Targets the origins, production chaîne opératoires, and distribution systems of various ground stone tools. We aim to reconstruct production sequences and technologies of various artefacts, from raw material selection through the end product.
Related publications:
Chasan, R. and Rosenberg, D. 2019. Getting into shape: The significance of decorated basalt vessels during the Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant. Paléorient 45(1):53–68.
Ebeling, J. and Rosenberg, D. 2015. A basalt vessel workshop and its products at Iron Age Hazor, Israel. Journal of Field Archaeology 40(6):665–674.
Nadel, D., Rosenberg, D., Zisu, N.S., and Filin, S. 2011. The Nahal Galim/Nahal Ornit prehistoric flint quarries in Mt. Carmel, Israel. Eurasian Prehistory 8(1–2):51–66.
Rosenberg, D., Chasan, R., and van den Brink, E.C.M. 2016. Craft specialization, production and exchange in the Chalcolithic of the southern Levant: Insights from the study of the basalt bowl assemblage from Namir Road, Tel Aviv, Israel. Journal of Eurasian Prehistory 13(1–2):105–128.
Rosenberg, D. and Shimelmitz, R. 2010. Giv’at Kipod – A basalt quarry and a workshop for the production of bifacial tools in Israel. The Quarry 5:7–14.
Rosenberg, D., Gluhak, T. M., Kaufman, D., Yeshurun, R., and Weinstein-Evron, M. 2021. Exploring exchange and direct procurement strategies for Natufian food processing tools of el-Wad Terrace, Israel. Scientific Reports 11:9480.
Rosenberg, D., Shimelmitz, R., and Nativ, A. 2008. Basalt bifacials production in the Southern Levant: A glance at the quarry and workshop site of Giv‛at Kipod, Israel. Antiquity 82:367–376.
Schneider, J.S. and Rosenberg, D. 2011. Giv‛at Schumit – A basalt building block quarry in northern Israel: A preliminary report. The Quarry 6:3–27.
Shimelmitz, R. and Rosenberg, D. 2016. The organization of basanite bifacial production in Giv’at Kipod quarry, Israel: Towards an ‘Alyawara Day' model of extraction. Journal of Lithic Studies 3(3):499–521.
Shimelmitz, R., Rosenberg, D., and Nativ, A. 2005. Giv’at Kipod: A Basalt Quarry and a workshop for the production of bifacial tools in the Manasseh Hills, Israel. Neo-Lithics 1/05:9–12. (The authors contributed equally).
Yaroshevich, A., van den Brink, E.C.M., Chasan, R., Rosenberg, D., Bieler, A., Perry-Gal, L., Boaretto, E., and Greenbaum, N. 2022. Recycling of PPNB Artefacts in the Yarmukian site of Tel Izhaki, Jezreel Valley, Israel. Nishiaki, Y., Maeda, O., and Arimura, M. (eds.), Tracking the Neolithic in the Near East: Lithic Perspectives on Its Origins, Development and Dispersals, pp. 107–122. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
