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.

Océan, céramiques et îles dans l’ouest de la France Cover Océan, céramiques et îles dans l’ouest de la France Cover
Format: 
Pages: 410
ISBN: 9789088906244
Pub Date: 06 Nov 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: `302fc/24bw
Pages: 410
ISBN: 9789088906237
Pub Date: 06 Nov 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: `302fc/24bw
Description:
Ce livre est consacré à la recherche sur le développement de la production et des échanges céramiques entre le continent et les îles de Bretagne, du Néolithique à la période gallo-romaine. L’analyse archéométrique de la céramique est utilisée pour explorer le développement des réseaux de communication: la circulation des personnes et des produits entre les îles et le continent. Ces îles produisaient-elles leur propre poterie ou étaient-elles dépendantes de la production continentale?
Imprint of Action Cover Imprint of Action Cover
Format: 
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9789088907005
Pub Date: 16 Oct 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 61fc/40bw
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9789088906992
Pub Date: 16 Oct 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 61fc/40bw
Description:
Cultural heritage, which includes archaeology, is recognized as serving an increasingly important role in European societal development. But what exactly is the relevance of archaeology to present day citizens? Imprint of Action investigates the sociocultural impact of archaeology through public activities.
Transfer between Sea and Land Cover Transfer between Sea and Land Cover
Format: 
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9789088906213
Pub Date: 09 Oct 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 39fc/14bw
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9789088906206
Pub Date: 09 Oct 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 39fc/14bw
Description:
Questions about the cultural exchange of both knowledge and material goods are just as topical today as in years gone by. These questions have gained increasing attention from scholars since the 1980s when the term ‘transfers cultures’ by historians arose. However, this book provides a completely new approach in this context by interdisciplinary investigation of cultural exchanges based on chosen objects from shipwrecks and land, significant written documents and verifiable transfer of knowledge.
Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Cover Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Cover
Format: 
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789088905551
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 20fc/40bw
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789088905544
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 20fc/40bw
Description:
Seafaring is a mode of travel, a way to traverse maritime space that enables not only the transport of goods and materials but also of people and ideas — communicating and sharing knowledge across the sea and between different lands. Seagoing ships under sail were operating between the Levant, Egypt, Cyprus and Anatolia by the mid-third millennium BC and within the Aegean by the end of that millennium. By the Late Bronze Age (after ca.
Landscape, Land-Change & Well-Being in the Lesser Antilles Cover Landscape, Land-Change & Well-Being in the Lesser Antilles Cover
Format: 
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789088905872
Pub Date: 14 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 60fc/21bw
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789088905865
Pub Date: 14 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 60fc/21bw
Description:
In the Caribbean region, landscape change is part of the region’s history. The Caribbean exemplifies man-made changes to landscape, beginning with Amerindians, continuing to the importation of exotic species through the colony area, extreme land degradation caused by sugar plantation, forced settlement of millions of enslaved Africans, diverse populations of indentured laborers, and continued mixing of cultures from globalized interactions today, such as tourism. This has led to not only intense environmental degradation and introduction of new species, but the fostering of diverse cultures and communities – creating today’s melting pot of environment and community.
Seascape Corridors Cover Seascape Corridors Cover
Format: 
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9789088905780
Pub Date: 14 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 38fc/72bw
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9789088905773
Pub Date: 14 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 38fc/72bw
Description:
In this book past maritime connections are modeled between indigenous island communities in the Caribbean. It is evaluated how routes connecting islands in the Caribbean.
The Social Museum in the Caribbean Cover The Social Museum in the Caribbean Cover
Format: 
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9789088905933
Pub Date: 13 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 60fc
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9789088905926
Pub Date: 13 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 60fc
Description:
A mosaic is the only image which can do justice to museums in the Caribbean. They are as diverse and plentiful as the many communities which form the cores of their organizations and the hearts of their missions. These profoundly social museums adopt participatory practices and embark on community engagement processes in order to embed themselves firmly in contemporary Caribbean societies.
From Microcosm to Macrocosm Cover From Microcosm to Macrocosm Cover
Format: 
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9789088905995
Pub Date: 05 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 82fc/59bw
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9789088905988
Pub Date: 05 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 82fc/59bw
Description:
As reflected in the title From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual households and cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia, both a micro-approach introducing microhistories of individual sites according to recent archaeological fieldwork incorporating interdisciplinary methods as well as general patterns and regional developments in Northeast Africa are discussed. This combination of research questions on the micro-level with the macro-level provides new information about cities and households in Ancient Egypt and Nubia and makes the book unique. Architectural studies as well as analyses of material culture and the new application of microarchaeology, here especially of micromorphology and archaeometric applications, are presented as case studies from sites primarily dating to the New Kingdom (Second Millennium BC).
The most prominent Dutchman in Egypt' Cover The most prominent Dutchman in Egypt' Cover
Format: 
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9789088905520
Pub Date: 08 Aug 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 56fc/17bw
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9789088905513
Pub Date: 08 Aug 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 56fc/17bw
Description:
This volume focuses on J.H. Insinger (1854/1918) as a collector of Ancient Egyptian art and maecenas of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities.
