Dr. Leore Grosman

Publications:

Grosman, L. 1996. The Beginning of Partnership - Animal domestication. Masa Acher 60: 34-42 (in Hebrew).

Grosman, L. 1997. The Lithic Assemblages of Natufian sites at the Jordan Valley: Salibiya I and Fazael IV. Unpublished M.A. Thesis. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (in Hebrew).

Belfer-Cohen, A. and L. Grosman. 1997. The Lithic Assemblage of Salibiya I. Mitekufat Haeven 27: 19-42.

Grosman, L., A. Belfer-Cohen and O. Bar-Yosef. 1999. The Final Natufian site - Fazael IV. Mitekufat Haeven 29: 17-40.

Grosman, L., and A. Belfer-Cohen. 2002. "Zooming onto the 'Younger Dryas'". In The Dawn of Farming. Eds. R. Cappers and S. Bottema, pp. 49-54. Berlin: ex oriente.

Grosman, L. 2003. Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability: The Late Natufian of the Hilly Mediterranean Zone. Current Anthropology 4/4: 571-580.

Grosman, L. 2005. Computer Simulation of variables in models of the Origins of Agriculture in the Levant. Unpublished PhD. Thesis. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Grosman, L., A. Belfer-Cohen and H. Ashkenazi. 2006. Nahal Oren Natufian Lithic Assemblage. Pal?orient 31/2: 5-25.

Grosman, L. 2005. The secret of the graves. Masa Acher 167: 32 (in Hebrew).

Belfer-Cohen, A. and L. Grosman. 2006. "Tools or Cores? Carinated Artifacts in Levantine Late Upper Paleolithic Assemblages and Why Does It Matter". In: Tools or Cores? The Identification and Study of Alternative Core Technology in Lithic Assemblages. Eds. S. P. McPherron and J. Lindly, pp. 143-163. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum Press.

Grosman, L. and N. Goren-Inbar. 2007. "Taming" Rocks and Changing Landscapes: A New Interpretation of the Neolithic Cupmarks. Current Anthropology 48/5:732-740.

Grosman, L. 2007. The Shaman from Hilazon Cave. National Geographic 105:32-34 (in Hebrew).

Grosman, L. and N. D. Munro. 2007. The Sacred and the Mundane: Domestic Activities at a late Natufian Burial Site in the Levant. Before Farming 4(4) 1-14.

Grosman, L. 2008. Hilazon Tachtit Cave. In The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. (Volume 5, 5th edition). Ed. E. Stern, pp.1780-1782.

Grosman, L., O Smikt, and U. Smilansky. 2008. On the application of 3-D scanning technology for the documentation and typology of lithic artifacts. Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 3101-3110.

Grosman, L., N. Munro and A. Belfer-Cohen. 2008 (forthcoming). A 12,000 year old Shaman Burial from the Southern Levant (Israel). PNAS 105 (44).

Grosman, L. In Press. The Natufian. In The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization Revealed. Ed. D. Kidd. Global Book Publishing PTY Ltd, Lane Cove, Australia.

Grosman, L., N. Munro and A. Belfer-Cohen. 2008. A 12,000 year old Shaman Burial from the Southern Levant (Israel). Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 105/46: 17665-17669.

Dubreuil, L. and L. Grosman. 2009. Evidence of hide-working with ochre at Hilazon Tachtit (Israel): implications for Natufian site function. Antiquity 83: 935-954.

Shaham D, L, Grosman and N. Goren-Inbar. 2010. The red-stained flint crescent from Gesher: new insights into PPNA hafting technology. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 2010-2016.

Munro D, N. and L. Grosman. 2010. Early evidence (ca. 12,000 B.P.) for feasting at a burial cave in Israel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 107/35: 15362-15366

Grosman, L, G. Sharon, O. Smikt, T. Goldman-Neuman and U. Smilansky. In Press (doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.02.004) Quantifying Breakage Damage on Experimental Bifaces using 3D scanning. Journal of Human Evolution.

Sharon, G, L. Grosman, H. Fulck, Y. Melamed, Y. Rak, R. Rabinovich, M. Oron. In Press. The first Excavation Seasons at NMO: a Mousterian Site at the Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet. Eurasian Prehistory.

Grosman, L, G. Sharon, O. Smikt, T. Goldman-Neuman and U. Smilansky. In Press. 3D modeling - new method for quantifying post-depositional damages. In SCCH 2009 (Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage eds. M Winckler and G. Bock. Springer: New-York.