Erella Hovers

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Erella Hovers is affiliated with the following schools: Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Arizona State University

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According to Wikipedia, Erella Hovers is an Israeli paleoanthropologist. She is currently a professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working within the Institute of Archeology. The majority of her field work is centered in the Horn of Africa, with a primary focus on Ein Qashish, Israel and Eastern Ethiopia. Her research concentrates on the development of the use of symbolism during the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone Age. Other research interests include lithic technology, taphonomy, and general behavior of early hominids.

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Late PlioceneHomoand Oldowan Tools from the Hadar Formation (Kada Hadar Member), Ethiopia (1996) (312)
An Early Case of Color Symbolism (2003) (207)
Transitions before the transition : evolution and stability in the Middle Paleolithic and middle Stone Age (2006) (204)
The exploitation of plant resources by Neanderthals in Amud Cave (Israel): The evidence from phytolith studies (2002) (172)
A Neandertal infant from Amud Cave, Israel (1994) (132)
“Now You See it, Now You Don't”—Modern Human Behavior in the Middle Paleolithic (2006) (129)
Making time: ‘Living floors’, ‘palimpsests’ and site formation processes – A perspective from the open-air Lower Paleolithic site of Revadim Quarry, Israel (2011) (120)
TL Dates for the Neanderthal Site of the Amud Cave, Israel (1999) (100)
Hominid Remains from Amud Cave in the Context of the Levantine Middle Paleolithic (1995) (91)
Grave Markers: Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic Burials and the Use of Chronotypology in Contemporary Paleolithic Research (2001) (91)
Interdisciplinary approaches to the Oldowan (2009) (91)
Transitions Before the Transition (2006) (82)
Faunal analysis from Amud Cave: preliminary results and interpretations (2004) (79)
The Lithic Assemblages of Qafzeh Cave (2010) (78)
Raw material selectivity in Late Pliocene Oldowan sites in the Makaamitalu Basin, Hadar, Ethiopia. (2012) (69)
On Variability and Complexity (2013) (69)
An Early Case of Color Symbolism: Ochre Use by Modern Humans in Qafzeh Cave (2003) (65)
Ecological change and the extinction of the Levantine Neanderthals: implications from a diachronic study of micromammals from Amud Cave, Israel (2011) (63)
Electron spin resonance (ESR) and thermal ionization mass spectrometric (TIMS) 230Th/234U dating of teeth in Middle Paleolithic layers at Amud Cave, Israel (2001) (60)
Raw material exploitation around the Middle Paleolithic site of ‘Ein Qashish (2014) (59)
In the Eye of the Beholder: Mousterian and Natufian Burials in the Levant (1992) (57)
Methodological Considerations in the Study of Oldowan Raw Material Selectivity: Insights from A. L. 894 (Hadar, Ethiopia) (2009) (54)
Chapter 5 – Invention, Reinvention and Innovation: The Makings of Oldowan Lithic Technology (2012) (52)
Formation processes of cemented features in karstic cave sites revealed using stable oxygen and carbon isotopic analyses: A case study at middle paleolithic Amud Cave, Israel (2008) (51)
Local and Nonlocal Procurement of Raw Material in Amud Cave, Israel: The Complex Mobility of Late Middle Paleolithic Groups (2017) (51)
Cultural change or continuity in the late MSA/Early LSA of southeastern Ethiopia? The site of Goda Buticha, Dire Dawa area (2014) (49)
Archaeological horizons and fluvial processes at the Lower Paleolithic open-air site of Revadim (Israel). (2011) (48)
Art in the Levantine Epi-Palaeolithic: An Engraved Pebble from a Kebaran Site in the Lower Jordan Valley (1990) (46)
THE LITHIC ASSEMBLAGES OF AMUD CAVE Implications for Understanding the End of the Mousterian in the Levant (1998) (45)
Was inter-population connectivity of Neanderthals and modern humans the driver of the Upper Paleolithic transition rather than its product? (2019) (41)
Modernity, Enhanced Working Memory, and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Record in the Levant (2010) (40)
The Amud 7 skeleton--still a burial. Response to Gargett. (2000) (40)
“Diffusion with modifications”: Nubian assemblages in the central Negev highlands of Israel and their implications for Middle Paleolithic inter-regional interactions (2016) (40)
The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant (2017) (39)
Across the Gap: Geochronological and Sedimentological Analyses from the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Sequence of Goda Buticha, Southeastern Ethiopia (2017) (36)
Organization of lithic technology at 'Ein Qashish, a late Middle Paleolithic open-air site in Israel (2014) (36)
Integrating Archaeology and Ethnohistory: The Development of Exchange between Yap and Ulithi, Western Caroline Islands (review) (2005) (33)
Islands in a stream? Reconstructing site formation processes in the late Middle Paleolithic site of ‘Ein Qashish, northern Israel (2014) (33)
Treading Carefully : Site Formation Processes and Pliocene Lithic Technology (2003) (30)
Opportunities, problems and future directions in the study of open-air Middle Paleolithic sites (2014) (25)
The Lithic Assemblages of Amud Cave (2002) (25)
The Ground Stone Assemblages of the Natufian and Neolithic Societies in the Levant - A Brief Review (2005) (23)
Survey and explorations of caves in southeastern Ethiopia: Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age archaeology and Holocene rock art (2014) (23)
Isotopic evidence for Last Glacial climatic impacts on Neanderthal gazelle hunting territories at Amud Cave, Israel. (2015) (23)
The use of a multivariate graphic display technique as an exploratory tool in the analysis of inter-assemblage lithic variability : A case study from Qafzeh Cave, Israel (2000) (22)
