פרסומים
- Data production, analytical noise, and predator attribution in Tabun Cave Layer C: a reply to Fernández-Jalvo et al. (2026), Fried, T., Weissbrod, L., Shimelmitz, R. & Weinstein-Evron, M., Sep 2026, In: Quaternary Science Advances. 23, 100338.
- 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.
- Refining collection-unit survey methodology: the Maharal Valley project case study, Jaffe, Y., Kletzerman, M., Barmatov-Paz, G., Shimelmitz, R., Shtober-Zisu, N., Lazar, M., Patania, I., Roskin, J. & Bar, S., Nov 2025, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 17, 11, 213.
- 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.
- Reflections on the Circulation of Extraordinary Items in Early Chalcolithic Southwest Asia: Sourcing the Obsidian Mirror and Giant Blade Core of Kabri (Israel), Shimelmitz, R., Carter, T., Rizzuto, B. C., Moir, R., Shalev, S. & Rosenberg, D., May 2025, In: Bulletin of ASOR. 393, 1, p. 57-78 22 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 Characteristics of the Earliest Levels of Tel Tsaf and the Onset of the Middle Chalcolithic Period in the Jordan Valley, Israel, Rosenberg, D., Meier, J. S., Weiss, Y., Pinsky, S., Hruby, K., Horden, M., Weiss, E., Ahituv, H., Shimelmitz, R., Talmor, B. & Klimscha, F., 2025, In: Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology. 8, p. 1-40 40 p.
- Chronology of the late Lower and Middle Palaeolithic at Tabun Cave (Mount Carmel, Israel) with insights into diagenesis and dose rate variation using post-IR IRSL (pIRIR290) dating and infrared spectroscopy, Richard, M., Mercier, N., Weinstein-Evron, M., Weissbrod, L. & Shimelmitz, R., Oct 2024, In: Quaternary Geochronology. 84, 101611.
- How robust is the taphonomic method in microvertebrate research? Analytical error evaluation in taphonomic data from hominin-bearing Layer C of Tabun Cave, Fried, T., Weissbrod, L., Shimelmitz, R. & Weinstein-Evron, M., 15 Aug 2024, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 648, 112304.
- The stone-to-metal transition reflected in the Iron Age copper production sites of Timna Valley, Israel, Shimelmitz, R. & Ben-Yosef, Dec 2023, In: PLOS ONE. 18, 12, e0294569.
- How far does culture go?, Nativ, A., Marom, N., Reshef, H. & Shimelmitz, R., 1 Dec 2023, In: Archaeological Dialogues. 30, 2, p. 163-167 5 p.
- From Hafting to Retooling: Miniaturization as Tolerance Control in Paleolithic and Neolithic Blade Production, Kuhn, S. L. & Shimelmitz, R., Jun 2023, In: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 30, 2, p. 678-701 24 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.
- Large Predator Hunting and Its Interpretation: Leopards, Bears and Lions in the Archaeological Record of the Southern Levant, Shimelmitz, R., Reshef, H., Nativ, A. & Marom, N., 15 Feb 2023, In: Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 33, 1, p. 137-156 20 p.
- A micro-geoarchaeological view on stratigraphy and site formation processes in the Middle, Upper and Epi-Paleolithic layers of Sefunim Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel, Friesem, D. E., Shimelmitz, R., Schumacher, M. L., Miller, C. E. & Kandel, A. W., Dec 2022, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 14, 12, 222.
- Extended longevity of DNA preservation in Levantine Paleolithic sediments, Sefunim Cave, Israel, Slon, V., Clark, J. L., Friesem, D. E., Orbach, M., Porat, N., Meyer, M., Kandel, A. W. & Shimelmitz, R., Dec 2022, In: Scientific Reports. 12, 1, 14528.
- Flint knapping and the Early Bronze Age I temple of Megiddo, Israel: Some aspects of the organization of late prehistoric cult, Shimelmitz, R. & Adams, M. J., 2022, Megiddo VI: The 2010-2014 Seasons. Finkelstein, I. & Martin, M. (eds.). Eisenbrauns, p. 1187-1209
- The end of the Acheulo-Yabrudian and the Lower Paleolithic in the Levant: a view from the “transitional” Unit X of Tabun Cave, Israel, Shimelmitz, R., Kuhn, S. L., Bisson, M. & Weinstein-Evron, M., Apr 2021, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 13, 4, 66.
