Publikationen
Alarashi H. 2015
The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic personal adornments from Syria (12th-7th Millennium BC): Techniques and uses, exchanges and identities. PhD thesis, University Lumière-Lyon 2. Abstract. Neo-Lithics 2/15:34-35. [pdf]
Alt K.W.*, Benz M.*, Müller W., Berner M.E., Schultz M., Schmidt-Schultz T.H., Knipper C., Gebel H.G.K., Nissen H.J. and Vach W. 2013
Earliest evidence for social endogamy in the 9,000-year-old-population of Basta, Jordan. PLoS ONE 8(6): e65649. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065649. (*authors contributed equally to this work).
Bauer J. 2008
Das kooperative Gen – Abschied vom Darwinismus. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe.
Bauer J. 2011
Schmerzgrenze – Vom Ursprung alltäglicher und globaler Gewalt. München: Blessing
Bauer J. and Benz M. 2013
Epilogue. Neurobiology meets archaeology: The social challenges of the Neolithic processes. Neo-Lithics 13/2: 65-69. [pdf]
Benz M. 2010
Beyond death - the construction of social identities at the transition from foraging to farming. In: M. Benz (ed.), The principle of sharing. Segregation and construction of social identities at the transition from foraging to farming. SENEPSE 14. 249-276. ex oriente: Berlin. [pdf]
Benz M. 2012
Little poor babies – creation of history through death at the transition from foraging to farming. In: T.Kienlin/A. Zimmermann (eds.), Beyond elites. Alternatives to hierarchical systems in modelling social formations. 169-182. Bonn: Habelt. [pdf]
Benz M. 2017
Changing medialities. Symbols of Neolithic corporate identities. In: M. Benz, T. Watkins and H.G.K. Gebel (eds.), Neolithic corporate identities. SENEPSE 20. 135-156. Berlin: ex oriente. [pdf]
Benz M. 2020
L'enfant au collier de Ba`ja. Pour La Science 514: 38-44. [pdf]
Benz M. 2021
Leben mit den Toten. Ausgrabungen in Jordanien zeugen von engen Verbindungen steinzeitlicher Dorfbewohner zu den Toten. Antike Welt 2: 39-48. [pdf]
Benz M., Alarashi H., Gresky J., Purschwitz C. and Gebel H.G.K. in press
Moments of memory and belonging. A special child burial from Neolithic Ba`ja, Southern Jordan. In: M. LeRoy and E. Murphy (eds.), Normative, atypical or deviant? Interpreting prehistoric and protohistoric child burial practices. Oxford: Archaeopress.
Benz M. and Bauer. J. 2013
Symbols of power - symbols of crisis? A psycho-social approach to early Neolithic symbol systems. Neo-Lithics 13/2: 11-24. [pdf]
Benz M., Gresky J., Alarashi H. 2020
Similar but different – Displaying social roles of children in burials. In: H. Alarashi and R.M. Dessì (eds.), L’art du paraître : apparences de l’humain, de la Préhistoire à nos jours. 40° Rencontres internationales d’archéologie et d’histoire de Nice: 93-107. Nizza: APDCA.
Benz M., Gresky J., Stefanisko D., Alarashi H., Knipper C., Purschwitz C., Bauer J. and Gebel H.G.K. 2019
Burying power: New insights into incipient leadership in the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic from an outstanding burial at Ba‘ja, southern Jordan. PLoS ONE 14(8): e0221171. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221171
Bienert H.-D. and Gebel H.G.K. 2004
Summary on Ba'ja 1997, and insights from the later seasons. In: H.-D. Bienert, H.G.K. Gebel and R. Neef (eds.), Central settlements in Neolithic Jordan. SENEPSE 5. 119-144. Berlin: ex oriente. [pdf]
Feldman M., Fernández-Domínguez E., Reynolds L., Baird D., Pearson J., Hershkovitz I., et al. 2019
Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia. Nature Communications 10(1218). [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09209-7]
Gebel H.G.K. 1988
Late Epipalaeolithic-Aceramic Neolithic sites in the Petra-Area. In: A.N. Garrard and H.G. Gebel (eds.), The prehistory of Jordan. The state of research in 1986. BAR International Series 396.1. 67-100. Oxford: B.A.R. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. 1992
Territories and palaeoenvironment: locational analysis of Neolithic site settings in the Greater Petra Area. In: S. Kerner (ed.), The Near East in Antiquity 3. 85-96. Amman: Al Kutba Publishers.
