Leore Grosman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 102046 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Leore Grosman |
| NOMBRES | Leore |
| APELLIDO | Grosman |
| FIRMA | GROSMAN L |
| AFILIACIONES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6976-6202 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 511 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
The influence of cognitive evolution on handaxe making skill in the Acheulean
Reconstructing the complex human behaviours that manifest in the Palaeolithic archaeological record remains an elusive but important challenge for capturing traces of how the human mind evolved. The roughly 1.5 million years of handaxe-making throughout the Acheulean provides a consistently preserved manifestation of hominin technological skills. Here, we analyse 1108 3D scans of handaxes from 12 sites in the Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa a…
New tools for computational zooarchaeology
Natufian architecture 12,000 years ago
In the Southern Levant, the Natufians established a long-lasting tradition of using stones, along with other materials, for construction. Initial field observations at Nahal Ein Gev II suggested that such stones are natural blocks or cobbles that frequently underwent some kind of modification. To further investigate this pattern and better understand construction techniques and design, a protocol was developed at the site to record and analyze th…
Early beginnings
This paper presents an introduction to the special issue, “New Insights into the Earliest Architecture of the First Sedentary Communities in Western Asia.” It summarizes the key insights and perspectives offered in the various articles. In addition, we share reflections that emerged from an interdisciplinary dialogue held between archaeologists, architects and building engineers during the workshop with particular focus on early round structures
Identifying a Knapping Signature for Lower Paleolithic Spheroid Reduction
Spheroids are Lower Paleolithic stone tools documented in African and Eurasian archeological sites ascribed to the later Oldowan and Acheulian cultural complexes. While reported since the 1960s, there is disagreement about how they were made, or whether their morphology resulted from non-intentional processes related to flake production or percussive activities. Recently, attention has turned towards resolving the issue of intentionality in spher…
The Skills of Handaxe Making
Observations about handaxe techno-morphology, like their symmetry, refinement, and fine edges have long been used to reconstruct the evolution of hominin cognition, skills, and technological decision making. However, these interpretations about the cognitive and technical abilities of Acheulean hominins often rely on the most ‘beautiful’ or supposedly ‘archetypical’ looking handaxes. But how often do these finely made handaxes actually occur in a…
Middle Palaeolithic stone toolmaking skill of experimental and archaeological Levallois flakes
The behaviour, skills, and cognition of past hominins can be reconstructed from the traces of their technologies preserved in the archaeological record. Stone tools are one of the most abundant sources of this information. However, stone toolmaking expertise in the archaeological record is most frequently explored at the two extremes of skill, either the most remarkable feats of lithic technology, or the most obvious mistakes. Here, we instead ex…
A computational perspective on the dynamics of early architecture
Techné of Rock Engravings—the Timna Case Study
Traditionally, rock engravings were studied through their visual characteristics. They have been analyzed with comparative and interpretative methodologies of iconography and iconology. However, there has been a recent shift towards identifying production processes, allowing reconstruction of operational characteristics through various methods. Nevertheless, the studies of the technological aspects typically focus on the operational and the mecha…
Recognizing technique variation in rock engravings
Ancient rock engravings evoke the interest of archeologists and art historians as an important remnant of human cultures. Traditionally, engraved images are studied based on iconography, iconology, and stylistic characteristics, with little emphasis on execution technology. In contrast, the research method presented in this study strives to characterize the techniques adopted for making rock engravings in ancient times, with technological variati…
Insights into Natufian Social Identity
Summing up the data deriving from the Natufian burials at Hayonim Cave which incorporates information pertaining to the last grave uncovered on site (Grave XVII), the paper endeavours to understand the role of burials within the evolving Natufian society at large. It seems that certain sites—Hayonim Cave being a case in point—served as special localities, used by a particular group as a burial ground all through the Natufian time-span (i.e. for m…
Hof Shahaf
The Natufian Chronological Scheme – New Insights and their Implications
The Life History of Macrolithic Tools at Hilazon Tachtit Cave
D morphology of handaxes from late Acheulean Jaljulia
Local Technological Traditions in the Early and Middle Epipaleolithic of Ein Gev Area
Identifying Local Learning Communities During the Terminal Palaeolithic in the Southern Levant
