Guy Bar-Oz
Biographic Data
| ID | 130861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Bar-Oz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy |
| FAMILY NAME | Bar-Oz |
| SIGNATURE | BAR-OZ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1009-5619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 114 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 113 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Ancient date palm cultivation in the southern Levant
We analysed the spatio-temporal dynamics of Phoenix dactylifera (date palm) agrobiodiversity in the Negev desert, southern Levant, from the 3rd c. bce to the 10th c. ce . We applied linear measurements and Elliptic Fourier Descriptors to 2294 archaeological seeds from nine sites, and compared them with a modern reference collection of wild and cultivated Phoenix and previously published archaeological assemblages from Egypt and Libya. Seeds from …
Butchers’ Waste
A small assemblage of 162 complete and fragmentary bones was retrieved from strata dated to the second half of the twelfth–thirteenth centuries CE. The faunal remains comprise predominantly domesticated livestock: sheep and goat (most frequent) as well as domestic fowl, cattle, an equid, a pig and a dog. In addition, a single shell fragment of a tortoise and two fish head-fragments were identified. The anatomical representation of sheep/goat skel…
The Bone and Horn Industry in Late Ottoman Nazareth
Animal bones recovered from excavations at Shihab ad-Din, Nazareth, provide an important source of knowledge about diet and subsistence practices in the past. The faunal remains presented in this report were retrieved from Crusader/Mamluk and Ottoman strata, and indicate bone-tool manufacturing at the site. The present study demonstrates that comprehensive analysis of such faunal assemblages can provide primary data on the diversity of the animal…
An Ecological Comparison of Two Abandoned Heritage Orchards in Northern Israel
In this study, we documented two relict traditional Palestinian orchards; one was abandoned following the 1948 war when the farmers were exiled to Lebanon and the second was tended by farmers up until the early 1970s. The orchards examined are located in two different Mediterranean phytogeographic regions, one in the hilly Upper Galilee and the other on the slopes of Mount Carmel in the hinterland of the Mediterranean coast. We found differences …
A thousand years of Nubian supply of sub-Saharan ivory to the Southern Levant, ca. 1600–600 BCE
Finely crafted ivory objects were highly valued prestige commodities in the Levant and more generally throughout the ancient Near East, wielded as symbols of authority, rulership, and participation in trans-regional trade networks. Our research aims to trace the networks and agents involved in the trade of ivory to the Southern Levant over a period of a thousand years (1600 BCE–600 BCE) by identifying its biological and geographical sources. This…
Mediterranean Viticulture in Late Antique Palestine
Viticulture in Late Antiquity was a widespread, economically vital, and regionally diverse form of horticulture in the Mediterranean world, and archaeological and textual sources such as rabbinical literature shed light on viticulture, particularly in Palestine. Vineyard cultivation was shaped by local geography, climate, and religious norms, with techniques ranging from dryland farming to terracing, and from small plots to industrial-scale wine …
Distribution patterns of Gaza wine vs. Cilician wine in the eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity
To explore the consumption patterns and demand for famous wines exported in Late Antiquity, such as Gaza wine and Cilician wine, several case studies were analyzed: studies involving excavation results from sites where Late Roman amphorae, such as the LRA 1 and LRA 4 types, were found. Several themes emerged from the analysis. First, Gaza jars used for the transportation of Gaza wine seem to be less frequent than LRA 1 amphorae used to transport …
Trash or Cache? The Textile Evidence from the Nahׅal ‘Omer Middens as an Indicator of Early Islamic-Period Trade Networks along Israel’s Silk Road
