai,the author shows that we have here a rare case of a son dying before his father with the latter adding an alcovededicated for his son in his chapel. Other sons of Kahai were later included in the decoration, making this a truefamily burial place.9780856688362, £75.00, Available NowPB, 56p, 76 colour plates (148 photographs); 11 b&w plates including folded plates, ACE Reports 33, Australian Centre for EgyptologyLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 19

Established The British Museum in 2000, Barkhuis publishes publishes a wide range books, of journals, academic and titles websites which are for the result ofacademic research and community scholarly as study well undertaken as books written by the by staff academics of the British for a broader Museum audience. and otherleading academicsOne Leg in the GraveRevisitedEdited by Kees ZimmermanThe Miracle of the Transplantationof the Black Leg, a posthumousmiracle performed by the saintsCosmas and Damian, is best known from the GoldenLegend of Jacobus the Voragine (1265). From the earlyMiddle Ages on, artists have been particularly inspiredby De Voragine’s description of this miracle. Their workscan be found in churches, monasteries, and musea,mainly in Italy, Spain, and Southern France. These artfulrepresentations have fascinated Kees Zimmerman,retired trauma surgeon, inspiring him to travel throughSouthern Europe exploring them. In this way he hasgathered an impressive collection of photographsof paintings, sculptures, and other art and religiousobjects. This book offers over 80 reproductions ofrepresentations of the Miracle of the Black Leg, quitea number of which have never been published before.Articles by art historians (De Jong, Fracchia), medievalists(Santing), and an Introduction by Zimmerman himself,shed light on different aspects of the legend.9789491431234, £25.00, Available NowPB, 159p, BarkhuisDigital Atlas of EconomicPlantsBy RTJ Cappers, R. Neef & RMBekkerThis atlas, which - like the otheratlases in the series - is published asa book plus a website, presentingthe plant parts that have aneconomic value and are offered for sale at markets andin shops. They include plants that are used as food,spices, stimulants, medicines, poisons, offerings, dyes,tannins, building materials and ground coverings.Digital Atlas of EconomicPlants in ArchaeologyBy R. Neef, RTJ Cappers & RMBekkerPresents illustrations of subfossilremains of plants with economicvalue. These plant remains mainlyderive from excavations in the OldWorld (Europe, Western Asia and North Africa) thatthe Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI, Berlin)and the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA) haveconducted or participated in. Like the other atlasses,this atlas is a combination of a book and a website.TheBook includes illustrations of seeds and fruits, and alsoof other plant parts. The resulting variety in seed andfruit forms is illustrated by examples from differentexcavations. To support their identification anddetermination, pictures of recent plants and relevantplant parts have been included. To supplement thephotographs, the website also includes morphometricmeasurements of the subfossil seeds and fruits. Thesemeasurements can be compared with your ownmeasurements of the plant taxa in question.9789491431029, £175.00, Available NowHB, 760p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 17, BarkhuisHandbook of PlantPalaeoecologyBy R. T. J. Cappers & R. NeefPlant palaeoecologists usedata from plant fossils andplant subfossils to reconstructecosystems of the past. Thisbook deals with the study ofsubfossil plant material retrieved from archaeologicalexcavations and cores dated to the Late Glacial andHolocene. One of the main objectives of this book isto describe the processes that underlie the formationof the archaeobotanical archive and the ultimatecomposition of the archaeobotanical records, being thedata that are sampled and identified from this immensearchive. Our understanding of these processes benefitsfrom a knowledge of plant ecology and traditionalagricultural practices and food processing. Thishandbook summarizes the basic ecological principlesthat relate to the reconstruction of former vegetationsand of agricultural practices in particular.9789077922590, £275.00, Available NowHB, 2035p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 9, Barkhuis9789491431074, £45.00, Available NowHB, 475p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 19, Barkhuis20Trade Trade customers customers can order can from order Orca from Book Orca Services: Book Services: orders@orcabookservices.co.uk+44 (0)1235 465500

Established in 2000, Barkhuis publishes books, journals, and websites for theacademic community as well as books written by academics for a broader audience.A Mind Set on FlintBy M. L. J Niekus, R. N. E. Barton,Thomas Terberger & Martin StreetThis volume comprises paperspresented to Dick Stapert on theoccasion of his retirement from theGroningen Institute of Archaeology(University of Groningen) in 2011and celebrates his scientific career. The contributionscover nearly 300,000 years of Human History and werewritten by colleagues, former students and friends.Topics include the making and use of fire, children in theStone Age, spatial analysis, and other themes related tothe study of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and beyond.This is the second edition.9789491431135, £85.00, Available NowHB, BarkhuisThe Invasion of Books inPeripheral Literary FieldsTransmitting Preferences andImages in Media, Networksand TranslationEdited by Petra Broomans et al.This book considers the functionand appreciation of the literaturetransmitted in the media, as well as the role of culturaltransmitters, their networks and why in some casesthey disappeared from the field of cultural transferand transmission history. The gender aspects ofcultural transfer are also studied, as well as theconnection between changing national identitiesand the varying definitions of national and minorityliteratures. The volume, the second publication withinthe project ‘Peripheral Autonomy’, reveals that againstthe backdrop of globalisation various centres andperipheries have changed positions. Moreover, it findsthat in addition to institutions, individual actors suchas cultural transmitters still play an essential role incultural transfer despite the growing significance of thecommercial environment.9789491431067, £20.00, Available NowPB, 237p 3, BarkhuisRethinking CulturalTransfer and TransmissionReflections and NewPerspectivesEdited by Petra Broomans et al.Rethinking Cultural Transfer andTransmission. Reflections andNew Perspectives formulatesnew directions within the studies on cultural transferand transmission, including gender aspects ofcultural transfer, the importance of cultural transferfor minority literatures and approaches to writing acultural transfer and transmission history. The articlescollected in this volume demonstrate that the fieldof cultural transfer and transmission is developingquickly and offers a variety of research possibilities.New aspects are scrutinised and new insights gainedfrom rediscovered material, and although thediscussion of the theoretical points of departure andthe methods used has only just begun, it is alreadyproviding us with interesting results and insights.This book is Volume 4 in the book series Studies onCultural Transfer & Transmission.9789491431197, £20.00, Available NowPB, 169p, BarkhuisFictional TracesReceptions of the AncientNovel - Volume 1 & 2 (SoldSeparately)Edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro& Stephen J. HarrisonThe study of the reception of theancient novel and of its literary andcultural heritage is one of the most appealing issues in thestory of this literary genre. In no other genre has the vitalityof classical tradition manifested itself in such a lasting andversatile manner as in the novel. However, this unifying,centripetal quality also worked in an opposite direction,spreading to and contaminating future literatures. Over thecenturies, from Antiquity to the present time there havebeen many authors who drew inspiration from the Greekand Roman novels or used them as models, from Cervantesto Shakespeare, Sydney or Racine, not to mention theprofound influence these texts exercised on, for instance,sixteenth-to eighteenth-century Italian, Portuguese andSpanish literature. Volume I is divided into sections thatfollow a chronological order, while Volume II deals with thereception of the ancient novel in literature and art.Vol 1, 9789077922972, £73.00, Available Now, HBVol 2,9789077922989, £51.00, Available Now, HBLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 21

Established The British Museum in 2000, Barkhuis publishes publishes a wide range books, of journals, academic and titles websites which are for the result ofacademic research and community scholarly as study well undertaken as books written by the by staff academics of the British for a broader Museum audience. and otherleading academicsRe-exploring CanadianSpace. RedécouvrirL’Espace canadienEdited by Jeanette den Toonder &Bettina van HovenA variety of productions andrepresentations of Canadianidentities are the central theme thatruns through this book. The different contributions exploreimagined spaces by considering Canadian music, poetryand novels; they engage with political space by addressingvarious ways in which the people of Canada have madeclaims to different regions in the distant and recent past;and they address lived spaces, and their actual and symbolicmeanings. It is an unusual book as it encompasses thewritings by those studying the arts and literature as wellas writings by social scientists, and it includes both Englishand French-speaking scholars. The richness that can befound in this multitude of perspectives and approachesto exploring Canadian space is characteristic of the wayin which Canadian Studies is practiced nowadays. It istherefore an appropriate volume to celebrate 20 years ofCanadian Studies in the Netherlands.9789491431050, £22.00, Available NowPB, 260p, Canada Cahiers 14, BarkhuisA Bouquet ofArchaeozoological StudiesEssays in honour of WietskePrummelEdited by D. C. M. Raemaekers, E.Esser, Roel C. G. M. Lauwerier & J.T. ZeilerThis volume comprises paperspresented to Wietske Prummel on the occasionof her retirement from the Groningen Institute ofArchaeology (University of Groningen) in 2012. Thecontributions cover a wide range of topics from allrealms of archaeozoology, such as animal husbandryand mobility, bird exploitation and fishery. The papersare dedicated to Wietske in celebration of her scientificcareer.9789491431159, £24.00, Available NowPB, 214p, Full col. illustrations, BarkhuisA Fragmented HistoryA Methodological andArtefactual Approach to theStudy of Ancient Settlementin the Territories of Satricumand Antium By G. TolThis dissertation presents fourmethodological case studies thatelaborate on the results of two field survey projects (theAstura and Nettuno surveys) that were carried out by theGroningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA). The case studiesaim at investigating biasing factors that limit the analyticaland comparative value of data from archaeological surveyin general using these two projects as a suitable testingground. Both surveys, carried out between 2003 and 2005,fell within the ambit of the Pontine Region Project (PRP),a long-term research program aimed at the diachronicarchaeological investigation of the various landscape unitsforming this region. The study area comprises the communalarea of the modern town of Nettuno, as well as the lowervalleys of the Astura and Moscarello rivers. In chronologicalterms this dissertation considers a time-span of 1300 years,from the 6th century BC to the 7th century AD.9789491431036, £52.00, Available NowPB, 405p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 18, BarkhuisA Manual for theIdentification of PlantSeeds and FruitsBy R. T. J. Cappers & R.M. BekkerThe taxonomic identification ofindividual seeds and fruits of wildand cultivated plants is not alwaysstraightforward. The specialistliterature and botanical reference collections canbe helpful, and knowing where to begin reading andcomparing can save a considerable amount of time. Wewrote A Manual for the Identification of Plant Seedsand Fruits to make your search easier. It describes theinflorescence(s) and infructescence(s) seen in each ofa set of 19 plant families, as well as the morphologyof its seeds and fruits (with special emphasis on fruittypology); the dispersal units (diaspores); and, ifpresent, heterocarpism and seed dimorphism. Themanual is richly illustrated with 460 colour photos ofinflorescences, infructescences, seeds, and fruits. Eachentry concludes with a concise seed atlas that depictsthe variation in the individual plant family’s seed andfruit forms.9789491431265, £38.00, Aug 2013HB, 273p, Full color illus., Barkhuis22Trade Trade customers can can order order from from Orca Orca Book Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.ukorders@orcabookservices.co.uk

British ArchaeologicalAssociationThe British Archaeological Association was founded in 1843 to promote the study ofarchaeology, art and architecture and the preservation of our national antiquities.The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient NovelEdited by Michael Paschalis & Stelios PanayotakisThe present volume comprises thirteen of the papers delivered at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon,Crete, on May 25-26,2009. The theme of the volume, ‘ The Construction of the Real and the Ideal inthe Ancient Novel,’ allows the contributors the freedom to use their skills to examine the real and theideal either individually or in conjunction or in interaction. The papers offer a wide and rich range ofperspectives: a political reading of prose fiction in Late Period Egypt (Selden); the presence of robbersand murderers in ideal fiction (Dowden); the interaction between illusion and reality in novelisticekphrasis (Zeitlin); divine loves as real precedents for human loves (Rosati); comical elements in Heliodorus’ Aethiopika(Doody);myths as paradigms for the inexperienced lovers in the Greek novels (Létoublon); moral ideas in the Odyssey and theGreek novels in relation to moralizing interpretations of Homer (Montiglio); the reality of the basic plot of Callirhoe in the lightof historical events and Aristotle’s Poetics (Paschalis); the interaction between fictionality and reality in Daphnis and Chloe(Bowie); entrapment and insu fficient understanding of reality in the Satyrica (Labate); fantasy, physical and ideal landscapesin Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (König); bridging the gap between Photis (real) and Isis (ideal) in Apuleius (Carver); the genderedaesthetics of the Greek novels viewed through the lens of the mimetic theory of Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Whitmarsh).9789491431258, £70.00, Aug 2013HB, 312p, Full color illus., Ancient Narrative Supplementum 17, BarkhuisThe Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: FictionalIntersectionsEdited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Judith Perkins & Richard PervoThis innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian andJewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period. Employing a diversity of approaches,including cultural studies, feminist, philological, and narratological, expert scholars from sixcountries offer twelve essays on Christian fictions or ‐fictionalized texts and one essay onAseneth. All the papers were originally presented at the Fourth International Conference onthe Ancient Novel in Lisbon Portugal in 2008. The papers emphasize historical contextualization and comparativemethodologies and will appeal to all those interested in early Christianity, the Ancient novel, Roman imperialhistory, feminist studies, and canonization processes.9789491431210, £60.00, Aug 2013HB, 230p, Ancient Narrative Supplementum 16, BarkhuisNewcastle and NorthumberlandRoman and Medieval Architecture and ArtEdited by Jeremy Ashbee & Julian LuxfordThe long and vibrant history of north-eastern England has left rich material deposits in theform of buildings, works of art, books and other artefacts. This heritage is examined here infifteen studies, ranging from the sculpture of the Roman occupation through the monumentsand architecture of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods, to the manuscripts and fortifiedhouses of the later Middle Ages. The monasteries at Hexham, Lindisfarne and Tynemouth,and the City of Newcastle itself, are all subjected to individual analysis, and there are papers on Alnwick andWarkworth castles, the great keep at Newcastle, the coffin of St Cuthbert and the Lindisfarne Gospels. The expertopinions presented here are intended to stimulate and advance scholarly debate on the material culture of aregion which has played a critical role in English history, and whose broad and varied profile still offers manyopportunities for critical inquiry.PB, 9781907975936, £36.00, Available Now / HB, 9781907975929, £80.00, Available Now288p, 182 illus, British Archaeological Association Transactions 36, British Archaeological AssociationLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 23

British Institutefor the Study of IraqThe British Museum publishes a wide range of academic titles which are the result ofresearch and scholarly study undertaken by the staff of the British Museum and otherleading academicsIvories from Nimrud (1949-1963) VII, 1 and 2Ivories from Rooms SW11/12and T10 Fort ShalmaneserBy Georgina Hermann & StuartLaidlawThis volume completes thepublication of the assemblagesfound in Fort Shalmaneser, as far as records permit.With the primary publication completed, it is nowpossible to look at these remarkable ivories as awhole rather than studying them by provenance, as isdiscussed in detail in the Commentary. Not surprisingly,it immediately becomes apparent that the majority canbe assigned to the Phoenician tradition. There are atleast twice as many Phoenician ivories than the otherLevantine and Assyrian ivories. They form thereforean incredible archive, recording the lost art of thePhoenicians, long famed as master craftsmen. Theivories found at Nimrud present a unique resource forstudying the minor arts of the Levantine world.9780903472296, £90.00, Available NowHB, 676p, British Institute for the Study of IraqSubstantive technologies atÇatalhöyük: reports fromthe 2000-2008 seasonsÇatal Research Project vol. 9This volume provides a wealth ofnew data on the ways in whichhumans became increasinglyengaged in their materialenvironment such that ‘things’ came to play an activeforce in their lives. A substantial and heavy involvementwas with alluvial clays that surrounded the site. In theabsence of large local stone, humans became increasinglyinvolved in the extraction and manipulation of clay for awide range of purposes – from bricks to ovens, pots andfigurines. This heavy use of clays led to changes in thelocal environment that interacted with human activity,as indicated in the first section of the volume. In thesecond section, other examples of material technologiesare considered all of which in various ways engagehumans in specific dependencies and relationships. Thevolume concludes with an integrated account of theuses of materials at Çatalhöyük based on the analysis ofheavy residue samples from all contexts at the site.9781898249313, £60.00, Sep 2013HB, 300p, 300 illus, British Institute at AnkaraÇatalhöyük excavations:Humans and Landscapes ofÇatalhöyük excavationsÇatal Research Project vol. 8Edited by Ian HodderSince 1993 an international teamof archaeologists, led by IanHodder, has been carrying outnew excavations and research at the Neolithic site ofÇatalhöyük, in order to shed more light on the peoplewho inhabited the site. This volume presents a wealthof new data on the ways in which the Çatalhöyüksettlement and environment were dwelled in. Afirst section explores how houses, open areas andmiddens in the settlement were enmeshed in the dailylives of the inhabitants A second section examinessubsistence practices of the site’s inhabitants. A thirdsection examines the evidence from the skeletons ofthose buried within the houses at Çatalhöyük in orderto examine health, diet, lifestyle and activity. Thisfinal section also reports on the burial practices andassociations in order to build hypotheses about thesocial organization of those inhabiting the settlement.9781898249306, £60.00, Aug 2013HB, 320p, 250 figs & 50 tabs, British Institute at AnkaraÇatalhöyük Excavations:the 2000-2008 seasonsÇatal Research Project vol. 7Presenting the results of theexcavations that took place at thesite from 2000 to 2008 when themain aim was to understand thesocial geography of the settlement,its layout and social organization. Excavation, recordingand sampling methodologies are discussed as well asdating, ‘levels’, and the grouping of buildings into socialsectors. The excavations in three areas of the EastMound at Çatalhöyük are described: the South Area, the4040 Area in the northern part of the site, and the ISTArea excavated by a team from Istanbul University. Thedescription of excavated units, features and buildingsincorporates results from the analyses of animal bone,chipped stone, groundstone, shell, ceramics, phytoliths,micromorphology. The integration of different types ofdata in the excavation account mimics the process ofcollaborative interpretation that took place during theexcavation and post-excavation process.9781898249290, £60.00, Dec 2013HB, 300p, 350 illus, British Institute at Ankara24Trade Trade customers customers can order can from order Orca from Book Orca Services: Book Services: orders@orcabookservices.co.uk+44 (0)1235 465500

