Prehistory & Ancient History  /  Ancient Near East
Obsidian Vessels in the Prehistoric and Early Historic Near East Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9798888570623
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 360 b/w and color imgaes
Description:
Obsidian, a shiny volcanic glass, was first used to make vessels in the mid-sixth millennium BC in the Near East, although other stone had been exploited for vessel manufacture since the thirteenth millennium BC. Unlike the stone used to make the earliest vessels, which was acquired from local and regional sources, obsidian had to be obtained from volcanoes located hundreds of kilometers from where vessels were made and used. The obsidian from these sources had long been exploited for making tools and by the tenth millennium BC obsidian artifacts can be found in communities located far distant from the sources.
RRP: £45.00
Empire and excavation Cover Empire and excavation Cover
Format: 
Pages: 450
ISBN: 9789464271157
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 50fc / 100bw
Pages: 450
ISBN: 9789464271140
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 50fc / 100bw
Description:
The modern discipline of archaeology developed in tandem with the expansion of European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cyprus, ruled by Britain between 1878 and 1960, is a fascinating example of how archaeology was practiced and developed in a specific colonial context. This volume explores the mechanisms, the institutions and the characters who contributed to the development of Cypriot archaeology, often within a fraught political environment.
RRP: £125.00
RRP: £65.00
Place, Encounter, and the Making of Communities Cover Place, Encounter, and the Making of Communities Cover
Format: 
Pages: 450
ISBN: 9789464271065
Pub Date: 19 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Sirwan Regional Project Publications
Illustrations: 218fc / 31bw
Pages: 450
ISBN: 9789464271058
Pub Date: 19 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Sirwan Regional Project Publications
Illustrations: 218fc / 31bw
Description:
This book sketches the first archaeological history of the lower Sirwan/upper Diyala river valley of north-east Iraq and adjacent landscapes over a period of c. 12,000 years, from the earliest signs of human presence until the mid-first millennium BCE, based on data gathered between 2013 and 2023 by the Sirwan Regional Project (SRP).The central research objective of the SRP is to move beyond traditional historical topoi and their predominantly external and state-centric perspectives that have dominated narratives of the region thus far.
RRP: £140.00
RRP: £80.00
Appropriating Height Cover Appropriating Height Cover
Format: 
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9789464271096
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: The Iranian Highlands. Early Societies between Resilience and Integration
Illustrations: 64fc / 24bw
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9789464271089
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: The Iranian Highlands. Early Societies between Resilience and Integration
Illustrations: 64fc / 24bw
Description:
The essays in this book focus on archaeological approaches to the utilization of highland regions in southwestern and central Asia, examining the interplay between human communities and highland landscapes from the Paleolithic era to the present.Contributions combine case studies with theoretical considerations to explore adaptive strategies of movement. They discuss the significance of mobility within archaeological and anthropological discourse.
RRP: £95.00
RRP: £40.00
A tomb robbers' trail revealed Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9789492940261
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2024
Imprint: Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Illustrations: Full colour illustrations
Description:
This year, with the centennial of Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, Martin Hense is presenting his meticulous research on the robberies that took place in the tomb of this Egyptian pharaoh, 3300 years ago. This book is the outcome of that research, presented like a true ‘cold case crime investigation’. Even though the tomb robberies took place more than 3300 years ago, the evidence for the way the robbers entered the tomb and the items they removed, could still be discerned when Howard Carter opened the tomb in 1922.
Literary Snippets Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 197
ISBN: 9781463244026
Pub Date: 03 Jun 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This companion volume to Literary Snippets: Colophons Across Space and Time (Gorgias Press, 2023) gives examples of colophons (and their translations) from the Ancient Near East up to the pre-modern world, in Akkadian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and Persian.
People of Anatolia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 231
ISBN: 9781912090105
Pub Date: 15 May 2024
Series: British Institute at Ankara Monograph
Illustrations: 26 photos, maps, and charts; 29 tables
Description:
People of Anatolia: Past, Current and Future Research in the Biological Anthropology of Türkiye brings together, in one complete volume, some of the current research foci and trends of biological anthropology in Türkiye. The papers within this edited volume cover a multitude of topics, many of which complement and enhance each other, helping to demonstrate the strength and variety of research currently being performed in Türkiye by both domestic and foreign researchers. Furthermore, several of these papers examine large scale diachronic changes and highlight the importance of such holistic approaches and methodological considerations, and new trends in modern research by considering large scale patterns through time and space and the ‘bigger’ picture.
Byblos Cover Byblos Cover
Format: 
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789464262216
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 206fc / 41bw
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789464262209
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 206fc / 41bw
Description:
Byblos has played an extraordinary role in the history of the Mediterranean. From c. 3200 BC, it developed into the preeminent port of the region due to its strategic location at the foothills of the cedar forests of Mount Lebanon and its unique ties with the pharaohs of Egypt.
