Research monographs, chapters in collective volumes
Deckers, K., Polisca, F., Riehl, S., de Gruchy, M., Lawrence, D. (2021). Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Woodland in Northern Syria (4th–2nd Mill. BC): Evidence from Charcoal Assemblages and Oak Measurements. Environmental Archaeology, 1-36.
Vermeersch, S., Riehl, S., Starkovich, B.M., Kamlah, J. (2021). Integrating faunal and botanical remains using multivariate statistics to reconstruct (pre)historic subsistence developments. MethodsX 8, 101336.
Deckers, K., Riehl, S., Tumolo V., Genz, H., Lawrence, D. (2021). Intensive olive production at two Early Bronze Age Levantine sites. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36, 102841.
Vermeersch, S., Riehl, S., Starkovich, B.M., Streit, K., Höflmayer, F. (2021). Animal husbandry from the Middle Bronze Age through the Iron Age in the Shephelah—faunal remains from the new excavations at Lachish. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13, 38.
Shin, N., Marston, J.M., Luke, C., Roosevelt, C., Riehl, S. (2021). Agricultural practices at Bronze Age Kaymakçı, western Anatolia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 36, 102800.
Vermeersch, S., Riehl, S., Starkovich, B.M., Kamlah, J. (2021). Developments in subsistence during the Early Bronze Age through the Iron Age in the southern and central Levant: Integration of faunal and botanical remains using multivariate statistics. Quaternary Science Reviews 253, 106776.
Riehl, S. (2020). Stable isotopes in ancient agriculture (ch.4). In: A Companion to Ancient Agriculture, First Edition. Edited by David Hollander and Timothy Howe. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. P.55-81.
Kamlah, J., Riehl, S. (2020). Agriculture in the Bronze Age Levant (ch. 10). In: A Companion to Ancient Agriculture, First Edition. Edited by David Hollander and Timothy Howe. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. P.193-209.
Jarl, J., Riehl, S., Deckers, K., Becker, J.A. (2020). Plant cultivation under climatic fluctuations during the sixth and fifth millennia BC at Tell Tawila (northern Syria). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 12, 266.
Karakaya, D., & Riehl, S. (2019). Subsistence in post-collapse societies: patterns of agro-production from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the Northern Levant and beyond. In H. Charaf & L. Welton (Eds.), The Iron Age I in the Levant: The View from the North (Part I), Archaeology and History in Lebanon, 50/51, 136-163.
Riehl, S. (2019, March 26). Barley in Archaeology and Early History. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science.
Ed. Retrieved 30 Mar. 2019, from oxfordre.com/environmentalscience/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.001.0001/acrefore-9780199389414-e-219.
Weide, A., Riehl, S., Zeidi, M., & Conard, N. J. (2018). A systematic review of wild grass exploitation in relation to emerging cereal cultivation throughout the Epipalaeolithic and aceramic Neolithic of the Fertile Crescent. PLoS ONE, 13(1), e0189811. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189811
Rössner, C., Deckers, K., Benz, M., Özkaya, V., & Riehl, S. (2018). Subsistence strategies and vegetation development at Aceramic Neolithic Körtik Tepe, southeastern Anatolia, Turkey. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 27(1), 15-29. doi:10.1007/s00334-017-0641-z
Weide, A., S. Riehl, M. Zeidi and N. J. Conard, 2017. "Reconstructing subsistence practices: taphonomic constraints and the interpretation of wild plant remains at aceramic Neolithic Chogha Golan, Iran." Vegetation History and Archaeobotany: 26/5 pp 487–504.
Höfmayer, F., Yasur-Landau, A., Cline, E.H. Dee, M.W., Lorentzen, B. and Riehl, S. 2016. New Radiocarbon Dates from Tel Kabri Support a High Middle Bronze Age Chronology. Radiocarbon, 58, pp 599-613 doi:10.1017/RDC.2016.27de
Gruchy, M., Deckers, K. and S. Riehl. 2016. A diachronic reconstruction of the Northern Mesopotamian landscape (4th to 2nd millennia BCE) from three separate sources of evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 8:250-267. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.05.047.
Riehl, S., 2016. The role of the local environment in the slow pace of emerging agriculture in the Fertile Crescent. Journal of Ethnobiology, 36/3, 512–534.
