Book
Miller, Naomi F.
2002 Drawing on the Past, An Archaeologist's
Sketchbook. University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia.
To order: call (800) 445-9880 or visit website.
Edited Volumes
Miller, Naomi F. (editor)
1990 Economy and Settlement in the Near East: Analyses of Ancient
Sites and Materials. MASCA
Research Reports in Science and Archaeology, supplement to vol.
7. (To order, call (800) 455-9880 or visit website.)
Miller, Naomi F., and Kamyar Abdi (editors)
2003 Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud: Essays on the
Archaeology of Iran in Honor of William M. Sumner. Monograph
48. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Miller, Naomi F. and
Kathryn L. Gleason (editors)
1994 The Archaeology of Garden and Field. University
of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. (paperback edition: 1997. To order,
call (800) 455-9880 or visit website.)
Articles and chapters in books
Djamali, M., J.-L. de Beaulieu, V. Andrieu-Ponel, M. Berberian,
N.F. Miller, E. Gandouin, H. Lahijani, M. Shah-Hosseini, P. Ponel, M.
Salimian, F. Guiter
2009 A Late Holocene Pollen Record from Lake Almalou in
NW Iran: Evidence for Changing Land-use in Relation to Some Historical
Events during the Last 3700 Years. Journal of Archaeological
Science 36(7): 1364-1375.
Djamali, M., J.-L. de
Beaulieu, V. Andrieu-Ponel,
R. Lak, M. Sadeddin, H. Akhani, and H. Fazeli
2009 Vegetation
history of the SE section of Zagros Mountains during the
Last Five Millennia; a Pollen Record from the Maharlou Lake,
Fars Province, Iran. Vegetation History and
Archaeobotany 18:123-136.
Ford,
Richard I. and Naomi F. Miller
1978 Paleoethnobotany I. In Excavations at Carthage
Conducted by the University of Michigan, ed. John H. Humphrey, pp.
181-189. Kelsey Museum, Ann Arbor.
Gleason, Kathryn L. and Naomi F. Miller
1992 Environmental Studies. (Part of "A Late-Roman Domus
with Apsidal Hall on the NE Slope of the Palatine: 1989-1991
Seasons," by E. Hostetter et al., pp. 131-182), pp. 172-175. Journal of
Roman Archaeology, supp. series 11, Rome Papers.
Miller, Naomi F.
2008
Sweeter than Wine? The Use of the Grape in Early Western Asia.
Antiquity 82:937-946.
2007 Wood Sample from the Achaemenid Pavilion at Tang-i Bolagi. Persian Journal of Iranian Studies (Archaeognosy)/Bastanpazhuhi 2(3): 117.
2004 Flotation Samples from the 1992 Excavation at Tell Jouweif. In On the Margin of the Euphrates: Settlement and Land Use at Tell es-Sweyhat and in the Upper Lake Assad Area, Syria, by T.J. Wilkinson, pp. 157-165. Oriental Institute Publication 124. Chicago. [Entire book on-line!]
2004 Long-Term Vegetation Changes in the Near
East. In The Archaeology of Global Change. The Impact of Humans on
Their Environment, eds. C.L. Redman, S.R. James, P.R. Fish, and J.D.
Rogers, pp. 130-140. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
[Download pdf]
2003 The Use of Plants at Anau North. In A Central Asian
Village at the Dawn of Civilization, Excavations at Anau, Turkmenistan,
by F. Hiebert, pp. 127-138, Appendix C (pp. 201-215). University
of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia. [Download pdf]
2003 Plant Remains from the 1996 Excavation. In Excavations
at the Prehistoric Mound of Chogha Bonut, Khuzestan, Iran,
Seasons 1976/77, 1977/78, and 1996, by Abbas Alizadeh, pp.
