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Prehistory of Eurasia Research Group

A research group of the Department of Archaeology.

The Prehistory of Eurasia research group captures the diversity of international research taking place at Durham in this broad period/area range. This vibrant body of researchers and post-graduate students covers topics ranging in time from the Lower Palaeolithic to the end of the Iron Age, and in space from Torquay to Damascus. The group combines competing theoretical and empirical backgrounds to create new synergies in cross-period and cross-area discourse. The aim is to transcend traditional and restrictive theoretical pigeon-holes by providing a forum in which broad-ranging and widely informed interpretation is the norm.
The group is active in both scholarly publications and fieldwork. Recent major works include: The British Palaeolithic: hominin societies at the edge of the Pleistocene World (Pettitt and White, 2012, Routledge); Atlantic Europe in the first millennium BC. Crossing the divide (Moore and Armada 2011); Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany (Scarre, 2011, OUP); Parts and wholes. Fragmentation in prehistoric context. (Chapman & Gaydarska, 2007. Oxbow) and An Archaeology of the Senses: Prehistoric Malta. (Skeates, 2010, OUP).
Fieldwork sits at the heart of the group's activities. Recent and ongoing work includes new excavations at two classic British Cave sites, Kent's Cavern and Creswell Crags; excavation of Neolithic landscapes on the Channel Island of Herm; excavation of two new Mesolithic sites on the Western Isles of Scotland; excavations of four Neolithic and Bronze Age caves in central Sardinia; excavations and survey of a unique Late La Tène unenclosed settlement in Burgundy and the Late Iron Age oppidum of Bagendon, Gloucestershire.; and the work on the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age occupations at the key sites of Tell Nebi Mend in the Orontes Valley region of Syria, and Tell esh-Shuna on the east side of the Jordan Valley. In 2012 members of the Prehistory of Eurasia group (Chapman, Gaydarska) won a major grant from the AHRC (~£650k) and Marie Curie Trust to make a comparative study of the Tripolye mega-sites of the Uman Region, Ukraine, with the Lengyel rondels of SW Hungary.

Further details of some of our current projects can be found here:
The Herm Project
The Shuna Project
Tell Nebi Mend Post-Excavation and Publication Project
Journeys to the Underworld: Ritual Transformations of Persons, Objects and Caves in Prehistoric Central Sardinia

Postgraduate Opportunities in Prehistory

We welcome enquiries about potential research projects at post-graduate and post-doctoral levels, and encourage interested scholars to contact relevant people within the research group in the first instance.

Staff

Academic Staff

• Prof Ian Bailiff
• Professor John Chapman
• Dr Tom Moore
• Prof Paul Pettitt
• Prof Graham Philip
• Dr Benjamin Roberts
• Prof Peter Rowley-Conwy
• Prof Chris Scarre
• Dr Robin Skeates
• Dr Mark White

Research Staff

• Dr Bisserka Gaydarska
• Dr Kate Sharpe

Research Student

• Mr Waleed Alsadeqi
• Mr David Clinnick
• Mr Michel De Vreeze
• Miss Helen Drinkall
• Ms Armineh Marghussian
• Ms Jo Zalea Matias
• Mr Paul Murtagh
• Miss Samantha Neil
• Miss Helene Pioffet
• Miss Agni Prijatelj
• Miss Elizabeth Schech
• Mrs Karlena Tomc-Barbosa
• Miss Mai Tsuneki
• Mr James Walker