Mascher, M., V. J. Schuenemann, U. Davidovich, N. Marom, A. Himmelbach, S. Hubner, A. Korol, M. David, E. Reiter, S. Riehl, M. Schreiber, S. H. Vohr, R. E. Green, I. K. Dawson, J. Russell, B. Kilian, G. J. Muehlbauer, R. Waugh, T. Fahima, J. Krause, E. Weiss, and N. Stein. 2016. Genomic analysis of 6,000-year-old cultivated grain illuminates the domestication history of barley. Nat Genet advance 48, 1089–109. 10.1038/ng.3611
www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ng.3611.html.
Pustovoytov, K., and S. Riehl. 2016. The Early Bronze Age/Middle Bronze Age transition and the aquifer geography in the Near East. Journal of Archaeological Science 69:1-11. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.02.005.
Höflmayer, F., Kamlah, J., Sader, H., Dee, M.W., Kutschera, W., Wild, E.M., Riehl, S., 2016. New evidence for Middle Bronze Age chronology and synchronisms in the Levant: Radiocarbon dates from Tell el-Burak, Tell el-Dabʿa, and Tel Ifshar compared, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR) 375, 53-76.
Benz, M., Deckers, K., Rössner, C., Alexandrovskiy, A., Pustovoytov, K., Scheeres, M., Fecher, M., Coskun,A., Riehl, S., Alt, K.W. , Özkaya, V., 2015, Prelude to village life. Environmental data and building traditions of the Epipalaeolithic settlement at Kortik Tepe, Southeastern Turkey, Paléorient 41,2: 9-10.
Riehl, S., Shai, I., 2015. Supra-regional trade networks and the economic potential of Iron Age II sites in the southern Levant, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 3, 525-533.
Riehl, S., Asouti, E., Karakaya, D., Starkovich, B.M., Zeidi, M., Conard, N.J., 2015. Resilience at the Transition to Agriculture: The Long-Term Landscape and Resource Development at the Aceramic Neolithic Tell Site of Chogha Golan (Iran), BioMed Research International 2015, 1-22.
Weide, A., Riehl, S., Zeidi, M. and N. J. Conard, 2015. Using new morphological criteria to identify domesticated emmer wheat at the aceramic Neolithic site of Chogha Golan (Iran), Journal of Archaeological Science 57, 109-118.
Fiorentino, G., Ferrio, J., Bogaard, A., Araus, J., Riehl, S., 2015. Stable isotopes in archaeobotanical research, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 24/1 215-227.
Riehl, S., Pustovoytov, K.E., 2014. Reply to Maxwell et al.: Stable isotopes and their potential for interpreting archaeobotanical remains, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, 45 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1418161111.
Riehl, S., Pustovoytov, K.E., Weippert, H., Klett, S., Hole, F., 2014. Drought stress variability in ancient Near Eastern agricultural systems evidenced by δ13C in barley grain, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, 12348-12353.
Baines, J., Riehl, S., Conard, N., Zeidi-Kulehparcheh, M., 2014. Upper Palaeolithic archaeobotany of Ghar-e Boof cave, Iran: a case study in site disturbance and methodology, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 1-12.
Höflmayer, F., Dee, M.W., Genz, H., Riehl, S., 2014. Radiocarbon evidence for the Early Bronze Age Levant: the site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and the end of the Early Bronze III period. Radiocarbon 56/2: 1-14.
Riehl, S., Marinova, E., Deckers, K., Malina, M., and Conard, N., 2014. Plant use and local vegetation patterns during the second half of the Late Pleistocene in southwestern Germany. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences:1-17.
Zeidi, M., Conard, N.J., Riehl, S., 2013. Archaeobotanical Archiving—Response. Science 341 (6148): 840. [DOI:10.1126/science.341.6148.840-b]
Riehl, S., Zeidi, M., Conard, N.J., 2013. Emergence of Agriculture in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Science 341 (6141):65-67. doi:10.1126/science.1236743
Riehl, S. 2013. Comment in: Asouti, E. and Fuller, D. Q., A Contextual Approach to the Emergence of Agriculture in Southwest Asia: Reconstructing Early Neolithic Plant-Food Production. Current Anthropology 54, 299-345: 335-336.
