A. Sherratt – Publications

2007

'Diverse origins: regional contributions to the genesis of farming', in S. Colledge and J. Conolly (eds), The origins and spread of domestic plants in southwest Asia and Europe, Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

2006

'The Trans-Eurasian Exchange: the prehistory of Chinese relations with the West', 30-61 in V. Mair (ed.), Contact and exchange in the ancient world, Honolulu: Hawaii University Press.

[with B.H. Menze & J.A. Ur] 'Detection of Ancient Settlement Mounds: Archaeological Survey Based on the SRTM Terrain Model', Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 72:321-7.

'Portages: a simple but powerful idea in understanding human history', 1-13 in C. Westerdahl (ed.), The Significance of Portages. Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Significance of Portages, 29th Sept-2nd Oct 2004, in Lyngdal, Vest-Agder, Norway, Oxford: BAR International Series 1499.

'La traction animale et la transformation de l’Europe néolithique', 329-60 in P. Pétrequin, R-M. Arbogast, A-M. Ptrequin, S. van Willigen and M. Bailly (eds), Premiers chariots, premiers araires. La diffusion de la traction animale en Europe pendant les IVe et IIIe millénaires avant notre ére, Paris: CNRS Editions. [PDF file of the English text: Animal traction and the transformation of Europe]

'Crete, Greece and the Orient in the Thought of Gordon Childe (with an Appendix on Toynbee and Spengler: The Afterlife of the Minoans in European Intellectual History)', 107-26 in Y. Hamilakis and N. Momigliano (eds), Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the ‘Minoans’, : Creta Antica vol. 7..

2005

'100 years ago…', Anatolian Archaeology, 11:37.

'TransTaurus: early connections between central and southeast Anatolia', Anatolian Archaeology, 11:24-6.

'Settling the Neolithic: a digestif', 140-6 in D. Bailey, A. Whittle and V. Cummings (eds), (Un)settling the Neolithic, Oxford: Oxbow Books.

'Wagen, Pflug, Rind: ihre Ausbreitung und Nutzung – Probleme der Quelleninterpretation', in S. Burmeister and M. Fansa (eds), Rad und Wagen. Der Ursprung einer Innovation. Wagen im Vorderen Orient und Europa, Mainz: von Zabern.

'The View from Mount Nebo', 441-4 in T. E. Levy and T. Higham (eds), The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science, London and Oakville: Equinox.

2004

'Material Resources, Capital, and Power: The Coevolution of Society and Culture', 79-103 in G. Feinman and L. Nicholas (eds), Archaeological perspectives on political economies, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

'Fractal Farmers: patterns of Neolithic origins and dispersal', 53-63 in J. Cherry, C. Scarre and S. Shennan (eds), Explaining Social Change: studies in honour of Colin Renfrew, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

'The importance of lake-dwellings in European prehistory', 267-76 in F. Menotti (ed.), Living on the Lake in Prehistoric Europe. 150 Years of Lake-Dwelling Research, London: Routledge.

'Strabo's isthmus', Anatolian Archaeology, 10:30-1.

'Spotting tells from space', Antiquity: Project Gallery, 78 No. 301, September 2004. http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/sherratt/.

2003

'The Baden (Pécel) culture and Anatolia', 415-29 in P. Raczky and E. Jerem (eds), Morgenrot der Kulturen: Frühe Etappen der Menschheitsgeschichte in Mittel- und Südosteuropa, Budapest: Archaeolingua.

'The horse and the wheel: the dialectics of change in the circum-Pontic and adjacent areas, 4500-1500 BC', 233-52 in M. Levine, C. Renfrew and K. Boyle (eds), Prehistoric Steppe Adaptation and the Horse, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

2002

'End of story?', 68-75 in P. Slack and R. Ward (eds), The Peopling of Britain; the shaping of a human landscape, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

'Darwin anong the archaeologists: the John Evans nexus and the Borneo caves', Antiquity, 76:151-7.

[with Corinne Roughley and Colin Shell] 'Past records, new views: Carnac 1830-2000', Antiquity, 76:218-23.

[with E.S. Sherratt, J.D. Hawkins and D.F. Easton] 'Troy in recent perspective', Anatolian Studies, 52:75-109.

2001

'World History: An Archaeological Perspective', 34-54 in Sølvi Sogner (ed.), Making Sense of Global History: The Nineteenth International Congress of the Historical Sciences Oslo 2000 Commemorative Volume, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

[with E.S. Sherratt] 'Technological change in the East Mediterranean Bronze Age: capital, resources and marketing', 15-38 in A. Shortland (ed.), The Social Context of Technological Change, Oxford: Oxbow.

