Exercise: Using a reading list to create a bibliography.

Below is an extract from a typical reading list. This one is to do with Early Humans. You can also do this section of the tutorial using your own reading list and essay title. Let us suppose your tutor has set the following essay title:

Select those references that you think are most relevant to this essay title from the list below by checking the boxes on the left hand side.

Bunn, H. , Kroll, J. 1986. Systematic butchery by Plio/Pleistocene hominids at Olduvai Gorge. Current Anthropology. 27(5), 431-136.

White, T.D. , Suwa, G. 1987. Hominid footprints at Laetoli: facts and interpretations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 74(4), 485-514.

Marshack, A . 1972. Upper Palaeolithic notation and symbol. Science. 178, 817-828.

Bordes, F. 1968. The Old Stone Age. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Akazawa, T. , Muhesen, S. , Dodo, Y. 1995. Neanderthal burial. Nature. 377, 585-586.

White, R.K. 1986. Dark Caves, Bright Visions: Life in Ice Age Europe. New York: American Museum of Natural History.

Wymer, J.J. 1982. The Palaeolithic period in Kent. In P. E. Leach (ed/s.) Archaeology in Kent to AD1500. London: Council for British Archaeology, 08-Nov.

Aldhouse-Green, S.H.R. 1994. Cannibals and Carnivores: Pontnewydd Cave and the earliest Palaeolithic of Wales. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 124, 546-547.

Brown, S.J. 2000-2003. Neanderthals and Modern Humans: A Regional Guide. http://www.neanderthal-modern.com/ (accessed 28-10-2003)

Barton, N. , Roberts, A.J. , Roe, D.A. 1991. The Late Glacial in North-west Europe: human adaptation and environmental change at the end of the Pleistocene. London: Council for British Archaeology.

Fagan, B.M. 1998. People of the Earth (9th edition). New York: Longman.

White, T.D. , Suwa, G. , Asfaw, B. 1999. Australopithecus ramidus, as new species of early hominid from Aramis, Ethiopia. Nature. 371, 306-312.

Foley, R. 1987a. Another Unique Species: Patterns in Human Evolutionary Ecology. London: Longman.

Foley, R. 1987b. Hominid species and stone tool assemblages: how are they related?. Antiquity. 61, 380-392.

Gamble, C. 1986. The Palaeolithic Settlement of Europe. Cambridge: University Press.

Gamble, C. 1991. The social context for European Palaeolithic art. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 57(1), 3-15.

Mellars, P . 1994. The Upper Palaeolithic revolution. In B. Cunliffe (ed/s.) The Oxford Illustrated Prehistory of Europe . Oxford: University Press, 42-78.

Lawson, A.J. 1991. Cave Art. Aylesbury: Shire Archaeology.

Isaac, G. 1979. The food sharing behaviour of proto-human hominids. Scientific American. 238, 90-108.

Stringer, C. 1993. In Search of the Neanderthals. London: Thames & Hudson.

Toth, N. 1984. The Olduwan reconsidered: A close look at early stone artifacts. Journal of Archaeological Science. 20, 101-120.

Stringer, C. 1984. The origin of anatomically modern humans in Western Europe. In F. Smith and F Spencer (ed/s.) The Origins of Moderns Humans.. New York: Liss, 51-136.

Creswell Heritage Trust 2003. Virtually the Ice Age. http://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/ (accessed 02-10-2003)

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