The British Museum publishes a wide range of academic titles which are the result ofresearch and scholarly study undertaken by the staff of the British Museum and otherleading academics.MelanesiaArt and EncounterBy Nicholas Thomas et al.The British Museum’s uniquelyimportant Melanesian collectionis pre-eminent among earlycollections, and the 20,000items it comprises are core tounderstanding the cultures of the western Pacific. Theextraordinary art styles represented, from groups suchas New Guinea, New Ireland and the Solomon Islands andrelating to ancestors, family and clan, houses, feastingand festivals, are of interest not only in themselves butalso for how they have influenced European artistssince the nineteenth century. With contributions froma wide range of international scholars, anthropologists,indigenous peoples and artists, and illustrated with over300 colour images of Museum objects and contextualphotographs, the book will survey and respond to thecollection from the point of view of anthropologistsand the people responsible for its creation. Melanesiadocuments the most culturally diverse and artisticallyfertile region in the world for the first time.9780714125961, £75.00, Jul 2013HB, 384p, 306 col & 12 b/w illus, British Museum PressThe HajjCollected EssaysEdited by Venetia Porter & LianaSaifFollowing on the British Museum’scritically acclaimed exhibition Hajj:journey to the heart of Islam, thisvolume provides over thirty paperson the history and significance of the Hajj, spanninghistory, politics, archaeology, pilgrims’ journeys, art,architecture, photography and material culture. Thisis a major multi-disciplinary study and a key referencework for anyone with an academic or personal interestin the Hajj.British Museum Anglo-Saxon Coins IEarly Anglo-Saxon Gold andContinental Silver Coinage of ofthe North Sea Area, c. 600-760By Anna GannonThis volume is dedicated to theBritish Museum’s collection of earlyAnglo-Saxon gold coinage as well as the Anglo-Saxon andContinental silver coinage of the North Sea area, datingfrom the early seventh to the mid-eighth centuries. Thiswas the coinage which circulated during the age of Bede,the Lindisfarne Gospels and Sutton Hoo, and which iswidely celebrated for its historical significance and artisticaccomplishment. Both these features are well illustratedin this volume by more than 850 coins, which togetherform one of the largest, oldest and most representativecollections of this complex coinage. A major introductionsets the coins in context and reassesses their classification.New metallurgical analyses of the gold coinage andauthoritative interpretation of the results, as well as asurvey of the history of the collection, constitute furthervaluable supplements to the catalogue.9780714118239, £50.00, Aug 2013HB, 304p, 37 b/w plates, British Museum PressEgyptian Stelae in theBritish Museum from the13th - 17th DynastiesVolume I, Fascicule I:DescriptionsBy M. Marée & D. FrankeThe British Museum holds thelargest collection of MiddleKingdom stelae outside Egypt. This is the firstfull publication of the collection: the scenes andinscriptions of each of the 42 stelae are described indetail, with textual notes and explanatory diagrams.This is an outstanding work of scholarship by unrivaledauthorities in the field. The scenes and inscriptions ofeach of the forty-two stelae are described in detail,with full translations, textual notes and explanatorydiagrams. Each catalogue entry includes a wide-ranginggeneral commentary on phraseology, formulae andtitles, on the importance of each stela in its historicaland social context, and on aspects of epigraphy andiconography. Wherever possible, stela owners areidentified and family trees given.9780861591930, £40.00, Sep 2013PB, 270p, 150 col & 50 b/w illus, British Museum Press9780714119878, £65.00, Sep 2013HB, 288p, 48 b/w plates, 6 col plates, British Museum PressLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 25

The British Museum publishes a wide range of academic titles which are the result ofresearch and scholarly study undertaken by the staff of the British Museum and otherleading academics.New Light on Old GlassRecent Research on ByzantineGlass and MosaicsEdited by Liz James & ChrisEntwistleThis new publication bringstogether a range of leadingscholars from Europe, Americaand the Middle East to discuss the most recentresearch in the field of Byzantine glass and mosaicsin an interdisciplinary context. New Light on OldGlass explores how mosaics are perhaps the mostoutstanding examples of Byzantine art which survive;revealing changing aesthetics and issues surroundingthe technical production of glass in medieval artisticpractices. This is the first time that so many diversepapers, ranging from art history, archaeology, chemistry,physics and Byzantine studies have been assembledin one volume, and is the culmination of a five-yearresearch programme on the Composition of ByzantineGlass Mosaic Tesserae, conducted by the Universityof Sussex in conjunction with the British Museum andsponsored by the Leverhulme Trust.9780861591794, £45.00, Sep 2013PB, 250p, 500 col & b/w illus, British Museum PressThe British Museum CitoleNew PerspectivesEdited by James M. Robinson,Naomi Speakman & Kate Buehler-McWilliamsThe British Museum citole is aunique example of medievalcraftsmanship and is one of veryfew surviving instruments from the Middle Ages. Thisnew publication includes selected papers from thefirst international symposium on the British Museumcitole, held in November 2010 to highlight recent newresearch, conservation work and scientific findingsrelated to the British Museum citole. Highly illustratedto reflect the visual richness of this beautiful instrument,The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives featuresa wide range of academic approaches to the subject,drawing together experts from the fields of history, arthistory, music, organology, conservation and scienceand performance practice.Kom Firin IIThe Urban Fabric andLandscapeBy Neal SpencerThe second and final publication ofthe British Museum’s fieldwork atKom Firin, presenting key findingsfrom the western Nile Delta, alittle-explored yet strategically important area of Egypt.Focusing on two principal areas of the excavations,inside the north-eastern corner of the New Kingdomenclosure and an area of Saite occupation, this newresearch publication offers a detailed discussion ofartefact assemblages, faunal remains, the ancientlandscape and a chapter on modern Kom Firin.9780861591923, £45.00, Oct 2013PB, 304p, 200 illus, British Museum PressHadrianArts, Politics and EconomyEdited by Thorsten OpperThis book presents the proceedingsof the 2009 conference relating tothe 2008 exhibition at the BritishMuseum entitled “Hadrian: Empireand Conflict” and complementsand expands upon the exhibition catalogue. It coverssuch subjects as architecture, sculpture, archaeology,economics, numismatics and philhellenism and rangesover the Roman Empire from Britain and Spain in theWest to Turkey and Georgia in the East. The originalcontributions by international scholars present thelatest state of research and the first publication of somenew material. Thorsten Opper is a curator of Greek andRoman sculpture at the British Museum. He organisedthe internationally acclaimed 2008 exhibition “Hadrian:Empire and Conflict” and authored the accompanyingcatalogue (British Museum Press 2008). He currentlydirects a fieldwork project at Hadrian’s Villa, nearRome.9780861591862, £35.00, Oct 2013PB, 160p, 150 col illus, British Museum Press9780861591756, £40.00, Oct 2013PB, 260p, 300 illus, British Museum Press26Trade Trade customers can can order order from from Orca Orca Book Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.ukorders@orcabookservices.co.uk

IntermezzoIntermediacy andRegeneration in MiddleMinoan III Palatial CreteEdited by Colin F. Macdonald et al.The Middle Minoan III has beensignificantly overlooked, giving rise toconfused and ill-informed judgementsconcerning developments in Crete and further afield.With numerous innovations in art, architecture andmaterial culture — notably an entirely new palace atGalatas — the changes in Middle Minoan III are striking,and appear to herald a new political organisation of theisland, centred on Knossos. The papers in this volume,presented at the first colloquium to be held in the VillaAriadne at Knossos, now restore the period to its rightfulposition. The specialist contributions cover most key siteswhere Middle Minoan III occupation has been identified.The aim has been to rehabilitate Middle Minoan III as adynamic period in Crete and also on Thera, in order toprovide a better understanding of socio-political changeacross the island and beyond in the latter part of theMiddle Bronze Age.9780904887679, £79.00, Available NowHB, 227p, 206 illus, British School at AthensMenander: Eleven PlaysEdited by Colin AustinColin Austin, Professor of Greek atCambridge University 1998–2008,was one of the world’s foremostexperts in the reconstruction andinterpretation of Greek comedy.When he died in August 2010,he was working towards a new edition of Menanderfor the series Oxford Classical Texts, for which he hadcompleted only the shorter pieces: Dis Exapaton,Encheiridion, Georgos, Heros, Karchedonios, Kitharistes,Koneiazomenai, Leukadia, Perinthia, Phasma andTheophoroumene. The present volume contains thepapyri and book fragments of these eleven plays, editedby Colin Austin. It has been prepared for publication byRichard Hunter and Peter Parsons.9780956838124, £35.00, Available NowPB, 84p, Cambridge Philological SocietyKnossos MonastiriakoTomb and ‘Deposit’Edited by Laura PrestonThe archaeological sites on theMonastiriako Kephali hill analysedin this volume include the earliestknown mortuary activity at the keyMinoan centre of Knossos on theisland of Crete. Two Bronze Age sites are presented,known as the ‘Tomb’ and the ‘Deposit’, originallyexcavated in the 1930s but until now never publishedin detail. The ‘Tomb’ represents the earliest knownfunerary site at Bronze Age Knossos. The functionof the nearby ‘Deposit’ site is more ambiguous, buta mortuary interpretation is also possible for thephases contemporary with the ‘Tomb’. This volumepresents the excavated material held principally inthe Stratigraphical Museum at Knossos. The stoneartefacts, human remains, faunal remains, glypticmaterial and ceramics are described and discussedand the sites are placed within the broader frameworkof Minoan mortuary practices at Knossos during thesecond millennium BC.9780904887686, £56.00, Available NowHB, 125p, 84 illus, BSA Studies 22, British School at AthensSophocles’ JebbA life in lettersEdited by Chris StraySir Richard Jebb (1841–1905)was the most celebrated classicalscholar in late Victorian Britain:his edition of Sophocles, whichremains a classic, brought him aknighthood. Professor of Greek at Cambridge from1889, and MP for the University from 1891 untilhis death, Jebb became a national spokesman forthe humanities. “Sophocles’ Jebb” charts his careerthrough 275 newly discovered letters, presented herewith introductions and full annotation. By allowingJebb and his contemporaries to speak in their ownwords, it enables a significant reassessment of a keycultural figure of late Victorian Britain and sheds freshlight on public and academic debate of the time. Thevolume ends with a new, comprehensive list of Jebb’spublications. Christopher Stray is Honorary ResearchFellow, Department of History and Classics, SwanseaUniversity, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute ofClassical Studies, University of London.9780956838131, £45.00, Aug 2013HB, 300p, 5 b/w illustrations, Cambridge Philological SocietyLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 27

CelticStudiesPublicationsTartessianCeltic in the South-West at the Dawn of HistoryBy John T. KochBeyond the Aegean, some of the earliest written records of Europe come from the southwest,what is now southern Portugal and south-west Spain. Herodotus, the ‘Father of History’,locates the Keltoi or ‘Celts’ in this region, as neighbours of the Kunetes of the Algarve. Hecalls the latter the ‘westernmost people of Europe’. However, modern scholars have beendisinclined - until recently - to consider the possibility that the south-western inscriptionsand other early linguistic evidence from the kingdom of Tartessos were Celtic. This book shows how much of thismaterial closely resembles the attested Celtic languages: Celtiberian (spoken in east-central Spain) and Gaulish, aswell as the longer surviving langiages of Ireland, Britain and Brittany. In many cases, the 85 Tartessian inscriptionsof the period c. 750-c. 450 BC can now be read as complete statements written in an Ancient Celtic language.9781891271199, £19.95, Available NowPB, 344p 13, Celtic Studies PublicationsMedieval and Post-Medieval Development within Bristol’s Inner SuburbsEdited by Martin WattsThis volume contains the results of four archaeological projects undertaken within the historicsuburbs of Bristol. Excavations at nos 26–28 and at nos 55–60 St Thomas Street were bothwithin the 12th-century planned suburb of Redcliffe, just to the southeast of the medievalcity. Investigations at Harbourside and at Cabot House, Deanery Road, were undertaken in themedieval district of Billeswick, to the southwest of the city centre and in the vicinity of BristolCathedral, formerly the church of the 12th-century St Augustine’s Abbey. However, it is the generallack of evidence for significant development at these sites throughout the medieval and post-medieval periods andup to the beginning of the 18th century that provides a common theme. The scarcity of evidence for medieval andpost-medieval development at the Billeswick sites, Cabot House and Harbourside, is unsurprising as both were in theownership of the abbey or cathedral throughout this period, and were clearly of value as undeveloped land, eitheras parkland (as at Cabot House) or meadow (i.e. Canon’s Marsh at Harbourside). The dearth of evidence from the StThomas Street sites in Redcliffe was more unexpected, though this appears to corroborate documentary evidencesuggesting that this part of the suburb remained something of a backwater into late post-medieval times.9780955353444, £14.95, Available NowPB, 144p, 13 b/w and 41 colour illustrations, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report 7, Cotswold ArchaeologyFriars, Quakers, Industry and UrbanisationThe Archaeology of the Broadmead Expansion Project, Cabot Circus, Bristol, 2005-2008Edited by Victoria Ridgeway & Martin WattsThe former presence of a Dominican Friary and later Friends’ Meeting House in theBroadmead suburb of Bristol were already well known. Further elements of the friarycomplex, including remains of the church and two cloisters, were revealed in variousarchaeological interventions within the area of the former precinct, enabling a reconstructionof the precinct and its environs to be made. The project has also shed light on other aspectsof the suburb’s past that were previously less well known. Borehole investigations have allowed the prehistoricenvironment of the River Frome valley to be characterised, with episodes of small-scale tree clearance fromthe surrounding slopes during the later Neolithic and early Bronze Age, and the floodplain remaining as mudflats until the development of the Broadmead suburb in the 12th century and the arrival of the Dominicans inthe 13th century. The Dissolution saw the demolition of parts of the friary, and by the later 17th century thesurviving claustral buildings were occupied by trade guilds and the Quakers had built their first Meeting House.The 18th and 19th centuries were times of enormous expansion for Bristol, when large-scale developmentoccurred, expanding the suburb to the north and east of the former friary.9780956305480, £34.95, Jul 2013HB, 450p, colour 107; B&W 116, CA monograph/PCA monograph 42491, Cotswold Archaeology28Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: +44 (0)1235 465500

