Books
Bruins, H.J., Akong’a, J.J., Rutten, M.M.E.M., Kressel, G.M. (2003) Drought Planning and Rainwater Harvesting for Arid-Zone Pastoralists: the Turkana and Maasai (Kenya) and the Negev Bedouin (Israel). NIRP Research for Policy Series 17; Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam (ISBN 90-6832-682-1).
Bruins, H.J. and Lithwick, H. (Eds.) (1998) The Arid Frontier - Interactive Management of Environment and Development. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht; Springer, New York.
Articles in refereed journals (selected)
Bruins, H.J. and van der Plicht, J. (2014) The Thera olive branch, Akrotiri (Thera) and Palaikastro (Crete): comparing radiocarbon results of the Santorini eruption. Antiquity 88:282–287.
van Asperen, H.L., Bor, A.M.C., Sonneveld, M.P.W., Bruins, H.J. and Lazarovitch, N. (2014) Properties of anthropogenic soils in ancient run-off capturing agricultural terraces in the Central Negev desert (Israel) and related effects of biochar and ash on crop growth. Plant and Soil 374:779–792.
Ore, G. and Bruins, H.J. (2012) Design features of ancient agricultural terrace walls in the Negev desert: human-made geodiversity. Land Degradation & Development 23: 409–418.
Bruins, H.J., van der Plicht, J. and Haiman, M. (2012). Desert habitation history by 14C dating of soil layers in rural building structures (Negev, Israel): Preliminary results from Horvat Haluqim. Radiocarbon 54(3-4): 391–406.
Bruins, H.J., Sherzer, Z., Ginat, H. and Batarseh, S. (2012) Degradation of springs in the Arava Valley: anthropogenic and climatic factors. Land Degradation & Development 23: 365–383.
Bruins, H.J. (2012) Ancient desert agriculture in the Negev and climate-zone boundary changes during average, wet and drought years. Journal of Arid Environments 86: 28-42. http://top25.sciencedirect.com/subject/environmental-science/13/journal/journal-of-arid-environments/01401963/archive/48/ Top 25 hottest articles (ranked 9th) Oct-Dec 2013.
Bruins, H.J., Nijboer, A.J. and Van der Plicht, J. (2011) Iron Age Mediterranean chronology: a reply. Radiocarbon 53(1):199-220.
Bruins, H.J. (2010) Dating Pharaonic Egypt. Science 328(5985):1489-1490.
Bruins, H.J. and Ore, G. (2009) Runoff from loess or bedrock? Hillslope geoarchaeology of ancient runoff farming systems at Horvat Haluqim and Har Eldad in the central Negev desert. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 57(3-4):231-247.
Bruins, H.J., Van der Plicht, J. and MacGillivray, J.A. (2009) The Minoan Santorini eruption and tsunami deposits in Crete (Palaikastro): Geological, archaeological, 14C dating and Egyptian chronology. Radiocarbon 51(2):397-411.
Kafle, H. and Bruins, H.J. (2009) Climatic trends in Israel 1970-2002: Warmer and increasing aridity inland. Climatic Change 96:63-77.
Van der Plicht, J., Bruins, H.J. and Nijboer, A.J. (2009) The Iron Age around the Mediterranean: A high-chronology perspective from the Groningen radiocarbon database. Radiocarbon 51(1):213-242.
Bruins, H.J., MacGillivray, J.A., Synolakis, C.E., Benjamini, C., Keller, J., Kisch, H.J., Klügel, A. and Van der Plicht, J. (2008) Geoarchaeological tsunami deposits at Palaikastro (Crete) and the Late Minoan IA eruption of Santorini. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(1): 191-212.
3rd place ranking of 25 hottest articles in Journal of Archaeological Science, January to March 2008.
http://top25.sciencedirect.com/subject/arts-and-humanities/2/journal/journal-of-archaeological-science/03054403/archive/15
Selected by Science Magazine in its Editor’s Choice section, Science 319 (5859): 13.
Bruins, H.J. and Van der Plicht, J. (2007) Radiocarbon dating the ‘Wilderness of Zin’. Radiocarbon 49(2):481-497.
Bruins, H.J. and Bu, F. (2006) Food Security in China and Contingency Planning: The Significance of Grain Reserves. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 14(3):114-124.
Bruins, H.J., Van der Plicht, J. and Mazar, A. (2003a) 14C dates from Tel Rehov: Iron-Age chronology, Pharaohs and Hebrew Kings. Science 300(5617):315-318.
Bruins, H.J., Van der Plicht, J. and Mazar, A. (2003b) Response to Comment on “14C dates from Tel Rehov: Iron-Age chronology, Pharaohs and Hebrew Kings”. Science 302(5645):568c.
Van der Plicht, J. and Bruins, H.J. (2001) Radiocarbon dating in Near-Eastern contexts: confusion and quality control. Radiocarbon 43(3):1155-1166.
Bowman, D., Bruins, H.J. and Van der Plicht, J. (2001) Load structure seismites in the Dead Sea area (Israel): Chronological benchmarking with 14C dating. Radiocarbon 43(3): 1383-1390.