Disease transmission and introgression can explain the long-lasting contact zone of modern humans and Neanderthals (2019) (21)
On Neandertal autapomorphies discernible in Neandertal infants: a response to Creed-Mileset al. (1996) (20)
Persistent Neanderthal occupation of the open-air site of ‘Ein Qashish, Israel (2019) (19)
Alternative Pathways to Complexity: Evolutionary Trajectories in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age (2013) (18)
One size does not fit all: Group size and the late middle Pleistocene prehistoric archive. (2019) (17)
The stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Middle Paleolithic open-air site of `Ein Qashish, Northern Israel (2014) (17)
Archaeology: Tools go back in time (2015) (16)
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Lithic Variability at Goda Buticha (Southeastern Ethiopia): Implications for the Understanding of the Middle and Late Stone Age of the Horn of Africa (2017) (16)
Introduction: Current Issues in Oldowan Research (2009) (15)
DISCUSSION 4: The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition: What News? (2009) (14)
Middle Palaeolithic Open-Air Sites (2017) (13)
The expansion of the Acheulian to the Southeastern Ethiopian Highlands: Insights from the new early Pleistocene site-complex of Melka Wakena (2021) (13)
Typo-Chronology and Absolute Dating of the Kebaran Complex: Implications from the Second Season of Excavation at Urkan E-Rub IIA (1991) (12)
Are Lithics and Fauna a Match Made in (Prehistoric) Heaven? (2020) (12)
Prehistoric Perspectives on “Others” and “Strangers” (2020) (11)
Human Paleontology and Prehistory: Contributions in Honor of Yoel Rak (2017) (11)
Engraved ostrich eggshell from the Middle Stone Age contexts of Goda Buticha, Ethiopia (2018) (11)
New Data from Shovakh Cave and Its Implications for Reconstructing Middle Paleolithic Settlement Patterns in the Amud Drainage, Israel (2019) (10)
Insights into Early Mortuary Practices of Homo (2013) (10)
Invention, Reinvention and Innovation (2012) (9)
Neandertal and early modern human behavioral variability : A regional-scale approach to lithic evidence for hunting in the Levantine Mousterian. Commentaries. Author's reply (1998) (8)
Petrogenesis and depositional history of felsic pyroclastic rocks from the Melka Wakena archaeological site-complex in South central Ethiopia (2018) (8)
Geoarchaeological Investigation of Site Formation and Depositional Environments at the Middle Palaeolithic Open-Air Site of ‘Ein Qashish, Israel (2018) (7)
Archaeomagnetism of burnt cherts and hearths from Middle Palaeolithic Amud Cave, Israel: Tools for reconstructing site formation processes and occupation history (2019) (7)
Neandertals of the Levant (1996) (4)
No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave (2022) (4)
Back to base: re-thinking variations in settlement and mobility behaviors in the Levantine Late Middle Paleolithic as seen from Shovakh Cave (2021) (4)
Unexpectedly early signs of Americans (2017) (3)
Current Research in Chinese Pleistocene Archaeology. Chen Shen and Susan G. Keates, eds. BAR International Series 1179. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2003. (2016) (3)
Disease and introgression explain the long-lasting contact zone of Modern Humans and Neanderthals and its eventual destabilization (2018) (2)
Continuity and change in lithic techno-economy of the early Acheulian on the Ethiopian highland: A case study from locality MW2; the Melka Wakena site-complex (2022) (1)
Palaeolithic Occupations in Nahal Amud (2017) (1)
, Paul Mellars (Ed.). Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York (1990), xi + 539 pp. $65.00 ISBN 0-8014-2614-6 (1992) (1)
A multi-proxy approach to Middle Paleolithic mobility: A case study from the open-air site of ‘Ein Qashish (Israel) (2021) (1)
Modeling effects of inter-group contact on links between population size and cultural complexity (2022) (1)
Results of the Second Field Season of the South East Ethiopia Cave Survey Project: Test Excavations, Survey, Rock Art, and Speleothems (2009) (1)
The rise of Homo sapiens: the evolution of modern thinking – By Frederick L. Coolidge & Thomas Wynn (2011) (1)
Book Review of Flexible Stones: Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave, by Anna Stroulia (2011) (0)
Fossil collecting. (1995) (0)
The use of geochemical analysis and visual methods for understanding raw material acquisition around Amud Cave, Israel (2015) (0)
Abstracts — Second Symposium on Upper Paleolithic (1988) (0)
Fossil collecting [1] (1995) (0)
Burials, P aleolithic (2018) (0)
Late Pleistocene and Holocene lithic variability in Southeastern Ethiopia: implications for the understanding of the Middle and Late Stone Age of the Horn of Africa (2017) (0)
No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave (2022) (0)
Research data supporting "Late Pleistocene and Holocene Lithic Variability at Goda Buticha (Southeastern Ethiopia): Implications for the Understanding of the Middle and Late Stone Age of the Horn of Africa" (2016) (0)
Goda Buticha (Ethiopie) ou le fantôme de la transition du Middle au Later Stone Age (2019) (0)
Geoarchaeological Investigation of Site Formation and Depositional Environments at the Middle Palaeolithic Open-Air Site of ‘Ein Qashish, Israel (2018) (0)
Are Lithics and Fauna a Match Made in (Prehistoric) Heaven? (2018) (0)
Origins and revolutions: human identity in earliest prehistory – By Clive Gamble (2010) (0)
Amud 9, a partial Neandertal foot from Late Mousterian of Israel (2019) (0)
The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant (2017) (0)
Ofer Bar-Yosef (1937–2020) and the New Israeli Prehistory (2020) (0)
The nature of Nubian: Developing current global perspectives on Nubian Levallois technology and the Nubian complex (2022) (0)
Current Research in Chinese Pleistocene Archaeology (review) (2006) (0)
Variability in the Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: a technical tradition of southeastern Ethiopia (2016) (0)

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