PUBLICATIONS
Books and edited volumes
2015 Rollefson, G. and Finlayson, B. (eds) Jordan’s Prehistory; Past and Future Research, Department of
Antiquities of Jordan, Amman
2014 Finlayson, B & Makarewicz, C. (eds) Settlement, Survey and Stone. Essays on near eastern prehistory in
Honour of Gary Rollefson, ex oriente, Berlin
2013 Finlayson, B & Makarewicz C. (eds) a special edition of the journal Levant “Neolithic Stereotypes:
Has SW Asian Archaeology Outlived the Neolithic?" 45, 2
2013 Finlayson, B & Daher R (eds) Papers from the conference on shifting boundaries, special edition of
Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies , vol 13
2010 Finlayson, B & Warren, G. Changing natures: hunter-gatherers, first farmers, and the modern world,
Duckworth Debates in Archaeology, Duckworth: London
2010 Chatty, D. & Finlayson, B (eds) Dispossession and displacement: forced migration in the Middle East and
North Africa, British Academy Occasional papers 14, London: British Academy and Oxford University
Press
2010 Finlayson, B & Warren, G. (eds) Hunters in Transition, Levant Supplementary Series. Oxford: Oxbow
Books.
2007 Finlayson, B. & S. Mithen (eds) 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, Wadi Faynan
Series Volume 1, Levant Supplementary Series Volume 4, Council for British Research in the Levant and
Oxbow Books: Oxford
2005 Finlayson, B. Wild Harvesters: The first people in Scotland (2nd Edition) Birlinn Ltd with Historic
Scotland, Edinburgh
1998 Finlayson, B. Wild Harvesters: the first people in Scotland, Historic Scotland/Cannongate
Journal Articles and book chapters
2015 Finlayson, B. Neolithic in Jones, D. (ed) Architecture: the whole story, Thames and Hudson, London,
18-23
2014 Finlayson, B. Houses of the Holy: the evolution of ritual buildings in Finlayson, B & Makarewicz, C.
(eds) Settlement, Survey and Stone. Essays on near eastern prehistory in Honour of Gary Rollefson, ex oriente, berlin,
133-143
2014 Finlayson, B., Makarewicz, C. Smith, S., and Mithen, S. The transition from PPNA to PPNB in
southern Jordan, Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan XI, 105-119
2014 Finlayson, B. Introduction to the Levant in the Neolithic period, Chapter 9 in M.L. Steiner and A
Killebrew (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant (c 8,000 – 332 BCE) OUP: Oxford
2013 Finlayson, B. Imposing the Neolithic on the past, Levant vol 45:2, 133-148
2013 Finlayson B. a comment on E. Asouti & D Fuller A Contextual Approach to the Emergence of
Agriculture in Southwest Asia Reconstructing Early Neolithic Plant-Food Production, Current Anthropology
2013 Finlayson, B. & Daher, R. The Mediterranean as backdrop to the great events of history in B.
Finlayson & R. Daher (eds) Papers from the conference on shifting boundaries, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for
Interfaith Studies, vol 13, 1-22
2013 Finlayson, B. The Levant: Palestine, Israel and Jordan, in D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) World
Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum Archaeopress: Oxford, 471-481
2013 Finlayson, B. The first villages. The Neolithic Period (10,000-4,500 BC) in M.Ababsa (ed) Atlas of
Jordan. History, Territories and Society. Beirut: IFPO 106-110
2012 Finlayson, B., Mithen, S. and Najjar, M. WF16. Architecture, Sedentism and Social Complexity
Communal Building in Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Settlements: New Evidence from WF16, CBRL Bulletin 12
2011 Finlayson, B., Kuijt, I., Mithen, S. and Smith, S. New Evidence from Southern Jordan: rethinking
the role of architecture in changing societies at the beginning of the Neolithic process, Paléorient 37.1, 123135.