Middens provide an important source of data for exploring the history of ancient settlements. Excavations at the middens of Naḥal ‘Omer, an Early Islamic way-station in the ‘Arava desert, yielded a treasure-trove of textiles, such as silk and cotton, including ikats probably imported from India or South Arabia. The Early Islamic period witnessed a flourishing of artistic and cultural achievements, with textiles playing a central role in expressin…
The geoarchaeology, chronology and environment of Lusakert-1, a Late Middle Palaeolithic rockshelter (Kotayk Province, Armenia)
Lusakert-1 (LKT-1) is a key site in any discussion of the Palaeolithic of the Armenian Highlands. This is in large part because of a long-running campaign of excavation in the 1970–1980s which recovered an obsidian artefact assemblage that was then interpreted as spanning the Lower–Upper Palaeolithic. Our reinvestigation in 2008–2012 revealed evidence of occupation in the interior of the LKT-1 rockshelter comprising spreads of ash, obsidian artef…
The Constructed Desert
Past and present cultures perceive their natural landscape as an integral and vital component of their complex worlds, while particular landscape features and associated monuments built in selected locales become sacred and revered through stories, legends and rituals embedded in mundane and ceremonial events. The hyper-arid Har Tzuriaz area in the southern Negev, Israel, offers a case study of culture-geographic continuities over a chronological…
When “the Sweet Gifts of Bacchus” Ended—New Archaeological Evidence for Settlement Changes and the Decline of Wine Production in Late Antique Southern Palestine
Based on the accumulated data from numerous excavations in the hinterland of Gaza and Ashkelon and the results of the comprehensive bioarchaeological research on Late Antique settlement and economy of the Negev Highlands, this article addresses the decline of the flourishing wine industry of southern Palestine, dating it to the second half of the 6th century c.e. The decline in wine production in the region had a direct effect on the rapid abatem…
Stowaways
Minimally Destructive Radiocarbon Dating of Caprine Dung
Archaeological dung pellets are time capsules of ancient herbivore diets and gut flora, informing on past agropastoral activity, ecology, and animal health. Improving multi-proxy approaches is key to maximizing this finite archaeological resource. Through experiments with standard pretreatments used in radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating, we address a fundamental problem in maximal multi-proxy analysis: How to chronometrically date individual caprine pell…
Networks of trade and exchange along the Israeli Silk Road
Excavations at Nahal Omer, an Early Islamic way station in the Negev Desert (sixth to ninth centuries AD), have yielded exotic textiles such as silks and cottons. Through a new study of these textiles, this project investigates the trade networks and global connectivity along this little-known artery of the Silk Road
Resurrecting Mitzpe Shivta
Occupation of Mitzpe Shivta in the Negev Desert coincided with times of economic and social upheaval and counterculture movements during the sixth and seventh centuries AD. Inscriptions and symbols found in rock-hewn rooms in the region indicate that while the agricultural economy declined during the late Byzantine period, pilgrimage and monasticism prospered
Specialized Hunting of Gazelle in the Natufian
Domestic Refuse Maintenance in the Natufian
Caravanserai middens on desert roads
Long-distance trade routes criss-crossed ancient Africa and Eurasia. Archaeological research has focused on the commodities in transit and the excavation of major centres located along these routes, with less attention paid to smaller caravanserai and evidence such as rubbish middens. The 'Incense Route' linked the Arabian Peninsula and Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, with activity peaking during the Nabataean and Roman periods. The authors pre…
A Monumental Horse Burial in the Armenian Highlands
В статье рассматривается редчайшая находка — полный скелет взрослого жеребца с бронзовым кольцом в пасти, находившийся в ритуальном погребении — каменной гробнице диаметром 15 м — на могильнике Агавнатун на южных склонах г. Арагац, которая обрамляет с севера Араратскую долину в Республике Армении. Могильный курган имеет округлую форму; останки лошади находились in situ во внутреннем овальном строении. В статье приводится подробное описание захоро…
