Publications

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Ramsey, M.N. 
accepted    Ecological-Cultural Inheritance in the Wetlands: The Non-Linear Transition to Plant-Food Production in the Southern Levant. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.


Julien Vieugué, M.N. Ramsey & Yosef Garfinkel
forthcoming    Plant cooking among the first pottery-making societies in the Southern Levant: an insight from carbonized residues of pottery. In Soultana Maria Valamoti, Anastasia Dimoula & Maria Ntinou (Eds.), Cooking with Plants in Ancient Europe and Beyond: interdisciplinary approaches to the Archaeology of Plant Foods. Sidestone press.


Berganzo-Besga I, Orengo HA, Lumbreras F, Aliende P, Ramsey M.N.
2022     Automated Detection and Classification of Multi-Cell Phytoliths Using Deep Learning-Based Algorithms. Journal of Archaeological Science.


Ramsey, M.N., and Dani Nadel
2021    A new archaeobotanical proxy for plant food processing: Archaeological starch spherulites at the submerged 23,000-year-old site of Ohalo II, Journal of Archaeological Science, 134:105465.


Arranz-Otaegui, A., L. Gonzalez Carretero, M.N. Ramsey, D.Q. Fuller and T. Richter
2018    Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the origins of bread 14,400 years ago in northeastern Jordan, PNAS. 


Ramsey, M.N., A.M. Rosen, L. Maher, D. MacDonald and D. Nadel
2018    Sheltered by the Reeds: Construction and use of a twenty thousand year old hut according to phytolith analysis from Kharaneh IV, Jordan. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 50:85-97. 


Ramsey, M.N., A.M. Rosen and D. Nadel
2017    Centered on the Wetlands: Integrating new phytolith evidence of plant-use from the 23,000-year-old site of Ohalo II, Israel. American Antiquity, 82(4):702-722. 


Ramsey, M.N., A.M. Rosen, L. Maher and D. MacDonald
2016    Risk, Reliability and Resilience: Phytolith evidence for alternative ‘Neolithization’ pathways at Kharaneh IV in the Azraq Basin, Jordan. PLOS One.


Ramsey, M.N. and A.M. Rosen
2016    Wedded to Wetlands: Exploring Late Pleistocene Plant-Use in the Eastern Levant. Quaternary International, 396:5-19.


Ramsey, M.N., M. Jones, T. Richter and A.M. Rosen
2015    Modifying the Marsh: A Preliminary Evaluation of Early Epipaleolithic Hunter-Gatherer Impacts in the Azraq Wetland. The Holocene.


Laparidou, S., M.N. Ramsey and A.M. Rosen
2015    Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘The Anthropocene in the Longue Durée’. The Holocene.


Crumley, C., S. Laparidou, M.N. Ramsey and A.M. Rosen
2015    A view from the past and the future: concluding remarks on ‘The Anthropocene in the Longue Durée’. The Holocene.