2000

'The Athens of the North', Meddelelser fra Klassisk Arkeologisk Forening, 47:9-15.

'Envisioning global change: a long-term perspective', 115-32 in R. Denemark, J. Friedman and B. Gills (eds), World System History: the social science of long-term change, London: Routledge.

1999

'Cash-crops before cash: organic consumables and trade', 13-34 in C. Gosden and J. Hather (eds), The Prehistory of Food: appetites for change, London: Routledge.

'Creations of Mind', Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 9(1):154-60. [Review Article]

'The Thak hypothesis: a prestige-goods model for early hominine behaviour', Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 9(2):277-88.

'Echoes of the Big Bang: the historical context of language dispersal', 261-82 in K. Jones-Bley et al. (eds), Proceedings of the Tenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, LA May 1998 (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series No 32), Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man.

'Czy Gordon Childe miaƚ racjȩ', 389-408 in J. Lech (ed.), V Gordon Childe i Archeologia w XX Wieku, Warsaw: .

'Instrumente des Wandels? Die Rolle der Megalithen beim Übergang vom Meso- zum Neolithikum in Nordwesteuropa', 421-32 in K.W. Beinhauer and Ch. E. Guksch (eds), Studien zur Megalithik: Forschungsstand und ethnoarchäologische Perspektiven, Weissbach: Verlag Beier & Beran.

1998

'The human geography of Europe: a prehistoric perspective', 1-25 in R. Dodgshon and R. Butlin (eds), An Historical Geography of Europe, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

'Points of exchange: late Neolithic monuments in the Morbihan', 119-38 in A. Gibson and D. Simpson (eds), Prehistoric Ritual and Religion, Gloucester: Alan Sutton.

'Gordon Childe: Right or Wrong?', Archaeologia Polona, 35/6:363-78.

'Hindsight and foresight: preserving the past for the future', Antiquity, 72:699-702.

[with E.S. Sherratt] 'Small worlds: interaction and identity in the ancient Mediterranean', 329-43 in E.H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium, Liege: Aegaeum 18.

Between Evolution and History: long-term change in human societies, Boston: Boston University. [Preprint: Human Context and Society Lectures]

1997

Entries including: 'Prehistoric archaeology', 'European Copper Age', 'Pastoralism', 'Secondary Products Revolution', 'Prehistoric trade', 'Land transportation, wheel', etc., in B. Fagan (ed.), Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

'Climatic cycles and behavioural revolutions: the emergence of modern humans and the beginning of farming', Antiquity, 71:271-87.

Economy and society in prehistoric Europe: changing perspectives , Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

'Troy, Maikop, Altyn Depe: Early Bronze Age urbanism and its periphery', in V. M. Masson (ed.), Majkopskaya Kultura-fenomen Drevnej Istorii Kavkaza i Vostochnoj Evropy, Petersburg: . [in Russian]

1996

'Why Wessex? The Avon route in later British prehistory', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 15(2):211-34.

'Flying up with the souls of the dead', British Archaeology, 15:14.

'Linking Wessex with three rivers Avon', British Archaeology, 20:6.

'Plate tectonics and imaginary prehistories; structure and contingency in agricultural origins', 130-40 in D. Harris (ed.), Origins and Spread of Agriculture, London: UCL Press.

'Agricultural and pastoral societies, 3000-700 BC', 37-43 in A.H. Dani and J.-P. Mohen (eds), History of Humanity: scientific and cultural development, Paris & London: UNESCO (UNESCO History of Mankind, 2nd ed.) & Routledge.

'"Settlement patterns" or "landscape studies": cycles of reason and romance', Archaeological Dialogues, 3(2):140-59.

'Childeish questions', Antiquity, 70:491-500. [Editorial to No. 269]

'Das sehen wir auch den Rädern ab: some thoughts on M. Vosteen's "Unter die Räder gekommen"', Archäologische Informationen, 19(1-2):155-72.

[with E.S. Sherratt] Entry for 'Indo-Europeans', in S. Hornblower and A, Spawforth (eds), Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1995

'Fata Morgana: illusion and reality in Greek-barbarian relations', Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 5.1§:139-56.

[with J. Goodman and P. Lovejoy (eds)] Consuming Habits: drugs in history and Anthropology, London: Routledge.

'Introduction: Peculiar Substances', 1-10 in A. Sherratt, J. Goodman and P. Lovejoy (eds), Consuming Habits: drugs in history and Anthropology, London: Routledge.

'Alcohol and its alternatives: symbol and substance in early Old World cultures', 11-46 in A. Sherratt, J. Goodman and P. Lovejoy (eds), Consuming Habits: drugs in history and Anthropology, London: Routledge.

