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Schwall, C., Brandl, M., Börner, M., Deckers, K., Lindauer, S., Pernicka, E., Yousif, E., Jasim, S.A. (accepted) New Insights into an Early Bronze Age Trading Post on the Gulf of Oman. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies.

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. Journal of Environmental Archaeology. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1989977

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 26, 102841.

Scherer, S., Höpfer, B., Deckers, K., Fischer, E., Fuchs, M., Kandeler, E., Lechterbeck, J., Lehndorff, E., Lomax, J., Marhan, S., Marinova, E., Meister, J., Poll, C., Rahimova, H., Rösch, M., Wroth, C., Zastrow, J., Knopf, T., Scholten, T., Kühn, P. (2021) Middle Bronze Age land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland -a multi-proxy study of colluvial deposits, archaeological features and peat bogs. Soil 7, 269–304, 2021.

Scherer, S., Deckers, K, Dietel, J., Fuchs, M., Henker, J., Höpfer, B., Junge, A., Kandeler, E., Lehndorff, E., Leinweber, P., Lomax, J, Miera, J., Poll, C., Toffolo, M.B., Knopf, T., Scholten, T., Kühn, P. (2021) What´s in a colluvial deposit? Perspectives from archaeopedology 198, 105040.

Heydari-Guran, S., Douka, K., Higham, T. Münzel, S., Deckers, K., Hoursid, S., Naderi, R., Asiabani, S. Ghasidian, E. (2021) Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation at Gelimgoush cave, Kermanshah; West-Central Zagros mountains of Iran. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38, 103050.

Jarl, J.; Riehl, S.; Deckers, K.; Becker, J. (2020) Plant cultivation under climatic fluctuations during the sixth and fifth millennia BC at Tell Tawila (northern Syria). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 12, 266.

Lucke, B.; Roski, J.; Vaneslow, K.A.; Bruins, H.; Abu-Jaber, N.; Deckers, K.; Lindauer, S.; Porat, N.; Reimer, P.J.; Bäumler, R.; Erickson-Gini, T. and Kouki, P.  (2019) Character, Rates, and Environmental Significance of Holocene Dust Accumulation in Archaeological Hilltop Ruins in the Southern Levant. Geosciences 9.

Deckers, K.; Döpper, S.; Schmidt,C. (2019) Vegetation, land, and wood use at the sites of Bat and  Al-Khashbah in Oman (fourth–third millennium BC). Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 30, 1-14.

Rössner, C.; Deckers, K.; Benz, M.; Özkaya, V.; Riehl, S. (2018) Subsistence Strategies and Vegetation Development at Aceramic Neolithic Körtik Tepe, Southeastern Anatolia. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 27, 15-29.

Orendi, A,; Deckers, K. (2018) Resource Use in the Sidonian Coastal Plain during the Late Iron Age: Archaeobotanical investigations at Tell el-Burak, Lebanon. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.

de Gruchy, M., Deckers, K. and Riehl, S. (2016) A Diachronic Reconstruction of the Northern Mesopotamia Landscape (4th to 2nd Millennia BC) from Three Separate Sources of Evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 8, 250-267.

Deckers, K. (2016) Oak charcoal from northeastern Syria as proxy for Vegetation, land use and climate in the second half of the Holocene. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 230, 22-36.

Benz, M.; Deckers, K.; Rößner, C.; Alexandrovsiy, A.; Pustovoytov, K.; Scheeres, M.; Fecher, M.; Coşkun, A.; Riehl, S.; Alt, K.W.; Özkaya, V. (2015) Prelude to village life. Environmental data and building traditions of the Epipalaeolithic settlement at Körtik Tepe, Southeast Turkey. Paléorient 41.2, 9-30.

Riehl, S.; Marinova, E.; Deckers, K.; Malina, M. and Conard, N.J. (2015) Plant use and local vegetation patterns during the second half of the late Pleistocene in southwestern Germany. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 7, 151-167.

Benz, M., Coşkun, A.; Hajdas, I.; Deckers, K.; Riehl, S. Alt, K.W.; Özkaya, V. and Weniger, B. (2012) Methodological implications of new radiocarbon dates from the Early Holocene site of Körtik Tepe, Southeast Anatolia. Radiocarbon 54. 3-4.

