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A Model for the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in the Upper Kennet Valley, North Wiltshire ⬇️

scientific article published in 1990

A Neolithic Downland Monument in its Environment: Excavations at the Easton Down Long Barrow, Bishops Cannings, North Wiltshire ⬇️

scientific article published in 1993

A PRE-ENCLOSURE BURIAL AT WINDMILL HILL, WILTSHIRE

scholarly article by Alasdair Whittle published in March 1990

A decade on: Revised timings for causewayed enclosures in southern Britain

A late Neolithic complex at West Kennet, Wiltshire, England

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An Environmental History of the Upper Kennet Valley, Wiltshire, for the Last 10,000 Years ⬇️

scientific article published in 1993

Anatomy of a tomb: West Kennet revisited

scholarly article by JULIAN THOMAS published in July 1986

Ancient Britain

scientific article published in 1992

Ancient France. Neolithic Societies and their Landscapes, 6000–2000 B.C. Edited By Christopher Scarre. 23·5×15·5 cm. Pp. viii + 390, figs. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1983. ISBN 0-85224-441-x. £19·00

book review

Andrew J. Lawson. Chalkland: an archaeology of Stonehenge and its region. 2007. Salisbury: Hobnob; 978-0-946418-61-9 casebound £25; 978-0-946418-70-1 paperback £17.95

scholarly article by Alasdair Whittle published in March 2009

Arkadiusz Marciniak, Placing Animals in the Neolithic: Social Zooarchaeology of Prehistoric Farming Communities. (London: UCL Press, 2005, 279 pp., 51 figs, 43 tables, ISBN 1–84472–092–6 / 978–1-844–72092–7)

Assembling the Dead, Gathering the Living: Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Modelling for Copper Age Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain).

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Avebury Reconsidered. From the 1660s to the 1990s. By Peter J. Ucko, Michael Hunter, Alan J. Clark and Andrew David. 252 × 175mm. Pp. xiv + 293, 74 pls, with 27 transparencies and 8 plans in separate folder. London: Unwin Hyman, 1991. ISBN 0-04-4459

Barkaer. Long Barrows and Settlements. By David Liversage. 300mm. Pp. 124, 88 figs., 4 tables, 4 pullout plans. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1992. ISBN 87-500-3030-2. £32.50

Between the Vinča and Linearbandkeramik Worlds: The Diversity of Practices and Identities in the 54th-53rd Centuries cal BC in Southwest Hungary and Beyond

scientific article

Beyond domestication in prehistoric Europe: Investigations in subsistence archaeology and social complexity

scholarly article by A. Whittle published in May 1986

Beyond the Core: Reflections on Regionality in Prehistory, edited by Andy M. Jones & Graeme Kirkham, 2011. Oxford: Oxbow Books; ISBN 978-1-84217-989-5 paperback £35 & US$80; vi+114 pp., 60 figs, 8 tables

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Bradshaw and Bayes: Towards a Timetable for the Neolithic

scholarly article by Alex Bayliss published in January 2007

Building for the Dead: Events, Processes and Changing Worldviews from the Thirty-eighth to the Thirty-fourth Centuries cal. BC in Southern Britain

article by Alasdair Whittle et al published 30 January 2007 in Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power

scientific article published in October 1999

Community differentiation and kinship among Europe's first farmers

scientific article

Dates, Diet, and Dismemberment: Evidence from the Coldrum Megalithic Monument, Kent

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Die Zeit der großen Gräben: Modelle zur Chronologie des Michelsberger Fundplatzes von Heilbronn-Klingenberg „Schlossberg“, Stadtkreis Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg

Earlier Neolithic Enclosures in North-West Europe

scholarly article by Alasdair Whittle published in December 1977

Early European agriculture, its foundations and development. Edited by Jarman M. R., Bailey G. N., and Jarman H.N.. 283 pp., 113 figs, 24 tables. Cambridge University Press, 1982. Price £25.00

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Early local habitation in Europe

Eternal stones: Stonehenge completed

Etton: Excavations at a Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure near Maxey, Cambridgeshire, 1982–7. By Francis Pryor. 300mm. Pp xxi + 429, 255 figs, 96 tables, 77 microfiche tables. London: English Heritage, 1998. ISBN 1–85074–681–8. Price not given

article by Alasdair Whittle published September 2001 in Antiquaries Journal

Evžen Neustupný, ed., Space in Prehistoric Bohemia. (Praha: Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 1998, 176 pp., hbk, ISBN 80 86124 09 6)