Environment and horticulture in the Byzantine Negev Desert, Israel
Relict olive trees at runoff agriculture remains in Wadi Zetan, Negev Desert, Israel
Long-distance trade and consumption of mollusks in the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods in the Negev Desert
The Debate on Negev Viticulture and Gaza Wine in Late Antiquity
One hundred fifty years have passed since the first published reference in modern Western scholarship to ancient wine production in the Negev Highland desert, and much is now known about its hydrological, climatic, agricultural, economic, social and political context. Yet, in 2020 two studies reached opposite conclusions regarding the extent and intensity of Negev Highland viticulture, its relationship to Byzantine 'Gaza wine' and the associated …
Fish in the desert
Ftir Bone Characterization and Radiocarbon Dating
Various archaeological and historical evidence shows that the marginal area of the Negev desert of southern Israel enjoyed great agricultural prosperity in the Byzantine period (4th–7th centuries CE). Among the different types of agricultural installations are pigeon towers, which were built near the fields to produce fertilizer to enrich the nutrient-poor desert soils. Such extensive specialized agriculture practice was much less applied in the …
Ahead of the Game
Over the past several decades a variety of models have been proposed to explain perceived behavioral and cognitive differences between Neanderthals and modern humans. A key element in many of these models and one often used as a proxy for behavioral modernity is the frequency and nature of hunting among Palaeolithic populations. Here new archaeological data from Ortvale Klde, a late Middleearly Upper Palaeolithic rockshelter in the Georgian Repub…
Gazelle bone fat processing in the Levantine Epipalaeolithic
Increasing the resolution of the Broad Spectrum Revolution in the Southern Levantine Epipaleolithic (19-12 ka)
Modern hunting behavior in the early Middle Paleolithic
Aging mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella)
Intensification and sedentism in the terminal Pleistocene Natufian sequence of el-Wad Terrace (Israel)
Purpose, Permanence, and Perception of 14,000-Year-Old Architecture
This paper aims to demonstrate how careful and detailed intra \n- \nsite analyses of refuse \nand refuse contexts associated with buildings provide a more useful tool for \nunderstanding practice than do analyses of the stru \nctures alone. As the authors are \nwell aware a comparable approach was taken by Lewis Binford some thirty years ago \n, \nso \nstudies of the Epipaleolithic \n- \nNeolithic Near East have been slow to engage with \nthis sc…
Testing the use of multivariate inter-site taphonomic comparisons
Hovk 1 and the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of Armenia
Taphonomy and zooarchaeology of the Upper Palaeolithic cave of Dzudzuana, Republic of Georgia
We present the results of a detailed taphonomic and zooarchaeological study of the faunal remains from the Upper Palaeolithic layers of Dzudzuana Cave, Republic of Georgia. This study presents the first carefully analysed Upper Palaeolithic faunal assemblage from the southern Caucasus and thus serves as a significant point of reference for inter-regional studies of Upper Palaeolithic subsistence in Eurasia. A series of intra-site taphonomic compa…
The role of foxes in the Natufian economy
The Natufian culture of the Levant represents a sedentary, terminal Pleistocene hunter-gatherer society. Excavations of Natufian hamlets yield rich faunal assemblages in which a significant rise in small carnivore frequencies is noted (mainly red fox, Vulpes vulpes). Fox frequencies remain high in the succeeding Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA). We use Late Natufian fox remains from the site of el-Wad Terrace (Mount Carmel, Israel) as a case-study …
Gazelle exploitation in the early Neolithic site of Motza, Israel
Mesolithic Hunters at Kotias Klde, Western Georgia
