we just published a new article on our research at Tell es-Safi/Gath. It shows the origins of the bridle based on dental bit wear from one of our donkeys

Greenfield, Haskel J., Itzhaq Shai, Tina L. Greenfield, Elizabeth Arnold, Annie Brown, Adi Eliyahu, and Aren M. Maeir. 2018. Earliest Evidence for Equid Bit Wear in the Ancient near East: The “Ass” from Early Bronze Age Gath (Tell Eṣ-Ṣâfi), Israel. PLOS1 13 (5):e0196335. https://doi.org/10.1371 Analysis of a sacrificed and interred domestic donkey from an Early…

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Human stature and dairying

Just came back from Berlin where I gave a lecture on the relationship between human stature and the evolution of dairying in prehistory in the Near East and Europe

A new and wonderfully “asinine” article on our excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/hot-diggity-donkey-481094783.html

New paper at ICAANE conference

I am about to depart for Munich to give a talk at the ICAANE conference on some results by my team. I will be talking about how one can reconstruct the age and sex of potters in ancient pottery from our site at Tell es-Safi/Gath in Israel based on their fingerprints left in the clay.…

New article on isotopic analyses of the Early Bronze fauna from Tell es-Safi/Gath

via New article on isotopic analyses of the Early Bronze fauna from Tell es-Safi/Gath

Several upcoming presentations by our team

via Tell es-Safi/Gath related talks at the ASOR and SBL meetings in Boston, 2017

New Article on the EB board games from Safi!

Originally posted on The Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project Official (and Unofficial) Weblog:
A new, popular article on evidence of Early Bronze Age game boards from Tell es-Safi/Gath has appeared in the just-published issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. The article, by Shira, Itzik, Haskel and yours truly, deals with the evidence of EB game boards…

A selection of the 2017 aerial photos

Source: A selection of the 2017 aerial photos

A selection of the 2017 aerial photos

Source: A selection of the 2017 aerial photos from the field season ar Tell es-Safi

Pictorial Evidence of the Appearance, Transformation and Disappearance of the Sea Peoples – :-)

Source: Pictorial Evidence of the Appearance, Transformation and Disappearance of the Sea Peoples – 🙂

The 2017 Safi team group aerial photo!

Originally posted on The Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project Official (and Unofficial) Weblog:
Keeping up with our tradition of making great aerial group photos at the end of the season, at the start of the final aerial photos, this year, we went for a Medinet Habu Sea Peoples warrior theme. And just like the season…

The 2017 Safi team group aerial photo!

Source: The 2017 Safi team group aerial photo! I am the second from bottom right of the neck. Such fun!

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we just published a new article on our research at Tell es-Safi/Gath. It shows the origins of the bridle based on dental bit wear from one of our donkeys

Human stature and dairying

A new and wonderfully “asinine” article on our excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath

New paper at ICAANE conference

New article on isotopic analyses of the Early Bronze fauna from Tell es-Safi/Gath

Several upcoming presentations by our team

New Article on the EB board games from Safi!

A selection of the 2017 aerial photos

A selection of the 2017 aerial photos

Pictorial Evidence of the Appearance, Transformation and Disappearance of the Sea Peoples – :-)

The 2017 Safi team group aerial photo!

The 2017 Safi team group aerial photo!