Focuses on various aspects of the prestige basalt vessel industries in the southern Levant from prehistory through the classical periods. The research includes raw material identifications and provenance, production and decoration technology, morphology and standardization, distribution networks, and bowls’ functional analysis.

Related publications:

Chasan, R. and Rosenberg, D. 2018. Basalt vessels in Chalcolithic burial caves: Variations in prestige burial offerings during the Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant and their social significance. Quaternary International 464:226–240.

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.

Chasan, R., van den Brink, E.C.M., and Rosenberg, D. 2019. “Crossing the lines” – Elaborately decorated Chalcolithic basalt bowls in the southern Levant. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 381:145–162.

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.

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.

Hruby, K., Cendrowska, M., Chasan, R., Groman-Yaroslvski, I. and Rosenberg, D. 2021. The function of the south-Levantine Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age basalt vessels bearing circumferential depressions: Insights from use-wear analyses. PLoS ONE 16(6):e0252535.

Hruby, K. and Rosenberg, D. forthcoming. Urbanizing food: New perspectives on food processing tools in the Early Bronze Age villages and early urban centers of the southern Levant. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

Rosenberg, D. and Chasan, R. 2018. The characteristics and significance of prestige goods during the Early Bronze Age period of the southern Levant: The particular case of the four-handled basalt vessels phenomenon. Quaternary International 464:241–259.

Rosenberg, D. and Ebeling, J. 2018. Romancing the stones: The Canaanite artistic tradition at Israelite Hazor. Biblical Archaeological Review 44(1):46–51.

Rosenberg, D. and Golani, A. 2012. Groundstone tools of a ‘coppersmiths’ community – Understanding stone-related aspects of the Early Bronze Age site of Ashqelon Barnea. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 25(1):27–51.