Les fouilles conduites à Kotias Klde, une grotte karstique de l’Ouest de la Géorgie, ont permis de mettre au jour une séquence formée de quelques restes de l’âge du Bronze qui surmontent une séquence néolithique (A1 et A2), une couche complexe mésolithique (B) et le sommet d’une couche C, qui relèverait d’un Paléolithique supérieur tardif. Ce rapport préliminaire porte sur les assemblages du dépôt mésolithique daté de 12 400-10 380 cal. BP, dont …
Gazelle bone marrow yields and Epipalaeolithic carcass exploitation strategies in the southern Levant
Mass Hunting Game Traps in the Southern Levant
Spread throughout the deserts of the southern Levant are numerous triangular-shaped stone structures known as kites. Ancient kites are built of two long converging low stone walls with a circular enclosure at the apex. The enclosure can range from a few meters to 100 meters in diameter, and the walls may extend for hundreds of meters or even several kilometers. These well-preserved structures provide testimony to the magnitude of the systematic m…
Worldwide large-scale trapping and hunting of ungulates in past societies
Dzudzuana
The report announces the important radiocarbon-dated sequence recently obtained at Dzudzuana Cave in the southern Caucasus foothills. The first occupants here were modern humans, inc. 34.5-32.2 ka cal BP, and comparison with dated sequences on the northern slope of the Caucasus suggests that their arrival was rapid and widespread. The rich, well-dated assemblages of lithics, bone tools and a few art objects, coloured fibres, pollen and animal rem…
Beyond fast and slow
The Natufian economy at el-Wad Terrace with special reference to gazelle exploitation patterns
Probing the Byzantine/Early Islamic Transition in the Negev
The study presents preliminary results of the renewed excavations at Shivta in the Negev Highlands, Israel. Several trenches were excavated in public buildings, domestic structures, open areas and middens. The goal of the excavations was to fine-tune the history of the site and document changes versus continuity in the Byzantine/Early Islamic transition. Most of the excavated contexts produced material from the Byzantine period (4th–7th centuries…
Lower Paleolithic hominin ecology at the fringe of the desert
Measure for measure”
Walls, ramps and pits
Archaeological investigations of 'desert kites' in south Israel show them to have been animal traps of considerable sophistication and capacity, constructed in the Early Bronze Age or earlier. Extensive stone-wall arms gather in gazelles from their habitual trails and canalise them into a sunken enclosure, cunningly hidden from view of the galloping herd until it was too late
Culling profiles
The Epipalaeolithic Faunal Sequence in Israel
The Epipalaeolithic Faunal Sequence in Israel
An Inscribed Astragalus with a Dedication to Hermes
Games of chance? Cultic objects? Just what are astragali (knucklebones) and how were they used? Whatever their function, astragali were well-known, being attested in the ancient Near East from the Chalcolithic to the Roman periods. Guy Bar-Oz presents us with a unique example from Israel of a knucklebone inscribed with the name of the Greek god Hermes
After 20 Years”
The Natufian economy at el-Wad Terrace with special reference to gazelle exploitation patterns
Testing the use of multivariate inter-site taphonomic comparisons
Gazelle bone fat processing in the Levantine Epipalaeolithic
Back to Raqefet Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel
GYÖRGY LENGYEL, DANI NADEL, ALEXANDER TSATSKIN, GUY BAR-OZ, DANIELLA E. BAR-YOSEF MAYER, RON BE'ERI, ISRAEL HERSHKOVITZ, Back to Raqefet Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך ל"ה (תשס"ו / 2005), pp. 245-270
Gazelle bone marrow yields and Epipalaeolithic carcass exploitation strategies in the southern Levant
Focus
A New Incised Scapula from Tel Kinrot
Ahead of the Game
Over the past several decades a variety of models have been proposed to explain perceived behavioral and cognitive differences between Neanderthals and modern humans. A key element in many of these models and one often used as a proxy for behavioral modernity is the frequency and nature of hunting among Palaeolithic populations. Here new archaeological data from Ortvale Klde, a late Middleearly Upper Palaeolithic rockshelter in the Georgian Repub…
“Holy Garbage”
