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Jebel Aruda: An Uruk period temple and settlement in Syria
Volume II: Plates of Room Contents
2023 || Hardcover || Govert van Driel e.a. || Sidestone Press
Jebel Aruda, a prominent mountain ridge overlooking the Taqba Dam lake in northern Syria, was the location of a remarkable settlement that flourished between c. 3300 and 3100 BC during the so-called Uruk period. For the inhabitants the sacredness of this high place, evidenced by the discovery of a large temple complex, seems to have taken precedent over its impractical location far above the valley of the Euphrates River. The site was destroyed under unknown circumstances, leaving behind the ...
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Digital Archaeology
Promises and Impasses
2023 || Hardcover || Tuna Kalaycı e.a. || Sidestone Press
Archaeology has gone digital for some time now! Topics such as GIS databases, 3D models, drone photography, meta- and para-data, semantic mapping, text mining, simulation, and social network analysis have become commonplace in archaeological discourse and practice. Digital and technological advancements seemingly offer limitless promises for data recording, analysis and dissemination. Yet, after several decades of innovation, we must ask ourselves which of these promises are actually fulfille...
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Encounters with Troubled Pasts in Contemporary Dutch and Greek Historiography
2023 || Hardcover || Philip Carabott e.a. || Sidestone Press
The volume in hand throws light on historical encounters with troubled pasts in contemporary Dutch and Greek historiography. Contributors, experts in their respective research fields with a wide range of scholarly publications, eschew dominant national accounts, deconstruct top-down narratives, and situate the historical subject(s) at the centre of the analysis.
Troubled pasts are the outcome of local, national and international conflicts, of the continuous quest for growth and dominance, of...
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From Households to Empires
Papers in Memory of Bradley J. Parker
2023 || Hardcover || Jason Kennedy e.a. || Sidestone Press
Bradley J. Parker made numerous contributions to the field of archaeology and Assyriology on a broad array of topics spanning six millennia of archaeological history in both ancient Mesopotamia and the Andes. His varied research interests included the archaeology of empires and imperial dynamics, frontiers and borderlands, households and micro-archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, aerial drone mapping, and the politics of archaeology and nationalism.
This volume contains a collection of essays from...
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Jebel Aruda: An Uruk period temple and settlement in Syria
Volume I: Excavation and Material Culture
2023 || Hardcover || Govert van Driel e.a. || Sidestone Press
Jebel Aruda, a prominent mountain ridge overlooking the Taqba Dam lake in northern Syria, was the location of a remarkable settlement that flourished between c. 3300 and 3100 BC during the so-called Uruk period. For the inhabitants the sacredness of this high place, evidenced by the discovery of a large temple complex, seems to have taken precedent over its impractical location far above the valley of the Euphrates River. The site was destroyed under unknown circumstances, leaving behind the ...
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Style and Society in the Prehistory of West Asia
Essays in Honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse
2023 || Hardcover || Bleda Düring e.a. || Sidestone Press
Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was a remarkable archaeologist whose work has transformed the study of later Neolithic societies in West Asia and he has inspired many colleagues and former student in their own pursuit of archaeology. Through the analysis of material culture his aim was to reconstruct social meanings and practices of societies in the deep past. In this volume a series of colleagues and friends pay tribute to the scholarship of Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, who died much too young, and presents a...
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Fields, Sherds and Scholars
Recording and Interpreting Survey Ceramics
2023 || Hardcover || Anna Meens e.a. || Sidestone Press
This book is a significant contribution to the field of survey pottery studies, which is not frequently theorised, and could also serve as a guide and provide inspiration to archaeologists designing their own survey projects and methodologies.
Landscape archaeology has heavily relied on pedestrian survey as a field method for more than half a century. In most field projects, archaeological ceramics constitute the lion’s share among the finds and the amount of collected sherds is overwhelmi...
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Revealing Christian Heritage
The rediscovery of Christian archaeology between 1860 and 1930. Volume II. Spain
2023 || Hardcover || Chiara Cecalupo || Sidestone Press
This volume collects different case studies of rediscovery of Christian antiquities between 1860-1930 in Spain, in order to stimulate reflections about the impact of these rediscoveries on our culture in a period of great political transition.
By turning the light on lesser-known stories on a national horizon, this book gives a strong contribution to the history of Christian archaeology. All articles deal with many topics of the field (museology, cultural heritage protection law, history of r...
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Hayonim Cave
From the Early to the Middle Palaeolithic in the Levant (Israel)
2023 || Hardcover || Liliane Meignen e.a. || Sidestone Press
The research presented in this book results from an international interdisciplinary research program in Hayonim cave (Israel) from 1992 to 2000, directed by Prof O. Bar-Yosef (Harvard University) and L. Meignen (CNRS, France), and focusing on a long archaeological sequence dated to circa 300-140 000 years ago. The intensive fieldwork and research following it allowed us to document an essential period of human history in the Levant: the end of the Lower Palaeolithic and Early Middle Palaeolit...
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From Quarries to Rock-cut Sites
Echoes of Stone Crafting
2023 || Hardcover || Anaïs Lamesa e.a. || Sidestone Press
The archaeological study of quarries focuses mainly on the reconstruction of the extraction process, while rock-hewn spaces have often been approached from the point of view of architectural styles or art-history. Nevertheless, a holistic structural approach to the study these spaces could allow a better understanding of the agency of those who carved the stone.
Stone quarries and rock-cut sites have rarely been included in global studies of historical landscapes and few are the forums dedic...