Benz, M., Coşkun, A., Hajdas, I., Deckers, K., Riehl, S., Alt, K.W., Özkaya, V., Weninger, B. 2012. Methodological implications of new readiocarbon dates from the Early Holocene site of Körtik Tepe, southeast Anatolia. Radiocarbon 54, 3-4, p. 291-304.
Riehl, S. 2012. Holocene book review: Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia - An Environmental-Archaeological Study. The Holocene 22:3, pp. 378-379.
Riehl, S., Benz, M., Conard, N., Deckers, K., Fazeli, H., Zeidi, M. 2012. The modalities of plant use in three PPNA sites of the northern and eastern Fertile Crescent - A preliminary report. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21: 95-106.
Riehl, S. 2012. Variability in ancient Near Eastern environmental and agricultural development. Journal of Arid Environments 86: 113-121.
Pustovoytov, K., Riehl, S., and Hilger, H. 2010. Oxygen isotopic composition of fruit carbonate in Lithospermeae and its relevance to paleoclimate research in the Mediterranean. Global and Planetary Change 71: 258–268. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.11.015
Riehl, S., Pustovoytov, K.E., Hotchkiss, S., Bryson, R.A. 2009. Local Holocene environmental indicators in Upper Mesopotamia: pedogenic carbonate record vs. archaeobotanical data and archaeoclimatological models. Quaternary International 209: 154-162.
10.1016/j.quaint.2008.06.012Deckers, K., Riehl, S., Jenkins, E., Rosen, A., Dodonov, A., Simakova, A.N. and Conard, N.J. 2009. Vegetation development and human occupation in the Damascus Region of southwestern Syria from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 18: 329-340.
Deckers, K., Riehl, S., 2009. Tells in the Upper Khabur Basin of northeastern Syria: their hydrological and agrarian contexts. Paleorient 34/2: 173-189.
Marinova, E. Riehl, S. 2009. Carthamus spp. in the ancient Near East and southeastern Europe: archaeobotanical evidence for its distribution and use as a source of oil. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 18: 341-349. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-009-0212-z
Riehl, S. 2009. “Archaeobotanical evidence for the interrelationship of agricultural decision-making and climate change in the ancient Near East.” Quaternary International 197: 93-114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2007.08.005
Riehl, S. 2008. Climate and agriculture in the ancient Near East: a synthesis of the archaeobotanical and stable carbon isotope evidence. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.
10.1007/s00334-008-0156-8Riehl, S., Bryson, R.A., Pustovoytov, K.E. 2008. Changing growing conditions for crops during the Near Eastern Bronze Age (3000-1200 BC): The stable carbon isotope evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science
, 35: 1011-1022. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2007.07.003
Riehl, S. and E. Marinova, 2008. “Mid-Holocene vegetation change in the Troad (W Anatolia): Man-made or natural?”. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
17,3: 297-312. available online: dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00334-007-0118-6
Riehl, S., Bryson, R. A. 2007. "Variability in human adaptation to changing environmental conditions in Upper Mesopotamia during the Early to Middle Bronze Age transition". Varia Anatolica XIX. Edited by Catherine Marro and Catherine Kuzucuoğlu. p.523-548.
Riehl, S., Bryson, R.A., Pustovoytov, K.E., Hotchkiss, S. 2007. Testing Holocene pedogenic carbonate coatings as a proxy: climate models and archaeobotanical data from the Northern Fertile Crescent. Quaternary International 167-168: 334.
Kuzucuoğlu, C., Deckers, K., Herveux, L., Mc Corriston, J., Pessin, H., Riehl, S., Geyer, B., Vila, E, 2007. “Characters and changes in archaeology-related environmental data during the third millennium BC in Upper Mesopotamia”. Varia Anatolica XIX. Edited by Catherine Marro and Catherine Kuzucuoğlu. p.573-580.
Cordova, C. E., Harrison, S., Mudie, P., Riehl, S., Leroy, S.A.G., Ortiz, N. 2007. Pollen, plant macrofossil and charcoal records for paleovegetation reconstruction in the Mediterranean-Black Sea Corridor since the last glacial maximum. Quaternary International
. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2007.06.015
Deckers, K., Riehl, S. 2007. “An evaluation of botanical assemblages from the 3rd to 2nd millennium BC in northern Syria”. Varia Anatolica XIX. Edited by Catherine Marro and Catherine Kuzucuoğlu. p.481-502.
