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Evolution of human hunting

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  • Yom-Tov, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2022. Extinctions and Faunal Trasformations in the Land of Israel. Tel Aviv: Dan Perry, 223 pages (in Hebrew).

  • Tejero, J.-M., Bar-Oz, G., Bar-Yosef, O., Meshveliani, T., Jakeli, N., Matskevich, Z., Pinhasi, R. and Belfer-Cohen, A. 2021. New insights into the Upper Palaeolithic of the Caucasus through the study of personal ornaments. Teeth and bones pendants from Satsurblia and Dzudzuana caves (Imereti, Georgia). PLoS One, e0258974.

  • Kowner, R., Bar-Oz, G., Biran, M., Shahar, M. and Shelach-Lavi, G. 2019. Animals and human society in Asia: An overview and premises. In (R. Kowner, G. Bar-Oz, M. Biran, M. Shahar, G. Shelach-Lavi, Eds.) Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historica, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives. New York: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series, 1-29.

  • Reshef, H., Anton, M., Bocquentin, F., Vardi, Y., Khalaily, H., Davis, L., Bar-Oz, G. and Marom, N. 2019. Tails of Animism: A Joint Burial of Humans and Foxes in Pre-Pottery Neolithic Motza, Israel. Antiquity, DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2019.165.

  • Agha, N., Nadel, D. and Bar-Oz, G. 2019. New insights into livestock management and domestication at Tel RoÊ»im West, a multi-layer Neolithic site in the Upper Jordan Valley, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 27: 101991.

  • Munro, N., Bar-Oz, G., Meier, J.S., Sapir-Hen, L., Stiner, M.C. and Yeshurun, R. 2018. The emergence of animal management in the southern Levant. Scientific Reports, 8, 9279.

  • Marom, N., Garfinkel, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2018. Times in between: A zooarchaeological analysis of ritual in Neolithic ShaÌ”ar Hagolan. Quaternary International, 464: 216-225.

  • Yeshurun, R. and Bar-Oz, G. 2018. Ungulate skeletal element profiles: A possible marker for territorial contraction and sedentism in the Levantine Epipaleolithic. Quaternary International, 464: 173-186.

  • Pinhasi, R., Meshveliani, T, Matskevich, Z., Bar-Oz, G. Weissbrod, L., Miller, C.E., Wilkinson, K., Lordkipanidze, D., Jakeli, N., Kvavadze, E., Higham, T.F.G. and Belfer-Cohen, A. 2015. Satsurblia: New insights about human response and survival across the Last Glacial Maximum in the southern Caucasus. PLoS One, 9(10): e111271.

  • Yeshurun, R., Bar-Oz, G., Kaufman, D. and Weinstein-Evron, M. 2014. Purpose, permanence and perception of 14,000 years old Natufian architecture: Contextual taphonomy of food refuse. Current Anthropology, 55: 551-618 (supplement).

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Yeshurun, R. 2014. The bone tools from the Cave of the Treasure at Nahal Mishmar. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 44: 240-247.

  • Yeshurun, R., Bar-Oz, G. and Weinstein-Evron, M. 2014. Intensification and Sedentism in the Terminal Pleistocene Natufian Sequence of el-Wad Terrace (Israel). Journal of Human Evolution, 70: 16-35.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Yeshurun, R. and Weinstein-Evron, M. 2013. Specialized hunting of gazelle in the Natufian: cultural cause or climatic effect? In (O. Bar-Yosef and F. Valla, Eds.) Natufian Foragers in the Levant: Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia. Ann Arbor: International Monograph in Prehistory, 685-698.

  • Yeshurun, R., Bar-Oz, G. and Nadel, D. 2013. The Social Role of Food in the Natufian Cemetery of Raqefet Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 32: 511-526.

  • Marom, N. and Bar-Oz, G. 2013. The prey pathway: A regional history of cattle (Bos taurus) and pig (Sus scrofa) domestication in the northern Jordan Valley, Israel. PLoS One, 8: e55958.

  • Weissbrod, L., Bar-Oz, G., Yeshurun, R. and Weinstein-Evron, M. 2012. Beyond fast and Slow: The mole rat Spalax ehrenbergi (order Rodentia) as a test case for intensification and the diet breadth of complex Natufian foragers. Quaternary International, 264: 4-16.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Weissbrod, L., Gasparian, B., Nahapetyan, S., Wilkinson, K. and Pinhasi, R. 2012. Taphonomy and zooarcheology of a high-altitude Upper Pleistocene faunal sequence from Hovk-1 Cave, Armenia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39: 2452-2463.

  • Munro, N.D., Bar-Oz, G. and Hill, A.C. 2011. An exploration of character traits and linear measurements for sexing mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) skeletons.  Journal of Archaeological Science, 38:1253-1265.

  • Yeshurun, R., Zaidner, Y., Eisenmann, V., Martínez-Navarro, B. and Bar-Oz, G. 2010. Lower Paleolithic hominin ecology at the fringe of the desert: faunal remains from Bizat Ruhama and Nahal Hesi, Northern Negev, Israel. Journal of Human Evolution, 60: 492-507.

