Viviane Slon
Biographic Data
| ID | 135371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Viviane Slon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Viviane |
| FAMILY NAME | Slon |
| SIGNATURE | SLON V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6485-7159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reconstructing Lifeways and Social Differentiation in the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B Population of Nahal Yarmuth 38, Central Israel
Methodological advances in Neanderthal identification, phylogeny, chronology, mobility, climate, and diet
Heating histories and taphonomy of ancient fireplaces
While the use of fire has long been recognised as a crucial innovation in the cultural evolution of humankind, much research has focused on the (debated) chronology of its earliest use and control, and less on the ways in which fire was used in the deep past. At its latest by the Upper Palaeolithic, hunter-gatherers routinely used fire to heat a wide range of materials, adjusting parameters like temperature, exposure time and fuel type to the spe…
A late Neanderthal tooth from northeastern Italy
Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave
The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia
Ancient human movements through Asia Ancient DNA has allowed us to begin tracing the history of human movements across the globe. Narasimhan et al. identify a complex pattern of human migrations and admixture events in South and Central Asia by performing genetic analysis of more than 500 people who lived over the past 8000 years (see the Perspective by Schaefer and Shapiro). They establish key phases in the population prehistory of Eurasia, incl…
The earliest modern humans outside Africa
Earliest modern humans out of Africa Recent paleoanthropological studies have suggested that modern humans migrated from Africa as early as the beginning of the Late Pleistocene, 120,000 years ago. Hershkovitz et al. now suggest that early modern humans were already present outside of Africa more than 55,000 years earlier (see the Perspective by Stringer and Galway-Witham). During excavations of sediments at Mount Carmel, Israel, they found a fos…
Direct radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis of the Darra-i-Kur (Afghanistan) human temporal bone
The genetic history of Ice Age Europe
Mammalian mitochondrial capture, a tool for rapid screening of DNA preservation in faunal and undiagnostic remains, and its application to Middle Pleistocene specimens from Qesem Cave (Israel)
Schmutzi
UNLABELLED: Ancient DNA is typically highly degraded with appreciable cytosine deamination, and contamination with present-day DNA often complicates the identification of endogenous molecules. Together, these factors impede accurate assembly of the endogenous ancient mitochondrial genome. We present schmutzi, an iterative approach to jointly estimate present-day human contamination in ancient human DNA datasets and reconstruct the endogenous mito…
Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans
The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction
Cultural prehistory in southern Europe The Protoaurignacian culture appeared in the southern European archeological record around 42,000 years ago and was characterized by artefacts including personal ornaments and bladelets. Archaeologists have debated whether it was ancestral Homo sapiens or Neandertals who made these tools and ornaments. Benazzi et al. analyzed dental remains from two Protoaurignacian sites in Italy and confirm that they were …
New Middle Pleistocene dental remains from Qesem Cave (Israel)
Assyrian Attitude Towards Captive Enemies
The Assyrians, who ruled at the height of their power between Egypt and the Persian Gulf (745–630 BC), are known from historical records to have been cruel and unrelenting towards their enemies. However, osteological evidence for this behavior is scarce. We herein present a case of an adult male skeleton, dated to the Iron Age IIB period (second half of the 8th century BC), who manifests traumatic injuries to the skull, left forearm, vertebrae, a…
Looking for sharp edges
Trauma to the Skull
Background: Although the southern Levant is commonly perceived as having been a violent region throughout history, few studies have explored the pattern and intensity of skull trauma through time in the general population. The aim of this study is to follow changes in traumatic injury patterns in the southern Levant, over an extensive period of 6,000 years. Methods: 783 archaeological skulls from the Tel Aviv University osteological collection we…
A Case of Dwarfism from the Byzantine City Rehovot-in-the-Negev, Israel
Skeletons of dwarfs have been found in many archaeological sites from around the world. Nevertheless, their descriptions (morphologically and metrically) are very limited. We describe herein the skeleton of a male dwarf, approximately 35-50 years old, found in the Byzantine cemetery (5th-8thcentury CE) of Rehovot-in-the-Negev, southern Israel. Living stature was estimated at 120-125 cm. Detailed morphological skeletal descriptions and morphometri…
Looking for sharp edges
New Middle Pleistocene dental remains from Qesem Cave (Israel)
Heating histories and taphonomy of ancient fireplaces
While the use of fire has long been recognised as a crucial innovation in the cultural evolution of humankind, much research has focused on the (debated) chronology of its earliest use and control, and less on the ways in which fire was used in the deep past. At its latest by the Upper Palaeolithic, hunter-gatherers routinely used fire to heat a wide range of materials, adjusting parameters like temperature, exposure time and fuel type to the spe…
Trauma to the Skull
Background: Although the southern Levant is commonly perceived as having been a violent region throughout history, few studies have explored the pattern and intensity of skull trauma through time in the general population. The aim of this study is to follow changes in traumatic injury patterns in the southern Levant, over an extensive period of 6,000 years. Methods: 783 archaeological skulls from the Tel Aviv University osteological collection we…