Bruins, H.J. (2000) Proactive contingency planning vis-à-vis declining water security in the 21st century. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 8:63-72.
Bruins, H.J. and Van der Plicht, J. (1996) The Exodus enigma. Nature 382:213-214.
Bruins, H.J. and Van der Plicht, J. (1995) Tell es-Sultan (Jericho): Radiocarbon results of short-lived cereal and multi-year charcoal samples from the end of the Middle Bronze Age. Radiocarbon 37:213-220.
Bruins, H.J. (1994) Comparative chronology of climatic and human history in the southern Levant from the late Chalcolithic to the Early Arab Period. In O. Bar-Yosef and R. Kra (eds.) Late Quaternary Chronology and Paleoclimates of the Eastern Mediterranean. Radiocarbon, Refereed Special Edition, pp. 301-314.
Bruins, H.J. and Yaalon, D.H. (1992) Parallel advance of slopes in aeolian loess deposits of the northern Negev, Israel. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 41:189-199.
Bruins, H.J. and Mook, W.G. (1989) The need for a calibrated radiocarbon chronology of Near Eastern archaeology. Radiocarbon 31(3):1019-1029.
Bruins, H.J., Evenari, M. and Nessler, U. (1986) Rainwater-harvesting agriculture for food production in arid zones: the challenge of the African famine. Applied Geography 6:13-32.
Issar, A.S. and Bruins, H.J. (1983) Special climatological conditions in the deserts of Sinai and the Negev during the latest Pleistocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 43:63-72.
Chapters in books (selected)
Bruins, H.J. (2012) Risks to Food Security: Contingency Planning for Agri-Megacrises. In Helsloot, I., Boin, A., Jacobs, B., Comfort, L. (eds.) Mega-Crises: Understanding the Prospects, Nature, Characteristics and the Effects of Cataclysmic Events. C.C. Thomas Publisher, Springfield IL, pp. 342-355.
Bruins, H.J. (2007) Runoff terraces in the Negev Highlands during the Iron Age: Nomads settling down or farmers living in the desert? In E.J. van der Steen and B.A. Saidel (eds.) On the Fringe of Society: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives on Pastoral and Agricultural Societies. Archaeopress, Oxford, British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International Series 1657: 37-43.
Bruins, H.J., Mazar, A. and Van der Plicht, J. (2007) The End of the 2nd Millennium BCE and the Transition from Iron I to Iron IIA: Radiocarbon Dates of Tel Rehov, Israel. In M. Bietak and E. Czerny (eds.) The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C. - III. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, pp. 79-99.
Bruins, H.J. (2006) Desert Environment and Geoarchaeology of the Wadi Arabah. In P. Bienkowski and K. Galor (eds.) Crossing the Rift: Resources, Routes, Settlement Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah. Oxbow Books, Oxford, Levant Supplementary Series, 3:29-43.
Bruins, H.J., Van der Plicht, J., Mazar, A., Bronk Ramsey, C. and Manning, S.W. (2005) The Groningen Radiocarbon Series from Tel Rehov: OxCal Bayesian Computations for the Iron IB-IIA Boundary and Iron IIA Destruction Events. In T.E. Levy and T. Higham (eds.) The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science. Equinox, London, pp. 271-293.
Bruins, H.J., Van der Plicht, J., Ilan, D. and Werker, E. (2005) Iron-Age 14C dates from Tel Dan: a high chronology. In T.E. Levy and T. Higham (eds.) The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science. Equinox, London, pp. 323-336.
Bu, F. and Bruins, H.J. (2004). Drought and Famine Disasters in China: From Risk Assessment based on Historical Records to Contingency Planning. In D. Malzahn and T. Plapp (eds.) Disasters and Society – From Hazard Assessment to Risk Reduction. Proceedings of the International Conference, University of Karlsruhe. Berlin: Logos Verlag, pp. 137-144.
Bruins, H.J. and Van der Plicht, J. (2003) Assorting and synchronising archaeological and geological strata with radiocarbon: the Southern Levant in relation to Egypt and Thera. In M. Bietak (ed.) The Synchronisation of Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd millennium BC - II. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, pp. 35-42.
Bruins, H.J. (2000) Drought hazards in Israel and Jordan: policy recommendations for disaster mitigation. In D.A. Wilhite (ed.) Drought: A Global Assessment. Volume II, Routledge, London, Hazards and Disasters Series, Chapter 42, pp. 178-193.
Bruins, H.J. (1999) Drought Management and Water Supply Systems in Israel. In E. Cabrera and J. García-Serra (eds.) Drought Management Planning in Water Supply Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht / Boston / London, pp. 299-321.
Bruins, H.J. and Lithwick, H. (1998) Proactive Planning and Interactive Management in Arid Frontier Development. In H.J. Bruins and H. Lithwick (eds.) The Arid Frontier - Interactive Management of Environment and Development. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht ; Springer-Verlag, New York, Chapter 1, pp. 3-29.