  • Yeshurun, R., Bar-Oz, G. and Weinstein-Evron, M. 2009. The role of foxes in the Natufian economy: A view from Mount Carmel, Israel. Before Farming, 3: 15.

  • Marom, N. and Bar-Oz, G. 2009. "Man-made oases": Neolithic patterns of wild ungulate exploitation and their consequences for the domestication of pigs and cattle. Before Farming, 1: 1.

  • Sapir-Hen, L., Bar-Oz, G., Khalaily, H. and Dayan, T. 2009. The last of the gazelle hunters in the southern Levant: Gazelle exploitation in the early Neolithic site of Motza, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36: 1538-1546.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Belfer-Cohen.A., Meshveliani, T., Jakeli, N., Matskevich, Z. and Bar-Yosef, O. 2009. Bear in mind: Bear hunting in the Mesolithic of the southern Caucasus. Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, 39: 15-24.

  • Stutz, A. J., Munro, N. D. and Bar-Oz, G. 2009. Increasing the resolution of the broad spectrum revolution in the southern Levantine Epipalaeolithic (19-12 ka). Journal of Human Evolution, 56: 294-306.

  • Munro, N. D., Bar-Oz, G. and Stutz, A. J. 2009. Aging mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella): Refining methods of tooth eruption and wear and bone fusion. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36: 752-763.

  • Yeshurun, R. and Bar-Oz, G. 2008. Digging in the museum: Middle Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic faunal remains from Olami's prehistoric survey of Mount Carmel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 38: 41-58.

  • Pinhasi, R., Gasparian, B., Wilkinson, K., Bailey, R., Bar-Oz, G., Bruch, A., Chataigner C., Hoffmann, D., Hovsepyan, R., Nahapetyan, S., Pike, A. W. G., Schreve, D. and Stephens, M. 2008. Hovk 1 and the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of Armenia: Preliminary framework. Journal of Human Evolution, 55: 803-816.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Belfer-Cohen, A., Mesheviliani, T., Jakeli, N. and Bar-Yosef, O. 2008. Taphonomy and zooarchaeology of the Upper Palaeolithic cave of Dzudzuana, Republic of Georgia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 18: 131-151.

  • Marom, N. and Bar-Oz, G. 2008. "Measure for measure": A taphonomic reconsideration of the Kebaran site of Ein Gev I, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35: 214-227.

  • Yeshurun, R., Marom, N. and Bar-Oz, G. 2007. Differential fragmentation of different ungulate body-size: A comparison of gazelle and fallow deer bone fragmentation in Levantine prehistoric assemblages. Journal of Taphonomy, 5: 137-148.

  • Yeshurun, R., Bar-Oz, G. and Weinstein-Evron, M. 2007. Modern hunting behavior in the Early Middle Paleolithic: Faunal remains from Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel. Journal of Human Evolution, 53: 656-677.

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Munro, N. D. 2007. Gazelle bone marrow yields and Epipalaeolithic carcass exploitation strategies in the southern Levant. Journal of Archaeological Science, 34: 946-956.

  • Adler, D. S., Bar-Oz, G., Belfer-Cohen, A. and Bar-Yosef, O. 2006. Ahead of the game: Middle and Upper Palaeolithic hunting behaviors in the southern Caucasus. Current Anthropology, 47: 89-118.

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Adler, D. S. 2005. Taphonomic history of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic faunal assemblage from Ortvale Klde, Georgian Republic. Journal of Taphonomy, 3: 185-211.

  • Munro, N. D. and Bar-Oz, G. 2005. Gazelle bone fat processing in the Levantine Epipalaelithic. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32: 223-239.

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Munro, N. D. 2004. Beyond cautionary tales: A multidimensional taphonomic approach for identifying subpatterns in ungulate body-part data. Journal of Taphonomy, 2: 201-220.

  • Munro, N. D. and Bar-Oz, G. 2004. Debating issues of equifinality in ungulate body part studies. Journal of Taphonomy, 2: 1-13.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Dayan, T., Kaufman, D. and Weinstein-Evron, M. 2004. The Natufian economy at el-Wad Terrace with special reference to gazelle exploitation patterns.  Journal of Archaeological Science, 31: 217-231.

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Dayan, T. 2003. Testing the use of multivariate intersite taphonomic comparisons: the faunal analysis of Hefzibah in its Epipalaeolithic cultural context.  Journal of Archaeological Science, 30: 885-900.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Adler, D. S., Meshveliani, T., Tushabramishvili, N., Belfer-Cohen, A. and Bar-Yosef, O. 2002. Middle and Upper Palaeolithic foragers of the southwest Caucasus: new faunal evidence from Western Georgia. Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia, 4: 45-52.

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Dayan, T. 2002. “After twenty years”: A taphonomic reevaluation of Nahal Hadera V, an Epipalaeolithic site on the Israeli coastal plain. Journal of Archaeological Science, 29: 145-156.

  • Bar-Oz, G., Dayan, T. and Kaufman, D. 1999. The Epipaleolithic faunal sequence in Israel: A view from Neve-David. Journal of Archaeological Science, 26: 67-82.

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