'Instruments of conversion: the role of megaliths in the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in north-west Europe', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 14(3):245-60. [Symposium paper for Vergleichende Studien zur Megalithik: Forschungsstand und ethnoarchäologische Perspektiven, Mannheim 1992]

'Reviving the grand narrative: Archaeology and long-term change', Journal of European Archaeology, 3(1):1-32. [David Clarke Memorial Lecture, University of Cambridge, May 1995]

'Reconstructing prehistoric farming', 61-76 in M. Kunst (ed.), Origens, Estruturas e Relaçoes das Culturas Calcolíticas da Península Ibérica, Torres Vedras: Instituto Português do Património (Trabalhos de Arqueologia 7).

1994

'The transformation of early agrarian Europe: the later Neolithic and Copper Ages 4500-2500 BC', 167-201 in B. Cunliffe (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated Prehistory of Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

'The emergence of elites: earlier Bronze Age Europe 2500-1300 BC', 244-76 in B, Cunliffe (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated Prehistory of Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

'Core, periphery and margin: perspectives on the Bronze Age', 335-45 in C. Mathers and S. Stoddart (eds), Development and Decline in the Mediterranean Bronze Age, Sheffield: Sheffield Archaeological Monographs 8.

'Postscript', 347 in C. Mathers and S. Stoddart (eds), Development and Decline in the Mediterranean Bronze Age, Sheffield: Sheffield Archaeolgical Monographs 8.

'What would a Bronze Age world system look like? Relations between temperate Europe and the Mediterranean in later prehistory', Journal of European Archaeology, 1(2):1-57.

'Alice in Wonderland', Oxford Magazine, 110:8-10. [A history of the hookah]

1993

[with E.S. Sherratt] 'The growth of the Mediterranean economy in the early first millennium BC', World Archaeology, 24(3):361-78.

'Ancestors for the Tombs?', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 12(1):127-8.

Entry for 'Archaeology', in W. Outhwaite and T. Bottomore (eds), Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Social Thought, Oxford: Blackwell.

'Archaeology and post-textuality', Antiquity, 67:295.

[with N. Yoffee (eds)] Archaeological Theory – Who Sets The Agenda?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[with N. Yoffee] 'Introduction: the sources of archaeological theory', 1-9 in N. Yoffee and A. Sherratt (eds), Archaeological Theory – Who Sets The Agenda?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

'The relativity of theory', 119-30 in N. Yoffee and A. Sherratt (eds), Archaeological Theory – Who Sets The Agenda?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

'Who are you calling peripheral? Dependence and independence in European prehistory', 245-55 in F. Healy and C. Scarre (eds), Trade and Exchange in Prehistoric Europe, Oxford: Oxbow.

1992

'What can archaeologists learn from Annalistes?', 135-42 in B. Knapp (ed.), Archaeology, Annales and Ethnohistory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1991

[with E.S. Sherratt] 'From luxuries to commodities: the nature of Mediterranean Bronze Age trading systems', 351-86 in N. Gale (ed.), Bronze Age Trade in the Mediterranean, Jonsered: SIMA.

'Sacred and profane substances: the ritual use of narcotics in later Neolithic Europe', 50-64 in P. Garwood, D. Jennings, R. Skeates and J. Toms (eds), Sacred and Profane: Proceedings of a conference on archaeology, ritual and religion, Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monographs 32.

[with E.S. Sherratt] 'Urnfield Reflections', Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 1(2):247-53. [Review article on James et al. Centuries of Darkness]

'Palaeoethnobotany: from crops to cuisine', 221-36 in F. Queiroga and A. Dinis (eds), Paleoecologia e Arqueologia II, Vila Nova de Famalicao: Centro de Estudos Famalicenses.

[with V. Dergachev and O. Larina] 'Recent results of Neolithic research in Moldavia (USSR)', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 10(1):1-16.

1990

'The genesis of megaliths: monumentality, ethnicity and social complexity in Neolithic north-west Europe', World Archaeology, 22(2):147-67.

'Gordon Childe: patterns and paradigms in prehistory', Australian Archaeology, 30:3-13.

[with B. Raftery, P.-M. Duval, O.-H. Frey, G. Kaenel, V. Kruta, M. Ryan, and M. Szabo (eds)] Celtic Art, Paris: Flammarion/UNESCO.

[with B. Raftery] 'Celtic Art in Britain and Ireland', in B. Raftery, P.-M. Duval, O.-H. Frey, G. Kaenel, V. Kruta, M. Ryan, A. Sherratt and M. Szabo (eds), Celtic Art, Paris: Flammarion/UNESCO.

1989

'V. Gordon Childe: archaeology and intellectual history', Past and Present, 125:151-85.

