Mordechai E Kislev
Biographic Data
| ID | 3578079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mordechai E Kislev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mordechai E |
| FAMILY NAME | Kislev |
| SIGNATURE | KISLEV M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-6237-3821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 459 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Remains of Seeds, Fruits and Insects from the Excavations in the Village of ‘En Gedi
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Plant Remains from Rothenberg’s Excavations in Timna: Smelters’ Food and Cultic Offerings at the Turn of the First Millennium BCE
In the 1960s and 1970s, two copper-smelting sites (Sites 2 and 30) and a cultic place (the ‘Hathor Shrine’, Site 200) were excavated by Beno Rothenberg’s ‘Arabah Expedition’ in the Timna Valley. They yielded rich archaeobotanical assemblages, most of which were never published. These data provide a rare opportunity to reconstruct plant food aspects of the daily lives of copper smelters. In this study, we were able to locate and identify some 10,0…
Figs: Origins and Development
Invading a new niche: Obligatory weeds at Neolithic Atlit-Yam, Israel
Flax seed production: Evidence from the early Iron Age site of Tel Beth-Shean, Israel and from written sources
Early finds of Celtis australis in the southern Levant
Extinction of water plants in the Hula Valley: Evidence for climate change☆
Lathyrus consumption in late Bronze and iron age sites in Israel: An Aegean affinity
Spatial Organization of Hominin Activities at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel
Home Is Where the Hearth Is One aspect of human intelligence is the ability to organize our living and working spaces. It was generally thought that this capability arose with modern humans in the past 100,000 years or so. However, Alperson-Afil et al. (p. 1677 ) found evidence of domestic organization 800,000 years ago at a Pleistocene hominin campsite in the Jordan Valley. Around patches of burnt debris, the remains of a wide range of plant and…
Evidence for a Separate Burial Ground at the Submerged Pottery Neolithic Site of Neve-Yam, Israel
Des fouilles de sauvetage et des observations de terrain à Neve-Yam, un village de la culture Wadi Rabah (Néolithique céramique, 2nde moitié du VIIIe millénaire cal. BP), submergé de la côte du Carmel, ont révélé des tombes en pierre aux caractéristiques particulières. Elles étaient concentrées dans un secteur spécifique du site, voué aux rituels funéraires. Il n’y avait pas d’habitations dans cette partie destinée aux inhumations, et aucune tomb…
Vicia peregrina: An edible early Neolithic legume
Plant-food preparation area on an Upper Paleolithic brush hut floor at Ohalo II, Israel
Autonomous Cultivation Before Domestication
The Archeological Landscape of the Chanchán Basin and Its Agroecological Legacies for the Conservation of Montane Forests in the Western Foothills of the Ecuadorian Andes
Mousterian vegetal food in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel
Archaeobotanical and archaeoentomological evidence from a well at Atlit-Yam indicates colder, more humid climate on the Israeli coast during the PPNC period
Small-Grained Wild Grasses as Staple Food at the 23 000-Year-Old Site of Ohalo II, Israel
The Ohalo II 2001 Season of Excavation: A Preliminary Report
DANI NADEL, DANIELA E. BAR-YOSEF MAYER, ALEXANDER TSATSKIN, MIRIAM BELMAKER, ELISABETTA BOARETTO, MORDECHAI E. KISLEV, ISRAERL HERSHKOVITZ, RIVKA RABINOVICH, ORIT SIMCHONI, TAL SIMMONS, EHUD WEISS, IRIT ZOHAR, GIL EMMER, TUGAN GHRAIEB, UDI GRINBERG, POLINA SPIVAK, LIOR WEISSBROD, YOSSI ZAIDNER, דני נדל, אלכסנדר צצקין, דניאלה בר-יוסף מאיר, מרים בלמקר, מרדכי א. כסלו, ישראל הרשקוביץ, רבקה רבינוביץ, אורית שימחוני, טל סימונס, אהוד וייס, עירית זוהר, גי…
Plant remains as indicators for economic activity: A case study from Iron Age Ashkelon
Nuts, nut cracking, and pitted stones at Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel
The Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov (Israel) has revealed a unique association of edible nuts with pitted hammers and anvils. Located in the Dead Sea rift, on the boundary between the Arabian and African plates, the site dates to the Early-Middle Pleistocene, oxygen isotope stage 19. In a series of strata, seven species of nuts, most of which can be cracked open only by a hard hammer, were uncovered. Five of the species are extant terrestr…
The Ohalo II 1999-2000 Seasons of Excavation: A Preliminary Report
DANI NADEL, ALEXANDER TSATSKIN, DANIELA E. BAR-YOSEF MAYER, MIRIAM BELMAKER, ELIZABETTA BOARETTO, MORDECHAI E. KISLEV, ISRAERL HERSHKOVITZ, RIVKA RABINOVICH, TAL SIMMONS, UDI WEISS, IRIT ZOHAR, OMAR ASFUR, GIL EMMER, TUGAN GHRAIEB, EHUD GRINBERG, HANAN HALABI, LIOR WEISSBROD, YOSSI ZAIDNER, דני נדל, אלכסנדר צצקין, דניאלה בר-יוסף מאייר, מרים בלמייקר, אליזבטה בוארטו, מרדכי כסלו, ישראל הרשקוביץ, רבקה רבינוביץ, טל סימונס, אודי וייס, עירית זוהר, עומר …
