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List of works by Guy Bar-Oz

A glimpse of an ancient agricultural ecosystem based on remains of micromammals in the Byzantine Negev Desert.

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

A response to Betts (2014)

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Aging mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella): refining methods of tooth eruption and wear and bone fusion

article published in 2009

An exploration of character traits and linear measurements for sexing mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) skeletons

Ancient DNA and population turnover in southern levantine pigs--signature of the sea peoples migration?

scientific article (publication date: 4 November 2013)

Ancient DNA from a lost Negev Highlands desert grape reveals a Late Antiquity wine lineage

scientific article published in 2023

Ancient trash mounds unravel urban collapse a century before the end of Byzantine hegemony in the southern Levant

scientific article published on 25 March 2019

Ancient urban ecology reconstructed from archaeozoological remains of small mammals in the Near East

scientific article

Areni-1 Cave, Armenia: A Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age settlement and ritual site in the southern Caucasus

scholarly article by Keith N Wilkinson published in March 2012

BEAR IN MIND: BEAR HUNTING IN THE MESOLITHIC OF THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS

article by Guy Bar-Oz et al published March 2009 in Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia

Beyond fast and slow: The mole rat Spalax ehrenbergi (order Rodentia) as a test case for subsistence intensification of complex Natufian foragers in southwest Asia

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Byzantine-Early Islamic resource management detected through micro-geoarchaeological investigations of trash mounds (Negev, Israel)

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Cats in recent Chinese study on cat domestication are commensal, not domesticated

scientific article published on 21 February 2014

Culling profiles: the indeterminacy of archaeozoological data to survivorship curve modelling of sheep and goat herd maintenance strategies

article by Nimrod Marom & Guy Bar-Oz published May 2009 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Distribution and extinction of ungulates during the Holocene of the southern Levant

scientific article published on 29 April 2009

Dust clouds, climate change and coins: consiliences of palaeoclimate and economy in the Late Antique southern Levant

scholarly article by D. Fuks et al published 4 May 2017 in Levant

Dzudzuana: an Upper Palaeolithic cave site in the Caucasus foothills (Georgia)

Earliest economic exploitation of chicken outside East Asia: Evidence from the Hellenistic Southern Levant

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Eastern Mediterranean Mobility in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages: Inferences from Ancient DNA of Pigs and Cattle

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FOCUS: on the use of the petrous bone for estimating cranial abundance in fossil assemblages

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First direct evidence of chalcolithic footwear from the near eastern highlands

scientific article published in 2010

Food, Economy, and Culture at Tel Dor, Israel: A Diachronic Study of Faunal Remains from 15 Centuries of Occupation

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For the birds — An environmental archaeological analysis of Byzantine pigeon towers at Shivta (Negev Desert, Israel)

scholarly article by Jennifer Ramsay published in October 2016

Gazelle bone fat processing in the Levantine Epipalaeolithic

article published in 2005

Gazelle bone marrow yields and Epipalaeolithic carcass exploitation strategies in the southern Levant

Gazelle exploitation in the early Neolithic site of Motza, Israel: the last of the gazelle hunters in the southern Levant

scholarly article by Lidar Sapir-Hen et al published July 2009 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Geography and Economic Preferences as Cultural Markers in a Border Town: The Faunal Remains from Tel Beth-Shemesh, Israel

scholarly article by K. Tamar et al published 18 April 2013 in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

High-resolution documentation, 3-D modeling and analysis of “desert kites”

Hovk 1 and the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of Armenia: a preliminary framework.

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Improving integration in societal consequences to climate change

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

Increasing the resolution of the Broad Spectrum Revolution in the Southern Levantine Epipaleolithic (19-12 ka).

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Intensification and sedentism in the terminal Pleistocene Natufian sequence of el-Wad Terrace (Israel).

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Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans

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Lower Paleolithic hominin ecology at the fringe of the desert: Faunal remains from Bizat Ruhama and Nahal Hesi, Northern Negev, Israel

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Mammal remains at Rantis Cave, Israel, and Middle-Late Pleistocene human subsistence and ecology in the Southern Levant

scholarly article by Ofer Marder et al published 1 August 2011 in Journal of Quaternary Science

Mammalian extinction in ancient Egypt, similarities with the southern Levant

scientific article published on 13 January 2015

Mesolithic Hunters at Kotias Klde, Western Georgia: Preliminary Results

Middle Palaeolithic human occupation of the high altitude region of Hovk-1, Armenia

scholarly article by Ron Pinhasi et al published December 2011 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Modern hunting behavior in the early Middle Paleolithic: faunal remains from Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel

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Networks of trade and exchange along the Israeli Silk Road: the silk and cotton finds from Nahal Omer, Negev Desert

scientific article published in 2023

New insights into desert kites in Armenia: the fringes of the Ararat Depression

scholarly article by Dani Nadel et al published 23 October 2015 in Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy

New perspectives on the use of kites in mass-kills of Levantine gazelle: A view from northeastern Syria

scholarly article

Note on the contribution of genetics to understanding the organization of camel caravans in antiquity

scientific article published on 2 August 2016

Optimal Ancient DNA Yields from the Inner Ear Part of the Human Petrous Bone

scientific article published in 2015

Origins of house mice in ecological niches created by settled hunter-gatherers in the Levant 15,000 y ago.

