Dani Nadel
Biographic Data
| ID | 73082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dani Nadel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dani |
| FAMILY NAME | Nadel |
| SIGNATURE | NADEL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7736-1830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 110 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 717 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 110 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Activity locales at Ohalo II, a 23,000-year-old submerged fisher-hunter-gatherers’ camp in the sea of Galilee, Israel, reconstructed through experimental archaeology and contextual taphonomy of broken…
A Late Pleistocene Eastern Mediterranean palaeoclimate record based on stable carbon isotopes (Δ13C) of archaeological charcoal: New data from the Epipalaeolithic sequence of Ein Qashish South, Israel
Rethinking Occupation Intensity during the Levantine Middle Epipalaeolithic: The use of Space and Site Formation Processes at the Geometric Kebaran site of Neve David, Israel
The open-air Epipalaeolithic (Geometric Kebaran) site of Neve David (Mount Carmel, Israel) has played an important role in reconstructing scenarios of sedentarization in the Levant since its initial excavation in the 1980s, and has been seen as heralding later Natufian socioeconomic adaptations. However, little was known about the site’s formation processes and spatial organization, hindering the testing of this view. Employing new field data fro…
An Experimental-Based Characterization of Breakage Patterns of Prehistoric Bladelets: The Combined Impact of Knapping, Exposure to Fire and Trampling
An experimental-based characterization of breakage patterns of prehistoric bladelets: The combined impact of knapping, exposure to fire and trampling
The Constructed Desert: A Sacred Cultural Landscape at Har Tzuriaz, Negev, Israel
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…
Archaeobotany of el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel (Israel): Insights into plant exploitation along the Natufian sequence
The Natufian at Raqefet Cave
Commensalism: Was it Truly a Natufian Phenomenon? Recent Cntributions from Ethnoarchaeology and Ecology
The Final Epipaleolithic / PPNA site of Huzuq Musa (Jordan Valley)
A Monumental Horse Burial in the Armenian Highlands
В статье рассматривается редчайшая находка — полный скелет взрослого жеребца с бронзовым кольцом в пасти, находившийся в ритуальном погребении — каменной гробнице диаметром 15 м — на могильнике Агавнатун на южных склонах г. Арагац, которая обрамляет с севера Араратскую долину в Республике Армении. Могильный курган имеет округлую форму; останки лошади находились in situ во внутреннем овальном строении. В статье приводится подробное описание захоро…
A new archaeobotanical proxy for plant food processing: Archaeological starch spherulites at the submerged 23,000-year-old site of Ohalo II
A Monumental Horse Burial in the Armenian Highlands
Here we report on the unprecedented discovery of the complete skeleton of a ritually interred adult stallion with a bronze ring in its mouth. The horse was buried in a unique 15-meters diameter monumental stone-built tomb excavated in the Aghavnatun necropolis located on the southern slopes of Mt. Aragats, in the northern fringes of the Ararat Depression, Republic of Armenia. The tumulus was roughly circular; the horse’s remains were found in sit…
Site 64 Revisited: A Diffused Prehistoric Site by High-Quality Flint Outcrops on The Ridge of Nahal Oren, Mount Carmel, Israel
Gal Bermatov-Paz, גל ברמטוב-פז, Nurit Shtober-Zisu, נורית שטובר-זיסו, Dan Malkinson, דן מלקינסון, Dani Nadel, דני נדל, Site 64 Revisited - בחזרה לאתר 64, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך נ (2020), pp. 138-165
Stone ‘Canvas’ and Natufian Art: An Incised Human Figure From the Natufian Cemetery at Raqefet Cave, Israel
The Natufian culture is the first cultural entity in the southern Levant to have large graveyards and a wide array of symbolic expressions. Hundreds of Natufian burials have been discovered and studied; at some Natufian sites the presence of stone slabs within the graves has been recorded. One interesting yet rare phenomenon documented is the slabs bearing clear incised patterns, suggesting the Natufians were using these flat stone blocks as 'can…
Aboriginal Timber-Built Deer Corral-Traps in Mineral County, Nevada
