Applies various techniques and methodologies to extract food remains from food processing, handling, and serving tools and vessels. We are documenting food remains and studying the link between these and specific tools and vessels’ types to provide a better understanding of food production trajectories.

Related publications:

Arranz Otaegui, A., Cubas, M., Ibáñez, J.J., and Rosenberg, D. (eds.) Guest-editing of Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2021), special issue, titled: “Plants meet artifacts: developing interdisciplinary approaches to identify plant processing, consumption and use in archaeology”.

Chasan, R., Klimscha, F., Spiteri, C., and Rosenberg, D. 2022. Foodways of an agro-pastoral community: Organic residue analysis of pottery and stone vessels at the Middle Chalcolithic Tel Tsaf. Journal of Archaeological Science – Reports 43:103491.

Chasan, R., Rosenberg, D., Klimscha, F., Beeri, R. Golan, D., Dayan, A., Galili, E., and Spiteri, C. 2021. Bee products in the prehistoric southern Levant: Evidence from the lipid organic record. Royal Society Open Science 8:210950.

Chasan, R., Spiteri, C., and Rosenberg, D. 2022. Dietary continuation in the southern Levant: A Neolithic-Chalcolithic perspective through organic residue analysis. Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14:49.

Liu, L., Levin. M., Klimscha, F., and Rosenberg, D. 2022. The earliest cotton fibers and Pan-regional contacts in the Near East. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 13:1045554.

Liu, L., Wang, J., Rosenberg, D., Zhao, H., Lengyel G., and Nadel, D. 2018. Fermented beverage and food storage in 13,000 y-old stone mortars at Raqefet Cave, Israel: Investigating Natufian ritual feasting. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 21:783–793.

Liu, L., Wang, J., Rosenberg, D., Zhao, H., Lengyel G., and Nadel, D. 2019. Response to comments on archaeological reconstruction of 13,000-y old Natufian beer making at Raqefet Cave, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38:1–6.

Rosenberg, D., Levine, M.; Klimscha, F., Shalem, D., and Liu, L. 2021. From hangovers to hierarchies: Beer production and use during the Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant – New evidence from Tel Tsaf and Peqi‘in Cave. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 64:1­–17.