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.

Why Leather? Cover Why Leather? Cover
Format: 
Pages: 134
ISBN: 9789088904707
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 79fc/17bw
Pages: 135
ISBN: 9789088902611
Pub Date: 16 Sep 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 50 full colour illustrations
Description:
This pioneering volume brings together specialists from contemporary craft and industry and from archaeology to examine both the material properties and the cultural dimensions of leather. The common occurrence of animal skin products through time, whether vegetable tanned leather, parchment, vellum, fat-cured skins or rawhide attest to its enduring versatility, utility and desirability. Typically grouped together as ‘leather’, the versatility of these materials is remarkable: they can be soft and supple like a textile, firm and rigid like a basket, or hard and watertight like a pot or gourd.
Tutankhamun’s Footwear Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9789088904745
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 286fc/105bw
Description:
The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 is one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of all time. It took Carter and his team 10 years to clear the contents of the tomb and among the objects found was a large collection of shoes and sandals. The footwear is analysed here in detail for the first time since the discovery using Carter’s records and Harry Burton’s excellent photographs along with the author’s analyses of the objects, all of which are housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo and the Luxor Museum.
Ritual Failure Cover Ritual Failure Cover
Format: 
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9789088904790
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 19fc/22bw
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9789088902208
Pub Date: 16 Dec 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations and 8 col. illustrations
Description:
‘Ritual Failure’ is a new concept in archaeology adopted from the discipline of anthropology. Resilient religious systems disappearing, strict believers and faithful practitioners not performing their rites, entire societies changing their customs: how does a religious ritual system transform, change or disappear, leaving only traces of its past glory? Do societies change and then their ritual?
Hajj Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 245
ISBN: 9789088904776
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde
Illustrations: 69fc/11bw
Description:
Every year, in the last month of the Islamic calendar, millions of Muslims from around the world come together in Mecca to perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that all capable Muslims should perform at least once in their lives. In 2013, the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden organised the exhibition Longing for Mecca. The Pilgrim’s Journey.
From Primitives to Primates Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9789088904752
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 20bw
Description:
Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography and primatology has deeply influenced our visions about the past from the 19th century to this day – often far beyond the available evidence. Victorian scholars were keen to look at contemporary Australian and Tasmanian aboriginals to understand the enigmatic Neanderthal fossils.
Fragmenting the Chieftain Cover Fragmenting the Chieftain Cover
Format: 
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789088905124
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 39fc / 39 bw
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789088905117
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 39fc / 39 bw
Description:
There is a cluster of Early Iron Age (800–500 BC) elite burials in the Low Countries in which bronze vessels, weaponry, horse-gear and wagons were interred as grave goods. Mostly imports from Central Europe, these objects are found brought together in varying configurations in cremation burials generally known as chieftains’ graves or princely burials. In terms of grave goods they resemble the Fürstengräber of the Hallstatt Culture of Central Europe, with famous Dutch and Belgian examples being the Chieftain’s grave of Oss, the wagon-grave of Wijchen and the elite cemetery of Court-St-Etienne.
Fragmenting the Chieftain – Catalogue Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789088905148
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 126fc / 37 bw
Description:
There is a cluster of Early Iron Age (800–500 BC) elite burials in the Low Countries in which bronze vessels, weaponry, horse-gear and wagons were interred as grave goods. Mostly imports from Central Europe, these objects are found brought together in varying configurations in cremation burials generally known as chieftains’ graves or princely burials. In terms of grave goods they resemble the Fürstengräber of the Hallstatt Culture of Central Europe, with famous Dutch and Belgian examples being the Chieftain’s grave of Oss, the wagon-grave of Wijchen and the elite cemetery of Court-St-Etienne.
Experiments Past Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9789088904783
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 64fc/54bw
Description:
With Experiments Past the important role that experimental archaeology has played in the development of archaeology is finally uncovered and understood. Experimental archaeology is a method to attempt to replicate archaeological artefacts and/or processes to test certain hypotheses or discover information about those artefacts and/or processes. It has been a key part of archaeology for well over a century, but such experiments are often embedded in wider research, conducted in isolation or never published or reported.
