Chris Scarre

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According to Wikipedia, Christopher John Scarre, FSA is an academic and writer in the fields of archaeology, pre-history and ancient history. He is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Durham and was head of its archaeology department 2010-2013.

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Cognition and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Symbolic Storage (2002) (146)
The ethics of archaeology : philosophical perspectives on archaeological practice (2006) (122)
The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies (2009) (105)
Explaining Social Change: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew (2004) (65)
Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers (2020) (54)
News from the west: ancient DNA from a French megalithic burial chamber. (2011) (53)
SIMULATING THE WESTERN SEAWAYS (2009) (41)
Isotopic evidence for residential mobility of farming communities during the transition to agriculture in Britain (2016) (38)
Rocks of Ages: Tempo and Time in Megalithic Monuments (2010) (36)
The Mega-Site of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain): Debating Settlement Form, Monumentality and Aggregation in Southern Iberian Copper Age Societies (2017) (34)
The Human Past (2005) (33)
Mounds, megaliths, music and mind : Some thoughts on the acoustical properties and purposes of archaeological spaces (1998) (33)
Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany (2011) (32)
Cave acoustics in prehistory: Exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response. (2017) (31)
Land use and mobility during the Neolithic in Wales explored using isotope analysis of tooth enamel (2017) (25)
A pattern of islands: The Neolithic monuments of north-west Brittany (2002) (25)
Contexts of Monumentalism: regional diversity at the Neolithic transition in north‐west France (2002) (23)
The Ethics of Archaeology (2006) (22)
Exploring time and matter in prehistoric monuments : absolute chronology and rare rocks in European megaliths. (2012) (22)
Coast and cosmos: the Neolithic monuments of northern Brittany (2002) (20)
Luminescence dating and associated analyses in transition landscapes of the Alto Ribatejo, central Portugal (2014) (20)
Painting by resonance (1989) (20)
Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers. (2020) (20)
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome (1995) (20)
Making the Dead Visible: Problems and Solutions for “Big” Picture Approaches to the Past, and Dealing with Large “Mortuary” Datasets (2016) (19)
The megalithic monuments of Britain and Ireland (2007) (17)
Evolution Socio-économique dans le Chasséen de la Grotte de l'Eglise Supérieure (Var): apport de l'Analyse Fonctionelle des Industries Lithiques . By Bernard Gassin. 280mm. Pp. 326, ills. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1996. ISBN 2-271-05424-9. FFr. 270.00. (1998) (16)
Modeling Prehistoric Populations: The Case of Neolithic Brittany (2001) (15)
Origine et développement du mégalithisme de l'ouest de l'Europe (2006) (15)
THE EARLY NEOLITHIC of WESTERN FRANCE and MEGALITHIC ORIGINS IN ATLANTIC EUROPE (1992) (15)
Stones with character : animism, agency and megalithic monuments. (2009) (14)
Archaeological theory in France and Britain (1999) (13)
Long Mounds and Megalithic Origins in Western France: Recent Excavations at Prissé-la-Charrière (2003) (13)
Introduction: situating monuments : The dialogue between built form and landform in Atlantic Europe (2005) (13)
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (1995) (13)
Exploring Prehistoric Europe (1998) (13)
Les Tumulus de Bougon : complexe mégalithique du Ve au IIIe millénaire (2002) (13)
Past Worlds: "The Times" Atlas of Archaeology (1995) (12)
The perception of space and geometry: megalithic monuments of west-central France in their relationship to the landscape (2002) (12)
Le tumulus C de Péré à Prissé-la-Charrière (Deux-Sèvres) : état de recherches après 6 années d'intervention. (2002) (12)
Changing places: monuments and the Neolithic transition in western France (2007) (11)
The ancient mind: The meaning of death: funerary beliefs and the prehistorian (1994) (11)
