Prehistory & Ancient History  /  Prehistory
The eve of destruction? Cover The eve of destruction? Cover
Format: 
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789464263121
Pub Date: 26 Mar 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 131fc / 35bw
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789464263114
Pub Date: 26 Mar 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 131fc / 35bw
Description:
This volume collects papers on the pre-Corded Ware horizon in central Europe and adjacent areas (i.e. from c.
RRP: £120.00
RRP: £50.00
Presenting Counterpoints to the Dominant Terrestrial Narrative of European Prehistory Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9798888571842
Pub Date: 21 Feb 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Maritime Encounters
Illustrations: 120 b/w and colour illustrations
Description:
For many years now, the main thrust of European prehistory has followed a fundamentally terrestrial plot line. This terrestrial paradigm has undervalued the story of Europe as a peninsula between the Baltic, Mediterranean and Atlantic, and likewise downplayed that of many navigable rivers that reach deeply inland and the large lakes important for travel and subsistence. In vast areas of Europe the survival of incoming groups depended on coping and interacting with a seascape as much as a landscape.
RRP: £55.00
High Pasture Cave Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 688
ISBN: 9781785709500
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
From the first steps taken into the darkness of High Pasture Cave, it was clear that this complex site would challenge current thinking on cave use and function in prehistory, and wider understanding of Iron Age cultural practice and beliefs. Situated in a dramatic location under the slopes of the Cuillin Mountains on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, this cave and its monumentalised environs were a focus for specific and special activities throughout the Iron Age – a venue for spectacular and extensive ceremonies featuring feasts, fire, crafts and the symbolic deposition of a plethora of artefacts and environmental materials, as well as human remains. This volume sets out the results of fieldwork carried out at High Pastures between 2004 and 2010, presents results from the extensive post-excavation analysis, and provides a biography of the High Pasture Cave complex from the early Bronze Age through 900 years of Iron Age activity.
RRP: £48.00
Craftful Minds Cover Craftful Minds Cover
Format: 
Pages: 266
ISBN: 9789464280821
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 140fc / 18bw
Pages: 266
ISBN: 9789464280814
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 140fc / 18bw
Description:
The aim of the thesis was to provide a framework for the identification and analysis of individual craftspeople in bifacial flint production. Flint production flakes from replications of South Scandinavian Late Neolithic daggers and Early Bronze Age sickles were the focus of the study, in contrast to research so far, mostly relying on finished and often exceptional pieces.To identify technical traditions within technological systems and/or personal approaches to production, it is necessary to analyse the complete production process.
RRP: £95.00
RRP: £45.00

The Handle Core Concept

Lithic Technology and Knowledge Transmission
The Handle Core Concept Cover
Format: 
Pages: 406
ISBN: 9789464280760
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 120fc / 55bw
Pages: 406
ISBN: 9789464280753
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 120fc / 55bw
Description:
This work deals with topics related to mobility, contacts and transmission of knowledge. The study of these topics regarding the past can promote an understanding of the social implications of migration, communication and learning today through long-term perspectives of change. This volume focuses on these topics in the Mesolithic by analysing a specialised lithic concept known previously from Scandinavia and Northern Germany.
RRP: £120.00
RRP: £65.00
Coins, Riches, and Lands Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781789259902
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 120 B/W illustrations
Description:
Land was the ideal store of wealth in the ancient Mediterranean world. It brought social respectability, and its possession allowed participation in the politics of the cities governed by landowning elites. Crucial defense of the interests of a given polity through armed services often involved the distribution of lands to laborers still not integrated in these societies.
RRP: £50.00
The Snettisham Hoards Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 772
ISBN: 9780861592258
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2024
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Description:
For over 60 years, spectacular discoveries have been made on a wooded hillside at Snettisham, overlooking the northwest Norfolk coast, close to Hunstanton. The location of the discoveries, at Ken Hill, is known as the ‘gold field’ because of the large number of gold and silver alloy neck-rings (‘torcs’) and coins recovered from the site. Known as the ‘Snettisham Treasure’, these objects represent one of the largest collections of prehistoric precious metal objects ever discovered, and one of the largest concentrations of Celtic art.