Late prehistoric and early historic communal hunting sites along the southwestern mountainous margins of the Great Basin, United Sates, include timber-built corral-traps estimated to be only a few hundred years old. In most of these, no animal bones or direct evidence for the targeted species were found in the corrals. Our goals were to characterize and reconstruct past use of these sites, and we chose two distinct case studies, Anchorite Pass an…
The Function and Context of Natufian Stone Mortars: A Reply to Eitam
Diachronic trends in occupation intensity of the Epipaleolithic site of Neve David (Mount Carmel, Israel): A lithic perspective
The Neolithic Occupations of Neve David, Mount Carmel, Israel
Harel Shochat, הראל שוחט, Reuven Yeshurun, ראובן ישורון, David E. Friesem, דוד פריזם, Daniel Kaufman, דניאל קאופמן, Naomi Porat, נעמי פורת, Arlene M. Rosen, ארלין רוזן, Dani Nadel, דני נדל, The Neolithic Occupations of Neve David, Mount Carmel, Israel - השרידים הניאוליתיים באתר נוה דוד, הכרמל, ישראל, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך מ"ט (2019), pp. 152-189
Nahal Shelef: A Holocene Quarry and Workshop Site in The Menashe Hills
Ron Shimelmitz, רון שימלמיץ, Cheng Liu, צ'נג ליו, Mason Seymore, מייסון סימור, Eli Crater Gershtein, אלי קרטר גרשטיין, Kathryn Crater Gershtein, קתרין קרטר גרשטיין, Amir Katina, אמיר קטינא, Nurit Shtober-Zisu, נורית שטובר-זיסו, Dani Nadel, דני נדל, Nahal Shelef - נחל שלף, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך מ"ט (2019), pp. 137-151
New insights into livestock management and domestication at Tel Ro'im West, a multi-layer Neolithic site in the Upper Jordan Valley, Israel
Response to comments on archaeological reconstruction of 13,000-y old Natufian beer making at Raqefet Cave, Israel
Variability and complexity in calcite-based plaster production: A case study from a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B infant burial at Tel Roʻim West and its implications to mortuary practices in the Southern L…
The Natufian at Raqefet Cave
The Final Epipaleolithic / PPNA site of Huzuq Musa (Jordan Valley)
Year-Old Twisted Fibers From Ohalo II
The oldest ever brush hut plant remains from Ohalo II, Jordan Valley, Israel (19,000 BP)
Detailed excavation and analysis of a brush hut from Ohalo II, Jordan Valley, Israel, provides an extraordinary view of camp construction 19,000 years ago. This report offers an important contribution to studies of Palaeolithic camp sites
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
Composite projectiles and hafting technologies at Ohalo II (23 ka, Israel): Analyses of impact fractures, morphometric characteristics and adhesive remains on microlithic tools
New Subsistence Data and Human Remains from the Earliest Levantine Epipalaeolithic
Ohalo II H2: A 19,000‐year‐old skeleton from a water‐logged site at the Sea of Galilee, Israel
The discovery of well‐preserved human remains at the site of Ohalo II in the northern Jordan Valley substantially augments the meager fossil record of the Levantine late Upper Pleistocene. The Ohalo II H2 specimen, dated to ca. 19,000 B.P., is the most complete early Epipaleolithic hominid discovered in Israel and promises to contribute to the clarification of a number of problematic issues in the local evolution of anatomically modern humans. In…
The Sounds of Pounding: Boulder Mortars and Their Significance to Natufian Burial Customs
Burial and commemorative rites form significant components of many routines and activities accompanying the disposal and remembrance of the dead in numerous past and present societies. Various artifacts seem to have had an important role in burial and commemorative rituals and may have been used to reflect social unity and strengthen group identity. Burial-related paraphernalia clearly gained special importance in the southern Levant with the ons…
Human-Made Bedrock Holes (Mortars and Cupmarks) as a Late Natufian Social Phenomenon
A concentration of 77 Late Natufian Human-made Bedrock Holes (mortars, cupmarks, etc.) hewn into the Raqefet Cave floor and terrace (Mt. Carmel, Israel) has been recently exposed. Some appear to be associated with human burials, and several had stone and flint objects buried in them. The variety of HBH types, in terms of dimensions and morphology is very wide, so the new classification system is suggested. The deep narrow specimens do not appear …
Plant-food preparation on two consecutive floors at Upper Paleolithic Ohalo II, Israel
Radiocarbon dating of Ohalo II: Archaeological and methodological implications
Fermented beverage and food storage in 13,000 y-old stone mortars at Raqefet Cave, Israel: Investigating Natufian ritual feasting
