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We graven hier niet de Bijbel op!

2018 || Paperback || Margreet Steiner e.a. || Sidestone Press

Dit is het verhaal van een bijzondere opgraving. Onderzocht werd een onaanzienlijke ruïneheuvel in Jordanië. De naam van de ruïneheuvel kwam niet in de Bijbel voor, en er was geen belangrijke stad onder het puin te verwachten. De opgraver Henk Franken had nog geen naam gemaakt binnen de archeologische gemeenschap.

Maar op Tell Deir Alla werd vanaf 1960 geschiedenis geschreven. Om de tell haar geheimen te ontfutselen trotseerden de opgravers maandenlang kou, regen en wind, het slapen in kla...

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Pacific Presences Fighting Fibres

Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections

2018 || Paperback || Julie Adams e.a. || Sidestone Press

This book brings together artists, curators, researchers and conservators to consider the significance of coconut fibre armour from the islands of Kiribati. Taking as its focus the armour found in museum collections, it investigates the historical context that led to these unique artefacts leaving the Pacific and entering the orbit of British collectors and institutions, as well the legacies of those practices in the present.As well as exploring the historical milieux surrounding its collecti...

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Collecting in the South Sea

The Voyage of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux, 1791–1794

2018 || Hardcover || Bronwen Douglas e.a. || Sidestone Press

This book is a study of 'collecting' undertaken by Joseph Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux and his shipmates in Tasmania, the western Pacific Islands, and Indonesia. In 1791-1794 Bruni d'Entrecasteaux led a French naval expedition in search of the lost vessels of La Pérouse which had last been seen by Europeans at Botany Bay in March 1788. After Bruni d'Entrecasteaux died near the end of the voyage and the expedition collapsed in political disarray in Java, its collections and records were subs...

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Chalk Hill

Neolithic and Bronze Age discoveries at Ramsgate, Kent

2019 || Paperback || Peter Clark e.a. || Sidestone Press

Excavations at Chalk Hill, Ramsgate in south-eastern Britain were primarily aimed at investigating the remains of a possible early Neolithic causewayed enclosure visible on aerial photographs. However, the monument could not in fact be categorised as a causewayed enclosure, but instead represented a type of early Neolithic ritual monument unique to the British Isles.The earliest significant features recorded on the site dated to the early Neolithic (roughly 3700-3600 cal BC). They took the fo...

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The Compassionate Bodhisattva

Unique Southeast Asian images of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara

Hardcover || Sofia Sundström || Sidestone Press

Southeast Asia has a long history with Buddhism that continues to the present day. Centuries ago, Buddhism spread to various areas of Southeast Asia, where some of the greatest Buddhist images and monuments were produced over 1,000 years ago. These include the majestic Borobudur in Central Java and Angkor Thom in Cambodia. Images of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara in bronze were also produced in large numbers at this time.

This book deals with images of Avalokiteśvara that are unique to speci...

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Bronnen voor de geschiedenis der dagvaarten van de Staten van Zeeland 1318 - 1572 (Heruitgave)

Band III: Teksten 1536-1572 en indices

2018 || Hardcover || J.G. Smit e.a. || Sidestone Press

Band 3: Teksten 1536-1572 en indicesHet bestuur van het gewest Zeeland werd in de late middeleeuwen en in de zestiende eeuw voornamelijk gedragen door de vergaderingen van de Staten. In dit orgaan overlegden afgevaardigden van de geestelijkheid, de adel en de steden met de vertegenwoordigers van de landsheer, de graven van Holland en Zeeland en hun Bourgondische en Habsburgse opvolgers. Hier onderhandelde men over bestuurlijke maatregelen, de heffing van belastingen, en in samenhang daarmee o...

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Tracing Technoscapes

The Production of Bronze Age Wall Paintings in the Eastern Mediterranean

2018 || Hardcover || Johannes Becker e.a. || Sidestone Press

Colourful surface treatments form an integral element of vernacular and élite architecture of ancient societies. This is also true for the various regions of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd millennium B.C.E., where elaborate wall paintings furnished temples, tombs, palatial buildings, and in general more elaborate houses. From a present-day perspective, these rich images provide invaluable insights into past realities as well as interconnections between different visual systems. However...

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Une maison sous les dunes : Beg ar Loued, île Molène, Finistère

Identité et adaptation des groupes humains en mer d'Iroise entre les IIIe et IIe millénaires avant notre ère

2019 || Paperback || Yvan Pailler e.a. || Sidestone Press

Depuis 2001, des recherches archéologiques sont menées dans l'archipel de Molène. Ce secteur s'avère particulièrement riche en vestiges du Néolithique et de l'Age du Bronze. Une concentration exceptionnelle de monuments mégalithiques y a été mise en évidence.

Plusieurs habitats sont attestés par la présence de dépotoirs domestiques. A la pointe de Beg ar Loued (île Molène), l'un de ses amas coquilliers fit l'objet d'un premier sondage en 2003 marquant le début d'une série de c...

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'The most prominent Dutchman in Egypt'

Paperback || Maarten Raven || Sidestone Press

Jan Herman Insinger was a well-known character in the history of Egyptology, mainly because his name has been linked forever with a famous demotic wisdom papyrus now in Leiden. Although he is mentioned by many of his contemporaries, biographical notes on Insinger rarely surpass a few lines and can be quite inaccurate. However, a lot of information can be gathered from the Archives of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden and other sources, both published and unpublished ones. These doc...

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Seafaring and seafarers in the bronze age eastern mediterranean

Paperback || Bernard Knapp || Sidestone Press

Seafaring is a mode of travel, a way to traverse maritime space that enables not only the transport of goods and materials but also of people and ideas - communicating and sharing knowledge across the sea and between different lands. Seagoing ships under sail were operating between the Levant, Egypt, Cyprus and Anatolia by the mid-third millennium BC and within the Aegean by the end of that millennium. By the Late Bronze Age (after ca. 1700/1600 BC), seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranea...