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.

Lucayan Legacies Cover Lucayan Legacies Cover
Format: 
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9789464261028
Pub Date: 09 Mar 2023
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Illustrations: 143fc / 30bw
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9789464261011
Pub Date: 09 Mar 2023
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Illustrations: 143fc / 30bw
Description:
This book is about Lucayan legacies – the heritage of the people who made the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands (the Lucayan archipelago) their home from the 8th to the 16th centuries. This legacy is not simply the surviving physical record, consisting of artefacts of stone, shell and wood – it is a history entangled in the early antiquarian and archaeological interests in the region, resulting in the museum and institutional collections both within and beyond the islands. Many of the collections now in museums were acquired between 1850 and 1950, before professional archaeology emerged as a field in the region, and are largely unknown even to many archaeologists working in the Bahamas and the wider Caribbean, let alone to local island communities and the wider public.
Revealing Christian Heritage Cover Revealing Christian Heritage Cover
Format: 
Pages: 110
ISBN: 9789464261585
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2023
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Illustrations: 5fc / 15bw
Pages: 110
ISBN: 9789464261578
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 5fc / 15bw
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This volume collects different case studies of rediscovery of Christian antiquities between 1860-1930 in Europe and the Mediterranean basin, in order to stimulate reflections about the impact of these rediscoveries on our culture in a period of great political transition. By turning the light on lesser-known stories on a wider European and Mediterranean horizon (Greece, Holy Land, Eritrea, Malta, Norway), this book gives a strong contribution to the history of Christian archaeology. All articles deal with many topics of the field (museology, cultural heritage protection law, history of religious orders, field archaeology, military explorations), and therefore offer a strong interdisciplinary cut.
Change and Continuity at the Roman Coastal Fort at Oudenburg from the Late 2nd until the Early 5th Century AD Cover Change and Continuity at the Roman Coastal Fort at Oudenburg from the Late 2nd until the Early 5th Century AD Cover
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Pages: 604
ISBN: 9789464260878
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2023
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Series: Relicta Monografieën 19
Illustrations: 144fc / 17bw
Pages: 604
ISBN: 9789464260861
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Relicta Monografieën 19
Illustrations: 144fc / 17bw
Description:
In the later Roman period the North Sea and Channel region was the scene of seaborne attacks, political crises, army reforms, Germanic invasions and changing imperial defence strategies. Literary evidence for this era is poor. On the other hand the Shore forts can yield highly significant information, but have been subject to little study in recent decades.
Change and Continuity at the Roman Coastal Fort at Oudenburg from the Late 2nd until the Early 5th Century AD Cover Change and Continuity at the Roman Coastal Fort at Oudenburg from the Late 2nd until the Early 5th Century AD Cover
Format: 
Pages: 500
ISBN: 9789464260908
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Relicta Monografieën 19
Illustrations: 500fc
Pages: 500
ISBN: 9789464260892
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Relicta Monografieën 19
Illustrations: 500fc
Description:
In the later Roman period the North Sea and Channel region was the scene of seaborne attacks, political crises, army reforms, Germanic invasions and changing imperial defence strategies. Literary evidence for this era is poor. On the other hand the Shore forts can yield highly significant information, but have been subject to little study in recent decades.
Living (World) Heritage Cities Cover Living (World) Heritage Cities Cover
Format: 
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789464261431
Pub Date: 13 Dec 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 84fc / 3bw
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789464261424
Pub Date: 13 Dec 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 84fc / 3bw
Description:
Cities are in a constant process of change and are the theater of interaction among people and their complex, historically multi-layered, culturally diverse living environment. Therefore, various interests, needs, and values affect these dynamics of interaction and urban change, which bring challenges and opportunities for the development of cities. Particularly, when urban development deals with such complex living environment and the management and conservation of both listed and non-listed heritage – as in the case of World Heritage cities – a variety of public and private, and global and local stakeholders are affected by processes of change.
Connectivity Matters! Cover Connectivity Matters! Cover
Format: 
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9789464270280
Pub Date: 06 Dec 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 25fc / 10bw
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9789464270273
Pub Date: 06 Dec 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 25fc / 10bw
Description:
This book is a presentation of the basic concept of social, environmental and cultural connectivity in past societies, as embodied in a diversity of disciplines in the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS. Thus, rather pragmatically driven ideas of socio-environmental connectivities are described, which form the basis of the Cluster of Excellence in its research. A discussion of the fluidness of the term ‘connectivity’ and the applicability of the concept opens the arena for diverse interpretations.
Cooking with plants in ancient Europe and beyond Cover Cooking with plants in ancient Europe and beyond Cover
Format: 
Pages: 526
ISBN: 9789464270341
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2022
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Illustrations: 207fc / 29bw
Pages: 526
ISBN: 9789464270334
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 207fc / 29bw
Description:
Plants have constituted the basis of human subsistence. This volume focuses on plant food ingredients that were consumed by the members of past societies and on the ways these ingredients were transformed into food. The thirty chapters of this book unfold the story of culinary transformation of cereals, pulses as well as of a wide range of wild and cultivated edible plants.
Art in Early-Modern Law Cover Art in Early-Modern Law Cover
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Pages: 246
ISBN: 9789464261325
Pub Date: 24 Nov 2022
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Illustrations: 4fc / 13 bw
Pages: 246
ISBN: 9789464261318
Pub Date: 24 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 4fc / 13 bw
Description:
In the early modern centuries, several European states issued pioneering regulations to protect what they thought of as “heritage” – that is, antiquities, monuments, and paintings considered important for their country’s splendour. These early protocols have had a substantial impact on the development of legal and aesthetic approaches to heritage protection in recent times.In this volume, legislation is explored from both a legal and art-historical perspective in order to understand how cultural, political, and social factors influenced the introduction of the first systems for safeguarding “precious artefacts” in early modern Europe.