2011 Finlayson, B., Mithen, S., Najjar, M., Smith, S., Maricevic, D., Pankhurst, N. & Yeomans, L.
“Architecture, sedentism and social complexity. Communal building in Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
settlements: New evidence from WF16” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 108(20): 8183–8188
2011 Finlayson, B., Mithen, S. and Smith, S. “On the edge: Southern Levantine Epipalaeolithic Neolithic Chronological succession” Levant 43.2, 127-138
2011 Mithen, S., Finlayson, B., Smith, S., Jenkins, E., Najjar, M. and Maricevic, D. “An 11,600 year-old
pisé structure indicative of communal activity from the Neolithic of southern Jordan” Antiquity 85: 350364
2011 Finlayson, B. Archaeology, evidence and anthropology: circular arguments in the transition from
foraging to farming in M. Benz (ed.) The Principle of Sharing. Segregation and Construction of Social Identities at the
Transition from Foraging to Farming. Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment
14 (2010) 19-34. Berlin, ex oriente
2011 Finlayson, B., Lovell, J., Simith, S. & Mithen, S. The archaeology of water management in the
Jordan valley from the Epipalaeolithic to the Nabataean, 21,000 BP (19,000 BC) to AD 10, in S.Mithen and
E.Black (eds) Water, Life and Civilisation: Climate, environment and society in the Jordan Valley, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 191-217
2011 Rambeau, C., Finlayson, B., Smith, S., Black, S. Inglis, R. & Robinson, S. Palaeoenvironmental
reconstruction at Beidha, southern Jordan (c 18,000-8,500 BP): Implications for human occupation during
the Natufian and pre-Pottery Neolithic, in S.Mithen and E.Black (eds) Water, Life and Civilisation: Climate,
environment and society in the Jordan Valley, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 245-268
2010 Finlayson, B Agency in the Pre Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA). In D. Bolger and L. Maguire (eds) The
Development of Pre-State Communities in the Ancient Near East: Studies in Honour of Edgar Peltenburg. Oxford:
BANEA and Oxbow books pp 141-146
2010 Chatty, D. & Finlayson, B Introduction in D. Chatty and B.Finlayson (eds) Dispossession and
displacement: forced migration in the Middle East and North Africa, British Academy Occasional papers 14,
London: British Academy and Oxford University Press
2010 Mithen, S., Finlayson, B, Najjar, M., Jenkins, E., Smith, S., Hemsley, S., Maricevic, D., Pankhurst, N.
and Yeomans, L. “Excavations at the PPNA site of WF16: A report on the 2008 season” Annual of the
Department of Antiquities of Jordan 53
2010 Goodale, N., Otis, H., Andrefsky, W., Kuijt, I., Finlayson, B. and Bart, K. “Sickle blade life-history
and the transition to agriculture: an early Neolithic case study from Southwest Asia” Journal of Archaeological
Science
2010 a contribution in Cameron, K. et al, Excavations on the route of the Dalkeith Northern Bypass 1994-5 &
2006, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 44
2009 Kuijt, I. & Finlayson, B. New Evidence for Food Storage and Pre-Domestication Granaries 11,000
years ago in the Jordan Valley Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009, 106:10966-10970
2009 Finlayson, B. The ‘complex hunter-gatherer’ and the transition to farming. In N. Finlay, S.
McCartan, N. Milner & C. Wickham Jones (eds), From Bann Flakes to Bushmills; papers in honour of Professor
Peter Woodman, 175-188. Oxford: Prehistoric Society Research Paper 1
2009 Finlayson, B., Mithen, S., Najjar, M., Smith, S. and Jenkins, E. “New Excavations at WF16, a PrePottery Neolithic A site in Southern Jordan” Antiquity 83/319
2008 With Goodale, N.B., Kuijt, I., Macfarlan, S. Osterhoudt, C. and Finlayson, B. “Lithic core reduction
techniques, modeling expected diversity” In W. Andrefsky (ed) Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, use
and curation, 317-336. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
2008 Quinn, C.P., Andrefsky, W. Kuijt, I. and Finlayson, B. “Perforation with Stone Tools and Retouch
Intensity: A Neolithic Case Study” In W. Andrefsky (ed) Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, use and
curation, 150-174. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
2008 Mithen, S., Jenkins, E., Jamjoum, K., Nuimat, S. Nortcliff, S. and Finlayson, B. “Experimental crop
growing in Jordan to develop methodology for the identification of ancient crop irrigation” World
