Book Reviews

• Emma L. Baysal: Review of Milena Vasić: Personal adornment in the Neolithic Middle East: a case study of Çatalhöyük. Neo-Lithics 21. pages A1-A5.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.84203
• Moritz Kinzel: Review of Alan C. Mellaart and other contributors, E. Baysal (ed.): James Mellaart – The Journey to Çatalhöyük. Neo-Lithics 21. pages A6-A8.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.84218
• Ricarda Braun and Julia Schönicke: Review of Konrad N. Godtfredsen and Moritz Kinzel: The fox: a tale from Neolithic Shkārat Msaied. Neo-Lithics 21. pages A22-25.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.84882

New Theses

• Joaquim Sisa-López de Pablo: Social spaces during the Neolithization process in Southwest Asia: a habitat representation from a microstratigraphic approach. PhD Thesis. Neo-Lithics 21. pages A9-12.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.84220
• Ricarda Braun: The demythologization of landscape: landscape research in the context of prehistoric societies – the example of the Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe. PhD Thesis. Neo-Lithics 21. pages A26-28.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.84911
• Sidar Gündüzalp: Beginning and development of pottery use in Upper Mesopotamia in the light of Sumaki Höyük data. PhD Thesis. Neo-Lithics 21. pages A29-31.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.84912
• Cartolano, M. Animal and human representations in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East. Neo-Lithics 21. pages A37-39.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.87911

Obituary

• Éric Coqueugniot and Olivier Aurenche: In memoriam Paul Sanlaville. Neo-Lithics 21. pages A13-16.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.84229
• Kassianidou V., Astruc L., and Briois F. In Memoriam Carole McCartney
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.87910
   

Conferences

• Güneş Duru and Mihriban Özbaşaran: OnliNEOLITHIC: Lectures on the Neolithic in the New Abnormal. Neo-Lithics 21. pages A17-A19.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.84230
• Tobias Richter and Hojjat Darabi: Revisiting the Hilly Flanks. The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic Periods in the Eastern Fertile Crescent. Neo-Lithics 21. pages A20-21.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.84881

New Publications

• Nishiaki Y. , Guliyev F., and Kadowaki S.(ed): Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe: the archaeological investigations of an early Neolithic settlement in West Azerbaijan
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.87912
• Abar A. and Koehler J. for the Editorial Collective (eds.): Pearls, politics and pistachios: essays in anthropology and memories on the occasion of Susan Pollock’s 65th birthday.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.87913

Contents

• Season’s Progress and Research Questions (H.G.K.G., M.B., C.P.) 3
• Wall Damage Reports and Earthquake Evidence (H.G.K.G., B.Khr., S.K., C.P.) 4
• Building Stone Manufacturing and Building in Ba`ja (H.G.K.G) 7
• Enigma Sounding 1 of Area A. Resumed Excavations (F.H.) 10
• Sounding 1 of Area A. The Chipped Lithics (C.P.) 11
• Test Unit 9a-c in Area G: Capturing the FPPNB/ PPNC Occupation (M.R., S.Sho., F.H.) 12
• Continued Excavations in Area D (C.P.) 14
• The Mural of Room DR26.2. Reappraising Extension and Preservation (H.G.K.G) 16
• Continued Excavations in Room CR28 (B.K.) 17
• Rooms CR5 and CR6: Interfering Ritual and Domestic Evidence (B.K., L.M.) 19
• The Hoard of Locus CR5:45. A Biography of Mixing Ritual and Domestic Contexts (H.G.K.G., M.B.) 20
• Continued Excavation of Collective Burial Remains in Room CR17 (S.D., J.G., C.P.) 22
• The Season’s Intramural Subadult Burials (M.B., J.G., B.K., L.M., C.P.) 24
• Extraction of Jamila`s Grave C1:46 (H.S., M.Bad., J.Gra.) 33
• Season’s Summary and Progressing Research Perspectives (H.G.K.G., M.B., C.P.) 34
• Acknowledgements 38
• Endnotes, References 39
• Masthead 42
• SENEPSE Publication List 43

Editorial, by Marion Benz and Hans Georg K. Gebel. Neo-Lithics 20, pages 2 and A35 (cont’d)