Keramik jenseits von 'Kulturen' Cover Keramik jenseits von 'Kulturen' Cover
Format: 
Pages: 504
ISBN: 9789464280463
Pub Date: 23 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology
Illustrations: 156fc / 56bw
Pages: 4220
ISBN: 9789464280456
Pub Date: 23 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology
Illustrations: 156fc / 56bw
Description:
Mobilität ist für Formen des sozialen Zusammenlebens grundlegend. Doch welche Rolle spielte räumliche Mobilität in der Vergangenheit? Aus prähistorischen Zeitabschnitten wie etwa dem Neolithikum ist dazu noch immer wenig bekannt.
Photo-Museology Cover Photo-Museology Cover
Format: 
Pages: 474
ISBN: 9789088906336
Pub Date: 17 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Illustrations: 289fc / 76bw
Pages: 474
ISBN: 9789088906329
Pub Date: 17 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Illustrations: 289fc / 76bw
Description:
Ethnographic museums, now often rebranded as collections of ‘world cultures’, appear permanently problematic, even as their contexts and the orientation of their activities change. Across Europe and elsewhere, curators and other museum staff are committed to dialogue and collaboration with the peoples from whom collections were made. But their vast assemblages of artefacts, removed from countries of origin primarily during the colonial period, and assumed, mostly inaccurately, to have been looted, seem always in question.
Classical Controversies Cover Classical Controversies Cover
Format: 
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789464270372
Pub Date: 16 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 7fc
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789464270365
Pub Date: 16 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 7fc
Description:
Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives – sometimes controversial – about Antiquity do people create for themselves at this moment in time, and for what reasons? This volume aims to showcase a number of illustrative examples, and thus to provide a deeper understanding of twenty-first-century reception of Antiquity.
The Baltic in the Bronze Age Cover The Baltic in the Bronze Age Cover
Format: 
Pages: 430
ISBN: 9789464270198
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2022
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Illustrations: 94fc / 48bw
Pages: 430
ISBN: 9789464270181
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 94fc / 48bw
Description:
The Bronze Age is a time of increasing interaction with large-scale connections that cover vast parts of Europe. Some parts and regions of the Bronze Age are very well explored and for some very strong narratives of hierarchisation and differentiation, dependence on external raw material supplies and specialisation have been proposed. In other regions, however, only some of these aspects appear, even though networks of contact would at least have been possible.
The Basketry from the Tomb of Tutankhamun Cover The Basketry from the Tomb of Tutankhamun Cover
Format: 
Pages: 376
ISBN: 9789464260939
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2022
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Illustrations: 1000fc / 150bw
Pages: 376
ISBN: 9789464260922
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 1000fc / 150bw
Description:
The tomb of Tutankhamun, discovered in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor (Egypt) by Howard Carted, yielded over 6000 items. Among the vast number of richly embellished precious objects, such as the solid gold coffin and mask, were also more mundane objects, including the hitherto unpublished basketry objects. Baskets, the ‘plastic bags’ of the ancient world, were used for storage of all sorts of things, including food, clothing and jewellery, and many that were found in the tomb retained their original contents.
A History of Suriname Cover A History of Suriname Cover
Format: 
Pages: 480
ISBN: 9789464261400
Pub Date: 09 Nov 2022
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Illustrations: 8fc / 49bw
Pages: 480
ISBN: 9789464261394
Pub Date: 09 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 8fc / 49bw
Description:
A History of Suriname presents the first comprehensive overview in English to cover the distant past as well as current events in the former Dutch colony located on the Wild Coast of South America where Spanish and English adventurers once presumed El Dorado . This study concerns original Indigenous inhabitants, the arrival of enslaved Africans who toiled away on plantations, the colonial economy with its trade relations with both Europe and North America, the immigration of Asian indentured labourers, to conclude with more recent events of the 20th and 21st century. The present publication offers an exceptionally profound insight into the socio-political developments of a multi-ethnic nation.
The Life and Journey of Neolithic Copper Objects Cover The Life and Journey of Neolithic Copper Objects Cover
Format: 
Pages: 190
ISBN: 9789464270310
Pub Date: 08 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 37fc / 50bw
Pages: 190
ISBN: 9789464270303
Pub Date: 08 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 37fc / 50bw
Description:
This work is an intensive study of the Neolithic deposition of copper objects from Neuenkirchen in North-East Germany. This unique ensemble represents one of the very rare hoard finds from the early Early Neolithic, and is the first of its kind for nearly 100 years, matched only by the famous younger hoard find from Bygholm (Denmark).The beginning of neolithization at the end of the fifth millennium is not only characterised by a change in the subsistence strategy, but also by the development of far-reaching networks of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker societies in Northern Germany.
Hidden dimensions Cover Hidden dimensions Cover
Format: 
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9789464261264
Pub Date: 03 Nov 2022
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Illustrations: 62fc / 22bw
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9789464261257
Pub Date: 03 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 62fc / 22bw
Description:
The modelling and representation of prehistoric hunter-gatherer behaviours is largely influenced by the investigation of sites with high archaeological visibility, due to the presence of large amounts of knapped lithics, which generally survive the ravages of time. As a consequence, behaviours which were not, or to a limited extent, associated with stone tools are underrepresented in archaeological narratives about hunter-gatherer lifestyles, which, however, have characterised most of the human past. Occasionally, at sites where preservation conditions are good, archaeological finds point to the importance of organic resources for tools and the manufacturing of a broad range of use items, such as clothing, footwear, containers, as well as tent covers and mats.