Riehl, S.; Benz, M.; Conard, N.; Deckers, K.; Fazeli, H.; Zeidi, M. (2012) Plant use in three PPNA sites of the northern and eastern Fertile Crescent - A preliminary report. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21, 95-106.

Pustovoytov, K.; Deckers, K. and Goldberg, P. (2011) Genesis, age and archaeological significance of a pedosediment in the depression around Tell Mozan, Syria. Journal of Archaeological Science 38, 913-924.

Deckers, K. and Pessin, H. (2010) Vegetation development in relation to human occupation and climatic change in the Middle Euphrates and Upper Jazirah (Syria/Turkey) during the Bronze Age. Quaternary Research 74, 216-226.

Deckers, K. and Riehl, S. (2008) Resource exploitation of the Upper Khabur Basin (NE Syria) during the 3rd millennium BC Paléorient 34.2, 173-189.

Deckers, K., Riehl, S., Jenkins, E., Rosen, A., Dodonov, A., Simakova, A.N. and N. J. Conard (2008) Vegetation development and human occupation in the Damascus Region of southwestern Syria from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 18.4, 329-340.

Deckers, K. and Riehl, S. (2007) Fluvial environmental contexts for archaeological sites in the Upper Khabur basin (northeastern Syria). Quaternary Research. 67, 337-348.

Thomas, D., Deckers, K, Hald, M.M., Holmes, M., Madella, M. and White, K. (2006) Environmental Evidence from the Minaret of Jam Archaeological Project, Afghanistan. Iran 44.

Deckers, K., Sanderson, D.C.W. and Spencer, J.Q.C. (2005) Thermoluminescence Screening of Non-Diagnostic Sherds from Stream Sediments to Obtain a Preliminary Fluvial Chronology: An Example from Cyprus.  Geoarchaeology.  An International Journal 20.1, 2005.

Deckers, K. (2005) Post-Roman History of River Systems in Western Cyprus: Causes and Archaeological Implications. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 18.2, 155-181.

Deckers, K. (2005) Anthracological Research at the Archaeological Site of Emar on the Middle Euphrates, Syria. Paléorient 32.2, 152-166.

Spencer, J.Q., Sanderson, D.C.W., Deckers, K. and Sommerville, A. (2003) Assessing Mixed Dose Distribution in Young Sediments identified using Small Aliquots and a Simple Two-Step SAR Procedure: The F-Statistic as a Diagnostic Tool. Radiation Measurements 37: 425-431.

Deckers, K. (2011) Bronze Age archaeological sites in the landscape: On the former distribution and density of deciduous oak in northern Syria. In: Conard, N.J.; Drechsler, P.; Morales, A. (eds.) Between Sand and Sea. The archaeology and human ecology of southwestern Asia. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag, 177-190.

Deckers, K. and Riehl (2007) An evaluation of botanical assemblages from the 3^rd to 2^nd millennium BC in northeastern Syria. Varia Anatolica. vol. XIX, 481-502.

Deckers, K. (2007) The Western Cyprus Geoarchaeological Survey: Indications of the Impact of Humans on the Environment and opposite of the Environment on Humans.  Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Memorie serie A 112, 105-113.  

Deckers, K. (2003) The Western Cyprus Geoarchaeological Survey: Some Case Studies.  In: Brysbaert, A.; de Bruijn, N.; Gibson, E.; Michael, A. and Monaghan, M. (eds) SOMA. Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (British Archaeological Reports 1142) Oxford, 27-34.

Deckers, K., de Gruchy, M. (submitted) Tracking the vegetation in Northern Mesopotamia for the 3rd to the 2nd millennium BC and implications for the road network. In: Otto, A. (ed.) Entre les fleuves III.

Höpfer, H.; Deckers, K.; Scherer, S.; Kühn; Scholten, T.; Knopf, T. (in press 2021) Festplatz oder Werkbereich? Die mittelbronzezeitliche Siedlung von Engen-Anselfingen (Lkr. Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg) und ihre Brandgruben mit Hitzesteinen. In: Elemente bronzezeitlicher Siedlungslandschaften. Workshop Nordkolleg Rendsburg 9./10. November 2018. Studien zur nordeuropäischen Bronzezeit.

