Prof. Joseph Yellin

Recent Publications

Selected Publications from the Archaeometry Laboratory

Perlman, I., and Yellin, J., 1978, Provenience of obsidians from Beisamoun, in Abu Gosh et Beisamoun (ed. M. Lechavallier), 199, Memories et Travaux du Centre de Recherches Pr?historique Fran?ais de Jerusalem 2, Paris.

Perlman, I., and Yellin, J., 1980, Provenience of obsidian from Neolithic sites in Israel, Israel Exploration Journal, 30, 83-8.

Bonen, D., Perlman, I., and Yellin, J., 1980, The evolution of trace element concentrations in basic rocks from Israel and their petrogenesis, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 72, 397-414.

Bentor, Y. K., Kastner, M., Perlman, I., and Yellin, J., 1981, Combustion metamorphism of bituminous sediments and the formation of melts of granitic and sedimentary composition, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 45, 2229-55.

Yellin, J., and Perlman, I., 1984, Laboratory analysis of selected pottery from Tell Artal, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 253, 58-60.

Mommsen, H., Perlman, I., and Yellin, J., 1984, On the provenience of the Lmlk jars, Israel Exploration Journal, 34, 89-113.

Gunneweg, J., Perlman, I., and Yellin, J., 1984, The provenience, typology and chronology of Eastern Terra Sigillata, Qedem 17, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Yellin, J., 1985, Concerning the provenience of two Middle Bronze red on black sherds from Tel Mevorakh: the evidence from neutron activation analysis, Israel Exploration Journal, 35, 46-52.

Yellin, J., and Gunneweg, J., 1985, Provenience of Iron Age pottery from Tel Qasile, in Excavations at Tel Qasile, part two (ed. A. Mazar), 111-17, Qedem 20, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Goldberg, P., Gould, B., Killebrew, A., and Yellin, J., 1986, Comparison of neutron activation and thin-section analyses on Late Bronze Age ceramics from Deir el-Balah, in Proceedings of the 24^th International Archaeometry Symposium (eds. J. S. Olin and M. J. Blackman), 341-51, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Perlman, I., Gunneweg, J., and Yellin, J., 1986, Pseudo-Nabatean ware and pottery from Jerusalem, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 262, 77-82.

Yellin, J., and Garfinkel, Y., 1986, The source of archaeological obsidian from a pre-pottery Neolithic B site at Yiftah'el, Israel, Paleorient, 13, 99-104.

Sharon, I., Yellin, J., and Perlman, I., 1987, Marked cooking pots from Tel Qiri, in A village in the Jezreel Valley (eds. A. Ben-Tor and Y. Portugali), 224-35, Qedem 24, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Yellin, J., and Gunneweg, J., 1989, Instrumental neutron activation analysis and the origin of Iron Age I collared-rim jars and pithoi from Tel Dan, American Schools of Oriental Research, 49, 133-41.

Yellin, J., and Gunneweg, J., 1989, The flower pots from Herod's winter garden at Jericho, Israel Exploration Journal, 39, 85-90 and pl. 11:B & C.

1990

Yellin, J., 1990, The origin of some cypro-geometric pottery from Tel Dor, Israel Exploration Journal, 39, 219-27.

Yellin, J., Dothan, T., and Gould, B., 1990, The origin of late Bronze white burnished slip wares from Deir el-Balah, Israel Exploration Journal, 40, 257-61.

Gunneweg, J., and Yellin, J., 1990, The origin of Hellenistic and Roman stamped handles from Jerusalem, in City of David Excavations, Final Report II (ed. D. T. Ariel), 89-93, Qedem 30, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Gunneweg, J., and Yellin, J., 1991, The origin of the Tel Batash-Timna ceramics of the 8th century B.C. in light of instrumental neutron activation analysis, in Neutron activation and plasma emission spectrometric analysis in archaeology (eds. M. J. Hughes, M. R. Cowell and D. R. Hook), 91-103, Occasional Paper 82, British Museum, London.

Yellin, J., and Frachtenberg, F., 1992, A re-examination of Nahal Lavan obsidian, in Ancient stones: quarrying, trade and provenance (eds. M. Waelkens, N. Herz and L. Moens), 139-48, Acta Archaeologica Lovaniensis, Monograph 4.

Yellin, J., and Gopher, A., 1992, The origin of the obsidians from Mujahiya: a PPNB site in the Golan Heights, Tel Aviv, 19, 94-9.

Yellin, J., and Maeir, A. M., 1992, Origin of the pictorial krater from the 'Mycenaean' tomb at Tel Dan, Archaeometry, 34, 31-6.

Frachtenberg, F., and Yellin, J., 1992, Preliminary study of flint sources in Israel by neutron activation analysis, in Ancient stones: quarrying, trade and provenance (eds. M. Waelkens, N. Herz and L. Moens), 149-54, Acta Archaeologica Lovaniensis, Monograph 4.

