Naomi Porat
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 177549 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Naomi Porat |
| NOMBRES | Naomi |
| APELLIDO | Porat |
| FIRMA | PORAT N |
| AFILIACIONES | Geological Survey of Israel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5900-2460 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 91 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 647 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Dawn of the Initial and Early Upper Paleolithic blade industries in the Levant
Shualim Rockshelter is situated in the arid central highlands of the Negev in southern Israel and features three occupation layers, spanning from the Initial Upper Paleolithic to the Early Upper Paleolithic, with ages ranging from 47 to 36 ka cal. BP. Site chronology was established by radiocarbon dating of ostrich eggshell fragments and optically stimulated dating of sediments. Cultural variability was assessed through a technotypological analys…
Examining indicators of hunter-gatherer mobility in arid environments
Besor 37 is an open-air site in the northwestern Negev Desert (Israel). Excavations at the site in 2020 uncovered a rich, in situ Middle Paleolithic assemblage composed of flint and limestone artifacts, animal bones and charcoal. The good preservation of the site is due to its rapid burial by overbank deposition of fluvially reworked loess. Dating using both Optically Stimulated Luminescence and 14 C suggests an average age of 46.6 ± 2.4 ka. Usin…
Nubian Levallois Cores from MIS 5 Alluvial Terraces in the Negev Desert
The Negev region is a part of the great desert belt of north Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, a physical and environmental barrier between eastern Africa and southwest Asia. The proximity of the Negev Desert to the Eastern Mediterranean ecological zone to its north, makes it an interesting study area for identifying movements of people and ideas between these areas, in particular during interglacial periods such as Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS 5)…
Tectono-sedimentary evolution of a marginal fault
Contextualizing the Early Upper Paleolithic in the Negev Desert, southern Levant
Implementing lead isotopes for tracing the source of copper-coated steatite beads from the south Levantine Chalcolithic period
Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000-80,000 years ago
The south Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic (mid-MP; ~130-80 thousand years ago (ka)) is remarkable for its exceptional evidence of human morphological variability, with contemporaneous fossils of Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like hominins. Yet, it remains unclear whether these hominins adhered to discrete behavioural sets or whether regional-scale intergroup interactions could have homogenized mid-MP behaviour. Here we report on our discoveries …
Surveys and Salvage Excavations at the Negev Highlands
Ofer Marder, עפר מרדר, عوفر ماردر, Innes Veruytin, אינס וריוטין, إينيس فريونين, Yoav Avni, יואב אבני, يوآف أفني, Lotan Edeltin, לוטן אדלטין, لوكان أدلتلين, Naomi Porat, נעמי פורת, نعومي بورات, Maayan Shemer, דמיטרי יגורוב, Dmitry Yegorov, دميتري ييجوروف, Jacob Vardi, יעקב ורדי, وياكوف فيردي, Surveys and Salvage Excavations at the Negev Highlands - סקרים וחפירות הצלה בהר הנגב, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת הא…
Molecular to macrofossils indicating last millennium sea level in Lavsa saltpans, Croatia
Nubian Levallois Technology During MIS 5
The site of Dimona South is a knapping locality in the Negev desert of Israel, situated at the raw material source. A test excavation followed by a salvage excavation conducted during 2020 revealed a partly buried archaeological layer that was exposed over an area of ~ 40 m 2 and yielded a well-preserved lithic assemblage. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) ages of sediments within and above the archaeological layer fall within MIS 5. With a…
Agricultural Terracing and Land Tenure in Late Medieval Southern Levant
Recent research into agricultural terrace systems across the Jerusalem Highlands, has revealed a significant pattern: the majority of terraces were constructed within the past 700 years, during the Mamluk and Ottoman periods. The motivation for building terrace systems, a labour-intensive endeavour requiring significant long-term investment, appears to be associated with land management policies. This study set out to test this hypothesis, by foc…
Shifting the Sands – Early Islamic Modification of the Caesarea Sandy Lowlands into Plot-and-Berm Water-Harvesting Agroecosystem
During the Early Islamic period, several emerging agricultural innovations enabled the cultivation of summer crops in unproductive Mediterranean lands. This necessitated the development of water harvesting methods. This study delves into the creation of the Plot-and-Berm (P&B) agroecosystem along the sandy coast of Caesarea, Israel. From the early tenth century to the mid-twelfth century, coeval to the later part of the Early Islamic period and t…
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…
A conceptual model of multi-scale formation processes of open-air Middle Paleolithic sites in the arid Negev desert, Israel