Gebel H.G.K. 2002a
Subsistenzformen, Siedlungsweisen und Prozesse des sozialen Wandels vom akeramischen bis zum keramischen Neolithikum, II: Grundzüge sozialen Wandels im Neolithikum der südlichen Levante. [Dissertation. Freiburg: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität. pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. 2002b
Walls. Loci of forces. In: H.G.K. Gebel, B.D. Hermansen and C.H. Jensen (eds.), Magic practices and ritual in the Near East. SENEPSE 8. 119-132. Berlin: ex oriente. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. 2004
Central to what? Remarks on the settlement patterns of the LPPNB mega-sites in Jordan. In: H.-D. Bienert, H.G.K. Gebel and R. Neef (eds.), Central Settlements in Neolithic Jordan. SENEPSE 5: 1-20. Berlin: ex oriente. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. 2006
The domestication of vertical space. The southern Jordanian case of steep-slope LPPNB architecture. In: E.B. Banning and M. Chazan (eds.), Domesticating space. Construction, community, and cosmology in the late prehistoric Near East. SENEPSE 12. 65-74. Berlin: ex oriente. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. 2009
The intricacy of Neolithic rubble layers. The Ba‘ja, Basta, and 'Ain Rahub evidence. Neo-Lithics 1/09: 33-55. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. 2010a
The commodification of water. Neo-Lithics 2/10: 4-13. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. 2010b
Commodification and the formation of Early Neolithic social identity. The issues as seen from the southern Jordanian Highlands. In: M. Benz (ed.), The principle of sharing. Segregation and construction of social identities at the transition from foraging to farming. SENEPSE 14. 35-80. Berlin: ex oriente. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. 2014a
Territoriality in early Near Eastern sedentism. Neo-Lithics 2/14: 14-44. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. 2014b
Non-formal sling balls? Evidence of geofact commodification at LPPNB Ba‘ja, South Jordan. In: B. Finlayson and C. Makarewicz (eds.), Settlement, survey and stone. Essays on Near Eastern Prehistory in honour of Gary Rollefson. Berlin: ex oriente. 235-241. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. 2017
Neolithic corporate identities in the Near East. In: M. Benz, T. Watkins and H.G.K. Gebel (eds.), Neolithic corporate identities. SENEPSE 20. 57-80. Berlin: ex oriente. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. and Bienert H.-D. with contributions of Krämer T., Müller-Neuhof B., Neef R., Timm J. and Wright K.I. 1997
Ba‘ja hidden in the Petra Mountains. Preliminary results of the 1997 investigations. In: H.G.K. Gebel, Z. Kafafi and G. Rollefson (eds.), The prehistory of Jordan, II. Perspectives from 1997. SENEPSE 4. 221-262. Berlin: ex oriente. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. and Bienert H.-D. 1997a
Excavating Ba’ja, Greater Petra Area, Southern Jordan. Neo-Lithics 1/97: 9-11. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. and Bienert H.-D. 1997b
The 1997 Season at Ba'ja, Southern Jordan. Neo-Lithics 3/97: 14-18. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. and Hermansen B.D. 1999
Ba‘ja Neolithic Project 1999: Short report on architectural findings. Neo-Lithics 3/99: 18-21. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. and Hermansen B.D. 2000
The 2000 season at Late PPNB Ba‘ja. Neo-Lithics 2-3/2000: 22-24. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. and Hermansen B.D. 2001
LPPNB Ba‘ja 2001. A short note. Neo-Lithics 2/01:15-20. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. and Hermansen B.D. 2004
Ba‘ja 2003. Summary of the 5th season of excavation. Neo-Lithics 2/04: 15-18. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K. and Kinzel M. 2007
Ba‘ja 2007: Crawl spaces, rich room dumps, and high energy events. Results of the 7th season of excavation. Neo-Lithics 1/07: 24-32. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K., Benz M. and Bauer J. 2022b
The thanatological dimensions of the Ba`ja and Basta burials (southern Transjordanian LPPNB, 7500-7000 BCE). A novel approach to sepulchral environments. In: D. Ackerfeld and A. Gopher (eds.), Dealing with the dead: reexamining the relationship between the living and the dead in the PPN Levant. Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 23: 265-316. Berlin: ex oriente.[pdf]
Gebel H.G.K., Benz M., Purschwitz C., Kubíková B., Stefanisko D., al-Souliman A.S., Tucker K., Gesky J. and Abuhelaleh B. 2017
Household and death. Preliminary results of the11th Season (2016) at Late PPNB Ba‘ja, southern Jordan. Neo-Lithics 1/17:18-36. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K., Benz M., Purschwitz C., Abuhelaleh B., Alarashi H., al-Atrash M.A., Bauer J., Gresky J., Heitkamp B., Miškolciová L., Keßeler A., Kubíková B., Štefanisko D., Strauss M. and Wellbrock K. 2019
Household and death 2: preliminary results of the 12th season (2018) at Late PPNB Ba‘ja, southern Jordan. Neo-Lithics 19, 20-45. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K., Benz M., Purschwitz C., Bader M., Dermech S., Graf J., Gresky J., Hájek F., Miškolciová L., al Khasawneh S., Khrisat B., Kubíková B., Renger M., al-Sababha M.H. and al-Shoubaki S. 2020
Household and Death, 3: Preliminary Results of the 13th Season (Spring 2019) at Late PPNB Ba`ja, Southern Jordan (Interim Report). Neo-Lithics 20, Special Issue (Ba`ja 2019 Season, Interim Report): 3-41. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K., Hermansen B.D. and Kinzel M. 2006
Ba‘ja 2005: A two-storied building and collective burials. Results of the 6th season of excavations. Neo-Lithics 1/06: 12-19. [pdf]
Gebel H.G.K., Purschwitz C., Štefanisko D. and Benz M. 2022a
The Baʻja daggers. Type, technology and commodification of a LP¬PNB burial object. In: Y. Nishiaki, O. Maeda and M. Arimura (eds.), Tracking the Neolithic in the Near East. Lithic perspectives on its origins, development and dispersals: 87-106. Leiden: Sidestone. [pdf]
Kinzel M. 2004
Some notes on the reconstruction of PPNB architecture. Neo-Lithics 2/04:18-21. [pdf]
Kinzel M. 2013
Am Beginn des Hausbaus. Studien zur PPNB-Architektur von Shkārat Msaied und Baʻja in der Petra-Region, Süd-Jordanien. SENEPSE 17. Berlin: ex oriente.
