Katleen Deckers
Biographic Data
| ID | 120622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katleen Deckers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Deckers |
| SIGNATURE | DECKERS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tübingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8087-5306 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Exchange networks and agro-economy at Kinet Höyük (Türkiye) from the 3rd–1st millennium BC traced through prized wood, olive, and grape charcoal remains
First systematic diachronic charcoal results from Kinet Höyük from 3rd-1st mill. BC. • Kinet region played a role in long-distance precious wood trade, possibly as far as Egypt. • Olive and grape cultivation shaped Kinet́s economy and identity, but show fluctuations. • Indications for irrigation of grape (3rd-1st mill. BC) and olive (3rd-2nd mill. BC) • Strong reduction of olive connected with Late Bronze Age trade collapse. This paper presents t…
Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations
Kalba: Research on trade networks of a prehistoric coastal community on the Gulf of Oman, United Arab Emirates
This project investigates the prehistoric coastal site of Kalba on the Gulf of Oman in the context of exchange networks between maritime waterways and land-based caravan routes on the south-eastern Arabian Peninsula. In addition to favourable environmental conditions, raw-material procurement strategies were important for the economy of this multi-crafting community
An estate at Zincirli? Land use and resource exploitation at the Middle Bronze Age monumental building Complex DD in Zincirli, Gaziantep Province of Turkey
Near Eastern monumental buildings once hosted institutions with a variety of economic and environmental footprints. In this article examining a Middle Bronze Age II (seventeenth century BC) building complex at Zincirli, Turkey, we integrate bioarchaeological remains with ceramic and artifactual evidence to evaluate whether this building was a specialized node in a broader network and centralized economy. Combining seed/fruit/chaff analysis with c…
Natufian Lifeways in the Eastern Foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains
Intensive olive production at Levantine sites. New data from Fadous-Kfarabida and Khirbet-ez Zeraqon
Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Woodland in Northern Syria (4th–2nd Mill. BC): Evidence from Charcoal Assemblages and Oak Measurements
In this paper charcoals from the Syrian sites Tell Mozan and Tell Jerablus are investigated to understand the impact of 4th to 2nd millennium BC settlement on the vegetation. Charcoals from these sites have been identified and oak fragments have been measured for their maximal diameter and annual ring widths. Our results show that while oak had reached its maximal expansion in the Mid-Holocene, and vegetation in the Euphrates Valley was lusher th…
Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation at Gelimgoush cave, Kermanshah; West-Central Zagros mountains of Iran
Plant cultivation under climatic fluctuations during the sixth and fifth millennia BC at Tell Tawila (northern Syria)
Vegetation, land, and wood use at the sites of Bat and Al‐Khashbah in Oman (fourth–third millennium BC )
About 4200 charcoal fragments have been identified from the fourth‐ to third‐millennium BC archaeological sites of Bat and Al‐Khashbah in order to gain an understanding of plant resources available at the sites. Acacia sp., Ziziphus sp., and Tamarix sp. were the main taxa identified at both sites and indicate a similar vegetation composition as today. Phoenix sp. (date palm) charcoal also has been found at both sites. Whereas the cultivation of d…
Natufian Lifeways in the Eastern Foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains
Agricultural resources on the coastal plain of Sidon during the Late Iron Age: Archaeobotanical investigations at Phoenician Tell el-Burak, Lebanon
Subsistence strategies and vegetation development at Aceramic Neolithic Körtik Tepe, southeastern Anatolia, Turkey
A diachronic reconstruction of the Northern Mesopotamian landscape (4th to 2nd millennia BCE) from three separate sources of evidence
Prelude to village life. Environmental data and building traditions of the Epipalaeolithic settlement at Körtik Tepe, Southeastern Turkey
Recent archaeological discoveries, refinements in genetic analyses and the archaeobotanical data require a reconsideration of the nature of the emergence of sedentary farming communities in Southeastern Turkey. In the rescue excavations prompted by the Batman and Ilısu dam projects several Early Holocene sites were discovered. For the first time, new data from Körtik Tepe now provide detailed evidence of a local Epipalaeolithic origin for these p…
Plant use and local vegetation patterns during the second half of the Late Pleistocene in southwestern Germany