Open-air surface accumulations and scatters of material cultural remains often are perceived as less-reliable archaeological archives, where it is difficult to distinguish anthropogenic versus geogenic formation processes or to assess their specific effects on the integrity of archaeological records. Here we analyze the depositional histories of three Middle Paleolithic open-air sites in the Negev desert of Israel, combining archaeological and ge…
Radiometric dating of Southern Levant dolmens – Applying OSL to resolve an old debate
Limekiln services soil enrichment and water retention of an Early Islamic Plot-and-Berm groundwater-harvesting agroecosystem in coastal dunes near Caesarea, Israel
Living in an ecotone
The north-western Negev is an under-researched ecotonal region. We excavated two late Middle Palaeolithic open-air sites and recovered rich lithic industries that could be refitted, as well as remains of fauna, and charcoal. Palaeoenvironmental information and dates indicate interesting inter-site differences
Natufian Green Stone Pendants from el-Wad
Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province
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 …
Relict olive trees at runoff agriculture remains in Wadi Zetan, Negev Desert, Israel
Ancient to recent-past runoff harvesting agriculture in the hyper-arid Arava Valley
Runoff harvesting agriculture was prevalent in ancient times across the southern Levant. In modern Israel, remnants of this agricultural adaptation strategy are widespread mostly in the semi-arid and arid Negev. Extensive literature has thoroughly described the farming systems of this region. However, runoff agriculture in the dryer, hyper-arid regions of the Arava Valley and southern Negev (excluding the Uvda Valley), has scarcely been researche…
Excavations at Kiriath-jearim, 2019
In this article we report the results of the second season of excavations at Kiriath-jearim (Deir el-ʿAzar). The following topics are emphasized: layout and date of the supposed monumental Iron IIB summit compound; nature of the Iron IIC settlement; date of the Hellenistic fortification; characteristics of the Early Roman period activity. An archaeo-historical analysis follows the presentation of the new data, including updates on past interpreta…
Rediscovering Geula Cave
Evidence for a Middle Paleolithic Flint Workshop in Arnona, South Jerusalem
Omry Barzilai, עומרי ברזילי, Yonaton Goldsmith, יונתן גולדסמית, Maayan Shemer, מעין שמר, Naomi Porat, נעמי פורת, Onn Crouvi, און כרובי, Evidence for a Middle Paleolithic Flint Workshop in Arnona, South Jerusalem - עדויות לקיומו של אתר סיתות מהתקופה הפליאוליתית התיכונה בארנונה, דרום ירושלים, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך נ (2020), pp. 15-43
Land Management and the Construction of Terraces for Dry Farming
The construction of terrace walls for dry farming in the highlands of the Levant was traditionally associated with demographic growth that caused pressure on available land for cultivation. In this paper we suggest an alternative model and claim that terraces were adopted as a subsistence strategy at periods when land ownership was centralized in the hands of either powerful landowners or managed through complex family‐based cooperation like the …
New radiometric ages for the Fauresmith industry from Kathu Pan, southern Africa
U-series and ESR analyses of bones and teeth relating to the human burials from Skhul
The Oldowan horizon in Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)
A series of Mousterian occupations in a new type of site
Timing of the Lower to Middle Paleolithic boundary
Archeology, Environment, and Chronology of the Early Middle Stone Age Component of Wonderwerk Cave
Radiometric dating of the Earlier Stone Age sequence in Excavation I at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
The use of OSL dating in unstructured sands
Dating the Ramat Saharonim Late Neolithic desert cult site
Steatite beads at Peqi'in
The Basalt Vessels of the Chalcolithic Period and Early Bronze Age I
(1984). The Basalt Vessels of the Chalcolithic Period and Early Bronze Age I. Tel Aviv: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 11-19
New Chronology and Stratigraphy for Kathu Pan 6, South Africa
The Upper Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic of Sefunim Cave, Israel
Archaeological investigations and OSL dating of terraces at Ramat Rahel, Israel
Dating terraces, the most prominent feature of the agricultural landscape in many parts of the world, is a problem for archaeologists. This study presents an interdisciplinary approach that combines archaeological survey and excavations with direct sediment dating of terrace fill using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL). The study focuses on Ramat Rahel, a multi-period site located in the southern outskirts of modern Jerusalem, Israel, where…
Flint workshop affiliation
Nubian Levallois Technology During MIS 5
The site of Dimona South is a knapping locality in the Negev desert of Israel, situated at the raw material source. A test excavation followed by a salvage excavation conducted during 2020 revealed a partly buried archaeological layer that was exposed over an area of ~ 40 m 2 and yielded a well-preserved lithic assemblage. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) ages of sediments within and above the archaeological layer fall within MIS 5. With a…
Rediscovering Geula Cave
