Publications

Hovhannisyan, Nelli, Marina Dallakyan, Syuzanna Esoyan, Boris Gasparyan, and Alexia Smith (in press for 2020) “Genetic Diversity and Traditional Uses of Aboriginal Grape Varieties from the Main Viticultural Regions of Armenia,” Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Steadman, Sharon R., Laurel D. Hackley, Stephanie Selover, Burcu Yıldırım, Madelynn von Baeyer, Benjamin Arbuckle, Ryan Robinson, and Alexia Smith (2019) “Early Lives: The Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age at Çadır Höyük,” Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 7(3): 271–298.

Ross, Jennifer C., Gregory McMahon, Yağmur Heffron, Sarah E. Adcock, Sharon R. Steadman, Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Alexia Smith, and Madelynn von Baeyer (2019) “Anatolian Empires: Local Experiences from Hittites to Phrygians at Çadır Höyük,” Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 7(3): 299–320.

Marica Cassis, Anthony J. Lauricella, Katie Tardio, Madelynn von Baeyer, Scott Coleman, Sarah E. Adcock, Benjamin Arbuckle, and Alexia Smith (2019) “Regional Patterns of Transition at Çadır Höyük in the Byzantine Period,” Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 7(3): 321–349.

Steadman, Sharon R., Gregory McMahon, Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Madelynn von Baeyer, Alexia Smith, Burcu Yıldırım, Laurel D. Hackley, Stephanie Selover, and Stefano Spagni (2019) “Stability and change at Çadır Höyük in central Anatolia: a case of Late Chalcolithic globalisation?” Anatolian Studies 69 (2019): 21–57.

Smith, Alexia, Lucas Proctor, Thomas Hart, and Gil Stein (2019) “The Burning Issue of Dung in Archaeobotanical Samples: A Case-Study integrating Macro-botanical, Dung Spherulites, and Phytoliths to assess Sample Origin and Fuel Use at Tell Zeidan, Syria,” Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 28 (3): 229–246.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-018-0692-9 (Open Access)

Styring, Amy K., Michael Charles, Federica Fantone, Mette Marie Hald, Augusta McMahon, Richard H. Meadow, Geoff K. Nicholls, Ajita K. Patel, Mindy C. Pitre, Alexia Smith, Arkadiusz Sołtysiak, Gil Stein, Jill A. Weber, Harvey Weiss, Amy Bogaard (2017) “Isotope evidence for agricultural extensification reveals how the world’s first cities were fed,” Nature Plants 3: 17076.

Glenn M. Schwartz, Christopher Brinker, Andrew Creekmore, Marian H. Feldman, Adam S. Maskevich, Alexia Smith, and Jill A. Weber (2017) “Excavations at Kurd Qaburstan, A Second Millennium BC Urban Site on the Erbil Plain,” Iraq 1–43.

Wales, Nathan, Jazmín Ramos Madrigal, Enrico Cappellini, Aldo Carmona Baez, José Alfredo Samaniego Castruita, J. Alberto Romero-Navarro, Christian Carøe, María C. Ávila-Arcos, Fernando Peñaloza, J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Boris Gasparyan, Diana Zardaryan, Tamara Bagoyan, Alexia Smith, Ron Pinhasi, Giovanna Bosi, Girolamo Fiorentino, Anna Maria Grasso, Alessandra Celant, Guy Bar-Oz, Yotam Tepper, Allan Hall, Simone Scalabrin, Mara Miculan, Michele Morgante, Gabriele Di Gaspero, and M. Thomas P. Gilbert (2016) “The limits and potential for reconstructing grape domestication using paleogenomic techniques,” Journal of Archaeological Science 72 57–70.

Smith, Alexia, Philip Graham, and Gil Stein (2015) “Ubaid Plant Use at Tell Zeidan, Syria,” Paléorient 41(2): 51–69.

Smith, Alexia, Krista Dotzel, Joyce Fountain, Lucas Proctor, Madelynn von Baeyer (2015) “Examining Fuel Use in Antiquity: Archaeobotanical and Anthracological Approaches in Southwest Asia,” Ethnobiology Letters 6(1): 192–195.

Smith, Alexia (2015) Review of “Development of the Environment, Subsistence and Settlement of the City of Urkeš and its Region, by Katleen Deckers, Monka Doll, Peter Pfälzner, and Simone Riehl, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz,” Bibliotheca Orientalis 71(5–6): 841–845.

Smith, Alexia and Scott Branting (2014) “Phrygian plant and insect remains from Kerkenes Dağ, central Anatolia (Turkey),” Ethnobiology Letters 5: 44–51.

Smith, Alexia, Tamara Bagoyan, Ivan Gabrielyan, Ron Pinhasi, and Boris Gasparyan (2014) “Late Chalcolithic and Medieval Archaeobotanical Remains from Areni-1 (Birds’ Cave), Armenia” in B. Gasparyan, M. Arimura, and S. Fujii, eds., Stone Age in Armenia. What’s done and what must be done. Recent Achievements of Stone Age Archaeology in the Republic of Armenia. Japan: Kanazawa University, 167–194.

