Michael W Pitts

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First Name:	Michael
Middle Initials:	W
Surname:	Pitts
Note:	Commonly known as Mike Pitts in publications
ORCID:	https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6870-3844
Wikidata Identifier:	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6833558
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Monographs:

Title	Author	Year of Publication
Fairweather Eden: life in Britain half a million years ago as revealed by the excavations at Boxgrove	Author	1998
Footprints through Avebury and its nearby monuments	Author	1985
Later stone implements	Author	1980
Later stone implements	Author	1980

Journal Issues:

Title	Role	Year of Publication
Brit Archaeol (1357-4442) 100	Editor	2008
Brit Archaeol (1357-4442) 101	Editor	2008
Brit Archaeol (1357-4442) 85	Editor	2005
Brit Archaeol (1357-4442) 87	Editor	2006
Brit Archaeol (1357-4442) 89	Editor	2006
Brit Archaeol (1357-4442) 92	Editor	2007
Brit Archaeol (1357-4442) 93	Editor	2007
Brit Archaeol (1357-4442) 94	Editor	2007
Brit Archaeol (1357-4442) 95	Editor	2007
Brit Archaeol (1357-4442) 96	Editor	2007
Brit Archaeol (1357-4442) 97	Editor	2007
Brit Archaeol (1357-4442) 98	Editor	2008
Brit Archaeol (1357-4442) 99	Editor	2008
Brit Archaeol (CBA) 77	Editor	2004
Brit Archaeol (CBA) 78	Editor	2004
Brit Archaeol (CBA) 79	Editor	2004
Brit Archaeol (CBA) 80	Editor	2005
Brit Archaeol (CBA) 81	Editor	2005
Brit Archaeol (CBA) 82	Editor	2005
Brit Archaeol (CBA) 83	Editor	2005
Brit Archaeol (CBA) 84	Editor	2005
Brit Archaeol 73	Editor	2003
Brit Archaeol 74	Editor	2004
Brit Archaeol 75	Editor	2004

Articles/Chapters:

Title	Role	Year of Publication
"Nothing of any significance has been unearthed"	Author	2012
"Sunday evenings won't be the same without Time Team"	Author	2013
'Celtic' face looks out from unique bone comb	Author	2015
'He built something in almost every city'	Author	2008
10 big questions archaeology must answer	Author	2011
6 threatened sites	Author	2011
6,000-year-old carved post found on Welsh mountain	Author	2013
7 archaeological societies	Author	2011
7 great archaeology movies	Author	2011
A long history of salmon fishing on the Dee	Author	2015
A new medieval view of Stonehenge	Translator	2007
A photo by Bill Brandt, and the intimacy of perceptions of Stonehenge and landscape	Author	2008
A revised date for the early medieval execution at Stonehenge	Author	2007
A year at Stonehenge	Author	2009
Adding another henge to the Marden complex	Author	2015
Alfred the Great; have they found him yet?	Author	2014
Altar scene on Buckinghamshire Roman jug	Author	2015
An Anglo-Saxon decapitation and burial at Stonehenge	Author	2002
An excavation at Avebury, Wiltshire, 1982	Author	1985
An excavation at Stonehenge, 1981 Y holes 20-21; prehistoric activity in lee of bank	Author	1983
Anglo-Saxon hoard to throw light on coin use	Author	2015
Angus McBride	Author	2007
Another hoard from the Vale of Wardour	Author	2014
Approaches to Raw Material Studies	Author	1982
Archaeologists excavate two rare bronze age hoards	Author	2012
Archaeology	Author	2002
Archaeology: the Blair years	Author	2007
Are gold & pearl earrings glimpse of Boudica's terror?	Author	2014
Avebury older than Stonehenge - and the ring gets bigger	Author	2004
Blick Mead; Discovering the mesolithic of southern England	Author	2015
Britain in archaeology	Author	2011
Britain in archaeology	Author	2010
Britain in archaeology	Author	2011
Britain's oldest cremation burial found in Essex	Author	2015
British Archaeological Awards 2014	Author	2014
Bronze age eel trap may be oldest known	Author	2011
Bronze age woman buried with sheepskin	Author	2013
Bronze age workshops in Kent used imported shale	Author	2010
Bronze finds put prehistoric leather-workers on map	Author	2012
Buried 400BC; 32 animals -- and half a man	Author	2011
CBA news: a year at the CBA consulting on listed building ap...	Author	2007
Camera lucida used at 1927 Woodhenge dig	Author	2015
Celebrating 25 years of hard-hat archaeology	Author	2016
Chariot fittings and grooming kit buried at hillfort	Author	2015
Clay tobacco-pipe factory excavated in Bath	Author	2016
Coin find raises questions about Roman hoards	Author	2012
Community Archaeology; What Next?	Abstract author	2010
Complete prehistoric swords excavated in Fens	Author	2011
Counting the treasure	Author	2006
Dig for Shakespeare	Abstract author	2010
Digging for (Invisible) People	Abstract author	2010
Digging for history	Author	2011
Digging for the 2012 Olympics	Author	2012
Digging up media stars: the Webster lecture 2000	Author	2000
Digital guides; more work needed	Author	2012
Don't knock the ancestors	Author	2003
Dramatic rock art discoveries near Inverness	Author	2013
Ear studs popular in bronze age (in south)	Author	2012
Early campsite and rare necklaces at Dunragit	Author	2014
Eight tiny gold bracelets in Bronze Age hoard	Author	2014
England's oldest wooden window found in church wall	Author	2010
English Magic & the absurdity of archaeology	Author	2013
Excavating the Sanctuary: new investigations on Overton Hill, Avebury	Author	2001
Excavation at site of Crosby Garrett helmet	Author	2014
Excavation finds Leicester's earliest town	Author	2014
Experiments with time	Author	2015
Extending the British Museum	Author	2009
Extraordinary treasures from founding archaeologist	Author	2013
Find adds to Anglo-Saxon grave mystery	Author	2012
First Scottish gold lunula in over 100 years	Author	2011
Flight of the eagles	Author	2006
Footprints in the sands of time	Author	1978
From a field near Sleaford	Author	2008
From plinth to field; was this emperor's fate?	Author	2011
From the editor	Author	2010
Frome hoard may have been sacrifice '“ and not alone	Author	2010
Geophysics finds encourage new look at Stanton Drew	Author	2010
Hammerwich hoard "saved" - but who for?	Author	2010
Heads and defleshed bones at Ham Hill	Author	2013
Heathrow amber could be major prestige item	Author	2011
Hides and antlers: a new look at the gatherer-hunter site at Star Carr, N Yorkshire, England	Author	1979
Hides and antlers: a new look at the gatherer-hunter site at Starr Carr, North Yorkshire, England	Author	1979
Historic Stonehenge model found	Author	2014
Historic sites can be dangerous	Author	2013
Human remains to be retained, pending details	Author	2011
Hunter--gatherer flint axe is first from North Sea	Author	2013
Hunting history on the edge of the North Sea; Mike Pitts investigates the curious story of Area ...	Author	2011
In Brief; New posts	Author	2006
In Brief; Stonehenge: more consultation	Author	2006
In View; Small channel - big vision?	Abstract author	2010
In the Copper Age	Issue editor	2008
Is this a king? Key facts on Leicester dig	Author	2012
John Wymer	Author	2008
Kent plough find challenges farming history	Author	2011
Largest works in 4,000 years start at henge	Author	2012
Latest insights from the Staffordshire hoard	Author	2015
Letters	Editor	2010
Living with Death in the Iron Age	Abstract author	2010
Loch of ages	Author	2013
London eagle watched over Roman tomb	Author	2014
Mary Rose studies query science of tracing migration	Author	2010
Mick Aston steps down	Author	2012
Mick's Travels; Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire	Abstract author	2010
Monuments defined land use for millennia	Author	2011
More Travels; Middle Thames Tributaries	Abstract author	2010
More elite iron age burials found near Colchester	Author	2014
Morphological Aspects of Ground Stone Celts in Britain	Author	1981
My Archaeology; The power of 2,000-year-old cries	Author	2010
My archaeology; The rustle of the Guardian at lunchtime	Author	2011
My archaeology; Blowing the fuses and pushing out the boat	Author	2011
My archaeology; A long way from Brighton and Hove	Author	2011
My archaeology; A lifelong fascination with time	Author	2011
My archaeology; The worship of craftsmanship	Author	2012
My archaeology; Why I had to leave Time Team	Author	2012
My archaeology; Looking at ourselves, looking back	Author	2012
My archaeology; A proper job? No, but it's archaeology!	Author	2011