Mass Hunting Game Traps in the Southern Levant: "The Negev and Arabah "Desert Kites
Spread throughout the deserts of the southern Levant are numerous triangular-shaped stone structures known as kites. Ancient kites are built of two long converging low stone walls with a circular enclosure at the apex. The enclosure can range from a few meters to 100 meters in diameter, and the walls may extend for hundreds of meters or even several kilometers. These well-preserved structures provide testimony to the magnitude of the systematic m…
Worldwide large-scale trapping and hunting of ungulates in past societies
Levantine Upper Palaeolithic - Early Epipalaeolithic burial customs: Ohalo II as a case study
The paper presents two kinds of evidence concerning the commonly held notion that the archaeological record of the Levantine Upper Palaeolithic/Early Epipalaeolithic period is the "poorest" in human skeletal remains. First, the details of the H2 grave at the well-dated site of Ohalo II (19,000 B.P.) point to a tradition of burying the dead in very shallow pits. This behaviour is probably a key factor in understanding the scarcity of preserved art…
Walls, ramps and pits: The construction of the Samar Desert kites, southern Negev, Israel
Archaeological investigations of 'desert kites' in south Israel show them to have been animal traps of considerable sophistication and capacity, constructed in the Early Bronze Age or earlier. Extensive stone-wall arms gather in gazelles from their habitual trails and canalise them into a sunken enclosure, cunningly hidden from view of the galloping herd until it was too late
Indoor/Outdoor Flint Knapping and Minute Debitage Remains: The Evidence from the Ohaloii Submerged Camp (19.5 Ky, Jordan Valley)
An analysis of 3o,6oo pieces of minute debitage (flint artifacts smaller than I cm) is presented. The remains were retrieved from brush hut floors and hearths exposed in a 19,500 year-old submerged camp on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel. High-quality preservation of smallfinds, including organic remains, is evident. A Classification of the small flints is presented and incorporated in the analysis. The results suggest that there are in s…
The Sultanian Flint Assemblage from Gesher and its Implications for Recognizing Early Neolithic Entities in the Levant
This article presents a typological and technological analysis of the Sultanian lithic assemblage from Gesher, a recently discovered "PPNA" site in the Central Jordan Valley. The site is unique in its very short period of occupation, which provides a homogeneous clean context. The tool assemblage includes El Khiam points, bifacial tools, and lunates. The finds from Gesher point to the problematic nature of the definitions of the Sultanian and the…
New evidence for the processing of wild cereal grains at Ohalo II, a 23 000-year-old campsite on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel
Traces of starch found on a large flat stone discovered in the hunter-fisher-gatherer site of Ohalo II famously represent the first identification of Upper Palaeolithic grinding of grasses. Given the importance of this discovery for the use of edible grain, further analyses have now been undertaken. Meticulous sampling combined with good preservation allow the authors to demonstrate that the Ohalo II stone was certainly used for the routine proce…
Formation processes at the Ohalo II submerged prehistoric campsite, Israel, inferred from soil micromorphology and magnetic susceptibility studies
Soil‐geomorphic analysis coupled with micromorphology, SEM/EDS, magnetic susceptibility, and conventional sedimentological studies allowed us to reconstruct the site formation history and validate the archaeologically observed variability of human activities in the prehistoric camp of Ohalo II (19.5 ka B.P.), Sea of Galilee, Israel. The cultural layers rest upon the Late Pleistocene Lake Lisan deposits that accumulated under conditions of changin…
Early Neolithic arrowhead types in the Southern Levant: A Typological Suggestion
Nous nous proposons de réviser, d'après l'assemblage lithique du site de Netiv Hagdud, l'analyse typologique des pointes de flèches du Néolithique Ancien Levantin. En utilisant des critères identiques à ceux employés pour la définition des pointes de flèches du Proche-Orient, nous suggérons donc une typologie plus détaillée pour celles du PPNA. En conséquence, les pointes dites d'El Khiam, de la Vallée du Jourdain et de Salibiya seront définies, …
Diachronic trends in occupation intensity of the Epipaleolithic site of Neve David (Mount Carmel, Israel): A lithic perspective
