M Chazan

Biographic Data

ID9359
NAMEM Chazan
GIVEN NAMESM
FAMILY NAMEChazan
SIGNATURECHAZAN M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0003-1236-5368
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS66
TOTAL CITATIONS961
AUTHOR COUNT66
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX17

  • The evolution of fire and ritual

    Open AccessM ChazanARTICLEWorld Archaeology2026

    Durkheim envisioned the evolution of religion as an expression of the dialectical relationship between people living in society with the forces that emerge from this society. His evolutionary scenario was built on living and historic societies, primarily Aboriginal Australians, Biblical Jews, Catholics, and 19th Century cosmopolitan Europeans. This article explores the potential of applying Durkheim’s conceptual framework to the palaeoanthropolog…

  • Geophysics to investigate landscape archaeology at Kathu, South Africa

    Open AccessKatrina Cristino, Carl‐Georg Bank et al.ARTICLEArchéoSciences2025References: 1

    geophysics to investigate landscape archaeology at two sites near Kathu, SA; magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar images a buried river channel; seismic tomography images karst features as well as a hardened lithic-rich layer

  • The anthropological sense

    Eric Boëda, M ChazanCHAPTERTechno-logic & Technology2023

  • Wonderwerk Cave and the Kathu Complex, South Africa

    Open AccessM Chazan, L K HorwitzCHAPTERHandbook of Pleistocene…2023

  • Kathu Pan 6

    Wendy Black, Precious Chiwara-Maenzanise et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Archaeology2023References: 28

    This paper presents preliminary results from a newly excavated open-air Later Stone Age site attributed to the Wilton Industry at Kathu Pan 6 in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Basic data on the lithics, fauna (including a large ivory fragment), and ostrich eggshell (including beads) recovered during two seasons of excavation (2016–2017) are presented and this material is contextualized through comparison with neighboring sites. Spati…

  • Nathan Schlanger. 2023. L'invention de la technologie

    Open AccessM ChazanARTICLEAntiquity2023

    Nathan Schlanger. 2023. L'invention de la technologie: une histoire intellectuelle avec André Leroi-Gourhan. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France; 978-2-13-083395-6 paperback €26. - Volume 97 Issue 395

  • Geological and Archeological Insight into Site Formation Processes and Acheulean Occupation at Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

    Open AccessPaul Goldberg, Sara E Rhode et al.ARTICLEJournal of Paleolithic Archaeology2023Cited by: 1References: 20

  • Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province

    Open AccessL K Horwitz, D Margaret Avery et al.CHAPTERAfrican Paleoecology and Human…2022

    Localities in the interior of South Africa, such as Taung and Vaal River sites, were intensively researched after hominins were discovered (Péringuey, 1911; Dart, 1925a; Goodwin, 1928), but then neglected for the fossil-rich, dolomitic breccia sites in Gauteng Province (e.g., Cooke, 1963, 1967; Vrba, 1976; Brain, 1981, Brain and Sillen, 1988; Bamford, 1999; Pickering and Kramers, 2010; Herries and Shaw, 2011; Reynolds et al., 2011; Lee-Thorp and …

  • The Fauresmith and Cultural Dynamics at the End of the Southern African Earlier Stone Age

    M ChazanCHAPTER2022

    The Fauresmith refers to a poorly defined archeological entity that is transitional between the Earlier and Middle Stone Age in southern Africa and that has tentatively also been identified in East Africa. Recent research on sites in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa supports the validity of the Fauresmith while indicating that there is considerable variation in the lithic assemblages. There are significant cultural developments associat…

  • Understanding the Impact of Trampling on Rodent Bones

    Open AccessYolanda Fernández-Jalvo, Lucía Rueda et al.ARTICLEQuaternary2022Cited by: 4References: 24

    Experiments based on the premise of uniformitarism are an effective tool to establish patterns of taphonomic processes acting either before, or after, burial. One process that has been extensively investigated experimentally is the impact of trampling to large mammal bones. Since trampling marks caused by sedimentary friction strongly mimic cut marks made by humans using stone tools during butchery, distinguishing the origin of such modifications…

