Sidestone Press

18/12/2024

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Appropriating Height
Movement and Mobility in Highland Landscapes of Southwest Asia
edited by Sepideh Maziar & Barbara Helwing

👉 The essays in this book focus on archaeological approaches to the utilization of highland regions in southwestern and central Asia, examining the interplay between human communities and highland landscapes from the Paleolithic era to the present.

“Appropriating Height” aims to understand the human experience in highland environments. It is essential for those fascinated by the entanglement between people, place, and time, providing a comprehensive perspective on the legacy of human movement.

This book is the second volume of a series published by the German-Iranian research cooperation “The Iranian Highlands: Resiliences and Integration in Premodern Societies”. The goal of the research project is to shine a new light on communities and societies that populated the Iranian highlands and their more or less successful strategies to cope with the many vagaries, the constant changes and risks of their natural and humanly shaped environments.

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18/12/2024

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Straatvaart
Bijdragen aan de Dag van de historische maritieme archeologie in Nederland (15de Glavimans symposion)
Edited by A.F.L. van Holk, R. Oosting, A.B.M. Overmeer, A.D. Vos & W.B. Waldus

📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at https://www.sidestone.com/books/straatvaart

16/12/2024

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Cremation in the Early Middle Ages
Death, fire and identity in North-West Europe
edited by Howard Williams & Femke Lippok

👉 Cremation in the Early Middle Ages draws together the latest research and thinking on early medieval cremation practices. The book takes you on a journey through 19 chapters exploring cremation practices from the fifth to the eleventh centuries CE in Fennoscandia, the UK and Ireland, Frisia, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, and France. In this way, the book aims to be a central resource for anyone interested in early medieval cremations, or indeed funerary practices more generally. Notably, the structure and style of this book represent a departure from the norm. As well as a co-authored introduction, chapters constitute a conversation between the editors and key researchers captured via structured interviews, supported by a series of fact boxes highlighting key ideas, methods and techniques, sites, graves and discoveries.

📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at https://www.instagram.com/p/DDo4sy7Nvo0/?img_index=1

16/12/2024

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Wie der Meister, so das Werk
Festschrift für Ralph Röber zum 65. Geburtstag
edited by Andreas Heege, Karsten Igel, Michaela Jansen-Igel, Natascha Mehler, Joachim Müller, Eva Roth Heege & Jonathan Scheschkewitz

👉 This German volume brings together 29 research contributions from Germany and Switzerland to honour the work of Ralph Röber, a medieval and modern archaeologist from Baden-Württemberg.

📚Read online for free or buy and enjoy it in print at https://www.sidestone.com/books/wie-der-meister-so-das-werk

12/12/2024

COMING SOON:
Roman villas
New perspectives on villa development in Northwestern Europe
edited by Jasper de Bruin

👉 The Dutch province of Limburg, as it exists now, once bordered the frontier zone of the Roman Empire. It was known for its fertile soils, where, especially in the south, a villa landscape developed during the first three centuries CE. Many of these Roman villas were excavated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, without being analysed, and publications relating to these sites did not meet contemporary standards.

The Leiden Villa Project, conducted between 2022 and 2024 by a team of researchers from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the Limburgs Museum in Venlo, The Roman Museum in Heerlen and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, aimed at filling in this lacuna. The project also paid attention to other aspects, such as the research history in Dutch Limburg, the burials that were associated with the Roman villa settlements, and aspects of conservation and heritage management.

This project has resulted in an up-to-date overview of more than twenty villa settlements, presented here in this volume, together with information on the more recently studied villa sites in the Netherlands, and the villa landscapes in Germany, Belgium and France. Accompanied by a study focused on the end of the Roman villas, this volume offers new and thought-provoking perspectives for anyone studying Roman villas in Northwestern Europe, or the phenomenon of the Roman villa in general.

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https://www.sidestone.com/books/roman-villas

10/12/2024

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The lost mummy of Djedhor
Reconstructing the burial of a Ptolemaic priest from Thebes
by Maarten J. Raven

👉 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. The name of the deceased has been inscribed on the mummy’s cartonnage, on some of the linen bandages, and on the Book of the Dead papyrus retrieved by Pleyte from the mummy wrappings. Several other items had been slipped between the wrappings, such as an amuletic necklace and various pieces of funerary jewellery. Together with textile samples of the diverse shrouds and bandages, all these finds have been preserved in the Museum’s reserves.