From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 255
ISBN: 9781912090129
Pub Date: 10 Apr 2024
Series: British Institute at Ankara Monograph
Illustrations: 134 illus, 6 tables
Description:
The period of Anatolian history between the death of the semilegendary king Midas of Gordion ca 700 BC and the advent of the Achaemenid Persian Empire ca 550 BC is dominated by certain narratives: the rise of the Mermnad Lydian Kingdom, from Gyges to Croesus; the demise of the Urartian Kingdom and ‘NeoHittite’type culture and polities; and the invasion of shadowy forces from the Steppe: Cimmerians, Scythians and Medes. The discoveries of Geoffrey and Francoise Summers’s project at the massive walled city on Kerkenes Dağı have changed the cultural history and texture of Anatolia during this time period, opening up insights into the spread of Phrygian culture and language and inviting further discussion of how the period is framed. This book honours their accomplishments by presenting papers addressing the dynamics and events of that period from various angles, and in various regions and places, as well as other interventions on Iron Age Anatolia, from dating of kings to rare and potentially influential medical techniques.
A pencil will do, thank you’ Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9789080774407
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2024
Imprint: Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Illustrations: Full colour images
Description:
Martin Hense has been travelling to North Africa and West Asia to excavate and draw for more than 25 years. This book presents his reconstructions and archaeological drawings from various excavations with full colour illustrations. Reconstructing ancient ruins, with detailed knowledge of ancient architecture and building technology, he has become an expert over the years.
Style and Society in the Prehistory of West Asia Cover Style and Society in the Prehistory of West Asia Cover
Format: 
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789464261806
Pub Date: 16 Nov 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 83fc / 15bw
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789464261790
Pub Date: 16 Nov 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 83fc / 15bw
Description:
Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was a remarkable archaeologist whose work has transformed the study of later Neolithic societies in West Asia. He has inspired many colleagues and students in their own pursuit of archaeology. Through the analysis of material culture his aim was to reconstruct social meanings and practices of societies in the deep past.
From Households to Empires Cover From Households to Empires Cover
Format: 
Pages: 290
ISBN: 9789464261967
Pub Date: 18 Oct 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 30fc / 45bw
Pages: 290
ISBN: 9789464261950
Pub Date: 18 Oct 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 30fc / 45bw
Description:
Bradley J. Parker made numerous contributions to the field of archaeology and Assyriology on a broad array of topics spanning six millennia of archaeological history in both ancient Mesopotamia and the Andes. His varied research interests included the archaeology of empires and imperial dynamics, frontiers and borderlands, households and micro-archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, aerial drone mapping, and the politics of archaeology and nationalism.
What Does This Have to Do with Archaeology? Cover What Does This Have to Do with Archaeology? Cover
Format: 
Pages: 458
ISBN: 9789464261899
Pub Date: 14 Sep 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 99fc / 59 bw
Pages: 458
ISBN: 9789464261882
Pub Date: 14 Sep 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 99fc / 59 bw
Description:
“What Does This Have to Do with Archaeology?” is a collection of essays published on the occasion of Reinhard Bernbeck’s 65th birthday. The distinguished archaeologist Reinhard Bernbeck from the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin is an internationally highly esteemed colleague.
Death at the Dunnu Cover Death at the Dunnu Cover
Format: 
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789464261837
Pub Date: 07 Sep 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 97fc / 57bw
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789464261820
Pub Date: 07 Sep 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 97fc / 57bw
Description:
During the roughly hundred years (ca. 1225 – 1125 BCE) that the Middle Assyrian dunnu at Tell Sabi Abyad was in operation, some forty-nine individuals were interred in graves of a striking diversity. In this book their burial type, location, orientation, position, grave goods and osteological data are analysed in order to generate new insights on Middle Assyrian society.
Jebel Aruda: An Uruk period temple and settlement in Syria Cover Jebel Aruda: An Uruk period temple and settlement in Syria Cover
Format: 
Pages: 390
ISBN: 9789464261714
Pub Date: 17 Jul 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 112fc / 385bw
Pages: 390
ISBN: 9789464261707
Pub Date: 17 Jul 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 112fc / 385bw
Description:
Jebel Aruda, a prominent mountain ridge overlooking the Taqba Dam lake in northern Syria, was the location of a remarkable settlement that flourished between c. 3300 and 3100 BC during the so-called Uruk period. For the inhabitants the sacredness of this high place, evidenced by the discovery of a large temple complex, seems to have taken precedent over its impractical location far above the valley of the Euphrates River.
Jebel Aruda: An Uruk period temple and settlement in Syria Cover Jebel Aruda: An Uruk period temple and settlement in Syria Cover
Format: 
Pages: 452
ISBN: 9789464261745
Pub Date: 17 Jul 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 10fc / 206bw
Pages: 452
ISBN: 9789464261738
Pub Date: 17 Jul 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities
Illustrations: 10fc / 206bw
Description:
Jebel Aruda, a prominent mountain ridge overlooking the Taqba Dam lake in northern Syria, was the location of a remarkable settlement that flourished between c. 3300 and 3100 BC during the so-called Uruk period. For the inhabitants the sacredness of this high place, evidenced by the discovery of a large temple complex, seems to have taken precedent over its impractical location far above the valley of the Euphrates River.