Publications for Alison Betts

2021 Caspian region. Sydney: Sydney University Press. Tian, D., Festa, M., Cong, D., Zhao, Z., Jia, W., Betts, A. Jia, W., Betts, A., Doumani Dupuy, P., Cong, D. (2019). Pots (2021). New evidence for supplementary crop production, and potters of the of north-west Xinjiang. foddering and fuel use by Bronze Age transhumant pastoralists Antiquity, 93(371), 1231-1248. [More href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93090-2">[More Information] Information] Betts, A., Vicziany, M., Jia, W., Di Castro, A. (2019). The Spate, M., Penny, D., Yatoo, M., Betts, A. (2021). Re- Cultures of Ancient Xinjiang, Western China: Crossroads of the examining climate-driven Malthusian collapse in Kashmir: New Silk Roads. Oxford: Archaeopress. palaeoenvironmental context for the archaeological record. Quaternary International. [More East. In Shin-ichi Nakamura, Takuro Adachi, Masashi Abe Information] (Eds.), Decades in Deserts Essays on Near Eastern Archaeology in honour of Sumio Fujii, (pp. 323-327). Tokyo: Betts, A., Jia, W., Spate, M., Meng, Q., Yatoo, M. (2021). Rokuichi Syobou. When East and West First Met: The Nature of Cultural and Technological Transmissions at the Dawn of the Silk Roads. Betts, A., Yatoo, M., Spate, M., Fraser, J., Kaloo, Z., Rashid, Identity, Diversity & Contact: from the Southern Balkans to Y., Pokharia, A., Zhang, G. (2019). The Northern Neolithic of Xinjiang, from the Upper Palaeolithic to Alexander, Belgium: the Western Himalayas: New Research in the Kashmir Valley. Brepols Publishers. Archaeological Research in Asia, 18, 17-39. [More 2020 Information] You, Y., Yu, J., Betts, A., Jia, W. (2020). A zooarchaeological Betts, A. (2019). Xinjiang in Prehistory. In Alison V.G. Betts, study on the new evidence of sacrificial horses from Iron Age Marika Vicziany, Peter Jia and Angelo Andrea Di Castro burial 15 in the Kalasu cemetery, Xinjiang, China. (Eds.), The Cultures of Ancient Xinjiang, Western China: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 12(2), 1-15. [More [More Information] Information] Betts, A., Jia, W., Wang, Y., Rehren, T., Tan, Y., Cong, D., Henderson, J., Ma, H., Chen, K. (2020). New evidence for the 2018 transcontinental spread of early faience. Journal of Minardi, M., Betts, A., Grenet, F., Khashimov, S., Archaeological Science, 116, 1-8. [More from Akchakhan-kala. Acta Iranica, 58, 305-324. Information] Jia, W., Betts, A., Doumani Dupuy, P., Cong, D., Jia, X. (2018). Yatoo, M., Spate, M., Pokharia, A., Betts, A., Shah, M. (2020). Bronze Age Hill Forts: new evidence for defensive sites in the New evidence from the Kashmir Valley indicates the adoption western Tian Shan, China. Archaeological Research in Asia, of East and West Asian crops in the western Himalayas by 4400 15, 70-81. [More href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2020.100011">[More Information] Information] Pokharia, A., Mani, B., Spate, M., Betts, A., Srivastava, A. Jia, W., Caspari, G., Betts, A., Mohamadi, B., Balz, T., Cong, (2018). Early Neolithic agriculture (2700-2000 bc) and Kushan D., Shen, H., Meng, Q. (2020). Seasonal movements of Bronze period developments (ad 100-300): macrobotanical evidence Age transhumant pastoralists in western Xinjiang. PloS One, from Kanispur in Kashmir, India. Vegetation History and 15, e0240739. [More href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00334-017-0645-8">[More Information] Information] 2019 Betts, A., Khozhaniyazov, G., Weisskopf, A., Willcox, G. (2018). Fire Features at Akchakhan-kala and Tash-k'irman- Betts, A., Jia, W., Abuduresule, I. (2019). A new hypothesis for tepe. Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, 24(1-2), 217- early Bronze Age cultural diversity in Xinjiang, China. 250. [More Information] href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2018.04.001">[More Information] Sinisi, F., Betts, A., Khozhaniyazov, G. (2018). Royal Fires in the Ancient Iranian World: The Evidence From Akch Akhan- Shen, H., Zhou, X., Betts, A., Jia, W., Zhao, K., Li, X. (2019). Kala, Chorasmia. Parthica, 20, 9-30. Fruit collection and early evidence for horticulture in the Hexi Corridor, NW China, based on charcoal evidence. Vegetation Shen, H., Zhou, X., Zhao, K., Betts, A., Jia, W., Li, X. (2018). History and Archaeobotany, 28(2), 187-197. [More in the Hexi Corridor, NW China, inferred from charcoal Information] records. The Holocene, 28(4), 629-639. [More