The archaeology of North Hertfordshire

A reading list for archaeology

General

Adkins, L & Adkins, R A 1995 The handbook of British archaeology. Newton Abbot: David & Charles

Aston, M 1990 Interpreting the landscape. London: Batsford

Bahn, P G 1996 The Cambridge illustrated history of archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Barker, P 1993 Techniques of archaeological excavation. 3rd edition. London: Batsford

Bayley, J (ed.) 1998 Science in archaeology: an agenda for the future. London: English Heritage

Clark, A 1990 Seeing beneath the soil: prospecting methods in archaeology. London: Batsford

Daniel, G 1980 A short history of archaeology. London: Thames & Hudson

Darvill, T C 2002 Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Fagan, B M 1997 The Oxford companion to archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Gamble, C 2001 Archaeology: the basics. London: Routledge

Greene, K 2002 Archaeology: an introduction. 3rd edition. London: Routedge

Hayden, B 1993 Archaeology: the science of once and future things. New York: W H Freeman

Hodges, H 1964 Artefacts: an introduction to early materials and technology. London: John Baker

Renfrew, C & Bahn, P 2004 Archaeology: theories, methods and practice. Fourth edition. London: Thames & Hudson

Riley, D N 1987 Air photography and archaeology. London: Duckworth

Schiffer, M B 1987 Formation processes of the archaeological record. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Shaw, I & Jameson, R eds 2002 Dictionary of archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell

Theory

Dark, K R 1995 Theoretical archaeology. London: Duckworth

Gosden, C 1999 Anthropology and archaeology: a changing relationship. London: Routledge

Johnson, M 1999 Archaeological theory: an introduction. Oxford: Blackwell

Jones, A 2002 Archaeological theory and scientific practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Material culture

Andrefsky, W 1998 Lithics: macroscopic approaches to analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology)

Arnold, D E 1985 Ceramic theory and cultural process. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Barker, D & Horton, W 1999 The development of the Coalport Chinaworks: analysis of ceramic finds. Post-Med Archaeol 33, 3-93

Baudrillard, J 1996 [1968] The system of objects. Translated by M Benedict. London: Verso

Braun, D P Why decorate a pot? Midwestern household pottery, 200 BC - AD 600. J Anthropol Archaeol 10, 360-97

Brears, P C D 1971 The English country pottery: its history and techniques. Newton Abbot: David & Charles

Brears, P C D 1974 The collector’s book of English country pottery. Newton Abbot: David & Charles

Cumberpatch, C & Blinkhorn, P (eds) 1997 Not so much a pot, more a way of life. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Eames, E S 1992 Medieval craftsmen: English tilers. London: British Museum Press

Graves-Brown, P M 2000 Matter, materiality and modern culture. London: Routledge

Hebdige, D 1979 Subculture: the meaning of style. London: Routledge

Henderson, J 2000 The science and archaeology of materials: an investigation of inorganic materials. London: Routledge

Hodder, I 1989 This is not an article about material culture as text. J Anthropol Archaeol 8, 250-69

Hodder, I (ed.) 1989 The meaning of things: material culture and symbolic expression. London: Unwin Hyman

Hodges, H 1970 Technology in the ancient world. Harmondsworth: Penguin

Hodges, H 1976 Artifacts: an introduction to early materials and technology. Revised edition. London: John Baker

Krishna Murthy, K 1998 Archaeology of things. New Delhi: Vedams

Miller, D 1994 Material culture and mass consumption. Oxford: Balckwell

Orton, C, Tyers, P & Vince, A 1993 Pottery in archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Peacock, D PS 1982 Pottery in the Roman world: an ethnoarchaeological approach. London: Longman

Price, J (ed.) 2000 Glass in Britain and Ireland, AD 350-1100. London: British Museum (Occ Paper 127)

Price, J & Cottam, S 1998 Romano-British glass vessels: a handbook. York: Council for British Archaeology (CBA Practical Handbooks in Archaeology 14)

