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.

Vergeten' Bandkeramiek Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 652
ISBN: 9789088902246
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Het archeologisch onderzoek in Nederland naar de vroegneolithische Lineaire Bandkeramiek cultuur of LBK (5250-4950 v. Chr.) heeft een lange geschiedenis.
Mobile Community Reporting Cover
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789088902406
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Almost everyone in Africa knows a mobile phone, the most widespread communication technology on the continent. That technology started as a voice-only tool before integrating other functions such as messaging, sound and image recording and many others. This book is about ways in which some of those new functions are giving a new face to the field and practice of journalism.
Quaternary Research in Britain and Ireland" Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789088902574
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
During the later part of the last century there was rapid development of the study and understanding of the changing environments of the last 2 million years. This came to provide a firm background for today’s knowledge of the significance and importance of climatic change. Interdisciplinary research has been a prominent, if not essential, contributor to the successes achieved.
The Voyages of Adriaan van Berkel to Guiana Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789088902635
Pub Date: 05 Dec 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This book is a reissue of the travelogue of Adriaan van Berkel, first published in 1695 by Johan ten Hoorn in Amsterdam. The first part deals with Van Berkel’s adventures in the Dutch colony located on the Berbice River in the Guianas; the second part is a description of Surinam, the adjacent colony the Dutch took over from the British in 1667.This reissue, edited by Martijn van den Bel, Lodewijk Hulsman and Lodewijk Wagenaar, contains a new annotated English translation as well as an integral rendition of the original Dutch text.
Schliemann and the California Gold Rush Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789088902550
Pub Date: 06 Nov 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
In this second part of The Schliemann Diaries we follow Heinrich Schliemann (the famous 19th century archaeologist, trader and traveller) through his diary on his second journey: his travels to America from December 1850 to March 1853. The original diary was written in English and for a small part in Spanish. This publication is a transcription and translation of Schliemann’s travel diary.
Breaking with Tradition Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 204
ISBN: 9789088902758
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Over 150 years of research in the Circum-Alpine region have produced a vast amount of data on the lakeshore and wetland settlements found throughout the area. Particularly in the northern region, dendrochronological studies have provided highly accurate sequences of occupation, which have correlated, in turn, to palaeoclimatic reconstructions in the area. The result has been the general conclusion that the lake-dwelling tradition was governed by climatic factors, with communities abandoning the lakeshore during periods of inclement conditions, and returning when the climate was more favourable.
Het Groot Profielenboek Cover
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789088902734
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
In de archeologische praktijk wordt veel van de archeoloog in het veld gevraagd. Hij/zij is het welbekende schaap met de vijf poten. Naast de dagelijkse bureaucratische rompslomp blijft helaas vaak te weinig tijd over voor de archeologische inhoudelijke kant van het werk en dan dient de veldarcheoloog zich ook nog eens bezig te houden met “het profiel”.
Metaaltijden 1 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 164
ISBN: 9789088902499
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Bijdragen in de studie van de metaaltijden
Description:
Deze bundel vormt de neerslag van de 1e Nederlandse Metaaltijdendag, gehouden op 18 oktober 2013. Hierbij werd een rijke doorsnede aan recent metaaltijdenonderzoek gepresenteerd, dat nu in schriftelijke vorm het licht ziet. Deze bundel bevat bijdragen over het grafritueel, de materiële cultuur, nederzettingspatronen en depositiepatronen van gemeenschappen uit de metaaltijden (brons- en ijzertijd) van Nederland.
Experiments Past Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 275
ISBN: 9789088902512
Pub Date: 13 Oct 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
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.
Catalogue of the footwear in the Coptic Museum (Cairo) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789088902536
Pub Date: 16 Sep 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
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.
Animals in Saxon and Scandinavian England Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9789088902666
Pub Date: 22 Aug 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
In this book an analysis of over 300 animal bone assemblages from English Saxon and Scandinavian sites is presented. The data set is summarised in extensive tables for use as comparanda for future archaeozoological studies.Animals in Saxon and Scandinavian England takes as its core four broad areas of analysis.
Traditions techniques et production céramique au Néolithique ancien Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 420
ISBN: 9789088902468
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
La présente étude propose une approche technologique de la céramique rubanée, au travers de l’étude de huit sites localisés dans le quart nord-est de la France et en Belgique (5300-4900 av. J.C.
Tying the Threads of Eurasia Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9789088902444
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 200+ full colour
Description:
The famous ‘Silk Roads’ have long evoked a romantic picture of travel through colourful civilizations that connected the western and eastern poles of Eurasia, facilitating the exchange of exotic luxury goods, peoples, pathogens and ideas. But how far back can we trace such interaction? Increasing evidence suggests considerable time-depth for Trans-Eurasian exchange, with the expanding urban networks of the Bronze Age at times anticipating later caravan routes.
The Connected Caribbean Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9789088902598
Pub Date: 31 May 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
The modern-day Caribbean is a stunningly diverse but also intricately interconnected geo-cultural region, resulting partly from the islands’ shared colonial histories and an increasingly globalizing economy. Perhaps more importantly, before the encounter between the New and Old World took place, the indigenous societies and cultures of the pre-colonial Caribbean were already united in diversity. This work seeks to study the patterns of this pre-colonial homogeneity and diversity and uncover some of their underlying processes and dynamics.
Bitasion Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 174
ISBN: 9789088901942
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Les habitations-plantations constituent le creuset historique et symbolique où fut fondu l’alliage original que sont les cultures antillaises. Elles sont le berceau des sociétés créoles contemporaines qui y ont puisé tant leur forte parenté que leur diversité. Leur étude a été précocement le terrain de prédilection des historiens.
Similar But Different Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9789088902222
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 89 b/w illustrations
Description:
The book “Similar but Different. Bell Beakers in Europe” deals with a cultural phenomenon, known as the Bell Beaker culture, that during the 3rd millennium B.C.