Publications

Edited Books | Refereed Journals | Book Chapters | Other Publications | Research Reports

Edited books
W. Prentiss & Kuijt, I. (eds.)
(n.d.) Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of Northwestern North America, Salt Lake, The University of Utah Press. Final Manuscript submitted January 2003.
Kuijt, I. (ed.)
(2000) Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York.

Refereed Journals
Finlayson, B., Kuijt, I., Arpin, T., Chesson, M., Dennis, S., Goodale, N., Kadowaki, S. Maher, S. Smith, S., Schurr, M., and McKay, J.
(n.d.) Dhra' Excavation Project, 2002 Interm Report. Accepted for publication in Levant, December 2002.
Kuijt, I.
(n.d.) Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Chronology of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Late Natufian period occupations of 'Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. Accepted for publication in The Journal of Field Archaeology, June 2002.
Kuijt, I. & M. S. Chesson
(2002) Excavations at 'Ain Waida', Jordan: New insights into Pottery Neolithic Lifeways in the Southern Levant. Paléorient 28(2).
Kuijt, I.
(2003) Comment on W. C. Prentiss and J. C. Chatters, Cultural Diversification and Decimation in the Prehistoric Record. Current Anthropology 44(1): 49-50.
Kuijt, I.
(2003) Between Foraging and Farming: Critically Evaluating the Archaeological Evidence for the Southern Levantine Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Period. Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Archaeology, (6): 7-25.
Kuijt, I. & N. Goring-Morris
(2002.) Foraging, Farming, and Social Complexity in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A Review and Synthesis. Journal of World Prehistory 16(4): 361-440.
Goodale, N. B., I. Kuijt, & B. Finlayson
(2002) The Chipped Stone Assemblage of Dhra', Jordan: Preliminary Results on Technology, Typology, and Intra-Assemblage Variability. Paléorient 28(1): 125-140.
Kuijt, I.
(2001) Reconsidering the Cause of Cultural Collapse in the Lillooet Area of British Columbia, Canada: A Geoarchaeological Perspective. American Antiquity. 66(4): 693-704.
Kuijt, I.
(2001) Lithic Inter-assemblage Variability and Cultural-Historical Sequences: A Consideration of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Period Occupation of Dhra', Jordan. Paléorient, 27(1): 107-126.
Kuijt, I.
(2000) People and Space in Early Agricultural Villages: Exploring Daily Lives, Community Size and Architecture in the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 19:75-102.
Kuijt, I.
(1998) Material Culture and Identity in Death. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 8(1): 106-109.
Kuijt, I & H. Mahasneh
(1998) Dhra': An Early Neolithic site in the Jordan Valley. Journal of Field Archaeology 25: 153-161.
Kuijt, I.
(1996) Negotiating Equality through Ritual: A Consideration of Late Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Period Mortuary Practices. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 15(4): 313-336.
Kuijt, I., W. Prentiss, & D. Pokotylo
(1995) Bipolar Reduction: An Experimental Study of Debitage Variability. Journal of Lithic Technology 20(2): 116-127.
Chesson, M., M. Flender, H. Genz, F. Hourani, I. Kuijt and G. Palumbo
(1995) Tell es-Sukhne North: An Early Bronze Age II Site in Jordan. Paléorient 21(1): 113-122.
Kuijt, I
(1994) Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Period Settlement Variability: Evidence for Sociopolitical Developments in the Southern Levant. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 7(2): 165-192.
Kuijt, I. & K. Russell
(1993) Tur Imdai Rockshelter, Jordan: Debitage Analysis and Historic Bedouin Lithic Technology. The Journal of Archaeological Science 20: 667-680.
Kuijt, I., J. Mabry, & G. Palumbo
(1991) Early Neolithic Use of Upland Areas of Wadi El-Yabis: Preliminary Evidence from the Excavations of 'Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan, Paléorient 17(1): 99-108.
Nicholson, B. & I. Kuijt
(1990) Field Report and Initial Interpretations on the 1988 Archaeological Excavations at the Lovstrom Site (DjLx 1), Southwestern Manitoba, North Dakota Archaeological Association Journal, 4: 166-205.
Kuijt, I.
(1989) Subsistence Resource Variability and Culture Change During the Middle-Late Prehistoric Period on the Canadian Plateau. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 13(1): 97-118.

