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Osteoarchaeology in historical context
Cemetery research from the Low Countries
2019 || Hardcover || Roos van Oosten e.a. || Sidestone Press
Osteoarchaeology is a rich field for reconstructing past lives in that it can provide details on sex, age-at-death, stature, and pathology in conjunction with the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the person's environment and burial conditions. While osteoarchaeological research is common in the Low Countries, many of the studies done on the excellent skeletal collections remain unpublished and therefore unavailable to a larger audience.
Following on the Urban Graveyards volumes, Osteo...
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Stonehenge for the Ancestors: Part I
Landscape and Monuments
2020 || Hardcover || Mike Parker Pearson e.a. || Sidestone Press
For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009) aimed to investigate the purpose of this unique prehistoric monument by considering it within its wider archaeological context.
This is the first of four volumes which present the results of that campaign. It includes investigatio...
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Stonehenge for the Ancestors: Part 2
Synthesis
2021 || Hardcover || Mike Parker Pearson e.a. || Sidestone Press
For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009) aimed to investigate the purpose of this unique prehistoric monument by considering it within its wider archaeological context.This is the second of four volumes which present the results of that campaign. It includes studies of ...
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The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs in the Unas Cemetery
Hardcover || Ashley Cooke || Sidestone Press
Until comparatively recently, there has been little attempt to produce a detailed study of the architectural make-up of multi-roomed mastaba tombs and the implications of these observations for understanding the ways in which this type of tomb was really used. No thorough and comprehensive investigation has ever been dedicated to the building techniques, materials and design of mastabas or, indeed, who built them.
"The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs" considers the architectural components of t...
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Looking Closely
Excavations at Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan, 2010 – 2014
2019 || Hardcover || Susan Pollock e.a. || Sidestone Press
Soviet archaeological research in southern Turkmenistan revealed a series of small Late Neolithic and Aeneolithic villages strung along the streams that emerge from the Kopet Dag and water the narrow foothill zone separating the mountains from the Kara Kum desert. A commonly accepted premise of their work was that these communities garnered their technological knowledge if not their populations from regions to the south and west in present-day Iran.
Since 2010 we have reinvestigated one of the...
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The Roman villa at Maasbracht
The archaeology and history of a Roman settlement on the banks of the river Meuse (provice of Limburg, the Netherlands)
2019 || Hardcover || W.K. Vos e.a. || Sidestone Press
In the Dutch archaeological community, the Roman Villa of Maasbracht has become famous for the beautiful remains of murals that have survived to this day. Almost all of this material was found in the infill of the stone cellar, a veritable time capsule that has been excavated with much patience and care.
The first field campaign in 1981 consisted of some four trial trenches excavated by members of the local archaeological society. These yielded amongst others foundation trenches of walls and f...
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Perspectives on lived religion
Practices Transmission Landscape
2019 || Hardcover || N. Staring e.a. || Sidestone Press
Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if superficial narratives, however. Individuals and groups continuously shaped their environments, and were shaped by them in turn. This volume explores the ways in which this adaptation, negotiation, and reconstruction of religious understandin...
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Rural Settlement
Relating buildings, landscape, and people in the European Iron Age
2019 || Hardcover || Dave Cowley e.a. || Sidestone Press
The majority of humanity have lived out their lives in a 'rural' context, and even in our increasingly urbanised world almost half of the global population still live in rural areas. In the European Iron Age, the vast mass of the population clearly lived in small hamlets and farmsteads, and this overarching 'rurality' is important for understanding these societies. While there has been a pronounced focus in recent archaeological research on patterns of centralisation and urbanisation, there i...
Digging up the Bible?
The Excavations at Tell Deir Alla, Jordan (1960-1967)
2021 || Hardcover || Margreet Steiner e.a. || Sidestone Press
This is the account of a remarkable excavation. It started with a modest dig on an unremarkable tell in Jordan. The name of the tell does not occur in the Bible, and no ancient town of any importance was to be expected under the rubble. The excavator Henk Franken had not yet made a name for himself within the archaeological community.
And yet, from 1960 onwards history was being (re)written at Tell Deir Alla. To discover the secrets of the tell, the expedition team defied cold, rain and storm...
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Durrington Walls and Woodhenge
A place for the living
2021 || Hardcover || Mike Parker Pearson e.a. || Sidestone Press
For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009) aimed to investigate the purpose of this unique prehistoric monument by considering it within its wider archaeological context.This is the third of four volumes which present the results of that campaign. It reports on surveys an...