In this project, we are focusing on documenting changes in food-acquiring and storage technologies of hunter-gatherers and later societies in the southern Levant. In this capacity, we track early harvesting technologies and fishing gear. Within the scope of this project, we also use experimental archaeology to reconstruct and better understand ancient storage facilities.

Related publications:

Rosenberg, D. and Chasan, R. 2023. Natufian hunter-gatherers fishing strategies: The early appearance of the fishhooks in the Near East and their significance. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (in press).

Rosenberg, D. and Chasan, R. 2020. Fishing for answers: The rarity of fish and fishhooks in the Late Chalcolithic of the southern Levant and the significance of copper fishhooks. The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 49(2):229–237.

Rosenberg, D., Agnon, M., and Kaufman, D. 2016. Conventions in freshwater fishing in the prehistoric southern Levant: The evidence from the study of Neolithic Beisamoun notched pebbles. Journal of Lithic Studies 3(3):457–478.

Rosenberg, D., Garfinkel, Y., and Klimscha, F. 2017. Large scale storage and storage symbolism in the ancient Near East: A clay silo model from Tel Tsaf. Antiquity 91(358):885–900.