This rich documentation allows us to recognize this assemblage as the remains of an elite burial in Ptolemaic Thebes. The texts identify its owner as a priest called Djedhor, the son of Neferibre and Takerheb. Comparable mummies and funerary objects in other museums in Europe, Egypt and the United States help to interpret the various items found on Djedhor’s mummy. Moreover, we can thereby visualise the additional material once present in the tomb, such as the mummy’s coffins, canopic chest, stela, and Ptah-Sokar-Osiris statue. Finally, the common acquisition history of all these items points to the original location of Djedhor’s tomb and suggests through whose hands his remains must have passed on their way to Leiden.

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https://www.sidestone.com/books/the-lost-mummy-of-djedhor

05/12/2024

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Figurine-making in the Neolithic Aegean
edited by Stratos Nanoglou and Fanis Mavridis

👉 This volume presents a cutting-edge perspective on figurine studies in the Neolithic Aegean, sparking renewed interest and innovative ideas!

📚 Read online for free or buy and enjoy it in print at https://www.sidestone.com/books/figurine-making-in-the-neolithic-aegean

03/12/2024

COMING SOON:
Archaeology Of Coastal Settlements / Archéologie des peuplements littoraux
HOMER 2021 Conference
edited by Catherine Dupont, Anna Baudry & Marie-Yvane Daire

🧐 This volume presents the proceedings of the HOMER 2021 international conference, held in September/October 2021 on the Island of Oléron, France. The conference focused on recent advances in coastal and island archaeology across a wide geographical area, covering the Atlantic north of the equator. From the 55 oral presentations and 24 posters, 49 papers emerged, contributed by scholars from seven countries.

The publication showcases the diversity of maritime archaeology, spanning fieldwork to specialized analysis, and from exploratory to synthesis studies. This volume is crucial for the archaeological community as it addresses both methodological issues and the new challenges facing coastal archaeology, reflecting diverse political perspectives.

It also presents new research findings, a decade after the Homer 2011 conference was published in 2013 (BAR), and emphasizes the importance of coastal archaeological heritage. The volume engages with current global challenges and serves as a valuable tool for raising awareness among the public and decision-makers about the future of maritime heritage in the face of rising sea levels. It demonstrates that archaeology is a dynamic discipline, adapting daily to political decisions and natural events.

Most of the case studies presented are previously unpublished. A key feature of this volume is its diachronic approach, ranging from prehistoric sites to historical ones.

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https://www.sidestone.com/books/archaeology-of-coastal-settlements

26/11/2024

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Identity, Power and Group Formation in Archaic Macedonia (600-400 BC)
by Christos Giamakis

(😊and this is Monica, whom we are happy to have back in the office!)

This volume is the first ever large-scale synthesis on identity and social dynamics across archaic Macedonia (600-400 BC)! It is a full publication, so you can read or download it for free, or buy and enjoy it in print at https://www.sidestone.com/books/identity-power-and-group-formation-in-archaic-macedonia-600-400-bc

25/11/2024

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🔥 Chariots on fire, reins of power
Early La Tène elite burials from the Lower Rhine-Meuse region and their Northwest European context
edited by Nico Roymans, Liesbeth Theunissen, Louis Swinkels & Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof

📚Get a peek inside the volume! Read online for free or buy and enjoy it in print at https://www.sidestone.com/books/chariots-on-fire-reins-of-power

25/11/2024

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Aufgetau(ch)t
Archäologie zu Seeufer­­siedlungen, Eisfunden und Klimawandel
edited by Caroline Heitz, Regine Stapfer & Martin Hinz

👉This festschrift honors Prof. Dr. Albert Hafner’s contributions to Prehistoric Archaeology, especially in wetland and glacier archaeology. With 27 international contributions, it covers topics like UNESCO pile dwellings, ecology, mobility, and climate change, highlighting his 40 years of innovative and impactful research.