Schiffer, M B & Schiffer, A R 1999 The material life of human beings: artifacts, behavior, and communication. London: Routledge

British Archaeology: multi-period

Hunter, J & Ralston I (eds) 1999 The archaeology of Britain: an introduction from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Industrial Revolution. London: Routledge

Moreland, J 2001 Archaeology and text. London: Duckworth

Ottaway, P 1992 Archaeology in English towns from the Emperor Claudius to the Black Death. London: Routledge

Hinton, D A 1990 Archaeology, economy and society: England from the fifth to fifteenth century. London: Seaby

Hoskins, W G 1955 The making of the English landscape. London: Hodder

Rackham, O 1986 The history of the countryside. London: Dent

Taylor, C 1983

Village and farmstead: a history of rural settlement in England. London: Philip

Iron Age Britain

Cunliffe, B W 2005 Iron Age communities in Britain. 4th edition. London: Routledge

Cunliffe, B W 1996 Iron Age Britain. London: Batsford

Elsdon, S M 1989 Later prehistoric pottery in England and Wales. Aylesbury: Shire

Greene, M 1989 Symbol and image in Celtic religious art. London: Batsford

Roman Britain

de la Bédoyère, G 1988 The finds of Roman Britain. London: Batsford

de la Bédoyère, G 1988b Samian ware. Aylesbury : Shire

de la Bédoyère, G 2000 Pottery in Roman Britain. Aylesbury : Shire

Bishop, M C & Coulston, J C 1989 Roman military equipment. Aylesbury: Shire

Bowman, A K 1994 Life and letters on the Roman frontier. London: British Museum Press

Burnham, B C & Wacher, J 1990 The ‘small towns’ of Roman Britain. London: Batsford

Collingwood, R G & Richmond, I A 1969 The archaeology of Roman Britain. Revised edition. London: Methuen

Crow, J 1995 Housesteads. London: Batsford

Frere, S S 1987 Britannia: a history of Roman Britain. 3rd edition. London: Routledge

Henig, M 1984 Religion in Roman Britain. London: Batsford

Hingley, R 1989 Rural settlement in Roman Britain. London: Seaby

Hodges, R & Hobley, B (eds) 1988 The rebirth of towns in the West. London: Council for British Archaeology (Research Report 68)

Hodgson, N 1995 Were there two Antonine occupations of Scotland? Britannia 26, 29-49

Jones, G B D & Matingly, D J 1990 An atlas of Roman Britain. Oxford: Blackwell

Keppie, L J F 1991 Understanding Roman inscriptions. London: Batsford

Mackinnes, L 1984 Brochs and the Roman occupation of lowland Scotland. Proc Soc Antiq Scotland 114, 234-49

Matthews, K J 1999 Britannus/Britto: Roman ethnographies, native identities, labels, and folk devils. In: Leslie, A (ed.) Theoretical Roman Archaeology and Architecture: the third conference proceedings. Glasgow: Cruithne Press, 14-32

Millett, M 1990 The Romanization of Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Millett, M 1995 Roman Britain. London: Batsford/English Heritage

Salway, P 1981 Roman Britain. Oxford: Clarendon Press

Thomas, C 1981 Christianity in Roman Britain to AD 500. London: Batsford

Tyers, P 1996 Pottery in Roman Britain. London: Batsford

Wacher, J 1995 The towns of Roman Britain. 2nd edition. London: Batsford

Early medieval Britain

Alcock, L 1971 Arthur’s Britain: history and archaeology AD 367-643. Harmondsworth: Penguin

Arnold, C J 1997 An archaeology of the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. 2nd edition. London: Routledge

Esmonde-Cleary, S 1989 The ending of Roman Britain. London: Batsford

Faulkner, N 2000 Decline and fall of Roman Britain. Stroud: Tempus

Foster, S M 1996 Picts, Gaels and Scots. London: Batsford

Higham, N J 1992 Rome, Britain and the Anglo-Saxons. London: Seaby

Hill, D 1981 An atlas of Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Blackwell