My archaeology; Drawing rocks, cognitive evolution and Bach	Author	2011
My archaeology; From Gwithian to Edinburgh, and back again	Author	2012
My archaeology	Author	2012
My archaeology; It's our blooming story!	Author	2012
My archaeology; Avoiding pomposity, lecturing and ignorance	Author	2013
My archaeology; Creating history out of the ground	Author	2013
My archaeology; A lifelong love of history	Author	2013
My archaeology; Standing in empty rooms	Author	2015
My archaeology; This dig is not normal	Author	2013
My archaeology; always constant, always changing	Author	2010
My archaeology; confronting change in landscape	Author	2010
My archaeology; The great fashionable thing	Author	2013
My archaeology; So full of flints, my trousers almost fell off	Author	2014
My archaeology; Correcting historical and political rhetoric	Author	2014
My archaeology; I'm looking from a different view, now	Author	2014
My archaeology; Co-opted by the Heritage Industry	Author	2014
My archaeology; Understanding why the world looks as it does	Author	2014
My archaeology; Colouring the imagination with facts	Author	2014
My archaeology; Nobody ever told me this!	Author	2015
My archaeology; The little spark of joy	Author	2015
My archaeology; Is there some little feather I can flick aside?	Author	2015
My archaeology; A chance to make a difference	Author	2015
My archaeology; Understanding the subject inside out	Author	2016
My archaeology; You cannot destroy the past	Author	2015
My archaeology	Author	2010
New causewayed enclosure near Oxford	Author	2015
New centre for Stonehenge - if drivers agree	Author	2010
New date shows Seahenge was one of a pair	Author	2014
New figurine underlies significance of Orkney dig	Author	2010
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Not so much how, but more why?	Author	1980
Oldest iron-smelting site found by Tata plant	Author	2016
On the Web; Off - and on - the beaten street	Abstract author	2010
On the road to Stonehenge: report on investigations beside the A344 in 1968, 1979 and 1980 Avenue, Heelstone, petrology, chronology	Author	1982
On the web	Issue editor	2008
On the web	Author	2007
On the web	Issue editor	2007
On the web	Issue editor	2007
On the web	Issue editor	2007
On the web	Issue editor	2008
On the web	Issue editor	2008
On the web	Issue editor	2008
On the web	Issue editor	2007
One million years UK; One million years, four species: how Britain began	Author	2014
Orkney dressed stone 'houses' world's oldest	Author	2015
Pakefield; a weekend to remember	Author	2006
Pictish cemetery excavated near Perth	Author	2012
Preservation by record	Abstract author	2010
Proof that mound in college grounds is Silbury twin	Author	2011
Rare henge builders' homes revealed	Author	2004
Rare prehistoric finds and major Carlisle dig	Author	2010
Requiem	Issue editor	2007
Requiem	Compiler	2012
Requiem	Compiler	2011
Requiem	Compiler	2013
Requiem	Author	2008
Requiem	Author	2009
Requiem	Author	2010
Requiem	Compiler	2015
Resolving the Human Remains Crisis in British Archaeology	Author contributing	2011
Review of Stonehenge Landscapes and Stone Circles	Author	2002
Rewriting the prehistory of Kent. 1; The pot	Author	2011
Rewriting the prehistory of Kent. 2; The henge	Author	2011
Richard III update; a coffin, walls and reburial	Author	2013
Roger Bland resigns as treasure staff move	Author	2015
Rolling out the bronze age field network	Author	2015
Roman infants on Hadrian's Wall were dressed to impress	Author	2013
Roman rural economy revealed in Wiltshire	Author	2015
Round and about in historic Leominster	Author	2006
Scottish hunters left wolf pelt at home	Author	2013
Scottish stones highlight ancient art	Author	2014
Seven new things to do when you visit Stonehenge	Author	2014
Seven steps to a good archaeological photo	Author	2011
Significant new stone circle discovered on Dartmoor	Author	2015
Small town, big archaeology	Author	2004
Solving the mysteries of painted pebbles	Author	2014
Some aspects of change in flaked stone industries of the Mesolithic and Neolithic in southern Britain	Author	1979
Some aspects of change in flaked stone industries of the Mesolithic in southern Britain	Author	1979
Staffordshire gold	Author	2009
Staffordshire hoard was 'accumulated over decades'	Author	2014
Stone row found as windfarm gets under way	Author	2012
Stone row near Stonehenge gets even bigger	Author	2015
Stonehenge	Author	2008
Stonehenge dispute solved after 260 years	Author	2013
Stonehenge: now what?	Issue editor	2008
Stones, pits, and Stonehenge	Author	1981
Surprising age of new-found stone row on Dartmoor	Author	2010
Survey of lost Roman town continues -- and finds fort	Author	2014
Survey reveals Old Sarum was a major town	Author	2015
Surveys find ancient town on Solsbury Hill	Author	2014
Taking authority for saving the past	Author	2012
The Crosby Garrett Roman helmet	Author	2011
The Links of Noltland; The Big Dig	Abstract author	2010
The Lithic Studies Society; A Personal View	Author	1980
The Stone Collector; Graham Hill	Abstract author	2010
The Stonehenge Olympics	Author	2008
The Vikings are coming!; Return to London	Author	2014
The archaeological quest for Greek royalty	Author	2011
The bulldozer, the scheduler and the council leader	Author	2011
The creative process of questioning the past	Author	2009
The development and date of Avebury	Author	1992
The human remains crisis	Author	2010
The magazines	Author	2009
The reburial of Richard III. How we got here -- and why you should visit Leicester	Author	2015
The stone axe in Neolithic Britain	Author	1996
Tools for learning	Author	2006
Towards an understanding of flint industries in post-glacial England	Author	1978
Unearthing the ancestral rabbit	Author	2006
Unique bronze age hoard to be exhibited	Author	2015
Unique early medieval helmet revealed	Author	2013
Unique find; a moment in ice age hunter's life	Author	2010
Was Geoffrey right?	Author	2007
Was this the palace that Nero never saw?	Author	2015
Welsh hillfort hides rare neolithic enclosure	Author	2014
Were Anglo-Saxon halls home to kings?	Author	2014
What future for Avebury?	Author	1990
Who was the 2nd Marquis of Northampton?	Author	2015
Why was major site "lost" in Northern Ireland bog?	Author	2012
Wiltshire dig raises profile of "the fourth henge"	Author	2010
Wiltshire museums will refuse new archives	Author	2013
Women lead UK's largest archaeological organisations	Author	2013
a scheme for ochre plaques	Author	2012
my archaeology; dealing with the future	Editor	2010