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“Abu Hureyra” as a book category denotes works centered on the archaeological site of Tell Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates in northern Syria (not to be confused with the early Islamic figure Abu Hurairah) and the broader themes it represents: the late Epipaleolithic to Pre-Pottery Neolithic transition, the shift from mobile foragers to sedentary village life, early plant cultivation and domestication (notably rye), and human responses to climatic shocks such as the Younger Dryas. Titles in this category typically include excavation reports, paleoethnobotanical and zooarchaeological analyses, environmental reconstructions, and comparative syntheses on the origins of agriculture in Southwest Asia. Core topics span settlement and architecture, subsistence and food processing, toolkits and material culture, health and labor, and methodological advances like flotation, microbotanical study, and radiocarbon dating. Overall, the category frames Abu Hureyra as a keystone case for understanding how and why the first farming communities emerged.

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