Publication List

Friesem, D.E., Anton, M., Waiman-Barak, P., Shahack-Gross, R. and Nadel, D. (2020). Variability and complexity in calcite-based plaster production: A case study from a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B infant burial at Tel Roʻim West and its implications to mortuary practices in the Southern Levant. Journal of Archaeological Science 113: 105048.

Ogloblin, I., Galili, E., Be'eri, R., Golan, D., Krakovsky, M., Dayan, A., Shalem, D. and Shahack-Gross, R. (2020). Heated mud bricks in submerged and coastal southern Levant Pre-Pottery Neolithic C and Late Pottery Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic settlements: Diachronic changes in technology and their social implications. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 30: 102220.

Butler, D., Koivisto, S., Brumfeld, V. and Shahack-Gross, R. (2019). Novel mineral proxies enhance knowledge of ancient northern salmon fisheries. Scientific Reports 9: 147. Main text at: https://rdcu.be/bg9gY with supplementary information to be found at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36133-5

Amichay, O., Ben-Ami, D., Tchekhanovets, Y., Shahack-Gross, R., Fuks, D. and Weiss, E. (2019). A bazaar assemblage: reconstructing consumption, production and trade from mineralised seeds in Abbasid Jerusalem. Antiquity 93(367): 199-217.

Waiman-Barak, P., Susnow, M., Nickelsberg, R., Cline, E., Yasur-Landau, A. and Shahack-Gross, R. (2019). Technological aspects of Middle Bronze Age II production of pithoi at Tel Kabri, Israel: specialized pottery production in a palatial system. Levant 50(1): 32-51. doi: 10.1080/00758914.2018.1545509

Bar-Oz, G., Weissbrod, L., Erickson-Gini, T., Tepper, Y., Malkinson, D., Benzaquen, M., Langgut, D., Dunseth, Z.C., Butler, D.H., Shahack-Gross, R., Roskin, Y., Fuks, D., Weiss, E., Marom, N., Ktalav, I., Blevis, R., Zohar, I., Farhi, Y., Filatova, A., Gorin-Rosen, Y., Xin, Y. and Boaretto, E. (2019). Ancient trash mounds unravel urban collapse a century before the end of Byzantine hegemony in the southern Levant. PNAS. https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1900233116

Dunseth, Z.C., Fuks, D., Langgut, D., Weiss, E., Melamed, Y., Butler, D., Yan, X., Boaretto, E., Tepper, Y., Bar-Oz, G. and Shahack-Gross, R. (2019). Archaeobotanical proxies and archaeological interpretation: a comparative study of phytoliths, pollen and seeds in dung pellets and refuse deposits at Early Islamic Shivta, Negev, Israel. Quaternary Science Reviews 211: 166-185.

Kreimerman, I. and Shahack-Gross, R. (2019). Understanding Conflagration of One-Story Mud-Brick Structures: An Experimental Approach. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11: 2911-2918.

Ekshtain, R., Malinsky Malinsky-Buller, A., Greenbaum, N., Mitki, N., Stahlschmidt, M.C., Shahack-Gross, R., Nir, N., Porat, N., Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., Yeshurun, R., Been, E., Rak, Y., Agha, N., Brailovsky, L., Krakovsky, M., Spivak, P., Ullman, M., Vered, A., Barzilai, O. and Hovers, E. (2019). Persistent Neanderthal occupation of the Open air site of ‘Ein Qashish, Israel. PLoS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215668

Dubreuil, L., Ovadia, A., Shahack-Gross, R. and Grosman, L. (2019). Direct Evidence of Ritual Breakage 12,000 Years Ago. PLoS ONE 14(10): e0223370. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223370.

Hershkovitz, I., Weber, G.W., Quam, R., Duval, M., Grün, R., Kinsley, L., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Valladas, H., Mercier, N., Arsuaga, J.L., Martinón-Torres, M., Bermúdez de Castro, J.M., Fornai, C., Martín-Francés, L., Sarig, R., May, H., Krenn, V.A., Slon, V., Rodríguez, L., García, R., Lorenzo, C., Carretero, J.M., Frumkin, A., Shahack-Gross, R., Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., Cui, Y., Wu, X., Peled, N., Groman-Yaroslavski, I., Weissbrod, L., Yeshurun, R., Tsatskin, A., Zaidner, Y., Weinstein-Evron, M. (2018). The Earliest Modern Humans outside Africa. Science 359(6374): 456-459. DOI: 10.1126/science.aap8369.