Betts, A., van Pelt, W. (2019). Game drives of the Aralo- Information] Amirov, S., Betts, A., Yagodin, V. (2015). Mapping ancient 2017 hunting installations on the Ustyurt Plateau, and Kazakhstan: new results from remote sensing imagery. Jia, W., Betts, A., Cong, D., Jia, X., Doumani Dupuy, P. (2017). Paleorient, 41(1), 199-219. Adunqiaolu: new evidence for the Andronovo in Xinjiang, Dodson, J., Betts, A., Amirov, S., Yagodin, V. (2015). The China. Antiquity, 91(357), 621-639. [More Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 437, 63- Information] 73. [More Halls in Ancient Chorasmia. Iran, 55(2), 208-226. href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/05786967.2017.1355568">[Mor e Information] 2014 Zhang, J., Lu, H., Jia, W., Flad, R., Wu, N., Betts, A. (2017). Betts, A. (2014). A response to zeder, bar-oz, rufolo and hole Cultivation strategies at the ancient Luanzagangzi settlement on (2013). Quaternary International, 338, 125-127. [More Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 26(5), 505-512. href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00334-017-0608-0">[More Betts, A., Jia, W., Dodson, J. (2014). The origins of wheat in Information] China and potential pathways for its introduction: A review. Betts, A. (2017). Exploring the Badia. Near Eastern Quaternary International, 348, 158-168. [More href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5615/neareastarch.80.2.0068">[More Information] Information] Betts, A. (2014). The Southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Brite, E., Kidd, F., Betts, A., Cleary, M. (2017). Millet Neolithic Period. In Margreet L. Steiner, Ann E. Killebrew cultivation in : A response to Miller et al. The (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: Holocene, 27(9), 1415-1422. [More University Press. href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199212972.013.0 12">[More Information] Spate, M., Zhang, G., Yatoo, M., Betts, A. (2017). New evidence for early 4th millennium BP agriculture in the Western 2013 Himalayas: Qasim Bagh, Kashmir. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 11, 568-577. [More Later Prehistory of the Badia: Excavations and Surveys in Information] Eastern Jordan. Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books. Caspari, G., Betts, A., Jia, W. (2017). The Bronze Age in the 2012 Western Tianshan, China: A new model for determining seasonal use of sites. Journal of Archaeological Science: Betts, A., Yagodin, V., Grenet, F., Kidd, F., Minardi, M., Reports, 14, 12-20. [More Paintings: New Perspectives on Kingship and Religion in Information] Ancient Chorasmia. Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology, 7, 125-165. [More Information] Betts, A., Dodson, J., Garbe, U., Bertuch, F., Thorogood, G. (2016). A carved ivory cylinder from Akchakhan-kala, 2011 Uzbekistan: Problems of dating and provenance. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 5, 190-196. [More Age agricultural settlements in the Zhunge'er (Junggar) Basin, Information] China. Journal of Field Archaeology, 36(4), 269-280. [More Information] Betts, A., Kidd, F. (2015). Buddhist Iconography of Northern 2010 Bactria. New Delhi: Manohar Publications. Betts, A., Jia, W. (2010). A Re-analysis of the Qiemu'erqieke Betts, A., Bonnat, M., Kidd, F., Grenet, F., Khashimov, S., (Shamirshak) Cemeteries, Xinjiang, China. Journal of Indo- Khodzhanijazov, G. (2015). Des divinites Avestiques sur les European Studies, 38(3 & 4), 275-317. peintures murals d'Akchakhan-kala, Ouzbekistan. Comptes- rendus des seances de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles- Betts, A., Tarawneh, M. (2010). Changing Patterns of Land Use Lettres, III, 1369-1396. and Subsistence in the Badiyat al-Sham in the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods: new data from Burqu and Bayir. In Betts, A., Burke, D. (2015). Desert Kites in Jordan - a new Jacqueline Dentzer-Feydy and Michele Vallerin (Eds.), Hauran appraisal. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 26(2), 74-94. V: La Syrie du Sud du Neolithique a lAntiquite tardive, (pp. 69- [More 80). Beirut: Presses de lifpo. Information] Betts, A., Kidd, F. (2010). Entre le fleuve et la steppe: nouvelles Muller-Neuhof, B., Betts, A., Willcox, G. (2015). Jawa, perspectives sur le Khorezm ancien. Comptes-rendus des Northeastern Jordan: The First 14C Dates for the Early seances de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, , 637- Occupation Phase. Zeitschrift fur Orient-Archaologie, 8, 124- 686. 