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Stephen J. Bourke, Pella Publications
(2022a) Migration and mobility in the Middle Bronze Age (c. 2100-1550 BCE) at Pella in Jordan [With C. Stantis et al.], IJOA 32/2, 339-357.
(2021a) ‘On the Edge of the Valley: The EBIV in the Wadi Hammeh’, [With M. Kennedy], in J. Long & W. Dever (eds.), Transitions, Urbanism and Collapse in the Bronze Age: Essays in Honor of Suzanne Richard, (Equinox, London), 217-240
(2020a) ‘Pella 2019’, in P. Creaseman, J. Green & C. Shelton (eds.), Archaeology in Jordan 2: 2018 and 2019 Seasons, (ACOR, Amman), 35-37.
(2018a) The Middle East:The Cradle of Civilization Revealed, S. Bourke [ed.], (Thames & Hudson, 2nd, rev.edn., London).
(2018b) ‘Pella 2017’, in J. Green, B. Porter & C. Shelton (eds.), Archaeology in Jordan 1: 2016 and 2017 Seasons, (ACOR, Amman), 23-24.
(2017a) ‘Bronze Age olive domestication in the north Jordan Valley: new morphological evidence for regional complexity in early arboricultural practice from Pella in Jordan’ [With A. Dighton et al.], Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 26/4 (2017), 403-413.
(2017b) ‘Testing Feldspar Luminescence Dating of Young Archaeological Heated Materials using potshards from Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) in the Jordan Valley’ [With S. al Khasawneh et al.], Geochronometrica 44 (2017), 98-110.
(2016a) ‘Pella in Jordan 2007-2009: Prehistoric, Bronze and Iron Age investigations on Khirbet Fahl and renewed work across the Tell Husn Summit’, Medit.Arch. 29 (2016), 125-140.
(2015a) ‘Taking an Axe to Cypriot Prehistory: Jordan and Cyprus in the Early Bronze Age’, in I. Swinnen & E. Gubel (eds.), From Gilead to Edom: Studies in the Archaeology of Jordan in Honor of Denyse Homes-Fredericq (Akkadica Supplementum XII, Bruxelles 2015), 77-94.
(2015b) ‘Copper and Trade in the Early Bronze Age of Pella in Jordan’, in K. Rosinka-Balik, A. Ochal-Czarnowicz, M. Czarnowicz & J. Debrowska-Ludwin (eds.), Copper and Trade in the South-East Mediterranean:Trade Routes of the Near East in Antiquity (Oxford, Archaeopress BAR Int. Ser 2753), 1-10.
(2014a) ‘Jordan in the Middle Bronze Age’, in M. Steiner & A. Killebrew (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant [ca. 8000-332 BCE], (Oxford, OUP), 459-475.
(2014b) ‘J. Basil Hennessy AO 1925-2013’, Levant 46/1 (2014), 1-3.
(2014c) ‘Urban Origins in the Early Bronze Age Jordan Valley: Recent Discoveries from Pella in Jordan’, in F. Hoflmayer & R. Eichmann (eds.), Egypt and the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age (Berlin, Orient Archaeologie 31), 3-18.
(2014d) ‘New Light on Classical and Late Antique Pella’, ACOR Newsletter 26/1 (2014), 1-6 .
(2013a) ‘Jordan in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages’, In M. Ababsa (ed.), Historical Atlas of Jordan: History, Territories and Society (Beirut, IFAPO), 122-125.
(2013b) ‘Did the Early Christians Flee to Pella?’, BAR 39/3 (2013), 30-39.
(2013c) ‘Pre-Classical Pella in Jordan: A Conspectus of Recent Work’, ACOR Newsletter 25/1 (2013), 1-5.
(2013d) ‘J. Basil Hennessy AO 1925-2013’, Medit.Arch 26 (2013), iv-viii.
