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.
A Completely Normal Practice Cover A Completely Normal Practice Cover
Format: 
Pages: 290
ISBN: 9789464280166
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 35fc/53bw
Pages: 290
ISBN: 9789464280159
Pub Date: 28 Apr 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 35fc/53bw
Description:
In Bronze Age Europe, an enormous amount of metalwork was buried in the ground and never retrieved. Patterns in the archaeological finds show that this was a deliberate practice: people systematically deposited valuable metal objects in specific places in the landscape, even in non-metalliferous regions. Although this practice seems strange and puzzling from our modern perspective, these patterns demonstrate that it was not simply a matter of irrational human behaviour.
Return to the Interactive Past Cover Return to the Interactive Past Cover
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Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789088909139
Pub Date: 21 Dec 2021
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Illustrations: 31fc/3bw
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789088909122
Pub Date: 21 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 31fc/3bw
Description:
A defining fixture of our contemporary world, video games offer a rich spectrum of engagements with the past. Beyond a source of entertainment, video games are cultural expressions that support and influence social interactions. Games educate, bring enjoyment, and encourage reflection.
Apollonia on my Mind Cover Apollonia on my Mind Cover
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Pages: 550
ISBN: 9789464260335
Pub Date: 16 Dec 2021
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Series: Honor Frost Foundation General Publication
Illustrations: 145fc/34bw
Pages: 550
ISBN: 9789464260328
Pub Date: 16 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Honor Frost Foundation General Publication
Illustrations: 145fc/34bw
Description:
The ocean conceals secrets, ancient, modern, and future. Nic Flemming's memoir recounts the life of a pioneer in ocean science. Each chapter describes a thread that structured his work: underwater cities, submerged Ice Age caverns dripping with stalactites, the limits to ocean exploitation, ocean climate change, prehistoric settlements on the continental shelf, ocean law, and safe scientific diving.
Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities Cover Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities Cover
Format: 
Pages: 680
ISBN: 9789464260441
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2021
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Illustrations: 300fc / 280bw
Pages: 680
ISBN: 9789464260434
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2021
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Illustrations: 300fc / 280bw
Description:
Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities argues exactly that. Round barrows do not just represent the death side of Early Bronze Age communities placed in set-a-side ritual landscapes, but were instead central to existence in many ways. This study of the Rother Region, where the Weald meets the Wessex massif, reports the results of the People of the Heath project, 2014–18.
Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities Cover Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities Cover
Format: 
Pages: 258
ISBN: 9789464260472
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2021
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Illustrations: 59fc / 85bw
Pages: 258
ISBN: 9789464260465
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 59fc / 85bw
Description:
Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities argues exactly that. Round barrows do not just represent the death side of Early Bronze Age communities placed in set-a-side ritual landscapes, but were instead central to existence in many ways. This study of the Rother Region, where the Weald meets the Wessex massif, reports the results of the People of the Heath project, 2014-18.
Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside Cover Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside Cover
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Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789464270105
Pub Date: 28 Oct 2021
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Series: Ruralia
Illustrations: 117fc/22bw
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789464270099
Pub Date: 28 Oct 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Ruralia
Illustrations: 117fc/22bw
Description:
For the first time seasonality is placed at the centre of the study of rural settlement. Using a Europe-wide approach, it provides a primer of examples, of techniques and of ideas for the identification and understanding of seasonal settlement. As such, it marks an important new step in the interpretation of the use of the countryside by historic communities linked to the annual passage of the year.
Bones at a Crossroads Cover Bones at a Crossroads Cover
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Pages: 322
ISBN: 9789464270075
Pub Date: 07 Sep 2021
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Illustrations: 44bw/48fc
Pages: 322
ISBN: 9789464270068
Pub Date: 07 Sep 2021
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Illustrations: 44bw/48fc
Description:
Bone tool studies are at a crossroads. A current path is to go beyond the concatenation of methods or concepts borrowed from other disciplines and aim instead at a truly integrated approach that is more in line with the objectives of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. The papers in this volume follow this direction by adopting various forms of dialogue and integration between old and new methods and approaches, including technological analysis, usewear analysis, typology, zooarchaeology, stable isotope analysis, experimental archaeology or spatial analysis.
Le Verre de l'Europe Celtique Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9789088909955
Pub Date: 28 Jul 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 1030fc/9bw
Description:
Au cours des quatre derniers siècles av. n.è.