- The evolution of raw procurement strategies: A view from the deep sequence of Tabun Cave, Israel, Shimelmitz, R., Kuhn, S. L. & Weinstein-Evron, M., Jun 2020, In: Journal of Human Evolution. 143, 102787.
- 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.
- Nahal Shelef: A Holocene quarry and workshop site in the Menashe Hills, Israel, Shimelmitz, R., Liu, C., Seymore, M., Gershtein, E., Crater Gershtein, K. M., Katina, A., Shtober-Zisu, N. & Nadel, D., 2019, In: מתקופת האבן. מ"ט, p. 137-151 15 p.
- The toolkit in the core: There is more to Levallois production than predetermination, Shimelmitz, R. & Kuhn, S. L., 10 Jan 2018, In: Quaternary International. 464, p. 81-91 11 p.
- The road to differentiated land use and domestic space in the middle pleistocene of southwestern Asia, Kuhn, S. L., Shimelmitz, R. & Clark, A. E., 22 Nov 2017, Crossing the Human Threshold: Dynamic Transformation and Persistent Places During the Middle Pleistocene. Taylor and Francis, p. 43-59 17 p.
- The circles building (Granary) at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak): A new synthesis (Excavations of 1945-1946, 2003-2015), Greenberg, R., Ashkenazi, H., Berger, A., Iserlis, M., Paz, Y., Rotem, Y., Shimelmitz, R., Tan, M. & Paz, S., Nov 2017, In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 378, p. 163-202 40 p.
- Pits and their Contents: The Wadi Rabah of Qidron in the Shephela, Israel, Rosenberg, D., Van-Den Brink, E. C. M., Shimelmitz, R., Nativ, A., Mienes, H. K., Shamir, O., Chasan, R. & Shooval, T., 2017, In: מתקופת האבן. מ"ז, p. 33-147 115 p.
- Ard el-Samra: A Chalcolithic, Early Bronze and Intermediate Bronze Age site at the Akko plain, Nativ, A., Shimelmitz, R., Sapir-Hen, L., Ktalav, I. & Iserlis, M., 1 Jan 2017, Various Excavations. Bocher, E. (ed.). The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, p. 1-72 72 p. (Salvage Excavation Reports; no. 10).
- Shifting understandings of the Acheulo-Yabrudian complex and the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition at Tabun Cave, Shimelmitz, R. & Kuhn, S., 1 Jan 2017, Vocation préhistoire: Hommage á Jean-Marie Le Tensorer. Otte, M. (ed.). Liège: Etudes et Recherches Archéologiques de l’Université de Liège, p. 343-353 11 p.
- The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition and the diversification of Levallois technology in the Southern Levant: Evidence from Tabun Cave, Israel, Shimelmitz, R., Weinstein-Evron, M., Ronen, A. & Kuhn, S. L., 21 Jul 2016, In: Quaternary International. 409, p. 23-40 18 p.
- Regional variability in late Lower Paleolithic Amudian blade technology: Analyzing new data from Qesem, Tabun and Yabrud I, Shimelmitz, R., Barkai, R. & Gopher, A., 4 Apr 2016, In: Quaternary International. 398, p. 37-60 24 p.
- The recycling of flint throughout the lower and middle paleolithic sequence of tabun cave, Israel, Shimelmitz, R., 10 Mar 2015, In: Quaternary International. 361, p. 34-45 12 p.
- 'Fire at will': The emergence of habitual fire use 350,000 years ago, Shimelmitz, R., Kuhn, S. L., Jelinek, A. J., Ronen, A., Clark, A. E. & Weinstein-Evron, M., 1 Dec 2014, In: Journal of Human Evolution. 77, p. 196-203 8 p.
- Predetermined flake production at the Lower/Middle Paleolithic boundary: Yabrudian scraper-blank technology, Shimelmitz, R., Kuhn, S. L., Ronen, A. & Weinstein-Evron, M., 5 Sep 2014, In: PLOS ONE. 9, 9, e106293.
- The Flint Assemblage, Shimelmitz, R. & Rosen, S. A., 2014, Bet Yerah: The Early Bronze Age mound II: urban structure and material culture 1933-1986 excavations. Greenberg, R. (ed.). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, Vol. 54. p. 151-188 38 p.
