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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.

05/06/2026

COMING SOON:
Institutional Landscapes of Empire in Ancient Iran
Edited by Stefan R. Hauser, Wouter F.M. Henkelman and Giuseppe Labisi

👉 This volume examines the institutional landscapes of ancient Iran, exploring how Achaemenid and Sassanian empires transformed environments through roads, water systems, settlements, fortresses, estates, and monuments, creating enduring networks of authority and control.

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03/06/2026

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Breathing Water in a Warming World
Principles and Applications of the Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory
by Daniel Pauly and Johannes Müller

🧐 Climate change and deoxygenation are among the most urgent threats to our planet’s oceans, rivers, and lakes, and the animals that inhabit them. The impact of warming waters and declining oxygen levels includes shifts in individual growth and reproduction, as well as changes in population dynamics and species distribution. These developments demand action, but to act effectively it is important to understand the general mechanisms that drive these trends.

This book presents a theoretical framework for explaining how warming waters and deoxygenation affect the growth and reproduction of fish and other water-breathing animals. Despite their diversity, these organisms share fundamental life-history traits shaped by common physiological mechanisms and constraints. We address these mechanisms within the Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT), which explains growth and reproduction in terms of oxygen uptake capacity. Building on decades of research, this book outlines the principles of GOLT and explores its wide-ranging applications in ecology, physiology, and reproductive biology.

By presenting this unifying framework, the book provides a foundation for more effective responses to the current crisis in our planet’s waters.

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29/05/2026

COMING SOON:
Tall Dāmiya (volume I)
Archaeological research in the Central Jordan Valley between 2004 and 2019
edited by Lucas P. Petit and Zeidan A. Kafafi

👉 This monograph presents the results of nine seasons of archaeological excavations (2004–2019) at Tall Dāmiya, a key site in the Central Jordan Valley. Situated just south of the confluence of the Az-Zarqa and Jordan rivers, near one of the region’s few natural river fords, the settlement mound has long served a vital crossroads of cultures.

Founded in the Late Bronze Age, Tall Dāmiya developed into a prominent cultic centre in the Iron Age. In the second half of the first millennium BCE, it was repurposed as a storage site for mobile pastoralists, later serving as a graveyard in the Byzantine and Ottoman periods – before becoming a battleground in the twentieth century.

Presented in three volumes, this joint Jordanian–Dutch project explores how people lived in and moved through the arid Jordan Valley over time, offering a comprehensive reconstruction of Tall Dāmiya’s settlement history and shedding new light on its long and varied afterlives.

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28/05/2026

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Der Herrenhof von Rees-Bergswick
Untersuchungen zur Siedlungs- und Sozialgeschichte der späten Eisenzeit am unteren Niederrhein
by Hans-Peter Schletter (Mit Beiträgen von Christoph Reichmann)

👉 The Lower Rhine region has traditionally been little studied in research on the Late Iron Age, despite its significance during the mid-1st century BCE, when local tribal societies came into direct and indirect contact with the Roman world. The Herrenhof of Rees-Bergswick, excavated in 2010, sheds new light on these social structures. The settlement, located in the Rhine floodplain between Rees and Haldern, features a fortified enclosure with a wall and ditch and a two-phase residential building, the later phase of which was designed as a representative structure. For the first time, previously invisible social hierarchies can be identified, suggesting the site served as a residence for local elites, comparable to the Viereckschanzen and établissements ruraux of the Celtic world. Finds such as a Roman amphora – the earliest Roman find east of the Rhine – and a smith’s tongs support this interpretation. Comparisons with other published and unpublished sites in the southern Lower Rhine, the Netherlands, and Belgium reveal a broader pattern of fortified farmsteads serving as elite residences.

The book is intended for students and researchers who are exploring, for the first time or in greater depth, the Iron Age in the Lower Rhine region and the social structures that existed before Roman rule.

* The volume is in German

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22/05/2026

COMING SOON:
Under the Mediterranean II
Studies in Maritime Archaeology
edited by Stella Demesticha, Sara Rich, Athena Trakadas & Lucy Blue

Series: Honor Frost Foundation Research Publication

🤓 This multidisciplinary volume is a collection of 13 articles reporting on recent research on the archaeology of shipwrecks, maritime visual culture, and cultural heritage management in the Mediterranean region. While papers in this volume’s predecessor, ‘Under the Mediterranean I’, were arranged thematically, the present volume organizes the research regionally, from the East Mediterranean westward, and within each region chronologically.

Following the editors’ introduction, the volume begins with case studies on integrated management in East Africa and the East Mediterranean. Subsequent subjects covered in the eastern Mediterranean range from ancient mariners’ ex votos to an update on the Classical Mazotos shipwreck, and from an investigation of a Roman wreck in Cyprus to an analysis of cargo loading processes on the Ma’agan Mikhael B. Moving to the central Mediterranean, papers include the long legacy of rock art, and an ancient Aegean ship’s cargo assemblage, both in Sicily. An analysis of how iconographic sources can supplement material remains, especially perishable material like rigging, is also presented. Some 32 Roman-era shipwreck cargoes are addressed in the Tyrrhenian, while another paper analyses the distribution of heavy cargos, such as marble. Moving forward in time to the Imperial Age, one chapter examines the ceramic and organic remains from the Torre Santa Sabina I wreck, Italy, and another the wreck of the Capo Sagro II wreck from Corsica. The final paper presents a forward-looking analysis of integrated management on a global scale.