Contributions and Field Reports

• Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen: Highlighting the PPNB in the Southern Levant. Neo-Lithics 20. pages 3-22.
• Estelle Orrelle, Uzi Avner, Liora Kolska Horwitz and Michal Birkenfeld: Snakes of Stone: A Unique Stone Artefact from the LPPNB Site of Naḥal Roded 110. Neo-Lithics 20. pages 23-31.
• Marcin Białowarczuk: Notes About the Causes of Neolithic Settlement of Highland Areas of Northern Oman in the Light of Archaeological Investigation in the Qumayrah Valley. Neo-Lithics 20. pages 32-39.
• Egül Kodaş, Çemka Höyük: A Late Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site on the Upper Tigris, Southeast Anatolia. Neo-Lithics 20. pages 40-46.
• Hojjat Darabi, Saman Mostofapour, Ali Yari, Farhad Mohammadi, Someiyeh Zeinali, Mahtab Shahverdi, and Iraj Fadaeian: Investigating the Late Neolithic in the Lowlands of Southwestern Iran: Sounding at the Site of Remremeh, Mehran Plain 47-52.
• Takahiro Odaka, Osamu Maeda, Kazuya Shimogama, Yuichi S. Hayakawa, Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Nawshirwan A. Mohammed, and Kamal Rasheed: Late Neolithic in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: New Excavations at Shakar Tepe, 2019 53.

News Section

• Çiler Çilingiroğlu: Introducing the new Çatalhöyük Project, pages A1 to A3.

Obituaries

• Avi Gopher: In Memory of Ofer Bar-Yosef. Neo-Lithics 20. Neo-Lithics 20. pages A9-A18.
• Rémy Boucharlat, Eric Coqueugniot and Zeidan Kafafi : An Obituary. Geneviève Dollfus from Iran to Jordan and Paléorient A19.

Book Reviews

• Florian Klimscha: Review of Maxime Brami and Barbara Horejs (Eds.) 2019. The Central/Western Anatolian Farming Frontier. Neo-Lithics 20. pages A4-A8.
• Marion Benz: Review of Jörg Becker, Claudia Beuger and Bernd Müller-Neuhof (eds.), 2019. Human iconography and symbolic meaning in Near Eastern Prehistory. Proceedings of the Neolithic Workshop held at 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016. Oriental and European Archaeology 11. pages A23-A27.
• Eva Rosenstock: Review of Karin Bartl (ed.), 2018. The Late Neolithic site of Shir / Syria I. The excavations at the South Area 2006 - 2009. Damaszener Forschungen 18. pages A28-A31.
• Hojjat Darabi: Review of Roger Matthews et al. (eds.) 2020. The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan A32.

New Publications

• Milena Vasić 2020. Personal Adornment in the Neolithic Middle East: A Case Study of Çatalhöyük A34.

Download complete issue of Neo-Lithics 2020

Contributions and Field Reports 

• Ergül Kodaş, Un Nouveau Site du Néolithique Précéramique dans la Vallée du Haut Tigre: Résultats Préliminaires de Boncuklu Tarla / A New Aceramic Neolithic Site in the Upper Tigris Valley: Preliminary results of Boncuklu Tarla, page 3 to 15.
• Tracy B. Henley and Lani P. Lyman-Henley, The Snakes of Göbekli Tepe: An Ethological Consideration, pages 16-19.
• Hans Georg K. Gebel, Marion Benz, Christoph Purschwitz, Hala Alarashi, Joachim Bauer, Julia Gresky, Blair Heidkamp B., Bellal Abuhelaleh, Lucia Miškolciová, Arnica Keßeler, Barbora Kubíková, Denis Štefanisko, Martin Strauss and Kai Wellbrock, Household and Death, 2: Preliminary Results of the 12th Season (2018) at Late PPNB Ba`ja, Southern Jordan, pages 20-45.

