The project focuses on ground stone artifacts’ origins and the reconstruction of the various trade and exchange systems through which these were distributed across the Levantine landscape. Prestige items produced of non-local raw materials and products of specialized industries are at the center of this research.
See LAFPT Assemblages database.
Related publications:
Gluhak, T.M. and Rosenberg, D. 2013. Geochemical discrimination of basaltic sources as a tool for provenance analyses of bifacial tools in the southern Levant: first results from the Jezreel Valley, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 40:1611–1622.
Gluhak, T.M. and Rosenberg, D. 2013. Raw material variability and provenance before the Neolithic revolution: Studies of Natufian ground stone tools from Eynan and el-Wad (Israel). In: Hauptmann, A., Mecking, O. and Prange, M. (eds.) Archäometrie und Denkmalpflege, Pp. 196–199. Jahrestagung an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 15–28. September 2013. METALLA, Sonderheft 6, Bochum 2013.
Gluhak, T.M. and Rosenberg, D. 2018. Back to the source – Geochemical data from Israel for provenance analysis of basaltic rock artefacts and their implications on previous and future studies. Archaeometry 60(6):1153–1169.
Gluhak, T.M., Ebeling, J., and Rosenberg, D. 2021. Geochemical provenance studies of basalt vessel preforms from the Iron Age workshop at Tel Hazor, Israel, and potential geological sources. Archaeometry 63(4):25–38.
Gluhak, T.M., Rosenberg, D., and Ebeling, J. 2016. Raw material variability as archaeological tools: Preliminary results from a geochemical study of the basalt vessel workshop at Iron Age Tel Hazor, Israel. Journal of Lithic Studies 3(3):169–189.
Gluhak, T.M., Rosenberg, D., and Ebeling, J. 2016. Die Herkunft der Eisenzeitlichen Basaltgefäße aus der Werkstatt von Tel Hazor (Israel): Eine geochemische Vergleichsstudie mit geologischen Proben. In: Greiff, S., Kronz, A., Prange, M. (Eds.): Archäometrie und Denkmalpflege, Jahrestagung an der Georg-August-Universität Öttingen, 28. Sept. – 01. Okt. 2016. METALLA, Sonderheft 8, pp. 58–60.
Rosenberg, D., Elkayam, Y., Garfinkel, Y., Klimscha, F., Vučković, V., and Weiss, Y. 2022. Long-distance trade in the Middle Chalcolithic of the southern Levant: the case of the olivine beads from Tel Tsaf, Jordan Valley, Israel. PLoS ONE 17(8): e0271547.
Rosenberg, D., Getzov, N., and Assaf, A. 2010. New light on long-distance ties in Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic Near East: The chlorite vessels from Hagoshrim, northern Israel. Current Anthropology 51(2):281–293.
Rosenberg, D. and Gluhak, T.M. 2016. Trade me an axe? Interpretive challenges of the distribution and provenance of Neolithic basaltic bifacial tools in Israel. Antiquity 90(349):48–63.
Rosenberg, D., Rizzuto, B., Klimscha, F. and Carter, T. 2022. The obsidian beads from Middle Chalcolithic Tel Tsaf (ca. 5,200–4,700 cal. BC), Jordan Valley, Israel: Technology, provenance, and socio‑economic significance. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14:113.
Rosenberg, D. Shimelmitz, R. Gluhak, T. M., and Assaf, A. 2015. The geochemistry of basalt handaxes from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Ma‘ayan Baruch, Israel – A perspective on raw material selection. Archaeometry 57(4):1–19.
