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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Anna Belfer-Cohen is an Israeli archaeologist and paleoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Belfer-Cohen excavated and studied many important prehistoric sites in Israel including Hayonim and Kebara Caves and open-air sites such as Nahal Ein Gev I and Nahal Neqarot. She has also worked for many years in the Republic of Georgia, where she made important contributions to the study of the Paleolithic sequence of the Caucasus following her work at the cave sites of Dzoudzuana, Kotias and Satsrublia. She is a specialist in biological Anthropology, prehistoric art, lithic technology, the Upper Paleolithic and modern humans, the Natufian-Neolithic interface and the transition to village life.
Anna Belfer-Cohen's Published Works
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- The origins of sedentism and farming communities in the Levant (1989) (308)
- Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians (2015) (308)
- From Africa to Eurasia — early dispersals (2001) (263)
- 30,000-Year-Old Wild Flax Fibers (2009) (255)
- The Excavations in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel [and Comments and Replies] (1992) (251)
- Thermoluminescence dates for the Neanderthal burial site at Kebara in Israel (1987) (233)
- Ahead of the Game (2006) (184)
- Early Sedentism in the Near East (2002) (136)
- A 12,000-year-old Shaman burial from the southern Levant (Israel) (2008) (135)
- “Now You See it, Now You Don't”—Modern Human Behavior in the Middle Paleolithic (2006) (129)
- The articulation of cultural processes and Late Quaternary environmental changes in Cisjordan. (1997) (129)
- Following Pleistocene road signs of human dispersals across Eurasia (2013) (123)
- THE NATUFIAN IN THE LEVANT (1991) (119)
- The Rise and Fall of Seasonal Mobility among Hunter-Gatherers: The Case of the Southern Levant [and Comments and Replies] (1993) (114)
- Hayonim Cave: a TL-based chronology for this Levantine Mousterian sequence (2007) (101)
- Neolithization Processes in the Levant (2011) (99)
- A Roof Over One’s Head: Developments in Near Eastern Residential Architecture Across the Epipalaeolithic–Neolithic Transition (2008) (92)
- Grave Markers: Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic Burials and the Use of Chronotypology in Contemporary Paleolithic Research (2001) (91)
- The Dating of the Upper Paleolithic Layers in Kebara Cave, Mt Carmel (1996) (89)
- New radiocarbon dating of the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic in Kebara Cave, Israel (2011) (88)
- More than Meets the Eye: Studies on Upper Palaeolithic Diversity in the Near East (2003) (86)
- THE NATUFIAN GRAVEYARD IN HAYONIM CAVE (1988) (86)
- Dating the demise: neandertal extinction and the establishment of modern humans in the southern Caucasus. (2008) (82)
- Dzudzuana: an Upper Palaeolithic cave site in the Caucasus foothills (Georgia) (2011) (77)
- Response to Comment on “30,000-Year-Old Wild Flax Fibers” (2010) (75)
- Becoming Farmers: (2011) (73)
- The Aurignacian at Hayonim Cave (1981) (72)
- On Variability and Complexity (2013) (69)
- The Ecological Genetics of Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture [and Comments and Reply] (1991) (62)
- THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE MIDDLE-UPPER PALEOLITHIC CHRONOLOGICAL BOUNDARY IN THE CAUCASUS TO EURASIAN PREHISTORY (2006) (60)
- In the Eye of the Beholder: Mousterian and Natufian Burials in the Levant (1992) (57)
- Nahal Ein Gev II, a Late Natufian Community at the Sea of Galilee (2016) (56)
- Cognition and communication in the Levantine Lower Palaeolithic (1994) (49)
- Why Microliths? Microlithization in the Levant (2008) (43)
- The Upper Palaeolithic in Cisjordan (2017) (43)
- Modernity, Enhanced Working Memory, and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Record in the Levant (2010) (40)
