faculty member
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Professor
Gonen Sharon -
Associate Professor
- Galilee Studies - M.A. Program, Multidisciplinary Studies - B.A. Program
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- gonen@telhai.ac.il
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In the News
Prehistoric Sites in the Hula ValleyStory in Haaretz about prehistoric sites in the Hula Valley
https://www.haaretz.co.il/travel/.premium-MAGAZINE-1.5958969Turtle & Tortoise - both are food!Freshwater turtle or tortoise? The exploitation of testudines at the
Mousterian site of Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet, Hula Valley, Israel
Haaretz: https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.8033644,000 year old Dolmen with mysterious engravingsA 4,000 year old table like stone structure, known as a dolman, inscribed with unprecedented mtsterious art, was recently discovered next to Kibbutz Shamir in the Upper Galilee.
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Prehistoric Archaeology
Prehistory of the upper Jordan River
Lithic Technology
Paleo-Environment
Paleo-Diet
Dolmens - megalithic Bronze Age Burials
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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (January 2019)
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION:
- Sharon, G., Acheulian Large Flake Industries: Technology, Chronology, Distribution and Significance. Supervisor: Prof. Naama Goren-Inbar, awarded Summa cum Laude, February 2007, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
BOOKS:
- Sharon, G. Acheulian Large Flake Industries: Technology, Chronology, and Significance. (2007). 236 pages, BAR (British Archaeological Reports) International Series 1701, Archaeopress, Oxford;
- Goren-Inbar, N., Alperson-Afil, N., Sharon G. and Herzlinger, G. The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Vol. 5: The Lithic Assemblage. (2018). 464 pages, Springer, Cham, Switzerland.
BOOKS EDITED:
- Goren-Inbar, N. and Sharon G. (editors). Axe Age: Acheulian Tool-making from Quarry to Discard. (2006). 514 pages, Equinox,
- Sharon, G., Zaidner, Y. and Hovers, E. (editors). Special Issue: Opportunities, problems and future directions in the study of open-air Middle Paleolithic sites. (2014). Quaternary International, 331: 1‒278.
- Sharon, G. and Ronen, A. (editors). Proceeding of the 20th(1) Congress: Suyanggae and Her Neighbors, Haifa, Israel. (2016). 156 pages, Archaeopress, Oxford.
CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIONS:
- Sharon, G., Feibel, C. S., Belitzky, S., Marder, O., Khalaily, H. and Rabinovich, R. (2002). 1999 Jordan River Drainage Project Damages Gesher Benot Ya'aqov: A Preliminary Study of the Archaeological and Geological Implications. In: Eretz Zafon - Studies in Galilean Archaeology, edited by Z. Gal, pp. 1-19. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem.
- Sharon, G. and Beaumont, P. (2006). Victoria West: A Highly Standardized Prepared Core Technology. In: Axe Age: Acheulian Tool-making from Quarry to Discard, edited by N. Goren-Inbar and G. Sharon, pp. 181-199. Equinox, London. 57.
- Goren-Inbar, N. and Sharon, G. (2006). Invisible Handaxes and Visible Acheulian Biface Technology at Gesher Benot Ya´aqov, Israel. In: Axe Age: Acheulian Tool-making from Quarry to Discard, edited by N. Goren-Inbar and G. Sharon, pp. 111-135. Equinox, London. 71.
- Sharon, G. (2011). New Acheulian Locality North of Gesher Benot Ya´aqov – Contribution for the Study of the Levantine Acheulian. In: The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in the Middle East and Neighboring Regions, edited by J. M. L. Tensorer, R. Jagher and M. Otte, pp. 25-33. ERAUL, vol. 126. Liège.
- Grosman, L., Sharon, G., Goldman-Neuman, T., Smikt, O. and Smilansky, U. (2013). 3D Modeling: New Method for Quantifying Post-depositional Damages. In: Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage, Contributions in Mathematical and Computational Sciences, edited by H. G. Bock, W. Jäger, and M. J. Winckler, pp. 11–20. Springer, Berlin.
- Sharon, G. (2014). The Early Prehistory of West and Central Asia. In: The Cambridge World Prehistory, edited by C. Renfrew and P. Bahn, pp. 1357-1378. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Sharon, G. (2017). The Acheulian of the Levant. In: Quaternary of the Levant, edited by Y. Enzel and O. Bar-Yosef, pp. 539–547. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Sharon, G. (2018). A Week in the Life of the Mousterian Hunter. In: The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archaeology of the Levant and Beyond, edited by T. Akazawa and Y. Nishiaki, pp. 35-47. Springer, Singapore.