📚Read online for free or buy and enjoy it in print at https://www.sidestone.com/books/aufgetaucht

22/11/2024

Today "chariots on fire" was presented at Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. An Iron Age chariot grave looted by treasure hunters, but the find triggered a large research project, the results of which are now published. Read for free online:
https://www.sidestone.com/books/chariots-on-fire-reins-of-power

21/11/2024

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Cyprus and Ugarit
Connecting Material and Mercantile Worlds by A. Bernard Knapp

👉 This study considers the detailed archaeological and documentary records of Cyprus and Ugarit (Syria) to gain new insights into the long-term relations between two of the best known, well-connected polities in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean.

📕Read online for free or buy and enjoy it in print at https://www.sidestone.com/books/cyprus-and-ugarit

15/11/2024

Congratulations to Roosje de Leeuwe for winning the W.A. van Es prize 2024 for her dissertation "Before Temples".

You can read her award-winning book here:

Before the introduction of Roman temples in the Low Countries, there used to be ‘open air cult places’ in the Iron Age. That is at least the assumption based on descriptions given by classical writers and several structures typified as sanctuaries that were excavated in France. Several of these ...

14/11/2024

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The Archaeology of the ‘Margins’
Studies on Ancient West Asia in Honour of Peter M.M.G. Akkermans
Edited by Bleda S. Düring and Jo-Hannah Plug

🎉This book is a tribute to the remarkable achievements of Peter M.M.G. Akkermans in the archaeology of West Asia. A focus on previously overlooked periods and regions has been the hallmark of his work. Instead of investigating the traditional key transitions and core regions that have been central to the archaeology of West Asia, Peter always aimed to shed light on the ‘in-between’ periods and regions, often dismissed as being ‘marginal’ (in his words ‘marginal to whom or what?’). Through his long-term, systematic research in the ‘backwaters’ of the Balikh and the Badia, Peter demonstrated that these supposedly ‘marginal’ places and periods have, in fact, very rich and complex archaeological histories and are of key importance for understanding West Asia’s past and present.

Throughout his long career Peter has collaborated with and inspired many researchers, and he has mentored generations of upcoming archaeologists. Here, a selection of his former students and colleagues present a series of studies on societies and periods at the margins of research in West Asia. The contributions, written by an international group of authors, are organised in three broad themes that have also featured in Peter’s career: ‘death and society’, ‘settlements and society’, and ‘images, objects, and society’. We are convinced that colleagues working on West Asian archaeology who have appreciated the work of Peter M.M.G. Akkermans will find much of interest in this volume.

📕Read online for free or buy and enjoy it in print at https://www.sidestone.com/books/the-archaeology-of-the-margins

12/11/2024

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Das Fenster in der römischen Architektur
Zur Funktion und Bedeutung eines architektonischen Bauteils in der Wohn- und Thermenarchitektur von der Republik bis zum 3. Jh. n. Chr.
by Martin Wagner

👉 Windows are multifunctional elements within roman architecture. Their number, size, and type of shutters help us understand the use of architectural spaces within their time. Windows, together with the décor of such spaces, are able to create certain atmospheres, sometimes even heterotopias, which are dissociated from the real world. Whereas houses and baths have been studied for a long time, the analysis of windows and their functions was often neglected and has been the subject of only a few articles.

This book aims to summarize research results and close the gap of research regarding methods of window and shutter construction and their features. It traces the evolution of windows over more than 500 years of architectural history, taking into account not only their pragmatic functions but their cognitive-sensualistic effects as well.

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07/11/2024

Just browsing through the shelves - what a cool print! 🔥

This book focuses on the period of ancient Egypt, the so-called New Kingdom (ca. 1539-1077 BC) and covers the important rulers of that time like Ahmose Nefertari, Hatshepsut, Tey, Nefertiti and Nefertari.

Koninginnen van de Nijl is a Dutch volume that can be accessed for free or purchased on our website 📚
https://www.sidestone.com/books/koninginnen-van-de-nijl
For those interested, we have quite a collection on Egyptology worth looking into!

22/10/2024

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Metaaltijden (vol. 11)
Bijdragen in de studie van de metaaltijden
Edited by P. van de Geer, A. Müller, M.D.R. Schurmans, N. de Vries

📕Get your volume at https://www.sidestone.com/books/metaaltijden-vol-11