Deckers, K. (submitted) Die Auswertung der Holzkohlenproben aus Raum DK. In: Pfälzner, P. (ed.) Qatna Studien.

Deckers, K. and Sewell, D. (2019) Chapter 3. The setting. In: Peltenburg, Crewe, L. and Bolger, D. (ed.) Figurine makers of Prehistoric Cyprus. Settlement and Cemeteries at Souskiou, 47-58.

Deckers, K. (2019) 13. Charcoal remains from 3rd millennium BC Tell el-Abd. In: Finkbeiner, U. (Ed.) (2019) Final Reports of the Syrian-German Excavations at Tell el-ʻAbd, Volume III. Zaphon Verlag.

Deckers, K. (2019) 14. On the Tell el-ʻAbd radiocarbon chronology. In: Finkbeiner, U. (Ed.) (2019) Final Reports of the Syrian-German Excavations at Tell el-ʻAbd, Volume III. Zaphon Verlag.

Deckers, K. (2019) Charcoal Analysis Results from Middle Bronze Age Monumental Building Contexts at Tell el-Burak. In: Kamlah, J. and Sader, H. (eds.): Tell el-Burak I. The Middle Bronze Age (Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 45,1); Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Riehl, S. and Deckers, K. (2019) Die Umwelt des Königspalastes: Eine Synthese der archäobiologischen Untersuchungen. In: Pfälzner, P.; Schmid, J. (Ed.) Der Königspalast von Qatna. Teil 1: Chronologie, Grundriss, Baugeschichte und Bautechniken. Qatna Studien 5, Wiesbaden, 79-88.

Deckers, K. (2019) 14 Holzkohleproben aus der Vorkammer der Königsgruft. In: Lange, S.; Schmid, J.; Wissing, A. (eds) Der Königsgruftkomplex von Qatna. Teil 1: Befunde und Fundverteilung im Korridor und in der Vorkammer. Qatna Studien 8, 345-348.

Deckers, K. (2016) 3. Anthracological samples from the Early and Middle Bronze Age graves at Chagar Bazar (Syria). In: Tunca, Ö. & Baghdo, A.M. (Ed.) 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 · Paris · Walpole (MA), 49-53.

Deckers, K.; Drechlser, P. and Sconzo, P. (2015) Radiocarbon chronology of Early Bronze Age sites from the Middle Euphrates region. In: Finkbeiner, U, Novak, M, Sakal, F. and Sconzo, P. (ed) ARCANE. Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Vol. IV. Middle Euphrates, Brepols 2015, 401-422.

Wilkinson, T.J.  and Deckers, K. (2015) 2. The regional Setting of Jerablus Tahtani. In: Peltenburg, E. et al. 2015 Tell Jerablus Tahtani, Syria, I. Mortuary practices at an Early Bronze Age fort on the Euphrates River. Levant Supplementary Series 17. Oxford: Oxbow, 13-23.

Benz, M.; Coskun, A; Rössner, C.; Deckers, K.; Riehl, S.; Alt, K.W.; Özkaya, V. (2015) First evidence of an Epipalaeolithic hunter-fisher-gatherer settlement at Körtik Tepe. Proceedings of the Corum Conference on Anatolian Archaeology.

Peltenburg, E.; Croft, P.; Cucchi, T.; Bailon, S.; Cerón-Carrasco, R.; Colledge, S.; Deckers, K.; Lorentz, K.O.; Mano, L.I.; McCartney, C.; Ridout-Sharpe, J. (2011-2012) (2017) Excavations of Neolithic Kissonerga-Mylouthkia, 2000-2006. Report of the Department of Antiquities Cyprus.

Conard, N.; Bretzke, K.; Deckers, K.; Hillgruber, K.F.; Kandel, A.W.; Masri, M.; Napierala, H.; Riehl, S.; Stahlschmidt, M. (2014) 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.

