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Architecture in Prehistory: General resources

Recommended for all architectural research

Eras of prehistory

American Journal of Archaeology (PDFs from 1897, with a 3-year delay, available via Jstor)

Archaeology (PDFs from 1948, with a 2-year delay, available via Jstor)

Binford, Lewis R., Debating Archaeology, Left Coast Press, 2009 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française (PDFs from 1978, with a 3-year delay, available via Jstor)

Journal of World Prehistory (PDFs from 1987, with a 3-year delay, available via Jstor)

The Oriental Institute (Supporting research since 1919)

Prehistoric Society (UK based)

Quaternary Research Association (Ice age)

Shanks, Michael, The Archaeological imagination, Left Coast Press, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Tattersall, Ian, The world from beginnings to 4000 BCE, Oxford University Press, 2006 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

World Archaeology (PDFs from 1969, with a 7-year delay, available via Jstor)

Begun, David R. (Editor), A Companion to paleoanthropology, John Wiley & Sons, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Nowell, April & Iain Davidson, Stone tools and the evolution of human cognition, University Press of Colorado, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Pyne, Stephen J., Fire: a brief history, University of Washington Press, 2019 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Rots, Veerle, Prehension and hafting traces on flint tools: a methodology, Leuven University Press, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Wood, Bernard, Human evolution: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 2005 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Adams, Brian & Brooke Blades, Lithic materials and Paleolithic societies, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Botha, Rudolf & Chris Knight, Cradle of language, Oxford University Press, 2009 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Brantingham, P. Jeffrey, et al., The Early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe, University of California Press, 2004 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Dolní Věstonice settlement, Czech Republic (Don’s Maps)

Lascaux,” Oxford Art Online

Lithic Technology (PDFs from 1977-2010 available via Jstor)

Mezhyrich mammoth bone settlement, Ukraine (Don’s Maps)

Prehistoric Europe, Mesolithic,” Oxford Art Online

Barker, Graeme, The Agricultural revolution in prehistory: why did foragers become farmers? Oxford University Press, 2006 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Bradley, Richard, Significance of monuments: on the shaping of human experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe, Routledge, 2001 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Darvill, Timothy, & David Field, Round mounds and monumentality in the British Neolithic and beyond, Oxbow Books, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Martineau, John (editor), Megalith: studies in stone, Bloomsbury, GN790 .M45 2019

Neolithic Studies Group

The Origins of agriculture: new data, new ideas,” Current Anthropology, October 2011 (Theme issue; PDFs available via Jstor)

Simmons, Alan H., Neolithic revolution in the Near East: transforming the human landscape, University Arizona, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Burke, Aaron A., Walled up to heaven: the evolution of Middle Bronze Age fortification strategies in the Levant, Eisenbrauns, 2008 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Chesson, Meredith S., et al., Daily life, materiality, and complexity in early urban communities of the Southern Levant, Eisenbrauns, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Fontijn, David, et al., Beyond barrows: current research on the structuration and perception of the prehistoric landscape through monuments, Sidestone Press, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Ling, Johan, et al., Picturing the Bronze Age, Oxbow Books, 2015 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Prehistoric Europe; Bronze age,” Oxford Art Online

The Iron Age begins approximately 1200 BCE, but ends—with the beginning of modern recorded history—at different times at different places.

Collis, John, European Iron Age, B.T. Batsford, 1984 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Deger-Jalkotzy, Sigrid, & Irene Lemos (Editors), Ancient Greece: from the Mycenaean palaces to the Age of Homer, Edinburgh University Press, 2006 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Fernández-Götz, Manuel, et al., Paths to complexity: centralisation and urbanisation in Iron Age Europe, Oxbow Books, 2014 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Mierse, William, “Temples and sanctuaries from the Early Iron Age Levant: recovery after collapse, Eisenbrauns, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Parker, Bradley J.,  et al., New perspectives on household archaeology, Eisenbrauns, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Porter, Benjamin W., Complex communities: the archaeology of Early Iron Age West-Central Jordan, University of Arizona Press, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)  

Please note

  • These guides are intended to provide initial orientation, and suggest a variety of different lines of investigation—not take the place of individual research.
  • All the resources cited here--print and digital--are available through the Kappe Library at SCI-Arc.Items not available at SCI-Arc are not included.
  • Surveys covering multiple projects are preferred over monographic studies focusing on specific works or individuals.
  • Resources on Los Angeles and Southern California are stressed.
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