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A Late Bronze Age ring-fort at Bayvil Farm, Pembrokeshire

article published in 2018

A Neolithic and Bronze Age site at Churston, South Devon

article published in 1981

A Prehistoric Rock Shelter Burial Site and Enclosure at Scabba Wood, Sprotbrough, South Yorkshire ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2017

A first ‘Wessex 1’ date from Wessex

article by Stuart Needham et al published June 2010 in Antiquity

A veritable confusion: use and abuse of isotope analysis in archaeology

scientific article

Ancient DNA typing shows that a Bronze Age mummy is a composite of different skeletons

Ancient genomes indicate population replacement in Early Neolithic Britain

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Animals in Celtic Life and Myth. By Miranda Green. 283 pp., 130 figs. London: Routledge, 1992. £35.00. ⬇️

scientific article published in 1994

Author Correction: Ancient genomes indicate population replacement in Early Neolithic Britain

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Beaker people in Britain: migration, mobility and diet

article

Book Reviews

scientific article published in November 2015

Book Reviews. A. F. Harding. European societies in the Bronze Age. xviii + 552 pages, 134 figures, 10 tables. 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-36477-9 hardback £52.50 & US $79.95, 0-521-36729-8 paperback £19.95 & US $ 34.95

British Neolithic Axehead Distributions and Their Implications ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Brochs and Iron Age society: a reappraisal

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in March 1996

Carn Goedog medieval house and settlement, Pembrokeshire ⬇️

article by Duncan E Schlee et al published 2018 in Archaeologia Cambrensis

Cattle mobility in prehistoric Britain: strontium isotope analysis of cattle teeth from Durrington Walls (Wiltshire, Britain)

scholarly article by Sarah Viner published in November 2010

Chapter 9. Placing the Physical and the Incorporeal Dead: Stonehenge and Changing Concepts of Ancestral Space in Neolithic Britain ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2002

Cille Pheadair: The Life and Times of a Norse-Period Farmstead c. 1000–1300

Close encounters of the worst kind: Malagasy resistance and colonial disasters in Southern Madagascar

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in February 1997

Constraining the provenance of the Stonehenge ‘Altar Stone’: Evidence from automated mineralogy and U–Pb zircon age dating

scientific article

Craig Rhos-y-felin: a Welsh bluestone megalith quarry for Stonehenge

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in December 2015

Dalrymple Lecture Series 2013–2014

scientific article published in October 2011

Detecting milk proteins in ancient pots

scientific article published in November 2000

Diagnosis of airway obstruction in primary care in the UK: the CADRE (COPD and Asthma Diagnostic/management REassessment) programme 1997-2001.

scientific article published on January 2006

Durrington Walls to West Amesbury by way of Stonehenge: a major transformation of the Holocene landscape

article

Eating money

Erratum: The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

scientific article published in Nature

Evaluating the effectiveness of asthma treatment in real-life practice

scientific article

Evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain

article

Excavations at Knowth 2: Settlement and Ritual Sites of the Fourth and Third Millennia BC. By George Eogan and Helen Roche with contributions by Fiona Dillon, James Brindley, Edward Bourke, Brenda Collins and Finbar McCormick. 280mm. Pp xxii + 311, 5

article by Mike Parker Pearson published September 1999 in Antiquaries Journal

Excavations at the Castell Mawr Iron Age hillfort, Pembrokeshire

article published in 2017

Feeding Stonehenge: cuisine and consumption at the Late Neolithic site of Durrington Walls

article

Food, Sex and Death: Cosmologies in the British Iron Age with Particular Reference to East Yorkshire

scientific article published in April 1999

Fossil avian eggshell preserves ancient DNA

scientific article (publication date: 7 July 2010)

Françoise Audouze & Olivier Büchsenschütz. Towns, villages and countryside of Celtic Europe: From the beginning of the second millennium to the end of the first century BC. (Translated by Henry Cleere.) 256 pages, b&w illustrations. 1992. London:

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published December 1992 in Antiquity

From corpse to skeleton: dealing with the dead in prehistory

scientific article published in March 2016

Google Under-the-Earth: Seeing Beneath Stonehenge using Google Earth - a Tool for Public Engagement and the Dissemination of Archaeological Data

scholarly article by Kate Welham published in January 2015

Gristhorpe Man: an Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined

scholarly article by Nigel Melton published in September 2010

Henry T. Wright (ed.). Early state formation in central Madagascar: an archaeological survey of Western Avaradrano (University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Memoirs 43). xvi+311 pages, 231 illustrations, 24 tables. 2007. Ann Arbor (MI): Museum o

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in June 2009

Holding on to the past: Southern British evidence for mummification and retention of the dead in the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age

article published in 2016

Identification of the source of dolerites used at the Waun Mawn stone circle in the Mynydd Preseli, west Wales and implications for the proposed link with Stonehenge ⬇️

scientific article published in October 2022

Intestinal parasites in the Neolithic population who built Stonehenge (Durrington Walls, 2500 BCE)

Iron-Age Socieities: From Tribe to State in Northern Europe, 500 BC to AD 700. By Lotte Hedeager. 235 × 155mm. Pp. ix + 274, 95 figs. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. ISBN 0-631-17106-1. £32.00

Is There Anybody Out There? A Reconsideration of the Environmental Evidence from the Breiddin Hillfort, Powys, Wales

article

Isotopic Analysis of Faunal Material from South Uist, Western Isles, Scotland

article

Kishor Basa, Rabindra Mohanty & Simadri Ota (ed.). Megalithic traditions in India: archaeology and ethnography (2 volumes). 2015. lx+817 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. Bhopal: Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya; 978-81-7305-544-7 hardback