Methodological Implications of New Radiocarbon Dates from the Early Holocene Site of Körtik Tepe, Southeast Anatolia
One of the greatest challenges of contemporary archaeology is to synthesize the large amount of radiocarbon and archaeological data into a useful dialogue. For the late Epipaleolithic and the Early Neolithic of the Near East, many 14 C ages have been published without precise stratigraphic documentation. Consequently, for archaeological age models we often must use some more elementary approaches, such as probabilistic summation of calibrated age…
Plant use in three Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites of the northern and eastern Fertile Crescent: A preliminary report
Vegetation development in the Middle Euphrates and Upper Jazirah (Syria/Turkey) during the Bronze Age
Vegetation changes are reconstructed based on more than 51,000 charcoal fragments of more than 380 samples from nine Bronze Age sites in northern Syria and southern Turkey. In addition to fragment proportions, special attention was paid to the frequency of Pistacia relative to Quercus and Populus / Salix relative to Tamarix , fruit-tree ubiquity, and riverine diversity in order to gain an improved understanding of the human versus climatic impact…
Genesis, age and archaeological significance of a pedosediment in the depression around Tell Mozan, Syria
Vegetation development and human occupation in the Damascus region of southwestern Syria from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene
Resource Exploitation of the Upper Khabur Basin (NE Syria) during the 3rd Millennium BC
A dataset of 908 tells, 1823 radial lines and streams in the Upper Khabur Basin was produced by digitizing CORONA satellite images. Several analyses are applied to this database in order to understand the hydrological and agrarian contexts of tells that were occupied mainly in the mid 3rd millennium BC. A strong alignment of tell sites along wadis is observed, which may explain the building of settlements upwards. The analysis of radial lines wit…
Fluvial environmental contexts for archaeological sites in the Upper Khabur basin (northeastern Syria)
Today the eastern tributaries of the Upper Khabur run dry during the summer and the landscape is devoid of trees. This picture is misleading when we try to understand archaeological sites within their former environmental context. Interdisciplinary geomorphological, archaeobotanical and ostracod research on a sequence from the Wadi Jaghjagh indicates that relatively stable, perennial flow velocities occurred during the mid 4th to mid-3rd millenni…
Post-Roman History of River Systems in Western Cyprus: Causes and Archaeological Implications
The presence of Medieval and more recent fluvial deposits in the eastern Mediterranean has important implications for archaeological field survey and for understanding settlement patterns. They may help to explain, for example, why valley floors and terraces are devoid of any sites older than a few centuries. An extensive presence of Medieval and more recent fluvial deposits has been uncovered in western Cyprus as well as in other parts of the Me…
Environmental Evidence from the Minaret of Jam Archaeological Project, Afghanistan
Capitale d’ete de la dynastie Ghuride, le site de Jām en Afghanistan, connu pour son celebre minaret, fut abandonne lorsque les Ghurides furent vaincus par Khorezm-Shah. Lors d’une mission archeologique sur l’impact archeologique d’une construction de route dans la region, la presence de nombreux vestiges organiques concernant la flore et la faune ont ete decouverts. En 2005, une mission a donc ete organisee avec pour but precis d’etudier l’envir…
Prelude to village life. Environmental data and building traditions of the Epipalaeolithic settlement at Körtik Tepe, Southeastern Turkey
Recent archaeological discoveries, refinements in genetic analyses and the archaeobotanical data require a reconsideration of the nature of the emergence of sedentary farming communities in Southeastern Turkey. In the rescue excavations prompted by the Batman and Ilısu dam projects several Early Holocene sites were discovered. For the first time, new data from Körtik Tepe now provide detailed evidence of a local Epipalaeolithic origin for these p…
Plant use and local vegetation patterns during the second half of the Late Pleistocene in southwestern Germany
Agricultural resources on the coastal plain of Sidon during the Late Iron Age: Archaeobotanical investigations at Phoenician Tell el-Burak, Lebanon
Plant use in three Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites of the northern and eastern Fertile Crescent: A preliminary report
Vegetation development and human occupation in the Damascus region of southwestern Syria from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene
Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations
