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.

Shaping Cultural Landscapes Cover Shaping Cultural Landscapes Cover
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Pages: 320
ISBN: 9789464260960
Pub Date: 29 Sep 2022
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Pages: 320
ISBN: 9789464260953
Pub Date: 29 Sep 2022
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Description:
Any activity requires the expenditure of energy, and the larger the scale of the undertakings, the more careful and strategic planning in advance is required. In focusing on labouring by humans and other animals, the papers in this volume investigate through a wide range of contexts how past people achieved their multiple daily tasks while remaining resilient in anticipation of adverse events and periods. Each paper investigates the resource requirements of combined activities, from conducting agriculture or trade, over many different crafts, constructing houses and monumental buildings, and how the available resources were employed successfully.
The Early Modern Zagori of Northwest Greece Cover The Early Modern Zagori of Northwest Greece Cover
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Pages: 190
ISBN: 9789464280371
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
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Illustrations: 94fc
Pages: 190
ISBN: 9789464280364
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 94fc
Description:
Landscape-archaeology projects have had a significant impact on our understanding of the deep history of the Greek countryside, but have overwhelmingly been limited to the plains and have rarely placed the Ottoman period at their core. This investigation of Zagori in Northwest Greece explores the archaeology and cultural history of a mountainous area that famously thrived in the Ottoman period. This engagement with an upland region in the early modern period sheds light on previously neglected aspects of Greek landscape history.
Stonehenge for the Ancestors Cover Stonehenge for the Ancestors Cover
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Pages: 380
ISBN: 9789088907067
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
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Series: The Stonehenge Riverside Project
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Pages: 380
ISBN: 9789088907050
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: The Stonehenge Riverside Project
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Description:
For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world’s most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009) aimed to investigate the purpose of this unique prehistoric monument by considering it within its wider archaeological context.
Ikat from Timor and its outer Islands Cover Ikat from Timor and its outer Islands Cover
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Pages: 320
ISBN: 9789464280135
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
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Illustrations: 350fc/5bw
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9789464280128
Pub Date: 28 Jul 2022
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Illustrations: 350fc/5bw
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This is the first study to focus on ikat of the Timor region from a technical perspective, including microscopy and design analysis of asymmetry, an understudied subject. Paradoxically this technical perspective highlights the human factor. Focused on the last century of the colonial period, we see the weaver’s decisions in close-up, as if we are sitting next to her.
Settling Waterscapes in Europe Cover Settling Waterscapes in Europe Cover
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Pages: 288
ISBN: 9789464270259
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
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Illustrations: 104fc / 29bw
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9789464270242
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
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Illustrations: 104fc / 29bw
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Pile dwellings have been explored over a vast region for a number of decades now. This has led to the development of different ways, methods, and even schools of under-water and peat-bog excavation practices and data analysis techniques under the influence of different research traditions in individual countries. On the one hand, these and other factors can limit our understanding of the past, whilst on the other hand they can also open up further avenues of interpretation.
City Gates in the Roman West Cover City Gates in the Roman West Cover
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Pages: 280
ISBN: 9789464261080
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
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Illustrations: 94fc / 48bw
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9789464261073
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 94fc / 48bw
Description:
This book discusses various aspects of city gates in the Western Roman Empire: Italy, Spain, Gaul, Germany and Britain. In these countries many Roman city gates are to be found, sometimes still in a good condition, like the Porta Nigra in Trier and the Porta Appia in Rome.Similarly to medieval or early-modern city gates, Roman city gates did not all have the same design but show an evolution over time and depending on the circumstances: sometimes they appear as simple, narrow passages (which were easy to defend), sometimes as impressively monumental complexes (which were comfortable for increased traffic and were comparable in their function to triumphal arches: both served as symbols of urbanitas, expressing Roman power).
Echoes from the Deep Cover Echoes from the Deep Cover
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Pages: 270
ISBN: 9789464261172
Pub Date: 27 Sep 2022
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Illustrations: 163fc / 7bw
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9789464261165
Pub Date: 27 Sep 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 163fc / 7bw
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In a process analogous with the impact of aerial photography on landscape archaeology, marine geophysics is locating the remains of thousands of shipwrecks across the seabed of the globe. This research project set out to establish whether all of the shipwrecks in a given geographic region could be identified by name through the mutual study of the 3D models of the shipwrecks, alongside the historic text of shipping losses in the same area.All of the 273 shipwrecks in a 7,500sqm study area in the Irish Sea were surveyed using multibeam echosounder.
A Call to Arms Cover A Call to Arms Cover
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Pages: 226
ISBN: 9789464261059
Pub Date: 22 Sep 2022
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Pages: 226
ISBN: 9789464261042
Pub Date: 22 Sep 2022
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Description:
One day, sometime around 1700 BC, a bronzesmith made the first sword. This marked a technological turning point, giving rise to an arms race that has never since ceased. Soon, over a vast area between the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, thousands of weapons were manufactured.