A methodology for identifying prehistoric local learning communities is proposed. We wish to test possible relationships among communities based on continuity and variability in lithic reduction sequence technological traits with different visibility and malleability. Quantitative features reflecting different technological traits are measured on 3-D models of flint cores in different scales: the ratio between core thickness and reduction surface…
Specialized aquatic resource exploitation at the Late Natufian site of Nahal Ein Gev II, Israel
Tomorrow’s mundane is today’s extraordinary
For reconstructing past human ways of life we study mundane remains, but in order to detect special worldviews and behaviors we endeavor to observe the extraordinary embedded in those remains. There are many ways to define the ‘extraordinary’. Here we center on early occurrences of phenomena that later become mundane, rendering them ‘extraordinary’ through being rare compared to later frequent appearances. This study explores such extraordinary p…
On Wall Conservation at Prehistoric Sites - Naḥal Ein Gev II as a Case Study
Meidad Shor, מידד שור, Leore Grosman, ליאור גרוסמן, On Wall Conservation at Prehistoric Sites - שימור קירות באתרים פרהיסטוריים, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך נ (2020), pp. 78-92
“Life, Life”
On measuring the mean edge angle of lithic tools based on 3-D models - a case study from the southern Levantine Epipalaeolithic
Limestone Wedges
Kaizer Hill is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A flint and limestone quarry site situated in central Israel. During systematic collection and excavation at the site, a large quantity of limestone wedges was recovered. This study reports the results of a detailed morphological, technological and functional attribute analysis conducted on these artifacts. The results indicate that these artifacts were indeed utilized for the expansion of natural cracks and…
Social signatures in standardized ceramic production - A 3-D approach to ethnographic data
On quantifying and visualizing the potter's personal style
A new method for 3D geometric morphometric shape analysis
On the application of 3-D scanning technology for the documentation and typology of lithic artifacts
Ochre and hide-working at a Natufian burial place
Particular stones found on Epi-Palaeolithic sites in the Levant are thought to be for grinding vegetable matter and to be essential instruments in the development of food processing. Finding an assemblage of these tools in a burial cave, the authors ask a harder question: could they have been used for processing hides with ochre? Use-wear analysis allows a positive verdict, and so the tools take their place in the ritual apparatus associated with…
Reaching the Point of No Return
Archaeologists generally agree that high-power computer technology constitutes the most efficient venue for addressing many issues in archaeological research. Digital techniques have become indispensable components of archaeological surveys, fieldwork, lab work, and communication between researchers. One of the greatest advantages of the digital approach is its ability to examine large assemblages of items using advanced statistical methods. Digi…
Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability
A case of techno-typological lithic variability & continuity in the late Lower Palaeolithic
The late Lower Palaeolithic was a turbulent period with many changes in subsistence as well variations in the material culture. Yet, despite its importance, few detailed descriptions have been published. In this article we present a techno-typological report on the variability and continuity along the depositional sequence of Area C East, at the open-air site of Revadim, Israel. In order to learn how and in what ways smaller scale variations over…
The technology and significance of the Acheulian giant cores of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel
Lime plaster cover of the dead 12,000 years ago – new evidence for the origins of lime plaster technology
On measuring the mean edge angle of lithic tools based on 3-D models - a case study from the southern Levantine Epipalaeolithic
A Natufian Ritual Event
Ritual practice plays crucial social roles in human societies by communicating information about social status, calming tensions, and integrating communities. Although communication occurs through the act of ritual performance itself, the archaeological record rarely has the resolution to identify individual ritual actions. The high quality of preservation and recovery of a well-preserved grave of an unusual woman at the Late Natufian (12,000 cal…
D morphology of handaxes from late Acheulean Jaljulia
Middle Paleolithic sidescrapers were resharped or recycled? A view from Nesher Ramla, Israel
Archaeology in Three Dimensions
This article reviews the activities at the Computerized Archaeology Laboratory at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where techniques and ideas from computer science (e.g., computer graphics, machine learning, etc.) are integrated into archaeological research methodologies. The laboratory operates optical scanners which provide 3D digital models that are then analyzed by computer programs developed in-house. These programs address research issue…
Social signatures in standardized ceramic production - A 3-D approach to ethnographic data
The sacred and the mundane