From other departments

• Dr Frederick Foulds

Publications by staff in this group

Books: authored

• Pettitt, P.B. & White, M.J. (2012). The British Palaeolithic: Hominin Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World. London: Routledge.
• Pettitt, P. B. (2011). The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial. Routledge.
• Scarre, Chris (2011). Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Morigi, A., Schreve, D. & White, M.J. (2011). The Thames through time the archaeology of the gravel terraces of the upper and middle Thames early Prehistoric to 1500 BC. Part 1, The Ice ages palaeogeography, Palaeolithic archaeology and Pleistocene environments. Oxford: Oxford Archaeology.
• Chapman, John, Gillings, M., Shiel, R., Magyari, E., Gaydarska, B. & Bond, C. (2010). The Upper Tisza Project. Studies in Hungarian landscape archaeology. Book 2: Settlement patterns in the Bodrogköz Block. Archaeopress.
• Chapman, John, Gillings, M., Shiel, R., Magyari, E., Gaydarska, B. & Bond, C. (2010). The Upper Tisza Project. Studies in Hungarian landscape archaeology. Book 3: Settlement patterns in the Zemplén Block. Archaeopress.
• Chapman, John, Gillings, M., Shiel, R., Gaydarska, B. & Bond, C. (2010). The Upper Tisza Project. Studies in Hungarian landscape archaeology. Book 4: Lowland settlement in North East Hungary: excavations at the Neolithic settlement site of Polgár-10. Archaeopress.
• Chapman, John, Gillings, M., Vicze, M. Shiel, R., Cousins, S., Gaydarska, B. & Bond, C. (2010). The Upper Tisza Project. Studies in Hungarian landscape archaeology. Book 5: Upland settlement patterns in North East Hungary: excavations at the multi-period site of Regéc-95. Archaeopress.
• Greene, K. & Moore, T. (2010). Archaeology: an introduction. London: Routledge.
• Skeates, Robin (2010). An Archaeology of the Senses: Prehistoric Malta. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Trow, S., James, S. & Moore, T. (2009). Becoming Roman, Being Gallic, Staying British. Research and excavations at Ditches 'hillfort' and villa 1984-2006. Oxford: Oxbow.
• Chapman, J. C. & Gaydarska, B. I. (2007). Parts and wholes. Fragmentation in prehistoric context. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Books: edited

• Moore, T. & Armada, X-L. (2012). Atlantic Europe in the first millennium BC: Crossing the divide. Oxford University Press.
• Bergsvik, K.A. & Skeates, R. (2012). Caves in Context: The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe. Oxbow Books.
• Scarre, Chris, García Sanjuán, Leonardo & Wheatley, David (2011). Exploring Time and Matter in Prehistoric Monuments: absolute chronology and rare rocks in European megaliths. Menga. Journal of Andalusian Prehistory. Junta de Andalucía - Andalusian Regional Government Ministry of Culture.
• Skeates, R., McDavid, C. & Carman, J. (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology. Oxford University Press.
• Roberts, B.W. & Vander Linden, M. (2011). Investigating Archaeological Cultures: material culture, variability, and transmission. Springer.
• O’Connor, B., Cooney, G. & Chapman, John (2010). Materialitas. Working stone, carving identity. Oxbow Books.
• Chapman, John & Gaydarska, Bisserka (2010). From surface collection to prehistoric lifeways. Making sense of the multi-period site of Orlovo, South East Bulgaria. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
• Scarre, Chris (2009). Megalithic Quarrying: Sourcing, extracting and manipulating the stones. Oxford: Archaeopress.
• Kienlin, T.L. & Roberts,B.W. (2009). Metals and Societies. Studies in honour of Barbara S. Ottaway. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie. Habelt.
• White, T., White. M., Bridgland, D. & Howard, A. (2008). The Quaternary of the Trent, Field Guide. London: QRA.
• Scarre, Chris (2005). The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies. London: Thames & Hudson.

