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Analyzing animal fibers in ancient textiles from arid environments through optical microscopy and image analysis, Landau, S. Y., Shamir-Shafir, N., Barkan, N., Bermatov-Paz, G., Bruce, H., Galili, R., Shamir, O., Tepper, Y., Shafir, R., Shahack-Gross, R. & Bar-Oz, G., Jul 2026, In: Journal of Arid Environments. 236, 105643.
Site Formation Processes in Marine Archaeological Sites: An Expanded Model for Shipwrecks and New Models for Submerged Settlements and Harbours, Shahack-Gross, R., Galili, E., Yasur-Landau, A. & Ramirez, I. O., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.
Megiddo Microgeoarchaeology in the Field and in the Lab, Shahack-Gross, R., Jun 2025, In: Near Eastern Archaeology. 88, 2, p. 120-125 6 p.
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, Pedergnana, A., Pietraszek, A. V., García, P., Nicosia, C., Lagle, S., Varoner, O., Zeigen, C., Langgut, D., Crouvi, O., Borgel, S., Sarig, R., May, H. & Hershkovitz, I., May 2025, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 9, 5, p. 886-901 16 p.
Water reservoirs and cisterns: effects of manual digging on sediment bleaching for OSL dating and the potential use of pollen from infill deposits as an environmental archive in a desert environment, Fuchs, M., Lomax, J., Junge, A., Langgut, D., Dunseth, Z. C., Shahack-Gross, R. & Finkelstein, I., 1 May 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie.
Site Formation Processes at Tinshemet Cave, Israel: Micro-Stratigraphy, Fire Use, and Cementation, García, P., Zaidner, Y., Nicosia, C. & Shahack-Gross, R., 1 Jan 2025, In: Geoarchaeology - An International Journal. 40, 1, e22023.
Tel Dor in the Middle Bronze Age and Maritime Adaptation along the Carmel Coast, Yasur-Landau, A., Houghtalin, C., Runjajić, M., Dunseth, Z. & Shahack-Gross, R., May 2024, In: Bulletin of ASOR. 391, p. 135-161 27 p.
Economic Strategies of Two Early Bronze Age Villages in the Southern Levant: Explaining Coastal Abandonment Versus Inland Urban Development, Nickelsberg, R., Shapiro, A., Cohen-Weinberger, A., Paz, Y., Elad, I., Yasur-Landau, A. & Shahack-Gross, R., 2024, In: ATIQOT. 115, p. 49-77 29 p.
A micro-geoarchaeological look at adaptive and glocal socio-economic aspects: the case of Middle Bronze Age Tel Dor, Israel, Houghtalin, C., Yasur-Landau, A., Gur-Arieh, S., Bermatov-Paz, G., Friesem, D. E. & Shahack-Gross, R., 2024, In: Levant. 56, 2, p. 204-220 17 p.
Earthquake Damage as a Catalyst for the Abandonment of Tel Kabri, Lazar, M., Cline, E. H., Nickelsberg, R., Shahack-Gross, R. & Yasur-Landau, A., 2024, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Brill Academic Publishers, p. 389-406 18 p. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East; vol. 134).
Underwater Neolithic combustion features: A micro-geoarchaeological study in the submerged settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel, Ogloblin Ramirez, I., Galili, E. & Shahack-Gross, R., 2024, In: Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 19, 3, p. 587-609 23 p.
Evaluating the Hidden Extent of an Archaeological Site: an Example from Tel Kabri, Israel, Shtienberg, G., Yasur-Landau, A., Shalev, S., Porat, N., Spivak, P., Avnaim-Katav, S. & Shahack-Gross, R., 2024, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Brill Academic Publishers, p. 364-380 17 p. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East; vol. 134).
Micro-geoarchaeology, Nickelsberg, R. & Shahack-Gross, R., 2024, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Brill Academic Publishers, p. 381-388 8 p. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East; vol. 134).
Sea Level Changes and the Locations of the ‘Missing’ Hellenistic and Roman Harbours at Tel Dor, Israel, Yasur-Landau, A., Tamberino, A., Shalev, E. A., Nickelsberg, R., Runjajić, M., Shtienberg, G., Gambash, G., Shahack-Gross, R. & Levy, T. E., 2024, In: International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. 53, 2, p. 1-20 20 p.
Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel, Nickelsberg, R., Levy, T. E., Shahack-Gross, R., Tamberino, A., McAvoy, S., Bermatov-Paz, G., Marom, N., Shalev, E. A., Weiss, E., Frumin, S. & Yasur-Landau, A., 2024, In: Antiquity. 98, 398, p. 1-20 20 p.
Infrared spectra of mixtures of heated and unheated clay: Solving an interpretational conundrum, Ogloblin Ramirez, I., Dunseth, Z. C., Shalem, D. & Shahack-Gross, R., 1 Nov 2023, In: Geoarchaeology - An International Journal. 38, 6, p. 822-829 8 p.
The Archaeology and History of Rock-cut Cisterns and Open Water Reservoirs in the Negev Highlands, Junge, A., Dunseth, Z. C., Shahack-Gross, R., Finkelstein, I. & Fuchs, M., May 2023, In: Bulletin of ASOR. 389, p. 191-216 26 p.