Wild Olive Stones at Submerged Chalcolithic Kfar Samir, Haifa, Israel
MORDECHAI EPHRAIM KISLEV, מרדכי אפרים כסלו, גלעינים של זיתי—בר מהאתר התת—ימי הכלכוליתי, כפר סמיר, בחיפה / Wild Olive Stones at Submerged Chalcolithic Kfar Samir, Haifa, Israel, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כ"ו (תשנ"ה / 1994-5), pp. 134-145
Year-Old Twisted Fibers From Ohalo II
Import of an Aegean Food Plant to a Middle Bronze IIA Coastal Site in Israel
The discovery of L. clymenum at the Middle Bronze IIA settlement at Tel Nami, Israel is reported. Archaeobotanical evidence is presented in order to show the Aegean origin and demonstrate the peculiarities of this exotic food crop. The archaeological context of the discovery and its implications indicate that maritime contacts existed between the Aegean and the southern Levant during the first quarter of the second millennium B.C.
Atlit-Yam: A Prehistoric Site on the Sea Floor off the Israeli Coast
Atlit- Yam, a settlement 400 m off the Israeli shore, is the largest (60,000 sq m) and most deeply submerged (8–12 m bsl) prehistoric settlement ever uncovered along the Mediterranean coast. The architecture of the dwellings, the lithic tool assemblages, and radiocarbon dating indicate habitation during the late Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) period) ca. 8100–7500 B.P. Floral and faunal remains suggest that the village economy was complex, based on …
New Discoveries at the Middle Pleistocene Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel
The Gesher Benot Ya'aqov archaeological site in the northern Dead Sea Rift of Israel contains Acheulian artifacts and middle Pleistocene fossils. Initial results of a new interdisciplinary study have shown that fluviolacustrine sediments of the Benot Ya'aqov Formation, which contains several archaeological occupations, were deposited in an embayment of the Hula Basin. They were subsequently deformed by tectonic activity associated with the Dead S…
Mousterian vegetal food in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel
Year-Old Twisted Fibers From Ohalo II
Small-Grained Wild Grasses as Staple Food at the 23 000-Year-Old Site of Ohalo II, Israel
Plant-food preparation area on an Upper Paleolithic brush hut floor at Ohalo II, Israel
The Legumes: The Earliest Domesticated Plants in the Near East
Geschichte von Pflanzengruppen - Frühes Neolithikum - Mesolithikum - Naher Osten - Asien - Höhle - Fabaceae - Kulturpflanzen - Archäobotanik
Plant remains as indicators for economic activity: A case study from Iron Age Ashkelon
Lathyrus consumption in late Bronze and iron age sites in Israel: An Aegean affinity
Atlit-Yam: A Prehistoric Site on the Sea Floor off the Israeli Coast
Atlit- Yam, a settlement 400 m off the Israeli shore, is the largest (60,000 sq m) and most deeply submerged (8–12 m bsl) prehistoric settlement ever uncovered along the Mediterranean coast. The architecture of the dwellings, the lithic tool assemblages, and radiocarbon dating indicate habitation during the late Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) period) ca. 8100–7500 B.P. Floral and faunal remains suggest that the village economy was complex, based on …
Netiv Hagdud: An Early Neolithic Village Site in the Jordan Valley
Netiv Hagdud is an Early Neolithic village site in the Lower Jordan Valley. Systematic excavations exposed a 500-sqm surface, which included several oval and circular houses. Carbonized plant remains, animal bones, and a wealth of lithic assemblages were the primary materials recovered from the houses and the fill. The seeds indicate that barley cultivation was practiced, along with the continuous gathering of wild fruits and seeds. Gazelle hunti…
Possible congenital hemolytic anemia in prehistoric coastal inhabitants of Israel
The spread of thalassemia among prehistoric populations of the Mediterranean Basin has been linked to the increased risk to early agriculturalists posed by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite. The diagnosis of the disease in human skeletal remains, however, has usually been based on a single pathological criterion, porotic hyperostosis. This paper reports on what we believe to be the earliest case of thalassemia yet identified in the prehistoric r…
Evidence for a Separate Burial Ground at the Submerged Pottery Neolithic Site of Neve-Yam, Israel
Des fouilles de sauvetage et des observations de terrain à Neve-Yam, un village de la culture Wadi Rabah (Néolithique céramique, 2nde moitié du VIIIe millénaire cal. BP), submergé de la côte du Carmel, ont révélé des tombes en pierre aux caractéristiques particulières. Elles étaient concentrées dans un secteur spécifique du site, voué aux rituels funéraires. Il n’y avait pas d’habitations dans cette partie destinée aux inhumations, et aucune tomb…
Vicia peregrina: An edible early Neolithic legume
Mevasseret Yerushalayim: The Ancient Settlement and Its Agricultural Terraces
Excavations of artificial terraces provide information about an ancient farming technique that was adapted to the natural, stepped topography of the region