Edited works: contributions

• Pettitt, P. B. (2012). Fellow travellers on the ‘great trek’ some thoughts on British MIS3 Neanderthals and spotted hyaenas. In A mind set on flint. Studies in honour of Dick Stapert. Niekus, M. J. L. T., Barton, R. N. E., Street, M. & Terberger, T. Groeningen Archaeological Studies 16. 77-91.
• Pettitt, P. B., Housley, R. & Higham, T. F. G. (2012). Radiocarbon chronology and faunal turnover in the Upper Pleistocene at Pontnewydd cave. In Aldhouse-Green, S. Walker, E. and Peterson, R. (eds.) Neanderthals in Wales. Pontnewydd and the Elwy Valley Caves. In Neanderthals in Wales. Pontnewydd and the Elwy Valley Caves. Aldhouse-Green, S., Walker, E. & Peterson, R. National Museums and Galleries of Wales.
• Zvelebil, M., Lillie, M. C., Montgomery, J., Lukes, A., Pettitt, P. B. & Richards, M. P. (2012). The emergence of the LBK: Migration, Memory and Meaning at the transition to agriculture. In Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics. Kaiser, E. & Burger, J.Schier, W. de Gruiter.
• Pettitt, P. B. (2011). The living as symbols, the dead as symbols: problematising the scale and pace of hominin symbolic evolution. In Homo Symbolicus. The Dawn of Language, Imagination and Spirituality. Henshilwood, C. & d'Errico, F. John Benjamins. 141-162.
• Scarre, Chris, Oosterbeek, Luiz & French, Charles (2011). Tombs, landscapes and settlement in the Tagus hill-country. In From the Origins: The Prehistory of the Inner Tagus Region. Bueno Ramírez, P., Cerrillo Cuenca, E. & Gonzalez Cordero, A. Oxford: Archaeopress. 2219: 83-91.
• Chapman, John & Gaydarska, Bisserka (2010). Fragmenting hominins and the presencing of Early Palaeolithic social worlds. In Social brain, distributed mind. Dunbar, Robin, Gamble, Clive & Gowlett, John Oxford Oxford University Press British Academy. 158: 417-452.
• Zvelebil, M., Lukes, A. & Pettitt, P. B. (2010). The emergence of the LBK culture: search for the ancestors. In The Spread of the Neolithic to Central Europe. Groenenborn, D. & Petrasch, J. Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. 301-26.
• Pettitt, P. B., Bahn, P. & Züchner, C. (2009). The Chauvet conundrum: are claims for the ‘birthplace of art’ premature?. In An Enquiring Mind: Studies in Honor of Alexander Marshack. Bahn, P. Oxbow and Cambridge MA: American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series. 239-62.
• Pettitt, P. B. (2009). The Neanderthals. In The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology. Cunliffe, B., Gosden, C. & Joyce, R. Oxford university Press. 332-70.
• Pettitt, P. B (2009). The rise of modern humans. In The Human Past. Scarre, C. Thames and Hudson. 124-73.
• Pettitt, P. B. (2008). The British Upper Palaeolithic. In Prehistoric Britain. Pollard, J. Blackwell. 18-57.
• Pettitt, P. B. (Published). Cultural context and form of some of the Creswell images: an interpretative model. In Creswell Palaeolithic Cave Art in European Context. Pettitt, P. B., Bahn, P. & Ripoll, S. Oxford University Press. 34-45.
• Pettitt, P. B. (Published). The European Upper Palaeolithic. In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherers. Cummings, V., Jordan, P. & Zvelebil, M. Oxford university Press.