Huzuq Musa – A Preliminary Report on the Test Excavation at a Final Epipalaeolithic/PPNA Site in the Jordan Valley
La transition d’un mode de vie de chasseurs-cueilleurs nomades vers celui d’agriculteurs sédentaires au Proche-Orient est l’un des paliers d’évolution cruciaux dans l’évolution humaine. De nombreux sites appartenant à l’Épipaléolithique récent ou au début du Néolithique ont été étudiés dans la vallée du Jourdain, l’une des régions majeures pour cette importante mutation. Toutefois, les sites correspondant à la phase de transition sont rares. Cet …
Ohalo II man-unusual findings in the anterior rib cage and shoulder girdle of a 19000-year-old specimen
The analysis of the skeletal remains of Ohalo II man, aged 30-40 years at death and dated to 19 000 years BP, shows advanced and highly unusual ossification of the lower costosternal cartilage; the right humerus is morphologically larger and considerably more robust than the left; degenerative changes were noted unilaterally in the right glenohumeral, acromioclavicular and claviculosternal joints. There is a marked asymmetry of the atlas, axis an…
Wooden objects from Ohalo II (23,000 cal BP), Jordan Valley, Israel
The "Hagdud Truncation" — A New Tool Type from the Sultanian Industry at Netiv Hagdud, The Jordan Valley
OFER BAR-YOSEF, AVI GOPHER, DANY NADEL, The "Hagdud Truncation" — A New Tool Type from the Sultanian Industry at Netiv Hagdud, the Jordan Valley, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כ ' (תשמ"ז / 1987), pp. 151*-157
Ohalo — A Prehistoric Site in The Sea of Galilee
The location of sites often serves in geomorphological research as a fixed marker for the chronology of environmental changes. The discovery of sites on the sea bed, in wadi terraces, or in a cave on a cliff the access to which is extremely difficult, indicate changes in the landscape that have occurred since the time of occupation at the site. The prehistoric site of Ohalo, which was exposed in the summer of 1986 as a result of a drop of the Kin…
Flint Heat Treatment at The Beginning of The Neolithic Period in The Levant
DANI NADEL, Flint Heat Treatment at the Beginning of the Neolithic Period in the Levant, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כב (תש"ן / 1989), pp. 61*-67
The Sultanian Flint Assemblage from Gesher and its Implications for Recognizing Early Neolithic Entities in the Levant
This article presents a typological and technological analysis of the Sultanian lithic assemblage from Gesher, a recently discovered "PPNA" site in the Central Jordan Valley. The site is unique in its very short period of occupation, which provides a homogeneous clean context. The tool assemblage includes El Khiam points, bifacial tools, and lunates. The finds from Gesher point to the problematic nature of the definitions of the Sultanian and the…
Ohalo II — A Preliminary Report
The Early Kebaran site of Ohalo II was exposed and found in the fall of 1989, when the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret) reached an unusually low level. It is located on the south-western corner of the lake, near the north-eastern corner of Tell Beit-Yerah, 9 km south of the modern city of Tiberias, (grid reference 2038, 2364, Figs. 1, 2). The site was found on the exposed beach, and a salvage excavation sponsored by the Israel Antiquities Authority…
The Khiamian as a Case of Sultanian Intersite Variability
Ohalo II — The Third Season (1991)
Early Neolithic arrowhead types in the Southern Levant: A Typological Suggestion
Nous nous proposons de réviser, d'après l'assemblage lithique du site de Netiv Hagdud, l'analyse typologique des pointes de flèches du Néolithique Ancien Levantin. En utilisant des critères identiques à ceux employés pour la définition des pointes de flèches du Proche-Orient, nous suggérons donc une typologie plus détaillée pour celles du PPNA. En conséquence, les pointes dites d'El Khiam, de la Vallée du Jourdain et de Salibiya seront définies, …
New Subsistence Data and Human Remains from the Earliest Levantine Epipalaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic (19,000 BP) cereal and fruit diet at Ohalo II, Sea of Galilee, Israel
Patination of Flint Artefacts: Evidence from Bikta, A Submerged Prehistoric Occurrence in the Sea of Galilee, Israel
DANI NADEL, DAVID GORDON, דני נדל, דוד גורדון, פטינה של פריטי צור: עדויות מבקתה, אתר פרהיסטורי תת-מימי בכינרת, ישראל / Patination of Flint Artefacts: Evidence from Bikta, A Submerged Prehistoric Occurrence in the Sea of Galilee, Israel, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כ"ה (תשנ"ד / 1993), pp. 145-162
