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…
The full citation for the article is 2021 Eleuterio Sousa and Haskel J. Greenfield. Old Kingdom butchering technology. In The Ancient Egyptians and the Natural World: Flora, Fauna, and Science, edited by Salima Ikram, Jessica Kaiser and Stéphanie Porcier. Leiden: Sidestone Press, pp. 253-264. Here is a link to the article: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lqjnyycashjtff5/2021_Sousa%20_Greenfield_ButcheringTechnology_Old_Middle_Kingdom_Egypt.pdf?dl=0 The book will…
A new article has just appeared, spearheaded by Jeremy Beller, which deals with using manufacturing marks on ground stone objects to study the spread of metal technology in the Southern Levant during the Early Bronze Age. This is one more result of the very productive grant that Aren M. Maeir and Haskel Greenfield received a…
This video introduces the archaeological research conducted by an international team of archaeologists at the Early Neolithic site of Blagotin in central Serbia. The research was conducted from 1989-1995 and was interrupted by the embargo imposed on Serbia during the Yugoslavian civil wars. It is based on original videos and photographs made by me (Haskel…
Here is a video that I made based on my videos and photos with a student recently on my excavations in Bosnia in the late 1980s at Kadica Brdo. Enjoy – https://youtu.be/hKTO-Hz8qWI Archaeological Research at the Iron Hilltop fortress at Kadica Brdo in Bosnia
Another article has just been published by members of the Tell es-Safi/Gath team. It is spearheaded by Sara Richardson and tries to provide understanding of the use of bone tools from the Early Bronze III house at Tell es-Safi/Gath based on the analysis of their spatial distribution. This research is part of the larger project…
Article on identifying fingerprints by Kent Fowler in BAR
Last year I was interviewed by the Jewish Radio Hour of Winnipeg. Here is a link to the interviews. Enjoy.Part 1 – https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ctsr3pc3dznuou/JEWISH%20SHOW%20OCT2719%20haskel%20greenfield%20R.mp3?dl=0Part 2 – https://www.dropbox.com/s/pggxprwqttaay02/Jewish%20Radio%20Hour%20-%20%20Sunday%20January%201220%20Haskel2.mp3?dl=0
Constraint, complexity and consumption: Zooarchaeological meta-analysis shows regional patterns of resilience across the metal ages in the Near East by Jane Gaastra, Tina L. Greenfield, and Haskel J. Greenfield. Quaternary International, Volume 545, April 2020, Pages 45-62. It is open access. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1bHI53ic-FFyg~ Abstract Previously identified periods of aridity in the palaeoclimate record for the Near…
I would like to announce a new and very interesting open-access article: Fowler, K. D., Ross, J., Walker, E., Barritt-Clearly C., Greenfield, H. J., and Maeir, A. M. 2020. Fingerprint Evidence for the Division of Labour and Learning Pottery-Making at Early Bronze Age Tell Eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel. PLoS One 15(4): e0231046. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0231046 In this study, spearheaded…
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