פרסומים
- Natufian sickle blades (ca. 15,000–11,700 cal. BP) reveal cereal cultivation ca. 4.5 millennia before domestication, Groman-Yaroslavski, I., Krugman, T., Belfer-Cohen, A., Yeshurun, R., Grosman, L., Kaufman, D., Barshay, K., Piliponsky, M., Vardi, J., Abadi, I. & Weinstein-Evron, M., Dec 2026, In: Scientific Reports. 16, 1, 25257.
- Shared foraging behaviors between hyenas and hominins in the Middle Paleolithic Levant: New evidence from Geula Cave, Israel, Orbach, M., Barzilai, O., Hershkovitz, I., Lev, M. & Yeshurun, R., Aug 2026, In: Journal of Quaternary Science. 41, 6, p. 896-914 19 p.
- Archaeological ostrich eggshell structure as a taxonomic and paleoenvironmental indicator, Tsahar, E., Bar-Oz, G., Izhaki, I., Avner, U., Barzilai, O., Belfer-Cohen, A., Edeltin, L., Goder-Goldberger, M., Hovers, E., Oron, M., Rosen, S. A., Shafir, R., Vardi, J., Weinstein-Evron, M., Weissbrod, L., Yeshurun, R., Wolkowski, U., Zaidner, Y., Horwitz, L. K. & Marom, N., 1 Jun 2026, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 691, 113723.
- Modeling identities among the first-sedentary communities: Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia, Davin, L., Sindel, M., Yeshurun, R., Weinstein-Evron, M., Kaufman, D., Shklyar, B., Grosman, L., Belfer-Cohen, A., Khalaily, H. & Valla, F. R., 20 Mar 2026, In: Science Advances. 12, 12, p. eaea2158
- Homo sapiens could have hunted with bow and arrow from the onset of the early Upper Palaeolithic in Eurasia, Kitagawa, K., Tejero, J. M., Yeshurun, R., Walter, R., Huber, H., Andrews, R., Magliozzi, N. & Doyon, L., 16 Jan 2026, In: iScience. 29, 1, 114270.
- Fallow deer bone beds in Tabun Cave Layer B: Insights from renewed fieldwork, Orbach, M., Shimelmitz, R., Weinstein-Evron, M., Hershkovitz, I. & Yeshurun, R., 1 Dec 2025, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 369, 109620.
- Archaic humans in the Middle Palaeolithic Levant conducted planned and selective intercepts of aurochs, but not mass hunting, Yeshurun, R., Hartman, G., May, H., Rivals, F., Crater Gershtein, K. M., Zeigen, C. & Zaidner, Y., Dec 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 1, 42237.
- From Pigeons to Raptors: Avifauna Across the Early Upper Paleolithic Sequence of Manot Cave, Israel, Ujma, C., Marder, O., Barzilai, O., Hershkovitz, I., Shemer, M. & Yeshurun, R., 1 Nov 2025, In: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 35, 6, p. 526-541 16 p.
- Seasonal Exploitation of Migratory Waterfowl at Natufian el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel, Israel, Amos, L., Weinstein-Evron, M. & Yeshurun, R., 1 Nov 2025, In: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 35, 6, p. 555-570 16 p.
- Fallow deer abundances and age profiles indicate opportunistic hunting in the Middle Paleolithic Levant, Orbach, M. & Yeshurun, R., Aug 2025, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 180, 106304.
- Thin on the mountainous landscape: The Late Pleistocene zooarchaeology of the southern Caucasus, Zagros, and Alborz, Yeshurun, R., 1 Jun 2025, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 357, 109325.
- Correction to: Birds from the oven: the Middle Palaeolithic avifauna of Tabun Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel (Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, (2025), 17, 4, (90), 10.1007/s12520-025-02197-4), Amos, L., Yeshurun, R., Weinstein‑Evron, M. & Shimelmitz, R., Jun 2025, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 17, 6, 124.
- Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago, Zaidner, Y., Prévost, M., Shahack-Gross, R., Weissbrod, L., Yeshurun, R., Porat, N., Guérin, G., Mercier, N., Galy, A., Pécheyran, C., Barbotin, G., Tribolo, C., Valladas, H., White, D., Timms, R., Blockley, S., Frumkin, A., Gaitero-Santos, D., Ilani, S. & Ben-Haim, S. & 13 others, , May 2025, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 9, 5, p. 886-901 16 p.
- Birds from the oven: the Middle Palaeolithic avifauna of Tabun Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel, Amos, L., Yeshurun, R., Weinstein-Evron, M. & Shimelmitz, R., Apr 2025, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 17, 4, 90.
- The geoarchaeology, chronology and environment of Lusakert-1, a Late Middle Palaeolithic rockshelter (Kotayk Province, Armenia), Wilkinson, K. N., Allué, E., Armitage, S. J., van Arsdale, A., Bar-Oz, G., Brittingham, A., Gasparyan, B., Gill, J., Glauberman, P., Higham, T. G., Frahm, E., Kovach, T., Lukich, V., Mallol, C., Raczynski-Henk, Y., Rodríguez, I. R., Sherriff, J. E., Srivastava, A., Weissbrod, L. & Yeshurun, R. & 1 others, , Mar 2025, In: Quaternary Environments and Humans. 3, 1, 100054.
- A Natufian demographic cycle at el-Wad Terrace, Israel: The rise and fall of the architectural compound, Yeshurun, R., Boaretto, E., Lev, M., Orbach, M., Ujma, C., Lavy-Elbaz, S., Amos, L. & Weinstein-Evron, M., Mar 2025, In: Archaeological Research in Asia. 41, 100599.
- הציד הפרהיסטורי בארץ-ישראל,
Translated title of the contribution :Prehistoric Hunting in the Land of Israel - Early human collective practices and symbolism in the Early Upper Paleolithic of Southwest Asia, Barzilai, O., Marder, O., Tejero, J. M., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Abulafia, T., Lavi, R., Goder-Goldberger, M., Shemer, M., Edeltin, L., Wiegmann, A., Frumkin, A., Karasik, A., Yasur, G., Yeshurun, R., Zohar, I., Berna, F., Hans, M., Goldberg, J. S. & McDermott, Y. & 6 others, , 17 Dec 2024, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121, 51, e2404632121.
- The Early Natufian Site of Hof Shahaf, Israel: Subsistence, Environment, and Settlement Dynamics, Yeshurun, R., Lev, M., Edeltin, L., Amos, L., Orbach, M., Lavy-Elbaz, S., Ujma, C., Wieler, N. & Marder, O., Dec 2024, In: Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. 7, 1, 33.
- Rethinking Occupation Intensity during the Levantine Middle Epipalaeolithic: The use of Space and Site Formation Processes at the Geometric Kebaran site of Neve David, Israel, Friesem, D. E., Yeshurun, R., Dunseth, Z. C., Gur-Arieh, S. & Nadel, D., Dec 2024, In: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 31, 4, p. 1739-1770 32 p.
- A Late Pleistocene Eastern Mediterranean palaeoclimate record based on stable carbon isotopes (Δ13C) of archaeological charcoal: New data from the Epipalaeolithic sequence of Ein Qashish South, Israel, Belli, C., Weinstein-Evron, M., Caracuta, V., Nadel, D., Yeshurun, R., Regev, L., Boaretto, E. & Yaroshevich, A., Sep 2024, In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 57, 104597.
- Death at the water hole: Opportunistic hunting and scavenging events in the upper sequence of Middle Paleolithic Nesher Ramla, Israel, Orbach, M., Hartman, G., Rivals, F., Zeigen, C., Zaidner, Y. & Yeshurun, R., 1 Sep 2024, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 339, 108852.
- Identification and quantification of projectile impact marks on bone: new experimental insights using osseous points, Yeshurun, R., Doyon, L., Tejero, J. M., Walter, R., Huber, H., Andrews, R. & Kitagawa, K., Mar 2024, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 16, 3, 43.