News Section

• Hans Georg K. Gebel, Conference Reports. Struggles to Make Sense: Two Recent Gatherings on Arabia’s Neolithic, and the Question of Outdated Concepts of the Near and Middle Eastern Neolithic. Kuwait City, Dec. 2018, and Leiden, July 2019, pages A1-4.
• Hans Georg K. Gebel, Workshop Report. The Pathways of the Neolithic in Southern Levant. A Marie Curie Actions Workshop Organised by Jonathan Santana. Durham University, 30th October 2019, pages A5-6.
• Hans Georg K. Gebel, Conference Report. 9th International Conference on the PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East (PPN9). University of Tokyo, 12th -16th of November, 2019, pages A7-12.
• Fanny Bocquentin, Katarína Kapustka, Julien Vieugué, and Eric Huysecom, Conference Report on Session 85 ‟Tracking the Neolithization Processes on Both Sides of the Sinai: a Bridge Between the Near East and North-Eastern Africaˮ 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. University of Bern, 6th, September 2019, pages A18-20.

New Thesis

• Sari Jammo, Beyond Death: The Tale of a Neolithic Society and the Study of an Outdoor Communal Cemetery at Tell el-Kerkh, Northwest Syria. Abstract. PhD thesis (2018), University of Tsukuba, pages A13-14.

New Publication

• Nicolas Samuelian, Les abris du Natoufi en final de Eynan-Mallaha, Israël. Organisation spatiale et interprétation fonctionnelle. Mémoires et travaux du Centre de recherche français à Jerusalem 11. Paris: Boccard. 2019. page A 21.

Book Review

• Sevil F. Gülçür, Review of Mihriban Özbaşaran, Güneş Duru, and Mary C. Stiner, 2018. The Early Settlement at Aşıklı Höyük. Essays in Honor of Ufuk Esin. pages A15-17.

Field Reports

• Mette Bangsborg Thuesen and Moritz Kinzel, Stone Beads from Shkārat Msaied, page 3 to 7.

• Meisam Nikzad, Hassan Moradi and Habib Emadi, Qal’at Surmagh: A Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site from Neyriz Plain, Eastern Fars, Iran, page 12 to 16.

• Morteza Khanipour, Habib Emadi, and Afshin Akbari, Hormangan Site. New Evidence for Neolithic Occupations in the Southern Zagros, Iran, page 17 to 23.

• Karin Bartl, Mushash 163: A Site of the 9th Millennium BCE in the Jordanian Badia. Results From the Investigations in 2016 and 2017, page 24 to 33.

Contributions

• Oliver Dietrich, Laura Dietrich, Jens Notroff, A Clay Mask Depiction from Göbekli Tepe, page 8 to 11.

• Hojjat Darabi, Saman Mostafapour, Hafez Ghaderi, and Saeid Bahramiyan, An Early Neolithic Flint-Knapping Spot from Ali Kosh, Southwestern Iran, page 34 to 37.

Obituary

• Mehmet Özdoğan, Harald Hauptmann. April 19th, 1936 – August 2nd, 2018. Eminent Scholar and Good Friend. Reminiscences of a Life Devoted to Archaeology, page 38 to 41.

New Publications

Download complete issue Neo-Lithics 2018

Editorial

Field Reports

• Sumio Fujii, Subsequent Excavations at the Neolithic Rockshelter Settlement of Jabal Juhayra (al-Jafr Basin, Jordan)
• Hojjat Darabi, Saeid Bahramiyan, Saman Mostafapour, Mahyar Khademi Bami, and Ali Yari, Re-excavation at Tapeh Ali Kosh, Deh Luran Plain, Iran
• Gary O. Rollefson, Alexander Wasse, Yorke Rowan, Morag Kersel, Matthew Jones, Brita Lorentzen, Austin C. Hill, and Jennifer Ramsay, The 2016 Excavation Season at the Late Neolithic Structure SS-1 on Mesa 7, Black Desert

Short Note

• Dörte Rokitta-Krumnow, Two Cortical Daggers from Mushash 163

Contributions

• Alan Simmons, Corporate Identity in the Cypriot Neolithic – Transitions to a Unique Island Persona?

