Ruth Shahack-Gross, Ph.D. - Publications

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2002 Washington University, Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 
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Archaeology Anthropology

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2020 Lazar M, Cline EH, Nickelsberg R, Shahack-Gross R, Yasur-Landau A. Earthquake damage as a catalyst to abandonment of a Middle Bronze Age settlement: Tel Kabri, Israel. Plos One. 15: e0239079. PMID 32915909 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0239079  0.393
2020 Ramírez IO, Galili E, Be'eri R, Golan D, Krakovsky M, Dayan A, Shalem D, Shahack-Gross R. Heated mud bricks in submerged and coastal Southern Levant Pre-Pottery Neolithic C and Late Pottery Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic settlements: Diachronic changes in technology and their social implications Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 30: 102220. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jasrep.2020.102220  0.448
2020 Friesem DE, Anton M, Waiman-Barak P, Shahack-Gross R, Nadel D. Variability and complexity in calcite-based plaster production: A case study from a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B infant burial at Tel Roʻim West and its implications to mortuary practices in the Southern Levant Journal of Archaeological Science. 113: 105048. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2019.105048  0.379
2019 Dubreuil L, Ovadia A, Shahack-Gross R, Grosman L. Evidence of ritual breakage of a ground stone tool at the Late Natufian site of Hilazon Tachtit cave (12,000 years ago). Plos One. 14: e0223370. PMID 31618233 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0223370  0.432
2019 Ekshtain R, Malinsky-Buller A, Greenbaum N, Mitki N, Stahlschmidt MC, Shahack-Gross R, Nir N, Porat N, Bar-Yosef Mayer DE, Yeshurun R, Been E, Rak Y, Agha N, Brailovsky L, Krakovsky M, et al. Persistent Neanderthal occupation of the open-air site of 'Ein Qashish, Israel. Plos One. 14: e0215668. PMID 31242180 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0215668  0.453
2019 Bar-Oz G, Weissbrod L, Erickson-Gini T, Tepper Y, Malkinson D, Benzaquen M, Langgut D, Dunseth ZC, Butler DH, Shahack-Gross R, Roskin J, Fuks D, Weiss E, Marom N, Ktalav I, et al. Ancient trash mounds unravel urban collapse a century before the end of Byzantine hegemony in the southern Levant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 30910983 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1900233116  0.684
2019 Butler DH, Koivisto S, Brumfeld V, Shahack-Gross R. Early Evidence for Northern Salmonid Fisheries Discovered using Novel Mineral Proxies. Scientific Reports. 9: 147. PMID 30651595 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-018-36133-5  0.388
2019 Dunseth ZC, Fuks D, Langgut D, Weiss E, Melamed Y, Butler DH, Yan X, Boaretto E, Tepper Y, Bar-Oz G, Shahack-Gross R. Archaeobotanical proxies and archaeological interpretation: A comparative study of phytoliths, pollen and seeds in dung pellets and refuse deposits at Early Islamic Shivta, Negev, Israel Quaternary Science Reviews. 211: 166-185. DOI: 10.1016/J.Quascirev.2019.03.010  0.396
2019 Kreimerman I, Shahack-Gross R. Understanding conflagration of one-story mud-brick structures: an experimental approach Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 11: 2911-2928. DOI: 10.1007/S12520-018-0714-7  0.313
2018 Marshall F, Reid REB, Goldstein S, Storozum M, Wreschnig A, Hu L, Kiura P, Shahack-Gross R, Ambrose SH. Ancient herders enriched and restructured African grasslands. Nature. PMID 30158702 DOI: 10.1038/S41586-018-0456-9  0.697
2018 Hershkovitz I, Weber GW, Quam R, Duval M, Grün R, Kinsley L, Ayalon A, Bar-Matthews M, Valladas H, Mercier N, Arsuaga JL, Martinón-Torres M, Bermúdez de Castro JM, Fornai C, Martín-Francés L, ... ... Shahack-Gross R, et al. The earliest modern humans outside Africa. Science (New York, N.Y.). 359: 456-459. PMID 29371468 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aap8369  0.67
2018 Dunseth ZC, Finkelstein I, Shahack-Gross R. Intermediate Bronze Age subsistence practices in the Negev Highlands, Israel: Macro- and microarchaeological results from the sites of Ein Ziq and Nahal Boqer 66 Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 19: 712-726. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jasrep.2018.03.025  0.442
2018 Dunseth ZC, Shahack-Gross R. Calcitic dung spherulites and the potential for rapid identification of degraded animal dung at archaeological sites using FTIR spectroscopy Journal of Archaeological Science. 97: 118-124. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2018.07.005  0.475
