Dr. Nira Alperson

Publications:

Books

Alperson-Afil, N. and Goren-Inbar, N. 2010. The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov Volume II: Ancient Flames and Controlled Use of Fire. Springer, Dordrecht. 300 p. 164 illus.

Articles

Alperson-Afil, N. 2008. Continual fire-making by Hominins at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel. Quaternary Science Reviews 27:1733-1739.

Goren-Inbar, N., G. Sharon, N. Alperson-Afil, and I. Laschiver. 2008. The Acheulian Massive Scrapers of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov - an associated product of the large cutting tools cha?ne op?ratoire. Journal of Human Evolution 55:702-712.

Alperson-Afil, N., Sharon, G., Kislev, M., Melamed, Y., Zohar, I., Ashkenazi, S., Rabinovich, R., Biton, R., Werker, E., Hartman, G., Feibel, C., and Goren-Inbar, N. 2009. Spatial Organization of Hominin Activities at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel. Science 326:1677-1680. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/326/5960/1677.pdf

Sharon, G., Feibel, C., Alperson-Afil, N., Harlavan, Y., Feraud, G., Ashkenazi, S., and Rabinovich, R. 2010. New Evidence for the Northern Dead Sea Rift Acheulian. PaleoAnthropology 2010:79-99. http://www.paleoanthro.org/journal/content/PA20100079.pdf

Sharon, G., Alperson-Afil, N., and Goren-Inbar, N. 2010. Cultural conservatism and variability in the Acheulian sequence of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov. Journal of Human Evolution http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.11.012

Richter, D., Alperson-Afil, N., and Goren-Inbar, N. in press. Employing TL methods as verification tool for the macroscopic determination of heat alteration of lithic artefacts from Palaeolithic contexts. Archaeometry