Excavations at Millbarrow Neolithic chambered tomb, Winterbourne Monkton, north Wiltshire ⬇️

article published in 1994

Excavations at a Neolithic Enclosure on The Peak, near Birdlip, Gloucestershire

scholarly article by Timothy Darvill published in January 2011

Excavations at the Devil's Quoits, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, 1972–3 and 1988. By Alistair Barclay, Margaret Gray & George Lambrick. 138 pp., 62 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology (Oxford Archaeological Unit. Thames… ⬇️

scientific article published in 1996

Excavations in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Complex at Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 1947–1952 and 1981

scientific article published in 1992

Formation Process of the Archaeological Record. By Michael B. Schiffer 23·5 × 15 cm Pp. xxii + 428, 70 figs. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. ISBN 0-8263-0964-x. $19·95 (p/b), ISBN 0-8263-0963-1. $39·95 (h/b)

scholarly article by Alasdair Whittle published in September 1988

Fragments of Antiquity. An Archaeology of Social Life in Britain, 2900–1200 BC. By John C. Barrett. 190 pp., 36 figs. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. £12.99 (paperback). ⬇️

scientific article published in 1994

Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory

scientific article

House time: Neolithic settlement development at Racot during the 5th millennium CAL B.C. in the Polish lowlands

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Ian Shepherd and Gordon Barclay (eds)Scotland in Ancient Europe: The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Scotland in their European ContextScotland in Ancient Europe: The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Scotland in their European ContextEdited by Ian

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Island questions: the chronology of the Brochtorff Circle at Xagħra, Gozo, and its significance for the Neolithic sequence on Malta

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Islands of history: the Late Neolithic timescape of Orkney

István Zalai-Gaál, unter Mitarbeit von Kitti Köhler und Anett Osztás. Zur Herkunft des Schädelkults im Neolithikum des Karpatenbeckens (Archaeolingua Series Minor 27). 142 pages, 54 illustrations, 3 tables. 2009. Budapest: Archaeolingua; 978-963

Landscapes of the Mind

scientific article published in October 1995

Les Enceintes Néolithiques de la Mastine et Pied-Lizet (Charente Maritime): fouilles archéologiques et études paléo-environnementales dans le marais poitevin (1984–88). By Serge Cassen and Chris Scarre. 300mm. Pp 196, ills. Chauvigny: Associati

M. Bell, P.J. Fowler & S.W. Hillson (ed.). The experimental earthwork project 1960–1992. (CBA Research report 100.) 1996 York: Council for British Archaeology; 1-872414-64-8 paperback £36

scholarly article by Alasdair Whittle published in December 1997

Man out of time

scientific article published in Nature

Mesolithic and Neolithic Activity and Environmental Impact on the South-east Fen-edge in Cambridgeshire

scientific article published in 1989

Neolithic Studies: A Review of Some Current Research, edited by Richard Bradley and Julie Gardiner. 218 pages, numerous figures. Reading Studies in Archaeology No. 1. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports British Series 133. Oxford 1984. ⬇️

book review published in 1986

Neolithic activity and occupation outside Windmill Hill causewayed enclosure, Wiltshire: survey and excavation 1992-93 ⬇️

article published in 2000

New research on the Hungarian Early Neolithic

No time out: Scaling material diversity and change in the Alpine foreland Neolithic

scholarly article by Renate Ebersbach published in March 2017

Once in a Lifetime: the Date of the Wayland's Smithy Long Barrow

article by Alasdair Whittle et al published 30 January 2007 in Cambridge Archaeological Journal

One Thing After Another: the Date of the Ascott-under-Wychwood Long Barrow

scientific article published on 30 January 2007

Opening the Woods: Towards a Quantification of Neolithic Clearance Around the Somerset Levels and Moors

scientific article published on 21 September 2019

Parc le Breos Cwm Transepted Long Cairn, Gower, West Glamorgan: Date, Contents, and Context

scholarly article by Alasdair Whittle published in January 1998

Prehistoric Europe

Radiocarbon dating of the Linear Pottery culture: the contribution of cereal and bone samples

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Ranking, Resource and Exchange. Aspects of the Archaeology of Early European Society. Edited by Colin Renfrew and Stephen Shennan. 28×22 cm. Pp. vii + 167, 59 figs., 2 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. ISBN 0-521-24282-7. £18·50

book review by Alasdair Whittle published in March 1984

Reading the Past. Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology. By Ian Hodder. 22 × 14 cm. Pp. xi + 194, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-521-32743-1 (1-33960-X p/b). £20.00 (£6.95 p/b)

book review published in 1987

Refining the Chronology of the Neolithic Settlement at Pool, Sanday, Orkney: Implications for the Emergence and Development of Grooved Ware ⬇️

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

Richard Bradley. The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland. xviii+322 pages, 106 illustrations. 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-61270-8 paperback £16.99 & $28.99; 978-0-521-84811-4 hardback £40 & $70

Roots of diversity in a Linearbandkeramik community: isotope evidence at Aiterhofen (Bavaria, Germany)

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Rows with the neighbours: the short lives of longhouses at the Neolithic site of Versend-Gilencsa

Sacred mound holy rings: Silbury hill and West Kennet palisade enclosures: a later neolithic complex in north Wiltshire

book published in 1997

Serious Mortality: the Date of the Fussell's Lodge Long Barrow

scientific article published on 30 January 2007

Settlement Duration and Materiality: Formal Chronological Models for the Development of Barnhouse, a Grooved Ware Settlement in Orkney ⬇️

