Selected Publications
Books
Gopher, A. 1989. The flint assemblages of Munhata - final report . Les Cahiers Du Centre de Recherche Francais de Jerusalem , Vol. 4. Association Paléorient, Paris. 162 pp.; 59 Figs.; 8 Plates.
Gopher, A. 1994. Arrowheads of the Neolithic Levant - A Seriation Analysis . ASOR - American Schools for Oriental Research Dissertation Series Vol. 10, Eisenbrauns, Winnona Lake , Indiana . 325 pp.; 101 Figs.
Gopher, A. and Orrelle, E. 1995. The Groundstone Assemblages of Munhata, A Neolithic site in the Jordan Valley , Israel : A report . Les Cahiers Des Missions Archeologiques Francaises en Iserel, Vol. 7, Association Paléorient, Paris . 183 pp.; 47 Figs.; 10 Plates.
Gopher, A. and Tsuk, T. 1996. The Nahal Qanah Cave , Eealiest Gold in the southern Levant . Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaelology , Vol. 12. Tel Aviv University , Institute of Archaelology Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. 250 pp.; 135 Figs.; 11 color Plates.
Bar-Yosef, O. and Gopher, A. 1997. An Early Neolithic Village in the Jordan Valley , Part I: The Archaeology of Netiv Hagdud . American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin 43, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard University . 266 pp.; 165 Figs.
Eisenberg, E., Gopher, A. and Greenberg, R. 2001. Tel T'eo – A Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age site in the Hula Valley . Israel Antiquities Authority Report Series no. 13. 250 pp.; 110 Figs.; 30 Plates.
Bar-Yosef, O., Goring Morris, A. N. and Gopher, A. (eds.) 2010. Gilgal: Early Neolithic Occupations in the Lower Jordan Valley : The Excvations of Tammar Noy . Oxbow Books, Oxford on behalf of the American School of Prehistoric Research
Gopher, A. Forthcoming. Village Communities of the Pottery Neolithic Period in the Menashe Hills, Israel , Archaeological Investigations at the Sites of Nahal Zehora.
Selected articles and Chapters in Books
Bar-Yosef, O. Gopher, A. and Goring-Morris, A.N. 1980. Netiv Hagdud: A "Sultanian" Mound in the Lower Jordan Valley . Paléorient 6:201-206.
Davis, S., Goring-Morris, A.N., and Gopher, A. 1982. Sheep Bones from the Negev Epipaleolithic. Paléorient 8:87-93.
Goring-Morris, A. N. and Gopher, A. 1983. Nahal Issaron: A Neolithic Settlement in the Southern Negev . Israel Exploration Journal 33:149-162.
Kislev, M. E., Bar-Yosef, O. and Gopher, A. 1985. Early Neolithic Domesticated and Wild Barley from Netiv Hagdud Region in the Lower Jordan Valley . Israel Journal of Botany 35:197-201.
Gopher, A. and Greenberg, R. 1987. Pottery Neolithic Levels at Tel Dan. Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 20:91-113.
Bar-Yosef, O., Gopher, A., and Nadel, D. 1987. The "Hagdud Truncation" - A new type from the Sultanian Industry at Netiv Hagdud , Jordan Valley. Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 20:151-157.
Hershkovitz, I. and Gopher, A. 1988. Human burials from Horvat Galil: A PPNB site in the Upper Galilee Israel . Paléorient 14/1:119-126.
Gopher, A. 1988-1989. The Flint industry from Tel Tsaf. Tel Aviv, Journal of the Tel Aviv University Institute of Archeology Vol. 15-16:37-46.
Gopher, A. 1989. Horvat Galil and Nahal Bes?et I: Two Neolithic Sites in the Upper Galilee . Mitekufat Haeven, Journal or the Israel Prehistoric Society Vol. 22:82-92.
Gopher, A. and Orrelle, E. 1989. The flint industry of Nahal Zehora, a Wadi Raba site in the Menashe Hills. Bulletin of the American Schools for Oriental Research 276:67-76.
Gopher, A. 1989. Neolithic Arrowheads of the Levant : Results and Implications of a multidimensional seriation analysis. In: Aurench, O., Cauvin, M.C. and Sanlaville, P. (eds.) Préhistoire Du Levant - Processus des Changements Culturels. Association Paléorient, Paris, pp. 47-60.