(2012a) ‘The Six Canaanite Temples of Tabaqat Fahl: Excavating Pella’s Fortress Temple (1994-2009)’. in J. Kamleh (ed.), Temple Building and Temple Cult (ADPV 41, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden), 159-201.
(2011a) ‘Pella in Jordan 2003-2005: Further Explorations in the Bronze Age Temple Precinct’, Medit.Arch 24 (2011), 121-130.
(2009a) ‘The Beginning of the Early Bronze Age in the North Jordan Valley: New 14C Determinations from Pella in Jordan’, [With U. Zoppi et al.], Radiocarbon 51/3 (2009), 905-913.
(2009b) ‘Jordan in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age: A Review Article’, AWE 8 (2009), 285-299.
(2009c) ‘Innovation and Continuity in Bronze and Iron Age Glass from Pella in Jordan’, [With W. Reade et al.], in K. Janssens et al. [eds.], AIHV 17 (Corning 2009), 47-54.
(2008a) Australian Archaeologists at Pella (Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne 2008), 1-4.
(2008b) The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization Revealed (Thames & Hudson/Global Book Publishing, Sydney 2008). Editor/Chief Consultant.
(2007a) ‘Making History: Forty Years of Excavations at Pella in Jordan (1967-2007)’, Ancient History 37(1):1-35.
(2006a) ‘Pella in Jordan, Royal Name Scarabs and the Hyksos Empire: A View from the Margins’ [With K.O. Eriksson], in E. Cerny, I. Hein, H. Hunger, D. Melman & A.Schwab (eds.) Timelines: Studies in Honour of Manfred Bietak. Vol. II (Leuven 2006), 339-348.
(2006b) ‘Pella in the Middle Bronze Age’ [With R.T. Sparks et al.] , in P. Fischer (ed.) The Jordan Valley in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages (Vienna 2006), 9-58.
(2006c) ‘Pella and the Jordanian Middle and Late Bronze Ages’, in P. Fischer (ed.) The Jordan Valley in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages (Vienna 2006), 243-256.
(2005a) ‘Excavating Pella’s Bronze Age Temple Precinct (1999-2001)’, Medit.Arch 18, 109-118.
(2004a) ‘Cult and Archaeology at Pella in Jordan: Excavating the Bronze and Iron Age Temple Precinct (1994-2001)’, Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 137, 1-31.
(2004b) ‘The Chronology of the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic periods in the North Jordan Valley: New 14C Determinations from Pella in Jordan’, [With E. Lawson et al.], in: T. Higham, C. Bronk-Ramsey & C. Owen (eds.), Radiocarbon and Archaeology. Proceedings of the 4th Symposium, Oxford 2002 (Oxford 2004), 119-125.
(2003a) ‘Preliminary Report on the University of Sydney’s Eighteenth and Nineteenth Seasons of Excavation at Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) in 1996/97’, [With R.T. Sparks et al.], ADAJ 47 (2003), 335-388.
(2001a) ‘Twenty Years of Australian Anthropology in Jordan’ [With K.B. Hendrix], in A.G. Walmsley (ed.), Australians Excavating Ancient Jordan: Fifty Years of Archaeological Exploration (Sydney 2001), 77-88.
(2000a) ‘Pella in the Early Bronze Age’, in: G. Philip & D. Baird (eds.), Breaking with the Past: Ceramics and Change in the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant (Sheffield 2000), 233-254.
(1999a) ‘Bronze Age Occupation on Tell Husn (Pella): Report on the University of Sydney’s 1994/95 Field Seasons’, [With R.T. Sparks et al.], Medit.Arch. 12 (1999), 51-66.
(1999b) ‘Pella 1996/97’ [With K.A. da Costa], AJA 103 (1999), 494-496.
(1999c) ‘Exploring Prehistoric Pella in Jordan: The 1994-97 Field Seasons’, Medit.Arch 12 (1999), 147-156.
(1999d) ‘The New Pella Bronze Age Temple: The largest Migdol ever found’, Occident &Orient 4:2 (1999), 57-58.
