archaeologist
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...
and a professor at the
Hebrew University
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
of
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
in
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
. He completed his PhD there in 1986 and is notable for his work and discoveries at one of the oldest
ritual
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burial
Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. This is usually accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objec ...
sites in the world;
Kfar HaHoresh
Kfar HaHoresh ( he, כְּפַר הַחֹרֶשׁ, כפר החורש, , Village of the Thicket) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near Nazareth, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council.
In it had a populatio ...
. The earliest levels of this site have been dated to 8000 BC (
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) is part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, a Neolithic culture centered in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant, dating to years ago, that is, 8800–6500 BC. It was typed by British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon during h ...
) and it is located in the northern Israel, not far from
Nazareth
Nazareth ( ; ar, النَّاصِرَة, ''an-Nāṣira''; he, נָצְרַת, ''Nāṣəraṯ''; arc, ܢܨܪܬ, ''Naṣrath'') is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel". In ...
* 1991–Present Excavations at Kfar HaHoresh
* 2010 Excavations at Nahal Hava
* 2005 Excavations at Nahal Lavan
* 1995 Excavations at
Nahal Besor
The Besor ( he, נחל הבשור, ''Nahal HaBesor'') is a wadi in southern Israel. The stream begins at Mount Boker (near Sde Boker), and spills into the Mediterranean Sea near Al-Zahra in the Gaza Strip, where it is called Wadi Gaza ( ar, وا ...
Negev
The Negev or Negeb (; he, הַנֶּגֶב, hanNegév; ar, ٱلنَّقَب, an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. ), in the north. At its southe ...
.
* Publication of the excavations at
Gilgal I
Gilgal I ( he, גלגל) is an archaeological site in the Jordan Valley, West Bank, dated to the early Neolithic period. The site is located north of ancient Jericho. The features and artifacts unearthed at Gilgal I shed important light on agr ...
Ofer Bar-Yosef
Ofer Bar-Yosef ( he, עופר בר-יוסף; 29 August 1937 – 14 March 2020) was an Israeli archaeologist and anthropologist whose main field of study was the Palaeolithic period.
From 1967 Bar-Yosef was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at ...
& Avi Gopher).
* "Religion as the Basis for Power and Property in the First Civilizations" 2009-2011, invited to participate in the Templeton project at Neolithic
Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük (; also ''Çatal Höyük'' and ''Çatal Hüyük''; from Turkish ''çatal'' "fork" + ''höyük'' "tumulus") is a tell of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from appr ...
,
Turkey
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, directed by
Ian Hodder
Ian Richard Hodder (born 23 November 1948, in Bristol) is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology that first took root among his students and in his own work between 1980–1990. At this time he had such ...
.
Selected bibliography
Books
* Goring-Morris, A. Nigel, At the Edge: Terminal Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers in the Negev and Sinai. BAR International Series 361, Oxford, 1987.
* Goring-Morris, A. Nigel. & A. Belfer-Cohen, More Than Meets the Eye: Studies on Upper Palaeolithic Diversity in the Near East. Oxbow Press, Oxford, 2003.
* Bar-Yosef, Ofer, Goring-Morris, A. Nigel & Gopher, Avi. Gilgal: Excavations at Early Neolithic Sites in the Lower Jordan Valley. The Excavations of Tamar Noy. ASPR & David Brown/Oxbow, Oakville, CT., 2010.
Papers
* Goring-Morris, A. N., Upper Palaeolithic Sites from Wadi Fazael, Lower Jordan Valley, Paléorient 6: 173-191, 1980.
* Goring-Morris, A. N. & A. Gopher Nahal Issaron: A Neolithic Settlement from the Southern Negev, Israel. A Preliminary Report of the 1980 Excavations, Israel Exploration Journal 33: 149-162., 1983.
* Belfer-Cohen, A., & A. N. Goring Morris, Har Horesha I: An Upper Palaeolithic Site in the Central Negev Highlands, Mitekufat Haeven 19: 43*-57*, 1986.
* Goring-Morris, A. N., The Harifian of the Southern Levant. In O. Bar-Yosef & F. R. Valla (eds.), The Natufian Culture in the Levant, International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor, pp. 173–216, 1991.
* A. Belfer-Cohen, I. Gilead, A. N. Goring-Morris, & S. A. Rosen., An Epipalaeolithic Rockshelter at Nahal Neqarot in the Central Negev. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society - Mitekufat Haeven 24: 164-168, 1992.
* Goring-Morris, A. N., From Foraging to Herding in the Negev and Sinai: the Early to Late Neolithic Transition. Paléorient 19/1: 63-87, 1993.
* Goring-Morris, A. N., Aspects of the PPNB Lithic Assemblage from Kfar HaHoresh, near Nazareth, Israel. In H.-G. Gebel & S. K. Kozlowski (eds.), Neolithic Chipped Lithic Industries of the Fertile Crescent. SENEPSE 1: 427-444. Berlin: ex oriente, 1994.
* Gopher, A., A. N. Goring-Morris & D. Gordon., Nahal Issaron - The Lithics of the Later PPNB Occupation. In H.-G. Gebel & S. K. Kozlowski (eds.), Neolithic Chipped Lithic Industries of the Fertile Crescent. SENEPSE 1: 479-494. Berlin: ex oriente, 1994.
