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ERC Consolidator (2015-2020)

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  • Fuks, D., Melamed, Y., Langgut, D., Erickson-Gini, T., Tepper, Y., Bar-Oz, G. and Weiss, E. First millennium CE crop diffusion unprecedented but still gradual: new evidence from Negev Highland trash mounds. ELife, in press.

  • Lehnig, S., Gambash, G. and Bar-Oz, G. 2023. Resurrecting Mitzpe Shivta. Between Monasticism and Economy in the Late Antique Negev Desert. Antiquity Project Gallery, in press.

  • Cohen, P., Bacilieri, R., Ramos Madrigal, J., Privman, E., Boaretto, E., Weber, A., Fuks, D., Weiss, E., Cvikel, D., Erickson-Gini, T., Bucking, S., Tepper, Y., Cvikel, D., Schmidt, J., Wales, N., Gilbert, T. P., Bar-Oz G. and Meiri, M. 2023. Ancient DNA from a lost desert grape reveals a late antiquity wine dynasty, shedding light on the viticulture of the arid Negev Highlands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 120: e2213563120.

  • Avni, G., Bar-Oz, G. and Gambash, G. 2023. When "the sweet gift of Bacchus" ended: Settlement abatement and the decline of wine production in Late Antique southern Palestine. Bulletin of American Schools of Oriental Research, 389: 1-19.

  • ​Tepper, Y., Porat, N., Langgut, D., Bajpai, P. K., Barazani, O., Dag, A., Ehrlich, Y., Boaretto, E. and Bar-Oz, G. 2021. Relict olive trees at the runoff agriculture remains in wadi Zetan, Negev Desert, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 103302.

  • Fuks, D., Avni, G. and Bar-Oz, G. The debate on Negev viticulture and Gaza wine in Late Antiquity. Tel Aviv, 48: 143-170.

  • Fuks, D., Bar-Oz, G., Tepper, Y. and Weiss, E. 2021. Flowers and faeces: Seasonal signals from Shivta’s Early Islamic rubbish middens. In (A. Lichtenberger and R. Raja, Eds.) The Archaeology of Seasonality. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 85-99.

  • Yan, X., Tepper, Y., Bar-Oz, G. and Boaretto, E. 2021. FTIR bone characterization and radiocarbon dating: Timing the abandonment of Byzantine pigeon towers in the Negev Desert, Israel. Radiocarbon, DOI:10.1017/RDC.2021.85.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Tepper, Y. and Shafir, R. 2021. Corals in the desert: Recent discoveries of Red Sea corals in the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods sites in the Negev Desert. Near Eastern Archaeology, 84: 232-238.

  • Ashkenazi, E., Tepper, Y., Zituni, R., Langgut, D., Dafni, A. and Bar-Oz, G. 2021. Poplar trees in Israel’s desert regions: Relicts of Roman and Byzantine settlements. Journal of Arid Environments, 193: 104574.

  • Ktalav, I., Tepper, Y., Gambash, G., Lehnig, S. and Bar-Oz, G. 2021. Long-distance trade and consumption of mollusks in the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods in the Negev Desert. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 37:102927.

  • Blevis, R., Bar-Oz, G., Tepper, Y. and Zohar, I. 2021. Fish in the desert: Identifying fish trade routes and the role of Red Sea parrotfish (Scaridae) during the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 36: 102808.

  • Butler, D.H., Dunseth, Z.D., Tepper, Y., Erickson-Gini, T., Bar-Oz, G. and Shahack-Gross, R. 2020. Byzantine - Early Islamic resource management detected through micro-geoarchaeological investigations of trash mounds (Negev, Israel). PloS One, 15(10): e0239227.

  • Langgut, D., Tepper, Y., Benzaquen, M., Erickson-Gini, T. and Bar-Oz, G. 2020. Environment and horticultural in the Byzantine Negev Desert, Israel: Sustainability, prosperity and enigmatic decline. Quaternary International, DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.08.056.

  • Fuks, D., Bar-Oz, G., Tepper, Y., Erickson-Gini, T., Langgut, D., Weissbrod, L. and Weiss, E. 2020. The rise and fall of viticulture in the Late Antique Negev Highlands reconstructed from archaeobotanical and ceramic data. Proceeding of the National Academy of Science USA, 117: 19780-19791.

  • Tepper, Y., Porat, N. and Bar-Oz, G. 2020. Sustainable farming in the Roman-Byzantine period: Dating an advanced agriculture system near the site of Shivta, Negev Desert, Israel. Journal of Arid Environment, 177, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104134.

  • Lantos, S., Bar-Oz, G. and Gambash, G. 2020. Wine from the desert: Late Antique Negev viniculture and the famous Gaza Wine. Near Eastern Archaeology, 83: 56-64.

  • Vaiglova, P., Hartman, G., Marom, N., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Zilberman, T., Yasur, G., Buckley, M., Bernstein, R., Tepper, Y., Weissbrod, L., Erickson-Gini, T. and Bar-Oz, G. 2020. Climate stability and societal decline on the margins of the Byzantine empire in the Negev Desert. Scientific Reports, 10: 1512.