Chasing Chariots Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9789088904691
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 89fc/126bw
Description:
The present work is the result of the First International Chariot Conference, jointly organised by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) and the American University in Cairo (AUC) (30 November to 2 December 2012). The intention of the conference was to make a broad assessment of the current state of knowledge about chariots in Egypt and the Near East, and to provide a forum for discussion. A wide variety of papers are included, ranging from overviews to more detailed studies focusing on a specific topic.
Catalogue of the Footwear in the Coptic Museum (Cairo) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9789088904714
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 395fc/141bw
Description:
This catalogue presents the ancient Egyptian footwear in the collection of the Coptic Museum in Cairo. The catalogue contains detailed descriptions and measurements, photographs and drawings. Each description of a footwear category is followed by short discussions, addressing topics such as typology and dating.
Barely Surviving or More than Enough? Cover Barely Surviving or More than Enough? Cover
Format: 
Pages: 298
ISBN: 9789088904769
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 19fc/82bw
Pages: 298
ISBN: 9789088901997
Pub Date: 04 Dec 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 19 col, 82 b/w illustrations
Description:
How people produced or acquired their food in the past is one of the main questions in archaeology. Everyone needs food to survive, so the ways in which people managed to acquire it forms the very basis of human existence. Farming was key to the rise of human sedentarism.
Amarna’s Leatherwork Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 290
ISBN: 9789088904738
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 500fc/100bw
Description:
The ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna (or Amarna, ancient Akhetaten) was the short-lived capital built by the controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten, probably the father of the famous Tutankhamun, and abandoned shortly after his death (c. 1336 BCE). It is one of the few Pharaonic cities to have been thoroughly excavated and is a rich source of information about the daily life of the ancient Egyptians.
Archaeology and Geomatics Cover Archaeology and Geomatics Cover
Format: 
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789088904523
Pub Date: 14 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 35fc / 80bw
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789088904516
Pub Date: 14 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 35fc / 80bw
Description:
Digital technologies have numerous applications in archaeology ranging from the documentation of the archaeological evidence and the analysis of research data to the presentation of results for a wider audience. This volume consists of various studies on the use of methods such as LiDAR (light detection and ranging), archaeological prospection, visibility, mobility and the analysis of the spatial distribution of archaeological objects, applied in various contexts. The case studies vary widely and include the Late Pleistocene in the Northern Iberian Peninsula, the Roman Republican period in Southern Italy, the Formative period in the Andes and the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War.
Strategies of Remembering in Greece Under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD) Cover Strategies of Remembering in Greece Under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD) Cover
Format: 
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789088904813
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens
Illustrations: 18fc/45bw
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789088904806
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens
Illustrations: 18fc/45bw
Description:
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek self-rule.
The Canino Connections Cover The Canino Connections Cover
Format: 
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9789088905001
Pub Date: 05 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 55fc / 27bw
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9789088904998
Pub Date: 05 Dec 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 55fc / 27bw
Description:
Starting in the year 1828, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, unearthed more than 2000 Greek vases on his estate near the ancient Etruscan town of Vulci. The vases were restored and found their way to archaeological collections all around the world. This volume publishes 10 papers by scholars of international repute dealing with these ceramics.
Nineveh, the Great City Cover Nineveh, the Great City Cover
Format: 
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789088904974
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 110fc / 140bw
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789088904967
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 110fc / 140bw
Description:
‘Well, as for Nineveh, skipper, it was wiped out long ago. There’s not a trace of it left, and one can’t even guess where it was’ (Lucian, 2nd century AD). Nineveh, the once-flourishing capital of the Assyrian Empire, has fascinated writers, travellers and historians alike since its complete annihilation by allied forces in 612 BC.