Publicatons

  • Preston, R.J. with contributions by Preston, P.R., Preston, S.H., & The Research Group of Penrith Remembers., 2019. Penrith Civic War Memorial: The 201 People Commemorated. Penrith, Penrith Remembers 1914-1918. pp 842.
  • Preston. P.R., & Kador, T., 2018. Approaches to Interpreting Mesolithic Mobility & Settlement in Britain & Ireland. Journal of World Prehistory. 31: 321-345.
  • Davenport-Mackey, K & Preston, P. R., 2018. ‘A hoary antiquity of unimagined remoteness’: historiography of archaeological investigations at the Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, UK. SocArXivdoi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/56DJW
  • Preston, P.R., 2016, A Review of Fractures in Knapping. Journal of Lithics Studies. 3(1): 321-322. doi.org/10.2218/jls.v3i1.1392
  • Preston, P.R., 2016, A Review of Tsirk, A. 2015: Fractures in Knapping. Archaeopress, Oxford. Lithics. 36: 76-78.
  • Preston, P.R., 2014. New Perspectives on Central Pennine Mesolithic Lithic Scatters. The Archaeological Forum, New Series. 2:7-26.
  • Preston, P.R., & Schörle, K., 2013. Challenging the frontiers of mobility in archaeology. In Preston, P.R., & Schörle, K. (Eds.) Mobility, transition, & change in prehistory & classical antiquity. BAR international series. Oxford, Archaeopress. 2534: 1-4.
  • Preston, P.R., 2013. Bones, Stones or Ethnography: Mesolithic Mobility Models for Northern England, In Preston, P.R., & Schörle, K. (Eds.) Mobility, transition, & change in prehistory & classical antiquity. BAR international series. Oxford, Archaeopress. 2534: 29-48.
  • Mol, L. & Preston, P.R., 2010. The Writing’s in the wall: a review of new preliminary applications of electric resistivity tomography within archaeology.  Archaeometry. 52(6): 1079-1095.
  • Preston, P.R., 2009. Cache & carry: exaptive & equipotential models of Mesolithic tool use. Internet Archaeology. 26. doi.org/10.11141/ia.26.25
  • Preston, P. R., 2008. The Mesolithic Period. In Adkins, R., Adkins, L. & Leitch, V. (Eds.). The Handbook of British Archaeology. pp 23-35. David & Charles Publishers, London.
  • Lang, A. & Preston, P.R., 2008. The Palaeolithic Period. In Adkins, R., Adkins, L. & Leitch, V. (Eds.). The Handbook of British Archaeology. pp 1-22. London, David & Charles publishers.
  • Preston, P.R., 2007. A review of Curtis, A. 2008. Oxford Bible Atlas 4th Edition, The Church Archaeology Journal. 10, p 140

