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Bibliography

This list contains all the publications known to us that present significant information about Abu Hureyra and the analysis of its remains.

Anderson-Gerfaud, P. 1983. A consideration of the uses of certain backed and "lustred" stone tools from late Mesolithic and Natufian levels of Abu Hureyra and Mureybet (Syria). In Traces d'Utilisation sur les Outils Néolithiques du Proche Orient, ed. M.-C. Cauvin. Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient 5. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient. Pp. 77-105.

Boyd, B. 2016. Abu Hureyra 1 in Northwest Syria: "Periphery" no more. In Fresh Fields and Pastures New, edited by K.T. Lillios and M. Chazan. Sidestone Press, Leiden. 21-39.

Bunch, T.E., R.E. Hermes, A.M.T. Moore, D.K. Kennett, J.C. Weaver, J.H. Wittke, P.S. DeCarli, J.L. Bischoff, G.C. Hillman, G.A. Howard, D.R. Kimbel, G. Kletetschka, C.P. Lipo, S. Sakai, Z. Revay, A. West, R.B. Firestone and J.P. Kennett 2012. Very high-temperature impact melt products: evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 18 June, E1903-E1912.

DeCarli, R.E., Hermes, J.B. Kloosterman, Z. Revay, G.A. Howard, D.R. Kimbel, G. Kletetschka, L. Nabelek, C.P. Lipo, S. Sakai, A. West, and R.B. Firestone 2013. Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 y ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 4 June, E2088-E2097.

Fellman, B. 1994. Finding the first farmers. Yale Alumni Magazine 58, 1, 40-47.

Ferrara, J. 1988. Les civilisations d'avant la civilisation. Science et Vie 852, 34-36, 167.

Green, J.  2009.  Inside the mind of a Neolithic hunter.  The Ashmolean 56, 3-4.

Hillman, G.C. 1975. The plant remains from Tell Abu Hureyra: a preliminary report. In The excavation of Tell Abu Hureyra in Syria: a preliminary report, by A.M.T. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society41, 70-73.

Hillman, G.C. 1978. On the origins of domestic rye - Secale cereale. Anatolian Studies 28. 157-17.

Hillman, G.C. 1996. Late Pleistocene changes in wild plant-foods available to hunter-gatherers of the northern Fertile Crescent: possible preludes to cereal cultivation. In The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia, ed. D.R. Harris. London: UCL Press. Pp. 159-203.

Hillman G.C., Colledge S.M., and Harris D.R. 1989. Plant-food economy during the Epipalaeolithic period at Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria: dietary diversity, seasonality, and modes of exploitation. In Foraging and Farming, ed. D.R. Harris and G.C. Hillman. London: Unwin Hyman. Pp. 240-268.

Hillman G., Hedges, R., Moore, A., Colledge, S., and Pettitt, P. 2001. New evidence of Lateglacial cereal cultivation at Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates. The Holocene 11, 4, 383-393.

Hillman, G.C., Rowley-Conwy, P., and Legge, A.J. 1997. On the charred seeds from Epipalaeolithic Abu Hureyra: food or fuel ? Current Anthropology 38, 651-655.

Hillman, G.C., Wales, S., McLaren, F., Evans, J., and. Butler, A. 1993. Identifying problematic remains of ancient plant foods: a comparison of the role of chemical, histological and morphological criteria. World Archaeology 25, 1, 94-121.

Hillman, G.C. 2003.  Investigating the start of cultivation in Western Eurasia: studies of plant remains from Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates.  In The Widening Harvest.  The Neolithic Transition in Europe: Looking Back, Looking Forward, ed. A.J. Ammerman and P. Biagi.  Boston: Archaeological Institute of America.  Pp. 75-97. 

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Kennett, J.P., Kennett, D.J., Culleton, B.J., Aura Tortosa, J.E., Bischoff, J.L., Bunch, T.E., Daniel, I.R., Jr., Erlandson, J.M., Ferraro, D., Firestone, R.B., Goodyear, A.C., III, Israde-Alcantara, I., Johnson, J.R., Jordá Pardo, J.F., Kimbel, D.R., Kloosterman, J.B., LeCompte, M.A., Lopinot, N.H., Mahaney, W.C., Moore, A.M.T., Moore, C.R., Ray, J.H., Stafford, T.W., Jr., Tankersley, K.B., Wittke, J.H., Wolbach, W.S., West, A. 2015. Bayesian chronological analyses consistent with synchronous age of 12,835-12,735 Cal BP for Younger Dryas boundary on four continents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.1507146112.

Kinzie, C.R., S.S. Que Hee, A. Stich, K.A. Tague, C. Mercer, J.J. Razink, D.J. Kennett, P.S. DeCarli, T.E. Bunch, J.H. Wittke, I. Israde-Alcántara, J.L. Bischoff, A.C. Goodyear, K.B. Tankersley, D.R. Kimbel, B.J. Culleton, J.M. Erlandson, T.W. Stafford, J.B. Kloosterman, A.M.T. Moore, R.B. Firestone, J.E. Aura Tortosa, J.E. Jordá Pardo, A. West, J.P. Kennett, W.S. Wolbach 2014. Nanodiamond-rich layer across three continents consistent with major cosmic impact at 12,800 cal BP. The Journal of Geology 155 (5), 475-506.

