Publications

 

Computational Archaeology Laboratory – list of publication

 

Dubinsky, L. and L. Grosman. 2024. Techné of rock engravings—the Timna case study. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 31: 1917–1953. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-024-09658-5

 

Dubinsky, L., M. David and L. Grosman. 2023. Recognizing technique variation in rock engravings: ArchCUT3-D for micromorphological analysis. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Nature 10:316. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01742-7

 

Muller, A., D. Barsky, R. Sala-Ramos, G. Sharon, S. Titton, J.M. Vergès and L. Grosman. 2023. The limestone spheroids of ‘Ubeidiya: intentional imposition of symmetric geometry by early hominins? Royal Society Open Science 10:230671. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230671

 

Goren-Inbar, N., A. Belfer-Cohen, L. Grosman, G. Herzlinger and A. Agam. 2022. Kaizer Hill (Modi‘in), a Pre-Pottery Neolithic quarry site – The terraced slopes. PLoS ONE 17(3): e0265727. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265727

 

Grosman, L., A. Muller, I. Dag, H. Goldgeier, O. Harush, G. Herzlinger, K. Nebenhaus, F. Valletta, T. Yashuv and N. Dick. 2022. Artifact3-D: New software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts. PLoS ONE 17(6):e0268401. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268401

 

Muller, A., R. Barkai, M. Shemer and L. Grosman. 2022. 3D morphology of handaxes from Late Acheulean Jaljulia: a flexible reduction strategy in the Lower Paleolithic Levant. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14(206):1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01671-7

 

Yashuv, T. and L. Grosman. 2022. Drilling tools at the end of the Natufian – Suggesting a technological innovation. In: Y. Nishiaki, O. Maeda and M. Arimura (eds.) Tracks of the Near Eastern Neolithic: Lithic perspectives on its origins, development and dispersals: 17-32.   Sidestone Press: Leiden.

 

Harush, O. and L. Grosman. 2021. Toward the identification of social signatures in ceramic production – an archaeological case study. PLoS ONE 16(7):e0254766. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254766

 

Valletta, F. and L. Grosman. 2021. Local technological traditions in the Early and Middle Epipaleolithic of Ein Gev area. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 4, 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-021-00079-4

 

Valletta, F., I. Dag and L. Grosman. 2021. Identifying local learning communities during the Terminal Palaeolithic in the Southern Levant: Multi-scale 3-D analysis of flint cores. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology 4(1):145–168. https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.74

 

Harush, O., T. Yashuv, L. Dubinsky, F. Valleta and L. Grosman. 2020. Quantitative methods for the study of ancient technologies. In: M. Birkenfeld and Y. Garfinkel (eds.) Digital Archaeology: New research and Advanced Technologies: 41-57. The Hebrew University and Israel Antiquity Authority: Jerusalem. (In Hebrew).

 

Harush, O., V. Roux, A. Karasik and L. Grosman. 2020. Social signatures in standardized ceramic production – A 3-D approach to ethnographic data. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 60, 101208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101208.

 

Karasik, A., O. Harush and U. Smilansky. 2020. The morphology of Iron Age storage jars and its relation to the handbreadth measure (Biblical Tefach). Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR) 384: 183-190. https://doi.org/10.1086/710529

 

Valletta, F., U. Smilansky, A. N. Goring-Morris and L. Grosman. 2020. On measuring the mean cutting-edge angle of lithic tools based on 3-D models – A case study from the Southern Levantine Epipalaeolithic. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 12, 49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00954-w

 

Harush, O., N. Glauber, A. Zoran and L. Grosman. 2019. On quantifying and visualizing the potter’s personal style. Journal of Archaeological Science 108, 104973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.104973

 

Herzlinger, G. and L. Grosman. 2018. AGMT3-D: A software for 3-D landmarks-based geometric morphometric shape analysis of archaeological artifacts. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0207890.