Hodges, R 1989 The Anglo-Saxon achievement: archaeology and the beginnings of English society. London: Duckworth

Karkov, C E 1999 The archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England. London: Garland

Richards, J D 1991 Viking Age England. London: Batsford

Ritchie, A 1989 The Picts. Edinburgh: HMSO

Ritchie, A 1993 Viking Scotland. London: Batsford

Welch, M 1992 Anglo-Saxon England. London: Batsford

Wilson, D M (ed) 1981 The archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

High medieval Britain

Astill, G & Grant, A (eds) 1988 The countryside of medieval England. Oxford: Blackwell

Aston, M 1993 Monasteries. London: Batsford

Clarke, H 1984 The archaeology of medieval England. London: British Museum Press

Coppack, G 1990 Abbeys and priories. London: Batsford

Dyer, C 1986 English peasant buildings in the later Middle Ages. Medieval Archaeol 30, 19-45

Greene, J P 1989 Norton Priory: the archaeology of a medieval religious house. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Greene, J P 1992 Medieval monasteries. Leicester: Leicester University Press

Grenville, J 1999 Medieval housing. Leicester: Leicester University Press

Haslam, J 1984 Medieval pottery in Britain. 2nd edition. Aylesbury: Shire

Kenyon, J R 1990 Medieval fortifications. London: Leicester University Press

Pantin, W A 1963 Medieval English town-house plans. Medieval Archaeol 6-7 (1962-3), 202-239

Platt, C 1978 Medieval England: a social history and archaeology from the Conquest to 1600 AD. London: Routledge

Rodwell, W 1989 Church archaeology. 2nd edition. London: Batsford

Schofield, J & Vince, A 1994 Medieval towns. London: Pinter Press

Yeoman, P 1995 Medieval Scotland. London: Batsford

Post-medieval Britain

Ayers, B 1991 Post-medieval archaeology in Norwich: a review. Post Medieval Archaeol 27, 15-42

Barber, R J 1994 Doing historical archaeology: exercises using documentary, oral, and material evidence. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall

Beresford, M & Hurst, J G 1990 Wharram Percy deserted medieval village. London: Batsford

Brunskill, R W 1987 Traditional farm buildings of Britain. 2nd edition. London: Gollancz

Clark, C 1993 Ironbridge Gorge. London: Batsford

Brewster, T G M & Hayfield, C 1988 Cowlam deserted village: a case study of post-medieval village desertion. Post-Med Archaeol 22, 21-110

Crossley, D 1991 Post-medieval archaeology in Britain. Leicester: Leicester University Press

Crowe, N 1994 Canals. London: Batsford

Currie, C K & Locock, M 1993 Excavations at Castle Bromwich Hall gardens. Post Medieval Archaeol 27, 111-199

Draper, J 1984 Post-medieval pottery. Aylesbury: Shire

Hudson, K 1983 The archaeology of the consumer society: the second Industrial Revolution in Britain. London: Heinemann

Hudson, P 1992 The industrial revolution. London: Arnold

Johnson, M 1996 An archaeology of capitalism. Oxford: Blackwell

Matthews, K J 1999 Familiarity and contempt: the archaeology of the ‘modern’. In: Tarlow, S & West, S (eds), 155-7

Muthesius, S 1982 The English terraced house. New Haven: Yale University Press

Newman, R & Cranstone, D 2001 The historical archaeology of Britain, c 1500-1900.

Orrell, J & Gurr, A 1989 What The Rose can tell us. Antiquity 63, 421-9

Orser, C E & Fagan, B M 1995 Historical archaeology.

Palmer, M 1990 Industrial archaeology: a thematic or period discipline? Antiquity 64, 275-85

Tarlow, S & West, S (eds) 1999 The familiar past? Archaeologies of later historical Britain. London: Routledge

Wade-Martins, S 1991 Historic farm buildings. London: Batsford