This book will be of interest to students and archaeologists researching the Mediterranean region, and all readers interested in a wide range of recent advances in maritime archaeology, the history of art, and critical heritage studies.

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21/05/2026

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Die Pfahlbaufrage
Ein Beitrag zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte und zur Rekonstruktion von Feuchtbodensiedlungen
by Christian Harb

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👉 Over 170 years ago, an entire pile field came to light in connection with backfilling work in Meilen on Lake Zurich. Ferdinand Keller interpreted this as the remains of a pre-Roman pile-dwelling settlement and thus set prehistoric pile-dwelling research in motion. Today, the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps are considered the most important source for understanding the Neolithic and Bronze Age in this region and have therefore been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011.

However, their exploration has not been unanimous. Did people live on or above the water? Did they erect their buildings in the water, on land or on alternating wet ground? This so-called ‘pile-dwelling question’ (Pfahlbaufrage) was so controversial that it escalated into a pile-dwelling dispute (Pfahlbaustreit). It was repeatedly fought out between archaeologists and natural scientists, was at times a proxy war between personal rivals and in the 1930s and 1940s became caught between ideological fronts. The lack of emancipation from dominant research personalities played no insignificant role in this, and interpretations have been repeatedly adapted to preconceived opinions right up to the present day.

This book traces the 170-year history of research and the development of the debate. It shows that some ideas that are still established today urgently need to be questioned, such as the postulate of ground-level lakeshore settlements with good organic preservation or a major influence of the climate on lake level fluctuations.

* the book is in German

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13/05/2026

COMING SOON:
From Hinterland to Harbour
Wine and Trade in Roman Beirut
by Naseem Raad

👉This book explores the role of Roman Berytus (modern Beirut) in eastern Mediterranean trade through archaeology, amphora studies, and geocomputational modelling. Combining harbour, hinterland, and maritime network analysis, it reconstructs the city’s wine and olive oil economy and trading connections.

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12/05/2026

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Time and temporality in the Viking Age
An Archaeology of Reuse, Remembering, and Relations to the Past in the Past in Scandinavia, 750-1050 CE
by Julie Lund

🤓 This publication reveals intricate relationships between the Viking Age and its pasts. The book explores previous studies of the past in the past and their theoretical foundations, drawing on relationality, materiality, and affectivity as productive ways of moving the field forward.

Three case studies examine the use of the past in the raising of ship settings in the Viking Age, the presence of antiquities and references to the past in Viking Age hoards, and the use of kerbstones as references to a specific past. Furthermore, it explores the relationship between social memory and reuse in the past. It demonstrates how active engagement with the past was integral to social identities and self-perceptions.

The analyses of the archaeological record point to some of the mechanisms through which the past was appropriated, altered, and integrated into Viking Age practices. The analysis underscores the political dimensions of memory, challenging established preconceptions of reuse as automatically being conducted to legitimise power relations. The study thus provides a nuanced lens through which to examine how Viking Age inhabitants conceptualised and utilised their temporal realities. By recognising the relational nature of pasts and their materials, the publication re-evaluates Viking Age society, underlining the relevance of collective memory in shaping identity and social relations across temporal boundaries. More than anything, it shows how uses of the past were varied and diverse practices in Viking Age society.

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01/05/2026

COMING SOON!
Coastal Archaeology in Small Islands
Prehistoric Lifeways, Research Perceptions, Biases, Methods and Approaches
edited by Maaike S. de Waal

👉 This volume explores prehistoric coastal archaeology in small islands, focusing on prehistoric lifeways, site survival, and concepts of remoteness, isolation and connectedness.

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29/04/2026

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Mediterranean Horizons
Archaeological Studies in Honour of Søren Dietz
edited by Pernille Bangsgaard, John Lund, Peter Pentz & Lasse Vilien Sørensen

👉 The Mediterranean has always been a crossroads of cultures, ideas, and histories. From the Stone Age to the first millennium BC, this vibrant region shaped—and was shaped by—the movements of people, the exchange of goods, and the rise of complex societies. Mediterranean Horizons celebrates the career of Søren Dietz, a pioneering archaeologist and founder of The Danish Institute in Athens whose work has illuminated these connections across time and space.

This honorary volume brings together researchers and friends to explore themes close to Søren’s heart: the Aegean’s ancient past, the Bronze Age networks linking Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, and the rich tapestry of life in Greece and Tunisia. The book begins in the Stone Age, where climate shifts and the quest for rare materials drove early communities to innovate and adapt. It then turns to the Bronze Age, a time of bold trade routes, shared crafts, and cultural exchanges—from Baltic amber reaching Mycenaean Greece to Minoan treasures found in warrior graves.

Later sections focus on mainland Greece, where Søren’s excavations revealed the daily lives of Iron Age villagers, the grandeur of ancient theaters, and the secrets of fortified cities. The journey ends in Tunisia, where his work in Carthage and the Africa Proconsularis project uncovered layers of history beneath the North African soil.

More than just a collection of research, this book is a tribute to curiosity and collaboration. It reflects Søren’s belief that archaeology is not just about uncovering objects, but about understanding the people and societies who made and used them. With vivid stories and novel insights, Mediterranean Horizons invites readers to explore the past—and to see how its echoes still resonate today.

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