Just received news that a new article of ours has been published. It is free for download.2024 Katja Soennecken and Haskel J. Greenfield. Dog consumption at Tell Zirāʿa: Is it a “cultural marker” for the “Sea Peoples”? Humans 4: 148–182.• Website: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9461/4/2/9• PDF Version: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9461/4/2/9/pdf
Tell es-Safi/Gath III on the publisher’s website! The full title is: Shai, I., Greenfield, H. J., and Maeir, A. M., eds. In press. Tell es-Safi/Gath III: The Early Bronze Age, Part 1. Ägypten und Altes Testament 122. Münster: Zaphon.
Hi. I would like to announce on behalf of my coauthors our most recent article. Jane Gaastra spearheaded the effort and did a brilliant job of it. 2023 Jane L. Gaastra, Tina L. Greenfield, and Haskel J. Greenfield. Domesticating details: 3D geometric morphometrics for the zooarchaeological discrimination of wild, domestic and proto-domestic sheep (Ovis aries)…
Recently, Yixuan and I made a video on my archaeological research at the Early Neolithic site of Foeni-Salas in the 1990s.Here is a link to the video on youtube:https://youtu.be/9pWAk1sw2Tg This video introduces the archaeological research conducted by an international team of archaeologists at the multi-period site of Foeni-Salas in SE Romania. This video concentrates on…
We just published a new article on our work at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel that we would like to share with you. It was spearheaded by Shira Albaz. 2023 Shira Albaz,Haskel J. Greenfield, Tina L. Greenfield, Annie Brown, Itzick Shai,and Aren M. Maeir. Daily life and cultural appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan: Games and gaming…
Just published another article comparing the work that I did on butchering marks in Israel with recent research conducted with Eleuterio Sousa at Giza (Egypt). 2023 Eleuterio Abreu De Sousa and Haskel J. Greenfield. The continued use of stone in Egypt and the Levant during the Early Bronze Age: A comparative zooarchaeological perspective. In Egypt and the…
Haskel J. Greenfield, Jeremy A. Beller, Jane S. Gaastra, Dieter Vieweger Filling the gap: A microscopic zooarchaeological approach to changes in butchering technology during the Early and Middle Bronze periods at Tall Zirā´a, Jordan, published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly, Volume 155 Issue 1: 31-67. There are 50 free eprints. The link is now ready to…
I would like to announce the publication of a new open-access article by Luther Sousa and myself on some of our joint research dealing with early metallurgy – Metal as a mechanism for understanding social Complexity during the third Millennium BCE: a comparative zooarchaeological perspective on Egypt and the southern Levant.https://egyptianexpedition.org/articles/metal-as-a-mechanism-for-understanding/ Here is a link…
Humans | September 2022 – Browse Articles (mdpi.com) As editor-in-chief of the new online journal “Humans”, I am proud to announce the publication of its most recent issue. Here are the contents and some links. Table of ContentsArticle: A Case for Buried Culture: From an Unknown Known to a Known Unknown Assaf Nativ Humans…
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I am happy to share a new article on our research program on the Early Bronze Age at Tell es-Safi/Gath, funded by a joint grant Canadian SSHRC to Haskel Greenfield and Aren Maeir. In this study, the evidence of household rituals, and in particular, those related to donkeys and donkey burials (and we have now…
If anyone is really dying to listen to me talk about Early Bronze Age rituals in Canaanite households, here is a link to a talk that was recorded at the recent Limmud Winnipeg gathering 🙂
2022 Haskel J. Greenfield, Jeremy A. Beller, Jane Gaastra, and Dieter Vieweger. Filling the gap: A microscopic zooarchaeological approach to changes in butchering technology during the Early and Middle Bronze periods at Tall Zirā´a, Jordan. Palestine Exploration Quarterly https://tellessafi.wordpress.com/2022/04/01/here-is-a-link-to-a-new-article-that-we-just-published-on-our-work-in-jordan-at-tall-ziraa-on-the-origins-of-metallurgy/
We are pleased to announce that our new article “Macroscopic Chop Mark Identification on Archaeological Bone: An Experimental Study of Chipped Stone, Ground Stone, Copper, and Bronze Axe Heads on Bone”, by Tiffany Okaluk and Haskel J. Greenfield has just been published in the on-line open-access journal Quaternary as part of the Special Issue Taphonomy…
I would like to announce the publication of a new article based on my research long ago in Romania. 2021 Haskel J. Greenfield and Alexandar Kapuran. Size does not matter: Foeni-Salaş, a small multiperiod settlement in the Romanian Banat. Starinar (Institute of Archaeology, Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Belgrade) LXXI: 21-60. It is open…
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