Journal papers: academic

• Skeates, R. (2013). Neolithic Italy at 4004 BC: people and places. Accordia Research Papers 12.
• Skeates, R.G., Beckett, J. & Gradoli, M.G. (2013). The cultural life of caves in Seulo, central Sardinia. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 26(1): 97-126.
• Magyari, Eniko, Chapman, John, Fairbairn, Andrew S., Francis, M. & de Guzman, M. (2012). Neolithic human impact on the landscapes of North-East Hungary inferred from pollen and settlement records. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21(4-5): 279-302.
• Moore, T. (2012). Beyond the Oppida: Polyfocal Complexes and Late Iron Age Societies in Southern Britain. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 31(4): 391-417.
• White, M. J. & Pettitt, P. B. (2012). Ancient digs and modern myths. The context and age of the Kent’s Cavern 4 maxilla and the spread of Homo sapiens in Europe. European Journal of Archaeology 15: 1-30.
• Dodge, D. A., Bouwman, A. S., Pettitt, P. B. & Brown, T. (2012). Mitochondrial DNA haplotypes of Devensian hyaenas from Creswell Crags, England. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
• Pettitt, P. B., Rockman, M. & Chenery, S. (2012). The British Final Magdalenian: Society, settlement and raw material movements revealed through LA-ICP-MS trace element analysis of diagnostic artefacts. Quaternary International 272-273: 275-287.
• Pike, A. W. G., Hoffman, D. L., García-Diez, M., Pettitt, P. B., Alcolea, J., De Balbín, R. González-Sainz, C., de las Heras, C., Lasheras, J. A., Montez, R. & Zilhão, J. (2012). Uranium-series dating of Upper Palaeolithic art in Spanish caves. U-Series Dating of Paleolithic Art in 11 Caves in Spain. Science 336(6087): 1409-13.
• Holtby, Ian, Scarre, Chris, Bentley, R. Alexander & Rowley-Conwy, Peter (2012). Disease, CCR5-32 and the European spread of agriculture? A hypothesis. Antiquity 86(331): 207-210.
• Skeates, R. (2012). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 15(1): 1-3.
• Skeates, R. (2012). On the noble digger's ode to the trowel. Norwegian Archaeological Review 45(1): 102-103.
• Chapman, John & Gaydarska, Bisserka (2011). Can we reconcile individualisation with relational personhood? A case study from the Early Neolithic?. Documenta Praehistorica 38: 21-44.
• Moore, T. (2011). Detribalizing the later prehistoric past: concepts of tribes in Iron Age and Roman studies. Journal of Social Archaeology 11(3): 334-360.
• Pettitt, P. B. & White, M. J. (2011). Cave men: stone tools, Victorian science, and the ‘primitive mind’ of deep time. Notes and Records of the Royal Society 65(1): 25-42.
• Pettitt, P. B. (2011). Comment on Golovanova et al. Ecological factors in the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition. Current Anthropology 51: 683-4.
• White, M. J. & Pettitt, P. B. (2011). Neanderthals in Western Doggerland: towards an interpretative understanding of the Late Middle Palaeolithic Settlement of Britain. Journal of World Prehistory 24: 25-97.
• Deguilloux, Marie-France, Soler, Ludovic, Pemonge, Marie-Hélène, Scarre, Chris, Joussaume, Roger & Laporte, Luc (2011). News from the West: Ancient DNA from a French megalithic burial chamber. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 144(1): 108-118.
• Scarre, Chris (2011). Recherches récentes sur l'île de Herm (îles anglo-normandes). Note préliminaire. Bulletin de l'Association Manche-Atlantique pour la Recherche Archéologique dans les Îles 23: 37-46.
• Skeates, R. (2011). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 14(1-2): 7-10.
• Skeates, Robin (2011). Making sense of world art: an archaeological perspective. World Art 1(1): 143-149.
• Skeates, Robin (2011). The Seulo caves project, Sardinia: a report on archaeological work undertaken in 2009 and 2010. Cave and Karst Science 38(3): 131-136.
• Pettitt, P.B & White, M.J. (2011). Cave Men: stone tools, Victorian science and the ‘primitive mind’ of deep time. Notes and Records of the Royal Society 65(1): 25-42.
• White, M.J. & Pettitt, P.B (2011). The British Late Middle Palaeolithic: An Interpretative Synthesis of Neanderthal Occupation at the Northwestern Edge of the Pleistocene World. Journal of World Prehistory 24(1): 25-97.
• Magyari, E. K., Chapman, John, Passmore, D. G., Allen, J. R. M., Huntley, J. P. & Huntley, B. (2010). Holocene persistence of wooded steppe in the Great Hungarian Plain. Journal of Biogeography 37(5): 915-935.
• Scarre, Chris (2010). Rocks of ages: tempo and time in megalithic monuments. European Journal of Archaeology 13(2): 175-193.