123-128. Oriental Institute Publications 120. Chicago. [Available through
OI
publications]
2003 Archaeobotany in Iran: Past and Future. In Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud: Essays on the Archaeology of Iran in Honor of William M. Sumner eds. N.F. Miller and K. Abdi, pp. 8-15. Monograph 48. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Los Angeles.
2002 Tracing
the Development of the Agropastoral Economy in
Southeastern Anatolia and Northern Syria. In The Dawn of
Farming in the Near East, eds. R.T.J. Cappers and S.
Bottema, pp. 85-94. Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence,
and Environment 6. Ex Oriente, Berlin. [Download pdf]
2002 Food, Fodder, or Fuel? Harvesting the Secrets of Ancient Seeds. Expedition 44(3): 5-6.
2001 Down the Garden Path: How Plant and
Animal
Husbandry Came Together in the Ancient Near East. Near
Eastern Archaeology 64(1-2): 4-7.
2000 Plant Forms in
Jewelry from the Royal Cemetery at Ur. Iraq 62: 149-155.
2000 Plants in the Service of Archaeological Preservation.
Expedition 42(1): 30-36.
1999 Erosion, Biodiversity, and Archaeology:
Preserving the Midas Tumulus at Gordion/Erozyon,
bioçeşitlilik
ve arkeoloji: Gordion'daki Midas Höyüğü'nün
Korunması. Arkeoloji ve
Sanat 93: 13-17 + plate.
1999
Agricultural Development in Western Central Asia in the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages.
Vegetation History and
Archaeobotany 8: 13-19. [Download
pdf]
1999 Seeds, Charcoal and Archaeological Context:
Interpreting Ancient Environment and Patterns of Land Use.
TÜBA-AR. 2: 15-27. [Download pdf]
1999
Date Sex in Mesopotamia! Expedition
41(1): 29-30. [read the
article,
check out
the website!]
1998 Patterns of Agriculture and Land Use at
Medieval Gritille. In The Archaeology of the Frontier
in the Medieval Near East: Excavations at Gritille,
Turkey, by Scott Redford, pp. 211-252.
Archaeological Institute of America Monograph. [Download pdf]
1998 The Macrobotanical Evidence for Vegetation in the Near
East, c. 18 000/16 000 bc to 4 000 bc. Paléorient
23(2):197-207.
1998 Archaeobotanists Preserve Midas's
Wealth. Anthropology Newsletter 39 (4): 14-15.
1998 Some Plant Remains from the 1996 Excavation of Yarım
Höyük. (Part of "Yarım Höyük and the Uruk
Expansion," by M.S. Rothman, R.
Ergeç, N. Miller, and G. Kozbe). Anatolica 24: 65-99
(79-80, 88).
1997 The Analysis of Archaeological Plant Remains. In
Research Frontiers in Anthropology, (Archaeology), vol. 2,
eds. C.R. Ember, M. Ember, and P.N. Peregrine, pp. 229-244.
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
1997 Farming and Herding along the Euphrates: Environmental
Constraint and Cultural Choice (Fourth to Second Millennia B.C.).
MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology 14, pp.
123-132. [Download pdf]
1997 Sweyhat and Hajji Ibrahim: Some Archaeobotanical Samples
from the 1991 and 1993 Seasons. MASCA Research Papers in Science
and Archaeology 14, pp. 95-122. [Download pdf]
1996 Seed Eaters
of the Ancient Near East, Human or Herbivore?
Current Anthropology 37: 521-528. (1997: reply to critique
by G.C. Hillman, A. J. Legge, and P. Rowley-Conwy, Current
Anthropology 38: 655-659)
1996 Viticulture. In Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology
in the Near East, vol. 5, pp. 304-306. Oxford University Press,
New York.
1996 Archaeobotanical Remains from the 1995 Season. (Part of
"Hacınebi Tepe: Preliminary Report on the 1995 Season," by Gil Stein et
al., pp. 85-108). Anatolica 22: 106-109, 115-119, 128.
