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.

Distant Times So Close: Pandemics and Crises Reloaded Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789088909696
Pub Date: 24 Sep 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 31fc/3bw
Description:
Archaeology is all about how the present came into existence. Thus, it contributes to the social understanding of crises, including present and potential future adversities. Even diseases, such as pandemics in past societies, were and are observed by archaeology.
Hellenistic Architecture and Human Action Cover Hellenistic Architecture and Human Action Cover
Format: 
Pages: 212
ISBN: 9789088909108
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
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Pages: 212
ISBN: 9789088909092
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 29fc/38bw
Description:
This book examines the mutual influence of architecture and human action during a key period of history: the Hellenistic age. During this era, the profound transformations in the Mediterranean’s archaeological and historical record are detectable, pointing to a conscious intertwining of the physical (landscape, architecture, bodies) and social (practice) components of built space. Compiling the outcomes of a conference held in Kiel in 2018, the volume assembles contributions focusing on Hellenistic architecture as an action context, perceived in movement through built space.
Cleaning and Value Cover Cleaning and Value Cover
Format: 
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789088909221
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 54fc/16bw
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789088909214
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 54fc/16bw
Description:
This volume combines scholarly contributions on the relation between values and cleaning processes in different places, cultures and times. The core disciplines are archaeology and anthropology with interdisciplinary additions from sinology, classic philology, philosophy, sociology and fine arts.
Ci, Gender and Social Change among the Asmat of Papua, Indonesia Cover Ci, Gender and Social Change among the Asmat of Papua, Indonesia Cover
Format: 
Pages: 185
ISBN: 9789088909306
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 25fc/46bw
Pages: 185
ISBN: 9789088909290
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 25fc/46bw
Description:
This volume is based on an anthropological fieldwork among the Asmat people for many years, and investigates the cultural significances of Asmat’s dugout canoes by using ‘symbolic and interpretive anthropology’ as theoretical framework.
Stereotype Cover Stereotype Cover
Format: 
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9789088909399
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 67fc/30bw
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9789088909382
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 67fc/30bw
Description:
Throughout northern Europe, thousands of burial mounds were erected in the third millennium BCE. Starting in the Corded Ware culture, individual people were being buried underneath these mounds, often equipped with an almost rigid set of grave goods. This practice continued in the second half of the third millennium BCE with the start of the Bell Beaker phenomenon.
Determining Prehistoric Skin Processing Technologies Cover Determining Prehistoric Skin Processing Technologies Cover
Format: 
Pages: 206
ISBN: 9789088908378
Pub Date: 04 Jun 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Pages: 206
ISBN: 9789088908361
Pub Date: 04 Jun 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
The importance of skin processing technologies in the history and expansion of humankind cannot be overstated, yet these technologies can be difficult to identify in the archaeological record. This research outlines the development of a systematic, non-destructive method for identifying the tanning technologies used to produce prehistoric skin artefacts. The approach combines extensive archaeological research and over 25 years of the author’s personal tanning experience.
Hispaniola - Hell or Home? Cover Hispaniola - Hell or Home? Cover
Format: 
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789088908521
Pub Date: 31 May 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 18fc/5bw
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789088908514
Pub Date: 21 May 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 18fc/5bw
Description:
Grand Narratives of colonization, especially ones related to the Spanish and Portuguese Americas, began circulating soon after 1492. The danger of these Grand Narratives is that they are often mistaken as reality and eclipse all other possible narrations pertaining to a particular place and/or time. As more Caribbean territories become independent, the questioning of Grand Narratives has permeated many disciplines in the region, and archaeology is no exception.
Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter Cover Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter Cover
Format: 
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9789088908712
Pub Date: 19 May 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Taboui
Illustrations: 15bw/41fc
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9789088908705
Pub Date: 19 May 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Taboui
Illustrations: 15bw/41fc
Description:
This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called “amulets,” from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants, ubiquitous in Caribbean collections, are small carvings of spirit beings perforated for suspension against the body. The data are drawn from new photographs, measurements, and observations of 535 specimens compiled by the author during 2011-2018 in research visits to 34 museums and private collections in the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe.