Gopher, A. 1989. Diffusion processes in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Levant: The case of the Helwan Point. In: Hershkovitz, I. (ed.) People and Culture in Change , Proceedings of the 2nd symposium on Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic populations in Europe and the Mediterranean basin. BAR International series 508, Oxford , pp. 91-105.
Gopher, A., Tsuk, T., Shalev, S., and Gophna, R. 1990. Earliest Gold Artifacts discovered in the Southern Levant . Current Anthropology 31(4):436-443.
Belfer-Cohen, A., Arensburg, B., Gopher, A. and Bar-Yosf, O. 1990. Human remains from Netiv Hagdud, a Pre Pottery Neolithic A site in the Jordan Valley . Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society Vol. 23:79-85.
Gopher, A. 1990. Mujahia - An early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site in the Golan Heights . Tel Aviv, Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University vol. 17(2):115-143.
Hershkovitz, I. and Gopher, A. 1990. Paleodemography, burial customs and food-producing economy at the beginning of the Holocene: A perspective from the southern Levant . Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society Vol. 23:9-47.
Nadel, D., Bar-Yosef, O. and Gopher, A. 1991. Early Neolithic Arrowhead Types in the Southern Levant a Typological Suggestion. Paléorient 17/1:109- 119.
Bar-Yosef, O., Gopher, A., Kislev, M., and Tchernov, E. 1991. Netiv Hagdud - an Early Neolithic Village Site in the Jordan Valley . Journal of Field Archaeology 18(4):405-424.
Gopher, A., Sadeh, S. and Goren, Y. 1992. The pottery assemblage of Nahal Beset I: A Neolithic site in the Upper Galilee . Israel Exploration Journal 42:4-16.
Yellin, J. and Gopher, A. 1992. The origin of the obsidian artifacts from Mujahia- A PPNB site in the Golan Heights . Tel Aviv, Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University 19:94-99.
Galili, E., Weinstein-Evron, Hershkovitz, I. , Gopher, A., M., Lernau, H., Kislev, M., Kolska-Horwitz, L. and Lernau, H. 1993. Atlit-Yam: A Prehistoric Site on the Sea Floor off the Israeli Coast. Journal of Field Archaeology 20(2):133-157.
Gopher, A. and Gophna, R. 1993. Cultures of the Eight and Seventh Millennia BP in Southern Levant : A Review for the 1990s. Journal of World Prehistory 7(3): 297-353.
Gopher, A. 1993. 6th - 5th millennia B.C. settlements in the Coastal Plain - Israel . Paléorient 19(1):55-64.
Goren, Y., Gopher, A. and Goldberg, P. 1993. The beginnings of pottery production in the southern Levant : technological and social aspects. In: Biran, A. and Aviram, J. (eds.) Biblical Archaeology today 1990, proceedings of the 2nd International congress on biblical archaeology, Jerusalem , June 1990, Pre-Congress Symposium: supplement. The Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem , pp. 33-40.
Carmi, I. , Segal, D., Goring-Morris, A.N. and Gopher, A. 1994. Dating the prehistoric site Nahal Isaaron in the southwestern Negev , Israel . Radiocarbon 36(3):391- 398.
Gopher, A. 1994. Pottery Neolithic 6th - 5th millennia B.C. industries of the Southern Levant seen through PPN glasses. In: Gebel, H.G. and Kozlowski, S. (eds.) Neolithic chipped stone industries of the Fertile Crscent Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment No. 1, Berlin , Ex Oriente, pp. 563-567.
Gopher, A., Goring-Morris, A.N. and Gordon, D. 1994. Nahal Issaron, the lithics of the later PPNB occupatio. In: Gebel, H.G. and Kozlowski, S. (eds.) Neolithic chipped stone industries of the Fertile Crescent Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment No. 1, Berlin , Ex Oriente, pp. 479-495.
