Professor Alasdair Whittle

Articles

• Whittle, A. 2025. The politics of early Neolithic connectivity: Relations between Britain and Ireland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (10.1017/ppr.2025.3)
• Bunting, M. J., Farrell, M., Dunbar, E., Reimer, P., Bayliss, A., Marshall, P. and Whittle, A. 2022. Landscapes for Neolithic People in Mainland, Orkney. Journal of World Prehistory 35(1), pp. 87–107. (10.1007/s10963-022-09166-y)
• Whittle, A. 2022. Vere Gordon Childe. The Danube in Prehistory [Book Review]. European Journal of Archaeology 25(1), pp. 133-137. (10.1017/eaa.2021.59)
• Farrell, M. et al. 2020. Opening the woods: towards a quantification of neolithic clearance around the Somerset levels and moors. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 27(2), pp. 271-301. (10.1007/s10816-019-09427-9)
• Whittle, A. 2019. Island questions: the chronology of the Brochtorff Circle at Xagħra, Gozo, and its significance for the Neolithic sequence on Malta. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11(8), pp. 4251-4306. (10.1007/s12520-019-00790-y)
• García Sanjuán, L. et al. 2018. Assembling the dead, gathering the living: radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling for Copper Age Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain). Journal of World Prehistory 31(2), pp. 179-313. (10.1007/s10963-018-9114-2)
• Card, N. et al. 2018. To cut a long story short: formal chronological modelling for the Late Neolithic site of Ness of Brodgar, Orkney. European Journal of Archaeology 21(2), pp. 217-263. (10.1017/eaa.2016.29)
• Jakucs, J. et al. 2018. Rows with the neighbours: the short lives of long houses at the Neolithic site of Versend-Gilencsa. Antiquity 92(361), pp. 91-117. (10.15184/aqy.2017.218)
• Chambon, P. et al. 2018. Collecting the dead: temporality and disposal in the Neolithic hypogeum of Les Mournouards II (Marne, France). Germania 95, pp. 93-143. (10.11588/ger.2017.49475)
• Denaire, A. et al. 2017. The cultural project: Formal chronological modelling of the Early and Middle Neolithic sequence in Lower Alsace. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 24(4), pp. 1072-1149. (10.1007/s10816-016-9307-x)
• Clarke, D. et al. 2017. The end of the world, or just 'Goodbye to all that'? Contextualising the red deer heap from the Links of Noltland, Westray, within late third millennium cal BC Orkney. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 146, pp. 57-89. (10.9750/PSAS.146.1226)
• Bayliss, A. et al. 2017. Peopling the past: creating a site biography in the Hungarian Neolithic. Bericht der Roemisch-Germanische Kommission 94, pp. 23-91. (10.11588/berrgk.1938.0.37150)
• Drasovean, F., Schier, W., Bayliss, A., Gaydarska, B. and Whittle, A. 2017. The lives of houses: duration, context and history at Neolithic Uivar. European Journal of Archaeology 20(4), pp. 636-662. (10.1017/eaa.2017.37)
• Whittle, A., Bayliss, A., Richards, C. and Marshall, P. 2017. Islands of history: the Late Neolithic timescape of Orkney. Antiquity 91(359), pp. 1171-1188. (10.15184/aqy.2017.140)
• Oross, K. et al. 2017. Midlife changes: the Sopot burial ground at Alsónyék. Bericht der Roemisch-Germanische Kommission 94, pp. 151-178. (10.11588/berrgk.1938.0.37153)
• Osztás, A. et al. 2017. Coalescent community at Alsónyék: the timings and duration of Lengyel burials and settlement. Bericht der Roemisch-Germanische Kommission 94, pp. 179-182. (10.11588/berrgk.1938.0.37154)
• Bánffy, E. et al. 2017. Alsónyék story: towards the history of a persistent place. Bericht der Roemisch-Germanische Kommission 94, pp. 283-318.
