Research Papers

The Prehistoric Society Research Papers publish collections of edited papers, or books on specific themes, covering aspects of prehistory and prehistoric landscapes. The Research papers complement the Society’s Proceedings by allowing broader treatment of key research areas.

We do not publish single site monographs, general conference proceedings, or theses. The Papers are co-published with Oxbow Books and can be purchased via the link below:

If you are interested in publishing in this series, please contact the editor at psrp@prehistoricsociety.org.

Front page of PSRP 14 with a coastal scene
Prehistoric Society Research Paper 14 - Available for advanced orders
The Drowning of a Cornish Prehistoric Landscape : Tradition, Deposition and Social Responses to Sea Level Rise
Edited by Andy M. Jones & Michael J. Allen
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Cover of Prehistoric Society Research Paper 13, showing a bronze axe head on top of other metal objects.
Prehistoric Society Research Paper 13
Fragments of the Bronze Age: The Destruction and Deposition of Metalwork in South-West Britain and its Wider Context
Matthew G. Knight
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Cover of Prehistoric Society Research Paper 12, showing a prehistoric stone tool super-imposed on a rocky landscape.
Prehistoric Society Research Paper 12
Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective
Peter Topping
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Prehistoric Society Research Paper 11 cover, showing hands by an open fire.
Prehistoric Society Research Paper 11
The Social Context of Technology: Non-ferrous Metalworking in Later Prehistoric Britain and Ireland
Sophia Adams, Joanna Brück and Leo Webley
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Cover of Prehistoric Society Research Paper 10, showing an aerial view of a coastline.
Prehistoric Society Research Paper 10 - Available for advanced orders
Repeopling La Manche: New Perspectives on Neanderthal Lifeways from La Cotte de St Brelade
Edited by Beccy Scott, Andrew Shaw , Kate Scott & Matt Pope
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Prehistoric Society Research Paper 9 cover, showing a reconstructed timber settlement.
Prehistoric Society Research Paper 9
Bell Beaker Settlement of Europe: The Bell Beaker Phenomenon from a Domestic Perspective
Edited by Alex M. Gibson
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Prehistoric Society Research Paper 8 cover.
Prehistoric Society Research Paper 8
First Farmers of the Carpathian Basin: Changing Patterns in Subsistence, Ritual and Monumental Figurines
Eszter Bánffy
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Cover of The Beaker People research paper.
Prehistoric Society Research Paper 7
The Beaker People: Isotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric Britain
Edited by Mike Parker Pearson, Alison Sheridan, Mandy Jay, Andrew Chamberlain, Mike Richards and Jane Evans
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Prehistoric Society Research Paper 6 cover, showing a reconstructed thatched building.
Prehistoric Society Research Paper 6
Settlement in the Irish Neolithic: New discoveries at the edge of Europe
Jessica Smyth
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Prehistoric Society Research Paper 5 cover, showing rock art in an upland landscape.
Prehistoric Society Research Paper 5
Image, Memory and Monumentality: Archaeological Engagements with the Material World
Edited by Andrew Meirion Jones, Joshua Pollard, Michael J. Allen and Julie Gardiner
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