Stahlschmidt, M.C., Nir, N., Greenbaum, N., Ayalon, A., Barzilai, O., Ekshtain, R., Malinsky-Buller, A., Hovers, E. and Shahack-Gross, R. (2018). Geoarchaeological investigation of site formation and depositional environments at the Middle Paleolithic open-air site of Ein Qashish, Israel. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 1: 32-53.

Dunseth, Z.C., Finkelstein, I. and Shahack-Gross, R. (2018). Intermediate Bronze Age subsistence practices in the Negev Highlands, Israel: Macro- and microarchaeological results from the sites of Ein Ziq and Nahal Boqer 66. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 19: 712-726.

Finkelstein, I., Adams, M.J., Dunseth, Z. and Shahack-Gross, R. (2018). The archaeology and history of the Negev and neighboring areas in the third millennium BCE: a new paradigm. Tel Aviv 45: 63-88.

Shahack-Gross, R., Shaar, R., Hassul, E., Ebert, Y., Forget, M., Nowacyk, N., Marco, S., Finkelstein, I. and Agnon, A. (2018). Fire and collapse: untangling the formation of destruction layers using archaeomagnetism. Geoarchaeology 33: 513-528.

Dunseth, Z. and Shahack-Gross, R. (2018). Calcitic dung spherulites and the potential for rapid identification of degraded animal dung at archaeological sites using FTIR spectroscopy. Journal of Archaeological Science 97: 118-124.

Marshall, F., Reida, R. E. B., Goldstein, S., Storozum, M., Wreschnig, A., Kiura, P., Shahack-Gross, R. and Ambrose, S. H. (2018). Ancient herders enriched and restructured African grasslands. Nature 561: 387-390.

Junge, A., Lomax, J., Shahack-Gross, R., Finkelstein, I. and Fuchs, M. (2018). Chronology of an open cistern and the history of human activity in the Negev Highlands, Israel. Geoarchaeology 33: 695-707.

Goshen, N., Yasur-Landau, A., Cline, E.H. and Shahack-Gross, R. 2017. Palatial architecture under the microscope: production, maintenance, and spatiotemporal changes gleaned from plastered surfaces at a Canaanite palace complex, Tel Kabri, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 11: 189-199.

Shahack-Gross, R. 2017. Archaeological formation theory and geoarchaeology: state-of-the-art in 2016. Journal of Archaeological Science 79: 36-43.

Toffolo, M.B., Regev, L., Mintz, E., Poduska, K.M., Shahack-Gross, R., Berthold, C., Miller, C.E., Boaretto, E. 2017. Accurate radiocarbon dating of archaeological ash using pyrogenic aragonite. Radiocarbon 59: 231-249.

Yahalom-Mack, N., Eliyahu-Behar, A., Martin, M.A.S., Kleiman, A., Shahack-Gross, R., Homsher, R., Gadot, Y. and Finkelstein, I. 2017. Metalworking at Megiddo during the Late Bronze and Iron ages. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 76: 53-74.

Been, E., Hovers, E., Ekshtain, R., Malinsky-Buller, A., Agha, N., Barash, A., Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., Benazzi, S., Hublin, J.-J., Levin, L., Greenbaum, N., Mitki, N., Oxilia, G., Porat, N., Roskin, J., Soudack, M., Yeshurun, R., Shahack-Gross, R., Nir, N., Stahlschmidt, M., Rak, Y. and Barzilai, O. 2017. First Neandertal remains from a Middle Paleolithic open-air site in the Southern Levant. Scientific Reports 7: 2958 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03025-z.

Butler, D.H. and Shahack-Gross, R. 2017. Formation of biphasic hydroxylapatite-beta magnesium tricalcium phosphate in heat treated salmonid vertebrae. Scientific Reports 7: 3610 http://rdcu.be/ttR6 and http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03737-2

Dunseth, Z.C., Junge, A., Lomax, J., Boaretto, E., Finkelstein, I., Fuchs, M. and Shahack-Gross, R. 2017. Dating archaeological sites in an arid environment: a multi-method case study in the Negev Highlands, Israel. Journal of Arid Environments 144: 156-169.

