1. Feb 2023 Journal Article Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

    Big-game hunting during the late Middle Paleolithic in the Levant: Insights into technology and behavior from Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet, Upper Jordan River, israel

    Alla Yaroshevich, Maya Oron, Gonen Sharon
    Abstract

    Examination of the complete assemblage of pointed artefacts from the short-term kill-butchering site of Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet (NMO), Upper Jordan River, enabled the first holistic reconstruction of big-game procurement during the Late Middle Paleolithic in the Levant. The detailed analysis of diagnostic impact fractures (DIF) observed on the artefacts, in conjunction

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  2. Feb 2023 Journal Article Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

    Formation processes and spatial patterning in a late prehistoric complex cave in northern Israel informed by SLAM-based LiDAR

    Micka Ullman, Ben Laugomer, Ido Shicht, Boaz Langford, Shemesh Ya‘aran, Ido Wachtel, Amos Frumkin, Uri Davidovich
    Abstract

    A SLAM-based Zeb Horizon LiDAR system is used for high-resolution 3D mapping of Har Sifsof Cave (HSC) in the Upper Galilee, northern Israel. Located within a dense karst province, HSC is a subterranean system featuring a composite morphology, the result of prolonged aging processes of a large hypogenic chamber. With a total length of 518 m, it is one of the largest

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  3. Feb 2023 Book The Amorites

    The Amorites: A Political History of Mesopotamia in the Early Second Millennium BCE

    Abstract

    This study of the political history of Mesopotamia – today’s Iraq and Syria – in the Old Babylonian period (ca. 2000-1600 BCE) is the first comprehensive historical synthesis of this kind published in English after many decades. Based on numerous written sources in Sumerian and Akkadian – royal inscriptions, letters, law collections, economic records, etc. – and on

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  4. Feb 2023 Edited Volume

    ארץ-ישראל בשלהי העת העתיקה

    Joseph Patrich, Ora Limor, Hillel Newman
    תקציר

    בשלהי העת העתיקה (המאות הרביעית–השביעית לסה"נ) הפכה ארץ־ישראל מפרובינקיה חסרת חשיבות מיוחדת בספר האימפריה הרומית לארץ הקודש הנתונה לשלטון קיסרים נוצרים שבירתם אינה עוד רומא אלא ביזנטיון, ששמה הוסב לקונסטנטינופוליס. הייתה זו התקופה המאוכלסת ביותר בתולדות הארץ עד המאה העשרים, תקופה של שגשוג כלכלי ופריחה תרבותית שהותירה חותם עמוק על

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  5. 26 Jan 2023 Book Chapter The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology

    A Pleistocene Record of Making Symbols

    Abstract

    Symbol making involves active agency, as it is, by definition, intentional and aims to deliver messages, worldviews, and social contents to designated audiences. As archaeology can specify only elements of behavior that are expressed as material objects, it must focus on material objects and their contexts. Accordingly, this chapter does not aim to elucidate the symbolic

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  6. 24 Jan 2023 Journal Article Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

    Geoarchaeology at the marine waterfront of a coastal urban center: Human activities and sea-land interface processes on the Late Bronze and early Iron Age coast of Tel Dor, Israel

    Ruth Shahack-Gross, Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, Paula Rut Zajac, Ehud Arkin Shalev, Tami Zilberman, Gal Yasur, Sveta Matskevich, S Rebecca Martin, Ayelet Gilboa, Ilan Sharon, Assaf Yasur-Landau
    Abstract

    Geoarchaeological research at coastal urban sites in the Levant focused until recently on two research directions: the identification of ancient harbors and the study of occupation deposits in settlement portions that are located well above sea level (i.e., 'dry' excavations). Here we present a geoarchaeological study of the southern maritime waterfront of Tel Dor

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  7. 6 Jan 2023 Journal Article Palestine Exploration Quarterly

    The Level V City Wall at Lachish

    Abstract

    In a recent article published in this journal (Finkelstein 2020 Finkelstein, I., 2020. ‘Iron Age Chronology and Biblical History Rejoinders: The Late Bronze/Iron Age Transition, Tel ʿEton and Lachish’, PEQ 152.2, 8593.[Taylor & Francis Online] [Google Scholar], PEQ 152, 85–93), newly published data on Level V at Tel Lachish was criticized. This new data

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  8. 3 Jan 2023 Journal Article Scientific Reports

    Butchering knives and hafting at the Late Middle Paleolithic open-air site of Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet (NMO), Israel

    Juan Ignacio Martin-Viveros, Maya Oron, Andreu Ollé, M Gema Chacón, Gonen Sharon
    Abstract

    Much of what is known about human behavior and subsistence strategies in the Levantine Middle Paleolithic comes from long sequences from caves and rock shelters. In this context, studies of stone tool function have traditionally focused on determining the use of Levallois points and triangular elements, either as projectiles or, more rarely, multipurpose knives. Little

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  9. Jan 2023 Journal Article Journal of Archaeological Science

    The earliest silver currency hoards in the Southern Levant: Metal trade in the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age

    Tzilla Eshel, Ayelet Gilboa, Ofir Tirosh, Yigal Erel, Naama Yahalom-Mack
    Abstract

    The earliest use of silver as a means of payment in the Levant is generally overlooked, and hoarded silver for use as currency is often considered an Iron Age phenomenon. Based on context, typology, and chemical and Pb-isotopic analyses of silver from Megiddo, Gezer and Shiloh, we show, for the first time, that the earliest material evidence for the use of silver as a

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  10. 7 Dec 2022 Journal Article Plos One

    Continuity and change in lithic techno-economy of the early Acheulian on the Ethiopian highland: A case study from locality MW2; the Melka Wakena site-complex

    Abstract

    Recent research has made great strides clarifying the chronology, temporal span, and geographic and technological patterning of the Acheulian in eastern Africa. However, highland occurrences of the Acheulian remain under-represented and their relationship to cultural dynamics in the Rift are still poorly understood. Recently, a stratified sequence of four archaeological

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