1949

• How the Victoria Falls were formed.
  Northern Rhodesia Information Department Handbook.
  Lusaka: Northern Rhodesia Information Department, 1949.

1950

• Stone Age Cultures of Northern Rhodesia.
  Cape Town: South African Archaeological Society, 1950.

1952

• Editor.
  Victoria Falls and Batoka Gorge.
  Livingstone: Northern Rhodesia National Monuments Commission, 1952.

1954

• Prehistoric Cultures of the Horn of Africa.
  London: Cambridge University Press, 1954.
  Reprinted in 1972 by Octagon Books with the addition of a preface taking cognizance of work done, not considerable, since the first printing.

1955

Catalogue to the David Livingstone Centenary Exhibition, Livingstone, Rhodes-Livingstone Museum, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. 1955.

1957

• Early Man and the Stone Age in the Federation.
  Salisbury: Department of Information, 1957.
  
  
• Co-editor with S. Cole.
  Prehistory, Proceedings of the Third Pan-African Congress.
  London: Chatto and Windus, 1957.

1958

• Digging Up History.
  Livingstone: Northern Rhodesia Monuments Commission, 1958.

1959

• Prehistory of Southern Africa.
  Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1959.
  
  
• with R.F. Summers, C.K. Cooke, and E. Godall.
  Rock Art of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  Salisbury, Rhodesia: National Publications Trust, 1959.

1963

• Prehistoric Cultures of Northeast Angola and their Significance in Tropical Africa.
  Publicacoes Culturais, 62. Vol.. I-II.
  Lisbon: Museu do Dundo, 1963.

1966

• Distribution of Prehistoric Culture in Angola.
  Publicacose Culturais, 73.
  Lisbon: Museu do Dundo, 1966.
  
  
• Co-editor with F. Clark Howell.
  Recent Studies in Palaeoanthropology.
  American Anthropology, 1966, 68(2) Part 2, Special Issue.
  

1967

• African Studies at Berkeley.
  Berkeley, CA: Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
  
  
• Compiler.
  Atlas of African Prehistory.
  Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1967.
  
  
• Co-editor with W.W. Bishop.
  Background to Evolution in Africa.
  Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1967.

1968

• Further Palaeoanthropolgical Studies in Northern Lunda.
  Publicacoes Culturais, 78.
  Lisbon: Museu do Dundo, 1968.

1969

• Kalambo Falls Prehistoric Site, Vol. I.
  London: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

1970

• Prehistory of Africa.
  London; New York: Thames and Hudson, Praegers, 1970.
  Reprinted in 1984 by Greenwood Press, Westport, CT.

1973

• An Elephant Butchery Site at Mwanganda's Village, Karonga, Malawi, and its Relevance for Palaeolithic Archaeology.
  Reprint Series in Archaeology.
  Warner Modular Publication, Ltd., 1973.
  Originally published in World Archaeology, 1970, 1(3):390-411.

1974

• Kalambo Fall Prehistoric Site, Vol. II.
  London: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

1977

• The Prehistory of Africa.
  London: Thames and Hudson, 1970.
  Translated into Portuguese, "A Pre-Historia da Africa," Editorial Verbo, Lisbon. Translated into Polish, "Prahistoria Afryki," Bibliotaka Problemow, Warsaw, and into Japanese and Russian.

1982

• Editor.
  Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. I: From the Earliest Times to ca. 500 B.C.
  London: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

1983

• Co-editor with G.R. Sharma.
  Palaeoenvironment and Prehistory in the Middle Son Valley, Madhya Pradesh, North Central India.
  Allahabah: Abinash Prakashan, 1983.

1984

• Co-editor with S.A. Brandt.
  From Hunters to Farmers: The Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa.
  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984.

2001

• with Julie Cormack, Susan Chin, and M.R. Kleinienst.
  Kalambo Falls Prehistoric Site, Vol. 3. The Earlier Cultures: Middle and Earlier Stone Age.
  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  
  • Reviewed in:
    • Journal of Anthropological Research, 2003, Vol. 59, pp. 574-577. Reviewer: Lawrence Guy Straus.
    • Antiquity. June 2002, 76(292): 577-578. Reviewer: Lawrence Barham.
    • The Quarterly Review of Biology. June 2002, 77(2): 195. Reviewer: Richard G. Klein.