Papers on thematic topics

Human origins

Chronology

History of Palaeolithic Archaeology

Essays on human origins

Gowlett, J.A.J.  2002. Apes, hominids and technology. In Harcourt, C.S. and Sherwood, B.R. (eds) New perspectives in primate evolution and behaviour. Linnean Society, London. Otley: Westbury Academic and Scientific Publishing, pp 147-171. ISBN 1 84103 008 2

Gowlett, J.A.J.  1997. Why the muddle in the middle matters: the language of comparative and direct in human evolution. In Barton, C.M. and Clark, G.A. (eds) Rediscovering Darwin: Evolutionary theory in archaeological explanation. Arizona, UAP/AAAS, pp 49-65.

Gowlett, J.A.J. 1997.  High definition archaeology: ideas and evaluation. World Archaeology 29,2, 151-171.

Gowlett, J.A.J.  1996. The frameworks of early hominid social systems: how many parameters of archaeological evidence can we isolate? In Steele, J. and Shennan, S. (eds) The archaeology of human ancestry: power, sex and tradition. London:Routledge, pp 135-183.

Gowlett, J.A.J. 1996.  Rule systems in the artefacts of Homo erectus and early Homo sapiens: constrained or chosen. In Mellars, P. and Gibson, K. (eds) Modelling the early human mind.  Cambridge: McDonald Institute, pp 191-215.

Gowlett, J.A.J.  1995.   Psychological worlds within and without: human-environment relations in early parts of the Palaeolithic. Proc. 1st Int. Symposium 'Man and environment in the Palaeolithic'. Etudes et Recherches Archeologiques de l'Universite de Liege. 62, 29-42.

Gowlett, J.A.J.  1995. A matter of form: instruction sets and the shaping of early technology. Lithics 16, 2-16.

Gowlett, J.A.J.  1992. Early human mental abilities. In Martin, R., Pilbeam, D. and Jones, S. (eds). The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge C.U.P., pp 341-345

Gowlett, J.A.J.  1990. Technology, skill and the psychosocial sector in the long term of human evolution. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 9, 1, 82-103.

Gowlett, J.A.J.  1986. Culture and conceptualisation - the Oldowan-Acheulean gradient.  In Bailey, G.N. and Callow, P. (eds) Stone Age Prehistory: studies in memory of Charles McBurney. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp 243-260.

Gowlett, J.A.J.  1984. Mental abilities of early man: a look at some hard evidence. In Foley, R.A. (ed.) Hominid Evolution and Community Ecology. Academic Press, New York, pp 167-192.

Gowlett, J.A.J.  1979. Complexities of cultural evidence in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene. News and Views.  Nature 278, 14-17.

Chronology

Gowlett, J.A.J.  2004/6. Archaeological dating. In Bintliff, J. (ed.) Blackwell’s Companion to Archaeology.  Blackwell, Oxford. Pp 197-205.

Gowlett, J.A.J.  2004/6. Chronology and the human narrative.  In Bintliff, J. (ed.) Blackwell’s  Companion to Archaeology.  Blackwell, Oxford. Pp. 206-234.

Gowlett, J.A.J.  2003. The AMS radiocarbon dates for Arjoune, Syria: an analysis and interpretation.  In Parr, Peter (ed.) Arjoune.  B.A.R. Monograph Series.

Gowlett, J.A.J.  2003.   Dating the Upper Palaeolithic: the interface – radiocarbon chronology and archaeological methodology. In Widemann, F. and Taborin, Y. (eds) Chronologies géophysiques et archéologiques du Paléolithique supérieur. Comptes-rendus du Colloque international de Ravello. Edipuglia, Bari, pp. 59-67.

Hedges, R.E.M. and Gowlett, J.A.J. 1986.  Radiocarbon dating by accelerator mass spectrometry. Scientific American 254, 1, 100-107.

Gowlett, J.A.J.  1987. The Archaeology of radiocarbon accelerator dating. Journal of World Prehistory 1(2), 127-170.

Gowlett, J.A.J.  1987. New dates for the Acheulean age. News and Views.  Nature 329, 200.

Gowlett, J.A.J.  1987. The coming of modern man.  Antiquity 61, 232, 213-219.

Mellars, P.A., Bricker, H.M., Gowlett, J.A.J. and Hedges, R.E.M. 1987. Radiocarbon accelerator dating of French Upper Palaeolithic sites. Current Anthropology 29, 1, 128-132.

Saville, A., Gowlett, J.A.J. and Hedges, R.E.M.  1987. Radiocarbon dates from the chambered tomb at Hazleton (Glos.): a chronology for Neolithic collective burial. Antiquity 61, 231, 108-119.

Gowlett, J.A.J. and Hedges, R.E.M. 1987.  Radiocarbon dating by accelerator mass spectrometry: applications to archaeology in the Near East. in Aurenche, O., Evin, J. and Hours, F. (eds) Chronologies in the Near East: relative chronologies and absolute chronology 16,000 - 4,000 BP. BAR International Series 379(i), 121-144.

Gowlett, J.A.J., Gillespie, R., Hall, E.T. and Hedges, R.E.M.  1986. Accelerator dating of ancient human remains from Lindow Moss, Cheshire.  In Stead, I., Bourke, J.B. and Brothwell, D. (eds) Lindow Man: the body in the bog.  British Museum Publications Ltd., London, pp 22-24.

Gowlett, J.A.J., Hall, E.T. and Hedges, R.E.M. 1986.  The date of West Kennet Long Barrow. With a comment by S. Piggott and R.J.C. Atkinson. Antiquity 60, 229, 143-144.

Moore, A., Gowlett, J., Hedges, R., Hillman, G., Legge, A. and Rowley-Conwy, P.  1986.  Radiocarbon (AMS) dates for the Epipalaeolithic settlement at Abu Hureyra, Syria. Radiocarbon 28, 3, 1068-1076.

History of Palaeolithic archaeology Gowlett, J.A.J. 1999.  The work and influence of Charles McBurney. In Murray, T. (ed.) The Great Archaeologists. ABC-Clio, Oxford. Vol. II, Encyclopaedia of Archaeology, pp 713-726. Gowlett, J.A.J.  1990. Archaeological studies of human origins and early prehistory in Africa. In Robertshaw, P.T. (ed.) A history of African Archaeology.  James Currey/Heinemann, pp 13-38. Gowlett, J.A.J.  1989. Introduction to The Archaeology of Human Origins: papers by Glynn Isaac. Cambridge, C.U.P., pp 1-10. Gowlett, J.A.J.  1997. V. Morell.  Ancestral Passions: the Leakey family and the quest for humankind’s beginnings.  Reviewed in Antiquity 71,271, 251-252.