Sidestone Press

11/12/2025

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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

👉 The book explores how people in Viking Age Scandinavia (750-1050 CE) engaged with and related to the past materially and referentially, as part of their social identities, social memories and their conceptualisations of time and temporality.

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11/12/2025

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The Bissing Link
The Collections and Network of Egyptologist F. W. von Bissing (1873–1956)
edited by Lars Petersen & Ben van den Bercken

👉 One of the largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese antiquities worldwide was accrued by the Egyptologist Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bissing (1873–1956). As a scholar, university professor, and politically engaged Prussian nobleman he was an important link in the international network of Egyptology and in the distribution of archaeological objects to museums. He was also active in other disciplines regarding the ancient world, such as Etruscology. Already during his life, the collection was dispersed over different museums. Scholars are now trying to reconstruct it and better understand von Bissing’s role in early-twentieth-century Egyptology and related fields.

This volume includes a short biography of von Bissing. The main part consists of papers that investigate his role in Egyptology and archaeology, some aspects of his personal and political life, and the way archaeological objects were transferred to museum collections by his agency or donation. The papers not only illustrate von Bissing’s position, but also contribute to the reconstruction of his collection. They constitute a useful tool for scholars working on museum collections, the history of Egyptology, and related fields of study.

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11/12/2025

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Gesellschaft und Monumentalität zwischen Nordatlantik und Ostsee 4500–1800 v. Chr.
by Johanna Brinkmann



🧐 This work is the first to offer a summarizing, systematic study of the megalithic sites and the entire material culture of the Neolithic on the British Isles and in the western Baltic between 4500 and 1800 BCE. Embedded in a comprehensive comparative analysis of the movable material culture (pottery, stone and metal artifacts), the settlement structures as well as the graves and monuments, the occurrence of Neolithic monumentality in this area is traced across the entire Neolithic period. On a large-scale level, parallel developments between the British Isles and the western Baltic region are evident in many aspects.

The systematic presentation of the archaeological material is based on the here introduced principle of integrative archaeology. The archaeological case studies are preceded by a critical examination of the concept of archaeological cultures and theory formation in archaeology on the one hand, and a summary of megalithism in the European research history as well as an analysis of the prevailing theories on Neolithic monumentality on the other.

* the volume is in German

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08/12/2025

Op de afgelopen Reuvensdagen presenteerden onze vrienden van RAAP het door hen uitgegeven boek "Gebouwd met hout: 7000 jaar huisplattegronden".

Dit boek neemt je mee op reis door de geschiedenis van houten huizen in Nederland. Van de eerste huizen in het vroeg neolithicum, tot de boerderijen in de late middeleeuwen.

Omdat ze zelf weer druk bezig zijn met opgraven en prospecties, hebben ze gevraagd of wij het voor ze willen verkopen. Nou, dat kan natuurlijk, dus als je alles wilt weten over huisplattegronden en nog iets leuks zoekt voor onder de kerstboom, sla dan nu je slag:

Gebouwd met hout, 7000 jaar huisplattegronden neemt je mee op reis door de geschiedenis van houten huizen in Nederland. Van de eerste huizen in het vroeg neolithicum, tot de boerderijen in de late middeleeuwen waarvan de houtskeletten op stiepen komen te staan, zodat er nauwelijks nog sporen van te....

27/11/2025

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

👉 This volume comprises 100 archaeological air photographs, principally of sites dating to the Iron Age and Roman periods in Northern Britain, resulting from aerial survey between 1970 and 1995, before the advent of drones when archaeological air photography was still dependent upon the use of light aircraft. The principal target areas were the Anglo-Scottish Borders, central Scotland (crannogs) and the Northern and Western Isles (brochs and duns). Practically, in order to maximise intended outcome, the author piloted the aircraft to the target area himself, selecting the optimum orbit and height, and only handing over controls to a co-pilot when taking the photographs. Because of the fugitive nature of some archaeological features, large format cameras were used to maximise definition in addition to single-lens reflex cameras.