- New Biological Data For The Natufian Populations In Israel (1991) (39)
- The Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic of Cisjordan (2017) (39)
- Taphonomy and zooarchaeology of the Upper Palaeolithic cave of Dzudzuana, Republic of Georgia (2008) (36)
- Mesolithic Hunters at Kotias Klde, Western Georgia: Preliminary Results (2007) (35)
- THE TECHNOLOGICAL ABILITIES OF THE LEVANTINE MOUSTERIANS Cultural and Mental Capacities (1998) (35)
- The Language Hypothesis for the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition: An Examination Based on a Multiregional Lithic Analysis [and Comments and Reply] (1995) (29)
- Satsurblia: New Insights of Human Response and Survival across the Last Glacial Maximum in the Southern Caucasus (2014) (27)
- Encoding information: unique Natufian objects from Hayonim Cave, Western Galilee, Israel (1999) (26)
- First Results of the Excavations at Salibiya I, Lower Jordan Valley (1991) (26)
- The Upper Palaeolithic and Earlier Epi-Palaeolithic of Western Asia (2014) (25)
- The Ground Stone Assemblages of the Natufian and Neolithic Societies in the Levant - A Brief Review (2005) (23)
- The Ahmarian in the Context of the Earlier Upper Palaeolithic in the Near East (2018) (22)
- Paleolithic recycling: The example of Aurignacian artifacts from Kebara and Hayonim caves (2015) (22)
- Mousterian and Aurignacian Human Remains from Hayonim Cave, Israel (1990) (21)
- Rethinking the Levantine Middle Paleolithic Hominids (1998) (20)
- Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society: Different Strokes for Different Folks: Near Eastern Neolithic Mortuary Practices in Perspective (2014) (19)
- Ancient Mammalian and Plant DNA from Late Quaternary Stalagmite Layers at Solkota Cave, Georgia (2019) (19)
- Excavations at Dzudzuana Cave, Western Georgia (1996-1998) : Preliminary results (1999) (18)
- The Technological Abilities of the Levantine Mousterians (2002) (18)
- Paleolithic DNA from the Caucasus reveals core of West Eurasian ancestry (2018) (17)
- Morphological description and morphometric analyses of the Upper Palaeolithic human remains from Dzudzuana and Satsurblia caves, western Georgia. (2017) (17)
- Recent Developments in Near Eastern Neolithic Research. (2002) (17)
- Personal ornaments from Hayonim and Manot caves (Israel) hint at symbolic ties between the Levantine and the European Aurignacian. (2020) (17)
- Current Issues in Levantine Upper Palaeolithic Research (2017) (17)
- Nahal Ein Gev I : A Late Upper Palaeolithic Site by the Sea of Galilee, Israel (2004) (17)
- Noisy beginnings: The Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Southwest Asia (2020) (16)
- The Natufian Occupation of Nahal Oren, Mt. Carmel, Israel - The Lithic Evidence (2005) (16)
- Symbolic emblems of the Levantine Aurignacians as a regional entity identifier (Hayonim Cave, Lower Galilee, Israel) (2018) (15)
- Houses and Households: a Near Eastern Perspective (2013) (14)
- The Initial Neolithic in the Near East: Why It Is So Difficult to Deal With these PPNA… (2010) (14)
- Genome-scale sequencing and analysis of human, wolf, and bison DNA from 25,000-year-old sediment (2021) (13)
- Shaar Hagolan 1: Neolithic Art in Context (2004) (13)
- Are Lithics and Fauna a Match Made in (Prehistoric) Heaven? (2020) (12)
- The environment in the Caucasus in the Upper Paleolithic (Late Pleistocene): Evidence from the small mammals from Dzudzuana cave, Georgia (2016) (12)
- Prehistoric Perspectives on “Others” and “Strangers” (2020) (11)
- BEAR IN MIND: BEAR HUNTING IN THE MESOLITHIC OF THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS (2009) (11)
- Current Middle & Upper Palaeolithic research in the southern Caucasus (2002) (10)
- Insights into Early Mortuary Practices of Homo (2013) (10)
- Sapiens and Neandertals (2002) (10)
- The Southern Levant (Cisjordan) During the Neolithic Period (2013) (9)