• Ebersbach, R., Doppler, T., Hofmann, D. and Whittle, A. 2017. No time out: scaling material diversity and change in the Alpine foreland Neolithic. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 45, pp. 1-14. (10.1016/j.jaa.2016.10.001)
• Whittle, A. et al. 2016. Die Zeit der großen Gräben: Modelle zur Chronologie des Michelsberger Fundplatzes von Heilbronn-Klingenberg „Schlossberg“, Stadtkreis Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg. Praehistorische Zeitschrift 91(2), pp. 225-283. (10.1515/pz-2016-0022)
• Tasic, N. et al. 2016. Interwoven strands for refining the chronology of the Neolithic tell of Vinca-Belo Brdo, Serbia. Radiocarbon 58(4), pp. 795-831. (10.1017/RDC.2016.56)
• Hofmann, D., Ebersbach, R., Doppler, T. and Whittle, A. 2016. The life and times of the house: Multi-scalar perspectives on settlement from the Neolithic of the Northern Alpine foreland. European Journal of Archaeology 19(4), pp. 596-630. (10.1080/14619571.2016.1147317)
• Jakucs, J. et al. 2016. Between the Vinca and Linearbandkeramik worlds: the diversity of practices and identities in the 54th-53rd centuries cal BC in Southwest Hungary and beyond. Journal of World Prehistory 29(3), pp. 267-336. (10.1007/s10963-016-9096-x)
• Czerniak, L. et al. 2016. House time: Neolithic settlement development at Racot during the 5th millennium CAL B.C. in the Polish lowlands. Journal of Field Archaeology 41(5), pp. 618-640. (10.1080/00934690.2016.1215723)
• Richards, C. et al. 2016. Settlement duration and materiality: formal chronological models for the development of Barnhouse, a Grooved Ware settlement in Orkney. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 82, pp. 193-225. (10.1017/ppr.2016.6)
• Roffet-Salque, M. et al. 2015. Widespread exploitation of the honeybee by early Neolithic farmers. Nature 527(7577), pp. 226-230. (10.1038/nature15757.)
• Tasic, N. et al. 2015. The end of the affair: formal chronological modelling for the top of the Neolithic tell of Vinca-Belo Brdo. Antiquity 89(347), pp. 1064-1082.
• Gamba, C. et al. 2014. Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory. Nature Communications 5, article number: 5257. (10.1038/ncomms6257)
• Wysocki, M., Griffiths, S., Hedges, R., Bayliss, A., Higham, T., Fernandez-Jalvo, Y. and Whittle, A. W. R. 2013. Dates, diet, and dismemberment: Evidence from the Coldrum megalithic monument, Kent. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 79, pp. 61-90. (10.1017/ppr.2013.10)
• Salque, M. et al. 2012. New insights into early Neolithic economy and management of animals in southern and central Europe revealed using lipid residue analyses of pottery. Anthropozoologica 47(2), pp. 45-62. (10.5252/az2012n2a4)
• Bentley, R. A. et al. 2012. Community differentiation and kinship among Europe's first farmers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, pp. 9326-9330. (10.1073/pnas.1113710109)
• Bickle, P. et al. 2011. Roots of diversity in a Linearbandkeramik community: Isotope evidence at Aiterhofen (Bavaria, Germany). Antiquity 85(330), pp. 1243-1258.
• Whittle, A. W. R., Bayliss, A. and Healy, F. 2008. The timing and tempo of change: Examples from the fourth millennium cal. BC in Southern England. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18(1), pp. 65-70. (10.1017/S0959774308000061)
• Bayliss, A., McAvoy, F. and Whittle, A. W. R. 2007. The world recreated: redating Silbury Hill in its monumental landscape. Antiquity 81, pp. 26-53.
• Bayliss, A. L. and Whittle, A. W. R. 2007. Histories of the dead: building chronologies for five southern British long barrows. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17(S. 1)

