Publications

Published Research

In press Reassessing the Levantine Tradition of EBIII Bone Tubes: The View from Tell el-Hesi. Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research.

2025 Back to the Future: Graduate Student Panel Discussion. In UMMAA at 100: Michigan’s Mark Past, Present, and Future. The University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Press.

2024 Decorated Bone Tube Manufacture in Early Bronze Age Israel-Palestine: Experimental Analysis of Bone Preparation and Incising. Palestine Exploration Quarterly: 1-28.

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2023 Resource Allocation and Rising Complexity during the Iron Age IIA: An Isotopic Case Study from Khirbet Summeily. Quaternary International 646: 68-80.

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2023 Meat on the Hoof: A Zooarchaeological and Isotopic Investigation of Herd Management at Khirbet Summeily in the Iron Age. In New Discoveries from the Greater Hesi Region, edited by John Spencer and Jeffrey Blakely. Penn State University Press.

2023 Adaptability of Millets and Landscapes: Ancient Cultivation in North-Central Asia. Agronomy 13(11): 2848.

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2022 Rethinking “Cultic” Herd Management: A Multi-Isotopic Perspective on the Proposed Iron Age IIA Cultic Space at Khirbet Summeily. In Pursuit of Visibility: Essays in Archaeology, Ethnography, and Text in Honor of Beth Alpert Nakhai, edited by Jennie Ebeling and Laura Mazow. University of Arizona Press.

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2020 Cultural Modification Analyses on Faunal Remains in Relation to Space Use from Field VI EB IIIA Tell el-Hesi. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 152(04): 365-389.

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2020 Identification of an EB IIIA Incised Bone Tube Workshop at Tell el-Hesi. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 152(04): 332-364.

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In Progress

Life along the Silk Roads: Provisioning and livestock management at the urban site of Dzhankent, Kazakhstan. To be submitted to Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

Isotopic Evidence of Food Security in Middle Bronze Age Maros Communities. To be submitted to International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.

From Detection to Ground-Truthing: Uncovering Domestic Structures at Tell el-Hesi through Survey and Excavation. To be submitted to Journal of Field Archaeology.

Persistence in Pastoralist Strategies During the Uruk Period at Tepe Farukhabad. To be submitted to Quaternary International.

Friend, Not Food? The Degradation of Domestic-Focused Diet in the Face of Collapse at an Urban Settlement in the Northern Negev Desert. To be submitted to Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.