Publications

After the Axes? The Rock Art at Copt Howe, North-west England, and the Neolithic Sequence at Great Langdale, by Richard Bradley, Aaron Watson and Peter Style. 2019. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 85, 177-192.
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Found architecture: interpreting a cup-marked outcrop in the southern Highlands of Scotland, by Richard Bradley and Aaron Watson. 2019. Time and Mind 12(1), 3-31.
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Materializing Light, Making Worlds: Optical Image Projection within the Megalithic Passage Tombs of Britain and Ireland, by Aaron Watson and Ronnie Scott. 2017. In The Oxford Handbook of Light in Archaeology, edited by Costas Papadopoulos and Holley Moyes.
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Neolithic Monuments : Sensory Technology, by John Was and Aaron Watson. 2017. Time and Mind 10(1), 3-22.
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Living Symbols of Kilmartin Glen, by John Was and Aaron Watson. 2016. In Archaeology with Art, edited by Helen Chittock and Joana Valdez-Tullett. Oxford: Archaeopress, 157-76.
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The Earlier Prehistoric Collections from the Culbin Sands, Northern Scotland: the Construction of a Narrative, by Richard Bradley, Aaron Watson and Ronnie Scott. 2016. In Ancient Lives: Object, people and place in early Scotland. Essays for David V Clarke on his 70th birthday, edited by Fraser Hunter and Alison Sheridan. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 233-43.
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Maritime Havens in Earlier Prehistoric Britain, by Richard Bradley, Alice Rogers, Fraser Sturt, Aaron Watson, Diana Coles, Julie Gardiner and Ronnie Scott. 2016. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 82, 1-35.
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Digital Dwelling at Skara Brae, by Alice Watterson, Kieran Baxter and Aaron Watson. 2014. In Art and archaeology: collaborations, conversations, criticisms, edited byIan Russell and Andrew Cochrane. London: Springer, 179-195.
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Ben Lawers: Carved Rocks on a Loud Mountain, by Richard Bradley and Aaron Watson. 2012. In Visualising the Neolithic: abstraction, figuration, performance, representation, edited by Andrew Meirion Jones and Andrew Cochrane. Oxford: Oxbow, 64-78.
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Excavations at Four Prehistoric Rock Carvings on the Ben Lawers Estate, 2007-2010, by Richard Bradley, Aaron Watson and Hugo Anderson-Whymark. 2012. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 142, 27-61.
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Four Sites, Four Methods, by Aaron Watson. 2012. In Image, Memory and Monumentality, edited by Andrew Meirion Jones, Joshua Pollard, Julie Gardiner and Michael J. Allen. Oxford: The Prehistoric Society and Oxbow, 307-27.
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An Animate Landscape: Rock Art and the Prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland, by Andrew Meirion Jones, Davina Freedman, Blaze O'Connor, Hugo Lamdin-Whymark, Richard Tipping and Aaron Watson. 2011. Oxford: Windgather Press.
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Moving Images: Interpreting the Copt Howe Petroglyphs, by Kate Sharpe and Aaron Watson. 2010. In Carving a future for British rock art, edited by Tertia Barnett and Kate Sharpe. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 57-64.
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Carneddau : Stone, by Aaron Watson. 2010. In Materialitas: working stone, carving identity, edited by Blaze O’Connor, Gabriel Cooney and John Chapman. Oxford: Oxbow, 75-92.
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New Art − Ancient Craft: Making Music for the Monuments, by John Crewdson and Aaron Watson. 2009. In The Sounds of Stonehenge, edited by Stephen Banfield. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 4-10.
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Learning to See Through the Kilmartin Eye, by Aaron Watson. 2009. In Archaeology and the Politics of Vision in a Post-Modern Context, edited by Julian Thomas and Vítor Oliveira Jorge. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 147-62
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On the Edge of England: Cumbria as a Neolithic Region, by Aaron Watson and Richard Bradley. 2009. In Defining a Regional Neolithic: the evidence From Britain and Ireland, edited byKenneth Brophy and Gordon Barclay. Oxford: Oxbow, 65-77.
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(Un)intentional Sound: acoustics and Neolithic monuments, by Aaron Watson. 2006. In Archaeoacoustics, edited by Christopher Scarre and Graeme Lawson. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Monograph, 11-22.

Acoustics and the Human Experience of Socially Organised Sound, by Ian Cross and Aaron Watson. 2006. In Archaeoacoustics, edited by Christopher Scarre and Graeme Lawson. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Monograph, 107-16.
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Monuments that Made the World: Performing the Henge, by Aaron Watson. 2004. In Monuments and Material Culture. Papers in honour of an Avebury archaeologist: Isobel Smith, edited by Rosamund Cleal and Joshua Pollard. East Knoyle: Hobnob Press, 83-97.
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Making Space for Monuments: Notes on the Representation of Experience, by Aaron Watson. 2004. In Substance, Memory, Display: archaeology and art, edited by Colin Renfrew, Christopher Gosden and Elizabeth DeMarrais. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Monograph, 79-96.
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Fluid Horizons, by Aaron Watson. 2004. In The Neolithic of the Irish Sea: Materiality and Traditions of Practice, edited by Vicki Cummings and Chris Fowler. Oxford: Oxbow, 55-63.
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Divided Places: Phenomenology and Asymmetry in the Monuments of the Black Mountains, Southeast Wales, by Vicki Cummings, Andrew Jones and Aaron Watson. 2002. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12 (1), 57-70.
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Round Barrows in a Circular World: Monumentalising Landscapes in Early Bronze Age Wessex, by Aaron Watson. 2001. In Bronze Age landscapes: tradition and transformation, edited by Joanna Brück. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 207-216.
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Composing Avebury, by Aaron Watson. 2001. World Archaeology 33(2), 296-314.
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The Sounds of Transformation: Acoustics, Monuments and Ritual in the British Neolithic, by Aaron Watson. In The Archaeology of Shamanism, edited by Neil Price. London: Routledge, 178-92.
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The Living and the Dead in Northern Scotland 3500 - 2000 BC, by Tim Phillips and Aaron Watson. 2000. Antiquity 74 , 786-92. 
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The Architecture of Sound in Neolithic Orkney, by Aaron Watson and David Keating. In Neolithic Orkney in its European context, edited by Anna Ritchie. Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monographs, 259-63. 
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Architecture and Sound: An Acoustic Analysis of Megalithic Monuments in Prehistoric Britain. Watson, A. and Keating, D. 1999. Antiquity 73, 325-36.

Reprinted in Megaliths from Antiquity, edited by Timothy Darvill and Caroline Malone. 2003.  Cambridge: Antiquity Publications, 363-76.
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