Provenance of Bronze Age stone anchors, a case study from the Carmel coast, Israel, Macke, S., Yasur-Landau, A., Galili, E., Yasur, G., Zilberman, T. & Shahack-Gross, R., Apr 2023, In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 48, 103891.
Geoarchaeology at the marine waterfront of a coastal urban center: Human activities and sea-land interface processes on the Late Bronze and early Iron Age coast of Tel Dor, Israel, Shahack-Gross, R., Ogloblin Ramirez, I., Zajac, P. R., Arkin Shalev, E., Zilberman, T., Yasur, G., Matskevich, S., Martin, S. R., Gilboa, A., Sharon, I. & Yasur-Landau, A., Apr 2023, In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 48, 103835.
High-resolution investigation of a conflagration event in the North-East Temple at Lachish via integration of forensic, stratigraphic and geoarchaeological evidence: A model for studying architectural destruction by fire, Kreimerman, I., Garfinkel, Y., Hasel, M. G. & Shahack-Gross, R., Dec 2022, In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 46, 103705.
The distribution and treatment of fire remains across Unit V of the Middle Paleolithic open-air site of Nesher Ramla, Israel, Pietraszek, A. V., Zaidner, Y. & Shahack-Gross, R., 30 Jun 2022, In: Quaternary International. 624, p. 107-116 10 p.
Locating submerged prehistoric settlements: A new underwater survey method using water-jet coring and micro-geoarchaeological techniques, Ogloblin Ramirez, I., Galili, E. & Shahack-Gross, R., Nov 2021, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 135, 105480.
Construction and use of rock-cut cisterns: a chronological OSL approach in the arid Negev Highlands, Israel, Junge, A., Dunseth, Z. C., Shahack-Gross, R., Finkelstein, I. & Fuchs, M., Sep 2021, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 13, 9, 150.
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, Shemer, M., Varoner, O., Sarig, R., May, H. & Hershkovitz, I., 25 Jun 2021, In: Science. 372, 6549, p. 1429-1433 5 p.
Byzantine-Early Islamic resource management detected through microgeoarchaeological investigations of trash mounds (Negev, Israel), Butler, D. H., Dunseth, Z. C., Tepper, Y., Erickson-Gini, T., Bar-Oz, G. & Shahack-Gross, R., Oct 2020, In: PLOS ONE. 15, 10 October, e0239227.
Earthquake damage as a catalyst to abandonment of a Middle Bronze Age settlement: Tel Kabri, Israel, Lazar, M., Cline, E. H., Nickelsberg, R., Shahack-Gross, R. & Yasur-Landau, A., Sep 2020, In: PLOS ONE. 15, 9 September, e0239079.
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, Ogloblin Ramírez, I., Galili, E., Be'eri, R., Golan, D., Krakovsky, M., Dayan, A., Shalem, D. & Shahack-Gross, R., Apr 2020, In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 30, 102220.
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, Friesem, D. E., Anton, M., Waiman-Barak, P., Shahack-Gross, R. & Nadel, D., Jan 2020, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 113, 105048.
Ancient trash mounds unravel urban collapse a century before the end of Byzantine hegemony in the southern Levant, 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, J., Fuks, D., Weiss, E., Marom, N., Ktalav, I., Blevis, R., Zohar, I., Farhi, Y., Filatova, A. & Gorin-Rosen, Y. & 2 others, Yan, X. & Boaretto, E., 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 17, p. 8239-8248 10 p.
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, García, R., Lorenzo, C., Carretero, J. M., Frumkin, A., Shahack-Gross, R., Mayer, D. E. B. Y., Cui, Y., Wu, X., Peled, N., Groman-Yaroslavski, I., Weissbrod, L., Yeshurun, R., Tsatskin, A., Zaidner, Y. & Weinstein-Evron, M., 26 Jan 2018, In: Science. 359, 6374, p. 456-459 4 p.
Fire and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Diachronic View with a Microarchaeological Focus, Shahack-Gross, R., 2018, The Social Archaeology of the Levant: From Prehistory to the Present. Yasur-Landau, A., Cline, E. H. & Rowan, Y. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 86–97 12 p.
Micromorphological insights into construction materials and their manufacture technology at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Gross, R., 2018, Tell it in Gath: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Israel: Essays in Honor of Aren M. Maeir on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday. Shai, I., Chadwick, J. R., Hitchcock, L., Dagan, A., McKinny, C. & Uziel, J. (eds.). Zaphon, p. 799-810 (Ägypten und Altes Testament 90).
Geoarchaeological Investigation of Site Formation and Depositional Environments at the Middle Palaeolithic Open-Air Site of ‘Ein Qashish, Israel, Stahlschmidt, M. C., Nir, N., Greenbaum, N., Zilberman, T., Barzilai, O., Ekshtain, R., Malinsky-Buller, A., Hovers, E. & Shahack-Gross, R., 2018, In: Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. 1, 1, p. 32-53 22 p.
