Uzi Avner

Biographic Data

ID77338
NAMEUzi Avner
GIVEN NAMESUzi
FAMILY NAMEAvner
SIGNATUREAVNER U
AFFILIATIONSDead Sea and Arava Science Center
ORCID0000-0002-7397-3044
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS139
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7

  • Middle Bronze Age copper smelting in the Wadi Arabah

    Open AccessBrady Li, Brady Liss et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2025References: 5

  • A Unique Assemblage of Late Islamic Magical Artifacts from Netafim 2

    Open AccessItamar Taxel, Uzi Avner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Material Cultures in…2023

    Many remains of the Muslim pilgrimage road from Cairo to Mecca, the Darb al-Hajj al-Maṣri are preserved in the Eilat region of southern Israel. These include sections of the road, camps, and other associated structures. Most of these remains date to the Mamluk and Ottoman periods. In one camp (Netafim 2), an assemblage of unusual objects was found, including fragmentary clay rattles, votive clay incense burners, anthropomorphic and perhaps zoomor…

  • Nabataean iron picks for copper mining from Nahal ‘Amram, Israel; Chemical, isotopic and production technology analysis

    Open AccessI Stepanov, Uzi Avner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2023Cited by: 2References: 28

  • Prehistoric Cult Sites along the Desert Roads

    Open AccessUzi AvnerARTICLEReligions2023References: 37

    The Negev desert, the southern half of Israel, is an arid-to-hyper-arid region. Despite that, some 13,000 ancient sites have been recorded here to date, and many were excavated. One characteristic of the Negev (as well as of other deserts) is the abundance of prehistoric and early historic cult sites, dated ca. 8000-2000 BCE. Another is the many ancient roads. The roads, the main types of cult sites and the connection between them are described a…

  • The Desert’s Role in the Formation of Early Israel and the Origin of Yhwh

    Open AccessUzi AvnerARTICLEEntangled Religions2021Cited by: 2References: 13

    The origin of ancient Israel has been questioned and intensively discussed for almost two centuries by many researchers, from two main schools of thought. One believes the early Israelites came from outside the Land of Cana‘an and conquered it, while the other believes they rose from within Cana‘an, forming a new polity and culture. Scholars are likewise divided whether the Israelite God, Yhwh, originated from the Near Eastern cultural environmen…

  • Hunting in the skies

    Michal Birkenfeld, Uzi Avner et al.ARTICLEPaléorient2020Cited by: 6References: 62

    Cet article présente les résultats de la première saison de fouilles menées sur le site montagneux de Naḥal Roded 110, situé dans le sud du désert du Néguev près d'Eilat, en Israël. Les datations 14 C et par luminescence datent toutes deux le site de la fin du Néolithique acéramique B (LPPNB, fin du 8 e millénaire av. J.-C.). Les données paléo-environnementales extraites des traces de pollen et de charbon de bois indiquent que des conditions arid…

  • Detecting changes in copper technology by analyzing slag from Nahal Amram Israel

    Open AccessSana Shilstein, Tal Kan-Cipor-Meron et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2020References: 7

  • Investigations at Naḥal Roded 110

    Open AccessMichal Birkenfeld, L K Horwitz et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2019Cited by: 2References: 3

  • Protohistoric Developments of Religion and Cult in the Negev Desert

    Uzi AvnerARTICLETel Aviv2018Cited by: 7References: 16

    The Negev Desert has a rich variety of cult types that can be dated back as long as 9,000 years ago. The article focuses on the types that were dominant in the seventh to third millennia BCE, including standing stone maṣṣebot, open-air sanctuaries, burial grounds and ‘Rodedian’ sites. Descriptions and interpretations of where these cult types enable a comprehensive view in which desert societies reveal intensive cultic activity and fully-develope…

  • Three-dimensional documentation of masseboth sites in the 'Uvda Valley area, southern Negev, Israel

    Open AccessReuma Arav, Sagi Filin et al.ARTICLEDigital Applications in…2016Cited by: 5References: 8

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

    Open AccessReuma Arav, Sagi Filin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2015Cited by: 3References: 11

  • A Survey of Neolithic Cult Sites in The Eilat Mountains, Israel

    Uzi Avner, Moti Shem-Tov et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Israel Prehistoric…2014

