As a reader of archaeological books from a teenager I have amassed a moderate private library, and as both an author and reviews editor a large number of books have passed across my desk. I take this opportunity to select a few of those new books that either inspired me of have become invaluable members of my own library. See also books on my AEA Shop page

Mike Allen recommends:
Geoarchaeology in Action, by Charles French (Routlege 2003)

Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology, by Goldberg & Macphail (Blackwell 2006)

Late Quaternary Environmental Change, by Martin Bell & Michael Walker (Pearson 2005, 2nd edn.)

Before the Mast; life and death aboard the Mary Rose, ed J Gardiner with M Allen (Mary Rose Trust 2005) Link Amazon British Archaeological Award winning volume 2006

England’s Landscape The West, ed. Barry Cunliffe (HarperCollins 2006)

Science and Stonehenge, ed. Barry Cunliffe & Colin Renfrew (British Academy 1997)

A landscape revealed; 10,000 years on a downland farm, by Martin Green (Tempus 2000)

** The Avebury Landscape; aspects of field archaeology of the Marlborough Downs, ed. G. Brown, D. Field, & D. McOmish (Oxbow Books, 2005)

Prehistoric landscape development and human impact in the upper Allen valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset, by French, Lewis, Allen, Green Scaife & Gardiner (Cambridge, Mcdonald Institute 2007) 

** Hengeworld, by Mike Pitts (Arrow, 2001)

** Britain BC, by Francis Pryor (Tempus, 2005)

Atlas of land and freshwater Molluscs of Britain and Ireland, by M. Kerney (Harley 1999)

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** see review published by The Prehistoric Society