2017 Butler DH, Shahack-Gross R. Formation of Biphasic Hydroxylapatite-Beta Magnesium Tricalcium Phosphate in Heat Treated Salmonid Vertebrae. Scientific Reports. 7: 3610. PMID 28620190 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-017-03737-2  0.328
2017 Been E, Hovers E, Ekshtain R, Malinski-Buller A, Agha N, Barash A, Mayer DEB, Benazzi S, Hublin JJ, Levin L, Greenbaum N, Mitki N, Oxilia G, Porat N, Roskin J, ... ... Shahack-Gross R, et al. The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant. Scientific Reports. 7: 2958. PMID 28592838 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-017-03025-Z  0.413
2017 Toffolo MB, Regev L, Mintz E, Poduska KM, Shahack-Gross R, Berthold C, Miller CE, Boaretto E. Accurate Radiocarbon Dating of Archaeological Ash Using Pyrogenic Aragonite Radiocarbon. 59: 231-249. DOI: 10.1017/Rdc.2017.7  0.345
2017 Goshen N, Yasur-Landau A, Cline EH, Shahack-Gross R. Palatial architecture under the microscope: Production, maintenance, and spatiotemporal changes gleaned from plastered surfaces at a Canaanite palace complex, Tel Kabri, Israel Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 11: 189-199. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jasrep.2016.11.039  0.392
2017 Shahack-Gross R. Archaeological formation theory and geoarchaeology: State-of-the-art in 2016 Journal of Archaeological Science. 79: 36-43. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2017.01.004  0.428
2017 Dunseth ZC, Junge A, Lomax J, Boaretto E, Finkelstein I, Fuchs M, Shahack-Gross R. Dating archaeological sites in an arid environment: A multi-method case study in the Negev Highlands, Israel Journal of Arid Environments. 144: 156-169. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jaridenv.2017.05.006  0.469
2017 Shtienberg G, Dix JK, Shahack-Gross R, Yasur-Landau A, Roskin J, Bookman R, Waldmann N, Shalev S, Sivan D. Anthropogenic overprints on natural coastal aeolian sediments: A study from the periphery of ancient Caesarea, Israel Anthropocene. 19: 22-34. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ancene.2017.08.004  0.466
2016 Forget MCL, Shahack-Gross R. How long does it take to burn down an ancient Near Eastern city? The study of experimentally heated mud-bricks Antiquity. 90: 1213-1225. DOI: 10.15184/Aqy.2016.136  0.354
2016 Zaidner Y, Frumkin A, Friesem D, Tsatskin A, Shahack-Gross R. Landscapes, depositional environments and human occupation at Middle Paleolithic open-air sites in the southern Levant, with new insights from Nesher Ramla, Israel Quaternary Science Reviews. 138: 76-86. DOI: 10.1016/J.Quascirev.2016.02.016  0.46
2016 Langgut D, Shahack-Gross R, Arie E, Namdar D, Amrani A, Bailly ML, Finkelstein I. Micro-archaeological indicators for identifying ancient cess deposits: An example from Late Bronze Age Megiddo, Israel Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 9: 375-385. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jasrep.2016.08.013  0.424
2016 Junge A, Lomax J, Shahack-Gross R, Dunseth ZC, Finkelstein I, Fuchs M. OSL Age Determination of Archaeological Stone Structures Using Trapped Aeolian Sediments: A Case Study from the Negev Highlands, Israel Geoarchaeology-An International Journal. 31: 550-563. DOI: 10.1002/Gea.21578  0.453
2015 Cabanes D, Shahack-Gross R. Understanding fossil phytolith preservation: the role of partial dissolution in paleoecology and archaeology. Plos One. 10: e0125532. PMID 25993338 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0125532  0.398
2015 Regev L, Cabanes D, Homsher R, Kleiman A, Weiner S, Finkelstein I, Shahack-Gross R. Geoarchaeological Investigation in a Domestic Iron Age Quarter, Tel Megiddo, Israel Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 374: 135-157. DOI: 10.5615/Bullamerschoorie.374.0135  0.361
2015 Shahack-Gross R, Finkelstein I. Settlement oscillations in the negev highlands revisited: The impact of microarchaeological methods Radiocarbon. 57: 253-264. DOI: 10.2458/Azu_Rc.57.18561  0.414
2015 Forget MCL, Regev L, Friesem DE, Shahack-Gross R. Physical and mineralogical properties of experimentally heated chaff-tempered mud bricks: Implications for reconstruction of environmental factors influencing the appearance of mud bricks in archaeological conflagration events Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 2: 80-93. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jasrep.2015.01.008  0.319
2014 Shahack-Gross R, Boaretto E, Cabanes D, Katz O, Finkelstein I. Subsistence economy in the Negev Highlands: The Iron Age and the Byzantine/ Early Islamic period Levant. 46: 98-117. DOI: 10.1179/0075891413Z.00000000034  0.413
