Caves & Castles

Small Group

Guided Archaeology Tours

& Self Catering Holidays

Dordogne, France

We’re often asked when people book onto a Tour if we can recommend any books to read. The short answer is “yes”!  There are masses of books from novels to heavy weight academic tomes. Below is a selection of some you might find interesting - but don’t be put off, it is not necessary to read up before your Tour as Steve will be informing and guiding you throughout your stay.  We will be adding Steve’s comments shortly.

Cave Art: A guide to the Decorated Ice Age Caves of Europe

Paul Bahn 2007

publ. Frances Lincoln

The Cave Painters

Gregory Curtis, 2006

publ. Alfred Knopf

The Caves of Perigord

Martin Walker, 2002

publ. Simon & Schuster

Secrets of the Ice Age

Evan Hadingham, 1980

publ. Book Club Associates

Reindeer Moon

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

1987

Publ. Collins

Catching Fire - how cooking made us human

Richard Wrangham, 2010

Publ. Profile  

Cave Art

Jean Clottes, 2010

publ. Phaidon

Cro-Magnon

Brian Fagan

40,000 Years of Cave Art

Henri Breuil, 1950

publ. unknown

Images of the Ice Age

Paul G. Bahn & Jean Vertut, 1989

The Shamans of Prehistory Jean Clottes & David Lewis-Williams,

1998 Abrams, New York

Prehistoric Art

Randall White

Publ. Abrams, New York

The Mind in the Cave

David Lewis-Williams, 2002 publ. Thames & Hudson

The Roots of Civilization Alexander Marshack

1972, 2nd ed.

Publ. Moyer-Bell, New York

The Shelters of Stone

Jean Auel, 2002

publ. Hodder & Stoughton

Vezere Valley Venture

Megan Baehr 2009

World Prehistory

Graham Clark, 1961

publ. Cambridge University Press

Before the Dawn

Nicholas Wade