Hilazon Tachtit, a small Natufian cave site in northern Israel, served first and foremost as a ritual location for the burial of the dead. Burials were found in all loci of the 30 m2 occupation. At least twenty-eight individuals were buried at the site—two of them in structures that were too small for human habitation. The ritual nature of the site is supported by some aspects of material culture, including the deposition of unusual animal parts …
Studying post depositional damage on Acheulian bifaces using 3-D scanning☆
"Taming" Rocks and Changing Landscapes
Cupmarks-artificial hemispherical depressions, often appearing in groups on bedrock surfaces-are found worldwide, often near Paleolithic sites and Holocene settlements. The term "bedrock mortars" expresses the interpretation that they were used for pounding/grinding collected plant foods. A re-examination of the cupmarks near the site of Hatula, on the margin of the Judean Shephelah west of Jerusalem, rules out the traditional functional interpre…
The Skills of Handaxe Making
Observations about handaxe techno-morphology, like their symmetry, refinement, and fine edges have long been used to reconstruct the evolution of hominin cognition, skills, and technological decision making. However, these interpretations about the cognitive and technical abilities of Acheulean hominins often rely on the most ‘beautiful’ or supposedly ‘archetypical’ looking handaxes. But how often do these finely made handaxes actually occur in a…
Identifying Local Learning Communities During the Terminal Palaeolithic in the Southern Levant
A methodology for identifying prehistoric local learning communities is proposed. We wish to test possible relationships among communities based on continuity and variability in lithic reduction sequence technological traits with different visibility and malleability. Quantitative features reflecting different technological traits are measured on 3-D models of flint cores in different scales: the ratio between core thickness and reduction surface…
On quantifying and visualizing the potter's personal style
Specialized aquatic resource exploitation at the Late Natufian site of Nahal Ein Gev II, Israel
A human face carved on a pebble from the Late Natufian site of Nahal Ein Gev II
There is a paucity of Palaeolithic art in the southern Levant prior to 15 000 years ago. The Natufian culture (15 000-11 500 BP; Grosman 2013) marks a threshold in the magnitude and diversity of artistic manifestations (Bar-Yosef 1997). Nevertheless, depictions of the human form remain rare-only a few representations of the human face have been reported to date. This article presents a 12 000-year-old example unearthed at the Late Natufian site o…
Remembering a sacred place - The depositional history of Hilazon Tachtit, a Natufian burial cave
The red-stained flint crescent from Gesher
The Natufian Occupation of Nahal Oren, Mt. Carmel, Israel - The Lithic Evidence
Dans cet article, nous présentons une analyse de l'abondant matériel lithique natoufien (n = 10 378) récolté lors des fouilles de M. Stekelis (1954-1957, 1959-1960) sur le site de la terrasse de Nahal Oren. Le gisement se trouve sur le rebord Ouest du Mt Carmel, aux confins de différentes micro-niches écologiques au sein de la zone méditerranéenne. Les niveaux natoufiens, fouillés tout au long des différentes campagnes, ont livré une quantité imp…
A Final Natufian Site — Fazael IV
LEORE GROSMAN, ANNA BELFER-COHEN, OFER BAR-YOSEF, ליאור גרוסמן, אנה בלפר-כהן, עפר בר-יוסף, פצאל IV — אתר נאטופי סופי / A final Natufian site — Fazael IV, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כ"ט (תש"ס, 1999), pp. 17-40
Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability
The Natufian Occupation of Nahal Oren, Mt. Carmel, Israel - The Lithic Evidence
Dans cet article, nous présentons une analyse de l'abondant matériel lithique natoufien (n = 10 378) récolté lors des fouilles de M. Stekelis (1954-1957, 1959-1960) sur le site de la terrasse de Nahal Oren. Le gisement se trouve sur le rebord Ouest du Mt Carmel, aux confins de différentes micro-niches écologiques au sein de la zone méditerranéenne. Les niveaux natoufiens, fouillés tout au long des différentes campagnes, ont livré une quantité imp…
The sacred and the mundane
Hilazon Tachtit, a small Natufian cave site in northern Israel, served first and foremost as a ritual location for the burial of the dead. Burials were found in all loci of the 30 m2 occupation. At least twenty-eight individuals were buried at the site—two of them in structures that were too small for human habitation. The ritual nature of the site is supported by some aspects of material culture, including the deposition of unusual animal parts …
"Taming" Rocks and Changing Landscapes
Cupmarks-artificial hemispherical depressions, often appearing in groups on bedrock surfaces-are found worldwide, often near Paleolithic sites and Holocene settlements. The term "bedrock mortars" expresses the interpretation that they were used for pounding/grinding collected plant foods. A re-examination of the cupmarks near the site of Hatula, on the margin of the Judean Shephelah west of Jerusalem, rules out the traditional functional interpre…
A 12,000-year-old Shaman burial from the southern Levant (Israel)
The Natufians of the southern Levant (15,000–11,500 cal BP) underwent pronounced socioeconomic changes associated with the onset of sedentism and the shift from a foraging to farming lifestyle. Excavations at the 12,000-year-old Natufian cave site, Hilazon Tachtit (Israel), have revealed a grave that provides a rare opportunity to investigate the ideological shifts that must have accompanied these socioeconomic changes. The grave was constructed …
