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.

Chalk Hill Cover Chalk Hill Cover
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Pages: 275
ISBN: 9789088906084
Pub Date: 30 Mar 2019
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Pages: 275
ISBN: 9789088906077
Pub Date: 30 Mar 2019
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Excavations at Chalk Hill, Ramsgate in south-eastern Britain were primarily aimed at investigating the remains of a possible early Neolithic causewayed enclosure visible on aerial photographs. However, the monument could not in fact be categorised as a causewayed enclosure, but instead represented a type of early Neolithic ritual monument unique to the British Isles.The earliest significant features recorded on the site dated to the early Neolithic (roughly 3700–3600 cal BC).
Tiki Cover Tiki Cover
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Pages: 519
ISBN: 9789088906916
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2019
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Series: Pacific Presences
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Pages: 519
ISBN: 9789088906909
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2019
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Series: Pacific Presences
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Created across the six islands of a remote archipelago in eastern Polynesia, the art of the Marquesas is one of the world’s most distinctive and remarkable art traditions. Though exhibited in major museums around the world, Marquesan art is nevertheless poorly understood, and the formation of collections still largely unresearched. This book documents and explores the most extensive early collection from the archipelago.
Contacts, Boundaries and Innovation in the Fifth Millennium Cover Contacts, Boundaries and Innovation in the Fifth Millennium Cover
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Pages: 335
ISBN: 9789088907159
Pub Date: 27 Mar 2019
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Pages: 335
ISBN: 9789088907142
Pub Date: 27 Mar 2019
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The fifth millennium is characterized by far-flung contacts and a veritable flood of innovations. While its beginning is still strongly reminiscent of a broadly Linearbandkeramik way of life, at its end we find new, inter-regionally valid forms of symbolism, representation and ritual behaviour, changes in the settlement system, in architecture and in routine life. Yet, these inter-regional tendencies are paired with a profusion of increasingly small-scale archaeological cultures, many of them defined through pottery only.
From Golden Rock to Historic Gem Cover From Golden Rock to Historic Gem Cover
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Pages: 230
ISBN: 9789088907906
Pub Date: 21 Mar 2019
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Pages: 230
ISBN: 9789088907890
Pub Date: 21 Mar 2019
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St. Eustatius, a small island in the northeastern Lesser Antilles, was one of the busiest ports in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World. Contested between the Dutch, French, and English, the island attracted thousands of ships a year and became one of the most cosmopolitan places in the New World.
The Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project Cover The Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project Cover
Format: 
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9789088907333
Pub Date: 04 Mar 2019
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Pages: 244
ISBN: 9789088907326
Pub Date: 04 Mar 2019
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Since long, footwear has been neglected, but the Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project (AEFP), which started 10 years ago, filled in this gap in the knowledge on day-to-day ancient Egypt by studying the archaeological record as well as the imagery and textual evidence.
Das Jungneolithikum in Schleswig-Holstein Cover Das Jungneolithikum in Schleswig-Holstein Cover
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Pages: 488
ISBN: 9789088907432
Pub Date: 24 Dec 2018
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Series: Scales of Transformation
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Pages: 488
ISBN: 9789088907425
Pub Date: 24 Dec 2018
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Series: Scales of Transformation
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Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Studie zum Jungneolithikum (JN, auch Einzelgrabkultur, ca. 2850 – 2250 v. Chr.
Local Communities in the Big World of Prehistoric Northwest Europe Cover Local Communities in the Big World of Prehistoric Northwest Europe Cover
Format: 
Pages: 156
ISBN: 9789088907470
Pub Date: 20 Dec 2018
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Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia
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Pages: 156
ISBN: 9789088907463
Pub Date: 20 Dec 2018
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Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia
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This volume of Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia focuses on how local communities in prehistory define themselves in relation to a bigger social world. Communities from the deep past managed to make a living in landscapes we tend to perceive as inconvenient, build complex and elaborate monuments with relatively simple tools, and by shaping their landscape carved out a place for themselves in a much bigger social world. The contributions in this volume underscore how small worlds can be big at the same time.
Tracing Technoscapes Cover Tracing Technoscapes Cover
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Pages: 230
ISBN: 9789088906886
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2018
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Pages: 230
ISBN: 9789088906879
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2018
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Description:
The book provides insights into the various technical approaches and underlying bodies of knowledge in the different wall painting traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age and sheds light on how these may have been interwoven.
The Women Are More Beautiful Than Any I Have Ever Seen Cover The Women Are More Beautiful Than Any I Have Ever Seen Cover
Format: 
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9789088906947
Pub Date: 14 Dec 2018
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Series: The Schliemann Diaries
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Pages: 240
ISBN: 9789088906930
Pub Date: 14 Dec 2018
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Series: The Schliemann Diaries
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In the fourth part of The Schliemann Diaries we follow Heinrich Schliemann, the famous 19th century trader, traveller and archaeologist, on his travels through Spain in 1859. The original diary was written mainly in Spanish with a small portion in Arabic. This publication contains an introduction, an English translation and a transcription of the diary.
