Trevor Watkins - publications


Authored books and monographs

1984 Rullion Green l983: Report on the 1983 season of excavations. University of Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology Project Papers No 1. 81 pp.

1986 Kharabeh Shattani, Volume 1. University of Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology Occasional Papers, No.14. 169 pp.

1986 Rullion Green 1984: Report on the 1984 season of excavations. University of Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology Project Papers No.3. 100 pp.

1987 (as author/compiler) From the Pieces of the Past. University of Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology. 167pp.

1987 (with Douglas Baird) Qermez Dere: Interim Report on the 1987 season of excavations at an aceramic neolithic settlement in N. Iraq. University of Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology Project Papers, No.6. 14 pp. & 4 figs.

1990 (with Jane Murray) Rullion Green 1985: report on the third season of excavation. University of Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology, Project Paper No. 13. 41 pp.

1991 (with Alison Betts, Keith Dobney and Mark Nesbitt). Qermez Dere, Tel Afar: Interim Report No. 2, 1989. Project Paper No. 13, Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. 62 pp.

1995 (as editor and co-author) Qermez Dere, Tel Afar; Interim Report No. 3. Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Project Paper No. 14. 81 pp.

1995 (co-edited and co-authored with D. Baird and S. Campbell) Excavations at Kharabeh Shattani, Volume 2. Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Occasional Paper No. 18. 205 pp.

2000 (as translator) J. Cauvin, The Birth of the Gods and the Beginnings of Agriculture, Cambridge University Press. 280 pp.

Forthcoming (early 2004) The Neolithic Revolution in Southwest Asia. Routledge, London.

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Edited book

1975 (as editor) Radiocarbon: Calibration and Prehistory. Edinburgh University Press. (153 pp.)

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Articles and chapters as sole author

1965 'The Metal Objects.' Appendix 2 in Paul Åström et al. Excavations at Kalopsidha and Ayios Jakovos (Cyprus). Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Lund.

1966 'Fouilles de Philia-Drakos', in V. Karageorghis, Fouilles et découvertes en Chypre 1965, Bullétin de correspondance hellènique 90, 358-9.

1968 'Fouilles de Philia-Drakos', in V. Karageorghis, Fouilles et découvertes en Chypre 1967, Bullétin de correspondance hellènique 92, 297-302.

1969 'Fouilles de Philia-Drakos', in V. Karageorghis, Fouilles et découvertes en Chypre 1968, Bullétin de correspondance hellènique 93, 504-12.

1969 'Philia-Drakos Site A and Cypriot Prehistory.' Archeologia Viva 1/3, 34-53.

1969 'The first village settlements in Cyprus.' Archeologia Viva 1/3, 29-33.

1970 'Fouilles de Philia-Drakos', in V. Karageorghis, Fouilles et découvertes en Chypre 1969, Bullétin de correspondance hellènique 94, 234-43.

1970 'Philia-Drakontas: a chalcolithic site in Cyprus.' Actes du VIe Congrès Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques, Prague, l966, Vol.l, 391-2.

1970 'Philia-Drakos site A: Pottery, stratigraphy, chronology.' Report, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, l970, 1-9.

1971 'Fouilles de Philia-Drakos', in V. Karageorghis, Fouilles et decouvertes en Chypre 1970, Bullétin de correspondance hellènique 95, 371-4.

1972 'Cypriot neolithic chronology and the pottery from Philia-Drakos Site A.' Praktika of the 1st Congress of Cypriot Studies, Nicosia, 1969, 167-74.

1973 'Dalgety.' Current Archaeology 4/5, -133-5.

1973 'Some problems of the neolithic and chalcolithic periods.' Report, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 1973, 24-61.

1974 'Dalladies Site 2- archaeological excavation of an Iron Age site in 5. Kincardineshire.' Dee-side Field, 3rd series, no.l, 47-55.

1974 'Two unfinished spearheads in the Ashmolean Museum.' Levant 6, 188-92. (Refereed journal)

1975 'The Kfar Monash hoard again.' Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 53-63.

1976 'Wessex without Cyprus,' in J. V. S. Megaw (ed.) To Illustrate the Monuments. Thames and Hudson, London.

1979 'Kataliontas-Kourvellos: the analysis of the surface-collected data.' In V. Karageorghis (ed.), Studies Presented in Memory of Porphyrios Dikaios. Nicosia.