Byzantine–Early Islamic agricultural systems in the Negev Highlands
An extensive survey followed by OSL (optically stimulated luminescence) dating of loess accumulation in agricultural terraces at six Byzantine and Early Islamic sites in the Negev Highlands revealed clear stratigraphic and chronological sequences. Traditionally dated to the 1st–7th centuries a.d., results from the present study demonstrate that the construction and use of largescale agricultural systems took place in the 4th–11th centuries a.d. T…
Magnetostratigraphy of the Evron Member-implications for the age of the Middle Acheulian site of Evron Quarry
New insights into desert kites in Armenia
The Armenian kites are the northernmost known kites in south‐west Asia. In contrast to those in the deserts further south, their research has only recently begun. The Armenian kites are situated at high elevations, mostly between 900 and 1500 m above mean sea level, in steppic conditions where Artemisia is at present the dominant shrub on the landscape. In our ongoing project we excavated three V‐shaped kites and one enclosure kite. The two kinds…
Hunting in the skies
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…
The formation of a Mediterranean terraced landscape
Correlation between petrography, NAA, and ICP analyses
Under favorable circumstances petrographic studies supported by chemical analysis using inductively coupled plasma (ICP) suffice to establish the provenience of pottery. A case in point is Egyptian‐style pottery of Early Bronze Age found in Canaan. The pottery was divided into three groups according to four criteria determined by thin section analysis supplemented by X‐ray diffraction: sorting and volume of silt‐sized quartz, heavy minerals, the …
Ancient to recent-past runoff harvesting agriculture in the hyper-arid Arava Valley
Runoff harvesting agriculture was prevalent in ancient times across the southern Levant. In modern Israel, remnants of this agricultural adaptation strategy are widespread mostly in the semi-arid and arid Negev. Extensive literature has thoroughly described the farming systems of this region. However, runoff agriculture in the dryer, hyper-arid regions of the Arava Valley and southern Negev (excluding the Uvda Valley), has scarcely been researche…
Single grain TT-OSL ages for the Earlier Stone Age site of Bestwood 1 (Northern Cape Province, South Africa)
The Basalt Vessels of the Chalcolithic Period and Early Bronze Age I
(1984). The Basalt Vessels of the Chalcolithic Period and Early Bronze Age I. Tel Aviv: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 11-19
The Basalt Vessels of the Chalcolithic Period and Early Bronze Age I
Correlation between petrography, NAA, and ICP analyses
Under favorable circumstances petrographic studies supported by chemical analysis using inductively coupled plasma (ICP) suffice to establish the provenience of pottery. A case in point is Egyptian‐style pottery of Early Bronze Age found in Canaan. The pottery was divided into three groups according to four criteria determined by thin section analysis supplemented by X‐ray diffraction: sorting and volume of silt‐sized quartz, heavy minerals, the …
Electron spin resonance dating of burned flint from Kebara Cave, Israel
Electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements of heated flint from Kebara cave show the presence of two radiation sensitive signals: E' and Al. Both are strongly interfered with by organic signals produced during heating of the flint. The signal subtraction method of Porat and Schwarcz (1991) was used to determine equivalent doses for flint samples from levels VII‐XII, for which thermoluminescence (TL) ages on the same samples are known. Ages were d…
Late Quaternary Earthquake Chronology from Luminescence Dating of Colluvial and Alluvial Deposits of the Arava Valley, Israel
Luminescence ages help provide a time scale for recurrent surface ruptures on a normal fault in the southern Arava, Israel. The dated samples come from alluvium and colluvium along a fault scarp north of Elat. The ages, obtained mainly by infrared stimulation of sand-size potassium feldspar grains, accord with geomorphic age estimates from soils and degraded scarps. Four large earthquakes occurred between 37,000 and 14,000 yr ago. Five smaller ea…
Hartuv, an Aspect of the Early Bronze I Culture of Southern Israel
Excavations at the site of Hartuv, in the Shephelah region of Israel, have revealed a single-period site dating to the Early Bronze I. The major discovery is an architectural complex excavated at the center of the site. It includes a central courtyard surrounded by rooms on at least three sides. One of the rooms, a rectangular hall with pillar bases along its long axis, may have been a sanctuary with a line of standing stones (massebot) which in …
A Third Millennium Levantine Pottery Production Center
Although long considered a hallmark of the EB II-III of northern Canaan, Metallic Ware (sometimes termed Abydos Ware, Combed Ware) has eluded systematic characterization. Defined by its highly fired fabric, Metallic Ware comprises a full range of household forms, excluding cooking pots. It is widely distributed between Taʿanakh in the south and Tyre in the north, and from Khirbet ez-Zeraqun in the east to the Mediterranean coast. Wherever found, …
Egyptian-Canaanite Interaction at Nahal Tillah, Israel (ca. 4500-3000 B. C. E.)