Shahack-Gross, R. and Finkelstein, I. (2017). Iron Age agriculture in the Negev Highlands? Methodological and factual comments on Bruins and van der Plicht 2017 (Radiocarbon Vol. 59.1). Radiocarbon 59(4): 1227-1231.

Shtienberg, G., Dix, J., Shahack-Gross, R., Yasur-Landau, A., Roskin, J., Bookman, R., Waldmann, N., Shalev, S. and Sivan, D. (2017). Anthropogenic overprints on natural coastal aeolian sediments, a case study from the periphery of ancient Caesarea, Israel. Anthropocene 19: 22-34.

Shahack-Gross, R. 2016. Archaeological micromorphology self-evaluation exercise. Geoarchaeology 31: 49-57.

Dunseth, Z., Junge, A., Fuchs, M., Finkelstein, I. and Shahack-Gross, R. 2016. Geoarchaeological investigation in the Intermediate Bronze Age Negev Highlands site of Mashabe Sade. Tel-Aviv 43: 43-75.

Zaidner, Y., Frumkin, A., Friesem, D., Tsatskin, A. and Shahack-Gross, R. 2016. Landscapes, depositional environments and human occupation at Middle Paleolithic open-air sites in the southern Levant, with new insights from Nesher Ramla, Israel. Quaternary Science Reviews 138: 76-86.

Langgut, D., Shahack-Gross, R., Arie, E., Namdar, D., Amrani, A., Le Bailly, M. and Finkelstein, I. 2016. Micro-archaeological indicators for identifying ancient cesspits; an example from Late Bronze Age Megiddo, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 9: 375-385.

Forget, M. and Shahack-Gross, R. 2016. How long does it take to burn down an ancient Near Eastern City? Antiquity 90 (353): 1213-1225.

Junge, A., Lomax, J., Shahack-Gross, R., Dunseth, Z., Finkelstein, I. and Fuchs, M. 2016. OSL age determination of archaeological structures using trapped aeolian sediments: a case study from the Negev Highlands, Israel. Geoarchaeology 31: 550-563.

Kahlenberg, R. and Shahack-Gross, R. 2016. Microarchaeological studies of hearths in the northwestern lower town of Tiryns. Pp. 82-86, in J. Maran and A. Papadimitriou, Gegen den Strom der Geschichte. Die nördliche Unterstadt von Tiryns: ein gescheitertes Urbanisierungsprojekt der mykenischen Nachpalastzeit (English: Against the Currents of History. The Northern Lower Town of Tiryns: An Aborted Urbanisation Project of the Mycenaean Post-Palatial Period). Archäologischer Anzeiger 2016(2): 19-118.

Regev, L., Cabanes, D., Homsher, R., Kleiman, A., Weiner, S., Finkelstein, I. and Shahack-Gross, R. 2015. Geoarchaeological investigation in a domestic Iron Age quarter, Tel Megiddo, Israel. Bulletin of the American Schools for Oriental Research (BASOR) 374: 135-157.

Forget, M., Regev, L., Friesem, D. and Shahack-Gross, R. 2015. Physical and mineralogical properties of experimentally heated sun-dried mud bricks: Implications for reconstruction of environmental factors influencing the appearance of mud bricks in archaeological conflagration events. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 2: 80-93.

Cabanes, D., Shahack-Gross, R. 2015. Understanding fossil phytolith preservation: the role of partial dissolution in paleoecology and archaeology. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0125532. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125532.

Shahack-Gross R, Finkelstein I. 2015 Settlement Oscillations in the Negev Highlands Revisited: the Impact of Microarchaeological Methods. Radiocarbon, 57: 253-264

Regev, L., Cabanes, D., Homsher, R., Kleiman, A., Weiner, S., Finkelstein, I., Shahack-Gross, R. 2015. Geoarchaeological investigation in a domestic Iron Age quarter, Tel Megiddo, Israel. Bulletin of the American Schools for Oriental Research (BASOR) 374: 135-157.

