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Artefact Biographies from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe and Beyond
Papers in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn
2024 || Hardcover || Annemieke Verbaas e.a. || Sidestone Press
This volume has been written in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn in order to celebrate her distinguished career as an archaeologist and, above all, as an expert in the study of material culture. Annelou started her research with the use-wear analysis of prehistoric flint from the Netherlands, and she extended her interests in every possible direction: time, space, materials and technologies. This volume has been compiled to reflect the broad oeuvre of her work. It focuses on the biographi...
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Death and display
Kuba funerary art from the Congo River Basin
2024 || Hardcover || Raymond Corbey || Sidestone Press
During funerals of nobles in the Kuba kingdom (Democratic Republic of Congo), visitors used to theatrically offer so-called bongotols to the deceased and the mourning family. These highly appreciated valuables were either positioned under the corpse to support it or displayed on top of it.
In addition to their religious meaning they displayed the status and wealth of both givers and takers. Visitors would receive similar items in return. Afterwards the bongotols were stashed until, on occasio...
Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers
Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 1
2024 || Hardcover || Harry van Enckevort e.a. || Sidestone Press
This publication – Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers – is the first volume of the LIMES XXV’s congress proceedings arranged around the original sessions, in order to form coherent thematical collections that make the vast output more accessible to generalists and specialists alike. This volume starts with a recap of the congress. Regarding the themes it deals with a contemporary feminist approach; new digital methodologies and computational modelling; three themes on archaeological ...
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Larger than Life
The Ommerschans hoard and the role of giant swords in the European Bronze Age (1500-1100 BC)
2024 || Hardcover || Luc Amkreutz e.a. || Sidestone Press
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Plakkaatboek Kust van Guinea, 1597/1611-1872 - Band 2
Traktaten, Instructies, Reglementen en andere documenten betrekking hebbende op De Kust van Guinea, 1597/1611 – 1872
2024 || Hardcover || A. van Dantzig e.a. || Sidestone Press
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Five New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara
2024 || Hardcover || Maarten Raven || Sidestone Press
The five tombs dealt with in this book were explored between 2009 and 2017 by the Leiden-Turin Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. All of them can be described as minor tombs, constructed wherever some space was still available in the cemetery between the major monuments of 18th Dynasty date. Some of them were clearly built against the exterior walls of these previous monuments, whereas their unusual plans show how the builders had to adapt to the cramped conditions in the ce...