Archaeology & Ancient History  /  Archaeological Method & Theory
Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History Cover Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History Cover
Format: 
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789464263367
Pub Date: 13 May 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 119fc / 12bw
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789464263350
Pub Date: 13 May 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 119fc / 12bw
Description:
The human past is unimaginable without the horse. From our ancestors hunting and painting horses in the Upper Palaeolithic, to the earliest riders, the rise of equestrian empires, and the critical role of horses in war, settler colonialism, and modern state formation, human history is undeniably equestrian. Because of the deep and varied entanglements between people and horses, the study of horses of the past is inherently, and increasingly, interdisciplinary.
RRP: £120.00
RRP: £60.00
Sitting on the fence: Negotiating archaeology, anthropology and philosophy Cover Sitting on the fence: Negotiating archaeology, anthropology and philosophy Cover
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Pages: 222
ISBN: 9789464263213
Pub Date: 14 Mar 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia
Illustrations: 22fc / 7bw
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9789464263206
Pub Date: 14 Mar 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia
Illustrations: 22fc / 7bw
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This volume celebrates the academic life of prof. Raymond Corbey. It gathers contributions by diverse scholars and professionals from both science and society to engage with a range of key topics Raymond has grappled with at different stages of his capricious career.
RRP: £95.00
RRP: £40.00
Energy of the Nordic World Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9788772198668
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Description:
Norway and Sweden are among the biggest consumers of energy per capita, yet the Nordic nations also lead the world in clean power production and have ambitious goals of decarbonizing their energy systems by 2050. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland vary drastically in geography and the availability of natural resources, but each consistently generates electricity from renewable sources at multiple times the average rate of other high-income countries. Mogens Rüdiger and Anna Åberg present a concise and timely history of energy production, trade, and consumption in Norden, starting with a review of the regional energy mix—from wind, solar, tide and wave, geothermal, biomass, nuclear, coal, and gas sources.
Freunde und Feinde – Dania Slavica Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9788772193205
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
This book, written in German, presents an interdisciplinary study of the south-eastern part of Denmark – South Zealand and the islands Lolland, Falster and Møn – as a border area between Danes, Saxons and Slavs from the 9th to the 13th century. In the archaeological evidence it is evident that the Slavic-inspired Baltic ware completely displaces the local ceramic tradition on the islands. In the period concerned, there is evidence of dynastic connections between Slavs and Danes at the same time as violent conflicts were taking place across the Baltic Sea.
Pilgrims in Place, Pilgrims in Motion Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9788771845433
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
Pilgrims in Place, Pilgrims in Motion: Sacred Travel in the Ancient Mediterranean brings together exciting interdisciplinary scholarship on the connected poles of pilgrimage: the sanctuaries being visited, and the journeys to get there. Contributions investigate different concepts of place, community, social tensions and expectations of pilgrim behaviour; long-term meanings of place as embodied in memory and topography; mobility, migration and place-making; connectivity and its relationship to pilgrimage. Individual chapters discuss shrines, sanctuaries and sacred places as well as journeys and mobility across Greek, Roman and late antique contexts, framed as part of a key debate within the study of pilgrimage, the central tension between place and motion.
Returning to Gokstad Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 260
ISBN: 9788771243598
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Description:
This book is the first of three planned volumes from the project Gokstad Revitalised, which is an archaeological revisit at the famous Viking Age ship grave originally excavated in 1880. The volume collect experiences from other archaeological revisits over the last decades, including the ship grave sites from Hedeby, Ladby and Sutton Hoo, as well as the royal monument at Jelling. It also reports on the research history of the Gokstad find and on a number of methodological feasibility studies carried out as preparation of the project.
Tell F3 on Failaka Island Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 173
ISBN: 9788793423626
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
Six years of excavations in Tell F3 have uncovered several occupation phases belonging to the middle of the 2nd millennium BC, Failaka period 3B (c. 1600 BC). Though the material culture of Dilmun was heavily influenced by South Mesopotamia, this was a period where Dilmun regained its former importance after the economic and political collapse around 1700 BC, perhaps leading up to a final conquest by the Sealand Dynasty.
Animating the Dead Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 480
ISBN: 9798888571439
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 300 B/W and colour illustrations
Description:
This book provides the exciting results of a long-term project examining Bronze Age round barrow construction and burial practices in Orkney, Scotland. A main focus of this research is on the act of cremation; a technology of bodily metamorphosis as articulated through complex mortuary practices, which produced a distinctive form of funerary architecture. This, and other topical themes, are explored through the results of extensive excavations at several barrow cemeteries including Linga Fiold, Gitterpitten, Varme Dale, Vestrafiold and the Knowes of Trotty, the latter being famous for rich grave goods including gold discs and amber beads.