Rethinking destruction by fire: geoarchaeological case studies in Tel Megiddo and the importance of construction methods, Gross, R., 2017, Rethinking Israel: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Ancient Israel in honor of Israel Finkelstein. Lipschitz, O., Gadot, Y. & Adams, M. J. (eds.). Eisenbrauns, p. 125-130
Animal Gathering Enclosures, Shahack-Gross, R., 1 Jan 2017, Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology. wiley, p. 265-280 16 p.
Microarchaeological Studies of Hearths in the Northwestern Lower Town of Tiryns, Kahlenberg, R. & Shahack-Gross, R., 2016, In: Archäologischer Anzeiger. p. 82-86 5 p.
ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY, Shahack-Gross, R., 1 Jan 2015, Archaeology of Food: an Encyclopedia. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 146-149 4 p.
EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY, Shahack-Gross, R., 1 Jan 2015, Archaeology of Food: an Encyclopedia. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 150-152 3 p.
Geoarchaeological study at area K: testing the possibility of threshing floor remains at Iron Age Megiddo, Gafri, M. & Shahack-Gross, R., 2013, Megiddo V: The 2004–2008 Seasons. Finkelstein, I., Ussishkin, D. & Cline, E. (eds.). Penn State University Press, Vol. 31. p. 1262-1270 (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology).
Area J. Part V: Analyses of sediments from the level J-4 Temple floor, Friesem, D. & Shahack-Gross, R., 2013, Megiddo V: The 2004–2008 Seasons. Finkelstein, I., Ussishkin, D. & Cline, E. (eds.). Penn State University Press, Vol. 31. p. 143-152 10 p. (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology).
Micromorphological observations on sediments from area K: trash disposal behavior during the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age I at Megiddo, Shahack-Gross, R., 2013, Megiddo V: The 2004–2008 Seasons. Finkelstein, I., Ussishkin, D. & Cline, E. (eds.). Penn State University Press, Vol. 31. p. 1255-1261 (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology).
A window into Early Middle Paleolithic human occupational layers: Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel, Gross, R., Yeshurun, R., Weinstein-Evron , M., Tsatskin, A., Weiner , S., Frumkin , A. & Zaidner, Y., 2012, In: PaleoAnthropology. p. 202-228
Reconstructing Ancient Israel: Integrating Macro- and Micro-archaeology, Finkelstein, I., Eliyahu-Behar, A., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Langgut, D., Cabanes, D., Namdar, D., Boaretto, E., Sapir-Hen, L., Zapassky, L., Cabanes, M.-T., Martin, M., Meiri, M., Toffolo, M., Yahalom-Mack, N., Shahack-Gross, R., Faigenbaum, S., Evian, S. B. D., Weiner, S. & Gadot, Y., 2012, In: Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel. 1, 1, p. 133–150
Archaeological horizons and fluvial processes at the Lower Paleolithic open-air site of Revadim (Israel), Marder, O., Malinsky-Buller, A., Shahack-Gross, R., Ackermann, O., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Goldsmith, Y., Inbar, M., Rabinovich, R. & Hovers, E., Apr 2011, In: Journal of Human Evolution. 60, 4, p. 508-522 15 p.
Household archaeology in Israel: Looking into the microscopic record, Shahack-Gross, R., 2011, Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond. Ebeling, J. R., Mazow, L. B. & Yasur-Landau, A. (eds.). Brill Academic Publishers, p. 27-35 9 p. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East; vol. 50).
Soot Patterns on Cooking Vessels: A Short Note, Gur-Arieh, S., Maeir, A. M. & Gross, R., 2011, On Cooking Pots, Drinking Cups, Loom Weights and Ethnicity in Bronze Age Cyprus and Neigbouring Regions: An International Archaeological Symposium, Nicosia, November 6th-7th 2010. Nicosia: A.G. Leventis Foundation, p. 349-355
Evidence for habitual use of fire at the end of the Lower Paleolithic: Site-formation processes at Qesem Cave, Israel, Karkanas, P., Shahack-Gross, R., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Barkai, R., Frumkin, A., Gopher, A. & Stiner, M. C., Aug 2007, In: Journal of Human Evolution. 53, 2, p. 197-212 16 p.
Mineral distributions in Kebara Cave: diagenesis and its affect on the archaeological record, Weiner , S., Albert, R. M., Berna, F., Cohen-Ofri, I., Karkanas, P., Gross, R. & Bar-Yosef , O., 2007, Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel, Part I: The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archaeology. O.B.-Y. & L. M. (eds.). Harvard University Press, p. 131-146
Chalcolithic agricultural life at Grar, northern Negev, Israel: Dry farmed cereals and dung fueled hearths, Katz, O., Gilead, I., Kutiel, P. & Gross, R., 2007, In: Paleorient. 16, p. 101-116
Sediments Exposed to High Temperatures: Reconstructing Pyrotechnological Processes in Late Bronze and Iron Age Strata at Tel Dor (Israel), Berna, F., Eliyahu-Behar, A., Gross, R., Berges, J. A., Boaretto, E., Gilboa, A., Sharon, I., Shalev, S., Shilstein, S., Yahalom-Mack, N., R. Zorn, J. & Weiner, S., 2007, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 34, 3, p. 358-373

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