Coşkun,, A.; Benz, M.; Deckers, K., Riehl, S.; Alt, K.W. and Özkaya, V. (2012) New results on the Younger Dryas Occupation at Körtik Tepe. Neo-Lithics 1.12, 26-33. 

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, 11-24.

Linstädter, J.; Aschrafi, M.; Ibouhouten, H.; Zielhofer, C.; Bussmann, J.; Deckers, K.; Müller-Sigmund, H.; Hutterer, R.  (2012) Flussarchäologie der Moulouya-Hochflutebene, NO-Marokko. Madrider Mitteilungen

Deckers, K. and Conard, N. (2011) Vegetation and wood-use from the Pleistocene to the Holocene in the Damascus Basin. In: Deckers, K. (ed.) Holocene landscapes through time in the Fertile Crescent, 1-16

Deckers, K. and Drechsler, P. (2011) GIS-modelling of Early Bronze Age settlements and resources in the Upper Khabur. In: Deckers, K. (ed.) Holocene landscapes through time in the Fertile Crescent, 16-32.

Deckers, K. and Pessin, H. (2011) Vegetation development in relation to human occupation and climatic change in the Middle Euphrates and Upper Jazirah (Syria/Turkey) during the Bronze Age. In: Deckers, K. (ed.) Holocene landscapes through time in the Fertile Crescent, 33-48.

Deckers, K. and Pustovoytov, K. (2011) Geoarchaeology in the Tell Mozan surroundings. In: Deckers, K. (ed.) Holocene landscapes through time in the Fertile Crescent, 49-60.

Deckers, K. (2011) Riverine development through time in the Tell Leilan surroundings. In: Deckers, K. (ed.) Holocene landscapes through time in the Fertile Crescent, 73-84.

Deckers, K. (2011) Riverine development in the Tell Hamidi surroundings. In: Deckers, K. (ed.) Holocene landscapes through time in the Fertile Crescent, 85-96.

Wilkinson, T. and Deckers, K. (2011) Tell Brak´s loess section in TC. In: Deckers, K. (ed.) Holocene landscapes through time in the Fertile Crescent, 107-110.

Deckers, K. (2011) The dung as fuel model tested at two Syrian Jezirah sites. In: Deckers, K. (ed.) Holocene landscapes through time in the Fertile Crescent, 143-156.

Deckers, K. (2011) Wood use in the palace of Qatna. In: Deckers, K. (ed.) Holocene landscapes through time in the Fertile Crescent, 157-172.

Deckers, K. (2011) Wood remains from the Qatna tombs of the kings. In: Pfälzner, P. (ed) Qatna Gruft.

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, 15-26.

Deckers, K. (2010) Vegetation and wood use in the Bronze Age based on charcoals from Emar. In: Finkbeiner, U. and Sakal, F. (eds) Emar after the closure of the Tabqa Dam. The Syrian-German excavations 1996-2002. Volume I: Late Roman and Medieval cemeteries and environmental studies. Subartu XXV, 225-244.

Deckers, K (2010) Anthracological research on charcoal samples from Atchana. Yener, K.A.S. (eds) Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh. The 2003-2004 Excavations Seasons. Istanbul, 137-139.

Deckers, K. (2010) Archaeological sites of the Upper Khabur Basin in their fluvial geomorphological context. In: Deckers, K., Doll, M, Pälzner, P. and Riehl, S. (eds.) Development of the Environment, Subsistence and settlement of the city of Urkes and its region, 159-190.

Deckers, K. (2010) Anthracological research at Tell Mozan. In: Deckers, K., Doll, M, Pälzner, P. and Riehl, S. (eds.) Development of the Environment, Subsistence and settlement of the city of Urkes and its region, 361-378. 

Riehl, S. and Deckers, K. (2009) Vorbericht zu einigen eisenzeitlichen und mittelalterlichen Pflanzenresten vom Tell Halaf. In: Baghdo, A.; Martin, L.; Novak, M. and Orthmann, W. (eds) Tell Halaf: Vorberichte über die erste und zweite syrisch-deutsche Grabungskampagne, 105-118.