Application of luminescence dating and geomorphological analysis to the study of landscape evolution, settlement and climate change on the Channel Island of Herm (2014) (10)
Displaying the stones : the materiality of 'megalithic' monuments. (2004) (10)
Tracking the dead in the Neolithic : the ‘Invisible Dead’ in Britain. (2017) (9)
Megalithic Quarrying: Sourcing, Extracting and Manipulating the Stones (2009) (9)
The English Cemetery at Surat: Pre-Colonial Cultural Encounters in Western India (2005) (8)
The excavated areas. (2007) (8)
Isotopic Evidence for Human Movement into Central England during the Early Neolithic (2020) (8)
New radiocarbon dates from Bougon and the chronology of French passage-graves (1993) (8)
Archaeology: Kin-groups in Megalithic burials (1984) (8)
Smithsonian Timelines of the Ancient World (1993) (7)
Stone people: monuments and identities in the Channel Islands (2010) (7)
Longs tumulus néolithiques et organisation de l'espace dans l'ouest de la France (1998) (6)
Le néolithique de l'Aunis et du Poitou occidental dans son cadre atlantique . By Joussaume Roger. Travaux du Laboratoire d'Anthropologie-Préhistoire-Protohistoire et Quaternaire Armoricains, Rennes, 1981. 625 pp., 243 figs. (1983) (6)
Arenas of Action? Enclosure Entrances in Neolithic Western France c. 3500–2500 BC (1998) (6)
Social Stratification and the State in Prehistoric Europe: the Wider Perspective (2013) (6)
The Megalithic Architectures of Europe (2015) (6)
Shrines of the land and places of power : religion and the transition to farming in western Europe. (2008) (6)
The Cambridge Archaeological Journal (1991) (6)
Ancient France : neolithic societies and their landscapes, 6000-2000 bc (1984) (6)
Settlement Patterns and Landscape Change: The Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age of the Marais Poitevin Area of Western France (1982) (6)
Isotopic Evidence for Landscape use and the Role of Causewayed Enclosures During the Earlier Neolithic in Southern Britain (2018) (5)
The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World (1999) (5)
Parallel lives? Neolithic funerary monuments and the Channel divide. (2015) (5)
Le tumulus C de Péré à Prissé-la-Charrière, Deux-Sèvres (France) (2006) (4)
The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations. By Kristian Kristiansen and Thomas B. Larsson (2006) (4)
The seventy wonders of the ancient world : the great monuments and how they were built (1999) (4)
The palaeogeography and Neolithic archaeology of Herm in the Channel Islands (2013) (4)
Engaging with the Dead : exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body. (2017) (4)
Chambered Tombs and Passage Graves of Western and Northern Europe (2015) (4)
New era for Stonehenge (2014) (3)
SETTLEMENTS AND CHAMBERED TOMBS IN NEOLITHIC FRANCE (1983) (3)
Mortuary practices and bodily representations in north-west Europe (2015) (3)
The Ethics of Archaeology: Introduction (2006) (3)
Tombs, landscapes and settlement in the Tagus hill-country. (2011) (3)
A New Perspective on Copper Age Technology, Economy and Settlement: Grinding Tools at the Valencina Mega-Site (2020) (3)
The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 (1979) (3)
Disease, CCR5-Δ32 and the European spread of agriculture? A hypothesis (2012) (3)
Le tumulus néolithique C de Péré à Prissé-la-Charrière (Deux-Sèvres) : le niveau funéraire de la chambre mégalithique 1 (phase II du monument) (2003) (3)
'Beings like themselves'? Anthropomorphic representations in the megalithic tombs of France. (2008) (3)
Covering the dead : the cists behind the orthostats at the Mound of the Hostages. (2013) (3)
Biscay and Beyond? Prehistoric Voyaging between Two Finisterres (2017) (3)
Highland Mesoamerica (2019) (2)
Egyptian Civilization (2)
Accident or design? Chambers, cairns and funerary practices in Neolithic western Europe. (2015) (2)
Ancient Civilizations (2016) (2)
Atlas de la Rome antique (1996) (2)
European wetlands in prehistory. Edited by Coles John M. and Lawson Andrew J.. xix + 299 pp., 165 figs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. £50.00. (1989) (2)
Megaliths, memory and the power of stones. (2010) (2)
The " Times " Archaeology of the World (1999) (2)
