Recently Added Bibliographic Items

accumulated by Naomi F. Miller, University of Pennsylvania Museum

Added November 2009

Hovsepyan, R. and G. Willcox
2008 The earliest finds of cultivated plants in Armenia: evidence from charred remains and crop processing residues in pisé from the Neolithic settlements of Aratashen and Aknashen. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17: 63-71.
Armenia//Aratachen//Aknashen//6M

Kvavadze, E., L. Rukhadze, V. Nikolaishvili, et al.
2008 Botanical and zoological remains from an early medieval grave at Tsitsamuri, Georgia. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17: 217-224.
Georgia//Tsitsamuri//AD

Added August 2009

Pessin, H.
2002 Preliminary Report on the Charcoal Analysis of Tell Shiukh Fawqani (Middle-Euphrates, Syria), IIIrd-Ist Millenniua BC. In Charcoal Analysis. Methodological Approaches, Palaeoecological Results and Wood Uses, ed. S. Thiebault, pp. 147-150. BAR International Series 1063. Archaeopress, Oxford.
Syria//T. Shiukh Fawqani//3M//2M//1M

Sadori, L., F. Susanna, and F. Balossi Restelli
2008 Collapsed Beams and Wooden Remains from a 3200 BC Temple and Palace at Arslantepe (Malatya, Turkey). In Charcoals from the Past: Cultural and Palaeoenvironmental Implications, eds. G. Fiorentino and D. Magri, pp. 237-250. BAR International Series 1807. Archaeopress, Oxford.
Turkey//Arslantepe//4M

Added July 2009

Kislev, Mordechai E. and Yael Mahler-Slasky
2009 Food Remains. In Aphek-Antipatris II. The Remains on the Acropolis, by Y. Gadot and E. Yadin, pp. 499-525. Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University.
Levant//T. Aphek//2M//1M

Added May 2009

Allen, Susan E.
2002 Palaeoethnobotany: Preliminary Results. In Sha'ar Hagolan I, by Y. Garfinkel and M.A. Miller, pp. 236-246. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
Levant//Sha'ar Hagolan//7M//6M

Added April 2009

Liphschitz, Nili
2009 Dendroarchaeological Excavations: H. Shallale, Mt. Carmel. In Shallale, Ancient City of the Carmel, by D. Shimon, p. 317. BAR International Series 1897.
Levant//Shallale//2M

Peña-Chocorro, Leonor and Mauro Rottoli
2007 Crop Husbandry Practices during the Bronze and Iron Ages in Tell Mishrifeh (Central-Western Syria). In Urban and Natural Landscapes of an Ancient Syrian Capital. Settlement and Environment at Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna and in Central-Western Syria, ed. D.M. Bonacossi, pp. 123-143. Studi archeologici su Qatna 1. Forum, Udine.
Syria//Qatna//T. Mishrifeh//3M//2M//1M

Riehl, Simone
2007 Preliminary Archaeobotanical Results from the Palace at Qatna (Tell Mishrifeh). In In Urban and Natural Landscapes of an Ancient Syrian Capital. Settlement and Environment at Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna and in Central-Western Syria, ed. D.M. Bonacossi, pp. 145-152. Studi archeologici su Qatna 1. Forum, Udine.
Syria//Qatna//T. Mishrifeh//3M//2M//1M

Added March 2009

Beech, Mark and Elizabeth Shepherd
2001 Archaeobotanical Evidence for Early Date Consumption on Dalma Island, United Arab Emirates. Antiquity 75: 83-89.
UAE//Dalma Island//5M

Cleuziou, S. and L. Costantini
1980 Premiers élément sur l'agriculture protohistorique de l/arabie orientale. Paléorient 6: 245-251.
UAE//Hili 8//3M

Costantini, Lorenzo
1984 Plant Impressions in Bronze Age Pottery from Yemen Arab Republic. East and West n.s. 34: 107-115.
Yemen//3M

Costantini, Lorenzo
1985 Palaeoethnobotanical Investigations in the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula. East and West n.s. 35: 331-336.
Yemen//3M

Costantini, Lorenzo
1986 Laboratory of Bioarchaeology. East and West n.s. 36: 354-365.
UAE//Yemen

Costantini, Lorenzo
1990 Ecology and Farming of the Protohistoric Communities in the Central Yemeni Highlands. In The Bronze Age Culture of Hawlan at-Tiyal and al-Hada, by Alessandro de Maigret. IsMEO, Rome.
Yemen//various sites//3M