East Anglian Archaeology is an academically refereed series providing an outletfor reports from the East of England — Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire,Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire.Tyttel’s Halh: The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Tittleshall, Norfolkthe Archaeology of the Bacton to King’s Lynn Gas Pipeline, Volume 2By Penelope Walton RogersThe cemetery lay south of the modern village of Tittleshall, on the side of a Bronze Agebarrow. It was founded in the 5th century, and was in use throughout the 6th and early 7thcentury. One male burial may belong to the later 7th century. The graves of 28 men, womenand children were recorded, and the cemetery has been interpreted as the burial plot of asmall farming household. The range of artefacts in the graves indicates that the people wholived here were well provided with material goods. A young boy was buried in fine linen with the remains of asword scabbard, and it is argued that this family was a sword-bearing lineage of local prominence. A study oflocal landholding patterns suggests that the land unit was originally small, but that it later expanded to form themodern civil parish through the absorption of neighbouring manors. It is probable that the cemetery ceased to beused when occupation moved to settlements of the Middle Anglo-Saxon period which developed into the modernvillage of Tittleshall.9780957228818, £15.00, Oct 2013PB, 150p, 100 illustrations, East Anglian ArchaeologyStaunch Meadow, Brandon, SuffolkA high status Middle Saxon settlementBy Andrew Tester, Sue Anderson, Ian Riddler & Robert CarrExcavations revealed evidence of a settlement dating from the mid 7th to late 9th centuries.Remains of a wooden bridge and 35 buildings were found, some with timber surviving inpost-holes, also a smithy, a possible bakery and two churches. Part of the waterfront wasgiven over to textile processing. Amongst thousands of artefacts, some provided compellingevidence for literacy.9780956874740, £45.00, Nov 2013PB, 450p, 275 illustrations, East Anglian ArchaeologyA Late Saxon Village and Medieval ManorExcavations at Botolph Bridge, Orton Longueville, PeterboroughBy Paul Spoerry & Rob AtkinsBotolph Bridge, now within urban Peterborough, lay beside an important crossing of the RiverNene and once formed part of a well-known medieval vill, referenced in Domesday Book. BotolphBridge was noted for its well preserved medieval earthworks but since the late 1980s these havegradually been destroyed by housing development. An earthwork survey carried out in 1982amply demonstrated the complexity and importance of the site, showing a church and manorialcomplex with house plots strung out along an adjacent road and fields separated from the main settlement by a hollowway. Excavation demonstrated that the manorial enclosure had replaced earlier house plots by c.1200. In the later14th century, there was considerable investment by the manorial holders, the Draytons. A manorial farm was builtabove earlier fields, with stone buildings constructed around a courtyard including a farmhouse, dovecote and ancillarybuildings. Within the manorial enclosure itself, further agricultural buildings were laid out. All these buildings had beenabandoned by c.1600. The church, located just north of the excavation area, was finally demolished in 1695.9781907588051, £20.00, Dec 2013PB, 200p, 84 illustrations, East Anglian Archaeology30Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.uk

A registered charity, set up to commemorate the death at the age of 45 of Elias JohnWilkinson Gibb, the trust’s objective is to promote the study and advancement of researchinto the history, literature, philosophy and religion of the Turks, Persians and Arabs.The Mathnawi of Jalalu’ddin RumiVolume 6 (English translation)By Jalalu’ddin Rumi & Reynold A. NicholsonMawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi’s great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and mostinfluential works of Muslim mysticism. Nicholson’s critical edition is based on the oldest knownmanuscripts, including the earliest, dated 1278 and preserved in the Mevlana Museum atKonya. It remains the standard text and is provided with diacritical marks to assist the student.The prose translation, similarly, is intended to be an exact and faithful guide to the Persian.The three volumes of English translation can either be bought as a set, or individually; together they comprise acomplete translation. Volume 6 comprises a translation of Books V and VI.9780906094105, £15.00, Jul 2013HB, Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies, Gibb Memorial TrustA History of Ottoman PoetryBy E. J. W. GibbThe History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, wasthe principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the timeof his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder wasalmost complete and was seen through the press by Gibb’s friend and literary executor, thePersian scholar E. G. Browne. The History was designed to provide the first extended accountin English of Ottoman literature. No comparable study has appeared in English since Gibb’smagnum opus. His History of Ottoman Poetry has become a classic work which is still widely referred to andvaluable for students, scholars and anyone with a general interest in Middle Eastern literature and culture.Volume I, 1300–1450 – PB, 472p, 9780906094181, £25, Available NowVolume II, 1450–1520 – PB, 9780906094198, £25, Available NowVolume III, 1520–1600 – PB, 400p, 9780906094396, £25, Available NowVolume IV, 1700–1850 – PB, 376p, 9780906094587, £20, Available NowVolume V, 1859– – PB, 258p, 9780906094594, £18, Available NowVolume VI, Turkish Texts – PB, 9780906094624, £25, Available NowComplete Set – PB, 9781909724266, £120, Available NowAbbasid Studies IVEdited by Monique BernardsSoon after their successful revolution in 750 AD, the Abbāsids supplanted the Umayyaddynasty, built the new city of Baghdad, Iraq which became the capital of the Islamic Empire.The civilization that the Abbāsids helped to create carried forth the torch of knowledgelit by ancient Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and Persia. Adding many of their own uniquecontributions, the Abbāsid dynasty left an indelible mark on the history of humankind.This volume presents a colourful mosaic of new research into classical Arabic texts that sheds lighton significant historical, political, cultural and religious aspects of the ʿAbbāsid era and provides insight into how thefundamentals of philology are shaped. Wonderful vistas of ancient dreams open up while ʿAbbāsid armies clatter andcollide; images are conjured of murderous caliphs, foreign looking littérateurs and talking objects. We see a lively selfportrait of a scholar struggling with the presentation of his own image and a Persian courtier on exploratory missionsaround the globe obtaining eyewitness testimony of the wonders of the world. We learn of magic pools, all-seeingmirrors, the kidnapping of a lute-playing shepherd; a Baghdadi party-pooper at an Isfahani social gathering monopolisingall participants with an amazing speech until the narrator drunkenly passes out on the floor, and much more.9780906094983, £45.00, Oct 2013HB, Gibb Memorial TrustLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 31

The Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) was founded in 1982 to support projectsrelevant to the history of the Aegean world from the Paleolithic to the first Olympiad.The Combined Anglo-Saxon ChroniclesBy Guy PointsThis book enables rapid access to the events recorded in any one year in the Anglo-SaxonChronicle which was created in the late ninth century. Multiple copies were made and sent tomonasteries in England where they were then independently updated, amended and copied,at times resulting in considerable variation in content. Today some nine manuscripts survivein whole or in part to make up what is known as the “Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”. It covers theperiod BC 60 to AD 1154 recording events, people and places, the governance of Englandincluding taxation, foreign affairs, natural events relating to famines, farming, climate, eclipses of the sun andmoon, and the arrival of comets. Some entries include commentaries by the scribe. The author provides a narrativein chronological order of the information provided by the extant manuscripts using as his principal source “TheAnglo-Saxon Chronicle”, translated by G N Garmonsway. He further develops and abridges the Garmonsway versionto produce one continuous text. Unique to Guy Points’ presentation is the device of using different print font typesin the text to identify each of the source manuscripts. The font index is supplied at the foot of every single page ofthe narrative. Thus, the year, content and origin can be instantly correlated by eye. This eliminates time-consumingand potentially confusing cross-referencing by paragraph, page and year. Only new and additional informationprovided in the different manuscripts is added. Where manuscripts disagree over date attribution this is indicated.Some entries have additional information inserted by the author to help identify more precisely some of theindividuals, events and geographical locations named. Overall, the condensed narrative and unique methodologyof presentation make the wealth of material in the several manuscripts more easily accessible to everyone.9780955767920, £12.95, Available NowPB, 136p, Guy PointsAMILLAThe Quest for Excellence. Studies Presented to Guenter Kopcke in Celebration ofHis 75th BirthdayEdited by Robert B. KoehlContributions by 34 scholars are brought together here to create a volume in honor of thelong and fruitful career of Guenter Kopcke who is the Avalon Foundation Professor in theHumanities at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Articles pertain to various topicson the ancient art, architecture, and archaeology of the greater Eastern Mediterranean region:from Pre-Dynastic Egypt to the Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia, Cyprus and the Near East, and Etruscan Italy.9781931534734, £55.00, Jul 2013HB, 444p, 11 tables in text, 235 figs. in text, Prehistory Monographs 43, INSTAP Academic PressThe Neolithic Settlement of Knossos in CreteNew Evidence for the Early Occupation of Crete and the Aegean IslandsEdited by Nikos Efstratiou, Alexandra Karetsou & Maria NtinouThe site of Knossos on the Kephala hill in central Crete is of great archaeological and historicalimportance for both Greece and Europe. Dating to 7000 B.C., it is the home of one of the earliestfarming societies in southeastern Europe, and, in the later Bronze Age periods, it developed into aremarkable center of economic and social organization within the island, enjoying extensive relationswith the Aegean, the Greek mainland, the Near East, and Egypt. After the systematic excavation ofthe deep Neolithic occupation levels by J.D. Evans in the late 1950s and later and more limited investigations of thePrepalatial deposits undertaken primarily during restoration work, no thorough exploration of the earliest occupation ofthe mound had been attempted. This monograph fills the gap, detailing the recent studies of the stratigraphy, architecture,ceramics, sedimentology, economy, and ecology that were a result of the opening of a new excavation trench in 1997.Together, these studies by 13 different contributors to the volume re-evaluate the importance of Neolithic Knossos andplace it within the wider geographic context of the early island prehistory of the eastern Mediterranean.9781931534727, £55.00, Jul 2013HB, 218p, 44 tables in text, 82 figs. in text , Prehistory Monographs 42, INSTAP Academic Press32Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: +44 (0)1235 465500

Legenda The British is a Museum book imprint publishes jointly a wide owned range by Maney of academic Publishing, titles a which leading are independentthe result ofacademic research and publisher, scholarly and study the Modern undertaken Humanities by the staff Research of the Association, British Museum one of and the otherUK’s leading most academics important learned societies.French Divorce Fictionfrom the Revolution to theFirst World WarBy Nicholas WhiteOne of the primary social changesushered in by the French Revolutionwas the legalization of divorce in1792. Diluted by the Civil Code andsuppressed by the Restoration, divorce was only fullyestablished in France by the Loi Naquet of 1884. FrenchDivorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First WorldWar tracks the part played by novels in this conflictbetween the secular rights of individual citizens andthe sanctity of the traditional family. Inspired by thesociologists Zygmunt Bauman and Anthony Giddens,White’s account culminates in the first sustainedanalysis of the role of divorce in the refashioning oflife narratives during the early decades of the ThirdRepublic. As such, it redefines the relationshipsbetween canonical authors such as Maupassant andColette, rediscovered women novelists like MarcelleTinayre and Camille Pert, and long-neglected patriarchssuch as Paul Bourget and Anatole France.9781907975479, £45.00, Available NowHB, 205p, Legenda Main Series, LegendaMedea in Performance1500-2000Edited by Edith Hall, FionaMacintosh & Oliver TaplinThe extensive performance historyof Euripides’ Medea since theRenaissance underscores its lastingsocial and political relevance. Here,papers drawn from an interdisciplinary colloquiumhosted at Somerville College by the University ofOxford’s Archive of Performances of Greek and RomanDrama in August 1998 are augmented by additionalessays from specialists. The contributors to thisimportant volume include Ian Christie, David Gowne,Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh, Platon Mavromoustakos,Marianne McDonald, Diane Purkiss, Margaret Reynolds,Mae Smethurst, Eva Stehlikovà, Oliver Taplin, and OlgaTaxidou.TabooCorporeal Secrets inNineteenth-Century FranceBy Hannah ThompsonFrench realist texts are driven byrepresentations of the body anddepend on corporeality to generatenarrative intrigue. But anxietiesaround bodily representation undermine realist claimsof objectivity and transparency. Aspects of bodilyreality which threaten les bonnes moeurs — genderconfusion, sexual appetite, disability, torture, murder,child abuse and disease — rarely occupy the foreground.This wide-ranging study uses the notion of the tabooas a powerful means of interpreting representations ofthe body. The hidden bodies of realist texts reveal theirsecrets in unexpected ways. Thompson reads texts bySand, Rachilde, Maupassant, Hugo, Barbey d’Aurevilly,Mirbeau and Zola alongside modern theorists ofthe body to show how the figure of the taboo plotsan alternative model of author-reader relationsbased on the struggle to speak the unspeakable.9781907975554, £45.00, Available NowHB, Legenda Main Series, LegendaReading Literature inPortugueseEdited by Claudia Pazos Alonso &Stephen ParkinsonThis collection brings togethertextual commentaries on thirtyrepresentative works of literaturein Portuguese, ranging fromthe medieval lyric of the 13th century, through thepoetry and drama of the Portuguese Renaissance, thegreat Realist novels of the nineteenth century, earlytwentieth century Modernism and post-1974 writingsthrough to the present day, while also includingexamples of 19th- and 20th- century Brazilian literature.All the primary texts are reproduced in Portuguese,sometimes in original editions, with Englishtranslations added for the majority. The contributorsvariously explicate and contextualise the works theypresent, some focusing on hidden meaning, others onphilological aspects of editing, others on their historical,intellectual and philosophical context, and others stillon the process of translation itself.9781900755351, £35.00, Aug 2013PB, 304p, Legenda Main Series, Legenda9781907975622, £45.00, Sep 2013HB, 294p, Legenda Main Series, Legenda34Trade Trade customers can can order order from from Orca Orca Book Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.ukorders@orcabookservices.co.uk

Legenda is a book imprint jointly owned by Maney Publishing, a leading independentacademic publisher, and the Modern Humanities Research Association, one of theUK’s most important learned societies.Language and SocialStructure in Urban FranceEdited by Mari C. Jones & DavidHornsbyThe coming together of linguisticsand sociology in the 1960’s, mostnotably via the work of WilliamLabov, provided a paradigm forthe understanding of variation and change. Labovianquantitative methods have had surprisingly littleresonance in France, a country which poses manychallenges to orthodox sociolinguistic thinking. Why,for example, does a nation with unexceptional scoreson income distribution and social mobility show anexceptionally high degree of linguistic levelling, thatis, the elimination of marked regional or local speechforms? This volume brings together leading variationistsociolinguists and sociologists from both sides of theChannel to ask: what makes France ‘exceptional’?Selected Essay of MalcolmBowie IDreams of KnowledgeBy Malcolm BowieMalcolm Bowie (1943-2007) wasdescribed by A.S. Byatt as ‘one ofour best living critics. He writesbeautifully, subtly and lucidlyabout very difficult subjects.’ Bowie was MarshalFoch Professor of French at Oxford (1992-2002) andMaster of Christ’s College, Cambridge (2002-2006).He received numerous honours, was invited to speakall over the world, and in 2001 won the internationalTruman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism for hisProust Among the Stars. The essays and reviewsin these volumes have never before been broughttogether. Ranging across literature, art, music, andpsychoanalysis, they offer fresh insights into topicstackled in Bowie’s books, and discuss quite new ones.Volume I, Dreams of Knowledge, presents essays onmemory, Proust, modern poetry (Mallarmé, Valéry,Eluard), and psychoanalysis.9781907975417, £45.00, Nov 2013HB, 246p, Legenda Main Series, LegendaSelected Essay of MalcolmBowie IISong ManBy Malcolm BowieMalcolm Bowie (1943-2007) wasdescribed by A.S. Byatt as ‘one ofour best living critics. He writesbeautifully, subtly and lucidlyabout very difficult subjects.’ Bowie was MarshalFoch Professor of French at Oxford (1992-2002) andMaster of Christ’s College, Cambridge (2002-2006).He received numerous honours, was invited to speakall over the world, and in 2001 won the internationalTruman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism for hisProust Among the Stars. The essays and reviewsin these volumes have never before been broughttogether. Ranging across literature, art, music, andpsychoanalysis, they offer fresh insights into topicstackled in Bowie’s books, and discuss quite new ones.Volume II, Song Man, presents shorter pieces, includingBowie’s essays on song and music criticism. They exploreimportant cultural issues such as anti-Semitism, imagesof gender, and ideas of the nation.9781907975493, £45.00, Nov 2013HB, 332p, Legenda Main Series, Legenda9781907975486, £45.00, Nov 2013HB, 264p, Legenda Main Series, LegendaPhotobiographyPhotographic Self-Writing inProust, Guibert, Ernaux, MacéBy Akane KawakamiWhy do photographs interestwriters, especially autobiographicalwriters? Ever since their invention,photographs have featured —as metaphors, as absent inspirations, and latterly asactual objects — in written texts. In autobiographicaltexts, their presence has raised particularly acutequestions about the rivalry between these two media,their relationship to the ‘real’, and the nature of theconstructed self. In this timely study, based on themost recent developments in the fields of photographytheory, self-writing and photo-biography, AkaneKawakami offers an intriguing narrative which runs fromtexts containing metaphorical photographs throughekphrastic works to phototexts. Her choice of MarcelProust, Hervé Guibert, Annie Ernaux and Gérard Macéprovides unusual readings of works seldom consideredin this context, and teases out surprising similaritiesbetween unexpected conjunctions.9781907975868, £45.00, Nov 2013HB, 196p, Legenda Main Series, LegendaLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 35

