Higher education:
Ph.D., 2011, University of Haifa
Research interests:
prehistory, flint technology, prehistoric weapons, art and use of symbols
Ongoing research projects:
• Human adaptations at the Final Pleistocene: looking from the Upper Paleolithic – Epipaleolithic stratified open air site Ein Qashish South, Jezreel Valley.
• Ritual needs or human violence: analysis of projectile damage patterns as a mean to explain the variability of symmetrical points during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the Levant
• Stratigraphy and flint assemblage of Ein Zippori, Lower Galilee: PPNB, Wadi Rabbah and Early Bronze Age settlements
• Anthropomorphic clay figurine from Ein Zippori: looking for its origin and meaning
• Tel Itzhaki – Early Ceramic Neolithic site in Jezreel Valley
Selected publications:
• Yaroshevich A., Bar-Yosef O., Boaretto E., Caracuta V., Greenbaum N., Porat N. and Roskin J. 2016. A Unique Assemblage of Engraved Plaquettes from Ein Qashish South, Jezreel Valley, Israel: Figurative and Non-Figurative Symbols of Late Pleistocene Hunters-Gatherers in the Levant. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0160687. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0160687
• Yaroshevich A., Zaidner Y. and Weinstein-Evron M. 2016. Projectile damage and point morphometry at the Early Middle Paleolithic Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel (Israel): preliminary results and interpretations. In R. Iovita and K. Sano eds. Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series). Dordrecht: Springer. Pp 119–134.
• Yaroshevich A., Shemer M., Porat N. and Roskin J., 2017. Flint Workshop Affiliation: Chronology, Technology and Site-Formation Processes at Giv'at Rabbi East, Lower Galilee, Israel. Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.03.001
• Yaroshevich A., Nadel D. and Tsatskin A. 2013. Composite Projectiles And Hafting Technologies at Ohalo II (23 ka, Israel): Analyses of Impact Fractures, Morphometric Characteristics and Adhesive Remains on Microlithic Tools. Journal of Archaeological Science 40:4009–4023.
• Yaroshevich A., Kaufman D., Nuzhnyy D., Bar-Yosef O. and Weinstein-Evron M. 2010. Design and Performance of Microlith Implemented Projectiles During the Middle and Late Epipalaeolithic of the Levant: Experimental and Archaeological Evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science 37:368–388.