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Oxygen isotope composition of Sparidae (sea bream) tooth enamel from well-dated archaeological sites as an environmental proxy in the East Mediterranean: A case study from Tel Dor, Israel

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Palaeobiology: Ensure equal access to ancient DNA.

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Paleolithic cave rock art, animal coloration, and specific animal habitats

scientific article (publication date: 15 May 2012)

Pigeons at the edge of the empire: Bioarchaeological evidences for extensive management of pigeons in a Byzantine desert settlement in the southern Levant.

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Probing the Byzantine/Early Islamic Transition in the Negev: The Renewed Shivta Excavations, 2015–2016

article by Yotam Tepper et al published 2 January 2018 in Tel Aviv

Purpose, Permanence, and Perception of 14,000-Year-Old Architecture

article by Reuven Yeshurun et al published October 2014 in Current Anthropology

Ramparts and walls: Building techniques of kites in the Negev Highland

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Recent shrinkage of the range of the Eastern Spadefoot Toad,Pelobates syriacus(Amphibia: Anura): archaeological evidence from the Bronze Age in Israel

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Reply to Dekel et al.: Preagricultural commensal niches for the house mouse and origins of human sedentism

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Role of mass-kill hunting strategies in the extirpation of Persian gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) in the northern Levant

scientific article (publication date: 3 May 2011)

Satsurblia: new insights of human response and survival across the Last Glacial Maximum in the southern Caucasus

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Seasonal Patterns of Prey Acquisition and Inter-group Competition During the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of the Southern Caucasus

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Seasonal use of corrals and game traps (desert kites) in Armenia

scholarly article by Dan Malkinson et al published January 2018 in Quaternary International

Seeds of collapse? Reconstructing the ancient agricultural economy at Shivta in the Negev

Shepherd Kings? A Zooarchaeological Investigation of Elite Precincts in Middle Bronze Age Tel Hazor and Tel Kabri

Signs of soil fertigation in the desert: A pigeon tower structure near Byzantine Shivta, Israel

scholarly article by Yotam Tepper et al published October 2017 in Journal of Arid Environments

Symbolic metal bit and saddlebag fastenings in a Middle Bronze Age donkey burial

scientific article published in 2013

Taphonomy and zooarchaeology of a high-altitude Upper Pleistocene faunal sequence from Hovk-1 Cave, Armenia

scholarly article by Guy Bar-Oz et al published July 2012 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Taphonomy and zooarchaeology of the Upper Palaeolithic cave of Dzudzuana, Republic of Georgia

Testing the use of multivariate inter-site taphonomic comparisons: the faunal analysis of Hefzibah in its Epipalaeolithic cultural context

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The Emergence of Animal Management in the Southern Levant.

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

The Epipalaeolithic Faunal Sequence in Israel: A View from Neve David

scholarly article by Guy Bar-Oz et al published January 1999 in Journal of Archaeological Science

The Natufian economy at el-Wad Terrace with special reference to gazelle exploitation patterns

The Prey Pathway: A Regional History of Cattle (Bos taurus) and Pig (Sus scrofa) Domestication in the Northern Jordan Valley, Israel

scientific article published on February 6, 2013

The birth, life and death of an Iron Age house at Tel ‘Eton, Israel

scholarly article by Avraham Faust et al published 4 May 2017 in Levant

The limits and potential of paleogenomic techniques for reconstructing grapevine domestication

The pilgrimage economy of Early Roman Jerusalem (1st century BCE–70 CE) reconstructed from the δ15N and δ13C values of goat and sheep remains

article by Gideon Hartman et al published December 2013 in Journal of Archaeological Science

The rise and fall of viticulture in the Late Antique Negev Highlands reconstructed from archaeobotanical and ceramic data

scientific article published on 27 July 2020

The social role of food in the Natufian cemetery of Raqefet Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel

scholarly article by Reuven Yeshurun published in December 2013

The urban ecology of Iron Age Tel Megiddo: using microvertebrate remains as ancient bio-indicators

article by Lior Weissbrod et al published January 2013 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Times in between: A zooarchaeological analysis of ritual in Neolithic Sha'ar Hagolan

scholarly article

Understanding faunal contexts of a complex Tell: Tel Dor, Israel, as a case study

scholarly article by Lidar Sapir-Hen et al published March 2012 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Ungulate skeletal element profiles: A possible marker for territorial contraction and sedentism in the Levantine Epipaleolithic

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Use of Terrestrial Laser Scans for High-Resolution Documentation and 3D Modeling of “Desert Kites”

Visible induced luminescence reveals invisible rays shining from Christ in the early Christian wall painting of the Transfiguration in Shivta.

scientific article published on 26 September 2017

Walls, ramps and pits: the construction of the Samar Desert kites, southern Negev, Israel

scholarly article by Dani Nadel et al published December 2010 in Antiquity

Worldwide large-scale trapping and hunting of ungulates in past societies

scholarly article

“After 20 Years”: A Taphonomic Re-evaluation of Nahal Hadera V, an Epipalaeolithic Site on the Israeli Coastal Plain

scholarly article by Guy Bar-Oz & Tamar Dayan published February 2002 in Journal of Archaeological Science

“Holy Garbage”: A Quantitative Study of the City-Dump of Early Roman Jerusalem

“Measure for measure”: a taphonomic reconsideration of the Kebaran site of Ein Gev I, Israel

scholarly article by Nimrod Marom & Guy Bar-Oz published February 2008 in Journal of Archaeological Science