131. Yagodin, V., Betts, A., Kidd, F., Brite, E., Khozhaniyazou, G., Amirov, S., Yagodin, V., Fray, G. (2010). Karakalpak- Sydney: Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney. Australian Excavations in Ancient Chorasmia. An Interim Report on the Kazakly-yatkan Wall Paintings: the "Portrait" 2003 Gallery. Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology, 4, 7-41. Betts, A. (2003). Qasr Burqu - desert periphery and urban core. Betts, A., Kidd, F. (2010). New directions in Mediterranean Archaeology, 16, 89-97. archaeology. Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan. Neue Folge, 42(2010), 1-1. 2002 Betts, A., Kidd, F. (2010). New Directions in Silk Road Betts, A. (2002). Interpretations of Dhuweila Rock Art: Archaeology: Proceedings of a Workshop held at ICAANE V, Shamanism and Increase Rites. 2nd International Congress on Madrid, 2006. Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und the Archeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Berlin: Ex Turan. Neue Folge, 42. Oriente. 2009 Helms, S., Yagodin, V., Betts, A., Khozhaniyazou, G., Negus, M. (2002). The Karakalpak-Australian Excavations in Ancient Betts, A., Yagodin, V., Helms, S., Khozhaniyazou, G., Amirov, Chorasmia: the Northern Fromtier of the 'Civilised' Ancient S., Negus Cleary, M. (2009). Karakalpak-Australian World. Ancient Near Eastern Studies, 39, 3-43. Excavations in Ancient Chorasmia, 2001-2005: Interim Report on the Fortifications of Kazakl'i-yatkan and Regional Survey. 2001 Iran, XLVII, 33-55. Betts, A. (2001). A Middle Bronze Age Block Mould from Tell Jia, W., Betts, A., Wu, X. (2009). Prehistoric archaeology in the Rukeis, Jordan. In Alan Walmsley, Elizabeth Hardy, Katherine Zhunge'er (Junggar) Basin, Xinjiang, China. Eurasian Wolrige (Eds.), Australians uncovering ancient Jordan : fifty Prehistory, 6(1-2), 167-198. years of Middle Eastern archaeology : a volume of studies and retrospectives prepared for The Eighth International Betts, A., Yagodin, V. (2009). The Tash-K'irman-Tepe Cult Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan, Sydney Complex: An Hypothesis for the Establishment of Fire Temples University, 9-13 July 2001, (pp. 233-238). Sydney: Research in Ancient Chorasmia. In Parry, Ken (Eds.), Art, Architecture Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of and religion Along the Silk Roads, (pp. 1-19). Turnhout, Sydney. Belgium: Brepols Publishers. [More Helms, S., Betts, A., Kidd, F., Yagodin, V., Khozhaniyazou, G. Information] (2001). Five Seasons of Excavations in the Tash-K'Irman Oasis of Ancient Chorasmia, 1996-2000. An Interim Report. Iran, 2008 XXXIX, 119-144. Kidd, F., Negus Cleary, M., Yagodin, V., Betts, A., Brite, E. Betts, A. (2001). Pastoralism. In Russell Adams and Yuval (2008). Ancient Chorasmian Mural Art. Bulletin of the Asia Goren (Eds.), The Archaeology of Jordan, (pp. 615-619). Institute, 18, 69-95. United Kingdom: Academic Press. Jia, W., Betts, A., Wu, X. (2008). Review of the late prehistoric Betts, A. (2001). The Middle East. In David S Whitley (Eds.), archaeology in Zhungeer Basin, China. Xinjiangwenwu, (1-2), Handbook of Rock Art Research, (pp. 786-823). United States: 35-54. Academic Press. Betts, A. (2008). Things To Do With Sheep and Goats: Neolithic Hunter-Forager Herders in North Arabia. In Hans Barnard and Willeke Wendrich (Eds.), The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism, (pp. 25-42). California, USA: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. 2007 Betts, A. (2007). The Aralo-Caspian Region. In Antonio Sagona, Claudia Sagona (Eds.), Ancient Nomads of the Aralo- Caspian Region, (pp. 1-10). Belgium: Peeters Publishers. Betts, A., Yagodin, V. (2007). The Fire Temple at Tash-k'irman Tepe, Chorasmia. In Joe Cribb & Georgina Herrmann (Eds.), After Alexander: Central Asia Before Islam, (pp. 435-453). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information] 2006 Betts, A. (2006). Chorasmians, Central Asian nomads and Chorasmian military architecture. In Svend Helms (Eds.), The Military Architecture of Ancient Chorasmia, (pp. 131-155). Paris: de Boccard. Khozhaniyazou, G., Helms, S., Betts, A. (2006). The Military Architecture of Ancient Chorasmia. Paris: de Boccard. 2004 Betts, A. (2004). Near East: Clay Plastered Skull. In DT Potts and KN Sowada (Eds.), Treasures of the Nicholson Museum.