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.
Tomb 26 on Sai Island Cover Tomb 26 on Sai Island Cover
Format: 
Pages: 380
ISBN: 9789464260168
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 275fc/75bw
Pages: 380
ISBN: 9789464260151
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 275fc/75bw
Description:
New Kingdom burial customs in Nubia (northern Sudan) are well traceable by means of large cemeteries, in particular Egyptian style rock-cut shaft tombs with pyramidal superstructures. These tombs and their contents have lately been discussed as important data sets offering insights into the diverse population, material culture, funerary and social practices in New Kingdom Nubia.A new rock-cut shaft tomb, potentially with pyramidal superstructure (Tomb 26), was discovered by the AcrossBorders project on Sai Island in 2015.
Settling with the norm? Cover Settling with the norm? Cover
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Pages: 286
ISBN: 9789464280227
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 58fc / 96bw
Pages: 286
ISBN: 9789464280210
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 58fc / 96bw
Description:
When studying later prehistoric societies, it is evident that shared practices, as well as variations, exist in the settlement record. Traditionally, the emphasis has mainly been on the elements shared on large scales, the widely shared norms. Variations in material culture have received little attention.
Resurfacing the Submerged Past Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 310
ISBN: 9789464260380
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 150fc/30bw
Description:
The Netherlands are internationally renowned for the archaeology of its wetland environments. The reclamation of the Flevoland Polders in the early half of the 20th century not only exposed hundreds of shipwrecks, but also remnants of prehistoric landscapes and traces of human occupation dating to Mesolithic and Neolithic times. Ultimately, this led to the 'discovery' of the Swifterbant Culture in the 1960s-1970s, and which was initially seen as a Dutch equivalent of the Ertebølle Culture.
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.
Labouring with Large Stones Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9789464280098
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 31fc/13bw
Description:
This book explores the cost, expressed in labour, of constructing fortifications during the Late Bronze Age in Greece (ca. 1600 - 1050 BCE). The underlying question for this study is whether the cost of large scale constructions, built with large, unwieldy blocks, may have overstretched the (economic) capabilities of communities, leading to their collapse.
Egyptian Delta Archaeology Cover Egyptian Delta Archaeology Cover
Format: 
Pages: 130
ISBN: 9789464260106
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 33bw/33fc
Pages: 130
ISBN: 9789464260090
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 33bw/33fc
Description:
If you want to understand ancient Egypt, the Nile Delta is of key importance. Excavations and surveys in the Delta keep unearthing new information about how the ancient Egyptians lived, how they envisaged the afterlife and how they interacted with other cultures. The study of finds from the Delta gives us a glimpse into the beliefs and everyday life of the ancient Egyptians.
Douze jours à Nuku Hiva Cover Douze jours à Nuku Hiva Cover
Format: 
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9789464260199
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 105fc/89bw
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9789464260182
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 105fc/89bw
Description:
La première expédition russe autour du monde, à l’aube du dix-neuvième siècle, fit suite à celles de Bougainville, Cook et La Pérouse. Menée par le commandant balte-allemand Adam von Krusenstern, elle était, à elle seule, tout un monde composé de savants et naturalistes, d’officiers et marins moujiks, d’un ambassadeur de la cour du tsar et de quelques marins Japonais embarqués sur la Nadezhda et la Neva. Ces Russes de divers ethnies de l’empire et au-delà : Estoniens, Baltes, Allemands, Tartares ou Suisse, abordèrent en mai 1804 aux Marquises (Polynésie française).
Acclimatising to Higher Ground Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 260
ISBN: 9789464260304
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 12fc
Description:
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern! This book presents a multidisciplinary, retrospective analysis of a Pacific Atoll People living in several countries but held together as a diaspora through notions of kinship.
Acclimatising to Higher Ground Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 260
ISBN: 9789464260298
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 12fc
Description:
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern! This book presents a multidisciplinary, retrospective analysis of a Pacific Atoll People living in several countries but held together as a diaspora through notions of kinship.
Farm, Hunt, Feast, Celebrate Cover Farm, Hunt, Feast, Celebrate Cover
Format: 
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789464260229
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
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Illustrations: 147fc/70bw
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789464260212
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 147fc/70bw
Description:
Building on the experience of twenty-five years of fieldwork and archaeozoological analyses carried out during research projects in various regions of northern France, this book examines animal husbandry and hunting practices over the 5000 year period from the first sedentary groups to the more evolved societies, corresponding to the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age.This approach is based on the processing of a very large amount of data, from sources as varied as settlements, assembly places, cemeteries and other distinctive sites. The study looks in detail at domestic consumption in houses, villages and enclosures, as well as addressing feasting, ceremonial deposition and the role of animals in the funerary sphere.
Return to the Interactive Past Cover Return to the Interactive Past Cover
Format: 
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789088909139
Pub Date: 21 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
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
Format: 
Pages: 550
ISBN: 9789464260335
Pub Date: 16 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
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: 258
ISBN: 9789464260472
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
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.
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
Imprint: Sidestone Press
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.
Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside Cover Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside Cover
Format: 
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789464270105
Pub Date: 28 Oct 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
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
Format: 
Pages: 322
ISBN: 9789464270075
Pub Date: 07 Sep 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 44bw/48fc
Pages: 322
ISBN: 9789464270068
Pub Date: 07 Sep 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
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.