Archaeology 40(1), 7-25
2008 Whitehead, P.G., Smith, S.J., Wade, A.J., Mithen, S.J., Finlayson, B., Sellwood, B., and Valdes, P.J.
“Modelling of hydrology and potential population levels at Bronze Age Jawa, Northern Jordan: a Monte
Carlo approach to cope with uncertainty” Journal of Archaeological Science 35:5, 517-529
2008 Goodale, N. Kuijt I. and Finlayson, B. “Chipped stone variability: An overview of the PPNA lithic
assemblage from Dhra’, Jordan” in L.Astruc, D.Binder and F.Brios (eds) Technical Systems and Near Eastern
PPN Communities, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop, Frejus 2004, Editions APDCA, Antibes,
63-73
2007 Kuijt, I. Finlayson, B. and MacKay, J. Pottery Neolithic landscape modification at Dhra’, Antiquity,
106-118
2007 Finlayson, B “Sedentism and the Village: Social motivations for the beginning of farming” Proceedings
of the 8th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan Archaeological Perspectives on Society, Culture
and Identity, Dept of Antiquities of Jordan: Amman
2007 Mithen, S., Austen, P., Kennedy, A., Emberson, H., Finlayson, B. and Lancaster, N. Early Neolithic
woodland composition and exploitation in the southern Levant: a comparison between archaeobotanical
remains from WF16 and present-day woodland at Hammam Adethni, Environmental Archaeology 12:1, 71-92
2007 Finlayson, B. and S. Mithen The Dana-Faynan-Ghuwayr Early Prehistory Project in B. Finlayson
and S. Mithen (eds) 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, Wadi Faynan Series Volume 1,
Levant Supplementary Series Volume 4, Council for British Research in the Levant and Oxbow Books:
Oxford, 1- 12
2007 S.Mithen, Finlayson, B., A.Pirie, S.Smith and C. Whiting, Archaeological survey of Wadis Faynan,
Ghuwayr, Dana and al-Bustan, in B. Finlayson and S. Mithen (eds) 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, Wadi Faynan Series Volume 1, Levant Supplementary Series Volume 4, Council
for British Research in the Levant and Oxbow Books: Oxford, 47-114
2007 Finlayson, B. & S.Mithen, Excavations at WF16, in B. Finlayson and S. Mithen (eds) 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, Wadi Faynan Series Volume 1, Levant Supplementary
Series Volume 4, Council for British Research in the Levant and Oxbow Books: Oxford, 145-202
2007. Finlayson, B The worked bone, in B. Finlayson and S. Mithen (eds) The Early Prehistory of Wadi
Faynan, Southern Jordan, Archaeological survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and al-Bustan and evaluation of the PrePottery Neolithic A site of WF16, Wadi Faynan Series Volume 1, Levant Supplementary Series Volume 4,
Council for British Research in the Levant and Oxbow Books: Oxford, 319-322
2007 S. Mithen & Finlayson, B. The radiocarbon dates, in B. Finlayson and S. Mithen (eds) 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, Wadi Faynan Series Volume 1, Levant Supplementary
Series Volume 4, Council for British Research in the Levant and Oxbow Books: Oxford, 460- 469
2007 S.Mithen & Finlayson, B. WF16 and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A of the southern Levant, in B.