Legenda The British is a Museum book imprint publishes jointly a wide owned range by Maney of academic Publishing, titles a which leading are independentthe result ofacademic research and publisher, scholarly and study the Modern undertaken Humanities by the staff Research of the Association, British Museum one of and the otherUK’s leading most academics important learned societies.Goethe’s Visual WorldBy Pamela CurrieGoethe’s ideas on colour andimagery crossed many borderlines:those of artistic processes andphilosophical aesthetics, art historyand colour theory, together withthe science of perception. Thisinvestigation into his writings ranges across art fromAntiquity, the Renaissance and the eighteenth century,as well as exploring the centrality of these issues toGoethe’s literary work. Questions find answers, butalso raise new questions. This systematic sequenceof essays, originally written between 1999 and 2011,appeals to readers in all these separate areas, whiledrawing together their essential coherence.9781907975899, £45.00, Available NowHB, Germanic Literatures 3, LegendaLeopardi’s NymphsGrace, Melancholy, and theUncannyBy Fabio A. CamillettiHow can one make poetry in adisenchanted age? For GiacomoLeopardi (1798-1837) this was themodern subject’s most insolvabledeadlock, after the Enlightenment’s pitiless unveilingof truth. Still, in the poems written in 1828-29 betweenPisa and the Marches, Leopardi manages to turndisillusion into a powerful source of inspiration, throughan unprecedented balance between poetic lightnessand philosophical density. By reading Leopardi’s poemsin the light of Freudian psychoanalysis and of AbyWarburg’s and Walter Benjamin’s thought, Camillettigives a groundbreaking interpretation of the wayLeopardi negotiates the original fracture between poetryand philosophy that characterises Western culture.9781907975912, £45.00, Nov 2013HB, 190p, Italian Persepectives 28, LegendaSebald’s BachelorsQueer Resistance and theUnconforming LifeBy Helen FinchWhy do queer bachelors andhomosexual desire haunt theworks of the German writer W. G.Sebald (1944-2001)? In a series ofreadings of Sebald’s major texts, from ‘After Nature’ to‘Austerlitz’, Helen Finch’s pioneering study shows thatalternative masculinities subvert catastrophe in Sebald’sworks. From the schizophrenic poet Ernst Herbeck tothe alluring shade of Kafka in Venice, the figure of thebachelor offers a form of resistance to the destructivecourse of history throughout Sebald’s critical and literarywriting. Sebald’s poetics of homosexual desire trace a‘line of flight’ away from the patriarchal and repressiveorder of German society, which, in Sebald’s view, ledto the disasters of Nazism. This study shows that thepotential for subversion personified by Sebald’s solitarymales is essential for understanding his celebratedwork, while also demonstrating the contribution thatSebald made to the German tradition of queer writing.9781907975905, £45.00, Available NowHB, Germanic Literatures 2, LegendaDante and EpicurusA Dualistic Vision of Secularand Spiritual FulfilmentBy George CorbettDante and Epicurus seem polesapart. Dante, a committedChristian, depicted in theCommedia a vision of theafterlife and God’s divine justice. Epicurus, a paganphilosopher, taught that the soul is mortal and thatall religion is vain superstition. And yet Epicurus is,for Dante, not only the quintessential heretic but anethical ally. The key to this apparent paradox lies inthe heterodox dualism – between man’s two goals ofsecular felicity and spiritual beatitude – at the heartof Dante’s ethical, political and theological thought.Corbett’s full-length treatment of Dante’s receptionand polemical representation of Epicurus addresses amajor gap in the scholarship. Furthermore the study’sfocus on fault lines in Dante’s vision of the afterlife –where the theological tensions implicit in his dualismsurface – opens a new way to read the Commedia as awhole in dualistic terms.9781907975790, £45.00, Available NowHB, 198p, Italian Perspectives 25, Legenda36Trade Trade customers customers can order can from order Orca from Book Orca Services: Book Services: orders@orcabookservices.co.uk+44 (0)1235 465500

Legenda The British is a Museum book imprint publishes jointly a wide owned range by Maney of academic Publishing, titles a which leading are independentthe result ofacademic research and publisher, scholarly and study the Modern undertaken Humanities by the staff Research of the Association, British Museum one of and the otherUK’s leading most academics important learned societies.The Realist Author and Sympathetic ImaginationBy Sotirios ParaschasThe nineteenth century realist author was a contradictory figure. He was the focus ofliterary criticism, but obscured his creative role by insisting on presenting his worksas ‘copies’ of reality. He was a celebrity who found himself subservient to publishersand the public, in a newly-industrialised literary marketplace. He was the owner ofhis work who was divested of his property by imperfect copyright laws, playwrightswho adapted his novels for the stage, and sequel-writers. This combination of aconspicuous yet precarious status with a self-effacing attitude was expressed by an image of the author as aplural, Protean subject, possessing the faculty of sympathetic imagination – which the realists incorporatedin their works in the form of a series of fictional characters who functioned as ‘doubles’ of the author.Paraschas focuses on two realists, Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot, and traces this authorial scenario from itsorigins in the late eighteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century, examining its presence in theworks of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Friedrich Schlegel, Charles Baudelaire and André Gide.9781907975707, £45.00, Available NowHB, Studies in Comparative Literature 28, LegendaIris Murdoch and Elias CanettiIntellectual AlliesBy Elaine MorleySince the revelation of Iris Murdoch’s (1919-1999) affair with Elias Canetti (1905-1994),scholarship on their relationship has been largely biographical, focusing in particular onCanetti’s alleged role as the real-life model for some of Murdoch’s most invidious protagonists.Little research, however, has been done on the extensive common ground between the twowriters’ literary projects. In this groundbreaking comparative study, Elaine Morley conductsa careful philological comparison of Murdoch’s and Canetti’s works, from their literary themes and theories totheir idiosyncratic stylistic practices. Morley demonstrates that these authors were preoccupied with a commonphilosophical problem, and that they were in fact not only personally close, but also more intellectually allied thanhas been previously thought.9781907975745, £45.00, Sep 2013HB, 172p, Studies in Comparative Literature 29, LegendaJoseph OpatoshuA Yiddish Writer between Europe and AmericaEdited by Sabine Koller, Gennady Estraikh & Mikhail KrutikovAt the turn of the twentieth century East European Jews underwent a radical culturaltransformation, which turned a traditional religious community into a modern nation, strugglingto find its place in the world. An important figure in this ‘Jewish Renaissance’ was the American-Yiddish writer and activist Joseph Opatoshu (1886-1954). Born into a Hassidic family, he spent hisearly childhood in a forest in Central Poland. In New York, where he emigrated in 1907, he joinedthe revitalizing modernist group Di yunge — The Young. His early novels painted a picture of social turmoil and innerpsychological conflict, using modernist devices of multiple voices and mixed linguistic idioms. He acquired internationalfame by his historical novels about the Polish uprising of 1863 and the expulsion of Jews from Regensburg in 1519.Although he occupied a key position in the transnational Jewish culture during his lifetime, Opatoshu has untilrecently been neglected by scholars. This volume brings together literary specialists and historians working inJewish and Slavic Studies, who analyse Opatoshu’s quest for modern Jewish identity from different perspectives.9781907975608, £45.00, Sep 2013HB, 282p, Studies in Yiddish 11, Legenda38Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.uk

Palgrave Macmillan is a division of Macmillan Publishers Australia P/L, and isresponsible for the publishing, marketing and sales of academic trade, text, andscientific, technical, medical, professional and reference titles in Australia.A Meeting of East and WestDays Gone By, Volume 2By Christine Wu RamsayIn Days Gone By, Volume 2:A Meeting of East and West,Christine Wu Ramsay continuesthe personal story of her life inan ever-widening world – as Eastmeets West. The story is told with warmth, insight andher characteristic sense of humour. Presented with therealities of Western customs and values, she sets theseagainst her changing perceptions of the traditions andphilosophies of a matriarchal and extended Chinesefamily living in Singapore. Contrasts between Eastand West are highlighted when she takes a Westernhusband and they have two Eurasian children.Photographs spanning a century, complement theauthor’s engaging and revealing description ofstudying, working and living in Asia, Australia, Englandand America from 1958 to 1983.Jorg Schmeisser: Bilder DerReiseA man, who likes to drawBy Roger Butler et al.This splendidly illustrated, multicoloredpublication serves asa fitting memorial to a muchadmiredCanberra-based artist,teacher and traveller who died in 2012 while stillinvolved with the production of the book. A painterof the art of colour etching, his keenly observedstudies of the world around him are rich in detailand often annotated in his own handwriting.He lets the etched line work on the spectator’simagination – with poetic rewards for all who ponder.Co-published by SFA Press, Canberra, and Macmillan ArtPublishing, this is a heartwarming account of an artisticlife well-lived from a variety of scholarly and criticalperspectives. The design and colour reproduction areboth spectacular.9781921394751, £46.00, Available NowHB, 120p, Over 50 illustrations, Macmillan Art PublishingNo Other Man, No OtherStoreThe Extraordinary Life of SirCharles Lloyd Jones; Painter,Patron and Patriot, 1878-1958By Jenny CullenSir Charles Lloyd Jones alwayswanted to be an artist and, in hisyouth, studied painting for six and a half years, firstat the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and thenat the Slade in London. In later life he was appointedfirst Chairman of the Australian BroadcastingCommission and an initial director of the AustralianNational Travel Association. He became a long-termTrustee of the Art Gallery of NSW, established DavidJones’ Art Gallery and through the Gallery and Artin Australia helped bring local and overseas artiststo increasingly arts-interested Australian audiences.All the while, he continued to paint – albeit on a verymuch part-time basis. This biography, written andresearched by Jenny Cullen and introduced by ProfessorGeoffrey Blainey, provides an exciting documentationof the life of a remarkable citizen.9781921394836, £65.00, Jul 2013HB, 240p, Over 100 illustrations, Macmillan Art Publishing9781921394942, £43.00, Available NowHB, 176p, Over 100 illustrations, Macmillan Art PublishingDavid RankinThe New York YearsBy Dore AshtonRenowned New York art historianand critic Dore Ashton’s newbook on the Australian artistDavid Rankin’s ‘New YorkYears’ provides illuminatinginsights into the development of the numerousthemes expressed in the paintings and sculptureshe has created over recent decades. Its 288 richlyillustrated pages amply document this range of ideas.While Peter Carey’s introduction offers importantglimpses of Rankin’s youth and earler career inAustralia, Ashton develops this narrative and extendsher analysis into subsequent years after his marriageto poet Lily Brett and their move to a New York.Always sympathetic to politically conscious responsesto tragedy as they are expressed in art, Ashton admiresthis aspect of Rankin’s work as it appears in series suchas his Dona Nobis Pacem and Jerusalem Wall paintings,and the more recent Enniskillen works which reflect ontragic events in Ireland which affected his own family.9781921394584, £59.00, Jul 2013HB, 288p, Over 200 illustrations, Macmillan Art PublishingLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 39

Palgrave Macmillan is a division of Macmillan Publishers Australia P/L, and isresponsible for the publishing, marketing and sales of academic trade, text, andscientific, technical, medical, professional and reference titles in Australia.Joseph HendersonDoyen of Glasgow Artists, 1832-1908By Hilary Christie-JohnsonJoseph Henderson’s contribution to the Glasgow art world in the second half of the 19th centurywas profound. Glasgow became a centre of artistic activity in the 1860s, due in part to the creationof the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and the artists who formed the Glasgow Art Club. Thencame the famous ‘Glasgow Boys’ who furthered the city’s reputation for art in the 1880s and 90s.Among the artists most reviewed in The Glasgow Herald and The Scotsman was Joseph Hendersonwhose early works encompassed portraiture and genre painting but who later became renowned for his seascapes.These feature widely in this richly illustrated book which brings to life Henderson’s ‘bit of the Ayrshire Coast’.Anthony Woodd, whose Edinburgh gallery will feature an exhibition of Henderson’s paintings in September 2013,has written, “The seascapes paintings of Joseph Henderson have a quintessentially Scottish flavour…always freshand executed with swift, broken brushwork, the feeling conveyed is invariably one of spontaneity and an instantlyappealing sense of the artist’s oneness with nature.”9781921394881, £47.00, Jul 2013PB, 160p, 100 illustrations, Macmillan Art PublishingLetters of Pope GregoryEdited by J. R. C. MartynDuring the time Gregory the Great served as Pope of the Catholic Church, from 590-604 AD,he sent more than 850 letters to contacts throughout the known world – often using travellersas letter-bearers. However it was a time of warfare in Italy, with invading bombards, andtrade in slaves was lucrative – with agents quick to capture defenceless travellers. Officialcommunication, like imperial or papal orders were sent via postal channels, by horsemenor fast boats, these too were often blocked by enemy armies. This book studies some fortyLatin letters sent by Pope Gregory, copies of which are included in a manuscript held in the Ian Potter Museumof Art at the University of Melbourne. Many of the letters, reproduced in this book in Latin and English, deal withthe Pope’s attempts to sort out longstanding problems in Naples and Sicily and to save Rome from the bombardsThis unique Melbourne manuscript, with its colourful initials and rubrication of the titles comprises a seriesof folios removed in the 17th century and used by musicians in Worcester Cathedral to protect their musicalscores. Rebound in the 20th century and put up for sale in London, the manuscript was purchased by the ClassicsDepartment of the University of Melbourne in the 1970s.9781921394935, £47.00, Jul 2013HB, 184p, 50 illustrations, Macmillan Art PublishingThe LIP AnthologyAn Australian Feminist Arts Journal, 1976-1984Edited by Vivian ZiherlBy reviewing the projects and artworks of a significant group of women involved with theLIP Collective based in Melbourne in the 1970s and 80s, this anthology co-published byKunstverein Publishing Amsterdam and Macmillan Art Publishing: Melbourne disclosesfor the first time the scope of the movement. It published a host of exhibitions andcritical writings connecting Australian women artists with their counterparts overseas.Editor Vivian Ziherl writes: “Lip magazine was self-published by women in Melbourne from 1976 to 1984 andstood as a lightning rod for Australian feminist artistic practice over the ‘Women Liberation’ era. The art and ideasexpressed over Lip’s lifetime track stood at an intersection with local realities. The Lip Anthology seeks a figurationof Lip as a composite feminist entity produced with relation to the situational conditions of its production.The anthology selection is not proposed as a ‘best of’, but rather as cumulative array of materials indicating therange and dynamism of the Lip project.”9781921394775, £30.00, Jul 2013PB, 192p, Macmillan Art Publishing40Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: +44 (0)1235 465500

The McDonald British Museum Institute publishes for Archaeological a wide range Research of academic in the titles University which are of Cambridge the result ofwas research established and scholarly in 1990. study The undertaken Institute publishes by the staff the Cambridge of the British Archaeological Museum and Journal otherthree leading times academics a year, as well as the McDonald Institute Monograph Series.Spong Hill IX: Chronologyand SynthesisBy Catherine Hills & Sam LucySpong Hill, with over 2500cremations, remains the largestearly Anglo-Saxon cremationcemetery to have been excavatedin Britain. This volume presentsthe long-awaited chronology and synthesis of the site.It gives a detailed overview of the artefactual evidence,which includes over 1200 objects of bone, antler andivory. Using this information, together with programmesof correspondence analysis of the cremation urns andthe grave-goods, a revised phasing and chronology ofthe site is offered, which argues that it is largely fifthcenturyin date. The implications of this revised datingfor interpretations of the early medieval period inBritain and further afield are explored in full.9781902937625, £59.00, Aug 2013HB, 424p, McDonald Institute for Archaeological ResearchRainforest Foraging andFarming in Island SoutheastAsiaThe Archaeology of the NiahCaves, SarawakEdited by G. BarkerThe Niah Caves of Sarawak (Borneo)have iconic status in the archaeologyof Southeast Asia, because the excavations by Tom andBarbara Harrisson in the 1950s and 1960s revealed thelongest sequence of human occupation in the region,from 50,000 years ago to the recent past. This book is thefirst of two volumes describing the results of new workin the caves by a team of archaeologists and geographersaimed at clarifying the many questions raised by theearlier work. This first volume is a closely integratedaccount of how the old and new work combines toprovide new insights into the prehistory of the region:the strategies developed by our species to live in therainforest; how rainforest foragers engaged in forms of‘vegeculture’ thousands of years before rice farming; andhow rice farming represented profound changes in thesocial (and spiritual?) lives of rainforest dwellers.9781902937540, £62.00, Oct 2013HB, 464p, McDonald Institute for Archaeological ResearchThe Settlement atDhaskalioEdited by Colin Renfrew, OlgaPhilaniotou, Neil Brodie, GiorgosGavalas & Michael BoydThe Settlement at Dhaskalio isthe first volume in the series TheSanctuary on Keros: Excavations atDhaskalio and Dhaskalio Kavos, 2006-2008. Here findingsare presented from the well-stratified settlement ofDhaskalio, today an islet near the Cycladic island of Keros.A series of radiocarbon dates situates the duration of thesettlement from around 2750 to 2300 BC. The volumebegins with a look at the geological setting of Keros andof sea-level change, concluding that Dhaskalio was in thethird millennium BC linked to Keros by a narrow causeway.It is concluded that there was a small permanentpopulation of around 20, increased periodically by up to400 visitors who would have participated in the rituals ofdeposition occurring at the Sanctuary at Kavos, situatedopposite, on Keros itself, for which the detailed evidence(including abundant fragmented pottery, marble vesselsand sculptures) will be presented in Volumes II and III.9781902937649, £80.00, Oct 2013HB, 832p, McDonald Institute for Archaeological ResearchArchaeologicalinvestigations in the NiahCaves, Sarawak, 1954-2004Edited by Graeme Barker, DavidGilbertson & Tim ReynoldsThis book is the companion volumeto Rainforest Foraging and Farmingin Island Southeast Asia: theArchaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak. Together theypresent the results of new fieldwork in the caves andnew studies of finds from earlier excavations, a projectthat has involved a team of over 70 archaeologists andgeographers. Archaeological Investigations in the NiahCaves describes the very wide range of methodologiesused by the project to collect its evidence, and the keyinformation from those studies about the changingnature of the rainforest over the past 50,000 yearsand how it sustained the lives of the people who usedthe caves for shelter or burying their dead. The deephistory of rainforest lives Together, the two volumesaffirm the unique importance of the Niah Caves forworld heritage.9781902937601, £TBC, Dec 2013HB, 752p, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research42Trade Trade customers can can order order from from Orca Orca Book Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.ukorders@orcabookservices.co.uk