Goring-Morris, A.N., Gopher, A. and Rosen , S.A. 1994. The Neolithic Tuwailan cortical knife industry of the Negev, Israel . In: Gebel, H.G. and Kozlowski, S. (eds.) Neolithic chipped stone industries of the Fertile Crescent Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment No. 1, Berlin , Ex Oriente, pp. 511-525.
Gopher, A. 1994. Central and Southern Levant PPN cultural Sequences: time-space systematics through typological and stylistic approaches. In: Gebel, H.G. and Kozlowski, S. (eds.) Neolithic chipped stone industries of the Fertile Crescent Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment No. 1, Berlin , Ex Oriente, pp. 387-393.
Barkai, R., Burian, F., Friedman, E. and Gopher, A. 1994-5. 18-X - An Epipaleolithic collection from the Nahal Poleg area. Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society . vol. 26:64-73.
Gopher, A., Goring-Morris, A.N. and Rosen , S.A. 1995. Ein Qadis I: A Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Occupation in Eastern Sinai . Atiqot vol. XXVII: 15-33. Antiquities Authority of Israel , Jerusalem .
Gopher, A. 1995. Ain Darat - A PPNA site in the Judean Desert , lithic assemblages of the 1994 season. Neo - Lithics 1/1995:7-8.
Gopher, A. 1995. Early Pottery - Bearing Groups in Israel - the Pottery Neolithic Period. In: Levy, T. A. (ed.) The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land . Leicester University Press, London , pp. 205-225.
Goren, Y. and Gopher, A. 1995. The beginnings of pottery production in the Southern Levant : A model. In: Vincenzini, T. (ed.) The Ceramic Cultural Heritage , Techna Monographs in Materia and Society 2. Florence , pp. 21-28.
Gopher, A. and Orrelle, E. 1995. New Data on Burials from the Pottery Neolithic Period (sixth-fifth Millennium BC ) in Israel . In Campbell , S. and Green, A. (eds.) The Archaeology of Death in the Ancient Near East . Oxbow Monograph 51, pp. 24-29.
Perrot, J. and Gopher, A. 1996. A Late Neolithic site near Ashkelon . Israel Exploration Journal : 46(3-4):145-166.
Gopher, A. and Orrelle, E. 1996. An alternative interpretation for material imagery of the Yarmukian, a Neolithic culture of the sixth millennium B.C. in the southern Levant . Cambridge Archaeological Journal 6(2): 255-279.
Gopher, A. and Greenberg, R. 1996. The Pottery Neolithic Levels. In: Biran, A., Ilan, D. and Greenberg, R. (eds.) Dan I: A Chronicle of the Excavation, the Neolithic, the Early Bronze Age and the Middle Bronze Age Toombs . Hebrew Union College Annual Series, Jerusalem , pp. 67-81.
Gopher, A. 1996. Infant burials in the Neolithic periods in the Southern Levant-Israel: A social view. In: Otte, M. (ed.) Nature et Culture , Actes du Colloque International, Liège, December 1993, pp. 913-918.
Gopher, A. 1996. What happened to the Early PPNB? In: Kozlowski, S.K and Gebel, H.G. (eds.) Neolithic chipped stone industries of the Fertile Crescent and their contemporaries in adjacent regions . Studies in Early Near Eastern production, subsistence and environment 3, Berlin , ex Oriente, pp. 151-158.
Gopher, A. 1996. A preliminary report on the flints from Ain Darat: a PPNA site in the Judean Desert . In: S. K. Kozlowski, S.K and Gebel, H.G. (eds.) Neolithic chipped stone industries of the Fertile Crescent and their contemporaries in adjacent regions . Studies in Early Near Eastern production, subsistence and environment 3, Berlin , ex Oriente, pp.443-452.
Gopher, A. 1997. Horvat Galil - An Early PPNB site in the Upper Galilee, Israel. Tel Aviv, Journal of the Institute of Archaeology Tel Aviv University 24 (2):183-222.
Gopher, A. and Barkai, R. 1997. Here are the microliths: a reply to “where are the microliths?” Neo-Lithics 1/97: 16-18.
Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 1997. Transversal burins from Nahal Zehora I, A Pottery Neolithic site in central Israel . Neo-Lithics 1/97:20-23.