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in April 2016

Learning to live in the Iron Age; dwelling and praxis

chapter published in 1999

Lindow Man and the Danish Connection: Further Light on the Mystery of the Bogman

journal article from 'Anthropology Today' published in 1986

Long-distance landscapes: from quarries to monument at Stonehenge ⬇️

chapter published in 2020

Looking at the land: archaeological landscapes in eastern England

book published in 1994

Mahilaka: An Archaeological Investigation of an Early Town in North-Western Madagascar. By Chantal Radimilahy. 294mm. Pp 293, 86 figs, 18 pls, 4col pls, 104 tables. Uppsala: Studies in African Archaeology, 15. Department of Archaeology and Ancient Hi

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in September 2001

Mahilaka: an Archaeological Investigation of an Early Town in North-Western Madagascar. By Chantal Radimilahy. 294mm. Pp 293, 86 figs, 22 pls, 104 tables. Uppsala: University of Uppsala, Studies in African Archaeology, 15. ISBN 91-506-1313-8. Price n

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in September 2000

Materializing Stonehenge

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in July 2006

Multi-isotope analysis reveals that feasts in the Stonehenge environs and across Wessex drew people and animals from throughout Britain

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

Mummification in Bronze Age Britain

scholarly article by Thomas J. Booth published in October 2015

New Radiocarbon Dates Show Early Neolithic Date of Flint-Mining and Stone Quarrying in Britain

scientific article published on 7 August 2019

Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides

article published in 1999

Old Stones: New Words

scientific article published in January 1994

Ordering the world: perceptions of architecture, space and time

chapter published in 1994

Origins of the sarsen megaliths at Stonehenge ⬇️

scholarly article

Paramedics' views on their seizure management learning needs: a qualitative study in England

scientific article published on 09 January 2017

Paul Garwood, David Jennings, Robin Skeates & Judith Toms (ed.). Sacred and profane: proceedings of a conference on archaeology, ritual and religion. Oxford, 1989 [Oxford University committee for Archaeology Monograph 32.] xviii + 171 pages, b&w illu

Population Replacement in Early Neolithic Britain

Qualitative study of paramedics' experiences of managing seizures: a national perspective from England

scientific article

Reassessing ROBERT DRURY'S JOURNAL as A Historical Source for Southern Madagascar

article

Researching Stonehenge: Theories Past and Present

scientific article

Resolving the Human Remains Crisis in British Archaeology

scientific article published on 15 December 2011

Resolving the Human Remains Crisis in British Archaeology: Response to Sayer, Pitts, Pendragon, Elders, Lapinoja and Sutphin

scientific article published on 15 December 2011

Return of the living dead: mortuary analysis and the New Archaeology revisited

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in December 1995

Sarah Tarlow & Liv Nilsson Stutz (ed.). The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of death and burial. xix+849 pages, 126 illustrations. 2013. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-956906-9 hardback £115

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in June 2014

Stonehenge for the ancestors: part two

article published in 1998

Stonehenge for the ancestors: the stones pass on the message

scientific article published in June 1998

Stonehenge remodelled

scholarly article by Timothy Darvill published in December 2012

Stonehenge's Avenue and ‘Bluestonehenge’

article

Stonehenge: Exploring the Greatest Stone Age Mystery

book published in 2012

Stonehenge: The Little ‘Big Other’ ⬇️

Strontium isotope analysis on cremated human remains from Stonehenge support links with west Wales ⬇️

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Supply and Demand in Prehistory? Economics of Neolithic Mining in NW Europe (NEOMINE)

The Archaeology of Ancestors: Death, Memory, and Veneration. ERICA HILL and JON B. HAGEMAN, editors. 2016. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. x + 261 pp. $89.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8130-6251-8

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in March 2017

The Archaeology of Death and Burial

book by Michael Parker Pearson

The Beaker Phenomenon And The Genomic Transformation Of Northwest Europe

The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

The Iron Age Enclosures and Prehistoric Landscape of Sutton Common, South Yorkshire

scientific article published in 1997

The Powerful Dead: Archaeological Relationships between the Living and the Dead

scientific article published in October 1993

The Use and Reuse of Stone Circles: fieldwork at five Scottish monuments and its implications. Edited by Richard Bradley and Courtney Nimura. 280mm. Pp xvi + 168, many col ills, maps, plans, 5 tables. Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2016.isbn 9781785702433. £3

article

The age of Stonehenge

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in September 2007

The beginning of wisdom

The chalk drums from Folkton and Lavant: Measuring devices from the time of Stonehenge

scientific article published on 15 December 2018

The date of the Greater Stonehenge Cursus

scholarly article by Julian Thomas published in March 2009

The dead of Stonehenge

scientific article published in April 2016

The identification of prehistoric dairying activities in the Western Isles of Scotland: an integrated biomolecular approach

article

The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales

scientific article published in February 2021

The sarsen stones of Stonehenge ⬇️

Three men and a boat: Sutton Hoo and the East Saxon kingdom

Tombs and monumentality in southern Madagascar: preliminary results of the central Androy survey

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published December 1992 in Antiquity

Tooth enamel oxygen "isoscapes" show a high degree of human mobility in prehistoric Britain

scientific article published on 07 October 2016

Understanding Children's Heart Surgery Data: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Codevelop a Website

scientific article

Viking State Formation in Scandinavia: A review of Landscapes of Power, Landscapes of Conflict: State Formation in the South Scandinavian Iron Age, by Tina L. Thurston, 2000. (Fundamental Issues in Archaeology.) New York (NY): Kluwer Academic/Plenum;

scientific article published in April 2002

Who was buried at Stonehenge?

scientific article published in March 2009

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