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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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OUT NOW!Spaces and MeaningMultimodal Communication in Ancient Egyptedited by Silvia Kutscher & Dina SerovaThis book exam...
17/06/2025

OUT NOW!
Spaces and Meaning
Multimodal Communication in Ancient Egypt
edited by Silvia Kutscher & Dina Serova

This book examines the multimodal nature of Ancient Egyptian graphic artifacts, applying modern semiotic frameworks to reveal how space and spatial relations shape meaning, offering new insights into the communicative practices of Ancient Egypt.

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COMING SOON:Bodies that MatteredAncient Egyptian CorporealitiesEdited by Dina Serova & Uroš Matić👉 Bodies are immanent e...
17/06/2025

COMING SOON:
Bodies that Mattered
Ancient Egyptian Corporealities
Edited by Dina Serova & Uroš Matić

👉 Bodies are immanent element of socio-cultural negotiation. Since the 19th century, Egyptology has produced vast knowledge on the ancient Egyptian bodies (human, divine, animal), however, mainly by focusing on funerary aspects of ancient Egyptian culture. Different paradigm shifts and turns of the last few decades (hermeneutics, semiotics, social-constructivism, ontology etc.), echo through Egyptology, but are still not part of the dominant discourse. This is also the case for the so-called “body turn”, an important epistemological turning point, that came largely unnoticed in Egyptology. Previous body centred Egyptological publications are either too specific in their focus or too broad in their presentation of Ancient Egyptian corporealities.

To balance this out and reflect the latest state of research, this volume brings together selected contributions from the fields of Egyptology and Northeast African Archaeology. The focus is on both conceptualizations of the bodies by ancient Egyptians and Egyptologists. The topics of the contributions cover familiar but also new aspects. They range from division of labour, disability, gender roles, erotic, magic, fragmented and narrated bodies, other-than-human corporealities, to questions of ethics and the place of Egyptology in current approaches to past bodies. Various textual, pictorial, and archaeological sources, as well as human remains, are analyzed both from synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

From the theoretical and methodological point of view, the publication provides deeper insights into a number of different approaches and their application to the ancient material (among others: osteoarchaeology, socio-cultural anthropology, semiotics, new materialism, ontology, etc.), which makes the book an important reading for all career stage Egyptologists (students to professionals) and the broader interested public.

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COMING SOON:ROOTS Studies: Volumes 9 and 10!Discourses on Modernityedited by V. P. J. Arponen, Artur Ribeiro, Konrad Ott...
12/06/2025

COMING SOON:

ROOTS Studies: Volumes 9 and 10!

Discourses on Modernity
edited by V. P. J. Arponen, Artur Ribeiro, Konrad Ott

-This collection provides a philosophical and interdisciplinary discussion of the impact of the heritage of modernity in archaeology and related disciplines.

Mapping Medieval Merv
An Exploration into the Application of Cartographic Analysis and Urban Morphological Theory to an Urban Archaeological Site
by Loren V. Cowin

- This study explores the urban topography of medieval Merv, a key Silk Roads city in Central Asia, using drone imagery, GIS, archaeology, and historical sources. Focusing on Sultan Kala, it examines Merv’s unique Islamic-era development and highlights its significance in early Islamic urbanism.

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OUT NOW!Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest AsiaPapers in Honour of Roger Mat...
10/06/2025

OUT NOW!

Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest Asia
Papers in Honour of Roger Matthews
Edited by Claudia Glatz, Mónica Palmero Fernández, Amy Richardson & Michael Seymour

This book features a collection of papers produced in honour of Roger Matthews, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Reading. Roger previously taught at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology (2001–2010), before which he served as the Director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq (BSAI, today BISI) in Baghdad and the British Institute at Ankara (BIA) in the 1980s and 1990s.

The volume honours Roger’s legacy by assembling interdisciplinary research by his students, collaborators, and colleagues that maps challenges and new possibilities in the archaeology of Southwest Asia across the interrelated themes that have emerged from his work in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Türkiye.

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COMING SOON:Creative SpiritsBark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guineaby Ross Bowden👉 The art of painting on...
02/06/2025

COMING SOON:
Creative Spirits
Bark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guinea
by Ross Bowden

👉 The art of painting on bark was once widely found in many parts of the Pacific, including the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea, the home of the Kwoma people who are the subject of this study. The styles of the paintings and the subjects of designs were as varied as the hundreds of languages spoken in this region.

Following European contact at the end of the nineteenth century, and the social change this brought, many New Guinea peoples discontinued producing their vibrant designs on bark. But in some areas the art form still flourishes. This book gives a detailed account of the art of painting on bark among the Kwoma, a people speaking a distinct language who display their barks on the ceilings of their ceremonial men’s houses. The book includes accounts of the work of a number of individual artists all of whom are represented by paintings in one or more major art museums internationally.

This second edition has a new chapter illustrating thirty-three large-format Kwoma paintings on paper commissioned by the author in the course of his fieldwork in the Sepik. All thirty-three works on paper, along with forty-two of the barks illustrated, now form part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (Australia). The book is a unique study of bark painting in a Papua New Guinea society and will have wide appeal to those interested in the art and ethnography of this region.

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COMING SOON:Beyond heterogeneitiesNew perspectives on social and cultural diversity from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age...
02/06/2025

COMING SOON:
Beyond heterogeneities
New perspectives on social and cultural diversity from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin
edited by Kata Furholt, Margaux L. C. Depaermentier, Michael Kempf & Martin Furholt

Scales of Transformation 21 Series

This book explores Neolithic and Bronze Age societies in the Carpathian Basin (7th to 2nd millennium BCE). It examines population dynamics, settlement patterns, social transformations, and inequalities through interdisciplinary studies, revealing domestic practices, subsistence strategies, and the ritual significance of enclosures and burials.

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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.