Books and links

Books and links: Teacher bibliography

This bibliography is aimed at First Year Undergraduates, A Level Archaeology Students, Further Education Students and Interested Adults

General Archaeology

Adkins and Adkins, Handbook of British Archaeology (Papermac, 1982)
M. Ashton, Interpreting the Landscape (Batsford, 1985)
P. Bahn, A Very Short Introduction to Archaeology (Oxford, 1996)
S. Champion, A Dictionary of Terms and Techniques in Archaeology (Phaidon, 1980)
K. Greene, Archaeology: an Introduction (Batsford, 1995)
C. Renfrew and P. Bahn, Archaeology, Theories, Methods and Practice (2nd ed.; Thames and Hudson, 1996)

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General British Archaeology

T. Darvill, Prehistoric Britain (Batsford, 1997)
J. Dyer, Ancient Britain (Guild, 1990)
A Hayes, Archaeology of the British Isles (Batsford, 1995)
J. Hunter and I. Ralston, The Archaeology of Britain ((Routledge, 1999)
J. V. S. Megaw and D. D. A Simpson, Introduction to British Prehistory (Leicester, 1979)

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General Ice Age and Stone Age Studies

N. P. Bahn and J. Vertut, Images of the Ice Age (Windward, 1988)
Barton, Stone Age Britain (Batsford, 1997)
N. Barton, A. Roberts and D. Roe (eds.), The Late Glacial in NW Europe CBA Research Report 77)
P. Jordan, Early Man (Sutton, 1999)
C. Smith, Late Stone Age Hunters of the British Isles (Routledge, 1992)
B. W. Sparks and R. G. West, The Ice Age in Britain (Methuen, 1972)
A. J. Stuart, Life in the Ice Age (Shire)
J. Wymer, Mesolithic Britain (Shire)

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Palaeolithic Studies

C. Gamble, The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe (Cambridge, 1999)
J. C. Campbell, The Upper Palaeolithic of Britain (Oxford, Clarendon, 1977)
C. Higham, Life in the Old Stone Age (Cambridge, 1989)
M. Pitts and M. Roberts, Fairweather Eden (based on Boxgrove) (Arrow, 1998)
D. A. Roe, The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain (Routledge Kegan Paul, 1981)
W. Roebroeks and C. Gamble, The Middle Palaeolithic Occupation of Europe (Leiden, 1999)
J. J. Wymer, The Palaeolithic Age (Croom Helm, 1982)
J. J. Wymer, Lower Palaeolithic Archaeology in Britain (John Baker, 1968)
J. Wymer, The Lower Palaeolithic Occupation of Britain (2 Vols.; Wessex Archaeology and English Heritage, 1999)

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Art

C. Courtin, The Cave Beneath the Sea - Paleolithic Images at Cosquer (Abrams, 1996)
A. J. Lawson, Cave Art (Shire)
S. Mithan (ed.), Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory (Routledge, 1998)
P. Saura Ramos, The Cave of Altamira (Abrams, 1999)
A. Sieveking, A Catalogue of Palaeolithic Art in the British Museum (British Museum, 1987)
P. J. Ucko and R. Rosenfeld, Palaeolithic Cave Art (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967)
Various authors, Chauvet Cave (Thames and Hudson, 1996)

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Environmental Studies

J. Evans, The Environment of Early Man in the British Isles (Elek, 1975)
R. Jones and D. Keen, Pleistocene Environments in the British Isles (Chapman and Hall, 1993)
A. Lister and P. Bahn, Mammoths (Boxtree, 1995
J. Lowe and M. Walker, Reconstructing Quaternary Environments (Longman, 1997)

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Stone Technology

J. Lord, The Nature and Subsequent Uses of Flint, Vol. 1. The basics of lithic technology (John Lord, 1993)
M. W. Pitts, Later Stone Implements (Shire)
P. Timms, Flint Implememnts of the Old Stone Age (Shire)

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Evolution and Neanderthals

J. Gowlett, Ascent to Civilisation (2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill)
D. Johanson and E. Blake, From Lucy to Language (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1996)
P. Jordan, Neanderthals (Sutton, 1999)
P. Mellars, The Emergence of Modern Humans - An Anthropological Perspective (Edinburgh, 1990)
P. Mellars, The Neanderthal Legacy (Princeton University Press, 1996)
C. Stringer and C. Gamble, In Search of the Neanderthals (Thames and Hudson, 1993)
C. Stringer and R. McKie, African Exodus Origins of Modern Humanity (Jonathan Cape, 1996)
I. Tattershall, The Last Neanderthal (Macmillan, 1995)
E. Trinkaus and P. Shipman, The Neanderthals: Changing the Image of mankind (Jonathan Cape, 1993)

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Creswell Crags

R. D. S. Jenkinson, Creswell Crags (BAR 122, Oxford, 1984)
R. D. S. Jenkinson and D. D. Gilbertson (eds.), In the Shadow of Extinction: A Quaternary Archaeology and Palaeoecology of the Lake, Fissures and Caves at Creswell Crags SSSI (Sheffield, 1984)

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Resources for Studying and Teaching Archaeology

D. Henson, Teaching Archaeology (Council for British Archaeology, 1996)
D. Henson, Archaeology in Higher Education (Council for British Archaeology, 2000)

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Popular, yet academic, Magazines on Archaeology

Current Archaeology (9 Nassington Road, London, NW3 2TX)
British Archaeology (Council for British Archaeology, Bowes Morrell House, 111 Walmgate, York, Y01 2UA.

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