Finlayson and S. Mithen (eds) 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, Wadi Faynan Series
Volume 1, Levant Supplementary Series Volume 4, Council for British Research in the Levant and Oxbow
Books: Oxford, 470-486
2007 S.Mithen & Finlayson, B. WF16 and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A of the southern Levant (Arabic
version), in B. Finlayson and S. Mithen (eds) 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, Wadi
Faynan Series Volume 1, Levant Supplementary Series Volume 4, Council for British Research in the
Levant and Oxbow Books: Oxford, 487-516
2007 Finlayson, B. “Chipped Stone” in Dunwell, A. Cist burials and an iron Age settlement at Dryburn Bridge,
Innerwick, East Lothian. Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 24, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 12
2006 Finlayson, B. Overview – Setting up questions, in C. Conneller and G. Warren (eds) Mesolithic Britain
and Ireland: New Approaches, Tempus, Stroud, 165-184
2006 with Dennis, S. and Najjar, M. Beidha Experimental Archaeology CBRL 2006, Bulletin of the Council for
British Research in the Levant, CBRL, London, 22-23
2006 Finlayson, B. & Kuijt, I. Dhra’ Excavation project 2005 CBRL 2006, Bulletin of the Council for British
Research in the Levant, CBRL, London 24-25
2005 Finlayson, B. Present and Future of the British Schools, Institutes and Societies Abroad, Papers from
the Institute of Archaeology 16, 1-19
2005 Mithen, S. J., Finlayson, B. and Shaffrey, R. (2005) Sexual symbolism in the Early Neolithic of the
southern Levant: pestles and mortars from WF16 Documenta Prahistorica, XXXII, 103-110
2005 Finlayson, B. Chipped Stone in Drury, D. and Dunwell, A. Excavations at Borrows Road,
Ambleside, 1990-1993, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, IV
2005 Finlayson, B. Chipped stone in T. Neighbour, Excavation of a Bronze Age kerbed cairn at Olcote,
Breasclete, near Calanais, Isle of Lewis, SAIR
2005 Wadi Faynan: The most polluted place on earth? Current World Archaeology 13, 37-44
2004 Finlayson, B. The use of stone tools in Mesolithic Scotland: Function, value, decision making and
landscapes, in A. Saville (ed) Mesolithic Scotland and its Neighbours, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,
Edinburgh, 221- 228
2004 Finlayson, B. Island Colonisation, Insularity or mainstream?, in E.Peltenburg and A.Wasse (eds)
Neolithic Revolution, Levant Supplementary Series 1, Council for British Research in the Levant and Oxbow
Books, Oxford, 15-22
2003 Finlayson, B., I. Kuijt, T. Arpin, M. Chesson, S. Dennis, N. Goodale, S. Kadowaki, L. Maher, S.
Smith, M. Schurr, and J. McKay “Dhra’ Excavation Project 2002, Interim Report, Levant
2003 with Najjar, M. and Dennis, S. Bayda: Conservation and presentation project, April-November 2003,
Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 47, 489-490
2003 with Cressey, M. Assessment survey: Solway Firth (Mull of Galloway to Sark Bridge, Gretna Green in
T.Dawson (ed) Coastal Archaeology and Erosion in Scotland Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, 127-136
2003 Finlayson, B. & Edwards K “The Mesolithic” in K.Edwards and I.B.M.Ralston (eds) Scotland: After
the Ice Age, EUP, Edinburgh, 109-125
2002 Goodale, N. B., Kuijt, I. and Finlayson, B. “The Chipped Stone Assemblage of Dhra', Jordan:
Preliminary Results on Technology, Typology, and Intra-Assemblage Variability”. Paléorient 28(1): 125-140.
2002 Finlayson, B. & Dennis, S. “Landscape, Archaeology and Heritage”, Levant 34, 219-227
2002 with Dennis, S. and Najjar, M. “Conservation and presentation of Neolithic Beidha, southern Jordan”
Antiquity 76, 933-4
2002 Finlayson, B Chipped Stone in Armit, I. and Braby, A. Excavation of a burnt mound and associated
structures at Ceann nan Clachan, North Uist, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 132, 247
2001 with Kuijt, I. “The 2001 excavation season at the pre-Pottery Neolithic A period settlement of Dhra’,
Jordan, preliminary results”, Neo-Lithics 2/01, 12-15
2000 Mithen, S., Finlayson, B., Pirie, A., Carruthers, D., and Kennedy, A. “New evidence for economic
and technological diversity in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A: Wadi Faynan 16”, Current Anthropology 41: 4,
655-663
2000 with Pirie, A. and Mithen, S. "The Dana -Faynan-Al-Ghuwayr Early Prehistory Project, Spring 2000