Midsea Books Ltd. is Malta’s leading publisher. It was set up in 1969 by Pawlu Mizzi,a graduate in History and Librarianship. The publishing house he founded, pioneeredand revolutionised the Maltese book trade.Strait StreetMalta’s ‘Red Light District’RevealedBy John Schofield & EmilyMorrisseyThis book aims to present anarchaeological perspective onthe artefacts and places thatcharacterise one particular and extraordinary street inMalta’s capital city, Valletta – Strait Street. Archaeologicaltraces typically encourage conventional descriptions ofhow lives are led, and how people adapt and survive.Some descriptions, however, are distinctly subalternin their outlook and ambition. It is these ‘counternarratives’that interest us more, and this book providesan extreme example of one such counter-narrative.This book was never intended to be the story of StraitStreet. It is a story, or more correctly a number of storieswoven together in a format and style that hopefullyprovides both a ‘field-guide’ to what remains and acontextual overview of the events and personalities wedescribe.9789993274209, £23.50, Available NowPB, 208p, color illus, Midsea BooksParty Politics in an IslandColonyThe Maltese ExperienceBy Henry FrendoParty Politics is ‘a lesson inthe embryology of nationalidentity, from which modernMalta has emerged as a small,independent, democratic, European state in the centralMediterranean, capable of acting as interlocutorbetween north and south, and east and west’, notedBarry Collet (University of Melbourne) in The AustralianJournal of Political Science. Frendo’s ‘scholarly andlucid analysis’, he added, shows that by virtue of itsexperience Malta ‘has much to offer the internationalcommunity in understanding nationalism, and inhandling its consequences.’In Melita Historica Victor Mallia-Milanes from theUniversity of Malta described it as ‘a book of such highcalibre’ with ‘a wealth of new insights’ that could ‘serveas a model both for undergraduates and for fellowscholars’.The Observing EyeThe French artist Jean Houelin MaltaBy Thomas FrellerThe French artist Jean Hoüel isrightly described as master of the‘vedutismo itinerante’. Volumefour of his magnus opus, theVoyage pittoresque des îles de Sicile, de Malte et deLipari …, contributes substantially to our knowledgeabout the state of locations and monuments duringhis two visits to Malta and Gozo in 1770 and 1777. Thequalities of his gouaches and plates, make his workto a very important source of documentation for thearchaeological and classical heritage of Malta and Gozo.Except the works by his contemporary Louis Ducros,no other artist except for Houel has carried out such anumber of first quality depiction of Malta’s landscape,archaeological sites, architecture, and country folk.The accompanying text makes clear Hoüel’s profoundknowledge – at least by the standards of his times – ofthe history, geo-physical structure, and folklore of theMaltese archipelago.9789993274179, £34.00, Available NowHB, 194p, Colour illustrations throughout, Midsea BooksMattia PretiBeyond the Self-PortraitBy Sandro Debono & GiuseppeValentinoThis book proposes newmethodologies for the study ofMattia Preti. The researchedessays look at Preti from differentperspectives. Whilst the foreword serves the purposeof an introductory summary; the authors deliberatelychose to probe Preti’s multifaceted personality througha very restricted group of paintings, four in all, whichare believed to stand for Preti’s views and opinionabout knighthood and art. Moreover, his two selfportraits(San Domenico, Taverna; Uffizi, Florence)describe identity through physiognomy. The St John theBaptist Wearing the Red tabard of the Order of St JohnNational Museum of Fine Arts, Heritage Malta) andthe altar painting of St Luke (Franciscan Conventuals,Valletta) go beyond.9789993274278, £39.50, Available NowHB, 304p, Illustrated in monotone, Midsea Books9789993274292, £14.50, Available NowPB, 96p, Fully colour illustrated, Midsea BooksLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 43

MOLA is one of the leading archaeological practices in the UK. In the last decadeMoLA has published over 90 academic and popular books and manuals.Religion in MedievalLondonThe Archaeology of BeliefBy Bruno Barber et al.Religious belief was central to thelives - and deaths - of all medievalLondoners. Archaeology sheds lighton many aspects of belief: fromorganised religion, both Christianity and Judaism, tosuperstition or witchcraft; places of worship from thesmallest parish churches to the great Cathedral of StPaul; tiny objects of personal devotion to entire monasticlandscapes. Monasteries include communities cut offfrom the world, hospitals providing for London’s poor orthe headquarters of military religious orders behind theCrusades. Cemetery excavations reveal how Londonersresponded to mortality both individually and together inthe face of catastrophes such as the Black Death. This fullyillustrated book provides an introduction to the evidenceof belief from the Museum of London’s archaeologicalexcavations in the capital, with a particular focus on theprogramme of work, supported by English Heritage, onthe sites of many of London’s monasteries.9781907586071, £15.00, Aug 2013PB, 100p, col illus throughout, Museum of London ArchaeologyRoman roadside settlementand rural landscape atBrentfordArchaeological investigationsat London Syon Park WaldorfAstoria 2004–10By Robert Cowie et al.Excavations in Syon Park, Brentford, have made asubstantial contribution to our knowledge of thisRoman rural settlement on the London–Silchesterroad, by a ford across the Thames. The site yielded awell-dated sequence – from the mid 1st to early 5thcentury AD – including occupation deposits and two2nd-century timber buildings destroyed by fire, as wellas details of the main road and adjacent field system.These and a large assemblage of finds, includinga surgical instrument and a roundel depicting theMedusa, provide a rare glimpse of life in the countrysidein the hinterland of Londinium. A detailed overview ofRoman Brentford (the first to be published since 1978)is included.9781907586194, £15.00, Sep 2013PB, 110p, full col throughout, Museum of London ArchaeologyAt the limits of LundenwicExcavations in the north-westof Middle Saxon London at StMartin’s Courtyard, 2007–8By Louise Fowler & Ruth TaylorThis thought-provoking volumepresents the results of thearchaeological investigation ofa large site in Lundenwic. A fragmentary sequencenevertheless includes possible Early Saxon activity,7th- and 8th-century settlement features including acookshop, a workshop for non-ferrous metalworkingand debris from a smithy, and the latest radiocarbondatedinhumation in Lundenwic (cal AD 720–950).These excavations have made important contributionsto our understanding of Lundenwic, which has beenenhanced by the unprecedented level of organicpreservation at the site. The resulting survival of Saxonfootwear, timber objects and uncharred botanicalremains adds unusual detail to this publication.9781907586187, £12.00, Aug 2013PB, 90p, full col throughout, Museum of London ArchaeologyThe Romans at Nostell PrioryExcavations at the new visitorcar park in 2009By Dave PinnockA National Trust archaeologicalproject carried out by On-SiteArchaeology revealed the remains ofa previously unknown multi-phaseRomano-British settlement at the site of a new visitorcar park at Nostell Priory, Wakefield. The remains had asurprising Roman military connection with implicationsboth for our understanding of the Roman occupation inthis region and the later, medieval history of the site. Aminor Iron Age phase preceded the early Roman phase,which was dated by late first to early second centurypottery of types associated exclusively with Romanmilitary sites. The most likely interpretation of the site is avicus-like settlement adjacent to an undiscovered Romanfort, raising the intriguing possibility that the earliestmedieval religious community deliberately chose thesite for its Roman associations. The later Romano-Britishphases lacked military evidence and were characteristicof rural settlement elsewhere in the region.9780956196521, £10.00, Sep 2013PB, 95p, 25 b/w figures + 20 b/w plates, On-Site ArchaeologyLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 45

Founded in 1919 by James Henry Breasted, the Oriental Institute, a part of theUniversity of Chicago, is an internationally recognised pioneer in the archaeology,philology, and history of early Near Eastern civilizationsBetween Heaven and EarthBirds in Ancient EgyptEdited by Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuerIssued in conjunction with an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University ofChicago, this is the first comprehensive study of birds in ancient Egyptian society, economy,art, and religion. Essays address the role of birds in the religious landscape, their use inhieroglyphic and Coptic scripts, birds as protective symbols, as decorative motifs, and asfood. A group of essays on “Egyptian Birds and Modern Science” presents the newest forensicresearch on bird mummies. Other articles address bird behavior as shown in Egyptian art and the present stateof avifauna in the Nile Valley. The catalog describes forty artifacts, many of which are previously unpublished. Anindex of bird species makes this volume useful for naturalists as well as for Egyptologists and art historians.9781885923929, £19.99, Available NowPB, 232p, 210 illus, Oriental Institute Museum Publications 35, Oriental Institute of the University of ChicagoOur WorkModern Jobs – Ancient OriginsEdited by Jack Green & Emily TeeterOur Work: Modern Jobs – Ancient Origins is the catalog for a photo-based exhibit that revealsthat many modern professions originated in the ancient Middle East. Artifacts from theOriental Institute Museum were paired with a baker, farmer, manicurist, brewer, poet, boatbuilder, judge and other professionals to show the antiquity of these jobs. The portraits areaccompanied by commentary on the contributions of the ancient Middle East to life todayand new insights into how members of the public view their relationship to the past. This volume will be of interestto educators, historians, and those interested in fine-arts photography.9781885923998, £19.00, Jul 2013PB, 128p,70 illus, Oriental Institute Museum Publications 36, Oriental Institute of the University of ChicagoThe Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University ofChicago, Volume Š, fascicle 3Edited by H. G. Guterbock†, Harry A. Hoffner & T. P. J. van den HoutThe Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family oflanguages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Minor over a five hundred year span(ca. 1650-1180 B.C.) which witnessed the rise, the floruit, and the decline of many politicalpowers in the Near East. It is studied today for a wide variety of reasons. Historical linguistsseek information in Hittite texts to elucidate the relationships between the various memberlanguages of the Indo-European family, as well as the probable structure of their common parent, Proto-Indo-European. Historians find in Hittite annals, treaties, royal edicts, and political correspondence informationof great value in reconstructing the sequence of events on the international scene of mid-second-millenniumWestern Asia. Anthropologists, mythographers, and students of comparative religion mine the riches of Hittitereligious texts: myth, magic rituals to cure ailments, festivals to worship the gods of the empire. Students ofthe history of law discover ancient precedents for legal procedures which have survived to this day. All of theseinterested researchers share a dependence upon the written texts. None can penetrate further than our limitedunderstanding of this language allows. [From the Preface, CHD L–N, p. ix].9781885923950, £18.50, Jul 2013PB, 176p, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago46Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.uk

Founded in 1919 by James Henry Breasted, the Oriental Institute, a part of theUniversity of Chicago, is an internationally recognised pioneer in the archaeology,philology, and history of early Near Eastern civilizationsAncient Settlement Patterns and Cultures in the Ram Hormuz Plain,Southwestern IranExcavations at Tall-e Geser and Regional Survey in the Ram Hormuz AreaBy Abbas Alizadeh, Loghman Ahmadzadeh & Mehdi OmidfarAfter a decade-long hiatus in the years of World War II, archaeological fieldwork was resumedin Iran in 1948. In that year, the Oriental Institute returned to its long tradition of archaeologicalresearch by sending Donald McCown to the lowlands of southwestern Iran to conduct a seriesof surface surveys to find a multi-period site for excavation. For his survey, McCown chose theRam Hormuz region, southeast of lowland Susiana and the region south and east of the provincial town of Ahvazdown to the Persian Gulf. McCown recorded 118 sites in the Ram Hormuz and Ahvaz areas and eventually chose forexcavation the large prehistoric mound complex Tall-e Geser. Three months of excavation in 1948 and 1949 yieldedmaterials and that were kept in Chicago for many years. Apart from short articles, the site was never fully published.In Part 1 of this two-part volume, Abbas Alizadeh and colleagues have undertaken a final publication of thesite. This task was undertaken because of a number of important considerations. First, the excavations atGeser have been cited as justifying the division of the Uruk period in southwestern Iran into Early, Middle,and Late phases. Second, Geser remains the only systematically excavated site in the Ram Hormuz region — astrategic location between the Susiana and Mesopotamian alluvium and the Zagros highlands of southwesternIran. Third, Geser has produced a very extensive body of archaeological materials dating to the comparativelyless understood proto-Elamite period, roughly the first few centuries of the third millennium BC. And finally,with the exception of a 700–800-year gap following the proto-Elamite phase, Geser remains one of the onlysites in the Near East to have a very long and generally uninterrupted depositional sequence, in this casespanning from the fifth millennium BC to the Safavid period. The site’s crucial location, its importancein the archaeological literature, and its long stratigraphic sequence made it imperative that the originalexcavation results from Geser be published in anticipation of a time when the site can be re-excavated.Part 2 of this volume presents the results of regional surveys conducted in the Ram Hormuz plain from 2005to 2008, which were undertaken by Alizadeh and colleagues with the goal of understanding the semi-nomadic,mobile component of lowland Susiana and its hinterlands through time.9781885923974, £55.00, Aug 2013HB, 158p, 20 tables, 297 illus, Oriental Institute Publications 140, Oriental Institute of the University of ChicagoBarda BalkaBy Bruce HoweThe Paleolithic site of Barda Balka (“standing stone,” “stone to lean upon” in local Kurdish) issituated about 3 kilometers northeast of Chemchemal in Kirkuk Province, Iraq. Until recent years,the site was marked by a natural monolith of limestone conglomerate 3.5 meters high on a ratherbarren slope partly littered with Acheulean-type bifaces, pebble tools, cores, and flake artifacts.The site was discovered in 1949 by members of the Directorate General of Antiquities of Iraqwhile on archaeological reconnaissance in the district. In 1951, during a field season of the Oriental Institute ofthe University of Chicago under the direction of Robert J. Braidwood (which not only conducted the excavationsat nearby Jarmo and Karim Shahir but also carried out wider geological and prehistoric reconnaissance in theextended Chemchemal Valley area), Barda Balka was visited and further studied by Herbert E. Wright Jr. ofthe University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Bruce Howe, then of the Peabody Museum, HarvardUniversity. Wright and Howe returned shortly thereafter to conduct a four-day sounding campaign of trenchingand localized geological investigations. This volume is Howe’s final report of these investigations at Barda Balka.9781614910008, £19.50, Oct 2013PB, 32p, 3 figures, 3 tables, X plates, Oriental Institute Communications 31, Oriental Institute of the University of ChicagoLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 47

