For links and other resources see below.
Akkermans, P.M.M.G., and Schwartz, G.M. 2003. The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter- Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c. 16,000-300 BC). Cambridge University Press.
Bogaard, A., Hodgson, J. Nitsch, E., Jones, G., Styring, A., Diffey, C., Pouncett, J., Herbig, C., Charles, M., Ertuğ, F., Tugay, O., Filipovic, D. and Fraser, R. 2016. Combining functional weed ecology and crop stable isotope ratios to identify cultivation intensity: a comparison of cereal production regimes in Haute Provence, France and Asturias, Spain. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 25(1), 57-73
Bogaard, A., Styring, A., Whitlam, J., Fochesato, M. and Bowles, S. (in press). The agroecology of (in)equality: Integrating Gini coefficients with recent bioarchaeological work on early urbanization in northern Mesopotamia and south- west Germany. In Kohler, T. and Smith, M. (eds). University of Arizona, Tucson
Akkermans, P.M.M.G., and Schwartz, G.M. 2003. The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter- Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c. 16,000-300 BC). Cambridge University Press. Campbell, M. 2013. Tell Nebi Mend: Trench VIII (MA by research) Charles, M., Hoppe, C., Jones, G., Bogaard, A. and Hodgson, J. G. 2003. Using weed functional attributes for the identification of irrigation regimes in Jordan. Journal of Archaeological Science 30, 1429–41. Charles, M., Pessin, H. and Hald, M. M. 2010. Tolerating change at Late Chalcolithic Tell Brak: responses of an early urban society to an uncertain climate. Journal of Environmental Archaeology 15.2, 183-98 Grigson, C. 2015. The fauna of Tell Nebi Mend (Syria) in the Bronze and Iron Age—a diachronic overview. Part 1: Stability and change—animal husbandry. Levant, 47, 5-29. Grigson, C., Edwards, Y. and Cerón-Carrasco, R. 2015. The fauna of Tell Nebi Mend (Syria) in the Bronze and Iron Age—a diachronic overview. Part 2: hunting, fowling and fishing. Levant, 47:2, 164-185. Lawrence, D., Philip, G., Wilkinson, K., Buylaert, J.P., Murray, A.S, Thompson, W. and Wilkinson, T.J. 2015. Regional Power and local ecologies; Accumlated population trends and human impacts in the northern Fertile Crescent. Quaternary International 1–22 Mathias, V. T. and Parr, P. J. 1989. The early phases at Tell Nebi mend : a preliminary account. Levant 21, 13-32. Parr, P. J. (ed.) 2015. Excavations at Tell Nebi Mend Syria Volume I: Part I: General Introduction, Part II The Pottery Neolithic Occupation, Part III The Enclosure Oxford: Oxbow & CBRL. Parr, P.J. 1983. The Tell Nebi Mend Project Annales Archaeologique Arabes a Syrie Volume 33:99-117 Pézard, M. 1931. Qadesh. Mission archéologique à Tell Nebi Mend, 1921-1922. Revue des Sciences
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Philip, G. and Bradbury, J. 2010. Pre-classical activity in the basalt landscape of the Homs region, Syria: the implications for the development of “sub-optimal” zones in the Levant during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. Levant, 42, 136-169. Philip, G. and Bradbury, J. (in press) Settlement in the Upper Orontes Valley from the Neolithic to the Islamic Period: an instance of punctuated equilibrium. In D. Parayre (ed.) La géographie historique de l’Oronte. De l’époque d’Ebla à l’époque médiévale. Syria Supplément 3. Beyrouth: Inst Français du Proche Orient.
Smith, K. and Moffett, L. 2015. The charred plant remains, in P. J. Parr (ed.) Excavations at Tell Nebi Mend, Syria.
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Wallace, M, P., Jones, G., Charles, M., Fraser, R., Heaton, T.E. and Bogaard, A. 2015. Stable Carbon Isotope Evidence for Neolithic and Bronze Age Crop Water Management in the Eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia. PLoS ONE 6
Walker, A. 2013. Third-Millennium BC Charred Plant Remains from Tell Nebi Mend, Trench VIII. (unpublished report)
Whincop, M. R. 2007. The Iron Age II at Tell Nebi Mend: Towards an Explanation of Ceramic Regions. Levant, 39
Whitlam, J. Plant Use and Neolithic Societies of the Eastern Fertile Crescent, c.10,000–5500 BC. PhD Thesis, University of Reading.
Whitlam, J., Ilkhani, H., Bogaard, A. and Charles, M. (2013) ‘The plant macrofossil evidence from Sheikh-e Abad: First Impressions’. In R. Matthews, Y. Mohammadifar, & W. Matthews. (eds). The Earliest Neolithic of Iran: 2008 Excavations at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani. CZAP Reports Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 175–184
Whitlam, J., Bogaard, A., Matthews, R., Matthews, W., Mohammidafar, Y., Ilkhani, H. and Charles, M. 2018. Pre-agricultural plant management in the uplands of the central Zagros: the archaeobotanical evidence from Sheikh-e Abad. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
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