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

Stuart Piggott, CBE, FBA ⬇️

obituary published in 1998

THE NEOLITHIC of the AVEBURY AREA: SEQUENCE, ENVIRONMENT, SETTLEMENT and MONUMENTS

scholarly article by Alasdair Whittle published in March 1993

Talking About My Generation: the Date of the West Kennet Long Barrow

article by Alex Bayliss et al published 30 January 2007 in Cambridge Archaeological Journal

The Archaeology of Context in the Neolithic and Bronze Age: Recent Trends. Edited by J. C. Barrett and I. A. Kinnes. 143 pp., numerous figs. Sheffield: Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield, 1988. £15.95. ⬇️

scientific article published in 1990

The Cultural Project: Formal Chronological Modelling of the Early and Middle Neolithic Sequence in Lower Alsace

scientific article published on 9 January 2017

The Development and Date of Avebury

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The Economic Exploitation of the Swiss Area in the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. By Sakellaridis Margaret. 433 pages, 65 figures and maps, 57 tables. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 67, 1979. Price £12·00

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The Haddenham Project

scientific article published in June 2007

The Henge Monuments. Ceremony and Society in Prehistoric Britain. By Geoffrey Wainwright. 176 pp., 35 figs, 68 pls. London: Thames and Hudson, 1989 (New Aspects of Antiquity). £19.95. - Images of Prehistory. Text by Peter Fowler, photographs by… ⬇️

scientific article published in 1991

The Lives of Houses: Duration, Context, and History at Neolithic Uivar, Romania

scholarly article by Florin Draşovean published in July 2017

The Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure at Staines, Surrey: Excavations 1961–63

scholarly article by Reay Robertson-Mackay published in January 1987

The Neolithic Settlement of Southern Poland. By Janusz Kruk. Edited by J. M. Howell and N. J. Starling, translated by M. Hejowowska. BAR International Series 93, 1980. 129 + X pp., 29 tables, 13 maps, 24 figs. Price £6.00

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The Skateholm project. I. Man and environment. Interdisciplinary studies. By Larsson Lars, with contributors. 178 pp., 90 figs and numerous tables. Lund: Acta Regiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis 79, 1988

The South Dorset Ridgeway. Survey and Excavations 1977–84. By Peter J. Woodward. 174 pp., 31 tables, 72 figs, 33 pls, 3 microfiches. Dorset Natural History and Archaeology Society, Monograph 8, 1991. £12.95. ⬇️

scientific article published in 1992

The Times of Their Lives: from Chronological Precision to Kinds of History and Change

scientific article published on 30 January 2007

The Timing and Tempo of Change: Examples from the Fourth Millennium cal. BC in Southern England

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The end of the world, or just ‘goodbye to all that’? Contextualising the red deer heap from Links of Noltland, Westray, within late 3rd-millennium cal bc Orkney

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

The world recreated: redating Silbury Hill in its monumental landscape

Thoughtful Foragers. A Study of Prehistoric Decision Making. By Steven J. Mithen. 255 × 180mm. Pp. xii + 289, 57figs., 23 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (New Studies in Archaeology), 1990. ISBN 0-521-35570-2. £35·00

scholarly article by Alasdair Whittle published in March 1990

To Cut a Long Story Short: Formal Chronological Modelling for the Late Neolithic Site of Ness of Brodgar, Orkney

scholarly article by Nick Card published in April 2017

Tombs with a view: landscape, monuments and trees

Trefignath and Din Dryfol. The excavation of two megalithic tombs in Anglesey. By Smith C. A. and Lynch F. M.. 135 pp., 53 figs, 38 pls. Cambrian Archaeological Association, Cambrian Archaeological Monographs No. 3, 1987. £29.50

scholarly article by Alasdair Whittle published in January 1989

Uffington White Horse and its Landscape: Investigations at White Horse Hill, Uffington, 1989-95, and Tower Hill, Ashbury, 1993-4. By David Miles, Simon Palmer, Gary Lock, Chris Gosden and Anne Marie Cromarty. 310mm. Pp xxi + 331 + CD-ROM, 121 b&w and

article by Alasdair Whittle published September 2005 in Antiquaries Journal

Vessels for the ancestors: essays on the neolithic of Britain and Ireland in honour of Audrey Henshall, ed by Niall Sharples and Alison Sheridan ⬇️

book review published in Archaeologia Cambrensis in 1992

Wayland's Smithy, Oxfordshire: Excavations at the Neolithic Tomb in 1962–63 by R. J. C. Atkinson and S. Piggott

scientific article published in 1991

Widespread exploitation of the honeybee by early Neolithic farmers

scientific article

‘Very Like a Whale’: Menhirs, Motifs and Myths in the Mesolithic–Neolithic Transition of Northwest Europe

scientific article published in April 2000

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