Staff profile

• Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Archaeology
• Chronological Variability in Stone Tool Cultures
• Aesthetics and Acheulean Handaxes
• History of Palaeolithic Archaeology
• Quaternary Geology

Book review

• Éric Boëda. 2024. Techno-logic & technology: a paleo-history of knapped lithic objects. London: Routledge; 978-1-032-41650-2 paperback £39.99.
  
  Foulds, F. (2025). Éric Boëda. 2024. Techno-logic & technology: a paleo-history of knapped lithic objects. London: Routledge; 978-1-032-41650-2 paperback £39.99. Antiquity. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10130
• Book review of 'The Death of Archaeological Theory? Oxbow Books
  
  Foulds, F. (2012). Book review of ’The Death of Archaeological Theory? Oxbow Books. Archaeological Reviews from Cambridge., 27(2), 209-214.

Chapter in book

• Miscellaneous materials
  
  Foulds, E., Shepherd, J., Shaffrey, R., Green, C., Poole, C., Moore, T., & Foulds, F. (2020). Miscellaneous materials. In T. Moor (Ed.), A Biography of Power : Research and excavations at the Iron Age oppidum of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979–2017) (pp. 331-346). Archaeopress.
• Lithics
  
  Foulds, F. (2019). Lithics. In M. Holst & G. Speed (Eds.), Death, Burial and Identity : 3000 years of death in the Vale of Mowbray (pp. 558-559). Northern Archaeological Associates. https://doi.org/10.5284/1050910
• Landscape Archaeology, Palaeolithic Survey and Coastal Change Along the Southern Red Sea of Saudi Arabia
  
  Sinclair, A., Inglis, R. H., Shuttleworth, A., Foulds, F., & Alsharekh, A. (2018). Landscape Archaeology, Palaeolithic Survey and Coastal Change Along the Southern Red Sea of Saudi Arabia. In Geological Setting, Palaeoenvironment and Archaeology of the Red Sea (pp. 533-552). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99408-6_24
• Invisible Individuals, Visible Groups: On the evidence for individuals and groups at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Caddington, Bedfordshire, UK
  
  Foulds, F. (2014). Invisible Individuals, Visible Groups: On the evidence for individuals and groups at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Caddington, Bedfordshire, UK. In Wild things : recent advances in palaeolithic and mesolithic research. (pp. 12-40). Oxbow Books.
• Introduction
  
  Foulds, F. W. F. (2013). Introduction. In Experimental archaeology and theory : recent approaches to archaeological hypotheses. (pp. 1-8). Oxbow Books.
• The Enigmatic Handaxe: In Search of Idiosyncrasies in Bifacial Technology through Three-Dimensional Form
  
  Foulds, F. W. F. (2013). The Enigmatic Handaxe: In Search of Idiosyncrasies in Bifacial Technology through Three-Dimensional Form. In Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent Approches to Archaeological Hypotheses (pp. 101-129). Oxbow Books.

Edited book

• Wild Things: Recent advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research
  
  Foulds, F., Drinkall, H., Perri, A., Clinnick, D., & Walker, J. (Eds.). (2014). Wild Things: Recent advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research. Oxbow Books.
• Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent Approches to Archaeological Hypotheses
  
  Foulds, F. (Ed.). (2013). Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent Approches to Archaeological Hypotheses. Oxbow Books.

Journal Article

• A twist in the tail: on the validity and characteristics of the Phase III handaxe assemblage from Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe, UK
  
  Foulds, F., White, M., Rawlinson, A., Shipton, C., & Ashton, N. (2025). A twist in the tail: on the validity and characteristics of the Phase III handaxe assemblage from Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe, UK. Quaternary International, 746, Article 109951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109951
• Turning-the-edge, Tranchet, and Social Signalling at Boxgrove
  
  Shipton, C., Foulds, F., Rawlinson, A., Leroyer, M., Ashton, N., & White, M. (2025). Turning-the-edge, Tranchet, and Social Signalling at Boxgrove. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774325100152
• A revised terrace stratigraphy and chronology for the Little Ouse River as a framework for interpreting the late Lower and early Middle Palaeolithic of central East Anglia, UK
  