Book Chapters
Kuijt, I.
(n.d.) Economic Bounty and Social Crisis: Social Organization, Process, and the "Collapse" of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Society. In: I Fall to Pieces: Global Perspectives on the Collapse and Transformation of Complex Systems. Railey, J. A., and Reycraft, R. M. (eds.). Greenwood press.
Prentiss, W., and I. Kuijt
(n.d.) The Archaeology of the Plateau Region of Northwestern North America: Background and Approaches to the Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers. In: Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of Northwestern North America, W. Prentiss & I, Kuijt (eds.), Salt Lake, The University of Utah Press.
Kuijt, I., and W. Prentiss
(n.d.) Villages on the Edge: Pithouses, Culture Change, and the Emergence of Complex Forager-Fishers. In: Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of Northwestern North America, W. Prentiss & I, Kuijt (eds.), Salt Lake, The University of Utah Press.
Goodale, N., W. Prentiss, and I. Kuijt
(n.d.) Recurrent Cultural Complexity: A New Chronology of the Upper Columbia Drainage Area. In: Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of Northwestern North America, W. Prentiss & I, Kuijt (eds.), Salt Lake, The University of Utah Press.
Prentiss, W., and I. Kuijt
(n.d.) The Evolution of Collector Systems on the Canadian Plateau In: Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of Northwestern North America, W. Prentiss & I, Kuijt (eds.), Salt Lake, The University of Utah Press.
Kuijt, I. and M. Chesson
(In Press) Lumps of Clay and Pieces of Stone: Ambiguity, Bodies, and Identity as Portrayed in Neolithic Figurines. In: Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology: Archaeology of the Near East, R. Bernbeck and S. Pollock (eds.), Basil Blackwell, London.
Finlayson, B. and I. Kuijt
(In Press) When PPNA Lithic Assemblages are Similar and Different: How Do We Explain Variation? In: Proceedings of the 4th Neolithics Workshop, Nigde, Turkey, June 2001. N. Balkan-Atli (ed.), Ex oriente, Berline.
Kuijt, I.
(In Press) Reflections on Ritual and the Transmission of Authority in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant In: Magic Practices and Ritual in the Near Eastern Neolithic: Studies of Production, Subsistence and Environment, Vol. 8 , H.G. K. Gebel,, B.D. Hermansen & C. Hoffmann. Jensen, (eds.), Ex oriente, Berlin.
Bienert, H-D., M. Bonogofsky., H-G. Gebel., I. Kuijt., and G. Rollefson
(In Press.) Where are the Dead? In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Central Settlements in Neolithic Jordan: Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment. Volume 5. H. G. Gebel and H. D. Bienert (eds.), Ex oriente, Berlin.
Kuijt, I.
(In Press) When the Walls Came Down: Social Organization, Ideology and the End of the Aceramic Neolithic. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Central Settlements in Neolithic Jordan: Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment. Volume 5. H. G. Gebel and H. D. Bienert (eds.), Ex oriente, Berlin.
Kuijt, I.
(2001) Meaningful Masks: Place, Death, and the Transmission of Social Memory in Early Agricultural Communities of the Near Eastern Pre-Pottery Neolithic. In: Social Memory, Identity, and Death: Intradisciplinary Perspectives on Mortuary Rituals. M. S. Chesson (ed.). American Anthropological Association, Archaeology Division, Vol 10. pp. 80-99. American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
Kuijt, I.
(2000) Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: An Introduction. In: Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation. I. Kuijt (ed.). pp. 3-11. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York.
Kuijt, I.
(2000) Keeping the Peace: Ritual, Skull Caching and Community Integration in the Levantine Neolithic. In: Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation. I. Kuijt (ed.). pp. 137-163. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York.
Kuijt, I.
(2000) Near Eastern Neolithic Research: Directions and Trends. In: Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation. I. Kuijt (ed.). pp. 211-222. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York.
Kuijt, I.
(1998) Trying to Fit Round Houses into Square Holes: Re-examining the Timing of the south-central Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Cultural Transition. In: The Prehistory of Jordan II: Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment. H.G. Gebel, Z. Kafafi, and G.O. Rollefson (eds.), pp. 193-202, Ex oriente, Berlin.
Kuijt, I. & O. Bar-Yosef
(1994) Radiocarbon Chronology for the Levantine Neolithic: Observations and Data. In: Late Quaternary Chronology and Paleoenvironments of the Eastern Mediterranean. O. Bar-Yosef and R. Kra (eds.) pp. 227-245, Radiocarbon, Tucson.
Kuijt, I.
(1989) Refuse Pattering or Activity Areas: An Examination of the Jack Harkey site 1, New Mexico. In Households and Communities. Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Chacmool Conference, S. MacEachern, D. Archer., and R. D. Garvin (eds). pp. 209-217. University of Calgary, Calgary.