[with T. Taylor] 'Metal vessels in Bronze Age Europe and the context of Vulchetrun', 106-34 in J. Best and N. de Vries (eds), Thracians and Mycenaeans, Leiden: Brill.

1988

'Review of A.C. Renfrew, Archaeology and Language', Current Anthropology, :458-63.

[with E.S. Sherratt] 'The archaeology of Indo-European: an alternative view', Antiquity, 62(236):584-95.

1987

'The Early Bronze Age Pottery', 429-76 in C. Renfrew, M. Gimbutas and E. Elster, (eds), Excavations at Sitagroi, a prehistoric village in northeast Greece, Vol. 1, Los Angeles: University of California, Monumenta Archaeologia 13.

'Cups that cheered', 81-106 in W. Waldren and R. Kennard, (eds), Bell Beakers of the Western Mediterranean: the Oxford International Conference 1986, Oxford: BAR.

'"Ear-rings" again', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 6:119.

'Wool, wheels and ploughmarks: local developments or outside introductions in Neolithic Europe?', Bulletin of the London University Institute of Archaeology, 23(1986):1-15.

'Warriors and traders: Bronze Age chiefdoms in central Europe', 54-66 in B. Cunliffe (ed.), Origins: the roots of European Civilisation, London: BBC publications.

'Two new books on early European agriculture', Scottish Archaeological Review, 4:134-7. [Review article]

'Neolithic exchange systems in central Europe', 193-204 in G. Sieveking and M. Newcomer (eds), The Human Uses of Flint and Chert, Cambrdige: Cambridge University Press.

1986

'The Radley "ear-rings" revised', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 5:61-6.

'Two new finds of wooden wheels from later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Europe', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 5:243-8.

1985

Ancient Times: an Archaeological Map and Timescale, Oxford: Ashmolean Museum.

1984

'The Prehistory of the Balkans to 1000 BC' , in , Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

'Social Evolution: Europe in the Later Neolithic and Copper Age', 123-34 in J. Bintliff (ed.), European Social Evolution, Bradford: Bradford University.

'The development of Neolithic and Copper Age settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain, Part II: Site survey and settlement dynamics', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2(1):13-41.

1983

'The development of Neolithic and Copper Age settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain, Part I: The regional setting', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 1:287-316.

'Early Agrarian settlement in the Körös region of the Great Hungarian Plain', Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 35:155-69.

'A newly discovered La Téne sword and scabbard', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2:115-8.

'The Eneolithic period in Bulgaria in its European context', 188-98 in A.G. Poulter (ed.), Ancient Bulgaria (Vol 1), Nottingham: Nottingham University.

'The secondary exploitation of animals in the Old World', World Archaeology, 15(1):90-104.

1982

'Mobile resources: settlement and exchange in early agricultural Europe', 13-26 in A.C. Renfrew and S.J. Shennan, (eds), Ranking, Resource and Exchange, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The prehistoric settlement-history of the Great Hungarian Plain, Washington: National Geographic Research Reports.

'Colloqium on Prehistoric Settlement Patterns around the southern North Sea: Concluding Remarks', Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia, 15:182-3.

1981

'Plough and pastoralism: aspects of the secondary products revolution', 261-305 in N. Hammond, I. Hodder and G. Isaac, (eds), Pattern of the Past Studies in honour of David Clarke, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1980

'Water, soil and seasonality in early cereal cultivation', World Archaeology, 11 (3):313-330.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Editor; author of articles on 'The craft of archaeology', 'The revolution in archaeology', 'The beginnings of agriculture in the Near East and Europe', 'Prehistoric Europe' and 'Synthesis and interpretation : a personal view' ]

1979

'Problems in European Prehistory', 193-206 in D.L. Clarke, Analytical Archaeologist, London: Academic Press.

1978

'Prehistoric Europe and Near East', in G. Barraclough (ed.), Times Atlas of World History, London: Times Books.

1976

'Resources, technology and trade; an essay in early metallurgy', 557-581 in I. Longworth, G. Sieveking. and K. Wilson (eds), Problems in Social and Economic Archaeology, London: Duckworth.

The Beginning of the Bronze Age in South-East Europe, PhD Dissertation: University of Cambridge.

1973

'The explanation of change in European prehistory', 419-428 in A.C. Renfrew (ed.), The Explanation of Cultural Change, London: Duckworth.

1972

'Socio-economic and demographic models for the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Europe', 477-542 in D.L. Clarke (ed.), Models in Archaeology, London: Methuen.

1965

'Hayman Rooke FSA: an eighteenth century Nottinghamshire antiquary', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 69:4-18.