    Uzi Avner, Moti Shem-Tov, Lior Enmar, Gideon Ragolski, Rachamim Shem-Tov, Omry Barzilai, עוזי אבנר, מוטי שם-טוב, ליאור אנמר, גדעון רגולסקי, רחמים שם-טוב, עמרי ברזילי, סקר אתרי פולחן ניאוליתיים בהרי אילת / A Survey of Neolithic Cult Sites in the Eilat Mountains, Israel, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך מ"ד (2014), pp. 101-116

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

    Reuma Arav, Sagi Filin et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2014Cited by: 2References: 14

    Over 3,000 Desert Kites are known in Southwest Asia. However, most are known only by the study of Google Earth images, and the majority have never been visited or surveyed by foot or thoroughly documented. The high-resolution documentation of such constructions is imperative but limited in many cases, due to the harsh conditions and the use of local undressed stones for building. We introduce here the use of a LiDAR scanner and its contribution t…

  • Ramparts and walls

    Open AccessDani Nadel, Guy Bar-Oz et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2013

  • A rock inscription mentioning Thaʿlaba, an Arab king from Ghassān

    Open AccessUzi Avner, Laïla Nehmé et al.ARTICLEArabian archaeology and epigraphy2013Cited by: 5References: 2

    This article is the edition and commentary of an inscription discovered some time ago in the area of Eilat. It is written in a script that is transitional between Nabataean and Arabic, is presumably dated to the late fifth century AD and mentions an Arab king

  • Fourth-millennium-BC 'leopard traps' from the Negev Desert (Israel)

    Open AccessNaomi Porat, Uzi Avner et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2013Cited by: 4References: 27

    Stone-built installations known as 'leopard traps' are found throughout the deserts of the Middle East. They have generally been considered to be recent in date, and to have been built by Bedouin or other local communities to trap carnivores that threatened their flocks. But how much older might they be? Survey in the hyper-arid 'Uvda Valley of the southern Negev Desert in Israel discovered 23 'leopard traps', 19 of them clustered in a relatively…

  • Mass Hunting Game Traps in the Southern Levant

    Guy Bar-Oz, Dani Nadel et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2011Cited by: 19References: 10

    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…

  • Desert kites in the Negev desert and northeast Sinai

    Open AccessAssaf Holzer, Uzi Avner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Arid Environments2010

  • Walls, ramps and pits

    Open AccessDani Nadel, Guy Bar-Oz et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2010Cited by: 15References: 27

    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

  • A new approach for geomagnetic archaeointensity research

    Open AccessErez Ben-Yosef, L Tauxe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2008Cited by: 9References: 6

  • The Roman fort at Yotvata

    Open AccessUzi Avner, Gwyn Davies et al.ARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2004

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  • Settlement Patterns in the Southern Levant Deserts During the 6th–3rd Millennia BC

    Open AccessUzi Avner, Israel CarmiARTICLERadiocarbon2001Cited by: 15References: 8

    Archaeological surveys conducted in the Negev and Sinai during the 20th century were commonly interpreted as representing short settlement periods interrupted by long gaps. The time factor was usually based on archaeological estimates rather than comprehensive physical dating. For example, the perceived age and time duration of “hole-mouth” pottery sherds and tabular flint scrapers became a source of circular reasoning to “date” sites and their “…

  • Early Islamic Settlement in the Southern Negev

    Uzi Avner, Jodi Magne et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Schools…1998

    During the early Islamic period, the port of Ayla, at the northeastern end of the Gulf of ʿAqaba, served as an important commercial center. This article surveys the archaeological evidence for earl

  • The Dating of Early Bronze Age Settlements in the Negev and Sinai

    Michael Sebbane, Omit Ilan et al.ARTICLETel Aviv1993Cited by: 1References: 3

  • The Dating of Early Bronze Age Settlements in the Negev and Sinai

    Michael Sebbane, Omit Ilan et al.ARTICLETel Aviv1993Cited by: 10References: 5

    Reevaluation de la datation des sites du Bronze Ancien de Palestine et du Sinai, a partir de la typologie de la ceramique, deja utilisee, mais egalement grâce aux donnees petrographiques et a la datation par radiocarbone. Il en ressort quelques sites prehistoriques (paleolithique et neolithique), mais en majorite, il s'agit de sites des periodes primitives (chalcolithique et surtout age du Bronze Ancien)