Sidestone Press

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 information available to all. They believe scientific information should be available at all times, at all places and to each and every one. This means that the printing and selling of books is but one part of what they believe a good publisher should do.

Apart from printed books that can be found in libraries and bookstores around the world, Sidestone books can also be freely accessed online through different channels such as Google Books, Google Scholar and through their own digital ebook library. By offering access to their books for free, more people than ever have access to our publications. First of all this is beneficial for our authors as it greatly increases the exposure of their work, and in effect, the impact of their research. Second, of course, it enables their readers – scholars and students around the world – to access their publications at any time and at any place, including those parts of the world where access to good quality academic libraries is not guaranteed.

From 2012 onwards Sidestone books have been published under one of three different imprints: Sidestone Press Academics, Sidestone Press Dissertations and Sidestone Press.

Healing Power Cover Healing Power Cover
Format: 
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9789088909191
Pub Date: 12 Feb 2021
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Pages: 170
ISBN: 9789088909184
Pub Date: 12 Feb 2021
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Illustrations: 90fc
Description:
People around the world are seeking for new healing methods, and they do so not in isolation but in global interaction. This publication provides new perspectives by combining essays from ritual specialists and scientists active in spiritual healing practices worldwide.
Maritime Connections Across the North Sea Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 290
ISBN: 9789088909863
Pub Date: 02 Feb 2021
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Description:
Why are so many nautical words in Danish the same as in Dutch? Who taught the shipwrights in the Royal Danish Shipyard in Copenhagen to build carvel planked ships? How did the first Danish ships find their way to the riches of the East Indies?
Maritime connections across the North Sea Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 290
ISBN: 9789088909870
Pub Date: 02 Feb 2021
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Illustrations: 49fc/31bw
Description:
Why are so many nautical words in Danish the same as in Dutch? Who taught the shipwrights in the Royal Danish Shipyard in Copenhagen to build carvel planked ships? How did the first Danish ships find their way to the riches of the East Indies?
Goddesses of Akragas Cover Goddesses of Akragas Cover
Format: 
Pages: 388
ISBN: 9789088909016
Pub Date: 20 Jan 2021
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Pages: 388
ISBN: 9789088909009
Pub Date: 20 Jan 2021
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Description:
The terracotta figurines from Akragas (Agrigento) with their chubby faces, splendid furniture, and rich adornments, depict a prosperous life in the late sixth and early fifth century BCE. The extensive jewellery on the figurines contains strikingly large fibulae appliques fastening pectoral chains with several sorts of pendants. They are modelled after existing items.
Archaeology in the Žitava Valley I Cover Archaeology in the Žitava Valley I Cover
Format: 
Pages: 546
ISBN: 9789088908989
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2020
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Series: Scales of Transformation
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Pages: 546
ISBN: 9789088908972
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2020
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Series: Scales of Transformation
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Description:
The early Neolithic site of Vráble (5250-4950 cal BCE) is among the largest LBK settlement agglomerations in Central Europe, and exceptional within the southwest Slovakian area. Geophysical surveys revealed more than 300 houses, grouped into three contemporary neighbourhoods, one of which is delineated by a complex ditched enclosure system. This enclosure is associated with a large number of human remains, which reveal new patterns of burial and deposition practices.
Law and Trade in Ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia Cover Law and Trade in Ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia Cover
Format: 
Pages: 324
ISBN: 9789088909160
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2020
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Pages: 324
ISBN: 9789088909153
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2020
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Description:
This book contains a selection of nineteen articles published by K.R. Veenhof, focusing on his main field of study: law and trade in the Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian society of the early second millennium B.
Managing Archaeology in Dynamic Urban Centres Cover Managing Archaeology in Dynamic Urban Centres Cover
Format: 
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9789088906053
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2020
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Pages: 240
ISBN: 9789088906046
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2020
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Illustrations: 58fc/34bw
Description:
This book looks at how archaeologists in the early 21st century are dealing with the challenges and opportunities presented by development in archaeologically sensitive urban centres. Based on a session held at the 2017 EAA conference in Maastricht, the volume features case studies from across Europe and beyond – including Norway, Lithuania, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy and Israel. The chapters look both at individual projects and larger thematic issues.
Pots and practices Cover Pots and practices Cover
Format: 
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9789088907753
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2020
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Series: BEFIM
Illustrations: 492fc/4bw
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9789088907746
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2020
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Series: BEFIM
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Description:
This third volume of the BEFIM series addresses the life history of vessels from the Early Celtic hillfort settlements of Heuneburg and Vix-Mont Lassois, from a detailed examination of the manufacturing process to the use and modifications of the final products. An extensive experimental program of dozens of experiments has allowed a better understanding of the way this pottery was made and used. The participation of an experienced potter allowed the reprodiction of exact replicas of the different wares, and the exploration of the impact of the creation process in wear patterns and traces.
Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth Cover Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth Cover