- Sharon, G. In Press. Early Convergent Cultural Evolution: Acheulian Giant Core Methods. In: Squeezing Minds from Stones, edited by T. Wynn, F. L. Coolidge, and K. A. Overmann. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
ARTICLES:
- Sharon, G. and Goren-Inbar, N. (1999). Soft percussor use at the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov Acheulian site? Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 28:55-79. 43.
- Sharon, G., Marder, O. and Boaretto, E. (2002). A note on 14C dates from the Epi-Paleolithic site at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov. Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 32:5-15. 7.
- Goren-Inbar, N., Sharon, G., Melamed, Y. and Kislev, M. (2002). Nuts, nut cracking, and pitted stones at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel. Proceeding of the National Academy of Science, 99(4):2455-2460. 504;5/64;215.
- Sharon, G. and Goring-Morris, A. N. (2004). Knives, bifaces, and hammers: A study in technology from the Southern Levant. Eurasian Prehistory, 2(1):53-76. 8.
- Sharon, G. (2008). A lion skull and additional finds from the Mousterian site at the Mahanayeem Stream outlet to the Jordan River. Qadmoniot, 41(136):93-95 (in Hebrew).
- Sharon, G. (2008). The impact of raw material on Acheulian large flake production. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35(5):1329-1344. 3.06;7/85;101.
- Goren-Inbar, N., Sharon, G., Alperson-Afil, N. and Laschiver, I. (2008). The Acheulian massive scrapers of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov: A product of the bifaces’ Chaîne Opératoire. Journal of Human Evolution, 55:702-712. 3.992;3/85;43.
- Sharon, G. (2009). Acheulian giant core technology: A world wide perspective. Current Anthropology, 50(3):335-367. 2.362;15/85;128.
- 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(5960):1677-1680. 41.058;2/64;122.
- Sharon, G. (2010). Large Flake Acheulian. Quaternary International, 223-224: 226-233. 2.163;29/49;70.
- 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. 16.
- Sharon, G., Grosman, L., Fluck, H., Melamed, Y., Rak, Y., Rabinovich, R. and Oron, M. (2010). The first two excavation seasons at NMO: A Mousterian site at the bank of the Jordan River. Eurasian Prehistory, 7(1):135-157. 25.
- Goren-Inbar, N., Grosman, L. and Sharon, G. (2011). The technology and significance of the Acheulian giant cores of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38:1901–1917. 3.06;7/85;30.
- Sharon, G. (2011). The early prehistory of the Dead Sea Rift. Melakh Haaretz, 5: 93-110 (in Hebrew).
- Sharon, G., Alperson-Afil, N. and Goren-Inbar, N. (2011). Cultural conservatism versus variability in the Acheulian sequence of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov. Journal of Human Evolution, 60:387-397. 3.992;3/85;71.
- Sharon, G. (2011). Flakes crossing the straits? Entame flakes and the Northern Africa-Iberia contact during the Acheulian. African Archaeological Review, 28:125-140. 44.
- Grosman, L., Sharon, G., Goldman-Neuman, T., Smikt, O. and Smilansky, U. (2011). Studying post depositional damage on Acheulian bifaces using 3D scanning. Journal of Human Evolution, 60(4):398-406. 3.992;3/85;40.
- Sharon, G. , Zaidner, Y. and Hovers, E. (2014). Opportunities, problems and future directions in the study of open-air Middle Paleolithic sites: An introduction. Quaternary International, 331:1-5. 2.163;29/49;18.
- Sharon, G. and Oron, M. (2014). The lithic tool arsenal of a Mousterian hunter. Quaternary International, 331:167-185. 2.163;29/49;34.
- Kalbe, J., Sharon, G., Porat, N., Zhang, C. and Mischke, S. (2014). Geological setting of the Middle Paleolithic site of NMO (Upper Jordan Valley, Israel). Quaternary International, 331:139-148. 2.163;29/49;16.
- Aharonovich, S., Sharon, G. and Weinstein-Evron, M. (2014). Palynological investigations at the Middle Paleolithic site of Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet, Israel. Quaternary International, 331:149-166. 2.163;29/49;9.
- Kalbe, J., Mischke, S., Dulski, P.C and Sharon, G. (2015). The Middle Palaeolithic Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet site, Israel: Reconstructing the environment of Late Pleistocene wetlands in the eastern Mediterranean from ostracods. Journal of Archaeological Science, 54:385-395. 3.06;7/85;6.
