Jeremy A Beller

Biographic Data

ID2357785
NAMEJeremy A Beller
GIVEN NAMESJeremy A
FAMILY NAMEBeller
SIGNATUREBELLER J A
AFFILIATIONSSimon Fraser University
ORCID0000-0001-9798-0452
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • A Longue Durée Perspective of Household Sustainability in the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant

    Open AccessJeremy A Beller, Haskel J Greenfield et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology2026

    Among early urban societies of the southern Levant, the nature of commodity usage and house organization is relatively underexplored. Recent excavations at Tell eṣ-Ṣa^fi/Gath, Israel, have uncovered a large Early Bronze Age settlement with a domestic neighborhood containing multiple successive phases of occupation. These phases have yielded a combined groundstone assemblage with objects of a variety of types, lithologies, and conditions. We repor…

  • The Lithoscape of Blombos Cave, South Africa

    Open AccessJeremy A Beller, Elizabeth C Velliky et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2026

    Archaeological research in the southern coastal region of South Africa continues to demonstrate the importance of this region for understanding the emergence of complex behaviours among Homo sapiens . Specifically, the excavation of the Middle Stone Age layers at Blombos Cave (c. 100-72 ka) has identified extensive evidence for symbolism, such as portable art (engraved ochre) and personal ornaments (perforated shells). However, some recurrent sub…

  • Understanding Alleyways of the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant

    Haskel J Greenfield, Jeremy A Beller et al.ARTICLEAtiqot2026

    Public passageways enable people, animals and goods to navigate a built environment, allowing access to residences, shops and public buildings, and also demarcate the spheres of society: economic versus social, sacred versus profane and public versus private. Passageways also mark the arrangement of neighborhoods and typically reflect a purposeful organization for settlements. This paper explores the nature of passageways at early urban settlemen…

  • Butchering technology and metal adoption in the Bronze Age southern Levant

    Open AccessJeremy A Beller, Haskel J GreenfieldARTICLEFrontiers in Environmental…2026

    Recent zooarchaeological research suggests that the transition from stone to metal butchering tools in the southern Levant occurred during or after the Middle Bronze Age and was accompanied by changes in butchering practices. However, few large and well-dated zooarchaeological assemblages that span the Bronze Ages have been systematically analyzed, limiting our understanding of when and how this technological transition occurred. This study inves…

  • Recent wadi surveys shed additional light on the prehistoric occupation of the central Azraq Basin, Jordan

    Open AccessJeremy A Beller, Caitlin Craig et al.ARTICLEDocumenta Praehistorica2025

    The Azraq Basin in Jordan’s eastern desert features Qa’ Azraq, a seasonally flooded mudflat, and a spring-fed wetland complex that was vital for hominin populations in prehistory. A recent survey focused on prehistoric lithic artefacts along wadis draining into Qa’ Azraq, yielding over 900 artefacts. The chronologically diagnostic materials mainly originate from four Levantine prehistoric periods: the Lower, Middle, and Upper Palaeolithic, and Ne…

  • Butchering Patterns and Technology in a Chalcolithic Settlement

    Open AccessHaskel J Greenfield, Jeremy A BellerCHAPTERInterdisciplinary Contributions…2023

  • Raw material characterization and lithic provenance from Shishan Marsh 1, a Middle Pleistocene site in the central Azraq Basin, Jordan

    Open AccessJeremy A BellerARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2023Cited by: 2References: 15

  • Middle to Late Quaternary palaeolandscapes of the central Azraq Basin, Jordan

    Open AccessC J H Ames, Carlos E Cordova et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2022

  • Filling the gap

    Haskel J Greenfield, Jeremy A Beller et al.ARTICLEPalestine Exploration Quarterly2022Cited by: 2References: 13

    The Early Bronze Age (3500–2000 bce) of the southern Levant experienced the development of bronze metal technology, but the rate and nature of its dissemination beyond the elite are unclear. In the southern Levant and elsewhere, based upon the microscopic analysis of butchering marks, it has been proposed that bronze slicing tools only begin to be used in quantities in the Middle Bronze. However, previous analyses have always lacked data sets fro…

  • Radiometric Dating of Wadi Zarqa Ma'in 1, a Limestone Sinkhole Natural Faunal Trap near the Dead Sea, Using Data from Test Pitting and a Portable Coring System

    James Pokines, James T Pokines et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2022References: 22

    Wadi Zarqa Ma’in 1 (WZM-1) is a natural faunal trap sinkhole ten kilometers southwest of the city of Madaba in Jordan, near the Dead Sea. The limestone karst feature measures over thirty meters in maximum depth and is a significant regional source of faunal, microbotanical, and sedimentological data recording climate change and paleoecology. A new method of sampling was tested during summer 2019 involving the use of a backpacksized Shaw Portable …

  • Evaluating manufacture marks on ground stone objects as a new proxy for the spread of metal technology in the southern Levant

    Open AccessJeremy A Beller, Haskel J Greenfield et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021References: 18

  • Exploring Mid-Late Pleistocene lithic procurement strategies at Shishan Marsh 1

    Open AccessJeremy A Beller, C J H Ames et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2019Cited by: 1References: 22

  • Interregional Trade and Exchange at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath

    Elizabeth R Arnold, Elizabeth Arnold et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2017References: 10

  • Early Bronze Age Basalt Vessel Remains from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath

    Jeremy A BellerARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2017References: 7

    Basalt is long thought to have been one of the more valued geological materials from which ground stone objects were manufactured (Ebeling and Rowan 2004: 108; Milevski 2008). Although it was readily available in some regions of the southern Levant, the widespread utilization of basaltic material was likely due to its physical and aesthetic properties. As a quick-cooling, extrusive igneous rock, basalt is dominated by mafic minerals and character…

  • The life-history of basalt ground stone tools from early urban domestic contexts

    Open AccessJeremy A Beller, Haskel J Greenfield et al.ARTICLEJournal of Lithic Studies2016

    Recent archaeological excavations at the early urban settlement of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel present the opportunity to reconstruct the life-history of basalt ground stone artefacts of an early urban domestic neighbourhood. Tell es-Safi/Gath is a multi-period site located on the border between the Judean foothills and the southern coastal plain of central Israel. Survey and excavations over the last two decades demonstrated that it was a major ur…

  • Provenance and exchange of basalt grinding stones of EB III Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel

    Open AccessJeremy A Beller, Haskel J Greenfield et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2016Cited by: 6References: 12