Conference presentations

  • Preston, P.R., 2019. Going where no archaeologist has gone before: testing a polythetic model integrating place, landscape & mobility with material & socio-cultural perspectives to understand the British Mesolithic. Session 1: Space, the final frontier – the transformation of social space in forager societies. International Open Workshop 2019: Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 15,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes VI. 11-16/03/19. University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
  • Preston, P.R., 2016, Unshackling the ‘chaînes’: a new approach to the technological organisation of the British Mesolithic. Immersed in Lithics Conference. 25-26th February 2016. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
  • Preston, P.R., & Davenport-Mackey, K., 2015. ‘Going Places’: towards a sense of Mesolithic space in a mountain landscape. MESO 2015. The Ninth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe. 14-18/09/15. Serbian Academy of Sciences & Arts, Belgrade, Serbia.
  • Preston, P.R., 2015. All Roads Lead to Stone? Towards a more nuanced perspective of British Mesolithic technology in the landscape. The Ninth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe. 14-18/09/15. Serbian Academy of Sciences & Arts, Belgrade, Serbia.
  • Davenport-Mackey, K., & Preston, P.R., 2015. Robin Hood Cave: in search of the Creswellian. Recent research at Creswell Crags. 19th July 2015. Creswell Crags Heritage Centre, Creswell, UK
  • Preston, P.R., 2015. The wise man built his Mesolithic research upon the rock: towards a new research framework & the MESO-lithics Project. Implement Petrology Group Research Meeting. 10/01/15. York, UK.
  • Preston, P.R., 2014. Mesolithic settlements & ‘site seeing’: settlement, landscape, & lithics ̶ lowland & upland perspectives. Session 16: Mesolithic Britain & Ireland: 10 years on. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference. 15-17/12/14. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
  • Preston, P.R., 2014. Never Mind the Boswellox®― Where’s the Data? Problems in Prehistory & Potential Solutions. Session 4: bridges over troubled theoretical waters: crossing the divide between databased archaeology & archaeological theory in prehistoric studies. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference. 15-17/12/14. University of Manchester, Manchester UK
  • Davenport-Mackey, K. & Preston, P.R., 2014. The Smooth, the striated & the ugly: making space for data in landscape archaeology. Session 4: bridges over troubled theoretical waters: crossing the divide between databased archaeology & archaeological theory in prehistoric studies. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference. 15-17/12/14. University of Manchester, Manchester UK
  • Preston, P.R., & Davenport-Mackey, K., 2014. ‘Seeing the sites’: Towards a Sense of Mesolithic Place & Mobility in a Mountain Landscape. Moving Mountains: Studies in Place, Society & Cultural Representation. 18-20/06/14. Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Preston, P.R., 2014 A Lithics Luxury Lost. The MESO-Lithics Project & the Opportunities for the Raw Materials Working Group. The Raw Materials Group 1.0 meeting. 24th May 2014. Oxford Archaeology North, Lancaster, UK
  • Preston, P.R., 2014. Everything we know is wrong: the MESO-lithics Project—Charging lithics into the Mesolithic Canon. Where the wild things are 2.0: Further advances in Palaeolithic & Mesolithic research conference. 8-10/01/14. University of Durham, Durham, UK.
  • Preston, P.R., 2013. Lithics in the landscape: the effect of mobility on chaîne opératoires in the Mesolithic. Style & function: cultural identities in stone conference. 29/06/13. Lithics Studies Society, Queens College, Oxford, UK
  • Preston, P.R., 2013. Blade runner(s) the Mesolithic cut: the chaînes opératoires of the Mesolithic in the Central Pennines, England. The Mesolithic of North-West England: Current Research Conference. 11/05/13, Council for British Archaeology Northwest. Manchester, UK.
  • Preston, P.R., 2013. ‘MESO-Lithics’, landscape & mobility in Northern England. Cogresso Muge 150 (Muge 150 congress). 21-23/03/13. Centro de Interpretação do Cais da Vala, Salvaterra de Magos, Portugal.
  • Preston, P.R. 2012, Blade runner(s) the Mesolithic cut: lithics, landscapes & mobility. Where the Wild Things Are: recent advances in Palaeolithic & Mesolithic research conference. 24-25/03/12. University of Durham, Durham, UK.
  • Preston, P.R., 2010. Lithics, landscapes & handrails: chaîne opératoires & Mesolithic mobility in the Central Pennines UK. The 8th International Conference on The Mesolithic in Europe. 13-17/09/10, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
  • Preston, P.R., 2009. Mesolithic cache & carry: moving from lithics to landscapes. Gathering our Thoughts Conference. University of York, York, UK.
  • Preston, P. R., 2008. Lithics, landscapes & mobility: a case of Mesolithic Cache & Carry? Graduate Archaeology Oxford Conference 2008: challenging frontiers: mobility transition & change. 4-5/04/08. Hertford College, Oxford, UK.
  • Preston, P.R., 2007. Mesolithic archaeology lithics analyses: learning to walk again. Technologies & ontologies: archaeological truths & subjective sciences session, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference. 14-16/12/07. University of York, York, UK.
  • Preston, P.R., 2007. Cache & carry: lithic technology & Mesolithic mobility. Implement Petrology Group Symposium. 6-11/09/07. University of York, York, UK.

Conferences/sessions co-organised

  • 2016. Lithics to Landscapes, Lithics Studies Society Conference. 25/05/16. Lithics Studies Society. Kellogg College, Oxford, UK.
  • 2014. Session: Bridges over troubled theoretical waters- crossing the divide between databased archaeology & archaeological theory in prehistoric studies. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference. 15-17/12/14. University of Manchester, Manchester UK.
  • 2014. The raw materials (rock geology) group 1.0 meeting. 24/05/14. Oxford Archaeology North, Lancaster, UK.
  • 2008. G.A.O. Conference: challenging frontiers: mobility transition & change. 4-5/04/08. Hertford College, Oxford, UK.