2025
Beller, J.A., Richardson, S.J., O’Neil, H., & Collard, M. A longue durée perspective of prehistoric occupation in the Azraq Basin, Jordan. American Schools of Overseas Research (ASOR). Boston, USA. November 19-22, 2025.
Beller, J.A., Handziuk, N.M., Albaz, S., Lefort, A., & Richard, S. Escaping the complexity of EB society: Further insight into the nature of leisure and gaming from Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan. American Schools of Overseas Research (ASOR). Boston, USA. November 19-22, 2025.
Beller, J.A., & Neimane, L. Expanding the legal horizon – Considerations of environmental archaeology into European underwater cultural heritage preservation. National Legal Systems and the EU Law: Reality and Future Challenges in a Comparative Perspective: 10th International Scientific Conference. University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. November 6-7, 2025.
Demjanenko, I., Kaminskis, J., Neimane, L., Šuļakova, L., Sīka, D., & Beller, J.A. Integrating shipborne pollution and gravimetric data into Latvia’s maritime spatial planning framework. Transport Means 2025: 29th International Scientific Conference. Klaipeda, Lithuania. October 1-3, 2025.
Beller, J.A., Handziuk, N., & Richard, S. Socio-economic stability and continuity during the EB III-IV: Insights from the ground stone assemblage from EB III-IV Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan. 16th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan. Athens, Greece. September 22-26, 2025.
Beller, J.A., Garrard, A., Muller, A., Fayek, M., Richardson, S., & Collard, M. Acheulean occupation in the Azraq Basin, Jordan: Further evidence from C-Spring and beyond. Workshop on The Palaeolithic of Jordan: The State of the Art. 16th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan. Athens, Greece. September 22-26, 2025.
Beller, J.A., van Niekerk, K.L., Fayek, M., Gräbe, P-J., Armitage, S.J., Henshilwood, C.S. Hunter-gatherer mobility and lithic procurement in the southern Cape: Results of artefact provenance from MSA Blombos Cave, South Africa. Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Denver, USA. April 23-27, 2025.
Beller, J.A., van Niekerk, K.L., Fayek, M., Gräbe, P-J., Armitage, S.J., Henshilwood, C.S. Forager mobility during the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Paleoanthropology Society. Denver, USA. April 22-23, 2025.
2024
Beller, J.A., & Collard, M. Surface water distribution as a constraint on hominin mobility in the central Azraq Basin during the Middle Pleistocene: implications for Out of Africa dispersals. European Association of Archaeologists (EAA). Rome, Italy. August 28-31, 2024.
Beller, J.A., Craig, C., O’Neil, H., & Collard, M. Wadi surveys shed additional light on the Palaeolithic occupation of the central Azraq Basin, Jordan. Unravelling the Palaeolithic. York, UK. July 11-12, 2024.
Beller, J.A., van Niekerk, K.L., Gräbe, P-J., Armitage, S.J., Henshilwood, C.S. Raw material distribution in the southern Cape region and its significance for lithic procurement during the MSA at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Southern African Society of Quaternary Research (SASQUA) XXIV. Cango Valley, South Africa. May 19-24, 2024.
Carr-Meehan, K., Beller, J.A., al-Nahar, M., & Collard, M. Potential refugia in the Levant during the Pleistocene and their use by hominins. Society for American Archaeology (SAA). New Orleans, USA. April 17-21, 2024.
Beller, J.A., Craig. C., O’Neil, H., & Collard, M. New light on the prehistory of the central Azraq Basin, Jordan: Results of wadi surveys conducted in 2022 and 2023. Palaeoanthropological Society of Canada (PASC). E-conference. February 2, 2024.
Guilbault, A., Beller, J.A., al-Nahar, M., & Collard, M. The Jordan Predictive
Palaeoanthropology Project: Details and research update. Palaeoanthropological Society of Canada (PASC). E-conference. February 2, 2024.
2023
Greenfield, H.J., Greenfield, T.L., Arnold, E.R., Albaz, S., Beller, J.A., & Maeir, A.M. What does it take to support an early urban household: a view from Early Bronze Age Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel, on the provisioning and exchange of resources. International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE). Copenhagen, Denmark. May 22-26, 2023.
Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., Richardson, S., Albaz, S., & Maeir, A.M. Activity areas and subsistence in the EB III domestic neighbourhood at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: a ground stone tool perspective. Association for Ground Stone Tools Research (AGSTR). Paris, France. April 26-28, 2023.
Beller, J.A., & Collard, M. The Palaeolithic of Jordan: Research to date and future directions. Paleoanthropology Society. Portland, USA. March 28-29, 2023.
Beller, J.A., & Collard, M., & al-Souliman, A.S. The Late Acheulean of the Azraq Basin, Jordan and its implications for hominin dispersals into the Levant. Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Portland, USA. March 29-April 2, 2023.
2022
Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., & Greenfield, T.L. Diachronic developments in animal butchering technologies in Tell Afek, Israel: a zooarchaeological perspective from the Early Bronze Age to Ottoman periods. Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas (ASWA). Tokyo, Japan. November 28 – December 5, 2022.
Beller, J.A., Fayek, M., Collard, M. al-Souliman, A.S., & Garrard, A. Celebrating 66 years of Lower Paleolithic research in Azraq: A longue durée perspective of hominin occupation within an ecologically resilient region of Jordan. American Schools of Overseas Research (ASOR). Boston, USA. November 16-20, 2022.
Greenfield, H.J., Greenfield, T.L., Arnold, E.R., Albaz, S., Beller, J.A., & Maeir, A.M. Urban provision and mobility of animal resources in the Early Bronze Age: a view from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Crossroads IV – Migration and Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Egypt. The Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts, Prague, Czechia. September 19-22, 2022.
