General academic books • Mithen, S. J. (2024)
The Language Puzzle: How we Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age. London: Profile Books. • Mithen, S. J. (2020)
Land of the Ileach: Archaeological Journeys into Islay’s Past. Edinburgh & London: Birlnn Books. • Mithen, S. J. (2012)
Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. • Mithen, S. J. (2005)
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. • Mithen, S. J. (2003)
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London • Mithen, S. J. (ed. 1998)
Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory, London; New York: Routledge, 1998. • Mithen, S. J. (1996)
The Prehistory of the Mind: A Search for the Origins of Art, Religion, and Science, London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. • Mithen, S. J (1990)
Thoughtful Foragers: A Study of Prehistoric Decision Making Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Research monographs • Mithen, S. J
. & Black, E. (eds) (2011).
Water, Life & Civilisation: Climate, Environment and Society in the Jordan Valley. Cambridge University Press/UNESCO International Hydrology Series. • Mithen, S. J., Finlayson, B., al-Najjar, M., Smith, S., Jenkins, E. & Maričević, D. (2018).
WF16, The Excavation of an Early Neolithic Settlement in Southern Jordan. Volume 1 : Architecture, Stratigraphy and Chronology. London: CBRL Research Monograph • Mithen, S. J. & Finlayson, B. (Eds. (2006)
The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and Al Bustan and Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site of WF16. Oxford: Oxbow, 2006-7. • Mithen, S. J. (2000)
Hunter-gatherer Landscape Archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic project, 1988-98 Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2000. 2 volumes.
Faynan Guides • Mithen, S. J., Khoury, F., Greet, B., White, J. & Meslamani, N. (2020).
The Birds of Faynan: Past and Present. Reading: University of Reading/Amman: Jordan Birdwatch • Mithen, S. J., Najjar, M. & Finlayson, B. (2019). The Archaeology of Faynan: A Celebration and Guide. Reading: University of Reading.
Selected journal articles • Mithen, S.J., Richardson, A., & Finlayson, B. (2023). The flow of ideas: shared symbolism during Neolithic emergence in Southwest Asia: WF16 and Göbekli Tepe.
Antiquity 97, 829-849. • Maričević, D. & Mithen, S.J. (2023). Excavation and survey at the Giant’s Grave, Slochd Measach, Nereabolls, a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Isle of Islay, Argyll & Bute: chronology, architecture, reuse and demise.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 152, 9-52. • Mithen, S.J. (2022). How long was the Mesolithic-Neolithic overlap in Western Scotland? Evidence from the 4th millennium BC on the Isle of Islay and the evaluation of three scenarios for Mesolithic-Neolithic interaction.
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 88, 53-77 • Mithen, S.J., White, J., Finlayson, B., Greet, B. & Khoury, F. (2022). Birds as indicators of early Holocene biodiversity and the seasonal nature of human activity at WF16, an early Neolithic site in Faynan, Southern Jordan.
Journal of Quaternary Science 37, 1148-1163. • Mithen, S.J. (2022). Shamanism at the transition from foraging to farming in Southwest Asia: sacra, ritual, and performance at Neolithic WF16 (southern Jordan),
Levant, • Mithen, S.J. & Wicks, K. (2021). Population level models for testing hunter-gatherer resilience and settlement response to the combined impact of abrupt climatic events and sea level change: A case study from the Holocene of northern Britain
. Quaternary Science Reviews 265, 107027. • Jin, G., Chen, S., Li, H., Fan,X., Yang, A. & S.J. Mithen. (2020). The Beixin Culture: Archaeobotanical evidence from Guanqiaocunnan indicates a population dispersal of hunter-gatherer/cultivators into and across the Haida region of northern China.
Antiquity, 94, 1426-1443. • Mithen, S.J. (2019). Mesolithic fireplaces and the enculturation of Early Holocene landscapes in Britain, with a case study from Western Scotland.
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 85, pp. 131–159 • Mithen, S.J. (2018). Becoming Neolithic in words, thoughts and deeds.
Journal of Social Archaeology Selected book chapters • Mithen, S.J. (2023). The evolutionary foundations of Neolithic thought: The invention of words, cognitive fluidity and objects as cognitive anchors. In L.E. Bennison-Chapman (ed.)
Bookkeeping Without Writing. Early Administrative Technologies in Context. PIHANS CXXXIV. Netherlands Institute for the Near East. • Mithen, S.J., Wicks, K. & Berg-Hansen, I. (2020). The Mesolithic coastal exploitation of Western Scotland: The impact of
climate change and use of favoured place. In A. Schuülke (ed)
Coastal Landscapes of the Mesolithic: Human Engagement with the Coast from the Atlantic to the Baltic Sea. London: Routledge • Wicks, K. & Mithen, S.J. (2017). Economy and environment during the early Mesolithic of western Scotland: Repeated visits to a fishing locality on a small island in the Inner Hebrides. In: P.Persson, E. Reide, B. Skar, H.M.Breivik & L. Johnson (eds)
The Ecology of Early Settlement in Northern Europe: Conditions for Subsistence and Survival (Volume 1), pp. 20–55. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd • Mithen, S.J., Finlayson, B., Maričević, D., Smith, S., Jenkins, E. and al-Najjar, M. (2015) Death and architecture: The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A burials at WF16, Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan. In: C. Renfrew, M.J. Boyd & I. Morley (eds)
Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World, pp. 82–110. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press • Mithen, S.J. (2015). Taking a Gamble with alternative approaches to the Mesolithic of western Scotland: locales, rhythms and regions. In: F. Wenban-Smith, F. Coward, R. Hosfield and M. Pope (eds)
Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution, pp. 317–341. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ==See also==