• White, T.S., Bridgland, D.R., Westaway, R., Howard, A.J. & White, M.J. (2010). Evidence from the Trent terrace archive, Lincolnshire, UK, for lowland glaciation of Britain during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 121: 141-153.
• Thornton, C.P., Golden, J.M. Killick, D.J. Pigott, V.C. Rehren,Th. & B.W. Roberts, (2010). A Chalcolithic Error: Rebuttal to Amzallag 2009. American Journal of Archaeology 114: 305–15.
• Chapman, J., Magyari, E. & Gaydarska, B. (2009). Contrasting subsistence strategies in the Early Iron Age ?: new results from the Alföld Plain, Hungary and the Thracian Plain, Bulgaria. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 28(2): 155-187.
• Chapman, John (2009). The Danube and settlement prehistory – 80 years on. European Journal of Archaeology 12(1-3): 145-156.
• Pettitt, P. B., Jacobi, R. M., Chamberlain, A. C., Schreve, D., Wall, I., Dinnis, R. & Wragg-Sykes, R. (2009). Excavations outside Church Hole, Creswell Crags: the first three seasons (2006-8). Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire 113: 35-53.
• Zvelebil, M., Pettitt, P. B. & Lukes, A. (2009). Lives, loves and deaths of Neolithic farmers: bioarchaeology of burials from Vedrovice (Czech Republic) and the spread of agriculture in Europe. North Atlantic Archaeology 1: 103-115.
• White, M. J. & Pettitt, P. B. (2009). The demonstration of human antiquity: three rediscovered illustrations from the 1825 and 1846 excavations in Kent’s Cavern (Torquay, England). Antiquity 83: 758-68.
• Callaghan, Richard & Scarre, Chris (2009). Simulating the Western Seaways. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 28(4): 357-372.
• White, T.S., White, M.J., Bridgland, D.R. & Howard, A.J. (2009). Palaeolithic and Quaternary research in the Trent Valley (UK: contributions by early collections. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 120: 223-232.
• Scott, B., Ashton, N., Penkman, K., Preece, R. & White, M. (2009). The position and context of Middle Palaeolithic industries from the Ebbsfleet Valley, Kent, UK. Journal of Quaternary Science 24.
• Roberts, B.W. (2009). Creating Traditions and Shaping Technologies: understanding the emergence of metallurgy in Western Europe c. 3500-2000 BC. World Archaeology 40(3): 354-372.
• Roberts, B. W. Thornton, C.P. & Pigott, V.C. (2009). Development of metallurgy in Eurasia. Antiquity 83(322): 1012–1022.
• Thornton, C.P. & Roberts, B.W. (2009). Introduction: The Beginnings of Metallurgy in Global Perspective. Journal of World Prehistory. Journal of World Prehistory 22(3): 181-4.
• Magyari, E.M., Chapman, J., Gaydarska, B., Marinova, E., Deli, T., Huntley, J.P., Allen, J.R.M. & Huntley, B. (2008). The ‘oriental’ component of the Balkan flora: evidence of presence on the Thracian Plain during the Weichselian late-glacial. 35: 865 – 883. Journal of Biogeography 35(5): 865-883.
• Higham, T., Chapman, J., Gaydarska, B. & Slavchev, V. (2008). The first AMS dates for the Varna cemetery. Acta Musei Varnaensis VI: 95-114.
• Creighton,J., Haselgrove, C., Lowther, P. & Moore, T. (2008). Becoming Roman in southern Burgundy: A field survey between Autun and Bibracte in the Arroux Valley (Saône-et-Loire), 2000-2003. Internet Archaeology (25).
• Hall, M. & Pettitt, P. B. (2008). A pair of Merrels boards on a stone block from Church Hole cave, Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire, England. Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire 112.
• Pettitt, P. B. (2008). Art and the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe: comments on the archaeological arguments for an Early Upper Palaeolithic antiquity of the Grotte Chauvet art. Journal of Human Evolution 55(5): 908-917.
• Zvelebil, M. & Pettitt, P. B. (2008). Human condition, life, and death at an Early Neolithic settlement: bioarchaeological analyses of the Vedrovice cemetery and their biosocial implications for the spread of agriculture in Central Europe. Anthropologie (Brno) XLVI: 195-218.
• Scarre, Chris (2008). "Beings like themselves"? Anthropomorphic representations in the megalithic tombs of France. ARKEOS 24: 73-96.
• Scarre, Chris (2008). Nuevos enfoques para el estudio de los monumentos megalíticos de Europe Occidental. Boletín del Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico 67(Especial Monográfico): 12-23.
• Skeates, R. (2008). Embodiment and visual reproduction in the Neolithic: the case of stamped symbols. Documenta Praehistorica 35: 179-184.
• B.W. Roberts (2008). Migration, craft expertise and metallurgy: analysing the ‘spread’ of metal in Europe. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 23 (2): 27-45.
• Skeates, R. (Published). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 15(2): 183-185.

