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Beller, J.A. & Richardson, S.J. Celebrating 66 years of Acheulean exploration and discovery in the central Azraq Basin, Jordan. In Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan XV. Amman: Department of Antiquities of Jordan.

Greenfield, H.J., Beller, J.A., Richardson, S.J., Albaz, S., & Maeir, A.M. Understanding alleyways of the Early Bronze Age southern Levant: A view from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. ‘Atiqot.

Beller, J.A., Craig, C., O’Neil, H., Richardson, S.J., Samawi, O., & Collard, M. The Middle Palaeolithic occupation of the central Azraq Basin, Jordan: Evidence from a recent wadi survey. In Unravelling the Palaeolithic, (Piper, S., & Needham, A., eds.). Oxford: Archaeopress.

Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., & Buchfink, S.S. Butchering practices at Tell Aphek, Israel, during the Early-Middle Bronze Ages. In Proceedings of the XVth Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas Conference, Tokyo, Japan, November 28-December 2, 2022, (Hongou, H., & Itahashi, Y., eds.). Columbus: Lockwood Press.

Greenfield, H.J., Greenfield, T.L., Beller, J.A., Arnold, E.R., Ross, J., Albaz, S., Rosen, S.A., Manclossi, F., Weiss, E., Frumin, S., & Maeir, A.M. Resource provisioning and mobility in early Near Eastern urban households – a view from Early Bronze Age Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. In Lives of Cities of Ancient Western Asia and North Africa, (Battini, L., & Shane, S., eds.). Abingdon: Routledge.

2025

Beller, J.A., Fayek, M., & Maeir, A.M. Luxury items in the Shephelah? Artefact taphonomy and the implications for raw material acquisition at EB Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. In Economies of Scale in Old World Archaeology: Essays and Reflections in Honour of Haskel Greenfield, (Beller, J.A., Greenfield, T.L., & Fowler, K.D., eds.). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports. Pp. 165-178.

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. In Economies of Scale in Old World Archaeology: Essays and Reflections in Honour of Haskel Greenfield, (Beller, J.A., Greenfield, T.L., & Fowler, K.D., eds.). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports. Pp. 23-35.

Beller, J.A., Craig, C., O’Neil, H., Richardson, S.J., & Collard, M. Recent wadi surveys shed additional light on the prehistoric occupation of the central Azraq Basin, Jordan. Documenta Praehistorica LII: 2-24.

Beller, J.A., Greenfield, T.L., & Fowler, K.D. (editors). Economies of Scale in Old World Archaeology: Essays and Reflections in Honour of Haskel Greenfield. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

2024

Beller, J.A., & Greenfield, H.J. The butchered faunal remains and butchering patterns from Tel Yarmuth from the Early Bronze Age to the Byzantine period. In Proceedings of the XIVth Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas Conference, Barcelona, Spain, June 3-7, 2019, (Alcàntara, R., Sequi, M.S., & Dacasa, C.T., eds). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports. Pp. 141-158.

Beller, J.A., Murray, J.K., & Alsouliman, A.S. Lithic procurement and provisioning at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Shishan Marsh 1 in the Azraq Basin, Jordan. Jordan Journal for History and Archaeology 18(3): 149-175. 

2023

Beller, J.A., & Greenfield, H.J. Animal butchering patterns, technology, and style during the Early and Middle Bronze Age: A synthesis from Tall Zirā’a, Jordan. In Through the Ages – Durch die Zeiten. Festschrift für Dieter Vieweger – Essays in Honour of Dieter Vieweger, (Soennecken, H.K., Leiverkus, P., Zimni, J., Schmidt, K., eds.). Gütersloh: Gütersloh Verlagshaus. Pp. 759-796.

Beller, J.A. Raw material characterization and lithic provenance from Shishan Marsh 1, a Middle Pleistocene site in the central Azraq Basin, Jordan. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 47(103800): 1-17.

Beller, J.A. Reconstructing the life-history of basalt ground stone objects from Early Bronze Age III. In Tell es-Safi/Gath III: The Early Bronze Age, Part 1,(Shai, I., Greenfield, H.J., & Maeir, A.M., eds). Ägypten und Altes Testament 122. Münster: Zaphon. Pp. 167-202.

Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., Shai, I., Albaz, S., & Maeir, A.M. Report on the Early Bronze Age III ground stone assemblage from Area E, the 2004-2013 seasons. In Tell es-Safi/Gath III: The Early Bronze Age, Part 1, (Shai, I., Greenfield, H.J., & Maeir, A.M., eds.). Ägypten und Altes Testament 122. Münster: Zaphon. Pp. 203-230.

Greenfield, H.J., & Beller, J.A. Butchering patterns and technology in a Chalcolithic settlement: Analysis of the butchered fauna from Shiqmim, Israel. In “And in Length of Days Understanding” (Job 12:12) – Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy, (Ben Yosef, E., & Jones, I.W.N., eds.). Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Cham: Springer Academic. Pp. 83-112.

2022

Greenfield, H.J., Beller, J.A., Gaastra, J.S., & Vieweger, D. Filling the gap: a microscopic zooarchaeological approach to changes in butchering technology during the Early and Middle Bronze periods at Tall Zirā´a, Jordan. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 1-37. DOI: 00310328.2022.2050094.

Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., & Vieweger, D. Diachronic trends in butchering practices during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages: a view from Tell Zerā´a, Jordan. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 138(2): 178-241.