Thesis

• Corinna Rössner and Kathleen Deckers, Environmental and Subsistance Changes from the Younger Dryas to the Early Holocene: Archaeobotanical Evidences from Körtik Tepe, Southeastern Anatolia

Contributions

• Imad Alhussain, L‘évolution des débitages laminaires de l’Épipaléolithique au Néolithique
• Diaa Eddin Ablukaai, Les foyers du Wadi Tumbaq 3, des aménagements domestiques du début du Néolithique en Syrie Centrale
• Hala Alarashi, PPNA Stone Grooved Pendants from the Middle Euphrates Valley: Markers of Cultural Identity?
• Thaer Yartah, Typologie de bâtiments communautaires à Tell ‘Abr 3 (PPNA) en Syrie du Nord
• Youssef Kanjou, Mortuary practices at Tell Qaramel (North Syria) from the Early Bronze Age and the Neolithic Period
• Rania Ayobi, Les représentations animales en terre à Tell Halula, un site Néolithique sur le Moyen Euphrate
• Rima Khawam, Oussama Baker, Olivier Dutour, et Danielle Stordeur, Cause du décès et traitements funéraires différenciés à Tell Aswad au PPNB moyen/récent. Inhumation d’un individu atteint de tuberculose

Special Issue on The Symbolic Construction of Community
 (guest editors: Marion Benz and Joachim Bauer)  

Editorial

• Preface, by Marion Benz and Joachim Bauer

Keynotes

• Trevor Watkins: Neolithisation Needs Evolution, as Evolution needs Neolithisation
• Marion Benz and Joachim Bauer: Symbols of Power - Symbols of Crisis? A Psycho-Social Approach to Early Neolithic Symbol System

Comments

• Robin I.M. Dunbar: What Makes the Neolithic so Special?
• Colin Renfrew: Centres of Congregation
• Bo Dahl Hermansen: On Cultural Niche Construction and Materiality
• Hans Georg K. Gebel: The Territoriality of Early Neolithic Symbols and Ideocracy
• Christa Sütterlin and Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt: Human Cultural Defense: Means and Monuments of Ensuring Collective Territory
• Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern) and Andrew Strathern: Symbols, Language, Ritual, and Scale
• Ulrike Bohnet: Crisis Needs Shamans, as Shamans Need Crisis? Shamans as Psycho-Social Professionals in Early Neolithic Symbol Systems
• Klaus Theweleit: An Entirely New Interaction with the Animal World?

Reply / Epilogue

• Trevor Watkins: Extending the Scope of the Neolithic Conversation
• Joachim Bauer and Marion Benz: Neurobiology Meets Archaeology: The Social Challenges of the Neolithic Processes

New Publications

Masthead 

Editorial

Introduction

• Lee Clare and Hans Georg K. Gebel Introduction: Conflict and Warfare in the Near Eastern Neolithic

Keynote

• Ofer Bar-Yosef Warfare in Levantine Early Neolithic. A Hypothesis to be Considered

Comments and Contributions

• Reinhard Bernbeck Prehistoric Wars, A Scholastic Fallacy
• Lee Clare Pastoral Clashes: Conflict Risk and Mitigation at the Pottery Neolithic Transition in the Southern Levant
• Hans Georg K. Gebel Conflict and Conflict Mitigation in Early Near Eastern Sedentism
• Leore Grosman Prehistoric Warfare – Cause and Visibility
• Jean Guilaine Neolithic Warfare: Comments
• Steven A. LeBlanc Early Neolithic Warfare in the Near East and its Broader Implications
• Bernd Müller-Neuhof Comment to Ofer Bar Yosef‘s Keynote: Warfare in Levantine Early Neolithic. A Hypothesis to be Considered
• Mehmet Özdoğan The Neolithic Medium: Warfare Due to Social Stress or State of Security Through Social Welfare
• Keith F. Otterbein Early Warfare in the Near East
• Mirjana Roksandic Commentary on “Warfare in Levantine Early Neolithic. A Hypothesis to be Considered”
• Gary O. Rollefson Violence in Eden: Comments on Bar-Yosef’s Neolithic Warfare Hypothesis
• Paul Roscoe War, Community, and Environment in the Levantine Neolithic
• David A. Warburton Warfare in the Neolithic? Methodological Considerations Reply
• Ofer Bar-Yosef Warfare in Levantine Early Neolithic. Response Ofer Bar-Yosef