Maeir, A. M., Yellin, J., and Goren, Y., 1992, A re-evaluation of the red and black bowl from Parker's excavations in Jerusalem: a multidisciplinary approach, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 11, 39-53.

Gunneweg, J., and Yellin, J., 1997, The origin of some plain ware pottery from Tel Anafa, in Tel Anafa II, i, The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery (eds. A. Berlin, K. W. Slane and S. C. Herbert), 236-44, Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplement 10, Part II.

Porat, N., Yellin, J., Heller-Kallai, L., and Halitz, L., 1991, Correlation between petrography, NAA, and ICP analyses: application to Early Bronze Egyptian pottery from Canaan, Geoarchaeology, 6, 133-49.

Zorn, J., Yellin, J., and Hayes, J., 1994, The M (W) SH stamp impressions and the Neo-Babylonian period, Israel Exploration Journal, 44, 161-83.

Yellin, J., 1994, Origin of the lamps from Masada, in Masada IV, the Yigael Yadin Excavations 1963-1965, final reports (eds. D. Barag and M. Hershkovitz), 107-24, Israel Exploration Society, Ben-Zvi Press, Jerusalem.

Yellin, J., 1995, Trace element characteristics of central Anatolian obsidian flows and its relevance to pre-history, Israel Journal of Chemistry, 35, 175-90.

Yellin, J., Levy, T. E., and York, R., 1996, New evidence on prehistoric trade routes: the obsidian evidence from Gilat, Journal of Field Archaeology, 23, 361-8.

Yellin, J., 1996, Chemical characterization of the City of David figurines and inferences about their origin, in Excavations at the City of David 1978-1985 (eds. D. T. Ariel and A. de Groot), 90-9, Qedem 35, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Waksman, S. Y., Stern, E. J., Segal, I., and Yellin, J., 1997, Ceramics of the Crusader period found in Acre: an INAA and ICP study of the local productions and some imports from the Byzantine world, in Euro ceramics V (eds. P. Abelard, A. Autisser, A. Bouquillon, J. M. Haussone, A. Mocellin, B. Raveau and F. Thevenot), 1496-500, Trans Tech Publications, Zurich.

Yellin, J., 1997, Miscellaneous finds: the obsidian from Netiv Hagdud, in An early Neolithic Village in the Jordan Valley part I: the archaeology of Netiv Hagdud (eds. O. Bar-Yosef and A. Gopher), 193-6, American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin 43, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

Yellin, J., 1999, What can we learn from pottery of a sunken ship through chemical analysis?, in The practical impact of science on Near Eastern and Aegean archaeology (eds. S. Pike and S. Gitin), 147-53, Wiener Laboratory Monograph 3, Archetype Publications, London.

2000

Yellin, J., Broshi, M., and Eshel, H., 2001, Pottery from Qumran and Ein Ghuweir: the first chemical exploration of provenience, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 321, 65-78.

Yellin, J., and Cahill, J. M., 2003, Provenience of the Roseette-Stamped Seal Impressions from the Jewish Quarter, Joseph Yellin and Jane M. Cahill, Chapter 4(b), pp. 99-106 in: Jewish Quarter Excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem, Volume II: The Finds from Areas A, W and X-2, by Hillel Geva, Israel Exploration Society and Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem (2003).

Yellin, J., and Artzy, M., 2004, Ceramic provenance: NAA, The Ma'agan Mikhael ship: the recovery of a 2400-yearold merchantman: final report, vol. II (eds. Y. Kahanov and E. Linder), 221-38, The Israel Exploration Society and the University of Haifa, Jerusalem.

Yellin, J., and Cahill, J. M., 2004, Rosette stamped handles: instrumental neutron activation analysis, Israel Exploration Journal, 54, 191-213.

Koehl, R. and Yellin, J., 2007, What Aegean "Simple Style" Pottery Reveals about Interconnections in the 13th-Century Eastern Mediterranean, in: Krinoi kai Limenes, Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw, Prehistory Monographs 22, Philip P. Betancourt, Michael C. Nelson, and Hector Williams (editors), Chapter 24, pp199-207, INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Yellin, J. and Maeir, A. M., 2007, Four decades of Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis and its contribution to the archaeology of the ancient land of Israel, Israel Journal of Earth Science 56, pp 123-132 (2007).

Waksman, Y. S., Stern, E. J., Segal, I., Porat, N. and Yellin, J., 2008, Elemental and Petrographic Analyses of Local and Imported Ceramics from Crusader Acre, Atiqot 59, pp 1-34 (2008).