Ohalo II man-unusual findings in the anterior rib cage and shoulder girdle of a 19000-year-old specimen
The analysis of the skeletal remains of Ohalo II man, aged 30-40 years at death and dated to 19 000 years BP, shows advanced and highly unusual ossification of the lower costosternal cartilage; the right humerus is morphologically larger and considerably more robust than the left; degenerative changes were noted unilaterally in the right glenohumeral, acromioclavicular and claviculosternal joints. There is a marked asymmetry of the atlas, axis an…
Bone Tools from Ohalo II - A Morphological and Functional Study
RIVKA RABINOVICH, DANI NADEL, רבקה רבינובץ, דני נדל, מחקר טיפולוגי ופונקציונלי של כלי עצם מהאתר האפי—פליאוליתי הקדום אוהלו II, אשר לחוף הכנרת / Bone Tools from Ohalo II - A Morphological and Functional Study, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כ"ו (תשנ"ה / 1994-5), pp. 32-63
Two Neolithic Bone Arrowheads from Shaldag Beach, Lake Kinneret
Description de deux pointes de fleche en os, datant de l'extreme fin du Neolithique preceramique ou du debut du Neolithique ceramique, decouvertes sur le site de la plage de Shaldag, sur la rive sud-ouest du lac de Kinneret (Israel)
Two Neolithic Bone Arrowheads from Shaldag Beach, Lake Kinneret
Levantine Upper Palaeolithic - Early Epipalaeolithic burial customs: Ohalo II as a case study
The paper presents two kinds of evidence concerning the commonly held notion that the archaeological record of the Levantine Upper Palaeolithic/Early Epipalaeolithic period is the "poorest" in human skeletal remains. First, the details of the H2 grave at the well-dated site of Ohalo II (19,000 B.P.) point to a tradition of burying the dead in very shallow pits. This behaviour is probably a key factor in understanding the scarcity of preserved art…
Year-Old Twisted Fibers From Ohalo II
Radiocarbon dating of Ohalo II: Archaeological and methodological implications
Ohalo II H2: A 19,000‐year‐old skeleton from a water‐logged site at the Sea of Galilee, Israel
The discovery of well‐preserved human remains at the site of Ohalo II in the northern Jordan Valley substantially augments the meager fossil record of the Levantine late Upper Pleistocene. The Ohalo II H2 specimen, dated to ca. 19,000 B.P., is the most complete early Epipaleolithic hominid discovered in Israel and promises to contribute to the clarification of a number of problematic issues in the local evolution of anatomically modern humans. In…
Charred Wood Remains from Ohalo II (19,000 B.P.), Sea of Galilee, Israel
NILI LIPHSCHITZ, DANI NADEL, נילי ליפשיץ, דני נדל, שרידי עץ מפוחמים מאתר אוהלו II (19,000 שנה לפני זמננו), אגם הכנרת, ישראל / Charred Wood Remains from Ohalo II (19,000 B.P.), Sea of Galilee, Isral, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כ"ז (תשנ"ז, 1997), pp. 5-18
A Note on New Finds From The Natufian Graveyard at Nahal Oren
DANI NADEL, TAMAR NOY, LIORA KOLSKA-HORWITZ, IRIT ZOHAR, דני נדל, תמר נוי, ליאורה קולסקה-הורוביץ, עירית זוהר, ממצאים חדשים מבית הקברות הנאטופי בנחל אורן - הערה / A Note on New Finds From the Natufian Graveyard at Nahal Oren, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כ"ז (תשנ"ז, 1997), pp. 63-74
The avifauna of the early Epipalaeolithic site of Ohalo II (19 400 years BP), Israel: Species diversity, habitat and seasonality
The early Epipalaeolithic site of Ohalo II offers evidence that, some 19 400 years BP, prehistoric people on the shore of the Sea of Galilee exploited birds in large numbers as a food source and for the decorative value of their feathers and claws. The superb preservation of even the most delicate fauna at this site enabled an extensive analysis of a type rarely possible with avian remains of this antiquity. Certain types of birds were obtained p…
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DANI NADEL, דני נדל, פרוטו משולשים ומשולשים שוני-צלעות מאהלו II / Scalene and Proto-Triangles fron Ohalo II, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כ"ט (תש"ס, 1999), pp. 5-16
The oldest ever brush hut plant remains from Ohalo II, Jordan Valley, Israel (19,000 BP)
Detailed excavation and analysis of a brush hut from Ohalo II, Jordan Valley, Israel, provides an extraordinary view of camp construction 19,000 years ago. This report offers an important contribution to studies of Palaeolithic camp sites
Micromammal Taphonomy in the Site of Ohalo II (19 Ky., Jordan Valley)
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