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CZAP Archive Reports<\/h3>\n

CZAP Archive Report 1\u00a0 – Excavations at Bestansur\u00a017th March – 24th April 2012<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

CZAP Archive Report 2 –\u00a0Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara\u00a018th August – 27th September 2012,\u00a0Survey in Zarzi Region\u00a0January 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

CZAP Archive Report 3 –\u00a0Excavations at Bestansur\u00a021st March – 24th April 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

CZAP Archive Report 4 –\u00a0Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara 15th August – 2nd October 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

CZAP Archive Report 5 –\u00a0Excavations at Bestansur\u00a022nd March – 27th April 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

CZAP Archive Report 6 –\u00a0Excavations at Bestansur\u00a026th March – 15th April 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

CZAP Archive Report 7 –\u00a0Excavations at Bestansur\u00a01st April – 15th May 2017<\/a><\/p>\n

MENTICA End of Season Report 1 – Excavations at Bestansur March – June 2019<\/a><\/p>\n

MENTICA End of Season Report 2 – Excavations at Bestansur and Zarzi September – December 2021<\/a><\/p>\n

Books and Articles<\/h3>\n

Bendrey, R., Richardson, A., Elliott, S. & Whitlam, J. 2014.\u00a0Environmental archaeologies of Neolithisation: Europe, Environmental Archaeology Special Issue<\/i>\u00a019:3, 181-183,\u00a0DOI: 10.1179\/1749631414Y.0000000038<\/a><\/p>\n

Bendrey, R., Richardson, A., Elliott, S. & Whitlam, J. 2015.\u00a0Environmental archaeologies of Neolithisation: Old World case studies, Environmental Archaeology Special Issue<\/i>\u00a020:3, 221-224,\u00a0DOI: 10.1179\/1749631415Y.0000000020<\/a><\/p>\n

Bendrey, R., Whitlam, J., Elliott, S., Aziz, K.R., Matthews, R. & Matthews, W. 2016. \u2018Seasonal rhythms\u2019 of a rural Kurdish village: ethnozooarchaeological research in Bestansur, Iraq. In L.G. Broderick (ed.)\u00a0People with Animals: Perspectives & Studies in Ethnozooarchaeology<\/i>. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 42-56.<\/p>\n

de Groene, D., Bendrey, R., & Matthews, R. 2021. Pigs in the Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: New evidence from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan (7800\u20137100\u2009BC). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology<\/em>, 31:6, 1258\u201369. DOI:10.1002\/oa.3035<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Elliott, S., Bendrey, R., Whitlam, J., Rauf Aziz, K. & Evans, J. 2015. Preliminary ethnoarchaeological research on modern animal husbandry in Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan: Integrating animal, plant and environmental data.\u00a0Environmental Archaeology Special Issue<\/i>\u00a020:3, 283-303,\u00a0DOI: 10.1179\/1749631414Y.0000000025<\/a><\/p>\n

Fourni\u00e9, G.,\u00a0Pfeiffer, D.U. & Bendrey, R. 2017.\u00a0Early animal farming and zoonotic disease dynamics: modelling brucellosis transmission in Neolithic goat populations.\u00a0Royal Society Open Science<\/i>\u00a04, 160943,\u00a0DOI: 10.1098\/rsos.160943<\/a><\/p>\n

Godleman, J., Almond, M.J. & Matthews, W. 2016.\u00a0An infrared microspectroscopic study of plasters and pigments from the\u00a0Neolithic site of Bestansur, Iraq.\u00a0Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports<\/i>\u00a07, 195-204,\u00a0DOI:10.1016\/j.jasrep.2016.04.013<\/a><\/p>\n

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Iversen, I. 2015. The molluscs of Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan: A case study of Early Holocene Helix salomonica exploitation in the Zagros. Environmental archaeologies of Neolithisation: Old World case studies.\u00a0Environmental Archaeology Special Issue<\/i>\u00a020:3, 239-250,\u00a0DOI: 10.1179\/1749631415Y.0000000023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Matthews, W. 2016. Humans and fire: changing relations in early agricultural and built environments in the Zagros, Iran, Iraq.\u00a0The Anthropocene Review<\/i>, 1-33.\u00a0DOI: 10.1177\/2053019616636134<\/a><\/p>\n