Maeir, A. M. and Yellin, J., 2008, Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Selected Pottery from Tel Beth Shean and the Central Jordan Valley, Chapter 6B, Pp. 554-71 in: Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989-1996, Volume II: The Middle and Late Bronze Age Strata in Area R, eds. A. Mazar and R.A. Mullins. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

Liebowitz, H. and Yellin, J., 2009, Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Two Vessels from Tel Yin'am, Harold Liebowitz and Joseph Yellin, Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 25, 103-118.

Other Selected Publications of J. Yellin

Marrus, R. and Yellin, J. 1966, Optical Pumping Trasients in Rubidium-87 and Application to Disorientation Cross-Sections, Phys. Rev. 141, 130.

Marrus, R., McColm, D. and Yellin, J., 1966, Atomic Beam Study of the Stark Effect in Cesium and Rubidium D Lines, Phys. Rev. 147, 55.

Marrus, R., Wang, E., and Yellin, J., 1967, Measurement of the hyperfine structure of optically excited states of radioactive isotopes, Physical Review Letters, 19, 1- 3.

Duong, T.H., Marrus, R. and Yellin, J., 1968, Atomic Beam Study of the Rubidium-85,87 Relative Isotope Shift, Phys. Letters 27B, 565.

Marrus, R., Wang, E. and Yellin, J., 1969, Atomic Beam Measurement of the Isotope Shift in the D Lines of Cs-127, Cs-129, Cs-133, Cs-134 and Cs-137, Phys. Rev. 177, 122.

Marrus, R. and Yellin, J., 1969, Electric Polarizabilities of the 42P Level of Potassium, Phys. Rev. 177, 127 (1969).

Yellin, J., 1970, Hyperfine Structure of Ga-69 in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields, Physics Letters 32A, 337 (1970).

Wang, E. C. and Yellin, J., 1971, Atomic Beam Measurement of Potassium 39-41-42 Isotope Shift, Phys. Rev. A4, 838 (1971).

Fowler, T. and Yellin, J., 1970, Electric Field Effect in the Resonance Lines of Indium and Thallium, Phys. Rev. A1, 1006 (1970).

Hadeishi, T., Michel, M. C., Yellin, J., and Geneux, E., 1973, Improved resolution method for beam foil spectroscopy, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, 110, 445-51.

Yellin, J., Hadeishi, T., and Michel, M. C., 1973, Alignment of some triplet and singlet D states of helium, Physical Review Letters, 30, 1286-8.

Yellin, J., Hadeishi, T. and Michel, M. C., 1973, Lifetime and Alignment of the 5^D2 State of 4He by Beam-Foil Level Crossing, Phys. Rev. Letters 30, 417 (1973).

Yellin, J., Perlman, I., Asaro, F., Michel, H. V., and Mosier, D. F., 1978, Comparison of neutron activation analysis from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and The Hebrew University, Archaeometry, 20, 95-100.

Mommsen, H., Perlman, I., and Yellin, J., 1980, Sc-47 half-life, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, 177, 545-6.

Yellin, J., Perlman, I., and Tandy, S., 1980, Measurement of calcium and titanium from Sc-47 by INAA, Analytica Chimica Acta, 121, 327-30.

Yellin, J., 1980, A systematic error from count rates in neutron activation analysis of archaeological materials, Analytica Chimica Acta, 113, 159-64.

Yellin, J., 1980, An approach to processing and evaluation of gamma spectra associated with neutron activation analysis, Journal of Radioanalytical Chemistry, 57, 87-96.

Yellin, J., and Metzger, A., 1982, Spectral line shape fitting in instrumental neutron activation analysis of pottery, Analytica Chimica Acta, 139, 187-95.

Yellin, J., Perlman, I., Gentner, W., and Muller, O., 1983, High precision trace element analysis in tektites and crater glasses-Th, U and K, Journal of Radioanalytical Chemistry, 76, 35-47.

Yellin, J., 1984, Gamma-ray spectral map of standard pottery, Part 1, Radiochimica Acta, 35, 107-19.

Metzger, A.E., Parker, R.H. and Yellin, J., 1986, High Energy Irradiations Simulating Cosmic-ray-induced Planetary Gamma Ray Production:I. Fe Target, J. Geophysical Research 91, 495-504.

Yellin, J., 1992, Instrumental neutron activation analysis: impact on Israeli archaeology, Bulletin of the Israel Chemical Society, 11, 26-32.

Yellin, J., 1993, Chemical analysis by gamma-ray spectrometry: application to archaeology, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 14, 35-9.

Yellin, J. 1997, Neutron activation analysis, in The Oxford encyclopedia of archaeology of the Near East (ed. E. M. Meyer), 130, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Yellin, J., 2007, Instrumental Neutron Activation Based Provenance Studies at The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem, With a Case Study on Mycenaean Pottery from Cyprus, Archaeometry 49, 2, pp. 271-288.