Serial Learners

Interactions between Funnel Beaker West and Corded Ware Communities in the Netherlands during the Third Millennium BCE from the Perspective of Ceramic Technology

Serial Learners

Interactions between Funnel Beaker West and Corded Ware Communities in the Netherlands during the Third Millennium BCE from the Perspective of Ceramic Technology
Format: 
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9789464280647
Pub Date: 18 Sep 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 57fc / 19bw
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9789464280630
Pub Date: 18 Sep 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 57fc / 19bw
Description:
5,000 years ago, a migration shaped Europe’s future. Migrating communities spread across Europe within two centuries, leaving lasting changes in interconnectivity, language, and ancestry. Yet these migrating communities did not enter an empty continent.
RRP: £95.00
RRP: £45.00
Larger than Life Cover Larger than Life Cover
Format: 
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9789464262612
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: PALMA
Illustrations: 169fc / 44bw
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9789464262605
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: PALMA
Illustrations: 169fc / 44bw
Description:
In 1896 a remarkable hoard was discovered near Ommerschans in the eastern Netherlands that included a spectacular object: a giant bronze sword. It was obtained by the landowner and kept by a forester, until it was first documented by archaeologist J.H.
RRP: £130.00
RRP: £65.00
Artefact Biographies from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe and Beyond Cover Artefact Biographies from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe and Beyond Cover
Format: 
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9789464261523
Pub Date: 10 Jul 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia
Illustrations: 81fc / 14bw
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9789464261516
Pub Date: 10 Jul 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia
Illustrations: 81fc / 14bw
Description:
This volume has been written in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn in order to celebrate her distinguished career as an archaeologist and, above all, as an expert in the study of material culture. Annelou started her research with the use-wear analysis of prehistoric flint from the Netherlands, and she extended her interests in every possible direction: time, space, materials and technologies. This volume has been compiled to reflect the broad oeuvre of her work.
Bronze Age Rock Art in Iberia and Scandinavia Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9798888571040
Pub Date: 10 Jun 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Swedish Rock Art Research
Illustrations: 60 B/W and color illustrations
Description:
Recent research has uncovered new evidence of long-distance interactions between Scandinavia and Iberia during the Late Bronze Age. Advances in various lines of inquiry, such as 3D recording of rock art, iconography, metals and amber sourcing, linguistics, and, to some extent, more indirect indications from human remains, as reflected by strontium and aDNA results, have made this possible. The main goal of this book is to cross reference Iberian Late Bronze Age warrior iconography with Scandinavian warrior iconography.
Neu (im) Land – erste Bäuer:innen in der Peripherie Cover Neu (im) Land – erste Bäuer:innen in der Peripherie Cover
Format: 
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9789464270884
Pub Date: 21 May 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 32fc / 14bw
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9789464270877
Pub Date: 21 May 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 32fc / 14bw
Description:
Bei einer Ausgrabung im havelländischen Lietzow in Brandenburg wurden jungsteinzeitliche Siedlungsbefunde entdeckt. Sie gehören zu zwei Hofstellen der jüngeren Linienbandkeramik, die um 5100-5000 v. u.
Ecologies of Bronze Age Rock Art Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9798888571392
Pub Date: 15 May 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Swedish Rock Art Research
Illustrations: 160 B/W and color illustrations
Description:
The Bronze Age (1700–500 BCE) petroglyphs of southern Scandinavia comprise a unique tradition of rock art in northern Eurasia. Despite a limited repertoire of motifs such as cupmarks, boats, anthropomorphs, zoomorphs, podomorphs and circles, it shows great variability in design, elaboration and articulation. This book is a study of the Mälaren region in southern-central Sweden that includes one of the most prominent rock art clusters of southwest Uppland as well as the hinterland of Södermanland county.
Celtic from the West 3 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 552
ISBN: 9798888571538
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Celtic Studies Publications
Description:
The Celtic languages and groups called Keltoi (i.e. ‘Celts’) emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Ag
Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 348
ISBN: 9781913344146
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2024
Series: CAU Must Farm/Flag Fen Basin Depth & Time Series
Illustrations: 194
Description:
The Late Bronze Age pile-dwelling settlement at Must Farm is one of the most important and best-preserved prehistoric sites to have been systematically excavated in Europe. The settlement comprised a curving palisade enclosing five stilt-raised houses erected above a freshwater river channel at the edge of one most Britain’s most intensively studied and internationally renowned Bronze Age landscapes: the Flag Fen Basin. Built in the mid-9th century bc, the pile-dwelling was engulfed by a catastrophic fire less than a year after construction, sending the buildings and their artefact-rich contents into the sluggish waters below.
Archaeology of Symbols Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9798888570982
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Material Religion in Antiquity
Illustrations: 130 B/W illustrations
Description:
This third volume in the Material Religion in Antiquity series stems from the First International Congress on the Archaeology of Symbols (ICAS I) that took place in Florence in May 2022. The archaeological process of reconstructing and understanding our past has undergone several reassessments in the last century, producing an equal number of new perspectives and approaches. The recent materiality turn emphasizes the necessity to ground those achievements in order to build fresh avenues of interpretation and reach new boundaries in the study of the human kind and its ecology.