The nature of the Dynasty 0-Dynasty I Egyptian presence in southern Israel has been a source of debate since the excavations of Tel Erani on the fringe of the northern Negev in the 1950s when numerous Egyptian artifacts were discovered. Since then, a wide range of models have been used to characterize the nature of Egyptian-Canaanite relations. These models include warfare/conquest, commercialization, distance parity, and world systems. The recen…
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The Lower Paleolithic Site of Revadim Quarry, Preliminary Finds
OFER MARDER, GEDALYA GVIRTZMAN, HAGAI RON, HAMOUDY KHALAILY, MOSHE WIEDER, RINA BANKIRER, RIVKA RABINOVICH, NAOMI PORAT, IDIT SARAGUSTI, עופר מרדר, חמודי חליאלי, רבקה רבינוביץ', גדליה גבירצמן, משה וידר, נעמי פורת, חגי רון, רינה בנקירר, עידית סרגוסטי, אתר מהפליאולית התחתון במחצבת רבדים / The Lower Paleolithic Site of Revadim Quarry, Preliminary Finds, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כ"ח (תשנ"ח, 1998),…
Relief Inversion in the Avrona Playa as Evidence of Large-Magnitude Historical Earthquakes, Southern Arava Valley, Dead Sea Rift
The Arava Valley section of the Dead Sea Transform (DST) in southern Israel is characterized by the absence of seismic activity in recent times. However, paleoseismic analysis of sediments in the Avrona Playa, a pull-apart basin along the DST, reveals that at least six M > 6 tectonic events have affected the Avrona playa in the last 14,000 yr. The recurrence interval of the events is approximately 2000 yr. Trenched normal faults and push-up ridge…
Dating the Lower Paleolithic Open-Air Site of Holon, Israel by Luminescence and ESR Techniques
The open-air Acheulian site in Holon, Israel, was dated by the luminescence methods and by electron spin resonance (ESR). Situated in the coastal plain Quaternary Kurkar Group, the Holon site was first excavated in the late 1960s, when typical lower Paleolithic lithics and middle Pleistocene fauna were found. In order to date the site, new test pits were dug adjacent to the earlier excavations and the archaeological bed was exposed in a section c…
Timing of the Lower to Middle Paleolithic boundary
Steatite beads at Peqi'in
Magnetostratigraphy of the Evron Member-implications for the age of the Middle Acheulian site of Evron Quarry
U-series and ESR analyses of bones and teeth relating to the human burials from Skhul
Dating the Ramat Saharonim Late Neolithic desert cult site
Investigations at Ramat Saharonim
Investigations at the open-air shrine and cairn complex at Ramat Saharonim in the Makhtesh Ramon in the central Negev reveal a sacred precinct or ritual center with a focus on a mortuary cult, attributable to the Late Neolithic, ca. 5000 B.C. The four shrines are aligned with the setting sun of the summer solstice, along with other landscape features. The three tumuli excavated, roughly contemporary with the shrines, revealed primary and secondar…
Soil chronosequence development in dunes on the southeast African coastal plain, Maputaland, South Africa
New insight into pedogenic processes in extremely arid environments and their paleoclimatic implications—the Negev Desert, Israel
Sand dunes as a major proximal dust source for late Pleistocene loess in the Negev Desert, Israel
Grain size analyses of three hilltop, primary eolian loess sequences in the Negev desert, southern Israel, show a bimodal grain-size distribution at 50–60 μm and 3–8 μm. Using analyses of mineralogy and OSL ages we demonstrate that the coarse mode is composed mostly of quartz grains and its relative magnitude increases regionally with time, suggesting an enhancement of a time-transgressive proximal dust source compared to a distal, Saharan fine-g…
Green stone beads at the dawn of agriculture
The use of beads and other personal ornaments is a trait of modern human behavior. During the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods, beads were made out of shell, bone, ivory, egg shell, and occasionally of minerals. During the transition to agriculture in the Near East, stone, in particular green stone, was used for the first time to make beads and pendants. We observed that a large variety of minerals of green colors were sought, including apati…
Radiometric dating of the Earlier Stone Age sequence in Excavation I at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
The effect of climate change on the mobility and stability of coastal sand dunes in Ceará State (NE Brazil)
The coast of Ceará State in NE Brazil is covered by vast fields of active and stabilized coastal sand dunes. Its tropical climate is characterized by two seasons, wet and dry, with wind intensity determined by the meridional shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone. The wind power is negatively correlated with precipitation, and precipitation is negatively correlated with the difference between sea surface temperatures of the tropical Atlantic…
Recent faulting in the southern Arava, Dead Sea Transform
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