EDITORIAL (2016) (2)
EDITORIAL (2016) (1)
Los huesos olvidados del dolmen de Carrascal (Agualva, Sintra, Portugal). Examinando los restos humanos antiguos (2019) (1)
Théorie archéologique en France et en Angleterre (1998) (1)
Recherches récentes sur l'île de Herm (îles anglo-normandes). Note préliminaire. (2011) (1)
Nuevos enfoques para el estudio de los monumentos megalíticos de Europe Occidental. (2008) (1)
Les pierres dressées en Grande-Bretagne : chronologie, symbolisme et traditions préhistoriques. (2015) (1)
Ian Hodder: Symbols in action. Ethnoarchaeological studies of material culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 244 pp., 87 figs., 18 tables. £19.50. (1983) (1)
Special section: Theory in French archaeology (1999) (1)
The Cambridge World Prehistory (2015) (1)
Kingdoms and Empires in East Asia (770 b.c.–a.d. 700) (2016) (1)
Neolithic Figurines of Western Europe (2016) (1)
Theories of States (1)
Geology, Landscape and Meaning in the Megalithic Monuments of Western and Northern Europe (2020) (1)
Jacques Cauvin and the origins of agriculture. (2002) (1)
The Mediterranean World in the First Millennium (1000–30 b.c.) (2016) (1)
Misleading images: Stonehenge and Brittany (1997) (1)
Preface:: megalithic architecture in Europe (2015) (1)
The Study of Civilization (2016) (1)
A century of research on the Peu-Richardien (1984) (1)
ELEVEN. A Place of Special Meaning: Interpreting Pre-Historic Monuments in the Landscape (2017) (1)
South Asia: Indus and Later Civilizations (2016) (1)
EXPLORING TIME AND MATTER IN PREHISTORIC MONUMENTS: DEBATING ABSOLUTE CHRONOLOGY AND RARE ROCKS IN EUROPEAN MEGALITHS EXPLORANDO EL TIEMPO Y LA MATERIA EN LOS MONUMENTOS PREHISTÓRICOS: EL DEBATE SOBRE CRONOLOGÍA ABSOLUTA Y ROCAS RARAS EN LOS MEGALITOS EUROPEOS (2011) (1)
A closer look at the forgotten bones of the Dolmen of Pedras Grandes (Odivelas, Portugal). (Examining old human remains 7). (2021) (1)
A new decorated menhir (2000) (1)
The First Chinese Civilizations (2016) (0)
Southwest Asia in the First Millennium b.c. (2021) (0)
Hilary Gilmore: Irish art heritage from 2000 BC. Design legacy from the Mid-West. A source book for craft workers. Dublin: The O'Brien Press, 1983. 96 pp., 147 illus. £10 hardback, £6 paperback. (1984) (0)
EDITORIAL (2016) (0)
Editorial (2013) (0)
Decoding Neolithic Atlantic and Mediterranean Island Ritual, edited by George Nash and Andrew Townsend (2017) (0)
EDITORIAL (2015) (0)
A northern viewpoint (2015) (0)
Imperial Rome (0)
The comparative archaeology of the Channel Islands (2015) (0)
Pyrenean prehistory. A palaeoeconomic survey of the French sites . By Paul G. Bahn. Warminster, Aris a Phillips Ltd, 1984. 511 pp., 81 illustrations, 36 maps, 41 tables. Price £28.00. (1985) (0)
Acknowledgements (2019) (0)
The First Aegean Civilizations (2016) (0)
Prehistorian at Cambridge (2002) (0)
Heraldry for the dead: memory, identity, and the engraved stone plaques of Neolithic Iberia – By Katina T. Lillios (2010) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Sub-Saharan Africa (2007) (0)
Northeast Africa: Kush, Meroe, and Aksum (2016) (0)
Northeast Africa (0)
The First Monuments (2011) (0)
Le néiolithique de la France. Hommage à Gérard Bailloud . Edited by Jean-Paul Demoule and Jean Guilaine. 463 pp., many figs. Paris: Picard, 1986. Price 350 FF. (1987) (0)
Consolidation, reconstruction and the interpretation of megalithic monuments (2006) (0)
Making the Dead Visible: Problems and Solutions for “Big” Picture Approaches to the Past, and Dealing with Large “Mortuary” Datasets (2015) (0)
AQY volume 87 issue 337 Cover and Front matter (2013) (0)
Burial Mounds in Broader Perspective. (2018) (0)
Bodies of Evidence (2011) (0)
Jean-Pierre Mohen: L'âge du fer en Aquitaine. Mémoires de la Société Préhistorique Française 14 . Paris: Société Préhistorique Française, 1980. 562 pp., 345 figs., 8 plates. Frs. 200. (1981) (0)
Mesopotamia and the Levant (2000–1200 b.c.) (2021) (0)
The Foundations of Andean Civilization (2016) (0)
Chronologies in Old World Archaeology. Robert W. Ehrich, editor. Vols. I and II, 3rd ed. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992. x + 1,103 pp., figures, tables, maps, appendix, index. No price given. (1994) (0)