Subsistence strategies and vegetation development at Aceramic Neolithic Körtik Tepe, southeastern Anatolia, Turkey
Anthracological research at the archaeological site of Emar on the Middle Euphrates, Syria
The analysis of more than 24000 charcoal fragments from the Bronze Age layers at Emar allow palaeobotanical reconstructions. The charcoal fragments suggest that during the Bronze Age, the riverine gallery forest was more extensive than today and consisted of a greater variety of taxa, including Populus (poplar)/Sa\ix (willow), Tamarix (tamarisk), Alnus (alder) during the Early Bronze Age, Fraxinus (ash) in Early Bronze Age layers, Platanus (plane…
Resource Exploitation of the Upper Khabur Basin (NE Syria) during the 3rd Millennium BC
A dataset of 908 tells, 1823 radial lines and streams in the Upper Khabur Basin was produced by digitizing CORONA satellite images. Several analyses are applied to this database in order to understand the hydrological and agrarian contexts of tells that were occupied mainly in the mid 3rd millennium BC. A strong alignment of tell sites along wadis is observed, which may explain the building of settlements upwards. The analysis of radial lines wit…
Vegetation, land, and wood use at the sites of Bat and Al‐Khashbah in Oman (fourth–third millennium BC )
About 4200 charcoal fragments have been identified from the fourth‐ to third‐millennium BC archaeological sites of Bat and Al‐Khashbah in order to gain an understanding of plant resources available at the sites. Acacia sp., Ziziphus sp., and Tamarix sp. were the main taxa identified at both sites and indicate a similar vegetation composition as today. Phoenix sp. (date palm) charcoal also has been found at both sites. Whereas the cultivation of d…
Genesis, age and archaeological significance of a pedosediment in the depression around Tell Mozan, Syria
Thermoluminescence screening of non‐diagnostic sherds from stream sediments to obtain a preliminary alluvial chronology: An example from Cyprus
In this paper, simple thermoluminescence (TL) dating procedures utilizing non‐diagnostic sherds from fluvial deposits are described. This approach may provide preliminary insights into the chronology of fluvial sequences in areas where transported ceramics are common, but alluvial chronologies are not well developed. Our method deviates from conventional TL‐ dating methods in that simple screening measurements are made from small, heavily abraded…
An estate at Zincirli? Land use and resource exploitation at the Middle Bronze Age monumental building Complex DD in Zincirli, Gaziantep Province of Turkey
Near Eastern monumental buildings once hosted institutions with a variety of economic and environmental footprints. In this article examining a Middle Bronze Age II (seventeenth century BC) building complex at Zincirli, Turkey, we integrate bioarchaeological remains with ceramic and artifactual evidence to evaluate whether this building was a specialized node in a broader network and centralized economy. Combining seed/fruit/chaff analysis with c…
Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation at Gelimgoush cave, Kermanshah; West-Central Zagros mountains of Iran
Plant cultivation under climatic fluctuations during the sixth and fifth millennia BC at Tell Tawila (northern Syria)
Methodological Implications of New Radiocarbon Dates from the Early Holocene Site of Körtik Tepe, Southeast Anatolia
One of the greatest challenges of contemporary archaeology is to synthesize the large amount of radiocarbon and archaeological data into a useful dialogue. For the late Epipaleolithic and the Early Neolithic of the Near East, many 14 C ages have been published without precise stratigraphic documentation. Consequently, for archaeological age models we often must use some more elementary approaches, such as probabilistic summation of calibrated age…
Post-Roman History of River Systems in Western Cyprus: Causes and Archaeological Implications
The presence of Medieval and more recent fluvial deposits in the eastern Mediterranean has important implications for archaeological field survey and for understanding settlement patterns. They may help to explain, for example, why valley floors and terraces are devoid of any sites older than a few centuries. An extensive presence of Medieval and more recent fluvial deposits has been uncovered in western Cyprus as well as in other parts of the Me…
Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Woodland in Northern Syria (4th–2nd Mill. BC): Evidence from Charcoal Assemblages and Oak Measurements
In this paper charcoals from the Syrian sites Tell Mozan and Tell Jerablus are investigated to understand the impact of 4th to 2nd millennium BC settlement on the vegetation. Charcoals from these sites have been identified and oak fragments have been measured for their maximal diameter and annual ring widths. Our results show that while oak had reached its maximal expansion in the Mid-Holocene, and vegetation in the Euphrates Valley was lusher th…