Gur-Arieh S, Shahack-Gross R, Maeir AM, Lehmann G, Hitchcock LA, Boaretto E. 2014 The Taphonomy and Preservation of Wood and Dung Ashes Found in Archaeological Cooking Installations: Case Studies From Iron Age Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science, 46: 50-67

Shahack-Gross R, Boaretto E, Cabanes D, Katz O, Finkelstein I. 2014 Subsistence Economy in the Negev Highlands: the Iron Age and the Byzantine/Early Islamic Period. Levant, 46: 98-117

Shahack-Gross R, Berna F, Karkanas P, Lemorini C, Gopher A, Barkai R. 2014 Evidence For the Repeated Use of a Central Hearth at Middle Pleistocene (300 ky Ago) Qesem Cave, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science, 44: 12-21

Friesem DE, Zaidner Y, Shahack-Gross R. 2014 Formation Processes and Combustion Features at the Lower Layers of the Middle Palaeolithic Open-Air Site of Nesher Ramla, Israel. Quaternary International, 331: 128-138

Friesem DE, Karkanas P, Tsartsidou G, Shahack-Gross R. 2014 Sedimentary Processes Involved in Mud Brick Degradation in Temperate Environments: a Micromorphological Approach in an Ethnoarchaeological Context in Northern Greece. Journal of Archaeological Science, 41: 556-567

Friesem DE, Tsartsidou G, Karkanas P, Shahack-Gross R. 2014 Where Are the Roofs? a Geo-Ethnoarchaeological Study of Mud Brick Structures and Their Collapse Processes, Focusing on the Identification of Roofs. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 6: 73-92

Gur-Arieh S, Mintz E, Boaretto E, Shahack-Gross R. 2013 An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Cooking Installations in Rural Uzbekistan: Development of a New Method For Identification of Fuel Sources. Journal of Archaeological Science, 40: 4331-4347

Shahack-Gross R, Ayalon A. 2013 Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopic Compositions of Wood Ash: an Experimental Study With Archaeological Implications. Journal of Archaeological Science, 40: 570-578

Cabanes D, Gadot Y, Cabanes M, Finkelstein I, Weiner S, Shahack-Gross R. 2012 Human Impact Around Settlement Sites: a Phytolith and Mineralogical Study For Assessing Site Boundaries, Phytolith Preservation, and Implications For Spatial Reconstructions Using Plant Remains. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39: 2697-2705

Gur-Arieh S, Boaretto E, Maeir A, Shahack-Gross R. 2012 Formation Processes in Philistine Hearths From Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel): an Experimental Approach. Journal of Field Archaeology, 37: 121-131

Cabanes D, Weiner S, Shahack-Gross R. 2011 Stability of Phytoliths in the Archaeological Record: a Dissolution Study of Modern and Fossil Phytoliths. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38: 2480-2490

Namdar D, Zukerman A, Maeir AM, Katz JC, Cabanes D, Trueman C, Shahack-Gross R, Weiner S. 2011 The 9th Century Bce Destruction Layer at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: Integrating Macro- and Microarchaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38: 3471-3482

Maul LC, Smith KT, Barkai R, Barash A, Karkanas P, Shahack-Gross R, Gopher A. 2011 Microfaunal Remains at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel: Preliminary Results on Small Vertebrates, Environment and Biostratigraphy. Journal of Human Evolution, 60: 464-480

Friesem D, Boaretto E, Eliyahu-Behar A, Shahack-Gross R. 2011 Degradation of Mud Brick Houses in an Arid Environment: a Geoarchaeological Model. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38: 1135-1147

Marder O, Malinsky-Buller A, Shahack-Gross R, Ackermann O, Ayalon A, Bar-Matthews M, Goldsmith Y, Inbar M, Rabinovich R, Hovers E. 2011 Archaeological Horizons and Fluvial Processes at the Lower Paleolithic Open-Air Site of Revadim (Israel). Journal of Human Evolution, 60: 508-522

Shahack-Gross R. 2011 Herbivorous Livestock Dung: Formation, Taphonomy, Methods For Identification, and Archaeological Significance. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38: 205-218

Gopher A, Ayalon A, Bar-Matthews M, Barkai R, Frumkin A, Karkanas P, Shahack-Gross R. 2010 The Chronology of the Late Lower Paleolithic in the Levant Based on u-th Ages of Speleothems From Qesem Cave, Israel. Quaternary Geochronology, 5: 644-656