- The tyranny of the ethnographic record, revisited (2009) (8)
- Human Remains from Netiv Hagdud — A PPNA Site in the Jordan Valley (1990) (7)
- 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) (2021) (6)
- From the Epipalaeolithic into the earliest Neolithic (PPNA) in the South Levant (2020) (6)
- Epipalaeolithic occupations in Nahal Neqarot Rockshelter, Negev, Israel: Radiocarbon dating and identification of charred wood remains (1998) (6)
- Reflections on neolithisation processes. Jacques Cauvin: the right man for the season (2011) (5)
- Natufian imagery in perspective (1998) (5)
- A Mousterian Engraved Bone (2019) (5)
- Reappraisal of hominin group size in the Lower Paleolithic: An introduction to the special issue. (2020) (4)
- 9. The Upper Paleolithic in Western Georgia (2019) (4)
- The Levantine Aurignacian:: 60 years of research (2017) (3)
- Kaizer Hill (Modi‘in), a pre-pottery neolithic a quarry site – the terraced slopes (2022) (3)
- Early Hominid Remains from Hayonim Cave (Israel) in the Context of the Late Middle and Upper Pleistocene record from the Near East (2011) (3)
- Final Remarks and Epilogue (2017) (2)
- Natufian Bone Artefacts from Nahal Oren, Mt. Carmel, Israel (2011) (2)
- A Collection of Natufian Bone Artefacts from Old Excavations at Kebara and El-Wad (1998) (2)
- An Anthropological Review of the Upper Paleolithic in the Southern Levant (2018) (2)
- Janine Major – Wadi Hammeh 27, Jordan Valley. Natufian Art items, a Contextual Analysis (2021) (2)
- The Riddle of the ‘Aurignacian’ in the Negev: (2019) (1)
- Herod's Tomb Precinct (2015) (1)
- The Nature of the Beast: (2019) (1)
- Burials, P aleolithic (2018) (0)
- Erratum to “Dating the demise: Neandertal extinction and the establishment of modern humans in the southern Caucasus” J. Hum. Evol. 55 (2008) 817–833 (2009) (0)
- Faunal Exploitation Patterns along the Slopes of the Caucasus during the Late and Early Upper Paleolithic (2004) (0)
- Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2013 (2013) (0)
- Reflections on the origins of the Neolithic "House" in the Near East (2015) (0)
- Ofer Bar-Yosef (1937–2020) and the New Israeli Prehistory (2020) (0)
- The Burial of MHK-2 at Kebara cave (2019) (0)
- Long-term Memory, the Individual and the Community in the later Prehistory of the Levant (2015) (0)
- Ancient Mammalian and Plant DNA from Late Quaternary Stalagmite Layers at Solkota Cave, Georgia (2019) (0)
- For the First Time (2009) (0)
- Are Lithics and Fauna a Match Made in (Prehistoric) Heaven? (2018) (0)
- Chapter 2 Houses and Households : a Near Eastern Perspective (2019) (0)
- Insights into Natufian Social Identity: A Case Study from the Graveyard of Hayonim Cave (2022) (0)
- A minimally-invasive method for ancient DNA sampling of Prehistoric bone and antler tools and hunting weapons (2023) (0)
- Neolithic Group Sizes – Further Thoughts (2019) (0)
- Paleolithic research in Western Transcaucasia , the Republic of Georgia (1998) (0)
- Phillip C. Edwards (ed.). Wadi Hammeh 27: an early Natufian settlement at Pella in Jordan. xxvi+410 pages, 331 bw 978-90-04-23609-7 hardback € 164 & $228. (2013) (0)
- Edwards Phillip C. (ed.). Wadi Hammeh 27: an early Natufian settlement at Pella in Jordan . xxvi+410 pages, 331 baw illustrations, 87 tables. 2013. Leiden a Boston (MA): Brill; 978-90-04-23609-7 hardback € 164 a $228. (2013) (0)
- Abstracts — Second Symposium on Upper Paleolithic (1988) (0)
- "Off with their heads": skull removal in the prehistoric Near East (2016) (0)
- Europe's First Farmers. T. Douglas Price, editor. 2000. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xv + 395 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-66203-6; $31.95 (paper), ISBN 0-521-66572-8. (2002) (0)
- Views of Gender in African Prehistory From a Middle Eastern Perspective (1998) (0)
- Response to Comment by Bergfjord et al. (2010) (0)
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