Main group 1

• Gräslund, Bo, Arkeologisk datering, Lund, Studentlitteratur, 1996Compulsory*
• Herschend, Frands, Historical or textual archaeology, Part of: Current Swedish archaeology, vol. 5, 1997, p. 65–78Compulsory*
• Olsen, Bjørnar d 1958-, Från ting till text: teoretiska perspektiv i arkeologisk forskning, Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2003Compulsory*
• Renfrew, Colin; Bahn, Peter, Archaeology: theories, methods and practice, 6th ed., London, Thames & Hudson, 2012
• The human past: world prehistory & the development of human societies, London, Thames & Hudson, 2009Compulsory*

Main group 2

• Burenhult, Göran, Arkeologi i Norden. 1., Stockholm, Natur och kultur, 1999Compulsory*
• Chiefdoms and early states in the Near East: the organizational dynamics of complexity, Madison, Wis., Prehistory Press, cop. 1994Compulsory*
• Cribb, Roger, Nomads in Archaeology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003Compulsory*
• Fagan, Brian M., People of the earth: an introduction to world prehistory, 11. uppl., Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice Hall, 2004Compulsory*
• Flannery, Kent, The Origins of Agriculture, Part of: Annual review of anthropology, 1973, p. 271–310Compulsory*
• Goudie, Andrew, The human impact on the natural environment: past, present, and future, 6th ed., Oxford, Blackwell, 2006Compulsory*
• Hodder, Ian, The archaeological process: an introduction, Oxford, Blackwell, 1999Compulsory*
• Last hunters, first farmers: new perspectives on the prehistoric transition to agriculture, Santa Fe, N.M., School of American Research Press, 1995Compulsory*
• Lindholm, Karl-Johan, Wells of experience: a pastoral land-use history of Omaheke, Namibia, Uppsala, Uppsala University. African and Comparative Archaeology, 2006Compulsory*
• Renfrew, Colin; Bahn, Peter, Archaeology: theories, methods and practice, 6th ed., London, Thames & Hudson, 2012Compulsory*
• Tainter, Joseph, Social complexity and sustainability, Part of: Ecological complexity: an international journal on biocomplexity in the environment and theoretical ecology, Elsevierc 2004-, 2004-, p. 91–103Compulsory*
• The human past: world prehistory & the development of human societies, London, Thames & Hudson, 2009Compulsory*
• Trigger, Bruce G., A history of archaeological thought, 2. ed., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006Compulsory*
• Yoffee, Norman, Myths of the archaic state: evolution of the earliest cities, states, and civilizations, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005Compulsory*
• Journal of world prehistory.Compulsory*

Main group 3

• Baudou, Evert, Norrlands forntid: ett historiskt perspektiv., 1. uppl. / 3. tr., Umeå, Skytteanska samf. ; Bjästa, l.])Compulsory*
• Burenhult, Göran, Arkeologi i Norden. 1., Stockholm, Natur och kultur, 1999Compulsory*
• Burenhult, Göran, Arkeologi i Norden. 2., Stockholm, Natur och kultur, and)Compulsory*

Main group 4

* Compulsory