[Download pdf
1996 Hacınebi Tepe 1993: Archaeobotanical
Report. (Part of
"Uruk Colonial Expansion and
Anatolian Communities: An Interim Report on
the 1992-3 Excavations at Hacınebi, Turkey," by Gil Stein et al.,
pp.
205-260) American Journal of Archaeology 100: 248-257.
1996 Appendix C. Palaeoethnobotany. In Excavations at
Anshan (Tal-e Malyan): The Middle Elamite Period, by E. Carter,
pp. 99-108. University Museum Monograph 82. Philadelphia. [Download pdf]
1996 Botanical Remains. (Part of "Tell es-Sweyhat, 1989-1995, A
City in Northern Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium B.C.," by Richard L.
Zettler.)
Expedition 38(1): 27.
1995 The Aspalathus Caper.
Bulletin of the
American Schools of Oriental Research 297: 55-60.
1995 Archaeobotany: Macroremains. (Part of "Science in
Archaeology: A Review," ed. P.E. McGovern). American Journal of
Archaeology 99: 91-93.
1994 Some Archaeobotanical Remains from the 1992 Excavation
Season at Hacınebi Tepe. Appendix to Mesopotamian-Anatolian Interaction
at Hacınebi Tepe, Turkey: Preliminary Report on the 1992
Excavations, by
G. Stein and A. Mısır. Anatolica 20: 168-172.
1994 Some Botanical Considerations for the Conservation and
Preservation of Tumulus MM at Gordion. In Anadolu Medeniyetler
Müzesi 1993 Yıllığı, Sayı VIII, pp.
181-183. Ankara.
1993 Preliminary Archaeobotanical Results from the 1989
Excavation at the Central Asian Site of Gonur Depe, Turkmenistan. In
New Studies in Bronze Age Margiana (Turkmenistan), ed. F.
Hiebert, pp. 149-163. Information Bulletin 19, International
Association for the Study of the Cultures of Central Asia. Moscow:
UNESCO. [Download pdf]
1992 The Crusader Period Fortress: Some Archaeobotanical
Samples from Medieval Gritille. Anatolica 18: 87-99.
1991 The Near East. In Progress in Old World
Palaeoethnobotany, eds. W. van Zeist, K. Wasylikowa, and K.-E.
Behre, pp. 133-160. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
1991 Palm Trees in Paradise: Victorian Views of the Ancient
Near Eastern Landscape. Expedition 32(2): 52-59. [On-line pdf]
1990 Clearing Land for Farmland and Fuel in the Ancient Near
East. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology,
supplement to vol. 7: 70-78. [Download pdf]
1990 Archaeobotanical Perspectives on the Rural-Urban
Connection. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology,
supplement to vol. 7: 79-83. [Download
pdf]
1989 What Mean These Seeds: A Comparative Approach to
Archaeological Seed Analysis. Historical Archaeology 23:
50-59. [Download pdf]
1988 Ratios in Paleoethnobotanical Analysis. In Current
Paleoethnobotany, eds. C. Hastorf and V. Popper, pp. 72-85.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
1986 Vegetation and Plant Use at Kurban Hoyuk.
Anatolica 13: 85-89; 119-120. [Download pdf]
1985 Paleoethnobotanical Research in Khuzestan.
Paléorient
11(2): 125-127.
1985
Paleoethnobotanical Evidence for Deforestation in Ancient
Iran: A Case Study of Urban Malyan. Journal of
Ethnobiology
5: 1-21.
1984 The Use of Dung as Fuel: An Ethnographic Model and an
Archaeological Example. Paléorient
10(2): 71-79.
1984 Some Plant Remains from Khirokitia, Cyprus: 1977 and 1978
Excavations. In Fouilles récentes à Khirokitia (Chypre)
1977-1981, vol. 1, by Alain LeBrun, pp. 183-188. Editions
Recherches sur les civilisations, Mémoire 41. A.D.P.F., Paris.