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. and Deckers, K. (2007) Plant Remains.  In: H. Genz. (ed) Tell Fadous (Lebanon). Baal 9, 84-88. 

Deckers, K. and Vandenberghe, D. (2007) Confronting luminescence with radiocarbon dates for fluvial deposits in the Upper Khabur basin of northeastern Syria. Ooghe, B. and Verhoeven, G. (Eds). Broadening Horizons. Multidisciplinary approaches to landscape study, 50-74.

Deckers, K. and Riehl, S. (2004) The Development of Economy and Environment from Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age in Northern Syria and the Levant. A Case-Study from the Upper Khabur Region.  Antiquity (Project Gallery) 78.302.

Deckers, K. (2002) The Western Cyprus Geo-Archaeological Survey: Establishing a Chronology for Landscape Evolution.  CBRL Newsletter, 4-6.

Deckers, K. (2011) Landscapes through time in the Fertile Crescent. Subartu

Deckers, K. and Fuchs, M. (Eds) (2007) Proceedings of the Eastern Mediterranean/Near Eastern Geoarchaeology Meeting.  Part II. Geoarchaeology.  An International Journal. 22.6.

Fuchs, M. and Deckers, K. (Eds) (2006) Proceedings of the Eastern Mediterranean/Near Eastern Geoarchaeology Meeting.  Geoarchaeology.  An International Journal. volume 21.7.

Deckers, K. (2014) Review in Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie. Holocene landscape changes of the Lezha region. A contribution to the palaeogeographies of coastal Albania and the geoarchaeology of ancient Lissos. Levent Uncu.

Deckers, K. (2010) Review in Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 4, 537-540. Palaeo-environmental dynamics and archaeological sites. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie. Vol. 53. Suppl. 1. Pavlopoulos, K. (ed.) Palaeoenvironmental dynamics and archaeological sites.

Deckers, K. (2007) Review in Geoarchaeology. An International Journal 22.7, 824-826 „Geoarchäologische, sedimentologische und morphodynamische Untersuchungen im Mündungsgebiet des Büyük Menderes (Mäander), Westtürkei“. Marc Müllenhoff, 2005. Marburg.

Deckers, K. (2005) Review in Journal of the American Oriental Society: Nützel, W. (2004). Einführung in die Geo-Archäologie des Vorderen Orients, Wiesbaden 2004.

Deckers, K. (2004) Review in The Prehistoric Society: Guilaine, J. and Le Brun, A. (ed) (2003). Le Néolithique de Chypre.  Actes du Colloque International Organisé par le Département des Antiquités de Chypre et l´École Française d´Athènes.  Athènes

More than 60 presentations at conferences/workshops. Only the ones from 2020-2021 are mentioned:

December 14, 2020 - University of Durham, online CLaSS workshop. Oral presentation: “Anthracology in the CLaSS Project: Olives, oaks and more”

April 6-9, 2021 - University of Bologna, online International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East – Oral presentation on: “Vegetation reconstruction in the CLaSS (Climate, Landscape, Settlement
and Society) Project”

May 7-8, 2021, AK Geoarchäologie Jahrestagung (online). Co-author oral presentation: „Multi-proxy Analysen am Kolluvium Fürstenberg 8 (Baar, Südwestdeutschland) - Zur archäopedologischen Rekonstruktion von Phasen der Pedogenese und Landnutzung“

July 1-2, 2021 - University of Munich, online, workshop: "Vegetable Oils in the Ancient Near East and Beyond. Cultivation, Extraction, and Manufacturing Processes" – Invited oral presentation on: “Early Bronze Age Olive Production in the Near East”.

September 11, 2021 - EAA session #228 (“Agricultural Change and Social Inequality: Approaching Complexity”, scheduled 11 Sep 9:00 ‐ 18:30 CEST). Co-Autor poster presentation: “A multi-proxy case study of Middle Bronze Age (MBA, 1600-1250 BCE) land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland”

September, 2021 - Jahrestagung der DBG 2021. Co-Autor oral presentation: „Kolluvien als Archive zur Rekonstruktion von Landnutzungspraktiken im Umfeld mittelbronzezeitlicher Siedlungen“