Koloniale mythen en Benedenwindse feiten Cover Koloniale mythen en Benedenwindse feiten Cover
Format: 
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9789088906039
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 28fc/12bw
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9789088906015
Pub Date: 06 Aug 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 28fc/12bw
Description:
This publication is an exercise in the deconstruction of colonial myths and the creation of a decolonized native Atlantic Leeward historiography.
Una Isla, Dos Mundos Cover Una Isla, Dos Mundos Cover
Format: 
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9789088905728
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 43fc / 85 bw
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9789088905711
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 43fc / 85 bw
Description:
Para las poblaciones indígenas la llegada de Colon al Caribe en 1492 significó una transformación y reestructuración de su mundo, incluyendo cambios a niveles culturales, sociales, económicos y políticos. En este trabajo se proponen modelos interpretativos sobre la transformación del paisaje indígena al colonial, a través de la aplicación de una investigación arqueológica regional que integró los conceptos de taskscape y paisajes en conflicto con análisis estadísticos y de Sistemas de Información Geográfica para evaluar patrones de distribución de cultura material. Como resultado se pudieron identificar y definir taskscapes indígenas a distintas escalas espaciales, que permitieron el delineamiento del paisaje antes de la llegada de Colón.
Palaeolithic Italy Cover Palaeolithic Italy Cover
Format: 
Pages: 375
ISBN: 9789088905841
Pub Date: 05 Jun 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 47fc / 56bw
Pages: 375
ISBN: 9789088905834
Pub Date: 05 Jun 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 47fc / 56bw
Description:
The picture of the Palaeolithic adaptations in the Italian Peninsula has always been coarse-grained compared to various well-researched regional hotspots in central and western Europe, as a result of historical research bias preventing the application of new research methodologies. Nonetheless, discoveries regarding Neanderthal extinction and behavioural complexity, the dispersal of Anatomically Modern Humans as well as the origin and diffusion of modern technologies and symbolic behaviour in Europe have brought Italy into focus as an ideal region for understanding the evolutionary development of various hominin species that inhabited the continent in the Late Pleistocene. In particular the dynamics of the earliest human peopling of Europe, the reasons and timing of Neanderthals demise and how environmental factors affected human prehistoric behaviour, rates of technological innovation and connectivity of hunter-gatherer groups in Europe.
Debating Religious Space and Place in the Early Medieval World (c. AD 300-1000) Cover Debating Religious Space and Place in the Early Medieval World (c. AD 300-1000) Cover
Format: 
Pages: 225
ISBN: 9789088904196
Pub Date: 23 May 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 27fc/25bw
Pages: 225
ISBN: 9789088904189
Pub Date: 23 May 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 27fc/25bw
Description:
Religious spaces are often some of the most debated, contested, or otherwise scrutinized in the early medieval world. That space and place were important to people in the past is evident in their architecture, artwork, literature, and in their cemeteries and burial grounds. While these observations are not new, this volume brings together interdisciplinary and multi-national archaeologists, historians, and geographers to discuss and debate ‘space’ and ‘place’ with a focus on new methodologies and current approaches to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
Chariots in Ancient Egypt Cover Chariots in Ancient Egypt Cover
Format: 
Pages: 590
ISBN: 9789088904677
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: >1000fc
Pages: 590
ISBN: 9789088904660
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: >1000fc
Description:
Chariots, the racing cars of the ancient world, first appeared in Egypt about 1600 BC, and quickly became not only the preferred mode of transport for royalty and the elite, but also revolutionised military tactics and warfare. Remains of chariots have been found in Egyptian tombs –Tutankhamun’s tomb contained six chariots, which tripled the number of ancient Egyptian chariots known before the discovery of his tomb. However, none of the chariots was complete, as all lacked their leather casings, which were only known from images on tomb and temple walls.
A Shadow of War Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9789088904547
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: ca 120 fc
Description:
This book presents archaeological research from places of war, violence, protest and oppression of the 20th and the 21st century; sites where the material relics give a deep insight to fateful events – a shadow of war. Alongside renewed interest in National Socialism and the Holocaust, archaeological interest started in former concentration camps of the Nazi dictatorship. The focus was on the central places of the camps, such as the gas chambers, the crematoria, or execution sites, as well as prisoners’ barracks and the parade ground.
The Beaker Phenomenon? Cover The Beaker Phenomenon? Cover
Format: 
Pages: 500
ISBN: 9789088904646
Pub Date: 12 Apr 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 45 fc / 110 bw
Pages: 500
ISBN: 9789088904639
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 45 fc / 110 bw
Description:
During the mid-third millennium BC, people across Europe started using an international suite of novel material culture including early metalwork and distinctive ceramics known as Beakers. The nature and social significance of this phenomenon, as well as the reasons for its rapid and widespread transmission have been much debated. The adoption of these new ideas and objects in Ireland, Europe’s westernmost island, provides a highly suitable case study in which to investigate these issues.