Intensive olive production at Levantine sites. New data from Fadous-Kfarabida and Khirbet-ez Zeraqon
Environmental Evidence from the Minaret of Jam Archaeological Project, Afghanistan
Capitale d’ete de la dynastie Ghuride, le site de Jām en Afghanistan, connu pour son celebre minaret, fut abandonne lorsque les Ghurides furent vaincus par Khorezm-Shah. Lors d’une mission archeologique sur l’impact archeologique d’une construction de route dans la region, la presence de nombreux vestiges organiques concernant la flore et la faune ont ete decouverts. En 2005, une mission a donc ete organisee avec pour but precis d’etudier l’envir…
Thermoluminescence screening of non‐diagnostic sherds from stream sediments to obtain a preliminary alluvial chronology: An example from Cyprus
In this paper, simple thermoluminescence (TL) dating procedures utilizing non‐diagnostic sherds from fluvial deposits are described. This approach may provide preliminary insights into the chronology of fluvial sequences in areas where transported ceramics are common, but alluvial chronologies are not well developed. Our method deviates from conventional TL‐ dating methods in that simple screening measurements are made from small, heavily abraded…
Anthracological research at the archaeological site of Emar on the Middle Euphrates, Syria
The analysis of more than 24000 charcoal fragments from the Bronze Age layers at Emar allow palaeobotanical reconstructions. The charcoal fragments suggest that during the Bronze Age, the riverine gallery forest was more extensive than today and consisted of a greater variety of taxa, including Populus (poplar)/Sa\ix (willow), Tamarix (tamarisk), Alnus (alder) during the Early Bronze Age, Fraxinus (ash) in Early Bronze Age layers, Platanus (plane…
Post-Roman History of River Systems in Western Cyprus: Causes and Archaeological Implications
The presence of Medieval and more recent fluvial deposits in the eastern Mediterranean has important implications for archaeological field survey and for understanding settlement patterns. They may help to explain, for example, why valley floors and terraces are devoid of any sites older than a few centuries. An extensive presence of Medieval and more recent fluvial deposits has been uncovered in western Cyprus as well as in other parts of the Me…
Environmental Evidence from the Minaret of Jam Archaeological Project, Afghanistan
Capitale d’ete de la dynastie Ghuride, le site de Jām en Afghanistan, connu pour son celebre minaret, fut abandonne lorsque les Ghurides furent vaincus par Khorezm-Shah. Lors d’une mission archeologique sur l’impact archeologique d’une construction de route dans la region, la presence de nombreux vestiges organiques concernant la flore et la faune ont ete decouverts. En 2005, une mission a donc ete organisee avec pour but precis d’etudier l’envir…
Fluvial environmental contexts for archaeological sites in the Upper Khabur basin (northeastern Syria)
Today the eastern tributaries of the Upper Khabur run dry during the summer and the landscape is devoid of trees. This picture is misleading when we try to understand archaeological sites within their former environmental context. Interdisciplinary geomorphological, archaeobotanical and ostracod research on a sequence from the Wadi Jaghjagh indicates that relatively stable, perennial flow velocities occurred during the mid 4th to mid-3rd millenni…
Resource Exploitation of the Upper Khabur Basin (NE Syria) during the 3rd Millennium BC
A dataset of 908 tells, 1823 radial lines and streams in the Upper Khabur Basin was produced by digitizing CORONA satellite images. Several analyses are applied to this database in order to understand the hydrological and agrarian contexts of tells that were occupied mainly in the mid 3rd millennium BC. A strong alignment of tell sites along wadis is observed, which may explain the building of settlements upwards. The analysis of radial lines wit…
Vegetation development and human occupation in the Damascus region of southwestern Syria from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene
Vegetation development in the Middle Euphrates and Upper Jazirah (Syria/Turkey) during the Bronze Age
Vegetation changes are reconstructed based on more than 51,000 charcoal fragments of more than 380 samples from nine Bronze Age sites in northern Syria and southern Turkey. In addition to fragment proportions, special attention was paid to the frequency of Pistacia relative to Quercus and Populus / Salix relative to Tamarix , fruit-tree ubiquity, and riverine diversity in order to gain an improved understanding of the human versus climatic impact…
Genesis, age and archaeological significance of a pedosediment in the depression around Tell Mozan, Syria