Books: reviews

• Robin Skeates (2011). Book review. Mortuary Customs in Prehistoric Malta. Edited by C. Malone, S. Stoddart, A. Bonanno and D. Trump. 2009. European Journal of Archaeology 14(1-2): 299-301.
• Skeates, R. (2010). Book Review: Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice, edited by Andrew Jones, 2008. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 20(1): 132-133.
• Skeates, R. (2009). Book review: M. Fitzjohn ed. Uplands of Ancient Sicily and Calabria. European Journal of Archaeology 12(1-3): 255-257.

Articles: magazine

• Chapman, John, Burdo, Natalia, Videiko, Mikhail & Gaydarska, Bisserka (2013). Houses in the archaeology of the Tripillia-Cucuteni groups. Tracking the Neolithic house in Europe. Sedentism, architecture and practice 5, 95 - 116.
• Gaydarska, B., Gurova, M. Chernakov, D., Blake, E. & Chapman, J. (2012). A place to live, a place to bury and a place to hoard: Understanding deposition on and off the Bulgarian tell of Kosharna. Archaeologica Bulgarica XVII(1).
• Scarre, Chris (2011). The living stones of Brittany. British Archaeology 121: 36-41.
• Roberts, B.W. & Veysey, C. (2011). Trading Places. British Museum Magazine 70: 44-45.