 

Herzlinger, G., N. Goren-Inbar and L. Grosman. 2017. A new method for 3D geometric morphometric shape analysis: the case study of handaxe knapping skill. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 14: 163-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.05.013

 

Sharon, G., A. Barash, D. Eisenberg-Degen, L. Grosman, M. Oron and U. Berger. 2017. Monumental megalithic burial and rock art tell a new story about the Levant Intermediate Bronze “Dark Ages”. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0172969. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172969

 

Grosman, L. 2016. Reaching the point of no return: computation revolution in archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 45(1): 129-145. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-095946

 

Grosman, L., A. Karasik, O. Harush and U. Smilansky. 2014. Archaeology in three dimensions. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage studies (JEMAHS) 2: 48-64. https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.2.1.0048

 

Grosman, L., A. Ovadia and A. Bogdanovsky. 2014. Neolithic masks in a digital world. In: D. Hershman (ed.) Face to Face: 54-57. Israel Museum Catalogue: Jerusalem.

 

Karasik, A., Z. Greenhut, J. Uziel, N. Szanton, L. Grosman, I. Zandbank and U. Smilansky. 2014. Documentation and analyses on the national scale at the Israel Antiquities Authority: the story of one (broken) sherd. Near Eastern Archaeology 77(3): 214-218. https://doi.org/10.5615/neareastarch.77.3.0209

 

Zaidner, Y. and L. Grosman. 2014. Middle Palaeolithic scrapers were resharpened or recycled? A view from Nesher Ramla, Israel. Quaternary International 361: 178-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.11.037.

 

Gandon, E., R. J. Bootsma, J. A. Endler and L. Grosman. 2013. How can ten fingers shape a pot? Evidence for equivalent function in culturally distinct motor skills.  PLoS ONE 8(11): e81614. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081614  

 

Mendel, A. and L. Grosman. 2013. Unpublished Hebrew and other Northwest Semitic inscriptions from Samaria studied with a 3-dimensional imaging Technology. KUSATU (Kleine Untersuchungen zur Sprache des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt) 15: 171-188. 

 

Grosman, L., A. Karasik and U. Smilansky. 2012. Three dimensional archaeology: computer-based systems in archaeological research. Qadmoniot 144: 106-114 (In Hebrew). 

 

Goren-Inbar, N., L. Grosman and G. Sharon. 2011. The technology and significance of the Acheulian giant cores of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 1901-1917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.03.037

 

Grosman, L., G. Sharon, T. Goldman-Neuman and U. Smilansky. 2011. 3D modeling – new method for quantifying post-depositional damages. In: M. Winckler and G. Bock (eds.) SCCH 2009 Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage: 1-22. Springer: Berlin. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28021-4_2

 

Grosman, L., G. Sharon, T. Goldman-Neuman, O. Smikt and U. Smilansky. 2011. Studying post depositional damage on Acheulian bifaces using 3-D scanning. Journal of Human Evolution 60(4): 398-406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.02.004

 

Grosman, L., Y. Goldsmith and U. Smilansky. 2011. Morphological analysis of Nahal Zihor handaxes: a chronological perspective. PaleoAnthropology 2011: 203−215.

 

Malinsky-Buller, A., L. Grosman and O. Marder. 2011. A case of techno-typological lithic variability and continuity in the Late Lower Palaeolithic. Before Farming 2011/1, 3. https://doi.org/10.3828/bfarm.2011.1.3

 

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008.06.011

 

Karasik, A. and U. Smilansky. 2008. 3D scanning technology as a standard archaeological tool for pottery analysis: practice and theory. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(5): 1148-1168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2007.08.008

 

Saragusti, I., A. Karasik, I. Sharon and U. Smilansky. 2005. Quantitative analysis of shape attributes based on contours and section profiles in artifact analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 32(6): 841-853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2005.01.002

 

Gilboa, A., A. Karasik, I. Sharon and U. Smilansky. 2004. Towards computerized typology and classification of ceramics. Journal of Archaeological Science 31(6): 681-694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2003.10.013