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Human impact on ancient environments and large scale hunting and trapping of animal resources (Desert kites)

  • Bar-Oz, G., Malkinson, D. and Nadel, D. 2024. The Silent Testimony of The Desert Kites: Hunting and Extinction in the Deserts of the Middle East. Jerusalem: Yad Yizhak Ben-Zvi, 232 pages (in Hebrew).

  • Nadel, D., Bar-Oz, G., Perevolotsky, A. and Malkinson, D. 2024. The V-shaped desert kites and their contribution to Timnian economy. Journal of Arid Environments, 220:105120.

  • Schwimer, L., Galili, R., Porat, N., Bar-Oz, G., Rosen, S. A. and Nadel, D. The Constructed Desert: A Sacred Cultural Landscape at Har Tzuriaz, Negev, Israel. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 34: 271-289.

  • Nadel, D., Bar-Oz, G., Malkinson, D., Yeshurun, R., Nachmias, A. and Porat, N. 2022. The Nahal Eshel kite and its contribution to the study of desert kites in the Negev and Sinai. Negev, Dead Sea and Arava Studies, 14: 12-23.

  • Nadel, D. Malkinson, D., Bar-Oz, G., Nachmias, A., Avner, U., Horwitz, L.K., Baharav, D. and Porat, N. 2021. Small, sparse and effective: The Negev and Sinai kites. In (A. Betts, P. van Pelt, Eds.), The Gazelle’s Dream: Game Drives of the Old and New Worlds. Adapa Monographs. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 253-304.

  • Jaffe, Y., Bar-Oz, G. and Ellenblum, R. 2019. Improving integration in societal consequences to climate change. Proceeding of the National Academy of Science USA, 116 (11): 4755.

  • Malkinson, D. Bar-Oz, G., Gasparyan, B., Nachmias, A., and Nadel, D. 2018. Seasonal use of corrals and game traps (desert kites) in Armenia. Quaternary International, 464: 285-304.

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Weissbrod, L. 2017. The kaleidoscope of mammalian faunas during the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene in the Southern Levant. In (O. Bar-Yosef and Y. Enzel, Eds.), Quaternary Environments and Humans in the Levant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 363-368.

  • Arav, R., Filin, S., Avner, U., Bar-Oz, G., Nachmias, A., Malkinson, D. and Nadel, D. 2015. High-resolution documentation, 3-D modeling and analysis of "desert kites". Journal of Archaeological Science, 57: 302-314.

  • Nadel, D., Bar-Oz, G., Malkinson, D., Spivak, P., Langgut, D., Porat, N. Khechoyan, A., Nachmias, A., Crater-Gershtein, E., Katinaa, A., Bermatov-Paz, G., Nahapetyan, S. and Gasparyan, B. 2015. New Insights into Desert Kites in Armenia: The Fringes of the Ararat Depression. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 26: 120-143.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Tsahar, E., Izhaki, I. and Lev-Yadun, S. 2015. Mammalian extinction in ancient Egypt, similarities with the southern Levant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 112: E238.

  • Weissbrod, L., Malkinson, D., Cucchi, T., Gadot, Y., Finkelstein, I. and Bar-Oz, G. 2014. Ancient urban ecology reconstructed from archaeozoological remains of small mammals in the Near East. PLoS One, 9(3): e91795.

  • Arav, R., Filin, S., Avner, V., Bar-Oz, G., Nachmias, A. and Nadel, D. 2014. Use of terrestrial laser scans for high-resolution documentation and 3D modeling of "Desert Kites. Near Eastern Archaeology, 77: 219-222.

  • Nadel, D., Bar-Oz, G., Avner, U., Malkinson, D. and Boaretto, E. 2013. Ramparts instead of walls: Building techniques of kites in the Negev Highland. Quaternary International, 297: 147-154.

  • Zeder, M.A., Bar-Oz, G., Rufolo, S.J. and Hole, F. 2013. New perspectives on the use of kites in mass-kills of Levantine gazelle: A view from Northeastern Syria. Quaternary International, 297: 110-125.

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Nadel, D. 2013. Worldwide large-scale trapping and hunting of ungulates in past societies. Quaternary International, 297: 1-7.

  • Gasparian, B., Khechoyan, A., Bar-Oz, G., Malkinson, D., Nachmias, A. and Nadel, D. 2013. The northernmost kites in Southwest Asia: A preliminary report from the Fringes of the Ararat Depression (Armenia). Antiquity (Project Gallery), 87: 336.

  • Weissbrod, L., Bar-Oz, G., Cucchi, T. and Finkelstein, I. 2013. The urban ecology of Iron Age Tel Megiddo: Using microvertebrate remains as ancient bio-indicators. Journal of Archaeological Science, 40: 257-267.

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Lev-Yadun, S. 2012. Paleolithic cave rock art, animal coloration and specific animal habitats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 109: E1212.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Nadel, D., Avner, U. and Malkinson, D. 2011. Mass hunting game traps in the southern Levant: The Negev and Arava 'Desert Kites'. Near Eastern Archaeology, 74: 208-215.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Zeder, M.A. and Hole, F. 2011. The role of mass-kill hunting strategies in the extirpation of Persian gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) in the northern Levant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108: 7345-7350 .

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Tepper, Y. 2010. Out on the tiles: animal footprints from the Roman site of Kefar 'Othnay (Legio), Israel. Near Eastern Archaeology, 73: 244-247.

  • Nadel, D., Bar-Oz, G., Avner, U., Boaretto, E. and Malkinson, D. 2010. Walls, ramps and pits: the construction of the Samar desert kites, Southern Negev, Israel. Antiquity, 84: 976-992.

  • Tsahar, E., Izhaki, I., Lev-Yadun, S. and Bar-Oz, G. 2009. Distribution and extinction of ungulates during the Holocene of the southern Levant. PLoS One, 4(4): e5316.

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