Deckers, K. and S. Riehl, 2007. Fluvial environmental contexts for archaeological sites in the Upper Khabur basin (northeastern Syria). Quaternary Research 67: 337-348.
Riehl, S. and K. Pustovoytov. 2006. Comment on van Geel et al., Journal of Archaeological Science 31 (2004) "Climate change and the expansion of the Scythian culture after 850 BC: a hypothesis.” Journal of Archaeological Science 33(1):143-144.
Deckers, K. and S. Riehl. 2004. The development of economy and environment from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age in Northern Syria and the Levant. A case-study from the Upper Khabur region. Antiquity 78.302.
Pustovoytov, K. E., Riehl, S., and Mittmann, S. 2004. Radiocarbon age of carbonate in fruits of Lithospermum from the early Bronze Age settlement of Hirbet ez-Zeraqon (Jordan). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 13, 207-212.
Peer-review publications
Riehl, S. 2019. Chapter 12: Resource management at Tell el-‘Abd. Economic specialization despite or because of environmental limitations?. In: U. Finkbeiner (ed.), Final Reports of the Syrian-German Excavations at Tell el-ʻAbd, Volume III, Zaphon, Münster, pp. 169-185.
Höflmayer, F., Dee, M., Riehl, S., 2019. Chapter X. Radiocarbon dates. In: Yasur-Landau, A. and Cline, E. H. (eds.) Tel Kabri II. The 2005-2011 Excavation Seasons.
Höflmayer, F., Dee, M., Riehl, S., 2019. 7. 7. The Radiocarbon Dating of the Middle Bronze Age Monumental Building. In: Kamlah, J. and Sader, H. (eds.) Tell el-Burak I. The Middle Bronze Age, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, p. 210-226.
Riehl, S., Orendi, A., 2019. 10. 8. Archaeobotanical Samples from Middle and Late Bronze Age Contexts at Tell el-Burak. In: Kamlah, J. and Sader, H. (eds.) Tell el-Burak I. The Middle Bronze Age, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, p. 360-368, & 341-451.
Riehl, S., 2018. Chapter 10: The plant remains from the Early and Middle Bronze Age graves at Chagar Bazar (Syria). In: Ö. Tunca & A.M. Baghdo, CHAGAR BAZAR (SYRIE) VIII, Peeters, Louvain.
Riehl, S., 2017. Regional environments and human perception: The two most important variables in adaptation to climate change. In The late third millennium in the ancient Near East: Chronology, C14, and climate change. F. Höflmayer, ed. Pp. 237-260. Chicago, Illinois: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
Riehl, S., 2016. Flourishing surplus economy in coastal lands: Archaeobotany and stable carbon isotopes, in: Genz, H. (Ed.), Tell Fadous-Kfarabida I: the site and its environment.
Starkovich, B.M., S. Riehl, M. Zeidi, and N.J. Conard 2016 Subsistence Strategies in the Aceramic Neolithic at Chogha Golan, Iran. In Bones and Identity: Zooarchaeological Approaches to Reconstructing Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia, eds N. Marom, R. Yeshurun, L. Weissbrod, and G. Bar-Oz. Oxbow Books, 45-71.
Riehl, S., Marinova, E. 2016 The interplay of environmental change, socio-political stress and human resilience at Early to Middle Bronze Age Troy. In: Pernicka, E., Ünlüsoy, S., Blum, S. P. (eds.), Early Bronze Age Troy: Chronology, Cultural Development and Interregional Contacts. Proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Tübingen May 8–10, 2009. Studia Troica Monbographien 8. Habelt Verlag, Bonn. P. 319-336.