Books: sections

• Chapman, J. & Palincas, N. (2013). Gender in Eastern European prehistory. In A companion to gender prehistory. Bolger, D. Wiley-Blackwell. 413 - 437.
• Scarre, Chris (2012). Significant stones, significant places: monumentality and landscape in Neolithic Western Europe. In The Construction of Value in the Ancient World. Papadopoulos, John & Urton Gary Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. 51-65.
• Scarre, Chris (2012). Social Stratification and the State in Prehistoric Europe: The Wider Perspective. In The Prehistory of Iberia: Debating Early Social Stratification and the State. Cruz Berrocal, María García Sanjuán, Leonardo & Gilman, Antonio Routledge.
• White, M.J. (2012). The lithic assemblage from Lynford Quarry and its bearing on Neanderthal behaviour in Late Pleistocene Britain. In Neanderthals among Mammoths: Excavations at Lynford Quarry, Norfolk. Boismier, W., Gamble, C. & Coward, F. English Heritage. 219-261.
• Roberts, B.W. & Frieman, C. (2012). Drawing boundaries and building models: investigating the concept of the ‘Chalcolithic frontier’ in Northwest Europe. In Is there a British Chalcolithic: people, place and polity in the later 3rd millennium. Allen, M. Gardiner,J. & Sheridan, A. Oxbow. 27-39.
• Chapman, John, Gaydarska, Bisserka, Skafida, E. & Souvatzi, S. (2011). Personhood and the life cycle of Spondylus rings: an example from Late Neolithic, Greece. In Spondylus in Prehistory: New Data and Approaches – Contributions to the Archaeology of Shell Technologies. Ifantidis, F. & Nikolaidou, M. Archaeopress. 139-160.
• Chapman, John (2011). Enchantment and enchainment in later Balkan prehistory: towards an aesthetic of precision and geometric order. In The Dynamics of Neolithisation in Europe. Studies in honour of Andrew Sherratt. Hadjikoumis, A., Robinson, E. & Viner, S. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 153-176.
• Scarre, Chris, García Sanjuán, Leonardo & Wheatley, David (2011). Exploring Time and Matter in Prehistoric Monuments: debating absolute chronology and rare rocks in European megaliths. In Exploring Time and Matter in Prehistoric Monuments: debating absolute chronology and rare rocks in European megaliths. Scarre, Chris, García Sanjuán, Leonardo & Wheatley, David Junta de Andalucía. 11-23.
• Scarre, Chris (2011). Marking time: the problem of chronology in studying European Neolithic monuments. In Exploring Time and Matter in Prehistoric Monuments: debating absolute chronology and rare rocks in European megaliths. Scarre, Chris, García Sanjuán, Leonardo & Wheatley, David Junta de Andalucía. 53-74.
• Scarre, Chris (2011). Monumentality. In Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion. Insoll, Timothy Oxford University Press. 9-23.
• Scarre, Chris (2011). Stone people: monuments and identities in the Channel Islands. In Megaliths and Identities: Early Monuments and Neolithic Societies from the Atlantic to the Baltic. Furholt, Martin, Lüth, Friedrich & Müller, Johannes Bonn: Dr Rudolf Habelt. 1: 95-104.
• Scott, R., Ashton, N., Lewis, S., Parfitt, S. & White, M. (2011). Technology and landscape use in the Early Middle Palaeolithic of the Thames Valley. In The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Developments in Quaternary Science 14. Ashton, N., Lewis, S. & Stringer, C. London: Elsevier. 14: 67-89.
• White, M. Ashton, N. & Scott, R. (2011). The emergence, diversity and significance of Mode 3 (prepared core) technologies. In The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain. Ashton, N., Lewis, S. & Stringer, C. London: Elsevier Science. 53-65.
• Vander Linden, M. & Roberts, B.W. (2011). A Tale of Two Countries: Contrasting Archaeological Culture History in British and French Archaeology. In Investigating Archaeological Cultures: Material Culture, Variability and Transmission. Roberts, B.W. & Vander Linden, M. Springer. 23-40.
• Roberts, B. W. (2011). Ancient Technology and Archaeological Cultures: understanding the earliest metallurgy in Eurasia. In Investigating Archaeological Cultures: material culture, variability and transmission. Roberts, B.W. & Vander Linden, M. 137-150.
• Roberts, B.W. & Vander Linden, M. (2011). Introduction. In Investigating Archaeological Cultures: Material Culture, Variability and Transmission. Roberts, B.W. & Vander Linden, M. 1-23.
• Chapman, John (2010). Houses, households, villages and proto-cities in Southeastern Europe. In The lost world of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000 – 3500 BC. Anthony, D.W. & Chi, J. Y. Princeton, N.J.: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. 74-89.
• Chapman, John (2010). ‘Deviant’ burials in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Central and South Eastern Europe. In Body Parts and Bodies Whole: Changing Relations and Meanings. Rebay-Salisbury, K., Sørensen, M. L. S. & Hughes, J. Oxbow Books. 30-45.
• Chapman, John & Richter, Eva (2010). Geometric order and scientific principles: a view from the mesolithic, neolithic and chalcolithic of Central and South East Europe. In In medias res praehistoriae. Miscellanea in honorem annos LXV peragentis Professoris Dan Monah oblata. Bodi, G. Iaşi, România: Editura Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza. 21-58.
• Scarre, Chris (2010). Megaliths, memory and the power of stones. In Monumental Questions: Prehistoric Megaliths, Mounds, and Enclosures. Calado, David, Baldia, Maximilian & Boulanger, Matthew Oxford: Archaeopress. 91-96.
• Scarre, Chris & Oosterbeek, Luiz (2010). The megalithic tombs of the middle Tagus basin and agro-pastoral origins in Western Iberia. In Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Iberischen Halbinsel und Mitteleuropas. Studien in honorem Philine Kalb. Armbruester, Tanya & Hegewisch, Morten Habelt. 97-110.
• Nowell, A. & White, M.J. (2010). Growing Up in the Middle Pleistocene: life history strategies and their relationship to Acheulian Industries. In Stone tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition. Nowell, A. & Davidson, I. Boulder: University of Colorado Press. 67-81.
• Chapman, John (2009). Notes on memory-work and materiality. In Materializing memory: archaeological material culture and the semantics of the past. Barbiera, I., Choyke, A.M. & Rasson, J. A. Archaeopress. 1977: 7-16.
• Moore, T. (2009). La construction des communautés Nouvelles perspectives sur l’habitat, le monde rural et la société de l’Âge du Fer en Grande-Bretagne occidentale. In Habitats et paysages ruraux en Gaule et regards sur d'autres régions du monde celtique. Actes du XXXIe colloque international de l'Association Française pour l'Etude de l'Âge du Fer 17-20 mai 2007, Chauvigny (Vienne, F). Bertrand, I., Duval, A., Gomez de Soto, J. & Maguer, P. Chauvigny: Association des Publications Chauvinoises (Mémoire XXXV). II: 363-382.
• Scarre, Chris (2009). Stones with character: animism, agency and megalithic monuments. In Materialitas: working stone, carving identity. O'Connor, Blaze, Cooney, Gabriel & Chapman, John Oxford: Oxbow Books. 9-18.
• Roberts, B.W. (2009). Origins, Transmission and Traditions: analysing early metal in Western Europe. In Metals and Societies. Studies in honour of Barbara S. Ottaway. Kienlin,T.L. & Roberts, B.W. Habelt. 129-142.
• Roberts, B.W. (2009). Subsistence, Structures and Craftworking: analysing economic dynamics in Britain 2500-800 BC. In The Economic Foundations of the European Bronze Age. Bartelheim, M. & Stäuble, H. Verlag Marie Leidorf. 65-84.
• Chapman, John (2008). Meet the ancestors: settlement histories in the Neolithic. In Living well together? Settlement and materiality in the Neolithic of South-East and Central Europe. Bailey, D., Whittle, A. & Hofmann, D. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 68-80.
• Chapman, John C (2008). Interaction, trade and exchange: approaches to trade and exchange in earlier prehistory (late mesolithic - early bronze age). In Prehistoric Europe: theory and practice. Jones, Andrew Chicester: John Wiley. 333-355.
• Fitzpatrick, A. with contributions from, Brunning, R., Johns, C., Minnit, S., Moore, T. & Mullin, D. (2008). Later Bronze Age and Iron Age. In The Archaeology of South West England: South West Archaeological Research Framework Resource assessment and Research Agenda. Webster, C. Taunton: Somerset County Council.
• Roberts, B.W. (2008). The Bronze Age. In The Handbook of British Archaeology. Atkins, L., Atkins, R. & Leitch, V. Constable and Robinson. 60-91.
• Ottaway, B.S. & Roberts, B.W. (2008). The Emergence of Metallurgy. In Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice. Jones, A. Blackwell. 193-225.