Beller, J.A., Nowell, A., Ames, C.J.H., Pokines, J.T., Cordova, C.E., & al-Souliman, A.S. Hominin occupation at a Levantine desert refugium during the Middle Pleistocene: A report from excavations in the Shishan Marsh in Azraq, Jordan. Thoughtful Archaeology in the Ecosphere and Sociosphere: 15th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan (ICHAJ). Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan. July 18-21, 2022.
Beller, J.A., & Collard, M. Hominin mobility and resources procurement around a Levantine oasis during the Middle Pleistocene: A multi-site analysis.Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Chicago, USA. March 30-April 3, 2022.
2021
Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., Fayek, M., & Maeir, A.M. Northward from the Negev: The movement and exchange of commodities into the Shephelah during the Early Bronze Age. American Schools of Overseas Research (ASOR). Chicago, USA. November 17-20, 2021.
Beller, J.A. Exploring the survival of Middle Pleistocene hominins at a Levantine desert refugium: Recent results from the AMAPP excavations in Azraq, Jordan. Foundations on Running Water: The Archaeology of Water and Settlement. 14th Annual Archaeology Day Conference. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. March 20, 2021.
Greenfield, H.J., Beller, J.A., Gaastra, J., & Vieweger, D. Narrowing the gap: The origins of bronze metallurgy for daily life activities in the southern Levant with zooarchaeological data from Tall Zirā´a. Zooarchaeology Beyond Food: The Second Faunal Interest Group Symposium. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. March 19-20, 2021.
2020
Greenfield, H.J.,Beller, J.A., Gaastra, J., & Vieweger, D. Tall Zirā´a and the spread of metallurgy in the southern Levant. Canadian Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan (and Other Places): W. E. Aufrecht Occasional Workshops in Archaeology. Lethbridge, Canada. January 24-26, 2020.
Beller, J.A., Nowell, A., Ames, C.J.H., Pokines, J., Cordova, C., Walker, C., al-Souliman, A., Murray, J.K., & Stueber, D. Hominin survival at a desert refugium during the Middle Pleistocene: Results from the AMAPP excavations in Azraq, Jordan. Canadian Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan (and Other Places): W.E. Aufrecht Occasional Workshops in Archaeology. Lethbridge, Canada. January 24-26, 2020.
2019
Greenfield, H.J., Greenfield, T.L., Arnold, E., Shai, I., Albaz, S., Beller, J.A., & Maeir, A.M. Exchange and urban networks in the southern Levantine Early Bronze Age: Artifactual and ecofactual evidence for exchange networks at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. American Schools of Overseas Research (ASOR). San Diego, USA. November 20-24, 2019.
Beller, J.A. Lithic procurement at a Levantine desert refugium during the Middle Pleistocene. Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Albuquerque, USA. April 10-14, 2019.
2018
Greenfield, H.J., Eliyahu, A., Brown, A., Arnold, E., Beller, J.A., Ross, J.R. Albaz, S., Greenfield, T.L., Maeir, A.M. Houses and households in the Early Bronze Age of the southern Levant: Recent research at Tell es-Safi/Gath. American Schools of Overseas Research (ASOR). Denver, USA. November 15-18, 2018.
Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., & Maeir, A.M. Stones in homes: The spatial distribution and use of ground stone objects at EB III Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. American Schools of Overseas Research (ASOR). Denver, USA. November 15-18, 2018.
2017
Beller, J.A. Raw material characterization and lithic procurement in the Azraq Basin, Jordan, during the Lower-Middle Paleolithic: A pilot study from Shishan Marsh 1. American Schools of Overseas Research (ASOR). Boston, USA. November 15-18, 2017.
Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., & Levy, T.E. Butchering technology during the Early Bronze Age I: An examination of microscopic cut marks on animal bones from Nahal Tillah, Israel. Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas (ASWA). Nicosia, Cyprus. June 7-9, 2017.
Beller, J.A. Raw material characterization and lithic procurement in the Azraq Basin, Jordan, during the Middle Pleistocene: preliminary results. Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Vancouver, Canada. March 29-April 2, 2017.
Ames, C.J.H., Nowell, A., Cordova, C., Pokines, J.T., Murray, J.K., & Beller, J.A., & Stueber, D. A multi-proxy site formation analysis of a late Middle Pleistocene occupation in the Azraq wetlands of northeastern Jordan. Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Vancouver, Canada. March 29-April 2, 2017.
2016
Greenfield, H.J., Maeir, A.M., Shai, I., Greenfield, T., Albaz, S., Eliyahu, A., & Beller, J.A. The Early Bronze Age domestic neighbourhood at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: an update on recent research. American Schools of Overseas Research (ASOR). San Antonio, USA. November 16-19, 2016.
Greenfield, H.J., & Beller, J.A. Butchering technology during the Early Bronze Age I: An examination of microscopic cut marks on animal bones from Nahal Tillah, Israel. American Schools of Overseas Research (ASOR). San Antonio, USA. November 16-19, 2016.
2015
Beller, J.A., Fayek, M., Greenfield, H.J., Shai, I., & Maeir, A.M. Provenance and
exchange of basalt ground stone artefacts of EB III Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel.
International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria. April 25-29, 2016.
Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., Shai, I., & Maeir, A.M. The life-history of basalt ground stone artefacts of EB III Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Association for Ground Stone Tools Research (AGSTR). University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. July 5-9, 2015.
Beller, J.A. The emergence of complex societies and the effect on mortuary practices during the Early Bronze Age of the southern Levant. 5th Annual UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Graduate Research Conference. University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA. January 30-31, 2015.
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