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.
Alternative Egyptology Cover Alternative Egyptology Cover
Format: 
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9789464261622
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 50fc / 20bw
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9789464261615
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 50fc / 20bw
Description:
From a mummy on board the Titanic to the pyramids’ alignment with the stars, from psychoactive mushrooms to the lost realm of Atlantis: alternative Egyptology has always focused on subjects that others shunned. Ever since the birth of mainstream Egyptology with the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script two hundred years ago, alternative interpretations and imaginative theories have flourished alongside it. They intertwined with egalitarian and spiritual tendencies in society during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when ancient Egypt inspired countless mediums, artists, and movements from freemasonry to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Archéologie en musée et identités nationales en Europe (1848-1914) Cover Archéologie en musée et identités nationales en Europe (1848-1914) Cover
Format: 
Pages: 502
ISBN: 9789464262643
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Rencontres du MAN
Illustrations: 140fc / 103bw
Pages: 502
ISBN: 9789464262636
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Rencontres du MAN
Illustrations: 140fc / 103bw
Description:
Des spécialistes de l’ensemble de l’Europe décrivent les enjeux politiques et scientifiques auxquelles a présidé la fondation des musées d’archéologie entre 1848 et 1914. Au travers de personnalités éminentes, le livre restitue un tour d’horizon européen des institutions muséales abritant les vestiges issus du sol. Au-delà d’une histoire de l’institution, il s’agit de montrer comment une pensée politique et des conceptions historiques se sont retrouvées reflétées dans les musées, en retraçant aussi bien une histoire scientifique que toute une société savante et l’esprit d’une époque.
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.
Death and Display Cover Death and Display Cover
Format: 
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9789464262131
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 170fc / 40bw
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9789464262124
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 170fc / 40bw
Description:
During funerals of nobles in the Kuba kingdom (Democratic Republic of Congo), visitors used to theatrically offer so-called bongotols to the deceased and the mourning family. These highly appreciated valuables were either positioned under the corpse to support it or displayed on top of it.In addition to their religious meaning they displayed the status and wealth of both givers and takers.
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.
Urban Design Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 84
ISBN: 9789464262339
Pub Date: 11 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 36fc / 2bw
Description:
As central places of human interaction, cities influence the reality of our lives like no other phenomenon. They are in a highly complex, reciprocal relationship with changing environmental, social, political, economic and religious constellations. Accordingly, the demands placed on cities and the ideas associated with them are often subject to highly dynamic change.
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.
Rethinking Neolithic Societies Cover Rethinking Neolithic Societies Cover
Format: 
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789464270679
Pub Date: 10 Feb 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology
Illustrations: 63fc / 14bw
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789464270662
Pub Date: 10 Feb 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology
Illustrations: 63fc / 14bw
Description:
Traditional archaeological ideas about Neolithic societies were shaped by questionable premises. The modern concept of social and cultural coherence of residence groups as well as the ethnic interpretation of ‘archaeological cultures’ fostered ideas of static and homogeneous social entities with fixed borders. Farming – as the core of the Neolithic way of life – was associated with sedentariness rather than with spatial mobility and cross-regional social networks.
Storage in Ancient Egypt and Nubia Cover

Storage in Ancient Egypt and Nubia

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.
The Urge to Collect Cover The Urge to Collect Cover
Format: 
Pages: 106
ISBN: 9789464262315
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 24fc
Pages: 106
ISBN: 9789464262308
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 24fc
Description:
Why do we collect? Where does the urge to collect come from? This book explores the phenomenon of collecting in various contexts.
Fields, Sherds and Scholars. Recording and Interpreting Survey Ceramics Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9789464262100
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens
Illustrations: 73fc / 12 bw
Description:
This book is a significant contribution to the field of survey pottery studies, which is not frequently theorised, and could also serve as a guide and provide inspiration to archaeologists designing their own survey projects and methodologies. Landscape archaeology has heavily relied on pedestrian survey as a field method for more than half a century. In most field projects, archaeological ceramics constitute the lion’s share among the finds and the amount of collected sherds is overwhelming.
Dynamik und Kommunikation prähistorischer Gesellschaften im zentralen Alpenraum Cover Dynamik und Kommunikation prähistorischer Gesellschaften im zentralen Alpenraum Cover
Format: 
Pages: 350
ISBN: 9789464270648
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology
Illustrations: 107fc / 65bw
Pages: 350
ISBN: 9789464270631
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology
Illustrations: 107fc / 65bw
Description:
Im südlichen Mitteleuropa stellen die Alpen zugleich Barrieren als auch Kommunikationsräume dar. Über diese topografischen, naturräumlichen Begrenzungen hinweg belegen archäologische Fundsituationen immer wieder zahlreiche Nachweise transalpiner Mobilität, deren Entwicklung im Verlauf der prähistorischen Epochen in verschiedenen Formen von Interaktionen und Netz-werken erkennbar ist. Die damit einhergehenden sichtbaren Transformationsprozesse im archäologischen Fundmaterial kann unter der Fragestellung der soziokulturellen und sozial-ökonomischen Verbindungen zwischen Siedlungsgemeinschaften betrachtet werden.
Epistemology, Economics, and Ethics Cover Epistemology, Economics, and Ethics Cover
Format: 
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9789464270822
Pub Date: 29 Dec 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9789464270815
Pub Date: 11 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Description:
This book is intended to be a groundwork of how to theorise prehistory and archaeology and how to make connectivities between the past and the present. It is divided into four parts. The first part is epistemological.
Before Temples Cover Before Temples Cover
Format: 
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9789464280616
Pub Date: 20 Dec 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 74fc / 64 bw
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9789464280609
Pub Date: 20 Dec 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 74fc / 64 bw
Description:
Before the introduction of Roman temples in the Low Countries, there used to be ‘open air cult places’ in the Iron Age. That is at least the assumption based on descriptions given by classical writers and several structures typified as sanctuaries that were excavated in France.Several of these French sanctuaries portray long usage, modifications, disarticulated human remains, and depositions of animal bones and Iron Age weaponry.
Mediterranean Connections Cover Mediterranean Connections Cover
Format: 
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789464270709
Pub Date: 27 Nov 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 20fc / 21bw
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789464270693
Pub Date: 27 Nov 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 20fc / 21bw
Description:
The present publication constitutes the Proceedings of Session 7 of the ‘Creation of landscapes VI’ workshop, hosted by the CAU Kiel in 2019. The session was entitled ‘Mediterranean Connections – how the sea links people and transforms identities’.With our focus on the linkage of people, this volume can be understood as a contribution to recent network research.
Digital Archaeology Cover Digital Archaeology Cover
Format: 
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9789464262285
Pub Date: 23 Nov 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia
Illustrations: 21fc / 4bw
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9789464262278
Pub Date: 23 Nov 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia
Illustrations: 21fc / 4bw
Description:
Archaeology has gone digital for some time now! Topics such as GIS databases, 3D models, drone photography, meta- and para-data, semantic mapping, text mining, simulation, and social network analysis have become commonplace in archaeological discourse and practice. Digital and technological advancements seemingly offer limitless promises for data recording, analysis and dissemination.