Books: booklets

• Hicks, D., Milne, G., Shepherd, J. & Skeates, R. (2009). Excavating the Archives: Archive Archaeology and the Higher Education Sector. London: HEFCE.

Essays in edited volumes

• Chapman, John (2012). From the Varna cemetery to the Tripolye mega-sites: new arenas of power. In Beyond elites. Alternatives to hierarchical systems in modeling social formations. Kienlin, Tobias L. & Zimmermann, Andreas Rudolf Habelt. 225 - 242.
• Chapman, John (2012). The shell, the pin and the earring: Balkan Copper Age mortuary costumes in context. In Visualising the Neolithic. Cochrane, Andrew & Jones, Andrew M. Oxbow Books. 13: 260 - 278.
• Bergsvik, K.A. & Skeates, R. (2012). Caves in context: an introduction. In Caves in Context: The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe. Bergsvik, K.A. & Skeates, R. Oxbow Books. 1-9.
• Skeates, R. (2012). Making sense of the history of archaeological representation. In The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology. Skeates, R., McDavid, C. & Carman, J. Oxford University Press. 82-99.
• Skeates, R., Carman, J. & McDavid, C. (2011). Introduction: questioning archaeology's place in the world. In The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology. Skeates, R., McDavid, C. & Carman, J. Oxford University Press. 1-10.
• Skeates, Robin (2010). The art of memory: personal ornaments in Copper Age South-East Italy. In Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe. Lillios, K.T. & Tsamis, V. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 73-84.
• Skeates, R. (2009). Trade and interaction. In The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology. Cunliffe, B., Gosden, C. & Joyce, R.A. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 555-578.
• Creighton, J. & Moore, T. (2008). Sondages au site des sources de l'Yonne, commune de Glux-en-Glenne. In Rapport Annuel d'activite 2007. Guichard, V. Glux-en-Glenne: Bibracte. 211-218.
• Scarre, Chris (2008). Shrines of the land and places of power: religion and the transition to farming in western Europe. In Belief in the Past. Theoretical approaches to the archaeology of religion. Whitley, David S. & Hays-Gilpin, Kelley Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. 209-226.
• Chapman, John (Published). The shell, the pin and the earring: Balkan Copper Age mortuary costumes in context. In Visualising the Neolithic. Cochrane, Andrew & Jones, Andrew M. Oxbow Books. 260 – 278.
• Gradoli, G. & Skeates, R. (Published). Intellectual and spiritual expression in central Sardinia during the Neolithic and Bronze Age: the Seulo Caves Project. In The Intellecual and Spiritual Expressions of Non-Literate Peoples. Colloquio UISPP – CISNEP, Capo di Ponte, Valcamonica, 22-24 June 2012. Anati, E. UISPP and CISNEP. 128-136.

Edited essays

• Skeates, R. & Gheorghiu, D. (2008). Prehistoric Stamps: Theory and Experiments. Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti.

Edited works: journals

• Zvelebil, M. & Pettitt, P. B. (2008). The Vedrovice Biosocial Archaeology Project. Anthropologie (Brno), XLVI
• eds. Skeates, R. & Robb, J. (2008). Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 21 (1): Equinox Publishing Ltd.

Journal papers: online

• Kostov, Ruslan I., Protochristov, Christo, Stoyanov, Chavdar Csedreki,László Simon,Alíz Szikszai, Zita Uzonyi, Imre, Gaydarska, Bisserka & Chapman, John (2012). Micro-PIXE Geochemical Fingerprinting of Nephrite Neolithic Artifacts from Southwest Bulgaria. Geoarchaeology 27(5): 457 - 469.

Book chapters: online

• Chapman, J. & Gaydarska, B. (2009). The fragmentation premise in archaeology: from the Paleolithic to more recent times. In The fragment: an incomplete history. Tronzo, W. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute. 131-153.
• Chapman, J. (2008). Approaches to trade and exchange in earlier prehistory (Late Mesolithic – Early Bronze Age). In Prehistoric Europe. Theory and practice. Jones, A. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 333-355.
• Chapman, J. (2008). Object fragmentation in past landscapes. In Handbook of landscape archaeology. David, B. & Thomas, J. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast. 187-201.

Books: online

• Chapman, J., Shiel, R. S., Passmore, D. G., Magyari, E. & Gillings, M. (2003). The Upper Tisza Project: studies in Hungarian landscape archaeology. E-book 1: Introduction and Archaeological Field Survey in the Polgár Block. York: AHDS Archaeology.