- Goren-Inbar, N., Sharon, G., Alperson-Afil, N. and Herzlinger, G. (2015). A new type of anvil in the Acheulian of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel. Special issue: Percussive technology in human evolution, edited by I. de la Torre and S. Hirata. Philosophical Transactions B of the Royal Society, 370:20140353. 5.666;7/85;19.
- Marder, O., Biton, R., Boaretto, E., Feibel, C. S., Melamed, Y., Mienis, H. K., Rabinovich, R., Zohar, I. and Sharon, G. (2015). Jordan River Dureijat: A new Epipaleolithic site in the Upper Jordan Valley. Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 45:5-30.
- Marder, O., Ashkenazy, H., Frumkin, A.Grosman, L., Langford, B., Sharon, G., Ullman, M. , Yeshurun, R. and Peleg, Y. (2015). El-Hamam Cave: A new Natufian site in the Samaria Hills. Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 45:131-142.
- Sharon, G., Barsky, D. (2016). The emergence of the Acheulian in Europe: A look from the east. Quaternary International, 411:25–33. 2.163;29/49;15.
- Sharon, G. (2016). Comment to: Hosfield, R., Walking in a winter wonderland? Strategies for Early and Middle Pleistocene survival in mid-latitude Europe. Current Anthropology, 57 (5), 653–682. 2.362;15/85.
- Biton, R., Sharon, G., Oron, M., Steiner, T., Rabinovich, R. (2017). Freshwater turtle or tortoise? The exploitation of testudines at the Mousterian site of Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet, Hula Valley, Israel. Journal of Archaeolgical Science Reports, 14:409–419. 1.
- Sharon, , Barash, A., Eisenberg-Degen, D., Grosman, L., Oron, M., Berger, U. (2017). Monumental megalithic burial and rock art tell a new story about the Levant Intermediate Bronze “Dark Ages”. PLoS One, 12, e0172969. 2.766;15/64.
- Baena Preysler, J., Torres Navas, C.and Sharon, G. (2018). Life history of a large flake biface. Quaternary Science Reviews, 190:123-136. 4.334;5/49.
- Biton, R., Goren-Inbar, N., Sharon, G., Bailon, S., Rabinovich, R., In Press. Pleistocene amphibians and squamates from the Upper Jordan Rift Valley: Assemblages from Gesher Benot Ya’aqov (MIS 18-20) and Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet (MIS 4/3). Quaternary Research.
- Berger, U.and Sharon G. In Press. Dolmens of the Hula Basin. Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 47.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
- Sharon, G. (2008). Migration and Dispersal. In: The Middle East – The Cradle of Civilization Revealed, edited by S. Bourke, pp. 28-29. Ancient Civilizations. Thames and Hudson, London.
- Sharon, G. (2008). Modern Humans Emerge. In: The Middle East – The Cradle of Civilization Revealed, edited by S. Bourke, pp. 30-31. Ancient Civilizations. Thames and Hudson, London.
- Sharon, G. (2008). Out of Africa. In: The Middle East – The Cradle of Civilization Revealed, edited by S. Bourke, pp. 26-27. Ancient Civilizations. Thames and Hudson, London.
- Sharon, G. (2012). Nahal Mahanyeem Outlet (NMO): Hunters camp at the shore of the Paleo-Hula Lake. Eretz Hakinneret, 6:30-33 (in Hebrew).
- Sharon, G. (2013). In the Beginning. Segula: Israeli Journal of History, 34:28-35 (in Hebrew).
- Sharon, G. (2016). The Prehistory of the Upper Jordan River: The first million years. In: Streams and Water in the Upper Galilee, edited by H. Amit, pp. 138-151. Yad Yitzhak Ben Tzvi, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
- Berger, U. and G. (2017). Shamir, the Dolmen Field. Hadashot Arkheologiot, Vol. 129. http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.aspx?id=25208&mag_id=125
- Berger, U., and Sharon, G. (2017). The Shamir Dolmen Field and the Intermediate Bronze Age – Stones and Social Complexity. Ancient Near East Today, 12. http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2017/12/shamir-dolmen-field
- Sharon, G., In Press. Terra Amata Acheulian assemblage: A look from the Levant. In: Terra Amata, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, edited by H. de Lumley, CNRS, Paris.
- Berger, U. and Sharon, G. In Press. Dir Saras Dolmen Field. Hadashot Arkheologiot.
- Sharon, G., Rozenberg, D. and Barkai, R. In Press. Amnon Asaf – in Memoriam. Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 47.
EDUCATIONAL FILM:
- Madsen, B., Sharon, G. and Goren-Inbar, N. (2007). The Cutting Edge: A Million Years of Stone Technology. Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.