Other Contributions

• Çiğdem Köksal-Schmidt and Klaus Schmidt The Göbekli Tepe “Totem Pole“. A First Discussion of an Autumn 2010 Discovery (PPN, Southeastern Turkey)
• Makoto Arimura, Ruben Badalyan, Boris Gasparyan, and Christine Chataigner Current Neolithic Research in Armenia
• Michael P. Neeley TBAS 102: A Late Natufian Site in West-Central Jordan
• Karin Bartl Shir, West Syria

Theses

New Publications

Masthead

Editorial

Field Reports

• Vecihi Özkaya: Excavations at Körtik Tepe. A New Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Site in Southeastern Anatolia
• Maysoon al-Nahar, Deborah I. Olszewski, Jason B. Cooper: The 2009 Excavations at the Early Epipaleolithic Site of KPS-75, Kerak Plateau
• Ariel Malinsky-Buller, Emil Aldjem, Reuven Yeshurun: Bir el-Maksur. A New Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Site in Lower Galilee
• Makoto Arimura, Christine Chataigner, Boris Gasparyan: Kmlo2. An Early Holocene Site in Armenia

Contributions

• Sumio Fujii: Flint Bowlets. A Comprehensive Review from Wadi Abu Tulayha
• Yitzhak Paz, Sarit Paz, Ron Shimelmitz: An Incised Stone Object from the PPNA of Tel Bareqet
• Danny Rosenberg, Nurit Etzion, Daniel Kaufman, Avraham Ronen: Daliyat el-Carmel 3. A Flint Bifacial Tools Workshop on Mount Carmel. Preliminary Account

Conferences

• Bernd Müller-Neuhof: Jordan's Prehistory: Past and Future Research. A Brief Report on a Symposium held in Amman
• Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Anna Russel, Reinhard Bernbeck, Peter Akkermans: Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia, Leiden, 24-28 March 2009

New Thesis

New Websites

Mathead

Editorial

Special Issue on Rubble Slides and Rapid Climate Change

• Bernhard Weniger: Introduction Bernhard Weniger: Yarmoukian Rubble Slides. Evidence for Early Holocene Rapid Climate Change in Southern Jordan
• Gary O. Rollefson: Slippery Slope. The Late Neolithic Rubble Layer in the Southern Levant
• Omry Barzilai: Natural or Anthropogenic Agents? Some Examples for the Variety of Stone Surface in Late Prehistoric Sites in Cisjordan
• Zeidan Kafafi, Bernhard Lucke and Rupert Bäumler: Environment and Architectural Change at the Neolithic Site of 'Ain Ghazal
• Hans Georg K. Gebel: The Intricacy of Neolithic Rubble Layers. The Ba'ja, Basta, and 'Ain Rahub Evidence
• Gary O- Rollefson: Commentary

Masthead

Field Reports

• J. Peterson: Khirbet Hammam 2006: Preliminary Report of Continued Test Excavations: 3-6.
• S. Fujii: Wadi Abu Tulayha and Wadi Ruweishid ash-Sharqi: An Investigation of PPNB Barrage Systems in the Jafr Basin: 6-17.
• F. Bocquentin, H. Khalaily, N. Samuelian, O. Barzilai, G. Le Dosseur, L.K. Horwitz and A. Emery-Barbier: Renewed Excavation of the PPNB Site of Beisamoun, Hula Basin: 17-21.
• C. Purschwitz and M. Kinzel: Ba‘ja 2007. Two Room and Ground Floor Fills: Reconstructed House-life Scenarios: 22-35.

Contributions

• G. Coşkunsu: Obsidian Assemblage of Mezraa Teleilat: Evidence of Cultural and Chronological Continuation from Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Pottery Neolithic: 36-43.
• B. Lucke and R. Bäumler: Soils and Paleosols at Ba‘ja: 43-50.
• T. Kinnaird, D.C. Sanderson, C. Burbidge, and E. Peltenburg: OSL Dating of Neolithic Kissonerga-Mylouthkia, Cyprus: 51-57.

Short Note

• K. Bartl, Neolithic Foot-shaped Objects Found in Shir, Middle Orontes Region: 57-59.