Emergence of Wheat Agriculture
Accumulation of data from botany, archeology and genetics yields an improved picture of the beginnings and early spread of wheat agriculture, as well as of the evolution of the species involved. The "Agricultural Revolution" is subdivided into three stages : the Agrotechnical Revolution, the Domestication Revolution and the Expansion of Agriculture. Hulled wheats were the mainstay of plant husbandry in Neolithic Europe, a continent which was then…
Invading a new niche: Obligatory weeds at Neolithic Atlit-Yam, Israel
Flax seed production: Evidence from the early Iron Age site of Tel Beth-Shean, Israel and from written sources
Reference to the Pistachio Tree in Near East Geographical Names
(1985). Reference to the Pistachio Tree in Near East Geographical Names. Palestine Exploration Quarterly: Vol. 117, No. 2, pp. 133-138
Plant Remains from Rothenberg’s Excavations in Timna: Smelters’ Food and Cultic Offerings at the Turn of the First Millennium BCE
In the 1960s and 1970s, two copper-smelting sites (Sites 2 and 30) and a cultic place (the ‘Hathor Shrine’, Site 200) were excavated by Beno Rothenberg’s ‘Arabah Expedition’ in the Timna Valley. They yielded rich archaeobotanical assemblages, most of which were never published. These data provide a rare opportunity to reconstruct plant food aspects of the daily lives of copper smelters. In this study, we were able to locate and identify some 10,0…
Extinction of water plants in the Hula Valley: Evidence for climate change☆
Proteins in old grains of Triticum sp
Mevasseret Yerushalayim: The Ancient Settlement and Its Agricultural Terraces
Excavations of artificial terraces provide information about an ancient farming technique that was adapted to the natural, stepped topography of the region
Emergence of Wheat Agriculture
Accumulation of data from botany, archeology and genetics yields an improved picture of the beginnings and early spread of wheat agriculture, as well as of the evolution of the species involved. The "Agricultural Revolution" is subdivided into three stages : the Agrotechnical Revolution, the Domestication Revolution and the Expansion of Agriculture. Hulled wheats were the mainstay of plant husbandry in Neolithic Europe, a continent which was then…
Reference to the Pistachio Tree in Near East Geographical Names
(1985). Reference to the Pistachio Tree in Near East Geographical Names. Palestine Exploration Quarterly: Vol. 117, No. 2, pp. 133-138
Abstracts — Second Symposium on Upper Paleolithic
The Legumes: The Earliest Domesticated Plants in the Near East
Geschichte von Pflanzengruppen - Frühes Neolithikum - Mesolithikum - Naher Osten - Asien - Höhle - Fabaceae - Kulturpflanzen - Archäobotanik
Origins of the cultivation oflathyrus sativus andL. cicera (fabaceae)
Netiv Hagdud: An Early Neolithic Village Site in the Jordan Valley
Netiv Hagdud is an Early Neolithic village site in the Lower Jordan Valley. Systematic excavations exposed a 500-sqm surface, which included several oval and circular houses. Carbonized plant remains, animal bones, and a wealth of lithic assemblages were the primary materials recovered from the houses and the fill. The seeds indicate that barley cultivation was practiced, along with the continuous gathering of wild fruits and seeds. Gazelle hunti…
Possible congenital hemolytic anemia in prehistoric coastal inhabitants of Israel
The spread of thalassemia among prehistoric populations of the Mediterranean Basin has been linked to the increased risk to early agriculturalists posed by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite. The diagnosis of the disease in human skeletal remains, however, has usually been based on a single pathological criterion, porotic hyperostosis. This paper reports on what we believe to be the earliest case of thalassemia yet identified in the prehistoric r…
New Discoveries at the Middle Pleistocene Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel
The Gesher Benot Ya'aqov archaeological site in the northern Dead Sea Rift of Israel contains Acheulian artifacts and middle Pleistocene fossils. Initial results of a new interdisciplinary study have shown that fluviolacustrine sediments of the Benot Ya'aqov Formation, which contains several archaeological occupations, were deposited in an embayment of the Hula Basin. They were subsequently deformed by tectonic activity associated with the Dead S…
Epipalaeolithic (19,000 BP) cereal and fruit diet at Ohalo II, Sea of Galilee, Israel
Import of an Aegean Food Plant to a Middle Bronze IIA Coastal Site in Israel
The discovery of L. clymenum at the Middle Bronze IIA settlement at Tel Nami, Israel is reported. Archaeobotanical evidence is presented in order to show the Aegean origin and demonstrate the peculiarities of this exotic food crop. The archaeological context of the discovery and its implications indicate that maritime contacts existed between the Aegean and the southern Levant during the first quarter of the second millennium B.C.