Boaretto E, Finkelstein I, Shahack-Gross R. 2010 Radiocarbon Results From the Iron Iia Site of Atar Haroa in the Negev Highlands and Their Archaeological and Historical Implications. Radiocarbon, 52: 1-12

Katz O, Cabanes D, Weiner S, Maeir AM, Boaretto E, Shahack-Gross R. 2010 Rapid Phytolith Extraction For Analysis of Phytolith Concentrations and Assemblages During an Excavation: an Application at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37: 1557-1563

Frumkin A, Karkanas P, Bar-Matthews M, Barkai R, Gopher A, Shahack-Gross R, Vaks A. 2009 Gravitational Deformations and Fillings of Aging Caves: the Example of Qesem Karst System, Israel. Geomorphology, 106: 154-164

Shahack-Gross R, Simons A, Ambrose SH. 2008 Identification of Pastoral Sites Using Stable Nitrogen and Carbon Isotopes from Bulk Sediment Samples: a Case Study in Modern and Archaeological Pastoral Settlements in Kenya. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35: 983-990

Shahack-Gross R, Ayalon A, Goldberg P, Goren Y, Ofek B, Rabinovich R, Hovers E. 2008 Formation Processes of Cemented Features in Karstic Cave Sites Revealed Using Stable Oxygen and Carbon Isotopic Analyses: a Case Study at Middle Paleolithic Amud Cave, Israel. Geoarchaeology-an International Journal, 23: 43-62

Albert RM, Shahack-Gross R, Cabanes D, Gilboa A, Lev-Yadun S, Portillo M, Sharon I, Boaretto E, Weiner S. 2008 Phytolith-Rich Layers From the Late Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel Dor (Israel): Mode of Formation and Archaeological Significance. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35: 57-75

Shahack-Gross R, Finkelstein I. 2008 Subsistence Practices in an Arid Environment: a Geoarchaeological Investigation in an Iron Age Site, the Negev Highlands, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35: 965-982

Karkanas P, Shahack-Gross R, Ayalon A, Bar-Matthews M, Barkai R, Frumkin A, Gopher A, Stiner MC. 2007 Evidence For Habitual Use of Fire at the End of the Lower Paleolithic: Site-Formation Processes at Qesem Cave, Israel. Journal of Human Evolution, 53: 197-212

Berna F, Behar A, Shahack-Gross R, Berg J, Boaretto E, Gilboa A, Sharon I, Shalev S, Shilstein S, Yahalom-Mack N, Zorn JR, Weiner S. 2007 Sediments Exposed to High Temperatures: Reconstructing Pyrotechnological Processes in Late Bronze and Iron Age Strata at Tel Dor (Israel). Journal of Archaeological Science, 34: 358-373

Shahack-Gross R, Albert RM, Gilboa A, Nagar-Hilman O, Sharon I, Weiner S. 2005 Geoarchaeology in an Urban Context: the Uses of Space in a Phoenician Monumental Building at Tel Dor (Israel). Journal of Archaeological Science, 32: 1417-1431

Shahack-Gross R, Berna F, Karkanas P, Weiner S. 2004 Bat Guano and Preservation of Archaeological Remains in Cave Sites. Journal of Archaeological Science, 31: 1259-1272

Shahack-Gross R, Marshall F, Ryan K, Weiner S. 2004 Reconstruction of Spatial Organization in Abandoned Maasai Settlements: Implications For Site Structure in the Pastoral Neolithic of East Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science, 31: 1395-1411

Shahack-Gross R, Marshall F, Weiner S. 2003 Geo-Ethnoarchaeology of Pastoral Sites: the Identification of Livestock Enclosures in Abandoned Maasai Settlements. Journal of Archaeological Science, 30: 439-459

Shahack-Gross R, Tchernov E, Luz B. 1999 Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Mammalian Skeletal Phosphate From the Natufian Period, Hayonim Cave, Israel: Diagenesis and Paleoclimate. Geoarchaeology, 14: 1-13

Shahack-Gross R, Bar-Yosef O, Weiner S. 1997 Black-Coloured Bones in Hayonim Cave, Israel: Differentiating Between Burning and Oxide Staining. Journal of Archaeological Science, 24: 439-446

Shahack-Gross R, Shemesh A, Yakir D, Weiner S. 1996 Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Opaline Phytoliths: Potential For Terrestrial Climatic Reconstruction. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 60: 3949-3953