Summer Bargain Catalogue - Oxbow Books

26 Ancient Near East
Excavations by Kathleen
Kenyon at Jerusalem V
by K. Prag.
Describes the discoveries made
in six sites in the ancient city
and places them in the archaeological
and historical context of
Jerusalem and the surrounding
lands. Among the most debated issues are the extent
of the occupation of the city during the Iron Age, the
location of the southern defence line in Herodian and
Roman times, and the date of the destruction of an
Umayyad palatial structure.
592p, b/w illus, col pls (CBRL/Oxbow Books 2008) Hb
was £75.00 now £15.00
Anatolian Iron Ages 5
edited by A. Cilingiroglu and G.
Darbyshire.
The papers gathered in this
volume cover the area from
Urartu in the east to Phrygia in the
west, and range from the discussion
of broad problems of
chronology and cultural interaction to the presentation
of new material from both major and less well known
sites.
240p b/w illus (British Institute of Archaeology at
Ankara 2005) Hb was £40.00 now £14.95
The Early Prehistory of the
Wadi Faynan
edited by Bill Finlayson and Steven
Mithen.
This edited volume provides a full
report on the Pre-Pottery Neo lithic
A site of WF16, southern Jordan.
Excavations have shown that the
site contains a highly dynamic use of architecture, and
the faunal assemblage reveals new information on the
processes that lead to the domestication of the goat.
640p (CBRL/Oxbow Books 2007) Hb was £75.00 now
£10.00
South Eastern
Mediterranean Peoples
Between 130,000 and
10,000 Years Ago
edited by Elena A.A. Garcea.
This book highlights and synthesizes
the latest research and
current scientific debate on the
archaeology of the Pleistocene in North Africa and
the Near East.
192p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2010) Hb was £48.00
now £9.95
Excavations by K.M. Kenyon
in Jerusalem 1961–67
Volume IV
edited by I Eshel and K. Prag.
This volume concentrates on
finds outside the walls of the Iron
Age city, and particularly on the
enigmatic, pottery-rich depositis
in Caves I and II to the south east of the city. Eshel’s
analysis of the pottery leads him to suggest a 7thcentury
BC date.
278p b/w figs (OUP 1995) Hb was £45.00 now
£14.95
Cuneiform Tablets in the
Kouyunjik Collection in the
British Museum, Vol.II
by WG Lambert.
This third (and final) supplement
to the Kouyunjik collection of
tablets at the BM provides an
index to the contents of a further
5400 fragmentary tablets.
95p (British Museum 1992) Hb was £25.00 now
£4.95
Crossing the Rift
Resources, Settlements,
Patterns and Interactions in
the Wadi Arabah
edited by Piotr Bienkowski and
Katharina Galor.
The Wadi Arabah falls between
the two areas of southern Jordan
and Negev, and has traditionally been seen as a barrier
and border. This book (and the conference it came out
of) is an attempt to look at this neglected area anew:
bridge, rather than barrier.
288p b/w illus (CBRL/Oxbow Books) Hb was £45.00
now £10.00
Siraf
History, Topography and
Environment
by David Whitehouse.
Siraf was a major city on the
Iranian shore of the Persian Gulf
that played a leading role in the
network of maritime trade that
supplied Western Asia with the products of India,
the Far East and Eastern Africa between A.D. 800 and
1050. This volume synthesises the written evidence
of the history of Siraf, and introduces the results of
seven seasons of excavation and survey.
128p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2009) Hb was £38.00
now £12.95
Euphrates River Valley
Settlement
The Carchemish Sector in the
Third Milennium BC
edited by Edgar Peltenberg.
This well-illustrated book exam
ines recently discovered
evidence from the hinterlands of
archaeologically inaccessible Carchemish in its regional
context.
286p b/w illus (CBRL/Oxbow Books 2007) Hb was
£55.00 now £10.00
Archaeology and
Desertification
The Wadi Faynan Landscape
Survey, Southern Jordan
edited by Graeme Barker, David
Gilbertson and David Mattingly.
An inter-disciplinary study of
landscape change undertaken
in the Wadi Faynan by a team of archaeologists
and geographers with the goal of contributing to
present-day desertification debates by providing a
long-term perspective on the relationship between
environmental change and human history.
510p, b/w illus, CD-Rom (CBRL/Oxbow Books 2008)
Hb was £70.00 now £10.00
Excavations at ‘Ana
by Alastair Northedge, Andrina
Bamber and Michael Roaf.
A report on a a rescue project in
the basin of the Qadisiyya Dam.
‘Ana, on the Middle Euphrates
some 150 km below the modern
Iraqi-Syrian border was the centre
of an autonomous governorate under the Assyrians,
a border fortress under the Parthians, Romans and
Sasanians, and a caravan town and bedouin centre
under Islam.
192p pls (British School in Iraq 1998) Pb was £48.00
now £25.00
Catalogue of Babylonian
Tablets in the British
Museum, Vol II
by M Sigrist et al.
Second in a series publishing the
entire Babylonian and Sumerian
cuneiform holdings of the
Department of Western Asiatic
Antiquities. Over 8000 examples acquired by the British
Museum in the years 1892-8 are described including
major archives of the Ur III and Old Babylonian periods.
368p (BMP 1996) Hb was £45.00 now £12.95
Excavations at Qasrij Cliff
and Khirbet Qasrij
by John Curtis with contributions by
Dominique Collon.
Qasrij Cliff, small Late Assyrian site
of the 8th–7th centuries BC has
produced an interesting range of
Assyrian pottery. Khirbet Qasrij is
later, dating from the obscure period between the fall
of Assyria in 612 BC and the start of the Achaemenid
era in 539 BC.
75p plus 49p of figs and 13p of b/w plates (British
Museum Press 1989) Pb was £25.00 now £9.95
Excavations at Tell
Rubeidheh
by RG Killick.
A report on the excavation of an
Uruk period mound dug as part
of the Hamrin Dam rescue project
in East Iraq. It includes sections
on the archaeology, finds, animal
bones and flints.
210p illus (British School in Iraq 1989) Pb was £35.00
now £4.95
Historical Topography of
Samarra
by Alastair Northedge.
Northedge sets out to explain
the history and development
of this enormous site, 45 km
long, using both archaeological
and textual sources to weave a
new interpretation of how the
city worked: its four caliphal palaces, four Friday
mosques, cantonments for the military and for the
palace servants, houses for the men of state and
generals.
426p, 91 pls, 116 b/w illus (British School of
Archaeology in Iraq 2006, paperback reprint with
corrections 2007) Pb was £40.00 now £10.00