Publications of Wim van Neer

Selected articles

Van Neer, W., Linseele, V., Friedman, R. 2004. Animal burials and food offerings at the Elite Cemetery HK6 of Hierakonpolis, in: S. Hendrickx, R. Friedman, K.M. Cialowicz and M. Chlodnicki (eds) Egypt at its Origins. Studies in Memory of Barbara Adams (Proceedings of the International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Krakow, 28th August - 1st September 2002. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 138, 67-130.

Linseele, V., Van Neer, W., Friedman, R. 2009. Special animals from a special place? The fauna from HK29A at Predynastic Hierakonpolis. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 45: 105-136.

Van Neer, W., De Cupere, B., Friedman, R. 2013. A leopard in the Predynastic Elite Cemetery HK6 at Hierakonpolis, Egypt. In: De Cupere, B., Linseele, V., Hamilton-Dyer, S. (eds) Archaeozoology of the Near East X. Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on the Archaeozoology of South-Western Asia and Adjacent Areas. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series 44, 283-306.

Van Neer, W., Linseele, V., Friedman, R., De Cupere, B. 2014. More evidence for cat taming at the Predynastic elite cemetery of Hierakonpolis (Upper Egypt). Journal of Archaeological Science 45: 103-111.

Van Neer, W., Udrescu, M., Linseele, V., De Cupere, B., Friedman, R. 2015. Traumatism in the wild animals kept and offered at predynastic Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 27: 86–105.

Van Neer, W., Linseele, V., and Friedman, R., 2016. More animal burials from the Predynastic elite cemetery of Hierakonpolis (Upper Egypt): the 2008 season.[in:] Mashkour, M and Beech, M. (eds.), Archaeozoology of the Near East 9. Oxford: 388-402

Baba, M., Van Neer, W., De Cupere, B. 2017.Industrial Food Production Activities during the Naqada II period at HK11C, Hierakonpolis. In Midant-Reynes, B  and Tristant, Y. (eds), Egypt at its Origins 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference ‘Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt’, Cairo, 13th-18th April 2014, Peeters, Leuven: 3–34

Van Neer, W., De Cupere, B., Friedman, R. 2024. The earliest evidence for deformation of livestock horns: The case of Predynastic sheep from Hierakonpolis, Egypt. Journal of Archaeological Science 172, 106104.

(07-2025)