* Carmi, I., D. Segal, A. N. Goring-Morris & A. Gopher., Dating of the Prehistoric Site of Nahal Issaron in the Southern Negev, Israel, by 14C. Radiocarbon 36/3: 391-398, 1995.
* Goring-Morris, A. N., Complex Hunter-Gatherers at the End of the Paleolithic. 20,000-10,000 BP. In T. E. Levy (ed.), The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land. pp. 141–168. Leicester University Press. London. 1995.
* Gopher, A., A. N. Goring-Morris & S.A. Rosen., Ein Qadis I: A Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Occupation in Eastern Sinai. 'Atiqot 27: 15-33, 1995.
* Goring-Morris, A. N., The Early Natufian Occupation at
El Wad
El Wad is an Epipalaeolithic archaeological site in Mount Carmel, Israel. The site has two components: El Wad Cave, also known as Mugharat el-Wad or HaNahal Cave ( he, מערת הנחל); and El Wad Terrace, located immediately outside the cave. ...
, Mt. Carmel, Reconsidered. In M. Otte (ed.), Nature et Culture. ERAUL 68: 417-427, 1996.
* Goring-Morris, A. N., A Late Natufian Campsite at Givat Hayil I, Western Negev Dunes, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 27: 43-61. 1997.
* Baruch, U., & A. N. Goring-Morris., The Arboreal Vegetation of the Central Negev Highlands, Israel, at the End of the Pleistocene: Evidence from Archaeological Charred Wood Remains. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 6/4: 249-259, 1997.
* Goring-Morris, A. N.& A. Belfer-Cohen., The Articulation of Cultural Processes and Late Quaternary Environmental Changes in Cisjordan. Paléorient 23/2: 71-93, 1997.
* Gopher, A., & A. N. Goring-Morris.,
Abu Salem
Abu Salem ( ; born Abu Salem Abdul Qayoom Ansari), also known as Aqil Ahmed Azmi and Abu Samaan, is an Indian criminal gangster and terroristSaflulim: A Late Natufian Base Camp in the Central Negev Highlands, Israel. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 131/1: 36-64, 1999.
* Horwitz, L.K., & A. N. Goring-Morris 2001. Fauna from the Early Natufian Site of Upper Besor 6 in the Central Negev, Israel. Paléorient 26/1: 111-128.
* Kuijt, I., & A. N. Goring-Morris., Foraging, Farming and Social Complexity in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the South-Central Levant: A Review and Synthesis. Journal of World Prehistory 16/4:361-440, 2002.
* Goring-Morris, A. N. & A. Belfer-Cohen., Symbolic Behaviour from the Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic of the Near East: Preliminary Observations on Continuity and Change. In H.-G. Gebel, B. D. Hermansen & C. Hoffmann (eds.), Magic Practices and Ritual in the Near Eastern Neolithic. SENEPSE 8: 67-79. Berlin: ex oriente. 2002.
* Davidzon, A., & A. N. Goring-Morris., Sealed in Stone: An Example of Early Ahmarian Technology and Mobility in the Light of Refitting Studies at Nahal Nizzana XIII, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society - Mitekufat Haeven 33:75-205, 2003.
* Belfer-Cohen, A., A. Davidzon, A. N. Goring-Morris, D. Lieberman & M. Spiers., Nahal Ein Gev I: A Late Upper Palaeolithic Site by the Sea of Galilee, Israel. Paléorient 30/1: 25-46, 2004.
* Goren, Y. & A. N. Goring-Morris., Early Pyrotechnology in the Near East: Experimental Lime Plaster Production at the PPNB Site of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel. Geoarchaeology 23/6:779-798, 2008.
* Goring-Morris, A. N., Two Kebaran Occupations near Nahal Soreq, and the Reconstruction of Group Ranges in the Early Epipalaeolithic of the Israeli Littoral. Eurasian Prehistory 6/1-2:75-93., 2009.
* Goring-Morris, A. N., O. Marder & D. Amit., Prehistoric Occupations in Me'arat Ha'Sela (Upper
Nahal Hever
Nahal Hever ( he, נחל חבר) or Wadi al-Khabat (Arabic) is an intermittent stream (wadi) in the Judean Desert, that flows through the West Bank and Israel, from the area of Yatta to the Dead Sea. The Hebrew name is derived from "Hevron", the H ...
). Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 39:1-16, 2009.
* Goring-Morris, A. N. & A. Belfer-Cohen., 'Great Expectations', or, the Inevitable Collapse of the Early Neolithic in the Near East. In M. S. Bandy & J. R. Fox (eds.), Becoming Villagers. Comparing Early Village Societies. pp. 62–77. Amerind Studies in Archaeology, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2010.
* Belfer-Cohen, A., and A. N. Goring-Morris., The initial Neolithic in the Near East: Why it is so difficult to deal with the PPNA... Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 40:1-18, 2010.
Goring-Morris has also contributed to several
encyclopedia
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entries.
See also
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Ofer Bar-Yosef
Ofer Bar-Yosef ( he, עופר בר-יוסף; 29 August 1937 – 14 March 2020) was an Israeli archaeologist and anthropologist whose main field of study was the Palaeolithic period.
From 1967 Bar-Yosef was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at ...
*
Anna Belfer-Cohen
Anna Belfer-Cohen ( he, אנה בלפר-כהן; born November 3, 1949) is an Israeli archaeologist and paleoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Belfer-Cohen excavated and studi ...