Barkai, R., Gopher, A. and Friedman, E. 1997. Prehistoric occurrences in the western Samaria , the 1967-1968 survey. In: Finkelstein, I. and Lederman, Z. Highlands of many Cultures, The southern Samaria Survey, The Sites , pp. 857-881.
Gopher, A. and Tsuk, T. 1997. Nahal Qanah Cave : a unique Chalcolithic burial Cave in West Samaria . In: Bansall, C. and Tolan-Smith C. (eds.) The Human Use of Caves , BAR International Series 667, Proceedings of the conference on the human use of caves, New Castle , July, 1993, pp.167-174.
Gopher, A., Burian, F. and Friedman, E. 1998. Prehistoric sites on the northern bank of Nahal Poleg: Site 18M revisited. Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society Vol. 28:81-104.
Gopher, A. and Goring-Morris A. N. 1998. Abu Salem: A Pre Pottery Neolithic B camp in the Central Negev Highlands, Israel. Bulletin of the American School for Oriental Research 312: 1-20.
Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 1998. Reintroducing butt scrapers (racloire sur talon): another look at a non-formal tool type. Lithic Technology 23 (1): 20-26.
Gopher, A., Orrelle, E., Blockman, N., Barkai, R., Eyal, R. and Naveh, D. 1998 The Nahal Zehora village sites: Pottery Neolithic in the Menashe Hills, Israel In: Proceedings of the XIII UISPP, Forli , Italy , pp. 465-468.
Eyal, R., Naveh, D. and Gopher, A. 1998 Pottery vessel handles from Nahal Zehora I and II: an Attribute analysis. In: Proceedings of the XIII UISPP, Forli , Italy , pp. 475-481.
Blockman, N. and Gopher, A. 1998 The Lodian (Jericho XI) assemblage of Newe Yarak - Lod. In: Proceedings of XIII UISPP, Forli , Italy , pp. 489-495.
Gopher, A., Barkai, R. and Marder, O. 1998. Cultural contacts in the Neolithic period: Anatolian obsidians in the southern Levant . In: Otte, M. (ed.) Prehistoire d'Anatolie, Genèse des Deux Mondes . Liège, ERAUL 85, pp. 641-650.
Gopher, A. and Orrelle, E. 1999. Coffee Beans, Cowries and Vulvas: A Reply to Comments by Y. Garfinkel. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 9 (1):133-137
Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 1999. The last Neolithic industry - the flint assemblages of Nahal Zehora I, a Wadi Rabah site In the Menashe Hills, Israel . Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society Vol. 29:41-122.
Frumkin, A., Carmi, I., Gopher, A., Ford, D. C., Schwarcz, H. P. and Tsuk, T. 1999. Holocene millennial-scale climatic cycle from Nahal Qanah Cave speleothem, Israel .The Holocene 9.6 special issue, Pp. 677-682.
Gopher, A. 1999. Lithic industries of the Neolithic period in the southern Levant : a review. In: Kozlowski S. K. The Eastern Wing of the Fertile Crescent , Late Prehistory of the Greater Mesopotamian Lithic Industries . BAR International Series 760, Oxford , Archeopress, pp. 116-138.
Hershkovitz, I. and Gopher, A. 1999. Is tuberculosis associated with early domestication of cattle: Evidence from the Levant . In: Pálfi, G., Dutour, O., Deák, J. and Hutás, I. (eds). Tuberculosis Past and Present . TB Foundation. pp. 445-449.
Lev-Yadun, S., Gopher, A. and Abbo, S. 2000. The Cradle of Agriculture. Science 288 ( 2 nd June 2000 ): 1602-1603.
Shimelmitz, R., Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 2000. A Canaanean Blade Workshop at Har Haruvim , Israel . Tel Aviv Journal of the Institute of Archaeology Tel Aviv University Vol.27 (1): 3-22.
Orrelle, E. and Gopher, A. 2000. The Pottery Neolithic period: Questions about pottery decoration, symbolism and meaning. In: Kuijt, I. (ed). Life in Neolithic Farming Communities , Plenum Press. pp. 295-308.
Gopher, A. Abbo, S. Lev-Yadun, S. 2001. The "when", the "where" and the "why" of the Neolithic Revolution in the Levant . Documenta Praehistoria volume (XXVIII) edited by M. Budja. pp. 49-62.