Season, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, XLIV, 19-36
2000 Finlayson, B. “The Dana-Faynan Ghuwayr Early Prehistory Project (DFGEPP)” Occident and Orient,
5, 55
2000 Finlayson, B. “The Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)” in H-D Bienert and B.
Muller-Neuhof (eds) At the Crossroads: Essays on the Archaeology, History and Current Affairs of the Middle East,
DEI: Amman, 283-285
2000 Finlayson, B., Mithen, S., Carruthers, D., Kennedy, A., Pirie, A., and Tipping, R. “The Dana-Faynan
Ghuwayr Early Prehistory Project” Levant 32, 1-26
2000 Mithen, S., and Finlayson, B. “WF16, a new PPNA site in Southern Jordan” Antiquity 74, 238, 11-12
2000 Finlayson, B & Warren, G. “The Mesolithic in Eastern Scotland” in R.Young (ed) Mesolithic Lifeways:
Current Research from Britain and Ireland, Leicester Archaeology Monographs, 7. University of Leicester,
Leicester. 133-141
2000 Finlayson, B., Finlay, N. and Mithen, S. "The cataloguing and Analysis of the Lithic Assemblages"
in S. Mithen (ed) Hunter-Gatherer landscape archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic project 1988-98,
McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 61-72
2000 Mithen, S., Finlayson, B., Mathews, M. and Woodman, P.E. "The Islay Survey" in S. Mithen (ed)
Hunter-Gatherer landscape archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic project 1988-98, McDonald Institute
Monographs, Cambridge, 153-186
2000 Mithen, S. & Finlayson, B., "Gleann Mor, Islay: Test-pit survey and trial excavation" in S. Mithen
(ed Hunter-Gatherer landscape archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic project 1988-98, McDonald Institute
Monographs, Cambridge, 187-205
2000 Mithen, S. Woodman, P.E., Finlay, N. and Finlayson, B. "Aoradh, Islay: Test-pit survey and trial
excavation" in S. Mithen (ed) Hunter-Gatherer landscape archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic project 198898, McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 231-239
2000 a contribution in Mithen, S., Lake, M. and Finlay, N. "Bolsay Farm, Islay: Test-pit survey and trial
excavation" in S. Mithen (ed) Hunter-Gatherer landscape archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic project 198898, McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 259-289
2000 Mithen, S. Finlay, N. and Finlayson, B. "An introduction to the Technological Summaries and InterSite Variability" in S. Mithen (ed) Hunter-Gatherer landscape archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic project
1988-98, McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 543-545
2000 Mithen, S. & Finlayson, B. "Variability in Assemblage Composition: Comparison with an
Experimentally Produced Debitage Template" in S. Mithen (ed) Hunter-Gatherer landscape archaeology: The
Southern Hebrides Mesolithic project 1988-98, McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 547-551
2000 Finlayson, B., Finlay, N. and Mithen, S. "The Primary Technology: its character and Inter-site
Variability" in S. Mithen (ed) Hunter-Gatherer landscape archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic project 198898, McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 553-569
2000 Finlay, N. Finlayson, B. and Mithen, S. "The Secondary Technology: its Character and Inter-site
Variability" in S. Mithen (ed) Hunter-Gatherer landscape archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic project 198898, McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 571-587
2000 Finlayson, B. & Mithen, S. "The Morphology and Microwear of Microliths from Bolsay Farm and
Gleann Mor: a comparative study" in S. Mithen (ed) Hunter-Gatherer landscape archaeology: The Southern
Hebrides Mesolithic project 1988-98, McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 589-593
2000 a contribution in Mithen, S., Lake, M. and Finlay, N. "Bolsay Farm, Islay: Area Excavation" in S.
Mithen (ed) Hunter-Gatherer landscape archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic project 1988-98, McDonald
Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 291-328
2000 with Braun, J-P., and Kehrberg, I. “Exhibitions, Conferences and Other Archaeological Events in
Amman in the Year 2000” Occident and Orient, 5, 49-51
2000 "Chipped Stone Assemblage" in Downes, J. and Lamb, R. Prehistoric houses at Sumburgh in Shetland,
Oxbow, Oxford, 104-109
2000 contribution in Clarke C.M. and Hamilton J.E. "Excavation of a cist burial on Doons Law, Leetside
Farm, Whitsome, Berwickshire" PSAS 129 (1999), 189-201
1999 Finlayson, B. “Understanding the initial colonisation of Scotland” Antiquity 73, 879-884
1999 with McCartney, C. “The Chipped Stone Assemblage”, Chapter 21 in Peltenburg, E. Lemba
Archaeological Project, Cyprus, Excavations at Kissonerga Mosphilia 1979-1992, Volume IIB, University of
Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology Occasional Papers 19, 249-293
1998 Finlayson, B. and Mithen S. “The Dana-Faynan (south Jordan) Epipalaeolithic Project: Report on
Reconnaissance Survey, 14-22 April 1996” Levant 30, 27-32
1998 with Gratuze, B. and McCartney, C. “The Chipped Stone Assemblage” Chapter 9 in Peltenburg, E.