  • Obituary

    Open AccessM ChazanARTICLEMitteilungen der Gesellschaft für…2021

    Like the novelist Amos Oz and the poet Yehuda Amichai, Ofer Bar-Yosef (Fig. 1) grew up in Jerusalem as the British Mandate came to a close and waves of Jewish immigration transformed the region.Ofer was ten years old when the State of Israel declared its independence.As Amos Oz describes, this was a world of resilience, cosmopolitan intellectualism, and the emergence of Hebrew as a living language

  • Early hominin group size

    Open AccessM ChazanARTICLEQuaternary International2021Cited by: 6References: 29

  • Exploring the Later Stone Age at a micro-scale

    Open AccessSara E Rhode, Paul Goldberg et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2021Cited by: 4References: 18

  • The owl that never left! Taphonomy of Earlier Stone Age small mammal assemblages from Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)

    Open AccessMaría Dolores Marin‐monfort, Maria Dolores Marin-Monfort et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2021Cited by: 10References: 34

    Wonderwerk Cave, in South Africa, is an exceptional site that has yielded a large collection of small mammal fossils in a stratigraphic sequence reaching back ca. 2 million years. Taphonomic studies undertaken to date, show that Tytonidae (likely Tyto alba) was the dominant predator during the Earlier Stone Age. They produced masses of pellets that formed a dense carpet-like surface that covered the cave floor at intervals throughout the sequence…

  • Lithic Technology, Paleolithic

    Open AccessM ChazanCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Global Archaeology2020

  • Levallois

    M ChazanCHAPTER2020

    Levallois refers to a way of making stone tools that is a significant component of the technological adaptations of both Neanderthals and early modern humans. Although distinctive Levallois artifacts were identified already in the 19th century, a consensus on the definition of the Levallois and clear criteria for distinguishing Levallois from non-Levallois artifacts remain elusive. At a general level, Levallois is one variant on prepared core tec…

  • Single grain TT-OSL ages for the Earlier Stone Age site of Bestwood 1 (Northern Cape Province, South Africa)

    Open AccessMaïlys Richard, M Chazan et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020Cited by: 5References: 10

  • Archeology, Environment, and Chronology of the Early Middle Stone Age Component of Wonderwerk Cave

    Open AccessM Chazan, Francesco Berna et al.ARTICLEJournal of Paleolithic Archaeology2020Cited by: 35References: 44

  • New Chronology and Stratigraphy for Kathu Pan 6, South Africa

    Open AccessVasilija Lukich, Naomi Porat et al.ARTICLEJournal of Paleolithic Archaeology2019Cited by: 14References: 19

  • Homo Erectus

    Open AccessM ChazanCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Evolutionary…2018

  • Tools, Paleolithic

    Open AccessM ChazanOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    Most of what we know of the material culture of the Paleolithic is based on the study of stone tools, although in later periods bone tools also came to play an important role. This entry reviews the major approaches used in the study of stone tools from the Paleolithic and the development of Paleolithic stone tools from the first appearance of this technology over 3 million years ago to the spread of modern humans into Europe

  • The Huqoq Excavation Project

    Jodi Magne, Jodi Magness et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Schools…2018

    Excavations at Huqoq in Israel's eastern Lower Galilee are bringing to light a Late Roman synagogue, a medieval public building, and the remains of ancient and modern (pre-1948) villages. In this interim report, we describe the major discoveries of the 2014–2017 seasons, including the extraordinary figural mosaics decorating the synagogue floor. Our discoveries provide evidence of a Galilean Jewish community that flourished through the 5th and 6t…

  • Renewed excavations at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa

    Open AccessM Chazan, L K Horwitz et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Anthropology Issues…2017

  • Geology/archaeology in action

    Open AccessM ChazanARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2017Cited by: 2References: 19

  • Toward a Long Prehistory of Fire

    M ChazanARTICLECurrent Anthropology2017Cited by: 40References: 60

    This article explores a conception of the origins of fire as a process of shifting human interactions with fire, a process that, in a sense, still continues today. This is a counterpoint to the dominant narrative that envisions a point of "discovery" or "invention" for fire. Following a discussion about what fire is and how it articulates with human society, I propose a potential scenario for the prehistory of fire, consisting of three major stag…