(1998a) ‘Urbanisation and State Control at Pella in Jordan’, in: T.W. Hilliard et al. (eds.), Ancient History in a Modern University. Vol.1 (Sydney 1998), 103-110.
(1998b) ‘Preliminary Report on the University of Sydney’s Sixteenth and Seventeenth Season of Excavation at Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) in 1994/95’, [With R.T. Sparks et al.], ADAJ 42 (1998), 179-212.
(1997a) ‘Pella in Jordan 1995: Excavations in the North Jordan Valley’, in: C. Petrie & S. Bolton (eds.), In the Field: Archaeology at the University of Sydney, (Sydney 1997), 63-70.
(1997b) ‘Pre-Classical Pella in Jordan: A Conspectus of Ten Years’ Work (1985-1995)’, PEQ 129 (1997), 94-115.
(1996a) ‘Report on the Seventeenth Season of Excavations at Pella in Jordan by the University of Sydney, 1995’, Orient Express 1996/1, 3-5.
(1996b) ‘Pella in Jordan 1994/95′, AJA 100 (1996), 522-523.
(1995a) Trade, Contact and the Movement of Peoples in the Eastern Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of J.Basil Hennessy, [With J-P. Descoeudres eds.], (Sydney 1995).
(1995b) “The DAJ Excavations at Pella in Jordan 1963/64”, [With R.T. Sparks], in: S.J. Bourke & J-P. Descoeudres (eds.), Trade, Contact and the Movement of Peoples in the Eastern Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of J.Basil Hennessy (Sydney 1995), 149-167.
(1994a) “Preliminary Report on the Fourteenth Season of Excavation by the University of Sydney at Pella in Jordan”, [With R.T. Sparks et al.], ADAJ 38 (1994), 81-126.
(1994b) “Quantifying Culture Change in the Ancient Near East: Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Second Millennium BC Pottery from Pella in Jordan”, in: C.C. Sorrell & A.J. Ruys (eds.), International Ceramic Monographs (Sydney 1994), 28-33.
(1994c) “Pella in Jordan 1994: Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Discoveries”, Orient Express 1994/3, 65-66.
(1993a) “Pella in the Bronze and Iron Ages: A Report on the 1992 Field Season”, Medit. Arch. 5/6 (1993), 161-163.
(1993b) “Pella in Jordan 1992: Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Discoveries”, AJA 97 (1993), 467-468.
(1993c) “Preliminary Report on the University of Sydney’s Eleventh and Twelfth Season of Excavation at Pella in Jordan”, [With A.G. Walmsley et al.], ADAJ 37 (1993), 165-240.
(1992a) ‘First Preliminary Report on the Excavation and Study of the Human Remains at Pella’, in:A.W. McNicoll et al., Pella in Jordan 2 (Sydney 1992), 215-226.
(1990a) ‘Preliminary Report on the University of Sydney’s Tenth Season of Excavation at Pella in Jordan’, [With P.C. Edwards et al.], ADAJ 34 (1990), 53-95.
(1989a) ‘Pella in the Bronze and Iron Ages’, in: D. Homes-Fredericq & J.B. Hennessy (eds.) Archaeology of Jordan II.2:Field reports Sites L-Z, (Leuven 1989), 414-425.
(1988a) ‘Preliminary Report on the University of Sydney’s Eighth and Ninth Seasons of Excavation by the University of Sydney at Pella (Tabaqat Fahl), 1986 and 1987’, [With T.F. Potts et al.], ADAJ 32 (1988), 115-150.
(1988b) ‘Early Natufian Human Skeletal Remains from Wadi Hammeh 27’, in: A.N. Garrard & H-G. Gebel (eds.), The Prehistory of Jordan: The State of Research in 1986 (Oxford 1988), 558-559.
(1987a) ‘A Case of Crush Fracture Osteoporosis from Late Roman Pella in Jordan’, [With P. Sambrook et al.] OSSA 13 (1986-87), 167-172.