Shimelmitz, R; Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 2001. An EpiPaleolithic occurrence at the site of ‘ Ain Miri , Northern Israel . Neo- Lithics 1/01:4-5
Yamada, S., Goring-Morris, A. N., Gopher, A. and Perron, T. 2001. Analysis of faintly glossed blades from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Nahal Issaron, Israel . In: Caneva, I. Lemorini, C. Zampetti, D. and Biagi, P. (eds.) Beyond tools, redefining the PPN lithic assemblages of the Levant . Berlin , ex oriente, pp.183-204.
Gopher, A., Barkai, R. and Asaf, A. 2001 Trends in sickle blade production in the Neolithic of the Hula Valley, Israel. In: Caneva, I. Lemorini, C. Zampetti, D. and Biagi, P. (eds.), Beyond tools, redefining the PPN lithic assemblages of the Levant . Berlin , ex oriente, pp. 411-426.
Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 2001. Flint quarries in the southern Levantine Holocene: a routine procedure? New evidence form the upper Galilee , Israel . In: Caneva, I. Lemorini, C. Zampetti, D. and Biagi, P. (eds.), Beyond tools, redefining the PPN lithic assemblages of the Levant . Berlin , ex oriente, pp. 17-26.
Barkai, R., Gopher, A. and La Porta , P. 2002. Palaeolithic landscape of extraction: flint surface quarries and workshops at Mt. Pua , Israel . Antiquity 76: 72-80.
Galili, E., Rosen, B., Gopher, A. and Kolska-Horwitz, L. 2002. The Emergence and dispersion of the Eastern Mediterranean Fishing Village : Evidence from Submerged Neolithic Settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology15.2:167-198.
Recchi, A. and Gopher, A. 2002. Birds and humans in the Holocene: the case of Qumran Cave 24 ( Dead Sea , Israel ). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 45 (special issue): 139-150.
Gopher, A., Greenberg, R. and Herzog, Z. 2002. Archaeological Public Policy. In: Korn, D. (ed.), Public Policy in Israel: Perspectives and Practices , Lanham, Lexington Books, pp. 191-204.
Abbo, S., Shtienberg, D., Lichtenzweig, J. Lev-Yadun, S. and Gopher, A. 2003 . The chickpea, summer cropping, and a new model for pulses domestication in the ancient Near East. Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 78, no. 4:37-50.
Barkai, R., Gopher, A., Lauritzen, S.E. and Frumkin, A. 2003. Uranium series dates from Qesem Cave , Israel , and the end of the Lower Palaeolithic . Nature 423 ( 26 th June 2003 ): 977-979.
Godfrey-Smith, D.I.; Vaughan , K.B.; Gopher, A. and Barkai, R. 2003. Direct luminescence chronology of the Epi-Paleolithic Kebaran site of Nahal Hadera V, Israel. Geoarchaeology 18 (4): 461-475.
Lev-Tov, N., Gopher, A. and Smith, P. 2003. Dental evidence for dietary practices in the Chalcolithic period: the findings from a Burial cave in Peqi'in (northern Israel ). Paléorient 29(1): 121-134.
Yerkes, R.W., Barkai, R., Gopher, A. and Bar-Yosef, O. 2003. Microwear analysis of early Neolithic (PPNA) axes and bifacial tools from Netiv Hagdud in the Jordan Valley, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 30:1051-1066.
Rosen, S. A. and Gopher, A. 2003. Flint tools from the survey. In: Beit-Arieh, I. (ed). Archaeology of Sinai, The Ophir Expedition . Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv. pp. 184-195.
Eshed, V., Gopher, A., Galili, E. and Hershkovitz, I. 2004. Musculoskeletal Stress Markers in Natufian Hunter-Gatherers and Neolithic Farmers in the Levant : The Upper Limb. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 123:303-315.
Eshed, V., Gopher, A., Gage, T. B. and Hershkovitz, I. 2004. Has the Transition to agriculture Reshaped the Demographic Structure of Prehistoric Populations? New Evidence from the Levant . American Journal of Physical Anthropology 124/4:315-329.