Greenfield, H.J., Ross, J., Albaz, S., Greenfield, T.L., Beller, J.A., Frumin, S., Weiss, E., & Maeir, A.M. Household archaeology during the Early Bronze III of Tell es-Safi/Gath. In No Place like Home: Households in Levantine Archaeology (Steadman, S., Brody, A., & Battini, L., eds.). Oxford: Archaeopress. Pp. 127-163.

Ames, C.J.H., Cordova, C.E., Boyd, K., Schmidt, C., Degering, D., Kalbe, J., Jones, B.G., Dosseto, A., Pokines, J.T., Alsouliman, A.S., Beller, J.A., & Nowell, A. Middle to Late Quaternary palaeolandscapes of the central Azraq Basin, Jordan: Deciphering discontinuous records of human-environment dynamics at the arid margin of the Levant. Quaternary International 635: 31-52.

Greenfield, H.J., Beller, J.A., & Gaastra, J.S. Changes in butchering technology and efficiency patterns between the Early and Middle Bronze Ages from Tall Zirā´a, Jordan. In Tall Zirā´a: The Gadara Region Project (2001-2011) Final Report. Volume 3: The Late Bronze Age (Strata 16-14),(Vieweger, D., & Häser, J., eds.). German Protestant Institute of Archaeology: Wuppertal. Pp. 728-749.

Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., & Gaastra, J.S. The butchered faunal remains and associated butchering patterns from the Early and Middle Bronze Age of Tall Zirā´a, Jordan. In Tall Zirā´a: The Gadara Region Project (2001-2011) Final Report. Volume 3: The Late Bronze Age (Strata 16-14),(Vieweger, D., & Häser, J., eds.). German Protestant Institute of Archaeology: Wuppertal. Pp. 649-727.

Gaastra, J.S., Beller, J.A., & Greenfield, H.J. A breed apart: Chronological comparison of sheep and goat populations at Tall Zirā´a via 3D geometric morphometrics through the Bronze and Iron Ages. In Tall Zirā´a: The Gadara Region Project (2001-2011) Final Report. Volume 3: The Late Bronze Age (Strata 16-14),(Vieweger, D., & Häser, J., eds.). German Protestant Institute of Archaeology: Wuppertal. Pp. 750-757.

Pokines, J.T., Beller, J.A., al-Souliman, A.S., Samawi, O., Ames, C.J.H., Cordova, C.E., & Nowell, A. Radiometric dating of Wadi Zarqa Ma’in 1, a limestone sinkhole natural faunal trap near the Dead Sea, using data from test pitting and a portable coring system. Near Eastern Archaeology 85(3): 192-199.

2021

Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., & Levy, T.E. The butchered faunal remains from Nahal Tillah, an EB I Egypto-Levantine settlement in the southern Levant. In Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas XIIIth: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 7-10, 2017 (Daujat, J., Hadjikoumis, A., Berthon, R., Chahoud, J., Kassianidou, V., & Wigne, J.-D., eds.). Archaeobiology 3. Atlanta: Lockwood Press. Pp. 61-80.

Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., & Maeir, A.M. Evaluating manufacture marks on ground stone objects as a new proxy for the spread of metal technology in the southern Levant. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 40(103233): 1-11.

Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.G., & Vieweger, D. A better cut: Diachronic trends of butchering patterns and technology through the Early and Middle Bronze Ages at Tall Zirā´a, Jordan. In ‘To Explore the Land of Canaan’: Studies in Biblical Archaeology in Honor of Jeffrey R. Chadwick on the Occasion of His 66^th Birthday (Maeir, A.M., & Pierce, G., eds.). Berlin: de Gruyter. Pp. 67-107.

2020

Beller, J.A., Ames, C.J.H., & Nowell, A. Exploring Mid-Late Pleistocene lithic procurement strategies at Shishan Marsh 1: Preliminary geochemical characterization of chert sources around the Greater Azraq Oasis Area, Jordan. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 29(101091): 1-15.

2019

Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., Fayek, M., Shai, I., & Maeir, A.M. Raw material procurement and variety of the EB III ground stone assemblage at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. In Stone Tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: Ground Stone Tools, Rock-cut Installations and Stone Vessels from the Prehistory to Late Antiquity (Squitieri, A., & Eitam, D., eds.). Archaeopress: Oxford. Pp. 121-150.

2018

Greenfield, H.J., Beller, J.A., & Levy, T.E. Butchering technology during the Early Bronze Age I: An examination of microscopic cut marks on animal bones from Nahal Tillah, Israel. In Tell it in Gath: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Israel. Essays in Honor of Aren M. Maeir on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday (Shai, I., Chadwick, J.R., Hitchcock, L.A., Dagan, A., McKinny, C., & Uziel, J., eds.). Agypten und Altes Testament, Band 90: Zaphon, Munster. Pp. 20-40.

2017

Beller, J.A. Early Bronze Age basalt vessel remains from Tell es-Safi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 80(4): 279-281.

Arnold, E.R., Beller, J.A., Eliyahu-Behar, A., Ben-Shlomo, D., Greenfield, T.L., & Greenfield, H.J. Interregional trade and exchange at Early Bronze Age Tell es-Safi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 80(4): 264-267.

2016

Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., Fayek, M., Shai, I., & Maeir, A.M. Provenance and exchange of basalt grinding stones of EB III Tell es-Safi/Gath. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 9: 226-237.

Beller, J.A., Greenfield, H.J., Shai, I., & Maeir, A.M. The life-history of basalt ground stone artefacts from early urban domestic contexts: a chronicle from the EB III of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Lithic Studies 3(3): 1-25.