Cultures of Stone Cover Cultures of Stone Cover
Format: 
Pages: 315
ISBN: 9789088908927
Pub Date: 14 May 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 45fc/60bw
Pages: 315
ISBN: 9789088908910
Pub Date: 14 May 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 45fc/60bw
Description:
This volume establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space. The material properties of stone have ensured its continuing importance; however, it is its materiality which has mediated the relations between the individual, society and stone. Bound up with the physical properties of stone are ideas on identity, value, and understanding.
Past Societies Cover Past Societies Cover
Format: 
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789088909252
Pub Date: 13 May 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 37fc/17bw
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789088909245
Pub Date: 13 May 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 37fc/17bw
Description:
From the North Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from Peru to the Near East, this book illustrates different studies on the interfluve of environments and societies in landscapes and describes certain historical moments and processes in which the interplay of ecological and societal factors is entangled.
Maidanets'ke Cover Maidanets'ke Cover
Format: 
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9789088908491
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 93fc/141bw
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9789088908484
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 93fc/141bw
Description:
At the end of the 5th millennium BCE, some of the vastest settlements of the time emerged on the forest steppe north of the Black Sea. The largest of these sites were found between the Southern Bug and Dnieper river. There they occur only tens of kilometres apart and are assumed to be partly coeval.
A Human Environment Cover A Human Environment Cover
Format: 
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9789088909078
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia
Illustrations: 60fc/21bw
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9789088909061
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia
Illustrations: 60fc/21bw
Description:
This volume is themed around the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment, an important topic in the work of Corrie Bakels. How do environmental constraints and opportunities influence human behaviour and what is the human impact on the ecology and appearance of the landscape? And what can archaeological knowledge contribute to the current discussions about the use, arrangement and depletion of our (local) environment?
Magical, Mundane or Marginal? Cover Magical, Mundane or Marginal? Cover
Format: 
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789088908620
Pub Date: 13 Mar 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 32fc/26bw
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789088908613
Pub Date: 13 Mar 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 32fc/26bw
Description:
This volume takes its starting point from the increasingly frequent discovery of deliberately placed deposits on Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik sites. This includes the placement of complete and still usable tools in the ground, as well as the creation of complex abandonment layers for example in wells or the destruction of immense material wealth in enclosure ditches. This is the kind of behaviour that archaeologists generally interpret as ritual (often using the label “structured deposition”), but it is surprisingly little discussed for the Linearbandkeramik.
The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs in the Unas Cemetery Cover The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs in the Unas Cemetery Cover
Format: 
Pages: 188
ISBN: 9789088908958
Pub Date: 04 Mar 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: The Munro Archive Project. Studies on the Unas Cemetery in Saqqara
Pages: 188
ISBN: 9789088908941
Pub Date: 04 Mar 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: The Munro Archive Project. Studies on the Unas Cemetery in Saqqara
Description:
Until comparatively recently, there has been little attempt to produce a detailed study of the architectural make-up of multi-roomed mastaba tombs and the implications of these observations for understanding the ways in which this type of tomb was really used. No thorough and comprehensive investigation has ever been dedicated to the building techniques, materials and design of mastabas or, indeed, who built them. The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs considers the architectural components of tomb design that made an ideal burial and explores different aspects of the design and construction of mastabas in the late Old Kingdom (c.
Heritage Education Cover Heritage Education Cover
Format: 
Pages: 190
ISBN: 9789088908439
Pub Date: 03 Mar 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 24fc/2bw
Pages: 190
ISBN: 9789088908422
Pub Date: 03 Mar 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 24fc/2bw
Description:
This book compiles the results of a doctoral research study that sought to gain insight into how indigenous heritage is represented in the school curriculum for social studies. To this end, the questions focused on studying the relationships that are formed between individuals and the past in the school context. Taking into account teachers’ perspectives on subject content and pedagogical practices can contribute to gaining a better understanding of the role of education in safeguarding heritage.
Detecting and explaining technological innovation in prehistory Cover Detecting and explaining technological innovation in prehistory Cover
Format: 
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789088908255
Pub Date: 25 Feb 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 37fc/22bw
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789088908248
Pub Date: 25 Feb 2020
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 37fc/22bw
Description:
Technology refers to any set of standardised procedures for transforming raw materials into finished products. Innovation consists of any change in technology which has tangible and lasting effect on human practices, whether or not it provides utilitarian advantages. Prehistoric societies were never static, but the tempo of innovation occasionally increased to the point that we can refer to transformation taking place.