- Signalling Palaeolithic identity, Yeshurun, R., Mar 2024, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 8, 3, p. 414-415 2 p.
- Archaeobotany of el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel (Israel): insights into plant exploitation along the Natufian sequence, Belli, C., Caracuta, V., Nadel, D., Boaretto, E., Yeshurun, R. & Weinstein-Evron, M., Sep 2023, In: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 32, 5, p. 453-474 22 p.
- Paleoenvironments and climate at Nahal Me'arot (Mount Carmel, Israel) during the Middle and Late Pleistocene: The herpetofauna of Tabun Cave and el-Wad Terrace, Lev, M., Shimelmitz, R., Weinstein-Evron, M. & Yeshurun, R., 1 May 2023, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 307, 108060.
- ארכאו-זואולוגיה: [מתוך המדור: מה זה?],
Translated title of the contribution :Archaeozoology - Squamates and amphibians from the Natufian cemetery of Raqefet Cave, Israel: taphonomy, paleoenvironments and paleoclimate, Lev, M., Nadel, D., Weinstein-Evron, M. & Yeshurun, R., 2022, In: Historical Biology. 34, 12, p. 2395-2414 20 p.
- עפיפון נחל אשל ותרומתו לחקר עפיפוני המדבר בנגב ובסיני, נדל, ד., בר-עוז, ג., מלקינסון, ד., ישורון, ר., נחמיאס, א. & פורת, נ., 2022, In: מחקרי הנגב, ים המלח והערבה. 14, 2, p. 76-85 10 p.
- A deep-learning model for predictive archaeology and archaeological community detection, Resler, A., Yeshurun, R., Natalio, F. & Giryes, R., Dec 2021, In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 8, 1, 295.
- A Late Pleistocene high-resolution paleoclimate reconstruction: insights from the archaeobotanical assemblage and the carbon isotope analysis of wild almond (Amygdalus sp.) from Raqefet Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel, Belli, C., Caracuta, V., Weinstein-Evron, M., Yeshurun, R., Boaretto, E. & Nadel, D., 15 Sep 2021, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 268, 107138.
- Middle Pleistocene Homo behavior and culture at 140,000 to 120,000 years ago and interactions with Homo sapiens, Zaidner, Y., Centi, L., Prévost, M., Mercier, N., Falguères, C., Guérin, G., Valladas, H., Richard, M., Galy, A., Pécheyran, C., Tombret, O., Pons-Branchu, E., Porat, N., Shahack-Gross, R., Friesem, D. E., Yeshurun, R., Turgeman-Yaffe, Z., Frumkin, A., Herzlinger, G. & Ekshtain, R. & 5 others, , 25 Jun 2021, In: Science. 372, 6549, p. 1429-1433 5 p.
- Squamate bone taphonomy: A new experimental framework and its application to the Natufian zooarchaeological record, Lev, M., Weinstein-Evron, M. & Yeshurun, R., 1 Dec 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 10, 1, 9373.
- Versatile use of microliths as a technological advantage in the miniaturization of Late Pleistocene toolkits: The case study of Neve David, Israel, Groman-Yaroslavski, I., Chen, H., Liu, C., Shimelmitz, R., Yeshurun, R., Liu, J., Yang, X. & Nadel, D., Jun 2020, In: PLOS ONE. 15, 6, e0233340.
- A micro-wear analysis of Natufian gazelle phalanx beads from el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel, Israel, Torres, H. R., Groman-Yaroslavski, I., Weinstein-Evron, M. & Yeshurun, R., Jun 2020, In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 31, 102304.
- Site occupation dynamics of early modern humans at Misliya Cave (Mount Carmel, Israel): Evidence from the spatial taphonomy of faunal remains, Yeshurun, R., Malkinson, D., Crater Gershtein, K. M., Zaidner, Y. & Weinstein-Evron, M., Jun 2020, In: Journal of Human Evolution. 143, 102797.
- The Emergence of Animal Management in the Southern Levant, Munro, N. D., Bar-Oz, G., Meier, J. S., Sapir-Hen, L., Stiner, M. C. & Yeshurun, R., 1 Dec 2018, In: Scientific Reports. 8, 1, 9279.