Assyrian Attitude Towards Captive Enemies
The Assyrians, who ruled at the height of their power between Egypt and the Persian Gulf (745–630 BC), are known from historical records to have been cruel and unrelenting towards their enemies. However, osteological evidence for this behavior is scarce. We herein present a case of an adult male skeleton, dated to the Iron Age IIB period (second half of the 8th century BC), who manifests traumatic injuries to the skull, left forearm, vertebrae, a…
A Case of Dwarfism from the Byzantine City Rehovot-in-the-Negev, Israel
Skeletons of dwarfs have been found in many archaeological sites from around the world. Nevertheless, their descriptions (morphologically and metrically) are very limited. We describe herein the skeleton of a male dwarf, approximately 35-50 years old, found in the Byzantine cemetery (5th-8thcentury CE) of Rehovot-in-the-Negev, southern Israel. Living stature was estimated at 120-125 cm. Detailed morphological skeletal descriptions and morphometri…
Direct radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis of the Darra-i-Kur (Afghanistan) human temporal bone
A Case of Dwarfism from the Byzantine City Rehovot-in-the-Negev, Israel
Skeletons of dwarfs have been found in many archaeological sites from around the world. Nevertheless, their descriptions (morphologically and metrically) are very limited. We describe herein the skeleton of a male dwarf, approximately 35-50 years old, found in the Byzantine cemetery (5th-8thcentury CE) of Rehovot-in-the-Negev, southern Israel. Living stature was estimated at 120-125 cm. Detailed morphological skeletal descriptions and morphometri…
Looking for sharp edges
Trauma to the Skull
Background: Although the southern Levant is commonly perceived as having been a violent region throughout history, few studies have explored the pattern and intensity of skull trauma through time in the general population. The aim of this study is to follow changes in traumatic injury patterns in the southern Levant, over an extensive period of 6,000 years. Methods: 783 archaeological skulls from the Tel Aviv University osteological collection we…
Schmutzi
UNLABELLED: Ancient DNA is typically highly degraded with appreciable cytosine deamination, and contamination with present-day DNA often complicates the identification of endogenous molecules. Together, these factors impede accurate assembly of the endogenous ancient mitochondrial genome. We present schmutzi, an iterative approach to jointly estimate present-day human contamination in ancient human DNA datasets and reconstruct the endogenous mito…
Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans
The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction
Cultural prehistory in southern Europe The Protoaurignacian culture appeared in the southern European archeological record around 42,000 years ago and was characterized by artefacts including personal ornaments and bladelets. Archaeologists have debated whether it was ancestral Homo sapiens or Neandertals who made these tools and ornaments. Benazzi et al. analyzed dental remains from two Protoaurignacian sites in Italy and confirm that they were …
New Middle Pleistocene dental remains from Qesem Cave (Israel)
Assyrian Attitude Towards Captive Enemies
The Assyrians, who ruled at the height of their power between Egypt and the Persian Gulf (745–630 BC), are known from historical records to have been cruel and unrelenting towards their enemies. However, osteological evidence for this behavior is scarce. We herein present a case of an adult male skeleton, dated to the Iron Age IIB period (second half of the 8th century BC), who manifests traumatic injuries to the skull, left forearm, vertebrae, a…
The genetic history of Ice Age Europe
Mammalian mitochondrial capture, a tool for rapid screening of DNA preservation in faunal and undiagnostic remains, and its application to Middle Pleistocene specimens from Qesem Cave (Israel)
Direct radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis of the Darra-i-Kur (Afghanistan) human temporal bone
The earliest modern humans outside Africa
Earliest modern humans out of Africa Recent paleoanthropological studies have suggested that modern humans migrated from Africa as early as the beginning of the Late Pleistocene, 120,000 years ago. Hershkovitz et al. now suggest that early modern humans were already present outside of Africa more than 55,000 years earlier (see the Perspective by Stringer and Galway-Witham). During excavations of sediments at Mount Carmel, Israel, they found a fos…
Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave
The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia
Ancient human movements through Asia Ancient DNA has allowed us to begin tracing the history of human movements across the globe. Narasimhan et al. identify a complex pattern of human migrations and admixture events in South and Central Asia by performing genetic analysis of more than 500 people who lived over the past 8000 years (see the Perspective by Schaefer and Shapiro). They establish key phases in the population prehistory of Eurasia, incl…
Heating histories and taphonomy of ancient fireplaces
While the use of fire has long been recognised as a crucial innovation in the cultural evolution of humankind, much research has focused on the (debated) chronology of its earliest use and control, and less on the ways in which fire was used in the deep past. At its latest by the Upper Palaeolithic, hunter-gatherers routinely used fire to heat a wide range of materials, adjusting parameters like temperature, exposure time and fuel type to the spe…
A late Neanderthal tooth from northeastern Italy
Methodological advances in Neanderthal identification, phylogeny, chronology, mobility, climate, and diet
Reconstructing Lifeways and Social Differentiation in the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B Population of Nahal Yarmuth 38, Central Israel
Geography (15 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (14 works) · Biology (13 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (9 works) · Cave (7 works) · Paleontology (7 works) · Pleistocene (7 works) · Ancient DNA (6 works)