On the application of 3-D scanning technology for the documentation and typology of lithic artifacts
Ochre and hide-working at a Natufian burial place
Particular stones found on Epi-Palaeolithic sites in the Levant are thought to be for grinding vegetable matter and to be essential instruments in the development of food processing. Finding an assemblage of these tools in a burial cave, the authors ask a harder question: could they have been used for processing hides with ochre? Use-wear analysis allows a positive verdict, and so the tools take their place in the ritual apparatus associated with…
Early evidence ( ca. 12,000 B.P.) for feasting at a burial cave in Israel
Feasting is one of humanity's most universal and unique social behaviors. Although evidence for feasting is common in the early agricultural societies of the Neolithic, evidence in pre-Neolithic contexts is more elusive. We found clear evidence for feasting on wild cattle and tortoises at Hilazon Tachtit cave, a Late Epipaleolithic (12,000 calibrated years B.P.) burial site in Israel. This includes unusually high densities of butchered tortoise a…
The red-stained flint crescent from Gesher
A case of techno-typological lithic variability & continuity in the late Lower Palaeolithic
The late Lower Palaeolithic was a turbulent period with many changes in subsistence as well variations in the material culture. Yet, despite its importance, few detailed descriptions have been published. In this article we present a techno-typological report on the variability and continuity along the depositional sequence of Area C East, at the open-air site of Revadim, Israel. In order to learn how and in what ways smaller scale variations over…
The technology and significance of the Acheulian giant cores of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel
Studying post depositional damage on Acheulian bifaces using 3-D scanning☆
Archaeology in Three Dimensions
This article reviews the activities at the Computerized Archaeology Laboratory at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where techniques and ideas from computer science (e.g., computer graphics, machine learning, etc.) are integrated into archaeological research methodologies. The laboratory operates optical scanners which provide 3D digital models that are then analyzed by computer programs developed in-house. These programs address research issue…
Documentation and Analyses on the National Scale at the Israel Antiquities Authority
This article reviews the methods and tools which are used in the new digital laboratory at the Israel Antiquities Authority. In collaboration with the Computerized Archaeology Laboratory at the Hebrew University, we apply techniques and ideas from computer graphics and mathematics, and integrated them into the methodologies of archaeological research and documentation. The laboratory operates optical scanners which provide accurate 3D digital mod…
El-Hamam Cave
Ofer Marder, Hila Ashkenazy, Amos Frumkin, Leore Grosman, Boaz Langford, Gonen Sharon, Micka Ullman, Reuven Yeshurun, Yuval Peleg, עפר מרדר, הילה אשכנזי, עמוס פרומקין, ליאור גרוסמן, בועז לנגפורד, גונן שרון, מיקה אולמן, ראובן ישורון, יובל פלג, מערת אל-חמאם: אתר נטופי חדש בהר שומרון / El-Hamam Cave: A New Natufian Site in the Samaria Hills, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך מ"ה (2015), pp. 131-142
Middle Paleolithic sidescrapers were resharped or recycled? A view from Nesher Ramla, Israel
Reaching the Point of No Return
Archaeologists generally agree that high-power computer technology constitutes the most efficient venue for addressing many issues in archaeological research. Digital techniques have become indispensable components of archaeological surveys, fieldwork, lab work, and communication between researchers. One of the greatest advantages of the digital approach is its ability to examine large assemblages of items using advanced statistical methods. Digi…
A Natufian Ritual Event
Ritual practice plays crucial social roles in human societies by communicating information about social status, calming tensions, and integrating communities. Although communication occurs through the act of ritual performance itself, the archaeological record rarely has the resolution to identify individual ritual actions. The high quality of preservation and recovery of a well-preserved grave of an unusual woman at the Late Natufian (12,000 cal…
The Natufian Culture
A new method for 3D geometric morphometric shape analysis
A human face carved on a pebble from the Late Natufian site of Nahal Ein Gev II
There is a paucity of Palaeolithic art in the southern Levant prior to 15 000 years ago. The Natufian culture (15 000-11 500 BP; Grosman 2013) marks a threshold in the magnitude and diversity of artistic manifestations (Bar-Yosef 1997). Nevertheless, depictions of the human form remain rare-only a few representations of the human face have been reported to date. This article presents a 12 000-year-old example unearthed at the Late Natufian site o…
The Natufian Chronological Scheme – New Insights and their Implications
The Life History of Macrolithic Tools at Hilazon Tachtit Cave
Hof Shahaf
Archaeology (39 obras) · Geography (33 obras) · History (27 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (24 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (23 obras) · Computer Science (16 obras) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (16 obras) · Geology (14 obras) · History (14 obras) · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (12 obras)