Michiels T., al-Souliman A.S.A. and Gebel H.G.K. 2012
Stage 3 manufacturing traces of the Ba‘ja LPPNB sandstone rings. Neo-Lithics 2/12: 41-50. [pdf]
Parow-Souchon H. and Purschwitz C. 2022
Variability in chert raw material procurement and use during the Upper Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic of the southern Levant: a regional perspective from the Greater Petra Area. Journal of Archaeological Science 29: 102087. [pdf]
Purschwitz C. 2013a
Ba‘ja 2012: Abiotic resources and Early Neolithic raw material procurement in the Greater Petra Area (ARGPA). Research aims and first results. Neo-Lithics 1/13: 3-10. [pdf]
Purschwitz C. 2013b
Early Neolithic flint raw material selection at LPPNB Ba‘ja, southern Levant. Preliminary results from two room fills of Area B-north. In: F. Borrell, J.J. Ibáñez and M. Molist (eds.), Stone tools in transition: From hunter-gatherers to farming societies in the Near East. 147-163. Bellaterra (Barcelona): Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Servei de Publicacions. [pdf]
Purschwitz C. 2017
Die lithische Ökonomie von Feuerstein im Frühneolithikum der Größeren Petra Region. SENEPSE 19. Berlin: ex oriente. [pdf]
Purschwitz C. 2019a
The lithological landscape of the Greater Petra Region, southern Levant. Availability of flint and other abiotic resources. In: L. Astruc, C. McCartney, F. Briois and V. Kassianidou (eds.), Near Eastern lithic technologies on the move. Interactions and contexts in Neolithic traditions, 8th International Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East, Nicosia, November 23rd-27th 2016. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 150:199‑212. Nicosia: Astrom. [pdf]
Purschwitz C. 2019b
Socio-economic changes in flint production and consumption among the PPNB lithic economies of the Greater Petra Region, southern Levant. In: L. Astruc, C. McCartney, F. Briois and V. Kassianidou (eds.), Near Eastern lithic technologies on the move. Interactions and contexts in Neolithic traditions, 8th International Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East, Nicosia, November 23rd-27th 2016. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 150: 213‑226. Nicosia: Astrom. [pdf]
Purschwitz C. 2022
Skill, learning and knowledge transfer in lithic production as seen from LPPNB/ FPPNB Ba`ja, southern Levant. In: Y. Nishiaki, O. Maeda and M. Arimura (eds.), Tracking the Neolithic of the Near East. Lithic perspectives on its origins, development and dispersals. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East (PPN9), University of Tokyo 12th-16th of November, 2019: 227-248. Leiden: Sidestone. [pdf]
Purschwitz C. and Kinzel M. 2007
Ba‘ja 2007. Two room and ground floor fills: Reconstructed house-life scenarios. Neo-Lithics 2/07: 22-25. [pdf]
Von den Driesch A., Cartajena I. and Manhart H. 2004
The Late PPNB site of Ba‘ja, Jordan: the faunal remains (1997 season). In: H.-D. Bienert, H.G.K. Gebel and R. Neef (eds.), Central settlements in Neolithic Jordan. SENEPSE 5. 271-288. Berlin: ex oriente.
Wang X., Skourtanioti E., Benz M., Gresky J., Ilgner J., Lucas M., Morsch M., Peters J., Pöllath N., Ringbauer H., Le Roux P., Schultz M., Krause J., Roberts P. and Stockhammer P.W. 2023
Isotopic and DNA analyses reveal multiscale PPNB mobility and migration across Southeastern Anatolia and the Southern Levant. PNAS. [pdf]