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.

Leatherwork from Qasr Ibrim (Egypt). Part I Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 462
ISBN: 9789088900969
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Throughout its long history, stretching from the 25th Dynasty (c. 752-656 BC) to the Ottoman Period (c. 1500-1811 AD), Qasr Ibrim was one of the most important settlements in Egyptian Nubia.
From Primitives to Primates Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9789088900952
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
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.
The Value of an Archaeological Open-Air Museum is in its Use Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789088901034
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
There are about 300 archaeological open-air museums in Europe. Their history goes from Romanticism up to modern-day tourism. With the majority dating to the past 30 years, they do more than simply present (re)constructed outdoor sceneries based on archaeology.
Noord-Brabantse Oudheden. Facsimile-editie van Noordbrabants Oudheden aangevuld met enkele Archeologische Mengelwerken Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9789088900860
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
C.R. Hermans is one of the founding fathers of archaeology in the Dutch Brabant-region.
Without Having Seen the Queen Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 212
ISBN: 9789088900877
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), a shrewd trader and later in life one of the best known archaeologists of the 19th century, made many travels around the world. He recorded his experiences in several diaries. This publication is a transcription and translation of Schliemann's first travel diary: his European journey in the winter of 1846/47.
Schliemann en Nederland. Een leven vol verhalen Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789088900914
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This book describes the life of the famous archaeologist and shrewd trader Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) from a Dutch perspective since his commercial succes started in the Netherlands. We see how two myths meet: the myth of the ancient city Troy and the the myth of the poor boy that was determined to find the remains of this legendary city.Dutch text.
Amotopoan Trails Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789088900983
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
In this book the concept of mobility is explored for the archaeology of the Amazonian and Caribbean region. As a result of technological and methodological progress in archaeology, mobility has become increasingly visible on the level of the individual. However, as a concept it does not seem to fit with current approaches in Amazonian archaeology, which favour a move away from viewing small mobile groups as models for the deeper past.
Pterosaurs Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 134
ISBN: 9789088900938
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Pterosaurs or flying reptiles were the first vertebrates to evolve flight. These distant relatives of modern reptiles and dinosaurs lived from the Late Triassic (over 200 million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous (about 65 million years ago) a span of some 135 million years. When they became extinct, no relatives survived them and as a result these prehistoric animals cannot readily be compared with our modern-day fauna.
Rousseau's Elysium. Ermenonville Revisited Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9789088900907
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is generally seen as one of the most important figures whose ideas had a great influence on the French Revolution (1789). Many immediately associate him with the concept of "the noble savage." However, just as with his political and philosophical writings, his love for botany and scenery would change the landscape of continental Europe, if not the world.
Monuments on the Horizon Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 252
ISBN: 9789088901041
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Barrows, as burial markers, are ubiquitous throughout North-Western Europe. In some regions dense concentrations of monuments form peculiar configurations such as long alignments while in others they are spread out extensively, dotting vast areas with hundreds of mounds. These vast barrow landscapes came about through thousands of years of additions by several successive prehistoric and historic communities.
RRP: £45.00
Lake Dwellings after Robert Munro. Proceedings from the Munro International Seminar Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 190
ISBN: 9789088900921
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Dr Robert Munro (1835-1920) was a distinguished medical practitioner who, in his later life, became a keen archaeologist. His particular interests lay in the lake-dwelling settlements of his native Scotland, known as crannogs, as well as those then being discovered across Europe. In 1885 Robert Munro undertook a review of all lacustrian research in Europe, travelling widely to study collections and visit sites.
Het handgevormde aardewerk uit de ijzertijd en de Romeinse tijd van Oss-Ussen Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 452
ISBN: 9789088900976
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Dutch Description: De vaak honderden aardewerkfragmenten die in Oss-Ussen werden aangetroffen in waterputten, kuilen, greppels en huisplattegronden vormden het aangrijpingspunt voor een studie naar het aardewerk uit een min of meer aaneengesloten bewoningsperiode van een millennium (ca. 800 v.Chr.
De Nederlandse Landschapsstijl in de Achttiende Eeuw Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9789088901003
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Dutch Description: Tot halverwege de twintigste eeuw was men er nog van overtuigd, dat men in Nederland niet over de landschapsstijl kan spreken vóór de negentiende eeuw. Dit beeld is echter de laatste decennia aanzienlijk gewijzigd. Incidenteel onderzoek en het symposium 'Nederlandse Tuinen in de achttiende eeuw' gaven een voorzet tot een nieuwe visie op de Landschapsstijl in Nederland, maar aan een samenvattende studie, waarin de introductie van de landschapsstijl centraal stond, bleef behoefte.
Collecting Kamoro Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9789088900884
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between representation and collecting, the author focuses on the creative and pragmatic agency of Kamoro people in these collecting encounters.
Background to Beakers. Inquiries into the Regional Cultural Background to the Bell Beaker Complex Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789088900846
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Background to Beakers is the result of an inspiring session at the yearly conference of European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague in September 2010. The conference brought together thirteen speakers on the subject Beakers in Transition. Together we explored the background to the Bell beaker complex in different regions, departing from the idea that migration is not the comprehensive solution to the adoption of bell Beakers.
Goedereede-Oude Oostdijk Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789088900839
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2012
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
DUTCH DESCRIPTION: Even ten noorden van Goedereede, in de Oude Oostdijkpolder, bevond zich in de Romeinse tijd een nederzettingsterrein. Hier vonden in de jaren '50 en '80 van de twintigste eeuw opgravingen plaats. Middelen voor de uitwerking van de resultaten van het onderzoek ontbraken echter, waardoor jarenlang onduidelijk was wat de omvang en het karakter van de nederzetting was.