Plant use in three Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites of the northern and eastern Fertile Crescent: A preliminary report
Methodological Implications of New Radiocarbon Dates from the Early Holocene Site of Körtik Tepe, Southeast Anatolia
One of the greatest challenges of contemporary archaeology is to synthesize the large amount of radiocarbon and archaeological data into a useful dialogue. For the late Epipaleolithic and the Early Neolithic of the Near East, many 14 C ages have been published without precise stratigraphic documentation. Consequently, for archaeological age models we often must use some more elementary approaches, such as probabilistic summation of calibrated age…
Prelude to village life. Environmental data and building traditions of the Epipalaeolithic settlement at Körtik Tepe, Southeastern Turkey
Recent archaeological discoveries, refinements in genetic analyses and the archaeobotanical data require a reconsideration of the nature of the emergence of sedentary farming communities in Southeastern Turkey. In the rescue excavations prompted by the Batman and Ilısu dam projects several Early Holocene sites were discovered. For the first time, new data from Körtik Tepe now provide detailed evidence of a local Epipalaeolithic origin for these p…
Plant use and local vegetation patterns during the second half of the Late Pleistocene in southwestern Germany
A diachronic reconstruction of the Northern Mesopotamian landscape (4th to 2nd millennia BCE) from three separate sources of evidence
Subsistence strategies and vegetation development at Aceramic Neolithic Körtik Tepe, southeastern Anatolia, Turkey
Natufian Lifeways in the Eastern Foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains
Agricultural resources on the coastal plain of Sidon during the Late Iron Age: Archaeobotanical investigations at Phoenician Tell el-Burak, Lebanon
Vegetation, land, and wood use at the sites of Bat and Al‐Khashbah in Oman (fourth–third millennium BC )
About 4200 charcoal fragments have been identified from the fourth‐ to third‐millennium BC archaeological sites of Bat and Al‐Khashbah in order to gain an understanding of plant resources available at the sites. Acacia sp., Ziziphus sp., and Tamarix sp. were the main taxa identified at both sites and indicate a similar vegetation composition as today. Phoenix sp. (date palm) charcoal also has been found at both sites. Whereas the cultivation of d…
Plant cultivation under climatic fluctuations during the sixth and fifth millennia BC at Tell Tawila (northern Syria)
Intensive olive production at Levantine sites. New data from Fadous-Kfarabida and Khirbet-ez Zeraqon
Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Woodland in Northern Syria (4th–2nd Mill. BC): Evidence from Charcoal Assemblages and Oak Measurements
In this paper charcoals from the Syrian sites Tell Mozan and Tell Jerablus are investigated to understand the impact of 4th to 2nd millennium BC settlement on the vegetation. Charcoals from these sites have been identified and oak fragments have been measured for their maximal diameter and annual ring widths. Our results show that while oak had reached its maximal expansion in the Mid-Holocene, and vegetation in the Euphrates Valley was lusher th…
Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation at Gelimgoush cave, Kermanshah; West-Central Zagros mountains of Iran
Natufian Lifeways in the Eastern Foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains
An estate at Zincirli? Land use and resource exploitation at the Middle Bronze Age monumental building Complex DD in Zincirli, Gaziantep Province of Turkey
Near Eastern monumental buildings once hosted institutions with a variety of economic and environmental footprints. In this article examining a Middle Bronze Age II (seventeenth century BC) building complex at Zincirli, Turkey, we integrate bioarchaeological remains with ceramic and artifactual evidence to evaluate whether this building was a specialized node in a broader network and centralized economy. Combining seed/fruit/chaff analysis with c…
Kalba: Research on trade networks of a prehistoric coastal community on the Gulf of Oman, United Arab Emirates
This project investigates the prehistoric coastal site of Kalba on the Gulf of Oman in the context of exchange networks between maritime waterways and land-based caravan routes on the south-eastern Arabian Peninsula. In addition to favourable environmental conditions, raw-material procurement strategies were important for the economy of this multi-crafting community
Archaeology (26 works) · Geography (26 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (20 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (10 works) · Geology (10 works) · Biology (8 works) · Charcoal (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (7 works)