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Near Eastern ZOOARCH: Development of complex economic systems in the Near East

  • Harding, S., Tapson, M. Bar-Oz, G., Cvikel, D. and Marom, N. Stowaways: Maritime ecology of the oldest commensal ship rats (Rattus rattus) found on a Mediterranean shipwreck. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 49: e103947

  • Nachmias, A., Bar-Oz, G., Nadel, D., Petrosyan, L. and Gasparian, B. 2021. A monumental horse burial in the Armenian highlands. Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, 49: 41-50. 

  • Ujma, C., Bar, S. and Bar-Oz, G. 2021. The Late Bronze and Iron Age livestock remains of tell es-Samak (Shikmona/Porphyreon). Michmanim, 29: 13-17.

  • Shelach-Lavi, G., Jaffe, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2021. Cavalry and the great walls of China and Mongolia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 118: e2024835118.

  • Mumcuoglu, K.Y., Sukenik, N. and Bar-Oz, G. 2020. Polyplax brachyrryncha (Anoplura: Polyplacidae) and Rhipicephalus turanicus (Ixodida: Rhipicephalidae) in an ancient louse comb. Journal of Medical Entomology, 57: 1021-1024.

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Raban-Gerstel, N. 2019. The faunal remains from the Mamluk period al-Watta Quarter, Safed (Zefat). ‘Atiqot, 97: 235-269.

  • Meiri, S., Belmaker, A., Berkowic, D., Kazes, K., Maza, E., Bar-Oz, G. and Dor, R. 2019. A checklist of Israeli land vertebrates. Israel Journal Ecology and Evolution, DOI: 10.1163/22244662-20191047.

  • Weissbrod, L., Marshall F., Valla, F.R., Khalaily, H., Bar-Oz, G., Auffray, J.-C., Vigne, J.-D., Cucchi, T. 2017. The origins of house mice in niches created by settled hunter-gatherers in the Levant 15,000 years ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 114: 4099-4104.

  • Bar, S., Cohen-Klonymus, H., Pinsky, S., Bar-Oz, G., Zuckerman, R., Shalvi, G. and Davidovich, U. 2017. Fazael 7: A large Chalcolithic architectural complex in the Jordan Valley, the 2009-2016 excavations. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 47: 208–247.

  • Faust, A., Katz, H., Sapir, Y., Avraham, A., Marder, O., Bar-Oz, G., Weiss, E., Auman-Chazan, C., Hartmann-Shenkman, A., Vilnay, O., Tsesarsky, M., Sarah, P., Ackermann, O., Timmer, N., Katz, O., Langgut, D. and Benzaquen, M. 2017. The birth, life and death of an Iron Age house at Tel 'Eton, Israel. Levant, 49: 136-173.

  • Marom, N. and Bar-Oz, G. 2016. The evolution of husbandry practices from the ancient time to the modern era. Animal and Society (in Hebrew), 56: 27-37.

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Weissbrod, L. 2016. Mammal turnover in Israel in the last 10,000 years. Michmanim, 26: 7-16 (in Hebrew).

  • Perry-Gal, L., Bar-Oz, G. and Erlich, A. 2015. Livestock animal trends in Idumaean Maresha: preliminary analysis of cultural and economic aspects. ARAM, 27: 213-226.

  • Perry-Gal, L., Erlich, A., Gilboa, A. and Bar-Oz, G. 2015. Earliest economic exploitation of Chicken outside East Asia: Evidence from the Hellenistic Southern Levant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 112: 9849-9854.

  • Bar, S. Cohen-Klonymus, H., Pinsky, S., Bar-Oz, G. and Shalvi, G. 2015. Fazael 5, soundings in a Chalcolithic site in the Jordan Valley. Israel Journal of Prehistoric society, 45: 193-216.

  • Sisma-Ventura, G., Zohar, I., Sarkar, A., Zidane, A., Gilboa, A., Bar-Oz, G., Bhattacharyya, K. and Sivan, D. 2015. Late Holocene oxygen isotope composition of Spardiae (sea bream) teeth enamel as an environmental proxy in the Mediterranean Sea: A case study from Tel Dor, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science, 64: 46-53.

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Raban-Gerstel, N. 2015. Butcher's waste: zooarchaeological analysis of a Crusader/Ayyubid bone deposits in Jerusalem St., Safed. ‘Atiqot, 81: 99-109.

