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Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2001) The evolution of the imagination: an archaeological perspective. SubStance, 30 (1-2). pp. 28-54. ISSN 1527-2095

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Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443, Wicks, K. and Berg-Hansen, I. (2020) The Mesolithic coastal exploitation of western Scotland The impacts of climate change and use of favoured locations. In: Schülke, A. (ed.) Coastal Landscapes of the Mesolithic Human Engagement with the Coast from the Atlantic to the Baltic Sea. Routledge, London, pp. 147-178. ISBN 9780203730942 doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203730942

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443, Finlayson, B., Maricevic, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8647-6250, Smith, S., Jenkins, E. and Al-Najjar, M. (2015) Death and architecture: the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A burials at WF16, Wadi Faynan, South Jordan. In: Renfrew, C., Boyd, M. J. and Morley, I. (eds.) Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World: 'Death Shall Have No Dominion'. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 82-110. ISBN 9781107082731 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316014509.007

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2015) Taking a gamble: alternative approaches to the Mesolithic of western Scotland. In: Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 315-341, Chapter 17. ISBN 9781107026889 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139208697.018 45339

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2014) The cognition of Homo neanderthalensis and H.sapiens: does the use of pigment necessarily imply symbolic thought? In: Akazawa, T., Ogihara, N., Tanabe, H. C. and Terashima, H. (eds.) The Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern Humans. Springer, London/New York, pp. 7-15. ISBN 9784431545521

Smith, S., Wade, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5296-8350, Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186, Brayshaw, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3927-4362, Rambeau, C. and Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2011) From global climate change to local impact in Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan: ten millennia of human settlement in its hydrological context. In: Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 and Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186 (eds.) Water, Life and Civilisation: Climate, Environment and Society in the Jordan Valley. International Hydrology Series. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 218-244. ISBN 9780521769570

Wade, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5296-8350, Holmes, P., El Bastawesy, M., Smith, S., Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186 and Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2011) The hydrology of the Wadi Faynan. In: Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 and Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186 (eds.) Water, Life and Civilisation: Climate, Environment and Society in the Jordan Valley. International Hydrology Series. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 157-174. ISBN 9780521769570

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2010) Excavating the prehistoric mind: the brain as a cultural artefact and material culture as biological extension. In: Dunbar, R., Gamble, C. and Gowlett, J. (eds.) Social brain, distributed mind. Proceedings of the British Academy (158). Oxford University Press for the British Academy, Oxford, pp. 481-503. ISBN 9780197264522

Smith, S.J., Hughes, J.K. and Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2009) Explaining global patterns in Lower Palaeolithic technology: simulations of hominin dispersals and cultural transmission using 'Stepping Out'. In: Shennan, S. (ed.) Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, pp. 175-190.

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2009) The prehistory of the religious mind. In: Spurway, N. (ed.) Theology, Evolution and the Mind. Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, pp. 10-41.

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443, Pirie, A., Whiting, C. and Finlayson, B.L. (2007) Archaeological survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and El Bustan. In: Finlayson, B.L. and Mithen, S. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (eds.) The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and El Bustan and Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site of WF16. Levant Supplementary Series 4. Council for British Archaeology in the Levant/Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 46-114. ISBN 1-84217-212-3

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2007) Creations of Pre-modern human minds: stone tool manufacture. In: Margolis, E. and Laurence, S. (eds.) Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and their Representation. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 289-311. ISBN 978-0-19-925099-8

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 and Finlayson, B.L. (2007) The Dana-Faynan-Ghuwayr early prehistory project. In: Finlayson, B.L. and Mithen, S. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (eds.) The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and El Bustan and Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site of WF16. Council for British Archaeology in the Levant/Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9781842172124

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2007) Did farming arise from a misapplication of social intelligence? In: Emery, N., Clayton, N. and Frith, C. (eds.) Social Intelligence: from brain to culture. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 353-374. ISBN 9780199216543

Finlayson, B.L. and Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2007) Excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of WF16. In: Finlayson, B.L. and Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (eds.) The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and El Bustan and Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site of WF16. Council for British Archaeology in the Levant/Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 145-202.

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2007) General intellectual ability. In: Gangestad, S. and Simpson, J. (eds.) The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. Guilford Publications Inc, New York, pp. 319-324. ISBN 9781593854089

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2007) How the evolution of the human mind can be reconstructed. In: Gangestad, S. and Simpson, J. (eds.) The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. Guildford Publications Inc., New York, pp. 60-66.

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2007) Key changes in the evolution of human psychology. In: Gangestad, S. and Simpson, J. (eds.) The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. Guildford Publications, Inc., New York, pp. 256-266.

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443, Pirie, A., Smith, S. and Wicks, K. (2007) The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in western Scotland: a review and new evidence from Tiree. In: Whittle, A. and Cummings, V. (eds.) Going Over: the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-West Europe. Oxford University Press/British Academy, Oxford, pp. 511-541. ISBN 9780197264140

Lancaster, N., Emberson, H. and Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2007) Modern vegetation survey of Hammam Adethni and its palaeoeconomic implications. In: Finlayson, B.L. and Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (eds.) The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and El Bustan and Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site of WF16. Council for British Archaeology in the Levant/Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 437-446.

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2007) Music and the origin of modern humans. In: Mellars, P., Boyle, K., Bar-Yosef, O. and Stringer, C. (eds.) Re-thinking the Human Revolution. McDonald Institute, Cambridge, pp. 107-117. ISBN 9781902937465

Pinkett, S. and Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2007) Rock art at WF400. In: Finlayson, B.L. and Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (eds.) The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and El Bustan and Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site of WF16. Council for British Archaeology in the Levant/Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 115-133.

