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Landscapes, climate and choice: Examining patterns in animal provisioning across the Near East c. 13,000-0 BCE (2021)
Journal Article
Gaastra, J., Welton, L., de Gruchy, M., & Lawrence, D. (2021). Landscapes, climate and choice: Examining patterns in animal provisioning across the Near East c. 13,000-0 BCE. Quaternary International, 595, 54-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.03.045

Understanding the organisation of food production is vital for understanding ancient societies. Multiple factors may influence decision making, including the local environmental capacity of a given area and individual and cultural preferences. This s... Read More about Landscapes, climate and choice: Examining patterns in animal provisioning across the Near East c. 13,000-0 BCE.

Beyond megadrought and collapse in the Northern Levant: The chronology of Tell Tayinat and two historical inflection episodes, around 4.2ka BP, and following 3.2ka BP (2020)
Journal Article
Manning, S. W., Lorentzen, B., Welton, L., Batiuk, S., & Harrison, T. P. (2020). Beyond megadrought and collapse in the Northern Levant: The chronology of Tell Tayinat and two historical inflection episodes, around 4.2ka BP, and following 3.2ka BP. PLoS ONE, 15(10), Article e0240799. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240799

There has been considerable focus on the main, expansionary, and inter-regionally linked or ‘globalising’ periods in Old World pre- and proto-history, with a focus on identifying, analyzing and dating collapse at the close of these pivotal periods. T... Read More about Beyond megadrought and collapse in the Northern Levant: The chronology of Tell Tayinat and two historical inflection episodes, around 4.2ka BP, and following 3.2ka BP.

The Iron Age I in the Levant: Prologue (2019)
Book Chapter
Welton, L., & Charaf, H. (2019). The Iron Age I in the Levant: Prologue. In H. Charaf, & L. Welton (Eds.), The Iron Age I in the Levant : a view from the North (Part 1) (2-7). Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum

Urban Built Environments of the Early 1st Millennium BCE: Results of the Tayinat Archaeological Project, 2004-2012 (2019)
Journal Article
Osborne, J., Harrison, T., Batiuk, S., Welton, L., Dessel, J., Denel, E., & Demirci, Ö. (2019). Urban Built Environments of the Early 1st Millennium BCE: Results of the Tayinat Archaeological Project, 2004-2012. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 382, 261-312. https://doi.org/10.1086/705728

The archaeological site of Tell Tayinat in the province of Hatay in southern Turkey was the principal regional center in the Amuq Plain and North Orontes Valley during the Early Bronze and Iron Ages. This paper focuses on the latest known period of o... Read More about Urban Built Environments of the Early 1st Millennium BCE: Results of the Tayinat Archaeological Project, 2004-2012.

Shifting Networks and Community Identity at Tell Tayinat in the Iron I (ca. 12th to mid-10th Cent. BCE) (2019)
Journal Article
Welton, L., Harrison, T., Batiuk, S., Ünlü, E., Janeway, B., Karakaya, D., …Roames, J. (2019). Shifting Networks and Community Identity at Tell Tayinat in the Iron I (ca. 12th to mid-10th Cent. BCE). American Journal of Archaeology, 123(2), 291-333. https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.123.2.0291

The end of the 13th and beginning of the 12th centuries B.C.E. witnessed the demise of the great territorial states of the Bronze Age and, with them, the collapse of the extensive interregional trade networks that fueled their wealth and power. The p... Read More about Shifting Networks and Community Identity at Tell Tayinat in the Iron I (ca. 12th to mid-10th Cent. BCE).

Caliciform Ware (2014)
Book Chapter
Welton, L., & Cooper, L. (2014). Caliciform Ware. In M. Lebeau (Ed.), Ceramics (325-353). Brepols Publishers

Preliminary Report on the Human Remains in the Cemeteries (2010)
Book Chapter
Welton, L. (2010). Preliminary Report on the Human Remains in the Cemeteries. In S. Richard, P. Holdorf, & G. Peterman (Eds.), Archaeological Expedition to Khirbat Iskandar and Its Environs, Vol. 1: Final Report on the Early Bronze Age IV Area C “Gateway” and Cemeteries (261-266). ASOR