Oxford Archaeology has a 40 year history of quality, innovation and service. OA coverall aspects of the historic environment, providing everything from archaeologicalexcavations and evaluations to heritage consultancy services.Prehistoric Settlement in the Lower Kennet ValleyExcavations at Green Park (Reading Business Park)Phase 3 and Moores Farm,Burghfield, BerkshireBy Adam Brossler, Fraser Brown, Erika Guttman & Leo WebleyGreen Park excavations uncovered a field system and occupation features dating to the middle tolate Bronze Age. Five waterholes or wells were distributed across the field system, the waterloggedfills of which preserved wooden revetment structures and valuable environmental evidence. Thepottery from the waterholes makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the middleto late Bronze Age transition in the region. Later activity included middle to late Iron Age boundaries, a late Iron Agecremation burial, a Romano-British field system and post-medieval trackways. The Moores Farm excavations revealedoccupation from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, middle Bronze Age and early Iron Age. The middle Bronze Age settlementincluded pits, ovens and possible post structures, and was again situated within a contemporaneous field system dottedwith waterholes. As well as discussing these two sites, the volume provides an overview of all of the work to date in theGreen Park Farm/Reading Business Park area, exploring the development of this important prehistoric landscape.9781905905294, £20.00, Jul 2013PB, 150p, 75 illustrations and 38 tables, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph 37, Oxford ArchaeologyThe Ebbsfleet ElephantExcavations at Southfleet Road, Swanscombe in advance of High Speed 1, 2003-4Edited by Francis Wenban-SmithA full account of the discovery, excavation and subsequent analysis of rich and deeply buriedarchaeological horizons dating to early in the Palaeolithic and associated with the Hoxnianinterglacial between about 425,000 and 375,000 years ago.The highlight of this work wasrecovery of the remains of an extinct straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquussurrounded by the undisturbed scatter of flint tools used for its butchery, made and abandonedat the spot. The abundant lithic remains from the elephant horizon are attributable to the Clactonian industrialtradition, after Clacton-on-Sea, Essex where similar remains have been found. The evidence from this new siteprovides the best record yet of Clactonian remains from the Hoxnian, establishing that Britain was re-settled (afterlocal extinction due to the great Anglian glaciation) by hominins who did not make handaxes, generally the typicalartefact of the earlier Palaeolithic. Finally, this monograph provides a fascinating case-study of Palaeolithic excavationmethods, and how archaeological work is carried out in conjunction with large engineering developments.9780904220735, £25.00, Aug 2013HB, 595p, 279 illustrations, mainly colour, and 175 tables, Oxford Archaeology Monograph 20, Oxford ArchaeologyThe Roman Villa at Brading, Isle of WightThe Excavations of 2008-10By Barry CunliffeBrading Roman Villa is a fine example of a maritime courtyard villa with in situ mosaics whichrank among the best of their kind in northern Europe. It was originally excavated in the 1880s.This volume reports on a new programme of excavations carried out in 2008-10, whilst alsodelving into earlier work to provide context. The research involved a full re-excavation of theNorth Range, an examination of the buildings of the South Range by sample excavations, adetailed study of the extant remains of the West Range to establish the building sequence and a sample excavationof the early enclosures identified by geophysical survey to the east of the North Range.9781905905263, £39.00, Available NowHB, 291p, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxford University School of Archaeology48Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: +44 (0)1235 465500

The School of Archaeology was established in 2000, as the successor to theCommittee for Archaeology. The School is comprised of the Institute of Archaeologyand the Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art.Trinkets and CharmsThe use, meaning and significance of dress accessories, AD 1300–1700By Eleanor Rose StandleyThis publication presents a study of a wide range of evidence to reveal the use and meaning ofdress accessories in daily life in two regions of Britain, c. AD 1300-1700. Dress accessory evidencefrom a variety of sites is brought together to reveal how the small personal possessions werehighly significant objects and held important meanings for their owners. The archaeological findsthat form the basis of the study vary from large, elaborate gold rings to small, simple copper alloylace ends, and have been collated from excavated archives and the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS). The materialis drawn from the eastern Anglo-Scottish and southern Anglo-Welsh border regions. A wide range of archaeologicaldata is investigated alongside other evidence, namely contemporary artistic depictions, wills and literature.Standley investigates the accessories found in urban locations, rural villages and religious institutionswithin the two regions to understand the significance of the assemblages at these site types. Then thefocus narrows to the exploration of the life-histories of individual accessories or types of objects, andtheir role in daily life. In the main body of the study the dress accessories are examined within themedchapters that follow a life-cycle from the forming of relationships and romance, to death and burial.The results reveal the relative homogenous nature of dress accessories within and between the two regions,differences and similarities in the types of objects found at different site types, and the potential of PAS data.The interdisciplinary study successfully marries contemporary evidence to help place the personal possessionsinto their context of use in the past. It also highlights how dress accessories are integral to our study of sexuality,memory and death, among other subjects, in the medieval period.9781905905300, £35.00, Sep 2013HB, 140p, 65 col & 22 b/w illus, OUSA Monograph Series 78, Oxford University School of ArchaeologyRecent Highlights from Oxford Archaeologyand Oxford University School of Archaeology9780904220681, £32, HBOxford Archaeology9781905905201, £35, PBOUSA9781905905249, £38, HBOUSALibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 49

The Pindar Press has been publishing books in the fields of art history and archaeologysince 1981. Pindar has established its reputation through the Selected Studies in thethe History of Art series in which they present the work of major scholars.Studies in the Art and Imagery of the Middle AgesBy Richard MarksProfessor Marks has been a curator at the British Museum, Keeper of the Burrell Collection,Glasgow, and Director of the Royal Pavilion and Museums in Brighton. Subsequently heheld a Personal Chair in the History of Art Department at the University of York, and isnow Emeritus Professor; he also currently has an Honorary Professorship in the History ofArt at Cambridge University. He has held honorary posts as Vice-President of The Societyof Antiquaries of London and International President of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aeviproject. He has worked on a number of major exhibitions, including Gothic. Art for England 1400–1547 (Victoria& Albert Museum, 2003–4), which he curated. Professor Marks’ main interest is the religious imagery of medievalEurope, in all the visual arts. Much of his research has been on English stained glass, and, more recently, on thefunction and reception of devotional images. His works here include Stained Glass in England during the MiddleAges (1993), The Medieval Stained Glass of Northamptonshire (1998), and Image and Devotion in Late MedievalEngland (2004). This volume brings together thirty-one of Professor Marks’ studies, encompassing historiography,stained glass, manuscript illumination, screen and wall painting, sculpture and funerary monuments.9781904597384, £150.00, Available NowHB, 830p, 456 illus., The Pindar PressThe Form of Meaning / The Meaning of FormStudies in the History of Art from Late Antiquity to Jackson Pollock (2 Volumes,Sold Separately)By Irving LavinVolumes I and II bring together all of Irving Lavin’s studies aside from those on Gian Lorenzo Bernini.They range from studies of the art and architecture of Late Antiquity to twentieth-century paintingin New York. They are divided here by date, and include seven studies on the art of Antiquity andthe Middle Ages, nine on the art of the Renaissance, eight on further topics in sixteenth-centuryart, seven on the Baroque, and six on Modern Art. There are three studies on the history of theatre and stage design,and twelve papers on the history of art in general, including obituaries of a number of art historians. Lavin’s prizewinningstudy of Late Antique architecture and pioneering work on North African floor mosaics are included here. Hisinterest in the Italian Renaissance appears in studies on the iconography of the myth of Cephalus and Procris, and therelationship between form and content in works by Donatello, Michelangelo, Pontormo, and Giovanni Bologna. Thetwentieth century is represented by essays on the printmaking of Picasso and the painting of Jackson Pollock.Vol 1, HB, 9781904597476, £150.00, Sep 2013 / Vol 2, HB, 9781899828401, £150.00, Sep 2013HB, 650p, 283 illus., The Pindar PressJan van Eyck and Portugal ‘s “Illustrious Generation”Volume I: Text, Volume II: Plates (Sold Seperately)By Barbara von BarghahnBarbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University anda specialist in the art history of Portugal, Spain, and their colonial dominions, as well asFlanders (1400-1800). In 1993, she was conferred O Grão Comendador in the PortugueseOrder of Prince Henry the Navigator. She has spent nearly a decade completing researchabout Jan van Eyck’s diplomatic visits to the Iberian Peninsula. This manuscript investigatesVan Eyck’s patronage by the Crown of Portugal and his role as diplomat-painter of the Duchy of Burgundyfollowing his first voyage to Lisbon in 1428-1429 when he painted two portraits of Infanta Isabella, who becamethe third wife of Philip the Good in 1430. A second “secret mission” to Portugal in 1437 by Jan van Eyck ispostulated and this diplomatic visit is related to Prince Henrique the Navigator’s expedition to Tangier and KingDuarte’s attempts to forge an alliance with Alfonso V of Aragon. Late Eyckian commissions are reviewed in lightof this ill-fated crusade and additional new portraits are identified.Vol 1, HB, 9781904597650, £150.00, Sep 2013 / Vol 2, HB, 9781904597667, £150.00, Sep 2013745p, The Pindar Press50Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.uk

The Pindar Press has been publishing books in the fields of art history and archaeologysince 1981. Pindar has established its reputation through the Selected Studies in thethe History of Art series in which they present the work of major scholars.The Churches of Rome, 1527-1870Volume I: The Churches, Volume II: Notes, Plates and IndexesBy Michael ErweeThe churches of Rome constitute arguably the most important manifestations of art andarchitecture in the Western world. This book is a detailed description of 251 churches in Romeand the Vatican City, built or decorated between 1527 and 1870, and is based on extensiveresearch in state, church and private archives, as well as an exhaustive survey of modernand historical bibliographical sources. Its aim is to provide a more complete picture of theconstruction and decoration of these churches than previously known. This entails not only providing the namesof the architects who designed the churches, but also the names of the masons (muratori) and stone cutters(scalpellini), who built the churches and whose skills were essential for realising the architect’s plans. This depth ofinformation is carried through to the interior decorations. The interior of each church is then described in depth,on a chapel-by-chapel basis, and includes stucco work, marble revetment, monuments, metal work, fresco andpainted decorations and altarpieces.Vol 1, HB, 750p, 9781904597285, £150.00, Oct 2013 / Vol 2, HB, 600p, 9781904597674, £150.00, Oct 2013The Pindar PressStudies in the Islamic Decorative ArtsBy Robert HillenbrandIslamic artists channelled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but ratherinto what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparaginglytermed the “decorative arts” or even “the minor arts”. In point of fact, some of the greatestmasterpieces of Islamic art are in the media of ceramics, metalwork, textiles, ivory and glass. Oftenthe images they bear express a complex set of meanings, for Islam inherited much material fromthe iconographic systems of earlier civilizations, notably those of the ancient Near East and ofthe classical world. Islam also developed its own distinctive vocabulary of signs and symbols. Accordingly, questionsof iconography and meaning bulk large among the studies gathered together in the present volume. These studies,written over a period of almost thirty years, and taken from a wide variety of published sources, deal with aspects ofthe decorative arts from Spain to India and from the 7th to the 17th century. They focus in turn upon ceramics andmetalwork; on coins, carpets and calligraphy; and on carving in wood and ivory. This volume therefore offers not onlya general introduction to some of the problems posed by Islamic art, but also readings of key objects in an attempt toexplore their meaning; and finally, an in-depth focus on individual objects representing specific genres and media.9781904597506, £150.00, Dec 2013HB, 574p, 343 illus., The Pindar PressRecent Highlights from the Pindar Press9781904597643, £150, HBThe Pindar Press9781899828685, £150, HBThe Pindar Press9781904597490, £150, HBThe Pindar PressLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 51

Sidestone The British Press Museum is an publishes academic a publishing wide range house of academic founded titles by scholars, which are for the scholars. result ofAs research a publisher and scholarly they have study one clear undertaken ambition, by the that staff is to of make the British scientific Museum information and otheravailable leading academics to all.Volgens Kapitein BellenArcheologie, folklore enwichelarij op de Veluwe en inDrentheBy Henk M. LuningCaptain Bellen is a remarkableperson in the history of Dutchprehistoric research who wasactive in the first half of the 20th century. This amateurarchaeologist made a number of important discoveriesand corresponded with the leading professionals of histime. In later years, Bellen became interested in folklore,the dowsing rod and ley lines as well, endangering hisreputation as archaeologist. Dutch language edition.9789088901379, £37.50, Available NowPB, 182p, 30 col. 23 b/w, Sidestone PressComplexities and Dangersof Remembering andForgetting in RwandaBy Olivier NyirubugaraCan a society, a culture, a country,be trapped by its own memories?The question is not easy to answer,but it would not be a bad ideato cautiously say: ‘It depends’. This book is aboutone society – Rwanda – and its culture, traditions,identities, and memories. More specifically, it discussessome of the ways in which ethnic identities and relatedmemories constitute a deadly trap that needs to be tornapart if mass violence is to be eradicated in that country.It looks into everyday cultural practices such as childnaming and oral traditions (myths and tales, proverbs,war poetry etc.) and into political practices that governthe ways in which citizens conceptualise the past.Written from a memory studies perspective andinformed by critical theory, philosophy, literature,history, and psychology, amongst others, this book dealswith some controversial subjects and deconstructssome of the received ideas about the past of Rwanda.9789088901102, £35.00, Jul 2013PB, 180p, Sidestone PressChimes of TimeWounded HealthProfessionals. Essays onRecoveryBy Bruce KirkcaldyThis book is an ambitiousproject uniting various fields in amultidisciplinary venture drawingon academics and clinicians from medicine, psychologyand educational sciences. The interdisciplinary approachhas assembled medical, educational and healthspecialists with scholarly contributions from manydifferent countries and institutes. It provides a plethoraof essays and reviews by clinicians and academics, manycontributions self-confessional, disclosing details of theirown personal pain and suffering with critical life eventsincluding either physical or psychological illnesses, anda description of their own resources and strengths. TThis book will be useful for practitioners andresearchers, but also for laymen and social policymakers. The intended readership thus includesthose interested in health psychology, sociology,anthropology, public health and mental health sciences.9789088900945, £42.00, Available NowPB, 280p, Sidestone PressRural CapitalistDevelopment in The JordanValleyThe case of Deir Alla - TheRise and Demise of SocialGroupsBy Mohamed F. TarawnehThe case of Deir Alla is a social and economic casestudy of developing Third World agriculture. Thestudy is based upon historical sources, contemporarypublic information with statistics, and field work in theJordanian village of Deir Alla. This fieldwork took placein 1986 and a report was prepared in 1989. For thispublication additional field work in 1997 accountedfor the rapidly changing social and economic situation.The book is important for the understanding of thesocial and economic history of the region, showingthe dynamics of social change, but also because of itsthorough analysis of the current situation, assessingtheoretical models and predicting developments in arapidly changing agricultural world.9789088900891, £32.50, Jul 2013PB, 116p, Sidestone Press52Trade Trade customers customers can order can from order Orca from Book Orca Services: Book Services: orders@orcabookservices.co.uk+44 (0)1235 465500

Sidestone Press is an academic publishing house founded by scholars, for scholars.As a publisher they have one clear ambition, that is to make scientific informationavailable to all.Engendering ObjectsDynamics of Barkcloth andGender among the Maisin ofPapua New GuineaBy Anna-Karina HermkensEngendering objects explores socialand cultural dynamics among Maisinpeople in Collingwood Bay (PapuaNew Guinea) through the lens of material culture. Focusingupon the richly decorated barkcloths that are used as maleand female garments, gifts, and commodities, it exploresthe relationships between these cloths and Maisin people.The main question is how barkcloth, as an object madeby women, engenders people’s identities through itsmanufacturing and use. The narratives of men and womenreveal the ways in which barkcloth provides a link withthe past and dreams for the future. Hermkens argues thatthe cloths and their designs embody dynamics of Maisinculture and in particular of Maisin gender relations. Thisstudy offers an alternative way of understanding thesignificance of an object, like decorated barkcloth, inshaping and defining people’s identities within a localcolonial and postcolonial setting of Papua New Guinea.9789088901454, £45.00, Aug 2013PB, 386p, 33 col, 21 b/w, Sidestone PressMartinique, terreamérindienneUne approchepluridisciplinaireEdited by Benoit BerardExplores the prehistoric cultures ofMartinique in the Caribbean.About the editor:Benoît Bérard is currently an associate professor ofCaribean Archaeology at the Université des Antilles etde la Guyane in Martinique campus where he is headof the history department and Vice-director of the“Archéologie industrielle, histoire et patrimoine de laCaraïbe” EA 929 laboratory.French Language Edition.9789088901584, £42.00, Aug 2013PB, 262p, 59 b/w and 22 col. illustrations, Sidestone PressEuropean ArchaeologyAbroadGlobal Settings, ComparativePerspectivesEdited by S.J. van der Lindt, M. H.Van den Dries, Nathan Schlanger& C.G. SlappendelWhat are European archaeologistsdoing abroad? What have they been doing there forthe past three to four centuries? Are they doing thingsdifferently nowadays? To address these questions,this book explores the scope, impact and ethics ofEuropean archaeological policies and practices in theMediterranean, the Near East, sub-Saharan Africa, Asiaand Latin America. This collection of historical overviews,contemporary case studies and critical reflectionsfocuses on the relationships between archaeologicalpractices and policies, including the requirements andwishes of archaeologists, local communities and otherstakeholders in Europe and in the host countries. Inaddition to researchers and students, this book shouldbe of interest to practicing archaeologists, heritageprofessionals and policymakers the world over.9789088901065, £45.00, Aug 2013PB, 36 colour, 27 b/w illustrations, Sidestone PressAncestral Heaths.Reconstructing the BarrowLandscape in the Centraland Southern NetherlandsBy Marieke DoorenboschBarrows, i.e. burial mounds, areamongst the most important ofEurope’s prehistoric monuments.Across the continent, barrows still figure as prominentelements in the landscape. Many of these moundshave been excavated, revealing much about what wasburied inside these intriguing monuments. It is arguedin this book that barrows were built on existing heaths,which had been and continued to be maintained formany generations by so-called heath communities.These heaths, therefore, can be considered as‘ancestral heaths’. The barrow landscape was part ofthe economic zone of farming communities, while theheath areas were used as grazing grounds. The ancestralheaths were very stable elements in the landscape andwere kept in existence for thousands of years. In fact,it is argued that these ancestral heaths were the mostimportant factor in structuring the barrow landscape.9789088901928, £48.00, Dec 2013PB, 280p, 100 col. and 15 b/w illustrations, Sidestone PressLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 53