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2007) Seven steps in the evolution of the human imagination. In: Roth, I. (ed.) Imaginative Minds. Oxford University Press for The British Academy, Oxford, pp. 3-29.

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 and Finlayson, B.L. (2007) WF16 and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A of the southern Levant. In: Finlayson, B.L. and Mithen, S. (eds.) The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and El Bustan and Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site of WF16. Council for British Archaeology in the Levant/Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 470-486.

Clegg, E. and Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2007) A comparative study of bifaces from Wadis Faynan and Al Bustan. In: Finlayson, B.L. and Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (eds.) The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and El Bustan and Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site of WF16. Council for British Archaeology in the Levant/Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 134-142. ISBN 978-1-84217-212-4

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2007) The network of brain, body, language and culture. In: Henke, W. and Tattersall, I. (eds.) Handbook of Palaeoanthropology. Vol. 3. Phylogeny of Hominines. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 1965-1999. ISBN 9783540324744

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 and Finlayson, B.L. (2007) The radiocarbon dates. In: Finlayson, B.L. and Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (eds.) The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and El Bustan and Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site of WF16. Council for British Archaeology in the Levant/Oxbow, Oxford, pp. 460-469.

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2006) The evolution of social information transmission in Homo. In: Wells, J.C.K., Strickland, S.S. and Laland, K. (eds.) Social Information Transmission and Human Biology. CRC Press, London, pp. 151-170.

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2004) Contemporary Western art and archaeology. In: Renfrew, C., DeMarrais, E. and Gosden, C. (eds.) Substance, Memory, Display: archaeology and art. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, pp. 153-168.

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2004) From Ohalo to Çatalhöyük: the development of religiosity during the early prehistory of Western Asia, 20,000-7000 BC. In: Whitehouse, H. and Martin, L.H. (eds.) Theorizing Religions Past. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek CA, pp. 17-43.

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2004) The Mesolithic experience in Scotland. In: Saville, A. (ed.) Mesolithic Scotland: The Early Holocene Prehistory of Scotland and its European Context. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 243-260.

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2004) ‘Stone Tools’, ‘Fire’, ‘Wooden Tools’, ‘Grinders & Polishers’, ‘Cereal Agriculture’, and the ‘Earliest Art’. In: Fagan, B. (ed.) The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World. Thames & Hudson, London, 21-27, 32-33, 91-94, 215-219.

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2003) Handaxes: The first aesthetic artefacts. In: Voland, E. and Grammer, K. (eds.) EVOLUTIONARY AESTHETICS. Springer-Verlag Berlin, pp. 261-275. ISBN 978-3-540-43670-6

Conference or Workshop Item

Finlayson, B., Makarewicz, C., Smith, S. and Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2014) The transition from the PPNA to the PPNB in Southern Jordan. In: Proceedings of the XIIIth International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, pp. 105-119.

Book

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443, Khoury, F., Greet, B., White, J. and Maslamani, N. (2019) Birds of Faynan: past and present. Faynan Hertage. University of Reading, Reading, UK, pp177. ISBN 9780704915909 doi: https://doi.org/10.17864/1926.87374

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443, Najjar, M. and Finlayson, B. (2019) Archaeology of Faynan: A celebration and Guide. Faynan Hertage. University of Reading, Reading, UK, pp147. ISBN 9780704915916 doi: https://doi.org/10.17864/1926.79395

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443, Finlayson, B., Maricevic, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8647-6250, Smith, S., Jenkins, E. and Najjar, M. (2018) WF16: excavations at an early Neolithic site in southern Jordan. Stratigraphy, chronology, architecture, burials. Council for British Archaeology in the Levant, London, pp738. ISBN 9780953910236

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2013) Thirst: water and power in the ancient world. Orion, London, pp256. ISBN 9780297864790

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 and Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186, eds. (2011) Water, life and civilisation: climate, environment and society in the Jordan Valley. International Hydrology Series. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp543. ISBN 9780521769570

Finlayson, B. and Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2007) The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and El Bustan and Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site of WF16. Wadi Faynan Series 1, Levant Supplementary Series 4. Council for British Archaeology in the Levant/Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp600. ISBN 978-1-84217-212-4

Finlayson, B. and Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443, eds. (2007) The early prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: excavations at the pre-pottery Neolithic A site of WF16 and archaeological survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and Al Bustan. Wadi Faynan Series 1, Levant Supplementary Series 4,. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp640. ISBN 9781842172124

Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2005) The Singing Neanderthals: the Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, pp374.

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443, ed. (2000) Hunter-gatherer landscape archaeology: the Southern Hebrides Mesolithic project 1988-1998. McDonald Institute Monographs. Oxbow books, Oxford, pp651. ISBN 9781902937120

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443, ed. (2000) The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project 1988-1998 Volume1: Project Development, Palaeoenvironmental Studies and Archaeological Fieldwork on Islay. Cambridge: The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, pp345. ISBN 1-902937-07-4

Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443, ed. (1998) Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory. London: Routledge, pp300. ISBN 0-415-16096-0

Web Resource

Machin, A.J., Hosfield, R.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6357-2805 and Mithen, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443, (2006) Quantifying the Functional Utility of Handaxe Symmetry: an experimental butchery approach. ADS, York.