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Sidestone Press is an academic publishing house founded by scholars, for scholars. As a publisher we have one clear ambition, that is to make scientific information available to all. We believe scientific information should be available at all time, at all places and to each and every one. This means that the printing and selling of books is but one part of what we 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 our own digital ebook library. By offering access to our 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 our readers – scholars and students around the world – to access our publications at any time and at any place, including those parts of the world where access to good quality academic libraries is not guaranteed.

OPENACCESS: Old Habits Die Hard(also available in German)Habits, as defined in this booklet, are recurrent, repetitive o...
21/08/2025

OPENACCESS: Old Habits Die Hard

(also available in German)

Habits, as defined in this booklet, are recurrent, repetitive or routinely performed actions with minimal conscious effort. They play a crucial role in shaping legal, environmental and societal norms. The transition from informal norms to codified legal systems, the invention of the wheel, and the development of modern technologies, such as Google Maps, have all transformed human habits.

The booklet presented here collects contributions from young researchers at Kiel University in archaeological, historical, environmental, and linguistic sciences, offering rich insights into the practical, theoretical, and political aspects of habitual behaviour.

https://www.sidestone.com/books/old-habits-die-hard

Coming Soon: Honor Frost. Selected Works. Edited by Lucy Blue and Sara A. RichHailing from academic training in fine and...
31/07/2025

Coming Soon: Honor Frost. Selected Works. Edited by Lucy Blue and Sara A. Rich

Hailing from academic training in fine and performing arts, Honor Frost learned to dive in the 1950s and within a decade began earning a reputation as a pioneering maritime archaeologist. This volume curates a careful selection of nineteen of Honor’s most groundbreaking research papers, collected here for a new generation of maritime archaeologists.

More info and pre-ordering: https://www.sidestone.com/books/honor-frost-selected-works

Coming soon: Advances in Digital Archaeology. Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative ...
30/07/2025

Coming soon: Advances in Digital Archaeology. Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – 50 years of synergy

This volume showcases cutting-edge research in digital archaeology, presenting 27 chapters that explore how computational methods are transforming archaeological fieldwork, analysis, data management, and interpretation. Topics range from AI applications in artefact classification and spatial modelling, to 3D reconstructions, machine learning, remote sensing, and natural language processing. The contributions highlight the integration of digital tools with archaeological theory, demonstrating how this synergy is reshaping the discipline and expanding its methodological frontiers.

More info and pre-ordering: https://www.sidestone.com/books/advances-in-digital-archaeology

OUT NOW! The lost mummy of Djedhor. Reconstructing the burial of a Ptolemaic priest from Thebes. By Maarten J. Raven.The...
22/07/2025

OUT NOW! The lost mummy of Djedhor. Reconstructing the burial of a Ptolemaic priest from Thebes. By Maarten J. Raven.

The latest edition of our PALMA series with Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.

In the rich archives of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities lies a fascinating manuscript dealing with the autopsy on an Ancient Egyptian mummy. This was performed in 1878 by the Museum’s curator Willem Pleyte. Thanks to Pleyte’s detailed procès-verbal, the mummy (which did not survive the dissection) can be reconstructed at least on paper.

Find out more at https://www.sidestone.com/books/the-lost-mummy-of-djedhor

Out Now: Beyond heterogeneities. New perspectives on social and cultural diversity from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age ...
21/07/2025

Out Now: Beyond heterogeneities. New perspectives on social and cultural diversity from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin

This volume presents various facets of recent archaeological investigations into Neolithic and Bronze Age societies in the Carpathian Basin spanning from the 7th and 2nd millennium BCE. It delves into population dynamics, settlement patterns, and the spread of the Neolithic way of life through methodological approaches such as demographic analysis and environmental modelling.

And... Full

https://www.sidestone.com/books/beyond-heterogeneities

Upcoming: Black Loch of Myrton. The life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in southwest Scotland. By Anne Cron...
21/07/2025

Upcoming: Black Loch of Myrton. The life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in southwest Scotland. By Anne Crone & Graeme Cavers

This book is about an Iron Age site in Scotland with amazing organic preservation. Hence the book will have >300 illustration (colour) and be around 600-700 pages. This is going to be a monster!

More info and pre-orders: https://www.sidestone.com/books/black-loch-of-myrton

Out later this year: Contested Deep Pasts. Negotiating the French-Anglophone Divide in Pleistocene Lithic StudiesBy Shum...
10/07/2025

Out later this year: Contested Deep Pasts. Negotiating the French-Anglophone Divide in Pleistocene Lithic Studies
By Shumon T. Hussain

This book explores the deep-rooted divide between French and Anglophone approaches to Palaeolithic lithic analysis, linking them to distinct cognitive frameworks. It calls for scientific pluralism and reflexivity to bridge methodological and theoretical gaps in archaeology.