2014 Friesem DE, Zaidner Y, Shahack-Gross R. Formation processes and combustion features at the lower layers of the middle palaeolithic open-air site of nesher ramla, Israel Quaternary International. 331: 128-138. DOI: 10.1016/J.Quaint.2013.03.023  0.39
2014 Gur-Arieh S, Shahack-Gross R, Maeir AM, Lehmann G, Hitchcock LA, Boaretto E. The taphonomy and preservation of wood and dung ashes found in archaeological cooking installations: Case studies from Iron Age Israel Journal of Archaeological Science. 46: 50-67. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2014.03.011  0.395
2014 Shahack-Gross R, Berna F, Karkanas P, Lemorini C, Gopher A, Barkai R. Evidence for the repeated use of a central hearth at Middle Pleistocene (300ky ago) Qesem Cave, Israel Journal of Archaeological Science. 44: 12-21. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2013.11.015  0.406
2014 Friesem DE, Karkanas P, Tsartsidou G, Shahack-Gross R. Sedimentary processes involved in mud brick degradation in temperate environments: A micromorphological approach in an ethnoarchaeological context in northern Greece Journal of Archaeological Science. 41: 556-567. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2013.09.017  0.398
2014 Friesem DE, Tsartsidou G, Karkanas P, Shahack-Gross R. Where are the roofs? A geo-ethnoarchaeological study of mud brick structures and their collapse processes, focusing on the identification of roofs Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 6: 73-92. DOI: 10.1007/S12520-013-0146-3  0.376
2013 Gur-Arieh S, Mintz E, Boaretto E, Shahack-Gross R. An ethnoarchaeological study of cooking installations in rural Uzbekistan: Development of a new method for identification of fuel sources Journal of Archaeological Science. 40: 4331-4347. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2013.06.001  0.376
2013 Shahack-Gross R, Ayalon A. Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions of wood ash: An experimental study with archaeological implications Journal of Archaeological Science. 40: 570-578. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2012.06.036  0.325
2012 Gur-Arieh S, Boaretto E, Maeir A, Shahack-Gross R. Formation processes in Philistine hearths from Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel): An experimental approach Journal of Field Archaeology. 37: 121-131. DOI: 10.1179/0093469012Z.00000000011  0.37
2012 Cabanes D, Gadot Y, Cabanes M, Finkelstein I, Weiner S, Shahack-Gross R. Human impact around settlement sites: A phytolith and mineralogical study for assessing site boundaries, phytolith preservation, and implications for spatial reconstructions using plant remains Journal of Archaeological Science. 39: 2697-2705. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2012.04.008  0.442
2011 Maul LC, Smith KT, Barkai R, Barash A, Karkanas P, Shahack-Gross R, Gopher A. Microfaunal remains at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel: Preliminary results on small vertebrates, environment and biostratigraphy. Journal of Human Evolution. 60: 464-80. PMID 20541237 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2010.03.015  0.354
2011 Marder O, Malinsky-Buller A, Shahack-Gross R, Ackermann O, Ayalon A, Bar-Matthews M, Goldsmith Y, Inbar M, Rabinovich R, Hovers E. Archaeological horizons and fluvial processes at the Lower Paleolithic open-air site of Revadim (Israel). Journal of Human Evolution. 60: 508-22. PMID 20304463 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2010.01.007  0.461
2011 Namdar D, Zukerman A, Maeir AM, Katz JC, Cabanes D, Trueman C, Shahack-Gross R, Weiner S. The 9th century BCE destruction layer at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: Integrating macro- and microarchaeology Journal of Archaeological Science. 38: 3471-3482. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2011.08.009  0.409
2011 Cabanes D, Weiner S, Shahack-Gross R. Stability of phytoliths in the archaeological record: A dissolution study of modern and fossil phytoliths Journal of Archaeological Science. 38: 2480-2490. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2011.05.020  0.328
2011 Friesem D, Boaretto E, Eliyahu-Behar A, Shahack-Gross R. Degradation of mud brick houses in an arid environment: A geoarchaeological model Journal of Archaeological Science. 38: 1135-1147. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2010.12.011  0.404
2011 Shahack-Gross R. Herbivorous livestock dung: Formation, taphonomy, methods for identification, and archaeological significance Journal of Archaeological Science. 38: 205-218. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2010.09.019  0.408
2010 Boaretto E, Finkelstein I, Shahack-Gross R. Radiocarbon results from the iron iia site of atar haroa in the negev highlands and their archaeological and historical implications Radiocarbon. 52: 1-12. DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200044982  0.359