  • Maayan-Fanar, E., Linn, R., Tepper, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2020. The revealed and the hidden: Ancient Transfiguration and the work of art at Shivta. Kathedra, 174: 7-30.

  • Linn, R., Maayan-Fanar, E., Tepper, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2019. Study of early transfiguration wall painting in Shivta, Israel. ARAM, 31: 195-206.

  • Gambash, G., Bar-Oz, G., Lev, E. and Jeremias, U. 2019. Bygone fish: Rediscovering the Red-Sea parrotfish as a delicacy of Byzantine Negev cuisine. Near Eastern Archaeology, 82.4: 216-225.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Marom, N. and Pinhasi, R. 2019. Technical note: Taxonomic identification of petrosal bone morphology. Bioarchaeology of the Near East, 13:  1-7.

  • Marom, N., Meiri, M., Weissbrod, L., Tepper, Y., Erikson-Gini, T., Reshef, H. and Bar-Oz, G. 2019. Life at the limes: Social and economic upheavals in the Late Antique-Early Islamic sequence of the Negev Desert in light of the faunal record. Scientific Reports, 9: 6702.

  • Dunseth, Z.C., Fuks, D., Butler, D.H., Langgut, D., Weiss, E., Melamed, Y., Xin, Y., Boaretto, E., Tepper, Y., Bar-Oz, G. and Shahack-Gross, R. 2019. Archaeobotanical proxies and archaeological interpretation: A comparative study of phytoliths, pollen and seeds in dung pellets and refuse deposits at Early Islamic Shivta, Negev, Israel. Quaternary Science Reviews, 211: 166-185.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Weissbrod, L., Erickson-Gini, T., Tepper, Y., Malkinson, D., Benzaquen, M., Langgut, D., Dunseth, Z. C., Butler, D. H., Shahack-Gross, R., Roskin, J., Fuks, D., Weiss, E., Marom, N., Ktalav, I., Blevis, R., Zohar, I., Farhi, Y., Filatova, A., Goren-Rosin, Y., Xin, Y. and Boaretto, E. 2019. Ancient trash mounds unravel urban collapse a century before the end of Byzantine hegemony in the southern Levant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 116: 8239-8248.

  • Tepper, Y., Weissbrod, L., Fried, T., Marom, N., Ramsay, J., Weinstein-Evron, M., Bratenkov, S., Liphschitz, N., Farhi, Y., Xin, Y., Boaretto, E. and Bar-Oz, G. 2018. Pigeon-raising and sustainable agriculture at the fringe of the desert: A view from the Byzantine village of Sa’adon, Negev, Israel. Levant, 50: 91-113.

  • Sisma-Ventura, G., Tütken, T., Zohar, I., Pack, A., Sivan, D., Lernau, O., Gilboa, A. and Bar-Oz, G. 2018. Tooth oxygen isotopes reveal Late Bronze Age origin of Mediterranean fish aquaculture and trade. Scientific Reports, 18:14086.

  • Maayan-Fanar, E., Linn, R., Tepper, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2018. Christ face revealed in Shivta: An early Byzantine wall painting in the desert of the Holy Land. Antiquity Project Gallery, 364: 1–5.

  • Marom, N., Rosen, B., Tepper, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2018. Pigeons at the edge of the empire: Bioarchaeological evidences for extensive management of pigeons in a Byzantine desert town in the southern Levant. PLoS One, 13: e0193206.

  • Tepper, Y., Erickson-Gini, T., Farhi, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2018. Probing the Byzantine/Early Islamic Transition in the Negev: The renewed Shivta excavations, 2015-2016. Tel Aviv, 45: 120-152.

  • Fried, T., Weissbrod, L., Tepper, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2018. A glimpse of an ancient agricultural ecosystem based on remains of micromammals in the Byzantine Negev Desert. Royal Society Open Science Journal, 5: 171528.

  • Tchekhanovets, Y., Tepper, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2017. The Armenian graffito from the southern church of Shivta. Revue Biblique, 124: 446-454.

  • Linn, R, Tepper, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2017. Visible Induced Luminescence reveals invisible rays shining from Christ in the Early Christian wall painting of the Transfiguration in Shivta. PLoS One, 12: e0185149.

  • Tepper, Y., Rosen, B., Haber, A. and Bar-Oz, G. 2017. Signs of soil fertigation in the desert: A pigeon tower structure near Byzantine Shivta, Israel. Journal of Arid environment, 145: 81-89.

  • Fuks, D., Weiss, E., Tepper, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2016. Seeds of collapse? Reconstructing the ancient Negev agricultural economy at Shivta. Antiquity Project Gallery, 353: 1-5.

  • Ramsay, J., Tepper, Y., Weinstein-Evron, M., Bratenkov, S., Marom, N. and Bar-Oz, G. 2016. For the birds: An environmental archaeological analysis of byzantine pigeon towers at Shivta (Negev Desert, Israel). Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 9: 718-727.

  • Tepper, Y., Weissbrod, L. and Bar-Oz, G. 2015. Behind sealed doors: Unraveling abandonment dynamics at the Byzantine site of Shivta in the Negev Desert. Antiquity (Project Gallery): 348: 1-4.

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