Gopher, A. and Blockman, N. 2004. Excavations at Neolithic Lod (Newe Yarak) and the Lodian culture of the Pottery Neolithic period. Atiquot (English Series) 47:1-50.
Verri, G., Barkai, R., Bordeanu, C., Gopher, A., Hass, M., Kaufman, A., Kubik, P. Montanari, E., Paul, M., Ronen, A., Weiner, S., and Boaretto, E. 2004. Flint Mining in Prehistory Recorded by in Situ Produced Cosmogenic 10 Be. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 101(21):7880-7884.
Shimelmitz, R., Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 2004. The Geometric Kebaran Microlithic Assemblage of Ain Miri , Northern Israel . Paleorient 30(2):27-140.
Galili, E., Gopher, A., Rosen, A. and Kolska-Horwitz, L. 2004. The Emergence of the Mediterranean Fishing Village in the Levant and the Anomaly of Neolithic Cyprus . In: Peltenburg, E. and Wasse, A. (Eds.), Neolithic Revolution , Oxbow books, pp. 91-101.
Abbo, S., Gopher, A., Rubin, B. and Lev-Yadun, S. 2005. On the origin of Near Eastern founder crops and the ‘dump-heap' hypothesis. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution52:491-495.
Barkai, R.,Gopher, A. and Shimelmitz, R. 2005. Middle Pleistocene Blade Production in the Levant: An Amudian Assemblage from Qesem Cave, Israel. Eurasian Prehistory 3:39-74.
Galili, E., Eshed, V., Gopher, A. and Hershkovitz, I. 2005. Burial practices at the submerged Pre-Pottery Neolithic C site of Atlit-Yam, northern coast of Israel . Bulletin of the American School of Archaeology 339:1-19.
Gopher, A., Barkai, R., Shimelmitz, R., Khalaily, M., Lemorini, C., Hershkovitz, I. and Stiner, M. 2005. Qesem Cave : An Amudian site in central Israel . Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 35:69-92.
Verri, G., Barkai, R., Gopher, A., Hass, M., Kubik, P., Paul, M., Ronen, A., Weiner, S., and Boaretto, E. 2005. Flint procurement strategies in the Late Lower Palaeolithic recordrd by in Situ produced Cosmogenic 10 Be in Tabun and Qesem Caves ( Israel ). Journal of Archaeological Science 32:207-213.
Abbo, S., Shtienberg, D., Lev-Yadun, S. and Gopher, A. 2005. Prehistoric Spread of Agrotechniques into the Indian Subcontinent as Deduced from the Evolutionary History of Chickpea: Any Lesson for Modern Crop Improvement? In, Y.L. Nene (ed) Agricultural Heritage of Asia: Proceedings of the International Conference, 6-8 December 2004 , Asian Agri-History Foundation, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. pp. 197-203.
Gopher, A., Burian, F. and Friedman, E. 2005. Neolithic coastal sites near Palmahim with some comments ofnthe Neolithic period in the Israel coastal plain. In, M. Fischer (ed), Yavneh, Yavneh-Yam and their Neighborhood , Eretz and Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv, pp. 17-46.
Alahique, F. and Gopher, A. 2005. Animal resource exploitation at Qumran Cave 24 ( Dead Sea , Israel ) from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the Chalcolithic. In, H. Buitenhuis, A. M. Choyke, L. Martin, L. Bartosiewicz and M. Mashkour (eds.) Archeozoology of the Near East VI , ARC-Publicaties 123:139-149.
Lemorini, C., Gopher, A, Shimelmitz, R., Stiner, M., and Barkai, R. 2006. Use-wear analysis of an Amudian laminar assemblage from Acheuleo-Yabrudian Qesem Cave , Israel . Journal of Archaeological Science 33:921-934.
Abbo, S., Gopher, A., Peleg, Z., Saranga, Y., Fahima, T., Salamini, F. and Lev-Yadun, S. 2006. The ripples of “The Big (agricultural) Bang”: The spread of early wheat cultivation. Genome 49:861-863.
Lev-Yadun, S., Gopher, A. and Abbo, S. 2006. How and When was Wild Wheat Domesticated? Science 313:296.