The Society British Museum for Libyan publishes Studies publishes a wide range detailed of academic reports on titles its which field projects are the as result part ofa research monograph and scholarly series. In study addition, undertaken Silphium by Press the is staff the of popular the British imprint Museum of The and Society otherfor leading Libyan academics Studies, dedicated to works of more general interest on Libya.The Emergence of LibyaBy John WrightForty years ago Moammar Gadafi seized power in Libya in a military coup. To markthis event, John Wright has made this selection from his own shorter writings whichexamine and explain Libya’s complex and troubled past - the historical interplayof events, influences and personalities that helped to shape the modern state.Issues include: Why, in about 1860, Britain lost its earlier enthusiasm for Tripoli and the Saharaas a ‘Gateway to Africa’; What made the Zionist movement drop plans to settle one million EastEuropean Jews in Cyrenaica; Why Mussolini accepted the ‘Sword of Islam’ in Tripoli in 1937; The first welfare issueto preoccupy the British Eighth Army as it captured Tripoli in January 1943; Why Libya had such an easy passage toindependence in 1951; How, as a young leader, Moammar Gadafi was publicly ridiculed and put down by an Arableader nearly old enough to be his grandfather who claimed Libyans were still living in the days of Adam and Eve.These are just some of the issues discussed in these 20 chapters, here usefully collected under one cover from themany books and journals in which they first appeared. John Wright was formerly the chief political commentatorand analyst of the BBC Arabic Service, specialising in Libya, the Sahara and the international oil industry.9781900971065, £15.00, Available NowPB, 368p, 1 map, Silphium PressTravellers in Turkish Libya 1551-1911By John WrightFrom Tripoli to the ancient ruins of Leptis Magna, from the slave markets to the farthestreaches of the Sahara: here is a mosaic of unknown places, handed down to us by theforeign visitors and travellers who experienced them first hand over four centuries (1550-1911). European consuls (and their sisters and wives), archaeologists, explorers, sailors andcolonisers have all left colourful accounts of their Libyan experiences: the bustle of the suqsand gossip of the harem, the terrors of slavery, the endless, parched caravan marches acrossthe desert and the characters they met along the way. Almost fifty contributors bring a fresh perspective to acountry that has fascinated foreigners for millenia.9781900971133, £15.00, Available NowPB, 240p, 21 figs, 2 maps, Silphium PressWar and Politics in the DesertBritain and Libya during the Second World WarBy Saul KellyIn recent years there has been a renewed interest in the “War in the Desert”, that epicstruggle of the Second World War between Axis (Italian and German) and Allied (principallyBritish Commonwealth) forces for control of North Africa, from 1940 to 1943. The currentliterature concentrates on the military battles, but war cannot be separated from politics:War and Politics sets out to fill this void by chronicling and analyzing the key political debates.Kelly describes the political background to the future of the Italian colony of Libya, and the tribes, sects and factionsdwelling in Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and the Fezzan, and their fundamental importance in the development of Libyatowards independence in 1951. The prologue and epilogue summarise the preceding and following periods toplace the story within its historical context. With newly drawn maps taken from WWII sources and many blackand white and colour photographs, some previously unpublished, this is not only a compelling and intellectuallystimulating read but also a vivid one.9781900971096, £18.00, Available NowPB, 256p, 33 figs, 5 maps, Silphium Press54Trade Trade customers can can order order from from Orca Orca Book Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.ukorders@orcabookservices.co.uk

SilphiumPressThe Society for Libyan Studies publishes detailed reports on its field projects as part ofa monograph series. In addition, Silphium Press is the popular imprint of The Societyfor Libyan Studies, dedicated to works of more general interest on Libya.Snakes, Sands and SilphiumTravels in Classical LibyaBy Paul WrightWhilst the civilisations of Egypt, Carthage and other African countries are well documented theland and people between them are less well known. This collection of extracts from classicalauthors on subjects relating to ancient Libya presents more than fifty writers from Homer to theend of the Roman Empire and provides an eclectic mixture of descriptions of Libya, its people,flora, fauna, climate, geography and history as presented by politicians, poets, philosophers,priests, historians and soldiers, both native and foreign.Newly translated and illustrated with photographs, maps,line drawings and illustrations, the book is suitable for both the general reader and the specialist.Readers areinvited to dip in and enjoy whatever takes their fancy; from the many uses of silphium, romantic poetry, thehorrors of war, the dangers posed by snakes and scorpions, the exploits of kings and emperors, native customs, todesert farming and many more. Snakes, Sands and Silphium is an excellent introduction to ancient North Africa,complements any travel guide, and provides context for the archaeologist and historian.9781900971126, £15.00, Available NowPB, 272p, 29 figs, 9 maps, Silphium PressWheels Across the DesertExploration of the Libyan Desert by Motorcar 1916–1942By Andrew GoudieIn between the search for the Poles, the climbing of Everest and the Space Race, the explorationof the Sahara - a huge swathe of terrain, the size of India - by motor car is one of the untoldchapters in the story of twentieth-century exploration. Many people have become fascinatedby this area since falling in love with the scenery of ‘The English Patient’.Claud Williams and Russell McGuirkWAR AND EXPLORATION IN EGYPT AND LIBYA WITH THE MODEL T FORDA Memoir by Captain Claud H. WilliamsEdited with an Introduction andHistory of the Patrols by Russell McGuirkSilphium Press9781900971072, £12.00, Available NowPB, 205p, 55 figs, 12 maps, Silphium PressLight Car Patrols 1916-19War and Exploration in Egypt and Libya with the Model T FordBy Claud Williams & Russell McGuirkCaptain Claud Williams’ memoir tells, first-hand, what it was like to be a LightCar Patrol commander during the First World War, while Russell McGuirk’scommentary provides the historical background to the formation of thePatrols and follows their activities from the British raid on Siwa Oasis to desertexploration and survey work and the Kufra Reconnaissance Scheme. Lavishlyillustrated with original photographs from Light Car officers, this combined memoir and history provides afascinating and informative picture of an unsung hero of the desert – the Model T Ford.9781900971157, £24.99, Jul 2013PB, 288p, 120 figs, 2 maps, Silphium PressLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 55

The Society British Museum for Libyan publishes Studies publishes a wide range detailed of academic reports on titles its which field projects are the as result part ofa research monograph and scholarly series. In study addition, undertaken Silphium by Press the is staff the of popular the British imprint Museum of The and Society otherfor leading Libyan academics Studies, dedicated to works of more general interest on Libya.The Libyan DesertNatural Resources andCultural HeritageEdited by David J. Mattingly, SueMcLaren, Elizabeth Savage, Yahyaal-Fasatwi & Khaled GadgoodThe Sahara is Libya’s outstandinglandscape feature and is thesource of most of its significant natural resources. Thisdesert region is also extraordinarily rich in historicaland cultural heritage that is in itself another valuableresource, through exploitation by Libya’s tourismindustry. This volume draws attention to the linkbetween the benefits that Libya draws from its Saharanresources (oil, gas, water, minerals and tourism)and the need to safeguard and record aspects of itscultural heritage. The book also provides a summary ofimportant developments in Saharan studies and showshow these can contribute to modern planning anddevelopment of the desert regions.9781900971041, £45.00, Available NowPB, 338p, 111 figs, 13 tabs, Society for Libyan StudiesTripolitaniaBy Philip KenrickThis is the first in a new seriesof guides to the archaeology ofLibya, from prehistoric times untilthe invasion of the Bani Hilal inAD 1051. It deals with a regionwhich offers the visitor not onlythe classical splendours of UNESCO World HeritageSites such as Sabratha and Lepcis Magna, but also ahinterland which is rich in standing monuments ofthe Punic, Roman and early Islamic periods. All aredescribed and explained in a comprehensive gazetteer,packed full of plans and photographs, and with GPScoordinates and directions for visiting. “THE guidebookto Libya’s archaeology” - David Mattingly9781900971089, £20.00, Available NowPB, 232p, 113 illus, Society for Libyan StudiesArchaeology of Fazzan Vol 2Site Gazetteer, Pottery andother Survey FindsBy David J. MattinglyThe Libyan Sahara is one of therichest desert areas for the studyof human adaptation to changingenvironmental and climaticconditions. This is the second volume in a projectedseries of four reports detailing the combined resultsof two Anglo-Libyan projects in Fazzan, Libya’s southwestprovince. The late Charles Daniels led the firstexpeditions between 1958 and 1977, with DavidMattingly directing the subsequent Fazzan Projectfrom 1997-2001. This second volume presents someof the key archaeological discoveries, including a richlyillustrated gazetteer of sites discovered and the firstattempt at a full-scale pottery type series from theSahara. There are also reports on the programme ofradiocarbon dating carried out, on lithics, metallurgicaland non-metallurgical industrial residues and varioussmall finds. Later volumes provide the evidence fromthe excavations carried out by both projects.9781900971058, £60.00, Available NowHB, 581p, Society for Libyan Studies Monograph 7Archaeology of Fazzan,Volume 3Excavations of C.M. DanielsEdited by David J. MattinglyThis is a series of reports onthe archaeology and history ofLibya’s south-west desert region.This volume contains reportsand analysis on a series of excavations carried outbetween 1958 and 1977 by the archaeologist CharlesDaniels, lavishly illustrated with site plans and colourphotographs. The work will be of major value to theLibyan antiquities service and contracted archaeologistsin concert with foreign oil companies, the NOCand the GMMR, and other similar major schemes.The key element of the story of Fazzan is the existenceof an early Libyan civilisation, the Garamantes, and thepublication of the volumes is making available a richdossier of information about their antecedents anddescendants. This was a singularly important momentin Libya’s cultural history, with resonances also in Sub-Saharan Africa. This volume also shows for the firsttime the effect of early Trans-Saharan links in detail.9781900971102, £60.00, Available NowHB, 641p, 492 figs, 64 tables, Society for Libyan Studies56Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: +44 (0)1235 465500

The Society for Libyan Studies publishes detailed reports on its field projects as part ofa monograph series. In addition, Silphium Press is the popular imprint of The Societyfor Libyan Studies, dedicated to works of more general interest on Libya.CyrenaicaBy Philip KenrickThis is the second volume in this series, which was launched to great acclaim in 2009.Cyrenaica (known to the Arabs as the Jabal Akhdar, the Green Mountain) has a terrain whichresembles that of Greece or western Turkey. It was settled at an early date by Greeks andsubsequently was part of the Roman and Byzantine empires before the advent of the Arabs.Each of these civilisations has left its mark on the landscape, not only at the locations ofthe major cities on the coast, but also at a host of lesser towns and villages whose ruins stilldot the countryside. All are described and explained in a comprehensive gazetteer: Historical background, fromprehistory until the Italian invasion in 1911; Regional maps, site plans, drawings and reconstructions of individualbuildings; Museum layout plans and guides to displays; Navigating instructions, with GPS coordinates for mostsites; Lavish photography in colour9781900971140, £19.99, Available NowPB, 368p, 223 figs, Libya Archaeological Guides, Society for Libyan StudiesThe Archaeology of Fazzan, Vol. 4Excavations at Old Jarma (Ancient Garama)This is the concluding volume of the Archaeology of Fazzān series, bringing to press thecombined results of two Anglo-Libyan projects in southern Libya: the pioneering work ofCharles Daniels between 1958 and 1977 and the Fazzān Project directed by David Mattinglybetween 1997 and 2001. The investigations carried out allow an entirely new reconstructionand understanding of the historic desert societies of the Libyan Sahara. In particular, the workhas shed light on the ancient people known to Greco-Roman writers as the Garamantes, whoare now revealed to have been a sophisticated state, with permanent towns and villages and an economy basedon oasis agriculture and Saharan trade. This volume presents the results of excavations and survey work at thesite of Old Jarma, identifiable with the Garamantian capital, Garama, that also had a long after-life in Medieval andEarly Modern times. The Fazzān Project revealed an extraordinary urban story, spanning 10 major constructionphases from c.400 BC to the AD 1930s. The detailed publication of the complex stratigraphic evidence and theaccompanying finds opens a fascinating window on the cultural heritage and lifeways of a central Saharan oasis.£95.00, Aug 2013HB, 0p, c.700 plus a CD with c.600 pages, Society for Libyan Studies Monograph 9, Society for Libyan StudiesFrontiers of the Roman Empirethe African FrontiersBy David J. Mattingly, Alan Rushworth, Martin Sterry & Victoria LeitchThe frontiers of the Roman Empire form the largest surviving monument of one ofthe world’s greatest states, and stretch for around 7500 km through 20 countries. The remains of these have been studied for many centuries. Inscriptions, sculpture,weapons, pottery and artefacts created and used by the soldiers and civilians wholived on the frontier form the basis for this history and are outlined in this book.The physical remains of the frontiers are also visible in many parts of Africa, including towers and forts,stretches of defensive lines of stone and earth with ditches broken by gates, and roads. The aim of thisbook is to inform the interested visitor about the history of the frontiers and to act as a guidebook as well.Multi-language edition: English, French, German & Arabic9781900971164, £10.00, Sep 2013PB, 96p, Society for Libyan StudiesLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 57

Society for MedievalArchaeologyThe Society for Medieval Archaeology exists to further the study of the period fromthe 5th to the 16th century A.D.Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries ADA Chronological FrameworkBy Alex Bayliss, John Hines, Karen Hoilund Nielsen, Gerry McCormac & Christopher ScullThe Early Anglo-Saxon Period is characterized archaeologically by the regular deposition ofartefacts in human graves in England. The scope for dating these objects and graves has longbeen studied, but it has typically proved easier to identify and enumerate the chronologicalproblems of the material than to solve them. Prior to the work of the project reported onhere, therefore, there was no comprehensive chronological framework for Early Anglo-SaxonArchaeology, and the level of detail and precision in dates that could be suggested was low. The evidence hasnow been studied afresh using a co-ordinated suite of dating techniques, both traditional and new: a reviewand revision of artefact-typology; seriation of grave-assemblages using correspondence analysis; high-precisionradiocarbon dating of selected bone samples; and Bayesian modelling using the results of all of these. These werefocussed primarily on the later part of the Early Anglo-Saxon Period, starting in the 6th century. This research hasproduced a new chronological framework, consisting of sequences of phases that are separate for male and femaleburials but nevertheless mutually consistent and coordinated. These will allow archaeologists to assign graveassemblagesand a wide range of individual artefact-types to defined phases that are associated with calendricaldate-ranges whose limits are expressed to a specific degree of probability. Important unresolved issues includea precise adjustment for dietary effects on radiocarbon dates from human skeletal material. Nonetheless theresults of this project suggest the cessation of regular burial with grave goods in Anglo-Saxon England two decadesor even more before the end of the seventh century. That creates a limited but important discrepancy with thecurrent numismatic chronology of early English sceattas. The wider implications of the results for key topics inAnglo-Saxon archaeology and social, economic and religious history are discussed to conclude the report.9781909662063, £45.00, Jul 2013HB, 616p, 500 illustrations, Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs (SMA) 33, Society for Medieval ArchaeologyTransforming TownscapesFrom burh to borough: the archaeology of Wallingford, AD 800-1400By Neil Christie, Oliver Creighton, Matt Edgeworth & Helena HamerowThis monograph details the results of a major archaeological project based on and aroundthe historic town of Wallingford in south Oxfordshire. Founded in the late Saxon period asa key defensive and administrative focus next to the Thames, the settlement also containeda substantial royal castle established shortly after the Norman Conquest. The volume tracesthe pre-town archaeology of Wallingford and then analyses the town’s physical and socialevolution, assessing defences, churches, housing, markets, material culture, coinage, communications andhinterland. Core questions running through the volume relate to the roles of the River Thames and of royal powerin shaping Wallingford’s fortunes and identity and in explaining the town’s severe and early decline.9781909662094, £TBC, Oct 2013HB, Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs 35, Society for Medieval ArchaeologyRecent Highlights from the Society for Medieval Archaeology9781906540616, £59, HBSociety for Medieval Archaeology9781907975462, £45, PBSociety for Medieval Archaeology9781907975455, £32, PBSociety for Medieval Archaeology58Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.uk