- The earliest modern humans outside Africa, 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., De Castro, J. M. B., Fornai, C., Martín-Francés, L., Sarig, R., May, H., Krenn, V. A., Slon, V. & Rodríguez, L. & 15 others, , 26 Jan 2018, In: Science. 359, 6374, p. 456-459 4 p.
- The Natufian Sequence of el-Wad Terrace: Seriating the Lunates, Kaufman, D., Yeshurun, R. & Weinstein-Evron, M., 2015, In: מתקופת האבן. מ"ה, p. 143-157 15 p.
- Renewed Fieldwork at the Geometric Kebaran Site of Neve David, Mount Carmel, Yeshurun, R., Gershtein, E., Kaufman, D., Nadel, D., Riemer, Y., Rosen, A. M. & Shtober-Zisu, N., 2015, In: מתקופת האבן. מ"ה, p. 31-54 24 p.
- Les Fouilles de la Terrasse d’Hayonim Israël 1980-1981 et 1985-1989: [Book review], Weinstein-Evron, M. & Yeshurun, R., 2013, In: מתקופת האבן. 43, p. 205-208 4 p.
- 14C dating of the Early Natufain at el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel, Israel: Methodological and materials characteristics: Methodology and materials characterization, Evron, M., Eckmeier, E., Yeshurun, R., Mintz, E. & Boaretto, E., 2012, In: Radiocarbon. 54, 3-4, p. 823-836 14 p.
- Huzuq Musa – A preliminary report on the test excavation at a Final Epipalaeolithic/PPNA site in the Jordan Valley, Rosenberg, D., Yeshurun, R., Groman Yaroslavski, I., Winter, H., Zertal, A., Brown-Goodman, R. & Nadel, D., 2010, In: Paleorient. 36, 2, p. 189–204
- Early Pleistocene hominins outside of Africa: Recent excavations at Bizat Ruhama, Israel, Zaidner, Y., Yeshurun, R. & Mallol, C., 2010, In: PaleoAnthropology. p. 162–195
- The role of foxes in the Natufian economy: A view from Mount Carmel, Israel, Evron, M., Yeshurun, R. & Bar-Oz, G., 2009, In: Before Farming: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers. p. 1-15 3.
- The deep and the shallow: The role of Natufian bedrock features at Rosh Zin, Central Negev, Israel, Rosenberg, D., Nadel, D. & Yeshurun, R., 2009, In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. p. 1-29
- The Raqefet Cave 2008 excavation season, Nadel, D., Lengyel, G., Cabellos Panades, T., Bocquentin, F., Rosenberg, D., Yeshurun, R., Brown Goodman, R., Tsatskin, A., Bar-Oz, G. & Filin, S., 2009, In: מתקופת האבן. ל"ט, p. 21-61
- The Late Natufian at Raqefet Cave: The 2006 Excavation Season, Nadel, D., Lengyel, G., Bocquentin, F., Tsatskin, A., Rosenberg, D., Yeshurun, R., Bar-Oz, G., Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. E., Beeri, R., Filin, S., Hershkovitz, I., Weissbrod, L., Kurzawska, A. & Conyers, L., 2008, In: מתקופת האבן. ל"ח, p. 59-131
- Ein Qashish – a new Middle Paleolithic open-air site in northern Israel, Hovers, E., Malinsky-Buller, A., Ekshtain, R., Oron, M. & Yeshurun, R., 2008, In: Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society. 38, p. 7–40
- Differential fragmentation of different ungulate body-size – Comparison of gazelle and fallow deer bone fragmentation in Levantine prehistoric assemblages, Yeshurun, R., Marom, N. & Bar-Oz, G., 2007, In: Journal of Taphonomy . 5, p. 137–148
תחומי מחקר
התקופה הפליאוליתית והאפי-פליאוליתית, ארכיאוזואולוגיה, ראשית התיישבות הקבע, אבולוציה של הציד האנושי