COMPUTERISED ANALYSIS OF THE SHAPES OF A CLASS OF PREHISTORIC STONE TOOLS FROM WEST-CENTRAL FRANCE (2009) (0)
Palaeoenvironmental investigations around the Anta da Lajinha and the broader regional context (2019) (0)
Editorial (1973) (0)
Georges Germond: Inventaire des mégalithes de la France. 6: Deux-Sèvres (Gallia Préhistoire supplément, I.) Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1980. 290 pp., 8 pls., 121 figs. Frs. 165. (1982) (0)
Editorial (1980) (0)
Jean-Pierre Pautreau: Le Chalcolithique et l'Age du Bronze en Poitou (Vendée, Deux-Sèrves, Vienne). Poitiers: Centre d'Archéologie et d'Ethnologie Poitevines, Musée Sainte-Croix, 1979. 425 pp., 106 figs., 8 tables, 2 vols. (1981) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
The Study of Neolithic Brittany (2011) (0)
EDITORIAL (2015) (0)
The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland, by Richard Bradley, 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; ISBN-13 978-0-52161-270-8 paperback £16.99 & US$28.99; ISBN-13 978-0-52184-811-4 hardback £40 & US$70; 330 pp., 106 ills. (2008) (0)
The Mega-Site of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain): Debating Settlement Form, Monumentality and Aggregation in Southern Iberian Copper Age Societies (2017) (0)
Megalithic tombs in Western Iberia (2019) (0)
South Asia (0)
EDITORIAL (2015) (0)
P. J. O'Keefe & L. V. Prott: Law and the cultural heritage, Vol. 1: discovery and excavation. Abingdon: Professional Books Ltd, 1984. 434 pp. £23.00 (boards); £14.95 (paper) (1985) (0)
P. J. Fowler: The farming of prehistoric Britain. Cambridge: University Press, 1983.246 pp., 8 plates, 60 figs. £7.50 (paper) (1985) (0)
EDITORIAL (2015) (0)
Identities on display : Material culture , the body and the presentation of roles in funerary practice (2018) (0)
Peopling the Landscape (2011) (0)
Introduction: The Erythraean Sea (2016) (0)
The Last Continent : prehistoric America in comparative perspective. (2016) (0)
Book reviews (2010) (0)
Power and Place: Connecting with the Land (2011) (0)
New Book Chronicle (2015) (0)
Lowland Mesoamerica (2019) (0)
The Near East in the First Millennium B.C. (2016) (0)
Claude Masset Les Dolmens: Sociétés néolithiques, pratiques funéraires. (2nd edition.) 175 pages, numerous illustrations. 1997. Paris: Errance: 2 87772 142 6 paperback F170. (1998) (0)
Ancestral Memories?: The Monumental Cemeteries of Prehistoric Europe, by Magdalena S. Midgley, 2005. Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd; ISBN 0-7524-2567-6 paperback, £19.99 & US$29.70, 160 pp., ills. (2006) (0)
Jan Albert Bakker. Megalithic research in the Netherlands, 1547–1911: from ‘Giant's beds’ and ‘Pillars of Hercules’ to accurate investigations . viii+318 pages, 67 illustrations. 2010. Leiden: Sidestone; 978-90-8890-034-1 paperback £26. (2011) (0)
Songs of the shamans? acoustical studies in European prehistory. (2018) (0)
The Prehistoric Society (2018) (0)
AQY volume 88 issue 339 Cover and Front matter (2014) (0)
The regional context (2019) (0)
All Change Please? The Neolithic Transition in Brittany (2011) (0)
Dyssen uden høje i Storbritannien, Frankrig og Irland. (2014) (0)
CAJ volume 1 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1991) (0)
World prehistories and the development of a global archaeological narrative (2017) (0)
The megaliths of northern Europe – By Magdalena S. Midgley (2009) (0)
Larousse/The Times grand atlas de l'archéologie (1990) (0)
Editorial (2014) (0)
Prissé-la-Charrière (Deux-Sèvres) rapport 2004 (2004) (0)
Excavations at the Anta da Lajinha 2006–2008 (2019) (0)
Mesopotamia: The First Cities (3500–2000 B.C.) (2016) (0)
Ancestral Traditions (1999) (0)
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS (2011) (0)
Figuritas en la Europa atlántica (2020) (0)
The Domestication of Monuments: Brittany during the Later Neolithic (2011) (0)
EDITORIAL (2017) (0)
Dolmens without mounds in Britain, France and Ireland. (2016) (0)
Pierres et paysages : blocs naturels et éléments mégalithiques dans les monuments mégalithiques britanniques. (2013) (0)
The World of Stonehenge exhibition: Britain and Europe from 4000–1000 BC (2022) (0)
EDITORIAL (2016) (0)