Spire Books Ltd. is a specialist publisher in the areas of art, architectural and religioushistory.The Aesthetics of UtopiaSaltaire, Akroydon and Bedford ParkBy Sheila BinnsSaltaire, Akroydon and Bedford Park are planned, model urban communities of the nineteenthcentury – two of them in Yorkshire, the third in west London. All three villages grew from theideas of developers intent on creating a fine environment for living: Italianate Saltaire wasfor mill-workers, Gothic Akroydon was an attempt at social engineering and Bedford Park,in the so-called Queen Anne Revival style, was for the aspiring middle-class with artisticsensibilities. Each has a unique aesthetic style, and, like a Victorian painting, has messages embedded in thedecorative detail. Famous architects, including Sir George Gilbert Scott and Richard Norman Shaw, played theirpart in these important developments and the beliefs and motivations of both developers and architects wereintegral to the designs of the communities. This book explores how these ideals were translated into the villagesthemselves, reveals the hidden significance of aesthetic details and is a testimony to the creative endeavour ofour Victorian forebears.9781904965459, £15.95, Sep 2013PB, 96p, 50 b/w and 33 color illus, Spire BooksEast Dorset Country HousesBy Michael HillA superbly illustrated thoroughly researched and illustrated account of country houses in theeastern half of the county of Dorset. ItThis publication contains numerous plans architecturaldrawings, information on owners architects and craftsmen, and covers the whole social andhistorical background which lead to their creation of these houses. Ranging, historically fromthe medieval palace buildings at Corfe Castle, erected for King John, to minor masterpieces ofthe Modern Movement, such as Landfall, Poole by Oliver Hill, over 30 major buildings are aredescribed in detail. 80 others, together with almost 80 others contained in a detailedfind a place in an illustratedgazetteer. The account includes important work by William Arnold, a major architect of the Jacobean period, andthe 18th-century houses designed in the 18th centuryproduced by the so-called ‘Blandford Sschool’. Large lateVictorian mansions are represented toocovered, especially the palatial Bryanston House, designed by the greatNorman Shaw. This book is for anyone who loves country houses or the astonishly beautiful county of Dorset.Michael Hill is an widely-recognised expert on country-house architecture and is the reviser of the Buildings ofEngland volume for Dorset.9781904965466, £49.95, Nov 2013HB, 440p, 37 colour, 160 b/w illustrations, Spire BooksThe History of the Crofton Pumping StationBy Ian BroomeCrofton Pumping Station near Great Bedwyn on the Kennet and Avon Canal is an important pieceof the industrial archaeology of the canal age. It houses the oldest working steam engine in theworld still in its original engine house and still doing its original job of pumping water into thesummit level of the canal. Pumping started in 1809 and continued until 1959, when followingdeterioration of the top of the chimney the engines were retired. The engines and boilers remainedin place and have now been restored to full working order by an enthusiastic band of volunteers.Quoting extensively from original records this book charts the history of the building of the pumping station, itsBoulton & Watt engines, the engineers and enginemen who kept them working for 150 years and the painstakingwork needed to restore them to working order.9780947723163, £14.99, Available NowPB, 147p, 83 illustrations, Wiltshire Archaeology & Natural History SocietyLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 59

Wessex Archaeology is the market leader in the provision of quality archaeologicaland heritage services, delivered from a UK wide network of offices. Wessex offers anunrivalled range of services above ground, below ground and underwater.Thames HoloceneA geoarchaeological approach to the investigation of the river floodplain for HighSpeed 1, 1994–2003By Martin Bates & Elizabeth StaffordThe archaeological investigation of the route of High Speed 1 (HS1; formerly the ChannelTunnel Rail Link) through the Thames Marshes required an innovative approach to mitigationin order to find and reach the deeply buried, but highly significant, palaeoenvironmentaland geoarchaeological sequences. Early on in the construction project it was evident that ageoarchaeological approach would be necessary because of the depth of sequences and the relative invisibilityof the archaeological resource, both within the Historic Environment Record, and to conventional archaeologicalprospection. An initial desk-based study of geotechnical and geomorphological data produced a model for thealluvial corridor which categorised zones of potential that could be compared against construction impacts.Subsequent field survey included geophysical investigation of buried sediment bodies, the use of boreholes, conepenetration testing and conventional test pitting and trenching. The project was highly successful in predictingthe location of buried archaeological remains in a number of locations. Key amongst these are extensive remainsexcavated in the Ebbsfleet Valley, Mesolithic flint scatters at Tank Hill Road, Aveley, and Late Upper Palaeolithic andNeolithic scatters on Swanscombe Marsh. Other sites described here include an in situ Early Neolithic flint scatterand evidence of seasonal Roman and medieval activity on Rainham and Wennington Marshes. As important, inaddition to the archaeological results, this work also presents the methodological approach that was adopted forthe investigation of approximately 18km (17%) of the HS1 route across an area of thick alluvium.9780954597092, £15.00, Aug 2013HB, 280p, 96 B&W and colour line drawings; 33 col plates, Wessex ArchaeologyImperial College Sports Grounds and RMC Land, HarlingtonThe development of prehistoric and later communities in the Colne Valley and onthe Heathrow TerracesBy Andrew B. Powell, Alistair Barclay, Lorraine Mepham & Chris J. StevensThis volume brings together the results from the excavations at the former Imperial CollegeSports Ground, RMC Land and Land East of Wall Garden Farm, near the villages of Harlingtonand Sipson in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The excavations revealed parts of anarchaeological landscape with a rich history of development from before 4000 BC to thepost-medieval period. The opportunity to investigate two large areas of this landscape provided evidence forpossible settlement continuity and shift over a period of 6000 years. Early to Middle Neolithic occupation wasrepresented by a rectangular ditched mortuary enclosure and a large spread of pits, many containing deposits ofPeterborough Ware pottery, flint and charred plant remains. A possible dispersed monument complex of threehengiform enclosures was associated with the rare remains of cremation burials radiocarbon dated to the MiddleNeolithic. Limited Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age activity was identified, which is in stark contrast to theMiddle to Late Bronze Age when a formalised landscape of extensive rectangular fields, enclosures, wells and pitswas established. This major reorganised land division can be traced across the two sites and over large parts of theadjacent Heathrow terraces. A small, Iron Age and Romano-British nucleated settlement was constructed, withassociated enclosures flanking a trackway. There were wayside inhumations, cremation burials and middens andmore widely dispersed wells and quarries. Two possible sunken-featured buildings of early Saxon date were found.There was also a small cemetery. Subsequently, a middle Saxon and medieval field system of small enclosures andwells was established.9781874350743, £30.00, Nov 2013HB, 250p, 110 B&W and colour line drawings; 35 col plates, Wessex Archaeology60Trade customers can order from Orca Book Services: +44 (0)1235 465500

Wessex Archaeology is the market leader in the provision of quality archaeologicaland heritage services, delivered from a UK wide network of offices. Wessex offers anunrivalled range of services above ground, below ground and underwater.Horton Kingsmead Quarry Volume 1By Gareth Chaffey, Alistair Barclay & Ruth PellingExcavations at Kingsmead Quarry, Horton, Berkshire, have provided an opportunity toinvestigate a large multi-period site with occupation dating back over 12,000 years. Theimmediate landscape was one of braided river channels for much of later prehistory, whilst asubstantial channel at the southern edge of the quarry is thought to be a former course of theThames. The investigations at Horton have revealed evidence for a rare Early Neolithic house,indicating permanent occupation on the site from about 3800 BC. A number of contemporarypits are suggestive of a house ‘void’. During the Bronze Age the landscape was dramatically transformed froman open area to an enclosed and subdivided agricultural landscape comprising field systems and two substantialfarmsteads. Each farm was associated with burials, domestic refuse and metalwork. The Iron Age and Romano-British periods saw continued development and re-organisation of the landscape, with associated settlementsof a much smaller scale. This is the first of three volumes and covers the results from 2003–2009. A range ofstructural evidence, augmented by considerable quantities of artefactual and environmental information, showHorton to have been a suitable and significant place for episodic settlement from the start of the Neolithic. Adetailed account of the site is given in this volume, whilst its position in the wider archaeological landscape of theMiddle Thames Valley is discussed.9781874350668, £40.00, Dec 2013HB, 300p, 115 B&W and colour line drawings; 30 col plates, Wessex ArchaeologyThe Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen New in PaperbackEarly Bell Beaker burials at Boscombe Down, Amesbury, Wiltshire, Great Britain:Excavations at Boscombe Down, volume 1By A. F. FitzpatrickFound a few kilometres from Stonehenge, the graves of the Amesbury Archer and theBoscombe Bowmen date to the 24th century BC and are two of the earliest Bell Beaker gravesin Britain. The Boscombe Bowmen is a collective burial and the Amesbury Archer is a singleburial but isotope analyses suggest that both were the graves of incomers to Wessex. Theobjects placed in both graves have strong continental connections and the metalworking tool found in the grave ofthe Amesbury Archer may explain why his mourners afforded him one of the most well-furnished burials yet foundin Europe. This excavation report contains a series of wide-ranging studies and scientific analyses by an array ofexperts and a discussion of the graves within their British and continental European contexts.9781874350620, £25.00, Autumn 2013PB, 300p, 115 B&W and colour line drawings; 30 col plates, Wessex ArchaeologyRecent Highlights from Wessex Archaeology9781874350569, £25, HBWessex Archaeology9781874350590, £30, HBWessex Archaeology9781874350613, £15, HBWessex ArchaeologyLibraries and Institute customers can order online – visit www.oxbowbooks.com 61

www.casematepublishing.co.ukCasemate UK is a leading specialist publisher and book distributor of military historypublications in the UK, European and Commonwealth markets. To see Casemate UK’sfull range of titles visit www.casematepublishing.co.ukFinland’s War of ChoiceThe Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War IIHenrik O. LundeThis book explores the unlikely coalition between Germany and Finland in World War II, andtheir joint military operations from 1941 to 1945. An oft overlooked participant of the war,Finland fought against the Soviets in the infamous and illegal Winter War, alongside Germanyin the Continuation War of 1941, and finally against former ally Germany in the conclusiveand bloody Lapland War.In his prologue Lunde covers the turbulent history of Finland, from its separation from the Soviet Union in 1917 toits isolation after being bludgeoned in 1939–40. Lunde examines both Finnish and German motives for forming acoalition against the USSR, and how—as logical as a common enemy would seem—the lack of true planning andpreparation would doom the alliance.9781612002194, £11.99, Oct 2013PB, 412p, 18pp illustrations, Casemate PublishersSecond FrontThe Allied Invasion of France, 1942–43 (An Alternate History)Alexander M. GraceOne of the great arguments of World War II took place among Allied military leaders overwhen and where to launch a second front against Germany in Europe. Stalin, holding on byhis teeth in Russia, urged a major invasion from the west as soon as possible. The Americans,led by Marshall and Wedemeyer, argued likewise. It was Churchill who got his way, however,with his Mediterranean strategy, including a campaign on the Italian peninsula, which hemistakenly called the “soft underbelly of Europe.” This realistic, fact-based work posits what would have happenedhad Churchill been overruled, and that rather than invading North Africa in the fall of 1942, thence Sicily andItaly, the Allies had hit the coast of southern France instead. This fascinating alternative history comes close toinforming us exactly what might have happened had D-Day in Europe come as early as some had wished.9781612002163, £18.99, Dec 2013HB, 336p, 16pp illustrations, Casemate PublishersFestung Guernsey3.1 & 3.2 / 3.3, 3.4 & 3.5 / 3.6, 4.1 & 4.2 (Sold Separately)The Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey nestle in the lee of the French coast. They are, however,British and in 1940 they became the first and only British territory to be occupied by the rapidlymoving armies of Hitler’s blitzkrieg. Hitler swiftly became obsessed by his conquest. Determined thatthey should not be retaken he set in place a massive series of fortifications designed to make theislands impregnable fortresses or Festung, as part of the Atlantic Wall. In 1944 Lieutenant ColonelHubner was charged with making a record of the immense fortifications. His team was drawn from theDivisionskartenstelle , the Divisional Cartographic Section, with some fourteen non-commissioned officers working across:drawing, photography, cartography, calligraphy and printing. The result is a stunning and comprehensive picture of thefortifications and a complete guide to their workings. Festung Guernsey consists of 22 chapters and was originally publishedas a limited edition of 135, two volume sets, bound in leather. This paperback version consists of 10 separate volumes, eachconsisting of 1,2 or 3 chapters and replicates the page numbering of the original edition. Volumes are being published everyfour months with the 10th being completed in May 2015 the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the islands by Force 135.3.1 & 3.2: 9780957245600 / 3.3, 3.4 & 3.5: 9780957245617 / 3.6, 4.1 &4.2: 9780957245624 - £15.00 each, Available NowPB, 106p, illustrations & maps, Clear Vue Publishing62Casemate titles can be ordered from Orca Book Services: TradeOrders@orcabookservices.co.uk

www.casematepublishing.co.ukCasemate UK is a leading specialist publisher and book distributor of military historypublications in the UK, European and Commonwealth markets. To see Casemate UK’sfull range of titles visit www.casematepublishing.co.ukIslam and the WestThe Geopolitics of FaithArdavan Amir-AslaniIran is a nation or a people that wish to claim allegiance both to the ancient heritage of Persiaand to its identity as a Shiite state in the midst of a hostile Arab and Sunni environment.Iranians are also more open to the outside world than any other Muslim people: a large partof its population is westernized or aspires to the ‘Western way of life.’ They are proud of theirrich culture and find it painful to have experienced a Renaissance of their own only to beostracized by the international community that considers them to have gone back to the Middle Ages. Today, whatIran wants above all is to relive that glorious time, to return to Persia.9781936274505, £16.99, Available NowHB, 289p, Enigma BooksWorld War II German Field Weapons & Equipment:A Visual Reference GuideKeith WardThis title is the first in a series that employs a simple and effective concept to illustrate anddescribe the multiplicity of equipment and weapons systems used on the ground duringWorld War II. Whilst many books have described such weapons and war matériel, KeithWard’s unique abilities as a 3D technical artist bring these items to life, illustrated throughoutin full colour. Here, in a single concise volume, are all major and many minor and less wellknownitems of German weaponry and equipment, rendered precisely, including detailed cutaways showing theirinternal workings, information which is often absent from other publications. Technical details are also provided.This is an essential volume for anyone interested in the German Armed Forces of World War II.9781909384446, £16.95, Sep 2013PB, 120p, over 300 colour illustrations, Helion & CompanyA European AnabasisWestern European Volunteers in the German Army and SS, 1940-45Kenneth EstesKenneth Estes studies the 100,000 West Europeans who fought against Russia as volunteersfor the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS. A retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, Estes showstremendous knowledge of combat and writes gripping battlefield prose. Estes pulverizes theNazi propaganda notion of a multinational European army defending ‘Western civilization’against ‘Bolshevism’. He shows that West Europeans, mainly of the urban working classes,volunteered from a mix of motives -adventure-seeking, ideology, hopes of personal advantage or material gain, adesire for better food, or a wish to escape a criminal record at home. He demonstrates that the best-performingforeign legions were trained and led by German officers and formed parts of larger SS units, and also that theWehrmacht placed little value on foreign formations until its other manpower reserves ran out in 1944-45.9781909384521, £25.00, Nov 2013HB, 176p, 42 b/w photos, 8 maps, Helion & CompanyFor more on these titles and other military history publications visit www.casematepublishing.co.uk 63

Journals from Oxbow Booksand Maney PublishingOxbow Books is delighted to announce that it is now working in partnership withManey Publishing who from 2013 are publishing Landscapes and Journal of Wetland Archaeology.Editors: Graham Fairclough, Newcastle UniversityPaul Stamper, English HeritageSubscription information: 2 issues per yearPrint ISSN 1466-2035Online ISSN 2040-8153Institutions: Print & online: £105 Online-only £88.00Individuals: Print & online £36.00 Online-only £30.00www.maneypublishing.com/journals/lanLandscapes actively encourages the attempt to stretch beyond the singular domain of landscape history and findmeaning across disciplinary boundaries. It is the juxtapositions with other ways of seeing meaning and other ways ofrepresentation which cause the kinds of insight frequently found in Landscapes.Journal of Wetland ArchaeologyEditor: Tony Brown, University of SouthamptonSubscription information: 1 issue per yearPrint ISSN 1473-2971Online ISSN 2051-6231Institutions: Print & online £75.00 Online-only £65.00Individuals: Print & online £24.00 Online-only £20.00www.maneypublishing.com/journals/jwaThe Journal of Wetland Archaeology publishes a wide range of contributions in all fields of wetlandarchaeology, from methodology to synthesis and theory, including all scientific aspects such as geoprospectionand environmental reconstruction, wetland hydrology and archaeological conservation, site management, andall cultural aspects of wetlands including perceptions, beliefs and ritual. The journal also includes papers onlegislation and site protection, overall providing the first single outlet for all aspects of wetland archaeology withan emphasis throughout on the integration of wetland archaeology within the wider archaeological context.Maney Publishing are also now publishing Childhood in the Past, from Volume 6 (2013)for more information see www.maneypublishing.com/cip64Subscribe to journals online with Maney Publishing: www.maneypublishing.com

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