Book sections

• Cummings, V. and Whittle, A. 2025. The early Neolithic. In: Driscoll, S. and Cummings, V. eds. The Archaeology of Britain. Routledge
• Whittle, A. 2015. Early agricultural society in Europe. In: Barker, G. and Goucher, C. eds. Cambridge World History Volume 2: A World with Agriculture, 12,000 BCE-500 CE., Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 555-588., (10.1017/CBO9780511978807.023)
• Bayliss, A. and Whittle, A. 2015. Uncertain on principle: combining lines of archaeological evidence to create chronologies. In: Chapman, R. and Wylie, A. eds. Material Evidence: Learning from Archaeological Practice. Routledge, pp. 213-242.
• Whittle, A. W. R. 2013. Enclosures in the making: Knowledge, creativity and temporality. In: Anders, G. and Kulcsar, A. eds. Moments in Time: Papers Presented to Pál Raczky on His 60th Birthday. Prehistoric Studies Vol. 1. Budapest: L'Harmattan Kiado, pp. 457-466.
• Whittle, A. W. R. 2012. El Neolítico en Europa: cuestión de escala y tempo. In: Rojo Guerra, M., Garrido Pena, R. and Garcia Marti­nez de Lagran, I. eds. El Neolítico en la Península Ibéerica y su Contexto Europeo. Madrid: Cátedra, pp. 13-26.
• Whittle, A. W. R. 2012. Being alive and being dead: House and grave in the LBK. In: Jones, A. M. et al. eds. Image, Memory and Monumentality: Archaeological Engagements with the Material World (A Celebration of the Academic Achievements of Professor Richard Bradley). Prehistoric Society Research Papers Vol. 5. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 194-206.
• Oross, K., Marton, T., Whittle, A. W. R., Hedges, R. E. M. and Cramp, L. J. E. 2011. Die Siedlung der Balaton-Lasinja-Kultur in Balatonszárszó-Kis-erdei-dulo. In: Sutekova, J. et al. eds. PANTA RHEI: Studies in Chronology and Cultural Development of South-Eastern and Central Europe in Earlier Prehistory Presented to Juraj Pavúk on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday. Bratislava: Comenius University, pp. 381-407.
• Whittle, A. W. R. 2011. Grand narratives and shorter stories. In: Hadjikoumis, A., Robinson, E. and Viner, S. eds. The Dynamics of Neolithisation in Europe: Studies in Honour of Andrew Sherratt. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 10-24.
• Whittle, A. W. R. 2010. The diversity and duration of memory. In: Boric, D. ed. Archaeology and Memory. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 35-47.
• Whittle, A. W. R. 2009. The Neolithic Period, c. 4000-2400 cal BC: a changing world. In: Hunter, J. and Ralston, I. eds. The Archaeology of Britain: An Introduction from Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century. 2nd ed.. London: Routledge, pp. 78-102.
• Whittle, A. W. R. 2009. As we were saying: connecting people and places. In: Allen, M. J., Sharples, N. M. and O'Connor, T. eds. Land and People: Papers in Memory of John Evans. Prehistoric Society Research Papers Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 203-214.
• Whittle, A. W. R. 2009. The people who lived in longhouses: What's the big idea?. In: Bickle, P. and Hofmann, D. eds. Creating Communities: New Advances in Central European Neolithic Research. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 249-263.
• Whittle, A. W. R. and Hofmann, D. 2008. Neolithic bodies. In: Jones, A. ed. Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice. Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology Blackwell, pp. 287-311.
• Whittle, A. and Cummings, V. 2007. Introduction: transitions and transformations. In: Whittle, A. and Cummings, V. eds. Going Over: The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-West Europe. OUP/British Academy, pp. 1-4., (10.5871/bacad/9780197264140.003.0001)