Lemba Archaeological Project, Cyprus, Excavations at Kissonerga Mosphilia 1979-1992, Studies in Mediterranean
Archaeology Vol LXX.2, Jonsered, 202-205
1998 Finlayson, B. “Microwear Examination” in Barclay G.J. & Maxwell G.S (eds) The Cleaven Dyke and
Littleour. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Monographs Series 13, Edinburgh, 72
1998 Finlayson, B. “Worked Flint and Quartz” in McCullagh R.P.J. and Tipping R (eds) The Lairg Project
1988-1996: The Evolution of an Archaeological landscape in Northern Scotland. Scottish Trust for Archaeological
Research, Edinburgh, 1998, 132-139
1997 Finlayson, B. & Mithen, S. “The Microwear and Morphology of Microliths from Gleann Mor” in H
Knecht (ed) Projectile Technology, Plenum Press, New York, 107-129
1997 Finlayson, B. & Edwards, K. “The Mesolithic” in K.Edwards and I.B.M.Ralston (eds) Scotland:
Environment and Archaeology, 8000BC-AD1000, John Wiley, Chichester, 109-125
1997 with Rees, A. “A long cist burial at Innerwick, near Dunbar, East Lothian”, Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland, 127, 1, 6011997 a contribution in Alexander, D. “Excavation of pits containing decorated Neolithic pottery and early
lithic material of possible Mesolithic date at Spurryhillock, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire”, Proceedings of the
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 127, 1,1997, 17-27
1997 a contribution in Johnstone, D. “Biggar Common, 1987-93: an early prehistoric funerary and
domestic landscape in Clydesdale, South Lanarkshire”, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 127
1,1997, 185-253
1997 a contribution in Mercer, R.J. and Midgely, M. “The Early Bronze Age cairn at Sketewan, Balnaguard,
Perth and Kinross”, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 127 1, 1997, 281-338
1997 a contribution in Crawford J., Cowie, T.G. and Ritchie, G. “Surface collections from the Isle of Coll”
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 127 1, 1997, 467-511
1996 Finlayson, B. “The Transition to Agriculture 2: The Basis for Change” in A Pollard and A. Morrison
(eds) The Early Prehistory of Scotland, Edinburgh University Press, 271-279
1996 Armit, I. & Finlayson, B. “The Transition to Agriculture 1: Introduction” in A Pollard and A.
Morrison (eds) The Early Prehistory of Scotland, Edinburgh University Press, 269-270
1996 Finlayson, B., Finlay, N and Mithen, S. “Mesolithic chipped stone assemblages: descriptive and
analytical procedures used by the Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project” in A Pollard and A. Morrison
(eds) The Early Prehistory of Scotland, Edinburgh University Press, 252-268
1996 Armit I. and Finlayson, B., "Social Strategies and Economic Change: Pottery in Context," in William
K. Barnett and John W. Hoopes (eds) The Emergence of Pottery: Technology and Innovation in Ancient Societies,
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington: 267-275
1996 Finlayson, B. & Baird D "Excavations at Little Gight flint scatter, Grampian Region" Proceedings of
the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland 124
1996 with Ralston, IBM, Neighbour, T, Armit, I "A Roman Temporary Camp at Barnhill, Beattock,
Dumfriesshire: Report on an Excavation and Watching Brief, 1991" Trans Dumfries Galloway Nat Hist Antiq
Soc, 1994/5, 7 - 12.