Format: 
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789088909726
Pub Date: 23 Dec 2020
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Illustrations: 143fc
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789088909719
Pub Date: 23 Dec 2020
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Illustrations: 143fc
Description:
Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to the lives of islanders and used for clothing, furnishings and ritual artefacts. Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth takes a new approach to the study of the history of this region through its barkcloth heritage, focusing on the plants themselves and surviving objects in historic collections.
Forging Identities in the prehistory of Old Europe Cover Forging Identities in the prehistory of Old Europe Cover
Format: 
Pages: 452
ISBN: 9789088909498
Pub Date: 22 Dec 2020
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Pages: 452
ISBN: 9789088909481
Pub Date: 22 Dec 2020
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Description:
Balkan prehistory conjures up images of the Exotic and the Other in comparison with the better-known prehistory of Western Europe - often written in unfamiliar languages about lesser known places. Combined with the information revolution in archaeology, these factors have meant that no new synthesis of Old Europe has been written in the last 20 years. This has left a backlog of rich settlement data and object-rich landscapes which have rarely been presented in theoretically challenging ways.
Landscapes of Survival Cover Landscapes of Survival Cover
Format: 
Pages: 410
ISBN: 9789088909436
Pub Date: 21 Dec 2020
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Illustrations: 189fc/52bw
Pages: 410
ISBN: 9789088909429
Pub Date: 21 Dec 2020
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Illustrations: 189fc/52bw
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The ‘Black Desert’ begins just south of Damascus and comprises some 40,000 km2 of dark and desolate basalt fields, which stretch from southern Syria across north-eastern Jordan and reach the sand sea of the Nefud in Saudi Arabia. The rough and highly arid terrain is often difficult to access and travel through. Despite these uninviting conditions, recent fieldwork has revealed the immense archaeological and epigraphic record of the Black Desert.
Crossing the Alps Cover Crossing the Alps Cover
Format: 
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9789088909627
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2020
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Illustrations: 137fc/82bw
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9789088909610
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2020
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Illustrations: 137fc/82bw
Description:
This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the urbanisation processes that took place south and north of the Alps during the early first millennium BC, highlighting the interactions between the different geographical areas.The 26 chapters included in this book provide a combination of theoretical and methodological insights into urbanisation processes, regional overviews, and up-to-date evidence from key archaeological sites.
The Tombs of Ptahemwia and Sethnakht at Saqqara Cover The Tombs of Ptahemwia and Sethnakht at Saqqara Cover
Format: 
Pages: 476
ISBN: 9789088908101
Pub Date: 17 Dec 2020
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Series: PALMA
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Pages: 476
ISBN: 9789088908095
Pub Date: 17 Dec 2020
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Series: PALMA
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Description:
The two tombs dealt with in this book were discovered in 2007 and 2010 by the Leiden Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. Both date to the transition period between the reign of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and the return to orthodoxy under his successor Tutankhamun. They are valuable additions to the growing corpus of funerary architecture from the Memphite cemeteries, yet they are quite different.
Collecting Ancient Europe Cover Collecting Ancient Europe Cover
Format: 
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9789088909368
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2020
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Series: PALMA
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Pages: 150
ISBN: 9789088909351
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2020
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Series: PALMA
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Description:
In order to understand our past, we need to understand ourselves as archaeologists and our discipline. This volume presents recent research into collecting practices of European Antiquities by national museums, institutes and individuals during the 19th and early 20th-century, and the ‘Ancient Europe’ collections that resulted and remain in many museums. This was the period during which the archaeological discipline developed as a scientific field, and the study of the archaeological paradigmatic and practical discourse of the past two centuries is therefore of importance, as are the sequence of key discoveries that shaped our field.
Unhinging the National Framework Cover Unhinging the National Framework Cover
Format: 
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9789088909757
Pub Date: 04 Dec 2020
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Series: CLUES
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Pages: 220
ISBN: 9789088909740
Pub Date: 04 Dec 2020
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Series: CLUES
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Description:
This book focuses on the 20th century lives of men and women whose life-work and life experiences transgressed and surpassed the national boundaries that existed or emerged in the 20th century. The chapters explore how these life-stories add innovative transnational perspectives to the entangled histories of the world wars, decolonization, the Cold War and post-colonialism. The subjects vary from artists, intellectuals, and politicians to ordinary citizens, each with their own unique set of experiences, interactions and interpretations.
Grave Reminders Cover Grave Reminders Cover
Format: 
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789088909849
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2020
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Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789088909832
Pub Date: 16 Dec 2020
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Illustrations: 36fc/110bw
Description:
From ca. 1600 – 1000 BC, builders across southern Greece crafted thousands of rock-cut chamber tombs similar to earlier and contemporary 'beehive' tholos tombs. Rather than focus on the missing or muddled record of funeral and post-funeral activities, this book re-examines Mycenaean tomb architecture and the decisions that guided it by examining patterns and correlations in tomb design using photogrammetric modelling of 94 multi-use tombs in Achaea and Attica.