Workshops, Conferences, Call for Papers

• BANEA08 Conference, Liverpool, February-March 2008
• 6th PPN Conference: STEPS, Manchester, March 2008
• Basta Final Symposium, Berlin, April 2008
• Water Domestication Forum, Special Issue of Neo-Lithics: Call for Papers

Ongoing PhD Research

• J. Major

Obituary

• Nabil Qadi

Field Reports

• M. Haïdar-Boustani, J.J. Ibáñez, M. Al-Maqdissi, A. Armendáriz, J.G. Urquijo, L. Teira: New Data on the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic of the Homs Gap: Three Campaigns of Archaeological survey (2004-2006): 3-9.
• SAPPO: Sixteen Years of Archaeological Investigations in the Euphrates Valley and the Djezireh: Tell Halula, Tell Amarna, and Chagar Bazar: 9-13.
• S. Hansen, G. Mirtskhulava, K. Bastert-Lamprichs: Aruchlo: A Neolithic Settlement Mound in the Caucasus: 13-19.
• S. Fujii: Wadi Badda: A PPNB Settlement below the Fjaje Escarpment near Shawbak: 19-23.
• H.G.K. Gebel, M. Kinzel: Ba'ja 2007: Crawl Spaces, Rich Room Dumps, and High Energy Events. Results of the 7th Season of Excavation: 24-33.

Contributions

• F. Borrell: From PPNB to PN: Chipped Stone Industries of the Middle Euphrates Valley. New Data, New Interpretations: 33-37.
• B. Müller-Neuhof: Anthropomorphic Statuettes from Tell Fakhariyah: Arguments for Their Possible PPNB Origin: 37-43.

Museum Report

Workshops

New Publications and Ongoing PhD Research

• D. Stordeur, F. Abbès: From the First Villages to the First Cities: A Permanent Exhibition at the National Museum of Damascus: 43-47.
  • Landscapes in Transition, Jordan, March 2007
  • Invitations for STEPS (PPN6), Manchester, March 2008, First Circular

New Websites

Obituary

• In Memoriam Sytze Bottema: 3.

Field Reports

• S. Fujii: A PPNB Agro-pastoral Outpost at Wadi Abu Tulayha, al-Jafr Basin: 4-14.
• K. Bartl, M. Hijazi, A. Haidar: The Late Neolithic Site of Shir: Preliminary Report of the German-Syrian Cooperation Project 2006: 15-18.
• C. Makarewicz, A.E. Austin: Late PPNB Occupation at el-Hemmeh: Results from the Third Excavation Season 2006: 19-23.
• A. Ronen, G. Bar-Oz, D. Nadel: Burgata-Eli: A Multi-phase Neolithic Site in the Eastern Sharon Plain: 23-26.
• N. Goring-Morris, M. Birkenfeld, O. Barzilai: Nahal Lavan 1006: An Ephemeral PPNB Camp Site in the Western Negev: 26-32.

Contribution

• B. Müller-Neuhof: An EPPNB Human Sculpture from Tell Sheikh Hassan: 32-38.

Short Note

• K. Schmidt: Animals and a Headless Man at Göbekli Tepe: 38-40.

Workshops

New Theses and Ongoing PhD and MA Research

Forum Neo-Lithics: Mailing List

• 6th PPN Chipped Lithics Conference, Irbid, March 2007
• Landscapes in Transition, March 2007
• TAG Workshop on Consumption, Dec. 2006, Exeter
  • A. Abdulrahman, T. Richter, N. Samuelian, I. Groman-Yaroslavski, D. Rosenberg, C. Makarewicz, O. Nieuwenhuyse, A. Kaneda, A. Russell
  • Call for Submissions

Field Reports

• B.D. Hermansen, I. Thuesen, C. Hoffmann Jensen, M. Kinzel, M.B. Petersen, M.L. Jørkov, N. Lynnerup: Shkârat Msaied: The 2005 Season of Excavation: 3-7.
• M. Al-Nahar: The Neolithic Site of Tell Abu as-Sawwan, Jordan: Preliminary Report: 7-12.
• H.G.K. Gebel, B.D. Hermansen, M. Kinzel: Ba‘ja 2005: ATwo-Storied Building and Collective Burials. Results of the 6th Season of Excavation: 12-19.
• D. Rosenberg, A. Nativ: A Pottery Neolithic Clay Surface from Lod, Israel: Characteristics and Possible Meanings: 20-23.
• B. Çelik: Sefer Tepe: A New Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site in Southeastern Turkey: 23-25.
• K. Bartl: Shir: A Neolithic Site in the Middle Orontes Region, Syria: 25-27.