Pustovoytov, K., Riehl, S., Durand, N. 2016. Biogenic CaCO3 in fruits of Lithospermeae as dating material and a paleoclimate proxy at Near Eastern archaeological sites. In: Lucke, B. et al. (eds.), Soils and Sediments as Archives of Landscape Change. Geoarchaeology and Landscape Change in the Subtropics and Tropics, p.195-200
Riehl, S. 2015. Palaeoethnobotany. In: Beaudry, M; Metheny, K. (ed) The Archaeology of food: An Encyclopedia. AltaMira Press. P.29-31
Riehl, S. 2015. Plant production at Qatna in the environmental and supra-regional economic context. In “Qatna and the Networks of Bronze Age Globalism. Akten einer internationalen Konferenz in Stuttgart im Oktober 2009“ (Qatna Studien Band 8). (P. Pfälzner, Ed.). P. 477 - 486.
Blum, S., and S. Riehl. 2015. Troy in the 23rd century BC - environmental dynamics and cultural change. In 2200 BC - Ein Klimastruz als Ursache für den Zerfall der Alten Welt?, edited by H. Meller, H. W. Arz, R. Jung, and R. Risch, pp. 181-203. Halle: Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle.
Riehl, S. 2015. Understanding the reasons for non-sustainability in past agricultural systems. In "Climate and Ancient Societies. Causes and human responses. The Stine Rossel Memorial Conference." (S. Kerner, Ed.), Kopenhagen. P. 291 – 312.
Riehl, S. 2014. Agriculture in the Ancient Near East. Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures · Article ID: 388650 · Chapter ID: 10189
Riehl, S., Pustovoytov, K., Othmanli, H. 2014. Agricultural Patterns in the Aegean in the 4th Millennium BC – An Explanatory Model. In: Horejs, B., Western Anatolia before Troy - Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 21‒24 November, 2012. P. 367- 384.
Riehl, S., 2014. Significance of prehistoric weed floras for the reconstruction of relations between environment and crop husbandry practices in the Near East. In "Ancient plants and people – contemporary trends in archaeobotany." (M. Madella, C. Lancelotti, and M. Savard, Eds.). University of Arizona Press, Tucson. P. 135-152.
Riehl, S., Marinova, E., 2014. Archäobotanik. In: E. Pernicka, C. Brian Rose, P. Jablonka (eds.), Troia 1988–2008: Grabungen und Forschungen. I. Forschungsgeschichte, Methoden und Landschaft. Studia Troica Monographien 5 (Darmstadt 2014). Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt. p. 602-609.
Riehl, S., Marinova, E., Uerpmann, H.-P., 2014. Landschaftsgeschichte der Troas. Bioarchäologische Forschungen. In: E. Pernicka, C. Brian Rose, P. Jablonka (eds.), Troia 1988–2008: Grabungen und Forschungen. I. Forschungsgeschichte, Methoden und Landschaft. Studia Troica Monographien 5 (Darmstadt 2014). Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt. p. 732-769.
Riehl, S., 2014. Changes in crop production in Anatolia from the Neolithic period until the end of the early Bronze Age. In: Wawruschka, C. (ed) Prehistoric Economies of Anatolia: Subsistence Strategies and Exchange. Marie Leidorf, Rahden. p.59-71.
Riehl, S., Pustovoytov, K., Dornauer, A., Sallaberger, W. 2012. Mid-late Holocene agricultural system transformations in the northern Fertile Crescent: A review of the archaeobotanical, geoarchaeological, and philological evidence. L. Giosan, P. Clift (eds), Past Climate, Landscapes & Civilizations. AGU monograph series. 115-136.
Riehl, S. and Deckers, K. 2012. Environmental and agricultural dynamics in Northern Mesopotamia during the Early and Middle Bronze Age. In: Pfälzner, P.; Laneri, N. and Anastasio, S. (ed) Looking North: the socio-economic dynamics of northern Mesopotamian and Anatolian regions during the late third and early second millennium BC. Harrassovitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, p.11-24.
Zeidi, M., Riehl, S., Napierala, H., Conard, N., 2012. Chogha Golan: A PPN site in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Ilam Province, Iran (Report on the first season of excavation in 2009), in: Matthews, R., Curtis, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 259-275.
Riehl, S. 2011. Climate and agricultural decision-making: Environmental constraints and economic development in Near Eastern sites between 5000 – 3500 cal BP. Archaeology and Human Ecology in Southwestern Asia. International Symposium in Honor of Hans-Peter Uerpmann.
Riehl, S. 2011, 8. Ostracods and seed remains from the Hamidi sequence. In “Holocene landscapes through time in the Fertile Crescent”. (K. Deckers, Ed.). Subartu vol. 28, 97-106.