1979 'The Newmill souterrain.' Current Archaeology, 6/7, 205-8.

1980 'A prehistoric coracle in Fife.' International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration, 9, 277-86. (Refereed journal)

1980 'The Chalcolithic in Cyprus: the background to current research.' In J. Reade (ed.), Chalcolithic Cyprus and Western Asia. British Museum Occasional Papers, no.26, London.

1981 'Excavation of a settlement and souterrain at Newmill, near Bankfoot, Perthshire.' Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 110, 165-99. (Refereed journal)

1981 'Excavation of an Iron Age open settlement at Dalladies, Kincardineshire.' Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 110, 122-64. (Refereed journal)

1981 'St Germains Enclosure, Tranent, East Lothian.' in D. W. Harding (ed.), Later Prehistoric Settlement in South East Scotland. University of Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology Occasional Papers, No.8, pp.l06-116.

1981 'The aceramic neolithic of Cyprus: economic status and cultural origins.' Journal of Mediterranean Anthropology and Archaeology 1. (Refereed journal)

1981 'The Bi-centenary of Scotland's senior society.' Popular Archaeology, May, 1 981 .

1981 'The Levantine bronzes from the collections of Canon Greenwell, now in the British Museum.' Levant 13, 119-55. (Refereed journal)

1983 'Beware the bogus stakehole.' Scottish Archaeological Review 2, 108.

1983 'Cultural parallelism: the metalwork of Sumer and north Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C.' Iraq 45, 18-23. (Refereed journal)

1983 'Kataliontas-Kourvellos, Cyprus: survey of a site and its environs.' In D. R. Keller and D. W. Rupp (eds.), Archaeological Survey in the Mediterranean Area. British Archaeological Reports, International Series, No.155. Oxford.

1983 'The archaeological application of high-precision radiocarbon dating.' Pp.74-82 in B. S. Ottaway (ed.), Archaeology, Dendrochronology and the Radiocarbon Calibration Curve. University of Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology, Occasional Paper, No.9.

1983 'The excavation of an Early Bronze Age cemetery at Barns Farm, Dalgety, Fife.' Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 112, 118-141. (Refereed journal)

1984 'The excavation of an Halaf-culture village-site: Tell Aqab, Jezirah, Northeast Syria.' National Geographic Society Research Reports, 1975 projects, 771-9.

1984 'Where were the Picts? an essay in settlement archaeology.' In J. G. P. Friell and W. G. Watson (eds.), Pictish Studies. British Archaeological Reports, British Series, No.125. Oxford.

1985 'Sumerian weapons, warfare and warriors.' Sumer 39, 100-2.

1987 'Kharabeh Shattani: an Halaf culture settlement in N. Iraq.' In J. Huot (ed.), La préhistoire de la Mesopotamie. Editions du CNRS, Paris.

1988 ‘All Change at the Field School.' Scott Archaeol Gazette (1988).

1989 ‘The Beginnings of Warfare.' Chapter 1 in Sir John Hackett (ed.), Warfare in the Ancient World. London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1989: 15-35.

1990 ‘The origins of house and home?' World Archaeology 21/3: 336-47. (Refereed journal)

1992 ‘Pushing Back the Frontiers of Mesopotamian Prehistory’, Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Dec. 1992) 176-181. (Refereed journal)

1992 ‘The Beginning of the Neolithic:  Searching for Meaning in Material Cultural Change’, Paléorient, 18/1, 63-75. (Refereed journal)

1994 Çatalhöyük Regional Survey. 1993 Reconnaissance Season Report. XII Arastirma Sonuclari Toplantisi (Ankara 1994): 421-7.

1995 ‘What kind of archaeology do we want?’ Scottish Archaeological Review 9/10 (1995): 169-74.

1996 ‘The origins of the household in North Mesopotamia.’ In Veenhof, K. (ed..) Houses and Households in Ancient Mesopotamia: 79-88.

1996: ‘Excavations at Pinarbasi: the early stages.’ In Hodder, I. (ed.), On the Surface: Çatalhöyük 1993-95: 47-58. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge and British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, London.

1998 ‘Centres and peripheries: the beginnings of sedentary communities in N Mesopotamia.’ In Lebeau, M. About Subartu: studies devoted to Upper Mesopotamia, vol. 1: 1-12.