2010 Gopher A, Ayalon A, Bar-Matthews M, Barkai R, Frumkin A, Karkanas P, Shahack-Gross R. The chronology of the late Lower Paleolithic in the Levant based on U-Th ages of speleothems from Qesem Cave, Israel Quaternary Geochronology. 5: 644-656. DOI: 10.1016/J.Quageo.2010.03.003  0.362
2010 Katz O, Cabanes D, Weiner S, Maeir AM, Boaretto E, Shahack-Gross R. Rapid phytolith extraction for analysis of phytolith concentrations and assemblages during an excavation: An application at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel Journal of Archaeological Science. 37: 1557-1563. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2010.01.016  0.316
2009 Frumkin A, Karkanas P, Bar-Matthews M, Barkai R, Gopher A, Shahack-Gross R, Vaks A. Gravitational deformations and fillings of aging caves: The example of Qesem karst system, Israel Geomorphology. 106: 154-164. DOI: 10.1016/J.Geomorph.2008.09.018  0.413
2008 Shahack-Gross R, Simons A, Ambrose SH. Identification of pastoral sites using stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes from bulk sediment samples: a case study in modern and archaeological pastoral settlements in Kenya Journal of Archaeological Science. 35: 983-990. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2007.07.002  0.448
2008 Shahack-Gross R, Finkelstein I. Subsistence practices in an arid environment: a geoarchaeological investigation in an Iron Age site, the Negev Highlands, Israel Journal of Archaeological Science. 35: 965-982. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2007.06.019  0.468
2008 Albert RM, Shahack-Gross R, Cabanes D, Gilboa A, Lev-Yadun S, Portillo M, Sharon I, Boaretto E, Weiner S. Phytolith-rich layers from the Late Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel Dor (Israel): mode of formation and archaeological significance Journal of Archaeological Science. 35: 57-75. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2007.02.015  0.328
2008 Shahack-Gross R, Ayalon A, Goldberg P, Goren Y, Ofek B, Rabinovich R, Hovers E. Formation processes of cemented features in Karstic Cave sites revealed using stable oxygen and carbon isotopicanalyses: A case study at middle paleolithic Amud Cave, Israel Geoarchaeology. 23: 43-62. DOI: 10.1002/Gea.20203  0.427
2007 Karkanas P, Shahack-Gross R, Ayalon A, Bar-Matthews M, Barkai R, Frumkin A, Gopher A, Stiner MC. Evidence for habitual use of fire at the end of the Lower Paleolithic: site-formation processes at Qesem Cave, Israel. Journal of Human Evolution. 53: 197-212. PMID 17572475 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2007.04.002  0.449
2007 Shahack-Gross R. Approaches to understanding formation of archaeological sites in Israel: Materials and processes Israel Journal of Earth Sciences. 56: 73-86. DOI: 10.1560/Ijes.56.2-4.73  0.455
2007 Berna F, Behar A, Shahack-Gross R, Berg J, Boaretto E, Gilboa A, Sharon I, Shalev S, Shilstein S, Yahalom-Mack N, Zorn JR, Weiner S. Sediments exposed to high temperatures: reconstructing pyrotechnological processes in Late Bronze and Iron Age Strata at Tel Dor (Israel) Journal of Archaeological Science. 34: 358-373. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2006.05.011  0.404
2005 Shahack-Gross R, Albert RM, Gilboa A, Nagar-Hilman O, Sharon I, Weiner S. Geoarchaeology in an urban context: The uses of space in a Phoenician monumental building at Tel Dor (Israel) Journal of Archaeological Science. 32: 1417-1431. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2005.04.001  0.451
2004 Shahack-Gross R, Marshall F, Ryan K, Weiner S. Reconstruction of spatial organization in abandoned Maasai settlements: Implications for site structure in the Pastoral Neolithic of East Africa Journal of Archaeological Science. 31: 1395-1411. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2004.03.003  0.663
2004 Shahack-Gross R, Berna F, Karkanas P, Weiner S. Bat guano and preservation of archaeological remains in cave sites Journal of Archaeological Science. 31: 1259-1272. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2004.02.004  0.441
2003 Shahack-Gross R, Marshall F, Weiner S. Geo-ethnoarchaeology of pastoral sites: The identification of livestock enclosures in abandoned Maasai settlements Journal of Archaeological Science. 30: 439-459. DOI: 10.1006/Jasc.2002.0853  0.682
1999 Shahack-Gross R, Tchernov E, Luz B. Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Mammalian Skeletal Phosphate from the Natufian Period, Hayonim Cave, Israel: Diagenesis and Paleoclimate Geoarchaeology - An International Journal. 14: 1-13. DOI: 10.1002/(Sici)1520-6548(199901)14:1<1::Aid-Gea1>3.0.Co;2-8  0.333
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