Riehl, S. and K. Deckers (2009) 2011, The botanical finds from the 2007 and 2008 seasons of excavations. In “Excavations at Tell Fadous – Kfarabdia: Preliminary report on the 2009 seasons of excavations”. (H. Genz, Ed.). BAAL 13 (2009), 110-116.
Riehl, S. 2010, Archäobotanische Funde aus der Kampagne 2009 in Qubur al-Walaydah. In. G. Lehmann et al., Excavations in Qubur al-Walaydah 2007-2009. Welt des Orients, 40/2, 259-267.
Riehl, S. 2010, Plant production in a changing environment – The archaeobotanical remains from Tell Mozan. In: K. Deckers, M. Doll, P. Pfälzner and S. Riehl, Ausgrabungen 1998 - 2001 in der Zentralen Oberstadt von Tall Mozan / Urkeš: The Development of the Environment, Subsistence and Settlement of the City of Urkeš and its Region, SUN, Serie A, Vol. 3. 13-158.
Riehl, S. 2010, Flourishing agriculture in times of political instability – the archaeobotanical and isotopic evidence from Tell Atchana. Chapter 10, in: Kutlu Aslihan Yener (ed.), Excavations in the plain of Antioch. Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh, a Bronze Age capital in the Amuq Valley, Turkey. The 2003-2004 excavation seasons. 123-136.
Riehl, S. 2010, Maintenance of agricultural stability in a changing environment - the archaeobotanical evidence at Emar. In: Finkbeiner, U. und Sakal, F. (ed.) Emar after the closure of the Tabqa dam. The Syrian-German excavations 1996–2002. Vol.1: Late Roman and Medieval cemeteries and environmental studies. Subartu 25. p. 177-224
Riehl, S. 2009 , A cross-disciplinary investigation of cause-and-effect for the dependence of agro-production on climate change in the ancient Near East. Münzel, S. and de Beauclair, R. (eds.) Knochen pflastern ihren Weg. Festschrift for Margarethe und Hans-Peter Uerpmann. 217-226.
Riehl, S. und Deckers, K. 2009, Vorbericht zu einigen eisenzeitlichen und mittelalterlichen Pflanzenresten vom Tell Halaf, in Orthmann, W., Novak, M. and Martin, L., eds., Tell Halaf, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 105-118.
Riehl, S., Vila, E., Pena-Chocarro, L. 2009, Viehzucht und Ackerbau – Ernährung in der Bronzezeit. Ausstellungskatalog zur „Qatna-Ausstellung“ p.138-141.
Riehl, S. 2009, Archäobotanik und Jäger-Sammler-Gesellschaften. Ausstellungskatalog zur Landesausstellung „Eiszeitkunst und Eiszeitkultur“.
Riehl, S. and Owen, L.R. 2009, Nicht vom Fleisch allein... Das reiche pflanzliche Nahrungsangebot der Eiszeit. Ausstellungskatalog zur Landesausstellung „Eiszeitkunst und Eiszeitkultur“, p.200-202.
Riehl, S. 2007, Preliminary archaeobotanical results from the Palace at Qatna (Tell Mishrife) in: D. Morandi Bonacossi (ed.), Urban and Natural Landscapes of an Ancient Syrian Capital. Settlement and Environment at Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna and in Central-Western Syria. Proceedings of the International Conference held in Udine, 9-11 December 2004, Studi Archeologici su Qatna 1, Udine, Forum Editrice. p. 145-152.
Riehl, S. and K. Deckers (2005) 2007. Plant remains (in: The AUB Tell Fad'us (Kfarabida) rescue project - a preliminary report on the 2004 season, by K. Badreshany, H. Genz, H. Sader). Bulletin d'archeologie et d'architecture Libanaises, BAAL 9, p. 84-88
Riehl, S. 2006. Unser täglich Brot.... – Pflanzenproduktion und Ernährung in Troia. In: Korfmann, M. et al., Troia. Archäologie eines Siedlungshügels und seiner Landschaft. Philipp von Zabern Verlag, p. 297-308
Riehl, S. 2006. Nomadism, pastoralism and transhumance in the archaeobotanical record. Examples and methodological problems. In: Hauser, S. (ed.) Die Sichtbarkeit von Nomaden und saisonaler Besiedlung in der Archäologie. Multidisziplinäre Annäherungen an ein methodisches Problem, pp. 105-125. Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte. vol. 21, Halle: Druckhaus Schütze GmbH.