Other Publications
Kuijt, I and B. Finlayson
(2002) The 2002 Excavation Season at Dhra', Jordan: Preliminary Excavation Results from the Jericho IX and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period Components. Neo-Lithics: Southwest Asian Lithic Research. 2(2): 17-21.
Finlayson, B. & I. Kuijt
(2002) Dhra' Excavation Project. Newsletter of the Council for British Research in the Levant. 1:14-15.
Kuijt, I and B. Finlayson
(2001) The 2001 Excavation Season at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Period Settlement of Dhra', Jordan: Preliminary results. Neo-Lithics: Southwest Asian Lithic Research. 2(1): 12-15.
Kuijt, I.
(1997) Interpretation, Data, and the Khiamian of the south-central Levant. Neo-Lithics: Southwest Asian Lithic Research 3: 3-6.
Kuijt, I.
(1997) Jericho. In: The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Beck, C., Michaels, G., Scarre, C., and N.A. Silberman (eds.) pp. 363-364. Oxford University Press, New York.
Kuijt, I.
(1996) Where are the Microlithics?: Lithic Technology and Neolithic Chronology as Seen from the PPNA Occupation at Dhra', Jordan. Neo-Lithics: Southwest Asian Lithic Research 2: 7-8.
Kuijt, I & H. Mahasneh
(1995) Preliminary Excavation Results from Dhra' and 'Ain Waida', Jordan. American Journal of Archaeology 99: 508-511.
Kuijt, I. & M. Chesson
(1994) Investigations at Jebel Queisa, Jordan (1993): A Reconsideration of Chronology and Occupational History. The Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. 38: 33-39.
Kuijt, I.
(1994) A Brief Note on the Chipped Stone Assemblage from 'Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. Neo-Lithics: Southwest Asian Lithic Research 2: 2-3.
Chesson, M. & I. Kuijt
(1994) Report on the 1993 Excavations at Tell el-Handaquq South, Jordan. American Journal of Archaeology 98: 534.
Kuijt, I.
(1994) Foeni, Romania, 1992 Preliminary Report: Analysis of Chipped Stone Tools. Analele Banatului, Muzeul Banatului Timisoara. 3: 86-93.
Greenfield, H.J., F. Drasovean, with a contribution by I. Kuijt
(1994) Preliminary Report on the 1992 Excavations at Foeni-Salas: An Early Neolithic Starcevo-Cris settlement in the Romanian Banat. Analele Banatului, Muzeul Banatului Timisoara. 3:45-85.
Kuijt, I., G. Palumbo, & J. Mabry
(1992) Report on the 1990 Excavations of 'Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. American Journal of Archaeology 96: 507-508.
Banning, E., R. Dods., J. Field., I. Kuijt., J. McCorriston., J. Siggers., H. Taani., and J. Triggs
(1992) Tabaqat al-Buma: 1990 Excavations at a Kebaran and Late Neolithic Site in Wadi Ziqlab. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. 36: 43-69.
Palumbo, G., J. Mabry, & I. Kuijt
(1991) Report on the 1989 Excavation and Survey of the Wadi el-Yabis, Jordan. American Journal of Archaeology 95: 256-257.
Palumbo, G., J. Mabry, & I. Kuijt
(1990) The 1989 Wadi Yabis Survey and Excavation Project. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. 34: 95-118.

Research Reports
Prentiss, W. C, Kuijt, I., Goodale, N., and Burns, M.
(2001) Report of the 2000 Investigations at the Slocan Narrows Village (DkQi1 and DkQi2) British Columbia Report on file with the Ministry of Small Businesses, Tourism and Culture, Archaeology Branch. British Columbia Provincial Government. 161 pages.
Kuijt, I.
(1991) Blagotin, Yugoslavia, 1991 preliminary report: An examination of the surface distribution of Neolithic and Iron Age lithic items. Report on file with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Nicholson, B. & I. Kuijt
(1988) Heritage impact assessment of the Swan River highway expansion, Bowsman, Manitoba. Report on file with the Heritage Resources Branch, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Kuijt, I.
(1986) Archaeological research at J. Harkey site #1, CL-8, New Mexico, 1986. In: Preliminary results of the Capitan North archaeology project, New Mexico, 1986. Report on file with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Works in Progress
Kuijt, I.
(n.d.) Social Change in the Levantine Neolithic: Egalitarian Beliefs, Inequality, and Community Identity Book manuscript to be submitted to Leicester University Press.