Pre-order now at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/contested-deep-pasts

COMING SOON:Heligoland Flint in Prehistoric EuropeCharacteristics, Typology, Distribution, Symbolism and Provenanceedite...
27/06/2025

COMING SOON:
Heligoland Flint in Prehistoric Europe
Characteristics, Typology, Distribution, Symbolism and Provenance
edited by Jaap Beuker, Erik Drenth, Klaus Hirsch, Moritz Mennenga & Martin Segschneider

👉 This book explores the use and distribution of distinctive red and tabular flint from Heligoland, tracing its prehistoric extraction, trade, and significance from the Late Paleolithic to the Iron Age across Northern and Northwestern Europe.

📙 Pre-order now to get €5,- off
https://www.sidestone.com/books/heligoland-flint-in-prehistoric-europe

COMING SOON:A Social Archaeology of Kinship in Iberia and BeyondRecent Multistranded Approaches from aDNA to Household A...
26/06/2025

COMING SOON:
A Social Archaeology of Kinship in Iberia and Beyond
Recent Multistranded Approaches from aDNA to Household Archaeology
edited by Antonio Blanco-González & Eva Alarcón-García

👉 This book raises the need to elaborate an archaeology of kinship with a clear social focus, compiling contributions from archaeogenetics and household archaeology that show the potential for multistranded collaboration.

📙 Pre-order now for special discount!
https://www.sidestone.com/books/a-social-archaeology-of-kinship-in-iberia-and-beyond

COMING SOON:Silver Beyond EmpireThe transition between late Roman and early medieval Europeedited by Alice E. Blackwell,...
26/06/2025

COMING SOON:
Silver Beyond Empire
The transition between late Roman and early medieval Europe
edited by Alice E. Blackwell, Fraser Hunter, Andreas Rau & Martin Goldberg

Together National Museums Scotland and Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie created an international research network of specialists working on silver from the 4th–6th centuries with a focus on the North Sea region. This volume of papers results from meetings of the network in Edinburgh and Schleswig that explored the role of silver in the crucial transition from the late Roman Empire, with barbaricum beyond its frontiers, to early Medieval Europe and the peoples and polities that many modern European nations trace their origins back to. It aims to provide the first comparative, international and cross-disciplinary study of this powerful and valuable material during a pivotal period in Europe’s history. It also provides the first full catalogues of a number of important but poorly understood hacksilver hoards from the UK: Norrie’s Law (Fife), Gaulcross (Aberdeenshire), Tummel Bridge (Perthshire) and Patching (Sussex).

📙 Pre-order now for special discount!
https://www.sidestone.com/books/silver-beyond-empire

COMING SOON:An Aerial Archaeologist’s Logbook, 1970-1995.100 Air Photographs from Northern Britainby D. W. Harding👉 This...
23/06/2025

COMING SOON:
An Aerial Archaeologist’s Logbook, 1970-1995.
100 Air Photographs from Northern Britain
by D. W. Harding

👉 This volume presents 100 aerial photos of Iron Age and Roman sites in Northern Britain, taken from light aircraft between 1970–1995. It highlights unique Scottish site types like crannogs, brochs, and upland earthworks, using now-historic aerial survey methods.

Pre-order now: https://www.sidestone.com/books/an-aerial-archaeologists-logbook

COMING SOON:Mudbrick Settlements of the Oman Peninsula. Inhabited – Abandoned – Re(dis)coverededited by Stephanie Döpper...
23/06/2025

COMING SOON:
Mudbrick Settlements of the Oman Peninsula. Inhabited – Abandoned – Re(dis)covered
edited by Stephanie Döpper, Birgit Mershen, Josephine Kanditt, Irini Biezeveld & Thomas Schmidt-Lux

👉 This book presents approaches and results of multi-disciplinary research on abandoned mudbrick settlements in central Oman as objects of conflicting processes of interpretation and negotiation.

📙 Pre-order now for special discount!
https://www.sidestone.com/books/mudbrick-settlements-of-the-oman-peninsula

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A new generation of academic publishing

Sidestone Press is an academic publishing house founded by scholars, for scholars. As a publisher, we have one clear ambition: to make scientific information available to all.

We firmly believe that such information should be available to everyone and never placed behind a paywall. The printing and selling of books, therefore, is but one part of what we believe a good publisher should do.

Sidestone books are published both as hard copy printed books and as e-books that can be found in (digital) libraries and bookstores around the world. Our books can also be accessed freely on our website, which means that everyone can access scientific research published through us, including readers from parts of the world where access to good quality academic libraries is not guaranteed. This benefits our authors greatly as it increases the exposure of their work and the impact of their research.

We furthermore pride ourselves on continuously innovating our production process so that we can offer good-looking, richly illustrated books at affordable prices, and strive to keep the turn-around time from submission-to-publication as short as possible, and our prices as low as possible – both for the author and the person purchasing our books.