Riehl, S. 2004. Jungneolithische Pflanzenproduktion und Nutzung des Naturraums am Überlinger See / Bodensee. Archäobotanische Untersuchungen an Kulturschichtsedimenten aus der Seeufersiedlung Sipplingen. In "Siedlungen der Pfyner Kultur im Osten der Pfahlbaubucht von Sipplingen, Bodenseekreis" (H. Schlichtherle, Ed.), pp. 9-76. Janus, Hemmenhofen.
Riehl, S., Nesbitt, M. 2003. Crops and cultivation in the Iron Age Near East: change or continuity?. In: Fischer, B. et al. (Hrsg.), Identifying Changes - The transition from Bronze to Iron Ages in Anatolia and its neighbouring regions. Symposium Istanbul 2002. 301-312.
Riehl, S. 1999. Bronze Age environment and economy in the Troad: the archaeobotany of Kumtepe and Troy. BioArchaeologica vol. 2. Tübingen: Mo-Vince-Verlag.
Other publications (non-peer-review)
Riehl, S., 2018. Obituary / Nachruf: Gordon C. Hillman (July 20, 1943 Hailsham – July 01, 2018 Hailsham) Distinguished ethnobotanist and pioneering archaeobotanist / Angesehener Ethnobotaniker und bahnbrechender Archäobotaniker. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 27, 199-203.
Genz, H., Riehl, S., Çakırlar, C., Slim, F., Damick, A., 2016. Economic and political organization of Early Bronze Age coastal communities: Tell Fadous-Kfarabida as a case study, Berytus LIX, p.79-119.
Riehl, S., 2016. The plant remains from the Early and Middle Bronze Age graves at Chagar Bazar (Syria). In: Tunca, Ö., Baghdo, A.M. (eds.), Chagar Bazar (Syrie) VIII. Les tombes ordinaires de l’âge du Bronze ancien et moyen des chantiers D-F-H-I (1999-2011). Études diverses. Louvain, p. 137-144.
Riehl, S., 2015. Forschungen an prähistorischen Siedlungen im Nahen Osten: Zur Widerstandsfähigkeit erster landwirtschaftlicher Systeme - Studies of Prehistoric Settlements in the Middle East: On the Resilience of the First Agricultural Systems. Senckenberg 2013-2014: 61-67.
Riehl, S. 2015. Archäobotanik im Iran. Archäologie in Deutschland 6: 14-19.
Pavuk, P., Pieniazek, M., Riehl, S., 2014. Troy and the Troad in the 2nd Millennium: Changing patterns of landscape use. In: Touchais, G., Laffineur, R. (eds.), Physis. Natural environment and human interaction in the prehistoric Aegean. 14th International Aegean Conference held in Paris, 11-14 December 2012 (Leuven-Liège, in print), p. 111-120.
Shai, I., Dagan, A., Riehl, S., Orendi, A., Uziel, J., Suriano, M., 2014. A Private Stamped Seal Handle from Tell Bornat/Tel Burna, Israel. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, 130/2: 121-136.
Riehl, S., Zeidi, M., Conard, N.J., 2014. Neue Ergebnisse aus der „Wiege der Landwirtschaft“. Senckenberg: Natur-Forschung-Museum, 144 (7/8): 250-255.
Riehl, S. 2014. Neolithisierung. Der lange Weg zur Landwirtschaft. Spektrum der Wissenschaft, April 2014: 64-68.
Conard, N.J., Riehl, S., Zeidi, M. 2013. Revisiting Neolithisation in the Zagros Foothills; Excavation at Chogha Golan A PPN Site in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Western Iran. In: R. Matthews – H. Fazeli Nashli, The Neolithization of Iran. p.64-71.
Darabi, H., Fazeli Nashli, H., Naseri, R., Riehl, S., Young, R., 2013. The Neolithisation Process in the Seimarreh Valley: Excavations at East Chia Sabz, Central Zagros. In: R. Matthews – H. Fazeli Nashli, The Neolithization of Iran.