RRP: £40.00
Damjili Cave Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9798888571804
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 160 B/W and color illustrations
Description:
Modern archaeological research carried out since the late 19th century has sufficiently demonstrated that the beginning of the food production economy and the establishment of a farming society had a significant impact on the shaping of subsequent human history. Accordingly, these processes of Neolithization have attracted a great deal of interest from archaeologists and anthropologists worldwide. The South Caucasus, i.
RRP: £55.00
Chariots, Swords and Spears Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781789255423
Pub Date: 23 Oct 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
This volume brings together recent excavations at two sites in Pocklington, East Yorkshire. The main focus of the volume is examination of Iron Age burials, which included chariots, swords, and spears, along with inclusion of earlier Prehistoric and later Roman activity. The excavations have enabled further scientific evidence for migration and mobility in the Iron Age population and secure chronologies for artefacts.
Forsaken Relics Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9798888571149
Pub Date: 17 Oct 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies (MAtAS)
Illustrations: 100 B/W illustrations
Description:
Forsaken Relics is the result of an interdisciplinary dialogue between history, archaeology, and ethnography on the topic of the appropriation of disputed goods and places. Scholars with diverse backgrounds convened to address this common challenge: how different societies in time and space managed to claim and re-appropriate alleged ‘abandoned’ or ‘ownerless’ goods or things ‘in ruin’.The volume includes a diverse range of case studies – from Neolithic sites in Eastern Europe to ancient Egypt and the Mediterranean, encompassing early modern and present-day Europe – reflecting on the ways in which actions can be used to legitimise appropriation, with a particular focus on ritual actions and practices.
Hayonim Cave Cover Hayonim Cave Cover
Format: 
Pages: 306
ISBN: 9789464261868
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 82fc / 51bw
Pages: 306
ISBN: 9789464261851
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 82fc / 51bw
Description:
The research presented in this book results from an international interdisciplinary research program in Hayonim cave (Israel) from 1992 to 2000, directed by Prof O. Bar-Yosef (Harvard University) and L. Meignen (CNRS, France), and focusing on a long archaeological sequence dated to circa 300-140 000 years ago.
The Beaker People Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 616
ISBN: 9798888571545
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and color
Description:
The Beaker People: isotopes, mobility and diet in prehistoric Britain presents the results of a major project that sought to address a century-old question about the people who were buried with Beakers a – the distinctive pottery of Continental origin that was current, predominantly in equally distinctive burials, in Britain from around 2450 BC. Who were these people? Were they immigrants and how far did they move around?
Excavations Along Hadrian’s Wall 2019–2021 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781789259445
Pub Date: 06 Mar 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/w and colour
Description:
The Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) conducted a series of fieldwork projects along the Hadrian’s Wall corridor between 2019 and 2021. The work focused on sites that were poorly understood or under particular threat and aimed to improve understanding of them so they could be better managed in future. At several sites excavation was followed by conservation and consolidation work.
Revealing Christian Heritage Cover Revealing Christian Heritage Cover
Format: 
Pages: 106
ISBN: 9789464262384
Pub Date: 27 Feb 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 10fc / 12bw
Pages: 106
ISBN: 9789464262377
Pub Date: 27 Feb 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 10fc / 12bw
Description:
This volume collects different case studies of rediscovery of Christian antiquities between 1860-1930 in Spain, 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 national horizon, 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 religion, field archaeology), and therefore offer a strong interdisciplinary cut.
Storage in Ancient Egypt and Nubia Cover

Storage in Ancient Egypt and Nubia

Earthen architecture and building techniques
Format: 
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9789464262247
Pub Date: 10 Feb 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 66fc / 14bw
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9789464262230
Pub Date: 10 Feb 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 66fc / 14bw
Description:
In 2020 and 2021 the Research Group on Storage in Ancient Egypt and Sudan organised two online workshops focusing on earthen storage buildings in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Following these two meetings, the nine contributions of this volume present often unpublished case studies (from the IVth millennium BCE to the Greco-Roman Period), as well as issues and perspectives of current research. They are authored by archaeologists working in Egypt, Sudan and Western Africa as well as architects specialised in earthen architecture.