Matthews, R., Mohammadifar, Y., Matthews, W. & Motarjem, A. 2010. Investigating the Early Neolithic of Western Iran: the Central Zagros Archaeological Project (CZAP).\u00a0Antiquity,<\/i>\u00a0http:\/\/antiquity.ac.uk\/projgall\/matthews323\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Matthews, R., Matthews, W. & Mohammadifar, Y. (eds). 2013.\u00a0The Earliest Neolithic of Iran: 2008 Excavations at Sheikh-E Abad and Jani<\/i>. CZAP Reports Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxbow Books and British Institute for Persian Studies.<\/p>\n

Matthews, R. & Fazeli, H. (eds). 2013.\u00a0The Neolithisation of Iran<\/i>. Oxbow Books and BANEA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Matthews, R., Matthews, W.Raheem, K.R. and Aziz, K.R. 2016.\u00a0Current Investigations into the Early Neolithic of the Zagros Foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan. In K. Kopanias and J. MacGinnis (eds).\u00a0The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions.<\/i>\u00a0Oxford: Archaeopress, 219-28. Available\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Matthews, R., Richardson, A. & Maeda, O. 2018. Behind all those Stones: Activity and Society in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent. Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, University of Vienna<\/em>. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.<\/p>\n

Matthews, R., Matthews, W., Richardson, A., Raheem, K. R., Walsh, S., Aziz, K. R., Bendrey, R., Whitlam, J., Charles, M., Bogaard, A., Iversen, I., Mudd, D. and Elliott, S. 2019. The early Neolithic of Iraqi Kurdistan: current research at Bestansur, Shahrizor Plain. Paleorient<\/em> 45.2: 13-32.<\/p>\n

Matthews, R., Matthews, W., Rasheed Raheem, K. & Richardson, A. (eds). 2020. The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan<\/em>. CZAP Reports Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxbow Books. Available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Matthews, R., Matthews, W., Rasheed Raheem, K., Mohammadifar, Y., Raouf Aziz, K., Motarjem, A., Bendrey, R., Richardson, A., Elliott, S., Whitlam, J., Iversen, I., Charles, M., Bogaard, A., Mudd, D. and Walsh, S. 2020. Long-term human-environment interactions in the Neolithic of the Central Zagros of Iran and Iraq, 10,000-6000 BC. In J. Eidem (ed.) Zagros. Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Leiden, December 2014<\/em>. PIHANS 130. Leiden, NINO: 5-18.<\/p>\n

Matthews, R. & Fazeli Nashli, H. 2022. The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire, <\/em>(A. Richardson ills ed.). London: Routledge. DOI:10.4324\/9781003224129<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Richardson, A. 2014. Early clay technologies: studies in Early Neolithic clay usage from the Central Zagros. In\u00a0Proceedings of the 8th ICAANE, Vol. 1<\/i>. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 41-53.<\/div>\n
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Richardson, A. 2018. Neolithic materials and materiality in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains. In T. Pereira (ed). Raw Materials 2016.<\/em> Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.<\/p>\n

Richardson, A. 2018. Pre\u2010Pottery Clay Innovation in the Zagros Foothills. Oxford Journal of Archaeology.<\/em> DOI: 10.1111\/ojoa.12155<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Walsh, S. 2022. Early evidence of extra-masticatory dental wear in a Neolithic community at Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology<\/em>. DOI: 10.1002\/oa.3162<\/a><\/p>\n

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Whitlam, J., Bogaard, A., Matthews, R., Matthews, W., Mohammadifar, Y., Ilkhani, H. and Charles, M. 2018. Pre-agricultural plant management in the uplands of the central Zagros: the archaeobotanical evidence from Sheikh-e Abad. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany<\/i>.\u00a0DOI: 10.1007\/s00334-018-0675-x<\/a><\/div>\n
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CZAP Doctoral Theses<\/span><\/h3>\n