1999 ‘The human environment’, Paléorient 23/2: 263-270. ((Refereed journal. One of two commissioned synthesis essays at the end of a special issue concerned with recent research on the human environment in early prehistory.)

1999 Pinarbasi, Karaman Province: investigating the beginnings of settlement in Central Anatolia, in R. J. Matthews ed., Ancient Anatolia 27-35. British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, London.

2002 ‘Re-thinking the Neolithic Revolution and its consequences.’ In Festschrift for Jean-Louis Huot, edited by Christine Kempinski-Lecomte & Cathérine Breniquet, CNRS Éditions, Paris.

2003. ‘Memes, memeplexes and the emergence of religion in the Neolithic.’ Pp. 41-7 in Gebel, H.-G., Dahl Hermansen, B. & Jensen, C. (eds.), Magic Practices and Ritual in the Near Eastern Neolithic. Studien zu Produktion, Subsistenz und Umwelt im frühen Vorderasien, 8. Ex Oriente. Berlin

2004. ‘Obsidian.’ For the Reallexikon der Assyriologie , München.

2004. ‘Building houses, framing concepts, constructing worlds.’ Paléorient 30(1): 5-23.

2004. 'Architecture and "theatres of memory" in the Neolithic of southwest Asia.' In DeMarrais, E., Gosden, C. & Renfrew, C. (eds.), Rethinking materiality: the engagement of mind with the material world: 97-106. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge.

2004. 'Putting the colonization of Cyprus into context.' In Peltenburg, E. & Wasse, A. (eds.), Neolithic Revolution: New Perspectives on southwest Asia in light of recent discoveries on Cyprus. Levant Supplementary Series, 1. Council for British Research in the Levant & Oxbow Books, Oxford.

2005. 'The Neolithic revolution and the emergence of humanity: a cognitive approach to the first comprehensive world-view.' In Clarke, J. (ed.), Archaeological Perspectives on the Transmission and Transformation of Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean. Levant Supplementary Series, volume 2. Oxford: Council for British Research in the Levant & Oxbow Books.

2005. 'From Foragers to Complex Societies in Southwest Asia.' Chapter 6, in Scarre, C. (ed.), The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies: 201-34. Thames & Hudson, London.

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In press

'Architecture and the symbolic construction of new worlds.' In Banning, E. & Chavan, M. (eds.), Domesticating Space.

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Co-authored articles and chapters

1974 (with Ellen McAdam), 'Experimental reconstruction of a short cist.' Journal of Archaeological Science 1, 383-6. (Refereed journal.)

1974 (with Ian Morrison), 'Kataliontas-Kourvellos: the survey of an aceramic neolithic settlement and its environs.' Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 67-76.

1981 (with Ian Shepherd) 'A beaker burial at Newmill, near Bankfoot, Perthshire.' Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 110, 32-43. (Refereed journal.)

1981 (with T. E. Davidson) 'Two seasons of excavation at Tell Aqab in the Jezirah, N. E. Syria.' Iraq 43, 1-12. (Refereed journal.)

1984 (with B. S. Jackson) 'Distraint in the Laws of Eshnunna and Hammurabi.' Studi in Honore di Cesare Sanfilippo, Vol.5, 411-9

1987 (with Stuart Campbell) ‘The chronology of the Halaf culture.' In O Aurenche, J Evin & Francis Hours (eds), Chronologies du Proche-Orient/Chronologies in the Near East: relative chronologies and absolute chronology 16,000-4,000 B.P. BAR International Series 379, 1987: 427-64.

1990 (with D. J. Baird and A. V. G. Betts) ‘Qermez Dere and the neolithic of N Iraq.’ In Aurenche, O., Cauvin, M.C.  and Sanlaville, P. (eds.) 1990 Préhistoire du Levant: Part 2, 23-8. Paléorient publications, Paris. (The same essay appears, together with the rest of the above conference papers, in the journal Paléorient 15/1 (1989): 19-24.).

1998 (with D. Alexander) ‘St Germains, Tranent, East Lothian: the excavation of Early Bronze Age remains and Iron Age enclosed and unenclosed settlements.’ Proc Soc Antiqs Scot, 128 (1998), 203-254. (Refereed journal.)

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