Past Landscapes Cover Past Landscapes Cover
Format: 
Pages: 350
ISBN: 9789088907296
Pub Date: 14 Dec 2018
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Pages: 350
ISBN: 9789088907319
Pub Date: 14 Dec 2018
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Past Landscapes presents theoretical and practical attempts of scholars and scientists, who were and are active within the Kiel Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” (GSHDL), in order to disentangle a wide scope of research efforts on past landscapes. Landscapes are understood as products of human-environmental interaction. At the same time, they are arenas, in which societal and cultural activities as well as receptions of environments and human developments take place.
Dynamiek in beeld Cover Dynamiek in beeld Cover
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Pages: 420
ISBN: 9789088907395
Pub Date: 13 Dec 2018
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Pages: 420
ISBN: 9789088907418
Pub Date: 13 Dec 2018
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Het oostelijk deel van West-Friesland was in de midden- en late bronstijd (ca. 1600-800 v. Chr.
Constructing Monuments, Perceiving Monumentality and the Economics of Building Cover Constructing Monuments, Perceiving Monumentality and the Economics of Building Cover
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Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789088906978
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2018
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Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789088906961
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2018
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In many societies monuments are associated with dynamic socio-economic and political processes that these societies underwent and/or instrumentalised. Due to the often large human and other resources input involved in their construction and maintenance, such constructions form an useful research target in order to investigate both their associated societies as well as the underlying processes that generated differential construction levels. Monumental constructions may physically remain the same for some time but certainly not forever.
The Compassionate Bodhisattva Cover The Compassionate Bodhisattva Cover
Format: 
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9789088906183
Pub Date: 05 Dec 2018
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Pages: 100
ISBN: 9789088906176
Pub Date: 12 Sep 2019
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Southeast Asia has a long history with Buddhism that continues to the present day. Centuries ago, Buddhism spread to various areas of Southeast Asia, where some of the greatest Buddhist images and monuments were produced over 1,000 years ago. These include the majestic Borobudur in Central Java and Angkor Thom in Cambodia.
Resonant Histories Cover Resonant Histories Cover
Format: 
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9789088906305
Pub Date: 03 Dec 2018
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Series: Pacific Presences
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Pages: 270
ISBN: 9789088906299
Pub Date: 03 Dec 2018
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Series: Pacific Presences
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This book explores a complex relational assemblage, a collection of 1481 Pacific artefacts brought together by Captain Edward Henry Meggs Davis, during the three voyages of HMS Royalist between 1890-1893. The collection is indicative not just of a period of colonial collecting in the Pacific, but also the development of ethnographic collections in the UK and Europe. This period of history remains present in the social and cultural lives of many Pacific Islanders today.
Pacific Presences (volume 2) Cover Pacific Presences (volume 2) Cover
Format: 
Pages: 500
ISBN: 9789088906275
Pub Date: 03 Dec 2018
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Series: Pacific Presences
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Pages: 500
ISBN: 9789088906268
Pub Date: 03 Dec 2018
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Series: Pacific Presences
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Description:
The vast and extraordinary collections from the Pacific, collected from the late eighteenth century onwards, that are dispersed across ethnographic and other museums in Europe amount to hundreds of thousands of artefacts, ranging from seemingly quotidian and utilitarian baskets and fish-hooks to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms and canoes. Alongside the works themselves are rich archives of documents, drawings by early travellers, and often vast photographic collections, as well as historic catalogues and object inventories. These collections constitute a rich and remarkable resource for understanding society and history across Indigenous Oceania, cross-cultural encounters since the voyages of Captain Cook and his contemporaries, and the colonial transformations of the nineteenth century onwards.
Pacific Presences (volume 1) Cover Pacific Presences (volume 1) Cover
Format: 
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9789088905902
Pub Date: 03 Dec 2018
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Series: Pacific Presences
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Pages: 340
ISBN: 9789088905896
Pub Date: 03 Dec 2018
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Series: Pacific Presences
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Description:
The vast and extraordinary collections from the Pacific, collected from the late eighteenth century onwards, that are dispersed across ethnographic and other museums in Europe amount to hundreds of thousands of artefacts, ranging from seemingly quotidian and utilitarian baskets and fish-hooks to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms and canoes. Alongside the works themselves are rich archives of documents, drawings by early travellers, and often vast photographic collections, as well as historic catalogues and object inventories. These collections constitute a rich and remarkable resource for understanding society and history across Indigenous Oceania, cross-cultural encounters since the voyages of Captain Cook and his contemporaries, and the colonial transformations of the nineteenth century onwards.