  • Marom, N., Yasur-Landau, A., Zuckerman, S., Cline, E., Ben-Tor, A. and Bar-Oz, G. 2014. Shepherd Kings? A zooarchaeological investigation of elite precincts in Middle Bronze Age Tel Hazor and Tel Kabri. Bulletin of American Schools of Oriental Research, 371: 59-82.

  • Sapir-Hen, L., Bar-Oz, G., Sharon, I., Gilboa, A. and Dayan, T. 2014. Food, economy and culture at Tel Dor, Israel: A diachronic study of faunal remains from 15 centuries of occupation. Bulletin of American Schools of Oriental Research, 371: 83-101.

  • Tamar, K., Bar-Oz, G., Bunimovitz, S., Lederman, Z. and Dayan, T. 2014. Geography and economic preferences as cultural markers in a border town: The faunal remains from Tel Beth-Shemesh, Israel. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, published online: DOI: 10.1002/oa.2309.

  • Bar, S., Bar-Oz, G., Cohen-Klonimus, H. and Pinsky, S. 2014. Fazael 1: A Chalcolithic site in the Jordan Valley: Report of the 2013-2014 excavation seasons. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 44: 180-201.

  • Marom, N. and Bar-Oz, G. 2013. Zooarchaeology and social identity in Bronze and Iron Ages Israel: A research framework. In (B. De Cupere, V. Linseele, and S. Hamilton-Dyer, Eds.) Archaeozoology of the Near East X (Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Supplement 44). Leuven: Peters, 227-241.

  • Hartman, G., Bar-Oz, G., Bouchnik, R. and Reich, R. 2013. The pilgrimage economy of Early Roman Jerusalem (1st century BCE – 70 CE) reconstructed from the δ15N and δ13C values of goat and sheep remains. Journal of Archaeological Science, 40: 4369-4376.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Nahshoni, P., Motro, H. and Oren, E. D. 2013. Symbolic metal bit and saddlebag fastenings in a Middle Bronze Age donkey burial. PLoS One, 8: e58648.

  • Sapir-Hen, L., Bar-Oz, G., Gadot, Y. and Finkelstein, I. 2013. Pig husbandry in Iron Age Israel and Judah: New insights regarding the origin of the “Taboo”. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, 129: 1-20.

  • Zidane, A., Zohar, I., Gilboa, A. and Bar-Oz, G. 2013. Phoenicians, sea and fish: Tell Dor as a case study. Ecology and Environment (in Hebrew), 5: 114-115.

  • Bar, S., Bar-Oz, G., Ben-Yosef, D., Boaretto, E,. Raban-Gerstel, N. and Winter, H. 2013. Fazael 2: One of the latest Chalcolithic sites in the Jordan Valley? Report of the 2007-2008 excavation seasons. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 43: 148-185.

  • Sapir-Hen, L., Bar-Oz, G., Sharon, I. Gilboa, A. and Dayan, T. 2012. Understanding faunal contexts of a complex tell: Tel Dor, Israel, as a case study. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39: 590-601.

  • Pinhasi, R., Gasparian, B., Nahapetyan, S., Bar-Oz , G. Weissobrod, L., Bruch, A. Hovsepyan, R. and Wilkinson, K. 2011. Middle Palaeolithic human occupation of the high altitudes region of Hovk-1, Armenia. Quaternary Science Review, 30: 3846-3857.

  • Marder, O., Yeshurun, R., Lupo, R., Bar-Oz, G., Belmaker, M., Ron, H. and Frumkin, A. 2011. Mammal remains at Rantis Cave, Israel, and Mid-Late Pleistocene human subsistence and ecology in the Southern Levant. Journal of Quaternary Science, 26: 769-780.

  • Bar, S., Bar-Oz, G., Ben-Yosef, D., Raban-Gerstel, N. and Winter, H. 2011. Sheikh Diab 2: An Early Bronze Age 1 hamlet in the Jordan Valley. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 41: 95-154.

  • Raban-Gerstel, N., Bar-Oz, G. and Tepper, Y. 2011. Bone and horn industry in Late Ottoman Nazareth: the evidence from Shihab-A'Din. ‘Atiqot, 67: 61-80.