1984 The Interpretation of Some Carbonized Cereal Remains as
Remnants of Dung Cake Fuel. Bulletin on Sumerian Agriculture
1: 45-47.
1983 Paleoethnobotanical Results from Bendebal and Jaffarabad.
Cahiers de la Délégation Archéologique
Française en Iran 13: 277-284.
[Download pdf]
1981 Plant Remains from Ville Royale II, Susa. Cahiers
de la Délégation Archéologique Française en
Iran 12: 137-142.[Download
pdf]
1981 Chapter 13, Plant Remains. In An Early Town on the
Deh Luran: Excavations at Tepe Farukhabad, by Henry T. Wright,
pp. 227-232; 427-430. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology
Memoir 13.
1977 Preliminary Report on the Botanical Remains from Tepe
Jaffarabad, 1969-1974 Campaigns. Cahiers de la
Délégation
Archéologique Française en Iran 7: 49-53.
1976 First Preliminary Paleoethnobotanical Report for the 1974
Field Season at Malyan. In Proceedings of the IVth Annual
Symposium on Archaeological Research in Iran (1975), ed. Firouz
Bagherzadeh, pp. 104-107. Tehran: Iranian Centre for Archaeological
Research.
Miller, Naomi F. (editor)
1993 Laboratory Profile: Museum Applied Science Center for
Archaeology (MASCA). SAS Bulletin 16 (1):2-6.
Miller, Naomi F. and Kamyar Abdi
2003 Introduction. In Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud:
Essays on the Archaeology of Iran in Honor of William M. Sumner .
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Miller, Naomi F. and Kurt
Bluemel
1999 Plants and Mudbrick: Preserving the Midas
Tumulus at Gordion, Turkey. Conservation and Management
of Archaeological Sites 3: 225-237.
Miller, Naomi F. and Alhena Gadotti
2009 The KHALUB Tree in Mesopotamia: Myth or Reality? In From
Foragers to Farmers, eds. A. Fairbairn and E. Weiss, pp. 234-238.
Oxbow
Monograph.
Miller, Naomi F. and Kathryn L. Gleason
1994 Fertilizer in the Identification and Analysis of
Cultivated Soil. In The Archaeology of Garden and Field,
eds. N.F. Miller and K.L. Gleason, pp. 25-43. The University of
Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
Miller, Naomi F. and Masoumeh Kimiaie
2006 Some Plant Remains from the 2004 Excavations of
Tall-e Mushki, Tall-e Jari A and B, an Tall-e Bakun A and B. In
The Origins of State Organizations in Prehistoric Highland
Fars, Southern Iran. Excavations at Tall-e Bakun, by Abbas
Alizadeh, pp. 107-118. Oriental Institute Publications 128.
Chicago. pdf on-line
Miller, Naomi F., Kimberly E. Leaman, and Julie Unruh
2006 Serendipity: Secrets of the Mudballs. Expedition
48(3):40-41. And don't miss Mudball: The Movie!
Miller, Naomi F. and Tristine Lee Smart
1984
Intentional Burning of Dung as Fuel: A Mechanism for the
Incorporation of Charred Seeds into the Archaeological Record.
Journal of Ethnobiology 4: 15-28.
Miller, Naomi F. and William M. Sumner
2004 The Banesh-Kaftari Interface. The View from
Operation H5,
Malyan. (corrected version, Iran 42:77-89; original
Iran 41: 7-19)
Miller, Naomi F. and Wilma
Wetterstrom
2000 The Beginnings of Agriculture: The Ancient Near
East and North Africa. In The Cambridge World History of
Food, eds. K. F. Kiple and K.C. Ornelas,
vol. 2 pp. 1123-1139. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
Miller, Naomi F., Anne Yentsch, Dolores Piperno, and Barbara
Paca
1990 Two Centuries of Landscape Change at Morven (Princeton, New
Jersey). In Earth Patterns: Archaeology of Early American and
Ancient Gardens and Landscapes, eds. William M. Kelso and R. Most,
pp. 257-275. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
Miller, Naomi F., Melinda A. Zeder, and Susan R. Arter
2009 From Food and Fuel to Farms and Flocks: The Integration of Plant and Animal
Remains in the Study of Ancient Agropastoral Economies at Gordion, Turkey. (M.A. Zeder, Susan R.