At the Edges of the World: The Brittany Passage Graves (2011) (0)
The ‘Invisible Dead’ Project:: The Database as a Work-in-Progress (2017) (0)
Le Néolithique en Languedoc Occidental. By Jean Vaquer. 398 pp. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1990. 230 F. (1991) (0)
David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce. Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of Gods. 320 pages, 75 illustrations, 29 colour plates. 2005: London: Thames & Hudson; 0-500-05138-0 hardback £18.95. (2007) (0)
José Gomez: Les cultures de l'Age du Bronze dans le Bassin de la Charente. Périgueux: Pierre Fanlac, 1980. 118 pp., 4 pls. 84 figs., various tables. (1981) (0)
EDITORIAL (2015) (0)
Sigfried J. De Laet: La Belgique d'avant les Romains. Wetteren: Editions Universa, 1982. 793 pp., 304 figs. 3200 FB. (1984) (0)
Mesopotamia (0)
Epilogue (0)
Karoline Mazurié de Keroualin Genése et diffusion de l’agriculture en Europe: agriculteurs, chasseurs, pasteurs . 184 pages, figures. 2003. Paris: Errance; 2-87772-251-1 paperback €27. (2005) (0)
Cercles de pierres et de bois en Angleterre et en Ecosse (2008) (0)
Megalithic people, Megalithic missionaries : the history of an idea. (2018) (0)
La nécropole de chenon (Charente). Étude d'un ensemble dolménique charentais. By Gauron Edmond and Massaud Jean. Gallia Préhistoire Supplement 18. 192 pp., 47 figs, 12 plates. Éditions du CNRS, Paris, 1983. Price 200 F. (1984) (0)
Marking time: the problem of chronology in studying European Neolithic monuments (2011) (0)
Jean Chapelot & Alain Schnapp (eds): La politique de l'archéologie en Europe. Actes de la table-ronde tenue à Paris les 4 et 5 avril 1976 . Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1984. 132 pp. (1986) (0)
SPECIAL SECTION: NEW DIALOGUES ABOUT ANCIENT MAYA (2016) (0)
Alasdair Whittle. The Times of their Lives: Hunting History in the Archaeology of Neolithic Europe (Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2018, 253pp., 48 figs, 41 plates, hbk, ISBN 978-1-78570-668-4) (2019) (0)
The Anta da Lajinha in its international context (2019) (0)
Traditions and transformations in Neolithic France (1998) (0)
EDITORIAL (2016) (0)
EDITORIAL (2017) (0)
Stone Settings and Sacred Landscapes: Three Case-Studies (2011) (0)
Robin G., D'Anna A., Schmitt A., Bailly M., dir. (2016), Fonctions, utilisations et représentations de l'espace dans les sépultures monumentales du Néolithique européen. Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires de Provence, 372 p. ISBN : 979-10-320-0048-9 (2017) (0)
Dolmens et monumentalisme en Grande-Bretagne (2008) (0)
A northern point of view (2016) (0)
The Archaeology of Islands. By Paul Rainbird (2008) (0)
Archaeological investigations on Jethou. (2016) (0)
Barry Cunliffe. Facing the ocean: the Atlantic and its peoples 8000 BC-AD 1500. viii + 600 pages, 346 figures. 2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 0-19-924019-1 hardback £ 25 & $ 40. (2001) (0)
Divine Kings in Southeast Asia (2016) (0)
CAJ volume 2 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1992) (0)
Timelines of the ancient world (1993) (0)
Provenancing antiquarian museum collections using multi-isotope analysis (2023) (0)
Inventaire des mégalithes de la France Vol. VIII. Puy-de-Dôme. By Sylvie Amblard. (Iersupplément à ‘Gallia Préhistoire’.) 28×22 cm. Pp. 104, 46 figs., 3 tables + 8 pls. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1983. ISBN 2-222-03207-5. Fr. 130. (1985) (0)
Andean States (200 b.c.–a.d. 1534) (2016) (0)
John M. Howell: Settlement and economy in neolithic Northern France. BAR International Series 157. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1983. 402 pp., 192 figs. £17.00 post free from BAR, 122 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7BP. (1983) (0)
Editorial (2013) (0)
Making Sense of Monuments: Narratives of Time, Movement, and Scale. MICHAEL J. KOLB. 2020. Routledge, London. xx + 228 pp. $160.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-138-37110-1. $48.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-032-08501-2. $48.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-429-42775-6. (2021) (0)
The Carnac Landscape (2011) (0)

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