Smith, Alexia (2014) “The Use of Multivariate Statistics within Archaeobotany,” in Mac Marston, Jade d'Alpoim Guedes, and Tina Warinner, eds., Current Methods in Paleoethnobotany. University Press of Colorado, 181–204. [peer-reviewed]

Smith, Alexia (2014) “Examining Agriculture and Climate Change in Antiquity: Practical and Theoretical Considerations,” in Marco Madella, Carla Lancelotti, and Manon Savard, eds., Ancient Plants and People—Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 47–70. [peer reviewed]

Graham, Philip and Alexia Smith (2013) “A Day in the Life of an Ubaid Household: Archaeobotanical Investigations at Kenan Tepe, Southeastern Turkey,” Antiquity 87 (336): 405–417.

Gabrielyan, Ivan and Alexia Smith (2012–2013) “Establishing a Botanical Reference Collection for Archaeobotanical Studies in Armenia,” American Research Institute of the Southern Caucasus Member Newsletter 4 (2012–2013): 10–11.

Keith N. Wilkinson, Boris Gasparian, Pavel Avetisyan, Roman Hovsepyan, Diana Zardaryan, Ron Pinhasi, Gregory E. Areshian, Guy Bar-Oz, and Alexia Smith (2012) “Areni-1 Cave, Armenia: a Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age Settlement and Ritual Site in the Southern Caucasus” Journal of Field Archeology 37(1): 20–33.

Gregory E. Areshian, Boris Gasparyan, Pavel S. Avetisyan, Ron Pinhasi, Keith Wilkinson, Alexia Smith, Roman Hovsepyan & Diana Zardaryan (2012) “The Chalcolithic of the Near East and south-eastern Europe: discoveries and new perspectives from the cave complex Areni-1, Armenia” Antiquity 86 (33 Weiss, Harvey, Sturt W. Manning, Lauren Ristvet, Lucia Mori, Andrew McCarthy, Philippe Quenet, Alexia Smith, and Zainab Bahrani (2012) “Tell Leilan Akkadian Imperialization, Collapse and Short-lived Reoccupation defined by High-Resolution Radiocarbon Dating,” Seven Generations Since the Fall of Akkad, Studia Chaburensia 3, Harrassowitz Verlag, 163–192.

Smith, Alexia (2012) “Akkadian and post-Akkadian Plant Use at Tell Leilan,” Seven Generations Since the Fall of Akkad, Studia Chaburensia 3, Harrassowitz Verlag, 225–240. [invited, panel reviewed]

Graham, Philip, and Alexia Smith (2012) “Integrating Household Archaeology and Archaeobotany: A Case Study from Ubaid Kenan Tepe, Southeastern Anatolia,” in New Perspectives in Household Archaeology, edited by Bradley J. Parker and Catherine P. Foster. Winona Lake, IL: Eisenbrauns, 247–265. [peer-reviewed]

Smith, Alexia (2012) “Safe Drinking Water Act,” in B. Rathje and J. G. Golson, eds, Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste. Vol. 2. Sage Publications, Inc, 773–774.1): 115–130.

Pinhasi, Ron, Boris Gasparian, Gregory Areshian, Diana Zardaryan, Alexia Smith, Guy Bar-Oz, Thomas Higham (2010) “First Direct Evidence of Chalcolithic Footwear from the Near Eastern Highlands,” PLoS ONE 5 (6): e10984.

Smith, Alexia and Naomi Miller (2009) “Delving Deeper into Subsistence: Integrating Plant and Animal Data,” Current Anthropology 50 (6): 883–884. [Guest editor; Introduction to peer reviewed special issue]

Smith, Alexia and Natalie Munro (2009) “A Holistic Approach to Examining Ancient Agriculture: A Case Study from the Bronze and Iron Age Near East,” Current Anthropology 50 (6): 925–936.

Parker, B. J., C. P. Foster, K. Nicoll, J. R. Kennedy, P. Graham, A. Smith, D. E. Hopwood, M. Hopwood, K. Butler, E. Healey, M. B. Uzel, and R. Jensen (2009) “The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP): A Preliminary Report from the 2007 and 2008 Field Seasons at Kenan Tepe,” Anatolica 35: 85–152.

Smith, Alexia (2008) “Methods of Agriculture in Antiquity,” (Introduction to the section on Agriculture), Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 19–26.

Smith, Alexia (2008) “Wine in Anatolia,” Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2281–2282.

Smith, Alexia (2007) “Plant Use at Cadır Höyük, Central Anatolia,”Anatolica 33: 169–184.

Smith, Alexia (2005) “Review of Environmental Archaeology and the Social Order by John G. Evans,” Journal of Field Archaeology 30(1): 110–114.