Arter, co-authors) Current
Anthropology 50: 915-924.
Moore, Katherine M., Naomi F. Miller, Fredrik H. Hiebert, and Richard H. Meadow
1994 Agriculture
and Herding in the Early Oasis Settlements of the
Oxus Civilization. Antiquity 68: 418-427.
Schwartz, Glenn M., Hans H. Curvers, Fokke A. Gerritsen,
Jennifer A. MacCormack, Naomi F. Miller, and Jill A.
Weber
2000 Excavation and
Survey in the Jabbul Plain, Western
Syria: The Umm el-Marra Project 1996-1997. American
Journal of Archaeology 419-462. [plant remains pp.
438-447]
Schwartz, Glenn M. and Naomi F. Miller
2007 The "Crisis" of the Late Third Millennium B.C.:
Ecofactual and Artifactual Evidence from Umm el-Marra and the Jabbul
Plain. In Sociétés humaines et changement climatique
à la fin du troisième millénaire: une crise a-t-elle
eu lieu en Haute Mésopotamie? , eds. C. Kuzucuoğlu and
C. Marro, pp. 179-203. De Boccard, Paris.
Smith, Alexia and Naomi F. Miller
2009 Integrating Plant and Animal Data. Delving Deeper into Subsistence:
Introduction to the Special Section. Current
Anthropology 50:
883-834.
Wright, Henry T., Naomi F. Miller, James A. Neely, and Richard W. Redding
1999 A Late Susiana Society in Southwestern Iran" In The
Iranian World: Essays on Iranian Art and Archaeology, Presented to Ezat
O. Negahban , eds. A. Alizadeh, Y. Majidzadeh, S.
Malek-Shahmirzadi, pp. 64-79. Tehran University Press, Tehran.
Wright, Henry T., Naomi F. Miller, and Richard W. Redding
1981 Time and Process in an Uruk Rural Center.
924.
L'archéologie
de l'Iraq: Perspectives et limites de l'interpretation anthropologique
des documents, pp. 265-282. Colloques internationaux du CNRS 580.
[Download pdf]
Yentsch, Anne, Naomi F. Miller, Dolores Piperno, and Barbara
Paca
1989 Defining the Earlier Garden Landscapes of Morven in
Princeton, N.J. Northeast Historical Archaeology 16: 1-29.
Zettler, Richard L. and Naomi F. Miller
1995 Searching for Wine in the Archaeological Record of Ancient
Mesopotamia of the 3rd and 2nd Millennia B.C. In The Origins and
Ancient History of Wine, eds. P.E. McGovern, S.J. Fleming, and S.
H. Katz, pp. 123-131. Gordon and Breach, Newark.
Book Reviews
Miller, Naomi F.
2006 Review of Earthly Paradises. Ancient Gardens in History
and Archaeology, by Maureen Carroll. Near Eastern
Archaeology 68(3):138, 2005.
1998 Review of Agricultural Changes at Euphrates and Steppe
Sites in the Mid-8th to the 6th Millennium B.C., by Dominique de
Moulins. Paléorient 24(1): 113-114.
1997 Review of People, Plants, and Landscape: Studies in
Paleoethnobotany, ed. Kristen Gremillion. American
Antiquity 62: 742-743.
1991 Review of Phytoarchaeology, by R. Brooks and
D. Johannes. Research and Exploration 7(2):245-246.
Dissertation
Miller, Naomi F.
1982 Economy and Environment of Malyan, a Third Millennium B.C.
Urban Center in Southern Iran. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of
Anthropology,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (available through UMI, Ann Arbor)