Contributions

• O. Barzilai, Y. Garfinkel: Bidirectional Blade Technology after the PPNB: New Evidence from Sha’ar Hagolan, Israel: 27-31.
• M. Verhoeven: Equifinality, Clay and Tradition: Towards an Understanding of Tell Formation: 32-37.

Workshop Report

Comments on Recent Publications

New Publications and Theses

New Website

• Marc Verhoeven: The Near East in the Far East – Tokyo Symposium: 37-40.
  • A. Ronen on Peltenburg & Wasse (eds.), Neolithic Revolution: New Perspectives on Southwest Asia in Light of Recent Discoveries in Cyprus: 40-42.
  • N. Ali, B. Müller-Neuhof, D. Rokitta

Editorial

Obituary

• G.A. Clark: Robert John Braidwood (1907-2003) & Linda Schreiber Braidwood (1909.2003)

Field Reports

• D. Stordeur: Tell Aswad. Resultats préliminaire des campagnes 2001 et 2002
• D. Cropper, C. Foley, and Urve Linnamae: Resultats from the Preliminary Investigations at Umm Meshrat I and II

Contributions

• A.H. Simmons and K. O'Horo: A Preliminary Note on the Chipped Stone Assemblage from Kritou Marottou Ais Yiorkis, an Aceramic Neolithic Site in Western Cyprus
• K. Pustovoytov: Weathering Rinds at Exposed Surfaces of Limestone Rocks at Göbekli Tepe

Lab Reports

• G. O. Rollefson: A Brief Note on the Tabulation of Debitage

Institutions

• L.A. Quintero, P.J. Wilke, and G.O. Rollefson: Lithic Studies at the Lithic Technology Laboratory, Departement of Anthropology, UC-Riverside

Projects

• Michael Gregg: Biomolecular Research Into The Origins of Dairy Foods in Southwest Asia (PhD Dissertation Project)
• Hans Georg K. Gebel and Gary Rollefson, bibliotheca neolithica Asia meridionalis et occidentalis

New Publications and Thesis

Calendar

• 5th Workshop on PPN Chipped Stone Industries, Fréjus (French Riviera), March 1st-5th 2004

Masthead

Editorial Note

Obituary

• Eric Coqueugniot: Jacques Cauvin (1930-2001) et le Néolithique du Levant Nord

Articles

• Ran Barkai: Towards a methodology of Neolithic and Chalcolithic bifacial tool analysis
• Phillip C. Edwards and Ghattas Sayej: Was the Hagdud Truncation a hafted Micro-Adze?

Field Reports

• Phillip C. Edwards, John Meadows, Mary C. Metzger and Ghattas Sayej: results from the first season at Zahrat adh-Dhra, 2: a new Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site in the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan
• Lea Rehhoff Kaliszan, Bo Dahl Hermansen, Charlott Hoffmann Jensen, Tim B.B. Skuldbøl, Mikkel Bille, Pernille Bangsgaard, Anna Ihr, Mette Low Sørensen, and Bente Markussen: Shaqarat Mazyad - the village on the edge
• Alan Simmons and Mohammad Najjar: Preliminary report of the Tell Wadi Feinan Neolithic Testing Project
• Gary O. Rollefson and Matthew C. Parker: Craft specialization at al-Basît, Wadi Musa, Southern Jordan
• Klaus Schmidt: Göbekli Tepe - Southeastern Turkey. The seventh campagne 2001.

New Web Sites

• Editorial
• G.O. Rollefson, H.G. Gebel, and S.K. Kozlowski: On Cooperation in Southwest Asian Neolithic Lithics Research
• H.G. Gebel and G.O. Rollefson: Protocols of the First Workshop on PPN Chipped Lithics Industries, Berlin, 29 March - 2 April 1993
• G.O. Rollefson: Continued Threat to ‘Ain Ghazal: Open Letter to Near Eastern Prehistorians
• Notes and News