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Legge, A.J., and Rowley-Conwy, P.A. 1986. New radiocarbon dates for early sheep at Tell Abu Hureyra. In Archaeological Results from Accelerator Dating, ed. J.A.J. Gowlett and R.E.M. Hedges. Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology. Pp. 23-35.

Legge, A.J., and Rowley-Conwy, P.A. 1987. Gazelle killing in Stone Age Syria. Scientific American 255, 8, 88-95.

Legge, A.J., and Rowley-Conwy, P.A. 1991. Art made strong with bones; a review of some approaches to osteoarchaeology. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 1, 1, 3-16.

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Molleson, T. 1994. The eloquent bones of Abu Hureyra. Scientific American 271, 2, 70-75.

Molleson, T. 2014. Craftsmen for food production: the human bone evidence for methods of food processing at Abu Hureyra. In Paleonutrition and Food Practices in the Ancient Near East, edited by L. Milano. S.A.R.G.O.N. Editrice e Libreria, Padua. 11-24.

Molleson, T. 2016. The ordinary Neolithic people of Abu Hureyra. In Fresh Fields and Pastures New, edited by K.T. Lillios and M. Chazan. Sidestone Press, Leiden. 187-205.

Molleson, T. and Arnold-Foster T. 2015. A question of identity: is the earliest Neolithic burial from Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria, a foundation burial? Paléorient 41.1, 117-125.

Molleson, T., Comerford, G, and Moore, A. 1992. A Neolithic painted skull from Tell Abu Hureyra, northern Syria. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2, 2, 230-235.

Molleson, T., and Jones, K. 1991. Dental evidence for dietary change at Abu Hureyra. Journal of Archaeological Science 18, 525-539.

Molleson, T., Jones, K., and Jones, S. 1993. Dietary change and the effects of food preparation on microwear patterns in the Late Neolithic of abu Hureyra, northern Syria. Journal of Human Evolution 24, 455-468.

Moore, A.M.T. 1973. The excavations at Tell Abu Hureyra in 1972. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Report for 1972/1973, 21-23.

Moore, A.M.T. 1974. Tell Abou Houreira. Antiquités de l'Euphrate. Direction Générale des Antiquités et des Musées de la République Arabe Syrienne. 51-54.

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Moore, A.M.T. 1975. The excavation at Tell Abu Hureyra. Les Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes 25, 115-127.

Moore, A.M.T. 1976. The Mesolithic and Neolithic settlements at Tell Abu Hureyra in Syria. Proceedings of the IXth Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Nice, France, 364.

Moore, A.M.T. 1978. The Neolithic of the Levant. Doctoral thesis, University of Oxford. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International 78-70075.

Moore, A.M.T. 1979. A pre-Neolithic farmer's village on the Euphrates. Scientific American 241, 2, 50-58.

Moore, A.M.T. 1981. North Syria in Neolithic 2. In Préhistoire du Levant, ed. J. Cauvin and P. Sanlaville. Actes du Colloque International 598. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Pp. 445-456.

Moore, A.M.T. 1982. A four-stage sequence for the Levantine Neolithic, ca. 8500-3750 B.C. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 246, 1-34.

Moore, A.M.T. 1982. Agricultural origins in the Near East: a model for the 1980s. World Archaeology 14, 2, 224-236.

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Moore, A.M.T. 1991. The impact of accelerator dating at the early agricultural site of Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates. Radiocarbon 33, 2, 225.

Moore, A.M.T. 1991. Abu Hureyra 1 and the antecedents of agriculture on the Middle Euphrates. In The Natufian Culture in the Levant, ed. O. Bar-Yosef and F. R. Valla. Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory. Pp. 277-294.

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Moore, A.M.T. 1996. Comment on a radiocarbon date from Abu Hureyra, Syria. In Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry datelist 21, by R.E.M. Hedges, R.A. Housley, P.B. Pettit, C. Bronk Ramsey and G.J. van Klinken. Archaeometry 38, 1, 181-207. 197.

Moore, A.M.T. 1997. A 25-year quest to absorb the results of a hasty excavation. Chronicle of Higher Education, December 12.

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Moore, A.M.T., 1998. The interaction between people and environment at the early village of Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates. In Espace naturel, espace habité en Syrie du nord (10e-2e millénaires av. J.-C.), edited by M. Fortin and O. Aurenche. Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies, Bulletin 33/Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient 28. 131-138.

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Moore, A.M.T. 2004.  Abu Hureyra and the development of farming in western Asia: directions for future research.  In Neolithic Revolution.  New Perspectives on Southwest Asia in Light of Recent Discoveries on Cyprus, ed. E. Peltenburg and A. Wasse.  Oxford: Oxbow Books.  Pp. 61-69. 

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