Coşkun, A., Benz, M., Rössner, C., Deckers, K., Riehl, S., Alt, K.W., Özkaya, V., 2012. New results on the Younger Dryas occupation at Körtik Tepe, Neolithics. The Newsletter of Southwest Asian Neolithic Research 1, 25-32.
Conard, N., Bretzke, K., Deckers, K., Hillgruber, K.F., Kandel, A.W., Masri, M., Napierala, H., Riehl, S., Stahlschmidt, M. (submitted) Natufian lifeways in the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. In: O. Bar-Yosef – F. Valla, F. (ed.), Proceedings of the 2nd Natufian Conference in Paris, 7-11 September 2009.
Coskun, A., Benz, M., Erdal, Y.S., Koruyucu, M.M., Deckers, K., Riehl, S., Siebert, A., Alt, K.W., Özkaya, V. 2011. Living by the water - Boon and Bane for the People of Körtik Tepe. Neo-Lithics 2.10, 60-71.
Riehl, S. and E. Marinova 2011. Archäobotanischer Vorbericht zu den eisenzeitlichen Gruben in Oymaağaç, MDOG.
Genz, H., el-Zaatari, S., Çakirlar, C., Badreshany, K., Riehl, S., 2010. A Middle Bronze Age burial from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, Lebanon, Egypt and the Levant 20, 183-205.
Genz, H., Cakirlar, C., Damick, A., Jastrzebska, E., Riehl, S., Deckers, K., Donkinn, A. (2009) Excavations at Tell Fadous-Kfarabida: Preliminary Report on the 2009 Season of Excavations. BAAL 13, 161-188.
Riehl, S. 2009, Agricultural decision-making in the Bronze Age Near East: the development of archaeobotanical crop plant assemblages in relation to climate change. Proceedings of the ICAANE 2006.
Cremaschi, M., Canci, A., Gourichon, L., Pena-Chocarro, L., Pümpin, C., Riehl, S., Vila, E. 2007, The environment of ancient Qatna. Contributions from natural sciences and landscape archaeology. in: D. Morandi Bonacossi (ed.), Urban and Natural Landscapes of an Ancient Syrian Capital. Settlement and Environment at Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna and in Central-Western Syria. Proceedings of the International Conference held in Udine, 9-11 December 2004, Studi Archeologici su Qatna 1, Udine, Forum Editrice. p. 331-336.
Riehl, S., Ch. Kümmel, Ch. Forster 2005-2015. The archaeobotanical database for Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern sites http://www.ADEMNES.de/
Riehl, S. 2004. Archaeobotany at the Early Bronze Age settlement of Hirbet ez-Zeraqon: a preliminary report. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 120, 101-122; plate 4-7.
Riehl, S. 2001. Die organischen Proben, in: Mansfeld, G., Die Kontroll-Ausgrabungen des „Pinnacle E 4/5“ im Zentrum der Burg Troia. Studia Troica 11, S. 271.
Riehl, S. 2001. Vorbericht der archäobotanischen Bestandsaufnahme in Emar. Baghdader Mitteilungen 32: 157 – 172. pl. 1 – 2
Riehl, S. 2000. Erste Ergebnisse der archäobotanischen Untersuchungen am Tall Mozan/Urkesh. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft zu Berlin 132: 229 – 238.
Riehl, S. 2000. Archäobotanische Untersuchung einiger Proben aus der Grabungskampagne 1994, in: Bofinger, J. et al. (Hrsg.), Das Oppidum von Bramefan. 119 – 124.
Kolb, M., Riehl, S. 2000. Archäologische und archäobotanische Untersuchungen in einer Seeuferrandsiedlung in Sipplingen, Bodenseekreis. In: Biel, J., Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 1999. 33 – 38
Antanaitis, I., Riehl, S., Kisieliene, D., Kelertas, K. 2000. The evolution of the subsistence economy and archaeobotanical research in Lithuania. Lietuvos Archeologija 19: 47 – 67.
Riehl, S. 1999. Archäobotanik in der Troas. Studia Troica 9. S. 367 – 409.
Riehl, S. 1998. Interdisziplinarität - nur eine Utopie? Beobachtungen aus archäobotanischer Sicht. Archäologische Informationen 21:21 - 26.