  Davis, R., Lewis, S. G., Hatch, M., Ashton, N., Voinchet, P., Bahain, J., Dale, L., Foulds, F., Rawlinson, A., & White, M. (2024). A revised terrace stratigraphy and chronology for the Little Ouse River as a framework for interpreting the late Lower and early Middle Palaeolithic of central East Anglia, UK. Quaternary Environments and Humans, 2(6), Article 100045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100045
• Making a U-turn on the Purfleet Interchange: Stone Tool Technology in Marine Isotope Stage 9 Britain and the Emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in Europe
  
  White, M., Rawlinson, A., Foulds, F., Dale, L., Davis, R., Bridgland, D., Shipton, C., & Ashton, N. (2024). Making a U-turn on the Purfleet Interchange: Stone Tool Technology in Marine Isotope Stage 9 Britain and the Emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in Europe. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 7(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-024-00177-z
• Big enough to matter: on the frequency and chronology of giant handaxes in the British Lower Palaeolithic
  
  Dale, L., Rawlinson, A., Knowles, P., Foulds, F., Ashton, N., Bridgland, D., & White, M. (2024). Big enough to matter: on the frequency and chronology of giant handaxes in the British Lower Palaeolithic. Antiquity, 98(398), 305-322. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.30
• Symmetry is its own reward: on the character and significance of Acheulean handaxe symmetry in the Middle Pleistocene
  
  White, M., & Foulds, F. (2018). Symmetry is its own reward: on the character and significance of Acheulean handaxe symmetry in the Middle Pleistocene. Antiquity, 92(362), 304-319. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.35
• A Late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic findspot on Barningham Moor, County Durham, UK
  
  Robinson, G., & Foulds, F. (2018). A Late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic findspot on Barningham Moor, County Durham, UK. Lithics : The Newsletter of the Lithic Studies Society., 38, 32-39.
• A large handaxe from Wadi Dabsa and early hominin adaptations within the Arabian Peninsula
  
  Foulds, F. W. F., Shuttleworth, A., Sinclair, A., Alsharekh, A. M., Al Ghamdi, S., Inglis, R. H., & Bailey, G. N. (2017). A large handaxe from Wadi Dabsa and early hominin adaptations within the Arabian Peninsula. Antiquity, 91(360), 1421-1434. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.153
• Cave acoustics in prehistory: exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response
  
  Fazenda, B., Scarre, C., Till, R., Jiménez Pasalodos, R., Rojo Guerra, M., Tejedor, C., Ontañón Peredo, R., Watson, A., Wyatt, S., García Benito, C., Drinkall, H., & Foulds, F. (2017). Cave acoustics in prehistory: exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(3), 1332-1349. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4998721
• Exploring late Neanderthal locales : preliminary reanalyses of Middle Palaeolithic assemblages from the Axe Valley
  
  Foulds, F. W. F. (2016). Exploring late Neanderthal locales : preliminary reanalyses of Middle Palaeolithic assemblages from the Axe Valley. Lithics : The Newsletter of the Lithic Studies Society., 37, 79-82.
• Investigating the Individual? An Experimental Approach through Lithic Refitting
  
  Foulds, F. W. F. (2010). Investigating the Individual? An Experimental Approach through Lithic Refitting. Lithics : The Newsletter of the Lithic Studies Society., 31, 6-19.

Report

• 'The Palaeolithic Occupation of the Harrat Al Birk' : Preliminary report on 2015 fieldwork in Asir Province, southwest Saudi Arabia
  
  Inglis, R., Foulds, F., Shuttleworth, A., Alsharekh, A., Al Ghamdi, S., Sinclair, A., & Bailey, G. (2015). ’The Palaeolithic Occupation of the Harrat Al Birk’ : Preliminary report on 2015 fieldwork in Asir Province, southwest Saudi Arabia. The Gerald Avery Wainwright Fund for Near Eastern Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.1.2421.9685