Costantini, Lorenzo and P. Audisio
2000 Plant and Insect Remains from the Bronze Age Site of Ra's Al-Jinz (RJ-2), Sultanate of Oman. Paléorient 26/1: 143-170.
Oman// Ra's Al-Jinz//3M

Nesbitt, Mark
1993 Archaeobotanical Evidence for Early Dilmun Diet at Saar, Bahrein. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 4: 20-47.
Bahrein//Saar//3M

Soderstrom, Thomas R.
1969 Impressions of Cereals and Other Plants in the Pottery of Hajar Bin Humeid. In Hajar Bin Humeid. Investigations at a Pre-Islamic Site in South Arabia. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore.
Hajar Bin Humeid //2M//1M

Tengberg, M. and P. Lombard
2001 Environnement et économie végétale à Qal'at al-Bahreïn aux périodes Dilmoun et Tylos, premiers éléments d'archéobotanique. Paléorient 27/1: 167-181.
Bahrein// Qal'at al-Bahreïn//3M//2M//1M

Willcox, G.
1990 The Plant Remains from Hellenistic and Bronze Age Levels at Failaka Kuwait: A Preliminary Report. In Failaka fouilles françaises 1986-1988, by Y. Calvet and J. Gachet, pp. 43-50. Maison de l'Orient, Lyon.
Kuwait//Falaika//1M

Willcox, George and Margareta Tengberg
1995 Preliminary Report on the Archaeoboanical Investigations at Tell Abraq with Special Attention to Chaff Impressions in Mud Brick. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 6: 129-138.
UAE//T. Abraq//

Added February 2009

Longford, Catherine, Andrew Drinnan, and Antonio Sagona
2009 Archaeobotany of Sos Höyük, Northeast Turkey. In New Directions in Archaeological Science, eds. A. Fairbairn, S. O'Connor, and B. Marwick, pp. 121-136. Terra Australis 28. ANU-E-Press, Canberra.
Turkey//Sos Höyük//4M//3M//2M//1M//AD

Yasuda, Yoshinori
1997 The Rise and Fall of Olive Cultivation in Northwestern Syria- Palaeoecological Study of Tell Mastuma. Japan Review 8: 251-273.
Syria//T. Mastuma//3M

Added January 2009

Desse, J., N. Desse-Berset, A. Henry, M. Tengberg, and R. Besenval
2008 Faune et flore des niveaux profonds de Shahi-Tump (Balochistan, Pakistan), premiers résultats. Paléorient 34.1: 159-171.
Pakistan//Shahi-Tump//5M

Hald, M.M.
2008 A Thousand Years of Farming: Late Chalcolithic Agricultural Practices at Tell Brak in Northern Mesopotamia. BAR International Report 1880. Archaeopress, Oxford. BAR International Report 1880.
Syria//T. Brak//4M

Hald, M.M.
2008 Storage of crops during the fourth and third millennia B.C. at the settlement mound of Tell Brak, NE Syria. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17(1):35-41.
Syria//T. Brak//4M//3M

Hald, M.M & Charles, M.
2007 Brak preliminary archaeobotanical report. In "Excavations at Tell Brak 2006-7," eds. A. McMahon and J. Oates. Iraq 69: 22-23.
Syria//T. Brak//4M//3M

Giorgi, J.
1999 Plant Remains from the Sediments of the Inner Harbour (Area I14). In Caesarea Papers II, eds. K.G.Hollum, A. Raban, and J. Patrich, pp. 353-356. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 35. Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
Levant//Caesarea//1M//AD

Genequand, H., H. Amoroso, M. Haldemann, et al.
2008 Rapport préliminaire des travaux de la mission archéologique syro-suisse à Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi en 2007. SLSA Schweizerisch-Liechtensteinische Stiftung für archäologische Forschungen im Ausland Jahresbreicht 2007(2008): 141-178.
Syria//Qasr al-Hayr al Sharqi//AD

van Zeist, Willem
2008 Comments on Plant Cultivation at Two Sites on the Khabur, North-eastern Syria. In Berichte der Ausgrabung von Tell Seh Hamad.Dur Katlimmu, vol. 8, ed. H. Kühne, with A. Mahmoud and W. Röllig, pp. 13-19. Reimer Verlag.
Syria//T. Bderi//T. Sheikh Hamad/Dur-Katlimmu//3M//2M//1M//AD

Willcox, George, Sandra Fornite, and Linda Herveux
2008 Early Holocene Cultivation before Domestication in Northern Syria. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17: 313-325.
Syria//T. Qaramel//Jerf el Ahmar//Dja'de//T. 'Abr//Epipaleo


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