In the past twenty years archaeological air photography has been revolutionized by the use of drones, and by the technical advantages of digital photography over film. Though the methodology recorded here now primarily has a historiographical relevance, therefore, the academic issues of settlement and landscape archaeology remain central to current research. The classes of field monument targeted were significantly different from the norm in Britain and Europe, and the tactics deployed in capturing optimum images accordingly were often unique.

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27/11/2025

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Bernstein in der Bronzezeit.
Netzwerke und Interaktion in Europa
by Benjamin Serbe



This publication provides a detailed insight into the distribution mechanisms of amber in Europe during the Bronze Age (2200-800 BCE) using statistical, spatial and network-based analyses. While the concept of the amber road was introduced into archaeological discussions almost a century ago and was considered authoritative for a long time, the current research focus is placed on the idea of a complex exchange system. This new study is based on archaeological finds of amber from various European countries and enables a reconstruction of the exchange relationships across space and time.

* the book is in German

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27/11/2025

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Anacaona’s Gift.
Cotton and the woven arts of the 11th to 17th century Caribbean
by Joanna Ostapkowicz

👉 Anacaona’s Gift explores the vital role of cotton artistry in the Indigenous Caribbean from the 11th to 17th centuries. It examines textiles, tools, and archaeological finds, highlighting women’s contributions and the cultural significance of woven goods, largely lost to history but preserved through museum collections and early accounts.

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19/11/2025

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19/11/2025

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Nature and Human Nature in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Its Reception
edited by Melina G. Mouzala

This book includes papers on Nature and Human Nature focusing on Ancient Greek Philosophy and its Reception. The book encompasses papers of academics who participated in the homonymous Symposium which was held in October 2023 at the Netherlands Institute at Athens.

All papers deal with philosophers, philosophical works and treatises which belong to the broad subject of the inquiry into nature, including human nature. The book is intended for specialists, students and anyone interested in Ancient Greek Philosophy.

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19/11/2025

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Dorestad and Everything After
Ports, townscapes & travellers in Europe, 800-1100
edited by Annemarieke Willemsen & Hanneke Kik



🧐 Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As an inland port on the edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as an international hub, connecting the North Sea World with the Continent and the Low Countries with Italy. In 2024, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted its quinquennial international congress based around Dorestad, located at present-day Wijk bij Duurstede. This fourth edition, ‘Dorestad and Everything After’, coincided with the large exhibition ‘The Year 1000’ that showcased the Netherlands in the tenth and eleventh century in its European framework.

The Fourth Dorestad Congress brought together scholars from various disciplines to debate Dorestad and its relations in northern and southern Europe in the period of 800 to 1100 AD. The contributions in these proceedings are devoted to new research into high medieval towns, from Quentovic to Rome, the landscape in which they flourished and the travellers that traversed those. Special attention is paid to the monetization of the period and even Halley’s comet, visible in 1066, makes an appearance. Together, they show the afterlives of Dorestad and its counterparts, putting these emporia into new geographical and temporal perspectives.

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19/11/2025

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Exploring New Horizons in Video Game Cultures
edited by Nick Webber, Ewan Kirkland and René Reinhold Schallegger

👉 This book brings together a selection of papers delivered at the Video Game Cultures 2023 conference, held from 7 to 9 September 2023 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. An interdisciplinary collection drawing on disciplines from literary and cultural studies through to evolutionary psychology, this book critically investigates many developments in video game cultures, technologies, practices, texts, paratexts, and genres. Through examining ideas such as narrative and time, gender and sexuality, ethics and affect, and technology and spaces, our authors aim to expand our shared understanding of video games, and the cultures and communities which surround them.

The work presented here reflects authors at different points in their academic careers, and will appeal to a variety of readers, from those wanting to find out more about academic writing on video games, through to those with a focused scholarly interest in particular fields of enquiry. With sections addressing Q***r Game Studies, Historical Game Studies, and Game Design Perspectives, alongside ideas of solidarity and kindness in video games, the collection speaks to numerous subfields within games research. The chapters within offer conclusions and recommendations for academics and other educators, for established and aspiring game designers, and for anyone interested in how games can be understood as meaningful contributors to our cultural lives.

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19/11/2025

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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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