1996 “Flint and Chert” in Dunwell A, Armit I, and Ralston I, “The Post-Medieval Farmstead and Field
System of Over Newtown at Crookedstane, Elvanfoot, Upper Clydesdale” Post-Medieval Archaeology 29
(1995), 61-75
1996 a contribution in Russell-White, C.J., “The excavation of a Neolithic and Iron Age settlement at
Wardend of Durris, Aberdeenshire, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 125 (1995), 9-27
1996 a contribution in Stevenson, S., “The excavation of a kerbed cairn at Beech Hill House, Coupar
Angus, Perthshire”, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 125 (1995), 197-235
1996 a contribution in Dunwell A.J., Cowie, T.G., Bruce, M.F., Neighbour, T., and Rees, A.R. “A Viking
Age cemetery at Cnip, Uig, Isle of Lewis”, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 125 (1995), 719-752
1996 a contribution in Dunwell, A.J. and Ralston, I., “Excavations at Inveravon on the Antonine Wall,
1991”, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 125 (1995), 521-576
1995 a contribution in Armit, I., Cowie,T. and Ralston, I. “Excavation of pits containing grooved ware at
Hillend, Clydesdale District, Strathclyde Region”, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 124 (1994), 113-127
1995 Finlayson, B. "Complexity in the Mesolithic of the Western Scottish Seaboard", in A. Fischer (ed)
Proceedings of the Man Sea and the Mesolithic Conference, Horsholm, 261-264, Oxbow Books, Oxford
1995 with Ralston, IBM "Another North-South Divide?", The Field Archaeologist, 23, 11-12.
1995 with Ralston, IBM "Over the Border", British Architectural Profile 1995, 29. Macclesfield: McMillan
Group.
1994 with S.Mithen and N.Finlay "A Lower-Palaeolithic hand-axe from Scotland" Lithics: The Newsletter
of the Lithic Studies Society, No 13 (1992), 1-3
1993 K.Connock, Finlayson, B. and C.Mills "A shell midden and some burials at Carding Mill Bay, near
Oban, Scotland" Glasgow Archaeological Journal 17 1991-1992, 25-38
1993 a contribution in Carter S and Tipping R "The Prehistoric occupation of Carradale, Kintyre". Glasgow
Archaeological Journal 17 1991-1992, 39-52
1993 a contribution in Russell-White C J, Lowe C E, and McCullagh RPJ "Excavations at Three Early
Bronze Age Burial Monuments in Scotland". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 58 (1992)
1993 a contribution in Crone A, "Excavation and survey of Sub-peat Features of Neolithic, Bronze and
Iron Age Date at Bharpa Carinish, North Uist, Scotland" Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 59, 1993, 361-382
1993 a contribution in Driscoll S “Rescue Excavations of a Prehistoric Settlement and Viking
Age/Medieval Cemetery at John O'Groats 1989". Glasgow Archaeological Journal Volume 16 1989-1990, 2937
1992 with S.Mithen, N.Finlay and M.Lake "Excavations at Bolsay Farm, a Mesolithic Settlement on Islay".
Cambridge Archaeological Journal Vol 2, 242-253
1992 with Royston-Clark, Dalmeri and Mithen "Excavations at Pre Alta, Trentino, Northern Italy".
Cambridge Archaeological Journal Vol 2, 254-262
1992 Armit, I. & Finlayson, B. "Hunters in Transition" Antiquity, Vol 66, 664-676
1992 with S.Mithen "Red deer hunters on Colonsay? The implications of Staosnaig for the interpretation
of the Oronsay middens". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
1992 a contribution in Rideout J S "The Dunion, Roxburgh, Borders" in Hillforts of Southern Scotland, AOC
(Scotland) Ltd, 73-120
1992 a contribution in Halpin E "Wardlaw Hill, Dundonald, Strathclyde" in Hillforts of Southern Scotland,
AOC (Scotland) Ltd, 121-126
1991 Finlayson, B. & A.Betts "A Note on the Function of Burins from Jebel Naja, Jordan", Paleorient
16/2, 13-20
1990 Finlayson, B. "Lithic exploitation in Scotland during the Mesolithic", Scottish Archaeological Review 7,
41-57
1990 Finlayson, B. "Lithic materials analysis" in C. Wickham-Jones Rhum, Mesolithic and later sites at Kinloch,
(Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph series)
1990 Finlayson, B. "A note on the function of microliths", Mesolithic Miscellany, 11.1, 2-6
1990 Finlayson, B. “Review of Torrence: Time, Energy and Stone Tools", Newsletter of the Lithic Studies
Society, 10
1987 Finlayson, B. "Preliminary report on the functional analysis of chipped stone tools from Mosphilia,
Lemba Archaeological Project, Cyprus" in E.J.Peltenburg and Project Members, Report of the Department of
Antiquities of Cyprus, Nicosia
1986 Finlayson, B."Report on the conference 'Industries lithiques: traceologie et technologie' Valbonne
Nov 1986" Newsletter of the Lithic Studies Society, No 7