  • Pinhasi, R., Gasparian, B., Areshian, G., Zardayan, D., Smith, A., Bar-Oz, G. and Higham, T. 2010. The discovery of Old World’s most ancient shoe in Areni-1 Armenia: implications for the antiquity and development of footwear. PLoS One, 5(6): e10984.

  • Ammar, Z., Bouchnick, R. and Bar-Oz, G. 2010. The contribution of archaeozoology to the identification of the ritually clean ungulates mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 10: 1-24.

  • Marom, N., Raban-Gerstel, N., Mazar, A. and Bar-Oz, G. 2009. Backbone of society: Evidence for social and economic status of the Iron Age population of Tel Rehov, Beth She'an Valley, Israel. Bulletin of American Schools of Oriental Research, 354: 55-75.

  • Ammar, Z., Bouchnick, R. and Bar-Oz, G. 2009. Identification of the biblical clean animals in view of the archaeozoological research. Kathedra (in Hebrew), 132: 1-20.

  • Marom, N. and Bar-Oz, G. 2009. Culling profiles: The indeterminacy of archaeozoological data to survivorship curves modeling of sheep and goat herd maintenance strategies. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36: 1184-1187.

  • Raban-Gerstel, N. Bar-Oz, G., Zohar, I., Sharon, I. and Gilboa, A. 2008. Early Iron Age Dor (Israel): A faunal perspective. Bulletin of American Schools of Oriental Research, 349: 25-59.

  • Nadel, D., Lengyel, G., Brown-Goodman, R., Cabellos Panades, T., Rosenberg, D., Tsatskin, A., Yeshurun, R., Bar-Oz, G., Bocquentin, F. and Filin, S. 2009. The Raqefet Cave 2008 excavation season. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 39: 21-61.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Bouchnick, R., Weiss, E., Weissbrod, L., Lernau, O., Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. E. and Reich, R. 2007. "Holy Garbage": A quantitative study of the city-dump of Early Roman period Jerusalem. Levant, 39: 1-12.

  • Weissbrod, L. and Bar-Oz, G. 2008. Zooarchaeology in small scale: The importance of small mammal remains to archaeological research in Israel. Qadmoniyot, 136:121-127 (in Hebrew).

  • Bar, S., Bar Oz, G., Boaretto, E., Cohen, O., Dan, E., Raban-Gerstel, N., Rosenberg, D. and Winter, H. 2008. Ein Hilu: A Chalcolithic site on the eastern desert fringes of Samaria. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 38: 153-228.

  • Nadel, D., Lengyel, G., Bocquentin, F., Tsatskin, A., Rosenberg, D., Yeshurun, R., Bar-Oz, G., Bar-Yosef Mayer, .D. E., Beeri, R., Conyers, L., Filin, S., Hershkovitz, I., Kurzawska, A. and Weissbrod, L. 2008. The Late Natufian at Raqefet Cave: The 2006 excavation season. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 38: 59-131.

  • Sapir-Hen, L. Bar-Oz, G., Hershkovitz, I., Raban-Gerstel, N., Marom, N. and Dayan, T. 2008. Paleopathology survey of ancient mammal bones in Israel. Veterinary, Medicine and Zootechniques, 42: 62-70.

  • Delfino, M., Bar-Oz, G. and Weissbrod, L. 2007. Recent shrinkage of the range of the Eastern spadefoot toad, Pelobates syriacus (amphibia: anuran): Archaeological evidence from the Bronze Age Israel. Zoology in the Middle East, 40: 45-52.

  • Weinstein-Evron, M., Kaufman, D., Bachrach, N., Bar-Oz, G., Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. E., Chaim, S., Druck, D., Groman-Yaroslavski, I., Hershkovitz, I., Liber, N., Rosenberg, D., Tsatskin, A. and Weissbrod, L. 2007. After 70 years: New excavations at the el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 37: 35-134.

  • Marom, N., Bar-Oz, G. and Munger, S. 2006. An incised scapula and its possible use as part of a lute. Near Eastern Archaeology, 69: 49-52.

  • Lengyel, Gy., Nadel, D., Tsatskin. A., Bar-Oz, G., Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. E., Be'eri, R. and Hershkovitz, I. 2005. Back to Rakefet Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 35: 245-70.

  • Bar-Oz, G. 2001.  An inscribed astragalus with dedication to Hermes. Near Eastern Archaeology, 64: 211-213.

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Dayan, T. 2001. Weasels from the Hellenistic period of Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology, 47: 271-273.

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