- Flint knapping and the early bronze age i temple of megiddo, israel: Some aspects of the organization of late prehistoric cult, Shimelmitz, R. & Adams, M. J., 2014, In: Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. 27, 1, p. 51-78 28 p.
- New evidence for the Anatolian origins of 'Khirbet Kerak Ware people' at Tel Bet Yerah (Israel), ca 2800 BC, Greenberg, R., Iserlis, M. & Shimelmitz, R., 2014, In: Paleorient. 40, 2, p. 183-201 19 p.
- Early Mousterian Levallois Technology in Unit IX of Tabun Cave, Shimelmitz, R. & Kuhn, S. L., 2013, In: PaleoAnthropology. p. 1-27 27 p.
- The flint finds and the character of the Middle Bronze Age sickle blades, Shimelmitz, R., 1 Jan 2012, Qiryat Shemona (S): Fort and Village in the Hula Valley. Tel Aviv: The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, p. 171-183 13 p. (Salvage Excavation Reports; no. 7).
- The chipped stone assemblages. The Chalcolithic period, Shimelmitz, R., 2012, Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Remains in the Nesher-Ramla Quarry. Avrutis, V. W. (ed.). Haifa: Zinman Institute of Archaeology, p. 201-212
- Systematic blade production at late Lower Paleolithic (400-200 kyr) Qesem Cave, Israel, Shimelmitz, R., Barkai, R. & Gopher, A., Oct 2011, In: Journal of Human Evolution. 61, 4, p. 458-479 22 p.
- Lithic industries of the Anatolian prehistory, Shimelmitz, R., 2011, Reflections of Ancient Anatolian Society in Archaeology: From Neolithic Village Communities to EBA Towns and Polities. Yakar, J. (ed.). Istanbul: Homer Kitabevi, p. 477-536 (Arkeoloji ve Eskiçag tarihi).
- Variability in the specialized Canaanean blade production of the Early Bronze Levant, Shimelmitz, R., 2009, Techniques and People. Rosen, S. A. & Roux, V. (eds.). Jerusalem: Centre de Recherche Francais a Jerusalem, Vol. 9. p. 135-156
- Flint tools, Shimelmitz, R., 2008, Ramla (South): An Early Islamic Industrial Site and Remains of Previous Periods. Tal, O. & Taxel, I. (eds.). Tel Aviv: The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, p. 29-31 (Salvage Excavation Reports; vol. 5).
- A Chalcolithic Workshop for the Production of Blades and Bi-facial Tools at Khirbet Yoah, the Manasseh Hills, Shimelmitz, R. & Mendel, S., 2008, In: Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society. ל"ח, p. 229-256 28 p.
- The Chalcolithic lithic assemblage, Shimelmitz, R., 2007, Kafr Ana: A Rural Settlement in the Lod Valley. Gophna, R., Taxel, I. & Feldstein, A. (eds.). Tel Aviv: The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, p. 77-87 (Salvage Excavation Reports; vol. 4).
- Qesem Cave: An Amudian Site in Central Israel, Gopher, A., Barkai, R., Shimelmitz, R., Khalaily, M., Lemorini, C., Heshkovitz, I. & Stiner, M., 2005, In: Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society. 35, p. 69-92 24 p.
- The flint assemblage of Khirbet Muhayzin, Shimelmitz, R., 2005, Salvage Excavations Reports 2. Sass, B. & Roll, I. (eds.). Tel Aviv University, p. 54-55
- The lithic assemblage (El Midiah), Shimelmitz, R., 2005, Salvage Excavations Reports 2. Sass, B. & Roll, I. (eds.). Tel Aviv University, p. 110-111
- Middle Pleistocene blade production in the Levant: an Amudian assemblage from Qesem Cave, Israel, Barkai, R., Gopher, A. & Shimelmitz, R., 2005, In: Eurasian Prehistory. 3, 2, p. 39-74 36 p.
- The geometric kebaran microlithic assemblage of Ain Miri, Northern Israel, Shimelmitz, R., Barkai, R. & Gopher, A., 2004, In: Paleorient. 30, 2, p. 127-140 14 p.
- A glance at the early trans–caucasian culture through its nomadic component, Shimelmitz, R., Sep 2003, In: Tel Aviv. 30, 2, p. 204-221 18 p.
תחומי מחקר
אבולוציית הטכנולוגיה, הומו-סאפיינס קדום, יחסי הומו סאפיינס-ניאנדרתלים