Books

• Whittle, A. 2017. The times of their lives: hunting history in the archaeology of Neolithic Europe. Oxbow Books.
• Cummings, V. and Whittle, A. 2016. Places of special virtue: Megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology. Oxbow Books. (10.2307/j.ctvh1djh5)
• Cummings, V. and Whittle, A. 2016. Places of special virtue: megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology. Oxbow.
• Whittle, A. W. R. and Bickle, P. eds. 2013. The first farmers of central Europe: diversity in LBK lifeways. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
• Whittle, A., Healy, F. and Bayliss, A. 2011. Gathering time: Dating the Early Neolithic enclosures of southern Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
• Whittle, A. and Cummings, V. eds. 2007. Going over: the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in North-West Europe. British Academy. (10.5871/bacad/9780197264140.001.0001)
• Bayliss, A. and Whittle, A. W. R. 2007. Histories of the dead: building chronologies for five southern British long barrows. Cambridge Archaeological Journal.
• Whittle, A. W. R. 2007. The Early Neolithic on the Great Hungarian Plain: investigations of the Körös culture site of Ecsegfalva 23, County Békés. Varia archaeologica Hungarica Vol. 21. Budapest: Institute of Archaeology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
• Whittle, A. W. R. and Benson, D. 2006. Building memories: the Neolithic Cotswold long barrow at Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
• Whittle, A. W. R. 2003. The archaeology of people: dimensions of Neolithic life. Routledge.

Conferences

• Hofmann, D. et al. 2012. Kinds of diversity and scales of analysis in the LBK. Presented at: "Neue Fragen zur Bandkeramik oder alles beim Alten?" - internationale Tagung, Leipzig, Germany, 23-24 September 2010 Presented at Kreienbrink, F., Cladders, M. and Staeuble, H. eds.Siedlungsstruktur und Kulturwandel in der Bandkeramik: Beiträge der internationalen Tagung "Neue Fragen zur Bandkeramik oder alles beim Alten?" Leipzig, 23. bis 24. September 2010. Arbeits- und Forschungsberichte zur sächsischen Bodendenkmalpflege, Beihefte Vol. 25. Dresden: Landesamt für Archäologie pp. 107-117.
• Whittle, A. W. R. 2010. The Körös culture of the Great Hungarian Plain: Implications of a recent research project at Ecsegfalva, Co, Békés. Presented at: Neolithisierung Mitteleuropas Internationale Tagung, Mainz, Germany, 24-26 June 2005 Presented at Petrasch, D. and Gronenborn, J. eds.Die Neolithisierung Mitteleuropas : Internationale Tagung, Mainz 24. bis 26. Juni 2005 = The Spread of the Neolithic to Central Europe : International Symposium, Mainz 24 June--26 June 2005. Mainz: Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums pp. 189-210.
• Whittle, A. W. R. 2010. The long and winding road: reflections on sixth-millennium process. Presented at: Neolithization of the Carpathian Basin - symposium organized by the EU Project FEPRE, Krakow, Poland, 2010 Presented at Kozlowski, J. K. and Raczky, P. eds.Neolithization of the Carpathian Basin: Northernmost Distribution of the Starcevo/Körös Culture. Kraków: Polish Academy of Sciences pp. 91-102.

• Whittle, A. W. R. and Bickle, P. eds. 2013. The first farmers of central Europe: diversity in LBK lifeways. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
• Whittle, A., Healy, F. and Bayliss, A. 2011. Gathering time: Dating the Early Neolithic enclosures of southern Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
• Whittle, A. W. R. 2007. The Early Neolithic on the Great Hungarian Plain: investigations of the Körös culture site of Ecsegfalva 23, County Békés. Varia archaeologica Hungarica Vol. 21. Budapest: Institute of Archaeology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
• Bayliss, A. L. and Whittle, A. W. R. 2007. Histories of the dead: building chronologies for five southern British long barrows. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17(S. 1)
• Whittle, A. W. R. and Benson, D. 2006. Building memories: the Neolithic Cotswold long barrow at Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Books.