Atlit-Yam: A Prehistoric Site on the Sea Floor off the Israeli Coast
Atlit- Yam, a settlement 400 m off the Israeli shore, is the largest (60,000 sq m) and most deeply submerged (8–12 m bsl) prehistoric settlement ever uncovered along the Mediterranean coast. The architecture of the dwellings, the lithic tool assemblages, and radiocarbon dating indicate habitation during the late Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) period) ca. 8100–7500 B.P. Floral and faunal remains suggest that the village economy was complex, based on …
Wild Olive Stones at Submerged Chalcolithic Kfar Samir, Haifa, Israel
MORDECHAI EPHRAIM KISLEV, מרדכי אפרים כסלו, גלעינים של זיתי—בר מהאתר התת—ימי הכלכוליתי, כפר סמיר, בחיפה / Wild Olive Stones at Submerged Chalcolithic Kfar Samir, Haifa, Israel, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כ"ו (תשנ"ה / 1994-5), pp. 134-145
Year-Old Twisted Fibers From Ohalo II
Nuts, nut cracking, and pitted stones at Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel
The Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov (Israel) has revealed a unique association of edible nuts with pitted hammers and anvils. Located in the Dead Sea rift, on the boundary between the Arabian and African plates, the site dates to the Early-Middle Pleistocene, oxygen isotope stage 19. In a series of strata, seven species of nuts, most of which can be cracked open only by a hard hammer, were uncovered. Five of the species are extant terrestr…
The Ohalo II 1999-2000 Seasons of Excavation: A Preliminary Report
DANI NADEL, ALEXANDER TSATSKIN, DANIELA E. BAR-YOSEF MAYER, MIRIAM BELMAKER, ELIZABETTA BOARETTO, MORDECHAI E. KISLEV, ISRAERL HERSHKOVITZ, RIVKA RABINOVICH, TAL SIMMONS, UDI WEISS, IRIT ZOHAR, OMAR ASFUR, GIL EMMER, TUGAN GHRAIEB, EHUD GRINBERG, HANAN HALABI, LIOR WEISSBROD, YOSSI ZAIDNER, דני נדל, אלכסנדר צצקין, דניאלה בר-יוסף מאייר, מרים בלמייקר, אליזבטה בוארטו, מרדכי כסלו, ישראל הרשקוביץ, רבקה רבינוביץ, טל סימונס, אודי וייס, עירית זוהר, עומר …
The Ohalo II 2001 Season of Excavation: A Preliminary Report
DANI NADEL, DANIELA E. BAR-YOSEF MAYER, ALEXANDER TSATSKIN, MIRIAM BELMAKER, ELISABETTA BOARETTO, MORDECHAI E. KISLEV, ISRAERL HERSHKOVITZ, RIVKA RABINOVICH, ORIT SIMCHONI, TAL SIMMONS, EHUD WEISS, IRIT ZOHAR, GIL EMMER, TUGAN GHRAIEB, UDI GRINBERG, POLINA SPIVAK, LIOR WEISSBROD, YOSSI ZAIDNER, דני נדל, אלכסנדר צצקין, דניאלה בר-יוסף מאיר, מרים בלמקר, מרדכי א. כסלו, ישראל הרשקוביץ, רבקה רבינוביץ, אורית שימחוני, טל סימונס, אהוד וייס, עירית זוהר, גי…
Plant remains as indicators for economic activity: A case study from Iron Age Ashkelon
Archaeobotanical and archaeoentomological evidence from a well at Atlit-Yam indicates colder, more humid climate on the Israeli coast during the PPNC period
Small-Grained Wild Grasses as Staple Food at the 23 000-Year-Old Site of Ohalo II, Israel
Mousterian vegetal food in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel
Autonomous Cultivation Before Domestication
The Archeological Landscape of the Chanchán Basin and Its Agroecological Legacies for the Conservation of Montane Forests in the Western Foothills of the Ecuadorian Andes
Vicia peregrina: An edible early Neolithic legume
Plant-food preparation area on an Upper Paleolithic brush hut floor at Ohalo II, Israel
Geography (30 works) · Archaeology (26 works) · Biology (21 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Ecology (10 works) · History (10 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (9 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 works)