T L Greenfield

Biographic Data

ID1097363
NAMET L Greenfield
GIVEN NAMEST L
FAMILY NAMEGreenfield
SIGNATUREGREENFIELD T L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
ORCID0000-0003-1826-1842
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Understanding Alleyways of the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant

    Haskel J Greenfield, Jeremy A Beller et al.ARTICLEAtiqot2026

    Public passageways enable people, animals and goods to navigate a built environment, allowing access to residences, shops and public buildings, and also demarcate the spheres of society: economic versus social, sacred versus profane and public versus private. Passageways also mark the arrangement of neighborhoods and typically reflect a purposeful organization for settlements. This paper explores the nature of passageways at early urban settlemen…

  • Sacred Space and Ritual Behaviour in Ancient Mesopotamia

    Open AccessT L Greenfield, Angelo Di Michele et al.ARTICLEHumans2024References: 15

    Girsu, the modern site of Tello (southern Iraq), represents one of the earliest known urban centres of the ancient world, along with Uruk, Eridu, and Ur. During the 3rd millennium BCE (3000–2000 BCE), Girsu was revered as the sanctuary of the Sumerian heroic deity Ningirsu, who fought with supernatural beasts and made possible the introduction of irrigation and agriculture in Sumer. While much is known about the gods, their roles, and rituals ins…

  • Big-cat hunting in the Bronze and Iron Ages of the Near East

    Open AccessJane S Gaastra, T L Greenfield et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2023

    In ancient Near Eastern iconography, panthers and lions were frequently used to express social status. The zooarchaeological remains of panthers and lions found in this region, however, are most commonly interpreted only as evidence for the management of dangerous animals. Starting with the faunal material from Iron Age Tel Burna, the authors collate and analyse zooarchaeological evidence for big cats across the Near East, from the Neolithic to t…

  • Daily life and cultural appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan

    Shira Albaz, Haskel J Greenfield et al.ARTICLEPalestine Exploration Quarterly2022References: 3

    Discussions on daily life in Early Bronze Age society in the southern Levant often focus on subsistence or ritual phenomena, while aspects relating to entertainment and leisure are rarely discussed. This paper presents evidence for gaming behaviour, in the form of game boards and game pieces, that were recovered in the excavations of the Early Bronze Age (early to mid-3rd millennium bce) residential neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel. All…

  • Excavations at the Darband-I Rania Pass, Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Open AccessJohn Macginnis, Kamal Rasheed Raheem et al.ARTICLEIraq2020

    This paper presents the results of the work of the new field initiative launched by the British Museum at the Darband-i Rania pass in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The pass is located at the northeastern corner of Lake Dokan, where, though now subsumed into the lake, the Lower Zab flows from the Peshdar into the Rania Plain. It is a strategic location on a major route from Mesopotamia into Iran, and control of both the road and the river must alw…

  • Constraint, complexity and consumption

    Open AccessJane S Gaastra, T L Greenfield et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020

  • Provisioning the Early Bronze Age City of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel

    Open AccessElizabeth R Arnold, Elizabeth Arnold et al.ARTICLEOpen Quaternary2018Cited by: 10References: 46

    It is often assumed that domestic animals in early urban Near Eastern centres either are a reflection of the local pastoral economy, or were raised at a distance by pastoral specialists. In this paper, we test these assumptions through detailed isotopic analyses (carbon, oxygen and strontium) of caprines (sheep and goat) from Tell es-Safi/Gath, an Early Bronze Age urban centre in central Israel. The isotopic analyses demonstrate that the bulk of …

  • Household Rituals and Sacrificial Donkeys

    Haskel J Greenfield, T L Greenfield et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2018References: 12

    A few years ago, a domestic donkey (Equus asinus), or ass, was discovered at Tell eṣ-Ṣafi/Gath in modern Israel and determined to have been sacrificed and buried as a foundation deposit beneath the floor of an Early Bronze III house. Since then, three additional complete domestic donkey burials have been revealed beneath the floors of another house in the same Early Bronze neighborhood. These animals were buried within a nonelite domestic neighbo…

  • Early Bronze Age pebble installations from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel

    Adi Eliyahu-Behar, Adi Eliyahu‐behar et al.ARTICLELevant2017

    Pebble stone installations are commonly found at various Early Bronze Age sites in the southern Levant. However, their function is often assumed or unknown. Thirteen circular pebble installations were found scattered throughout a residential neighbourhood dating to the Early Bronze Age III at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Five such installations were recently studied by implementing an integrated micro-archaeological approach by which all micro- and macro-a…

  • Interregional Trade and Exchange at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath

    Elizabeth R Arnold, Elizabeth Arnold et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2017References: 10

  • Animal Food Production and Consumption in Stratum E5 at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath

    Haskel J Greenfield, T L Greenfield et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2017References: 5

  • Evidence for Administration and Leisure/Recreation at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath

    Shira Albaz, Haskel J Greenfield et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2017Cited by: 1

  • Spatial Reconstruction of Selected Finds from the Early Bronze Age Neighborhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Area E

    T L Greenfield, A SquitieriARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2017

  • The Palace versus the Home

    T L GreenfieldARTICLEJournal of Eastern Mediterranean…2015Cited by: 1References: 9

    Until recently, efforts to understand the social dynamics of early Near Eastern empires traditionally focused on cuneiform texts, which disproportionately represent the elite. This article presents newly collected zooarchaeological data from the Neo-Assyrian provincial capital of Tušḫan (Ziyaret Tepe) to demonstrate how social dynamics and status differences can be identified within urban settlements, and it highlights differences in the availabi…

  • Excavations at Ziyaret Tepe 2007-2008

    Timothy Matney, T L Greenfield et al.ARTICLEAnatolica2009