The Book of Kells Cover The Book of Kells Cover
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Pages: 326
ISBN: 9789464261233
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2022
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Illustrations: 109fc / 11bw
Pages: 326
ISBN: 9789464261226
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2022
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Illustrations: 109fc / 11bw
Description:
Sublime calligraphy, marvellous art, and amazing initials, have charmed and captivated the audience of the Book of Kells for over twelve hundred years. This remarkable illuminated Gospel book attracts the attention of scholars as well as those more generally interested in the fabulous artefacts of the past.Everybody knows it was made by an extensive team of scribes and artists.
Stories of the Past Cover Stories of the Past Cover
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Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789464280340
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2022
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Illustrations: 40fc / 12bw
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789464280333
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 40fc / 12bw
Description:
This study contends that the creation and consumption of fiction has not been looked at in a holistic way in terms of an overall process that takes us from author to consumer with all of the potential intermediate steps. It proposes and describes just such a process model, which begins with the author, who interacts with elements of his or her contemporary world and incorporates them into the imagined world of the novel. It describes how at each stage in the process other actors engage with the novel in various forms, and create artefacts such as critical reviews, filmed adaptations and tourist interpretations that comprise further imagined worlds that can be compared to the author’s original imagined world, and by extension, the original past world.
Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya) Cover Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya) Cover
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Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789464280289
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2022
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Illustrations: 90bw/5fc
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789464280272
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2022
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Illustrations: 90bw/5fc
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The study of the human societies of the Final Pleistocene of North Africa requires an in-depth analysis of the techno-typological characteristics of the microlithic industries that were widespread in the whole Mediterranean area during the period between 24000 and 10000 years ago. Most of the research projects in Maghreb and Libya were carried out decades ago. At the time sediments were rarely sieved and the small lithic tools, so characteristic of this period, were often lost.
Doggerland Cover Doggerland Cover
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Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789464261141
Pub Date: 08 Sep 2022
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Illustrations: 60fc / 40bw
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789464261134
Pub Date: 08 Sep 2022
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Illustrations: 60fc / 40bw
Description:
This popular-science book tells the story of one of the most important, but least known major archaeological sites in Europe: Doggerland. Few people know that the beaches along the North Sea lie on the edge of a vast lost world. A prehistoric landscape that documents almost a million years of human habitation and lay dry for most of that time.
Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond Cover Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond Cover
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Pages: 160
ISBN: 9789464260786
Pub Date: 28 Jul 2022
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Illustrations: 21fc/2bw
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9789464260779
Pub Date: 28 Jun 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 21fc/2bw
Description:
The Late Bronze Age from about 1600 to 1150 BCE was a time of unprecedented economic activity in human history based on the supply and production of the eponymous alloy bronze on an almost industrial scale. The supply networks for copper and tin during this period stretched over large parts of western Eurasia and included long distance maritime transport.The palatial centres of Mycenaean Greece were positioned at a unique geographical interface between the cultural hotspots of the eastern Mediterranean as well as the metal supply sources in the western Mediterranean, northern Europe and the Black Sea area.
Making a Neolithic Non-megalithic Monument - Catalogue Cover Making a Neolithic Non-megalithic Monument - Catalogue Cover
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Pages: 340
ISBN: 9789464260700
Pub Date: 28 Jun 2022
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Illustrations: 250fc
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9789464260694
Pub Date: 28 Jun 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 250fc
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In 2015 at Dalfsen (the Netherlands) archaeologists made an amazing discovery. They found a burial ground dating from the TRB-period (3000-2750 BC) comprising 141 burial pits. The TRB is dated in the last phase of the Middle Neolithic period and is well known for its megalithic monuments which are widespread through large parts of northern Europe.
Tracking the Neolithic in the Near East Cover Tracking the Neolithic in the Near East Cover
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Pages: 600
ISBN: 9789464260816
Pub Date: 28 Jun 2022
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Illustrations: 109fc / 211bw
Pages: 600
ISBN: 9789464260809
Pub Date: 28 Jun 2022
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Illustrations: 109fc / 211bw
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This volume combines the most up-to-date discoveries and perspectives of Near Eastern Neolithic lithics by leading international archaeologists. It presents the proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East, hosted at the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2019 (PPN9-Tokyo). The book places emphasis on regional perspectives to evaluate the Near Eastern Neolithic.
Flintknapping from the Late Glacial to the Early Holocene Cover Flintknapping from the Late Glacial to the Early Holocene Cover
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Pages: 420
ISBN: 9789464280319
Pub Date: 28 Jun 2022
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Illustrations: 154fc/139bw
Pages: 420
ISBN: 9789464280302
Pub Date: 28 Jun 2022
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Illustrations: 154fc/139bw
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This book discusses the lithic technology of the neighboring sites of Ruien and Kerkhove (Belgium). The Final-Palaeolithic occupation of Ruien took place during the harsh climatic conditions of the Younger Dryas. The Early and Middle Mesolithic hunter-gatherers from Kerkhove on the other hand lived in the temperate and forested environments of the subsequent Early Holocene period.