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OMRY BARZILAI

Position: Head of the Archaeological Research Department

Department: Archaeological Research Department

e-mail: omry@israntique.org.il

fax: 972-5892238

Higher education:
Ph.D., 2009, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Research interests:

Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition, Upper Paleolithic, lithic technology, Neolithic, geoarchaeology, prehistory

Ongoing research projects:

Dan David expedition to Manot Cave: In quest for the origins of modern humans in the Levant.
Dating the transition between the Middle and the Upper Palaeolithic periods in the Negev.
Geoarchaeology and Paleolithic sites in the greater Jerusalem area.
Open-air Mousterian site of Ein Qashsish.
Geoarchaeological survey of the Wadi Zin basin in the Negev.

Selected publications:

Barzilai, O. and N. Gubenko. 2017. Rethinking Emireh Cave: The lithic Technology Perspectives. Quaternary International. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.06.049

Been E., E. Hovers, R. Ekshtain, A. Malinski-Buller, N. Agha, A. Barash, D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayerg, S. Benazzi, J-J. Hublin, L. Levin, N. Greenbaum, N. Mitki, G. Oxilial, N. Porat, J. Roskin, M.Soudacko, R. Yeshurun, R. Shahack-Gross, N. Nir, Y. Rak, O. Barzilai. 2017. The First Neanderthal Remains from an Open-Air Middle Paleolithic Site in the Levant. Scientific Reports 7:2958. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-03025-z

Barzilai O., Hershkovitz I. and Marder O. 2016. The Early Upper Paleolithic Period at Manot Cave, Western Galilee, Israel. Human Evolution 31 (1–2):85–100.

Hershkovitz, I., O. Marder, A. Ayalon, M. Bar-Matthews, G. Yasur, E. Boaretto, V. Caracuta, B. Alex, A. Frumkin, M. Goder-Goldberger, P. Gunz, R.L. Holloway, B. Latimer, R. Lavi, A. Matthews, V. Slon, D. Bar-Yosef Mayer, F. Berna, G. Bar-Oz, R. Yeshurun, H. May, M.G. Hans, G.W. Weber and O. Barzilai. 2015. Levantine Cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) Foreshadows the First European Modern Humans. Nature 520 (7546):216–219.

Barzilai O. 2010. Social Complexity in the Southern Levantine PPNB as Reflected through Lithic Studies: the Bidirectional Blade Industries (BAR International Series 2180). Oxford.

links:

https://antiquities.academia.edu/omrybarzilai