Shira Albaz

Biographic Data

ID1723974
NAMEShira Albaz
GIVEN NAMESShira
FAMILY NAMEAlbaz
SIGNATUREALBAZ S
AFFILIATIONSBar-Ilan University
ORCID0000-0001-9646-1829
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2027
H-INDEX2

  • Crafting for the Gods: Cult, Production, and Technological Identities

    Shira Albaz, Laura Gonnermann et al.BOOKCrafting for the Gods: Cult,…2027

    Cult and craft production are two central and deeply intertwined dimensions of ancient societies. Although often examined in isolation, their interaction offers crucial insight into how communities articulated social identities and constructed cultural meaning. Approaching cult and craft in tandem reveals the ways ritual practices and technological knowledge shaped one another, illuminating how objects were produced, circulated, and appropriated …

  • A Longue Durée Perspective of Household Sustainability in the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant

    Open AccessJeremy A Beller, Haskel J Greenfield et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology2026

    Among early urban societies of the southern Levant, the nature of commodity usage and house organization is relatively underexplored. Recent excavations at Tell eṣ-Ṣa^fi/Gath, Israel, have uncovered a large Early Bronze Age settlement with a domestic neighborhood containing multiple successive phases of occupation. These phases have yielded a combined groundstone assemblage with objects of a variety of types, lithologies, and conditions. We repor…

  • 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…

  • Urbanism in the Iron Age Levant and Beyond

    Aharon Maʾir, Angelika Berlejung et al.BOOKUrbanism in the Iron Age Levant…2025

    Many significant finds related to urbanism in the Iron Age Levant have been uncovered in the last decades, warranting synthetic treatments combining these finds with theoretical approaches. Furthermore, the fascinating advances in the theoretical study of ancient urbanism in recent years, have enabled much more complex and multifaceted approaches to the study of ancient cities. These advances have raised many new questions and ideas, and, in some…

  • Ceramic Platters at Early Bronze Age Tell es-Sâfi/Gath

    Jon Ro, Shira Albaz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Eastern Mediterranean…2024References: 29

    Recent ceramic studies in Early Bronze Age Levantine archaeology emphasize the need to update and expand the interpretative potentials of ceramic datasets by taking a multiscalar chaîne opératoire approach. In this article, we focus on the platters from the excavations at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath in the southern Levant. The results of thin-section petrography are integrated with inspection of surface features and an alternative imaging technique for ide…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • Early Bronze Age Pottery Covered with Lime-Plaster

    Adi Eliyahu‐behar, Itzhaq Shai et al.ARTICLETel Aviv2016Cited by: 10References: 13

    With the emergence of urban culture in the southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age, new types of pottery and ceramic techniques appeared, among them pottery (usually combed) coated with a white material. A selection of sherds from Early Bronze strata was studied in an attempt to analyze this material. Using microscopy and various other methods, the authors were able to determine that the white material was a lime-plaster applied to the vessels af…

  • Faience beads from Early Bronze Age contexts at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel

    Open AccessAdi Eliyahu‐behar, Shira Albaz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2015Cited by: 6References: 5