Here is a link to a new study that we just completed on the origins of metallurgy in Bronze Age Jordan

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/

New article on chopping bones :)

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…

New article publication

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…

Animal Butchering Technology in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt: Textual and Iconographic Evidence for the Shift from Stone to Metal Tools

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…

Another video on my research in the Balkans

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…

New article by Safi team members

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…