The chance discovery of an Early Roman city dump (1st century CE) in Jerusalem has yielded for the first time ever quantitative data on garbage components that introduce us to the mundane daily life Jerusalemites led and the kind of animals that were featured in their diet. Most of the garbage consists of pottery shards, all common tableware, while prestige objects are entirely absent. Other significant garbage components include numerous fragmen…
After 70 Years
MINA WEINSTEIN-EVRON, DANIEL KAUFMAN, NOGA BACHRACH, GUY BAR-OZ, DANIELLA E. BAR-YOSEF MAYER, SYLVIA CHAIM, DOTAN DRUCK, IRIS GROMAN-YAROSLAVSKI, ISRAEL HERSHKOVITZ, NATALY LIBER, DANNY ROSENBERG, ALEXANDER TSATSKIN, LIOR WEISSBROD, מינה ווינשטיין-עברון, דניאל קאופמן, נגה בכרך, גיא בר-עוז, דניאלה א. בר-יוסף מאייר, סילביה חיים, דותן דרוק, איריס גרומן-ירוסלבסקי, ישראל הרשקוביץ, נטלי ליבר, דני רוזנברג, אלכסנדר צצין, ליאור וייסברוד, אחרי 70 שנה: חפיר…
Measure for measure”
Mesolithic Hunters at Kotias Klde, Western Georgia
Les fouilles conduites à Kotias Klde, une grotte karstique de l’Ouest de la Géorgie, ont permis de mettre au jour une séquence formée de quelques restes de l’âge du Bronze qui surmontent une séquence néolithique (A1 et A2), une couche complexe mésolithique (B) et le sommet d’une couche C, qui relèverait d’un Paléolithique supérieur tardif. Ce rapport préliminaire porte sur les assemblages du dépôt mésolithique daté de 12 400-10 380 cal. BP, dont …
Modern hunting behavior in the early Middle Paleolithic
Ein Hilu — A Chalcolithic Site on The Desert Fringes of Samaria
SHAY BAR, GUY BAR OZ, ELISABETTA BOARETTO, OREN COHEN, EYAL DAN, NOA RABAN-GERSTEL, DANNY ROSENBERG, HAIM WINTER, שי בר, גיא בר עוז, אליזבטה בוארטו, אורן כהן, אייל דן, נועה רבן-גרסטל, דני רוזנברג, חיים וינטר, עין חילו — אתר כלקוליתי בשוליים המדבריים של השומרון / EIN HILU — A Chalcolithic Site on the Desert Fringes of Samaria, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך ל"ח (תשס"ט, 2008), pp. 153-228
Digging in the Museum
REUVEN YESHURUN, GUY BAR-OZ, ראובן ישורון, גיא בר עוז, חופרים במוזיאון: שרידים פאונה מהפליאולית התיכון ומהאפיפליאולית מהסקר הפרהיסטורי של עולמי בהר הכרמל / Digging in the Museum: Middle Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Faunal Remains from Olami's Prehistoric Survey of Mount Carmel, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך ל"ח (תשס"ט, 2008), pp. 41-58
Early Iron Age Dor (Israel)
This paper presents a study of archaeozoological remains from an early Iron Age (Iron I-IIA) sequence at the "Sea People"/Phoenician site of Tel Dor, on Israel's Carmel coast (Area D2). Detailed taphonomic and archaeozoological documentation provides information on a wide range of issues: subsistence practices of the site's inhabitants, which were based both on domestic animals and on the exploitation of the immediate environment; aspects of Dor'…
Aging mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella)
Hovk 1 and the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of Armenia
Taphonomy and zooarchaeology of the Upper Palaeolithic cave of Dzudzuana, Republic of Georgia
We present the results of a detailed taphonomic and zooarchaeological study of the faunal remains from the Upper Palaeolithic layers of Dzudzuana Cave, Republic of Georgia. This study presents the first carefully analysed Upper Palaeolithic faunal assemblage from the southern Caucasus and thus serves as a significant point of reference for inter-regional studies of Upper Palaeolithic subsistence in Eurasia. A series of intra-site taphonomic compa…
Seasonal Patterns of Prey Acquisition and Inter-group Competition During the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of the Southern Caucasus
The Late Natufian at Raqefet Cave
Erratum: הנאטופית המאוחרת במערת רקפת: עונת החפירות של 2006 / The Late Natufian at Raqefet Cave: The 2006 Excavation Season, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך ל"ט (תש"ע, 2009), p. 4
Backbone of Society
Zooarchaeological data from Iron Age urban contexts may reveal information pertaining to ancient economy, society, and culture. In this paper, a large sample of animal bones from the domestic quarters of Iron Age Tel Reḥov in the Beth Shean Valley region of northern Israel is considered. An analysis of livestock herd demography and butchery patterns is used to explore the foodways of the inhabitants of the city. The meat consumption habits of the…
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