A5066640579- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Marine and environmental studies
- Ancient Near East History
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Language and cultural evolution
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
- Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
Bar-Ilan University
2015-2025
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2006-2012
The spatial designation of discrete areas for different activities reflects formalized conceptualization a living space. results analyses Middle Pleistocene Acheulian archaeological horizon (about 750,000 years ago) at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel, indicate that hominins differentiated their (stone knapping, tool use, floral and faunal processing consumption) across These were organized in two main areas, including multiple around hearth. diversity human the distinctive patterning with which...
In contrast to animal foods, wild plants often require long, multistep processing techniques that involve significant cognitive skills and advanced toolkits perform. These costs are thought have hindered how hominins used these foods delayed their adoption into our diets. Through the analysis of starch grains preserved on basalt anvils percussors, we demonstrate a wide variety were processed by Middle Pleistocene at site Gesher Benot Ya'aqov in Israel, least 780,000 y ago. results further...
The use of fire by early hominins is considered a significant technological and cultural revolution. Recently, the study has been affected troublesome trend that views chemical microscopic techniques as only acceptable analyses residues, thus ignoring basic archaeological observations analyses. This paper discusses diverse expressions fire, their variability, level significance suggests spatial analysis burned residues reliable method for recognizing fire. Evidence from site Gesher Benot...
We report here on the identification and characterization of thin basalt anvils, a newly discovered component Acheulian lithic inventory Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY). These tools are an addition to array percussive (percussors, pitted stones anvils) made basalt, flint limestone. The anvils were selected from particularly compact, horizontally fissured zones flows. This type fissuring produces natural geometry thick slabs. Hominins at GBY had multiple acquisition strategies, including selection...
The reconstruction of past human use fire is often based on the presence in archaeological sites as evidenced by alterations lithic material. Here, a simple test thermoluminescence (TL) methods used verification tool for macroscopic identification burning damage flint microartefacts from Early and early Middle Pleistocene site Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov (Israel). small dimensions prevented removal outer surface, which TL signal might have been altered (bleached) exposure to light during...
The range of evidence at the archaeological site Gesher Benot Ya’aqov (GBY) provides a window into minds 800,000-year-old Acheulian hominins. Detailed action sequences used in stone tool manufacture, and exploitation animals (over 70 taxa) plants 130 are reconstructed, suggesting hierarchically organized decision chains with multiple alternative pathways to completion. In terms complexity organization, these rival those modern hunters gatherers typical cognitive strategy known psychology as...
This manuscript presents an attempt to evaluate the intensity of fire through spatial patterning and thermoluminescence methodology. Previous studies Layer II-6 Level 2 at Acheulian site Gesher Benot Ya'aqov suggested that hominins differentiated their activities across space, including multiple around a hearth reconstructed on basis distribution burned flint artifacts. A transect ~4 m was extended from center its periphery in order examine fire. Burned unburned microartifacts were sampled...
This paper presents an experimental study on the production of basalt mortars, common at Levantine Natufian sites (15,000–11,500 cal. BP). An increase in gathering and processing plant foods is among cultural innovations preceding Neolithic agricultural revolution, as documented “agricultural” tools such sickle blades ground stone (GST). Studies GST have focused their typology function; methods are rarely discussed. We present 15 systematic experiments focusing two methods—drilling...
Archaeological excavation involves disintegration, removal, and reassembly of the archaeological record; as such it is considered by many to be an unrepeatable, destructive activity. This perception has contributed advancement in practice, namely, development computerized recording systems that digitally record excavations spatially volumetrically during fieldwork. paper concerned with those sites where digital field not been done. These sites, recorded traditional methods, should excluded...