Scholarly Books and Monographs

1990 The Dawn of Belief: Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

1988 The Transfer and Transformation of Ideas and Material Culture. Co-edited with Peter Hugill. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

1980 Prehistoric Pueblo Settlement Patterns. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

Textbook

2004 Ancient Preludes: World Prehistory form the Perspectives of Archaeology, Geology and Paleoecology. (3rd Edition). Dubuque, Iowa: Eddie Bowers Publishing Company.

Seven Most Recent Refereed Journal Articles

2006 Public Transcripts Expressed in Theaters of Cruelty: The Royal Graves at Ur in Mesopotamia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 16(2):123-144.

2006 Geophysical Investigation of the June 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion site of Pointe du Hoc, Normandy , France . Near-Surface Geophysics 5 (In Press) (With Mark E. Everett, Carl J. Pierce, N. Save, Robert Warden, Richard Burt and James C. Bradford).

2005 Where Do We Go When We Die? A Cross-Cultural Test of the Hypothesis that Infrastructure Predicts Individual Eschatology. Journal of Anthropological Research 61(1) (with Jeffery Olson, Frederick Dahm, and Mitchell Wachtel) In Press.

2004 Systematic Site Reconnaissance in the Kipsing and Tol River Catchments of the Mukogodo Hills Region of Central Kenya: Implications for Middle and Later Stone Age Land Use Patterns. African Archaeological Review 21(3):153-191 (With F.B. Pearl, G-Y. Gang, S. Wandiba and S. Kahinju).

2004 Geoarchaeology of the Kipsing and Tol River Watersheds of the Mukogodo Hills Region in the Mukogodo Hills of North-Central Kenya. Geoarchaeology 19(6):565-582 (With F.B. Pearl).

2003 Origins and Dispersals: Carl Sauer’s Impact on Anthropological Explanations of the Origins of Agriculture. Geosciences and Man 37:117-134.

2002 Evidence of the Emergence of “Modern” Behavior in the Middle and Later Stone Age Lithic Assemblages at Shurmai Rockshelter (GnJm1) and Kakwa Lelash Rockshelter (GnJm2) in the Mukogodo Hills of North-Central Kenya. African Archaeological Review 19(1): 1-26 (With G-Young Gang).

Other Publications

Dickson has published 49 professional publications in addition to the forgoing books and articles.