Le verre de l'Europe celtique Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9789088909962
Pub Date: 28 Jul 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 1030fc/9bw
Description:
Au cours des quatre derniers siècles av. n.è.
Heuvels op de Heide Cover Heuvels op de Heide Cover
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Pages: 290
ISBN: 9789088906114
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2021
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Illustrations: 185fc/41bw
Pages: 290
ISBN: 9789088906107
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2021
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Illustrations: 185fc/41bw
Description:
Some 3000 to 3500 years ago a number of barrows were erected in an area now known as the Slabroekse Heide (Uden, N.-Br.).
Environmental Humanities Cover Environmental Humanities Cover
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Pages: 108
ISBN: 9789464270044
Pub Date: 28 Jun 2021
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Series: CLUES
Illustrations: 6fc/18bw
Pages: 108
ISBN: 9789464270037
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: CLUES
Illustrations: 6fc/18bw
Description:
There has been an increasing archaeological interest in human-animal-nature relations, where archaeology has shifted from a focus on deciphering meaning, or understanding symbols and the social construction of the landscape to an acknowledgement of how things, places and the environment contribute with their own agencies to the shaping of relations. This means that the environment cannot be regarded as a blank space that landscape meaning is projected onto. Parallel to this, the field of environmental humanities poses the question of how to work with the intermeshing of humans and their surroundings.
Breaking and Making the Ancestors Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9789464280005
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 19fc/58bw
Description:
Towards the capstone of the European Bronze Age, in an area stretching from the Carpathians in the East to the North Sea in the West, vast cremation grave cemeteries occur that are perhaps better known as ‘urnfields.’ Today some 700 of these burial sites have come to light in the Netherlands alone. In this corner of Europe, also known as the ‘Lower-Rhine-Basin,’ these cemeteries are often characterised by vast collections of small burial mounds under which the cremated remains of decedents were buried in small shaft-like pits.
Breaking and Making the Ancestors Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9789464280012
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 19fc/58bw
Description:
Towards the capstone of the European Bronze Age, in an area stretching from the Carpathians in the East to the North Sea in the West, vast cremation grave cemeteries occur that are perhaps better known as ‘urnfields.’ Today some 700 of these burial sites have come to light in the Netherlands alone. In this corner of Europe, also known as the ‘Lower-Rhine-Basin,’ these cemeteries are often characterised by vast collections of small burial mounds under which the cremated remains of decedents were buried in small shaft-like pits.
Insights into Social Inequality Cover Insights into Social Inequality Cover
Format: 
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9789088909788
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2021
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Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 109fc/33bw
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9789088909771
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 109fc/33bw
Description:
Social inequality is a subject of contemporary concerns. Life capabilities and the access to resources vary significantly in rich and poor countries, between elites and others. Furthermore, inequalities based on bio-anthropological and non-bio-anthropological causes are almost universal.
Tripolye Typo-chronology Cover Tripolye Typo-chronology Cover
Format: 
Pages: 370
ISBN: 9789088909528
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2021
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Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 90fc/100bw
Pages: 370
ISBN: 9789088909511
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2021
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Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 90fc/100bw
Description:
The Tripolye phenomenon, which displays a specific artefact complex and an extraordinary settlement layout, is also known for its so-called ‘mega sites’. Five of the largest ‘mega’ or giant settlements measure between 150-320 ha in size. These, and other big settlements, are concentrated in the Sinyukha River Basin, which is a central part of modern Ukraine.
Vernetzte Bilder Cover Vernetzte Bilder Cover
Format: 
Pages: 318
ISBN: 9789464280043
Pub Date: 05 Jun 2021
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Illustrations: 376fc/4bw
Pages: 318
ISBN: 9789464280036
Pub Date: 05 Jun 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 376fc/4bw
Description:
Welche Bedeutung griechische Münzbilder in der Antike hatten, ist in der Forschung vielfach hinterfragt und äußerst divergent beantwortet worden. Selten sind Münzen und deren Bildmotive zeitlich und regional übergreifend untersucht worden, denn meist stehen ikonografische Betrachtungen von einzelnen Münztypen innerhalb eines eng umrissenen Zeitraums im Vordergrund. Ulrike Wolf legt mit ihrer Dissertationsschrift „Vernetzte Bilder“ eine Arbeit vor, bei der die Diskussion der Rolle von Münzbildern innerhalb des Machtdiskurses im gesamten westlichen Mittelmeerraum von 500-100 v.