Eshed, V., Gopher, A. and Hershkovitz, I. 2006. Tooth wear and dental pathology at the advent of agriculture: New evidence from the Levant . American Journal of Physical Anthropology 130:145-159.
Gopher, A. and Barkai, R. 2006. Flint extraction sites and workshops in prehistoric Galilee , Israel . In: Körlin, G. and Weisgerber, G. Stone Age – Mining Age . Bochum . pp. 91-98.
Barkai, R., Gopher, A. and La Porta , P.C. 2006. Middle Pleistocene Landscape of Extraction: Quarry and Workshop Complexes in Northern Israel . In: Axe Age: Acheulian Toolmaking - from Quarry to Discard . N. Goren-Inbar, G. Sharon (eds.) Equinox, London, pp. 7-44.
Rosenberg, D., Assaf, A., Eyal, R. and Gopher, A. 2006. Beisamoun – the Wadi Rabah Occurrence. Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 36:129-137.
Kerem, Z., Lev-Yadun, S., Gopher, A., Weinberg, P. and Abbo, S. 2007. Chickpea domestication in the Neolithic Levant through the nutritional perspective. Journal of Archaeological Science 34(2007):1289-1293.
Karkanas, P., Shahack-Gross, R., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Barkai, R., Frumkin, A., Gopher, A. and Stiner, M. C. 2007. Evidence for habitual use of fire at the end of the Lower Paleolithic: Site-formation processes at Qesem Cave , Israel . Journal of Human Evolution53:197-212.
Barkai, R., Gopher, A. and Weiner, J. 2007. Quarrying flint at Neolithic Ramat Tamar – An experiment. In: Astruc, L., Binder, D. and Briois, F. (eds.) Systèmes des communautés du Néolithiques précéramique au Proche-Orient. Colloque international sur les industries lithiques du Néolithique pré-céramique . Editions APDCA, Antibes , pp. 25-32.
Abbo, S., Zezak, I. , Schwatrz, E., Lev-Yadun, S. and Gopher, A. 2008. Experimental harvesting of wild peas in I srael : Implications for the origins of Near East farming. Journal of Archaeological Science 35:922-929.
Hershkovitz, I. and Gopher, A. 2008. Demographic, Biological and Cultural Aspects of the Neolithic Revolution: A View from the Southern Levant . In, JP Bouquet-Appel and O. Bar-Yosef (eds.), The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its consequences . Springer, pp. 441--479.
Rosenberg, D., Assaf, A., Getzov, N. and Gopher, A. 2008 Flaked stone discs of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods in the southern Levant . Paleorient 34.2:137-151.
Abbo, S., Zezak, I., Schwartz, E., Lev-Yadun, S., Kerem,Z. and Gopher, A. 2008. Wild Lentil and Chickpea harvest in Israel : bearing on the origins of Near Eastern farming. Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 3172-3177.
Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 2009. Changing the face of the earth: Human behavior at Sede Ilan, an extensive Lower-Middle Paleolithic quarry site in Israel . In, B. Adams and B. Blades (eds.), Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies . Blackwell Publications, pp. 174-185.
Abbo, S., Saranga, Y., Peleg, Z., Kerem, Z., Lev-Yadun, S. and Gopher, A. 2009. Reconsidering domestication of legumes versus cereals in the ancient Near East. Quarterly Review of Biology 84(1):29-50.
Frumkin, A. Karkanas, P.; Bar-Matthews, M.; Barkai, R.; Gopher, A.; Shahack-Gross, R. and Vaks, A., 2009. Gravitational deformations and fillings of aging caves: the example of Qesem karst system, Israel . Geomorphology 106:154-164.
Barkai, R., Lemorini, C., Shimelmitz, R., Lev, Z., Stiner, M. and Gopher, A. 2009. A blade for all seasons? Making and using Amudian blades at Qesem Cave , Israel . Human Evolution 24:57-75.
Boaretto, E., Barkai, R., Gopher, A., Berna, F., Kubik , P. and Weiner, S. 2009. Specialized Flint Procurement Strategies for Hand Axes, Scrapers and Blades in the Late Lower Paleolithic: A 10 Be Study at Qesem Cave , Israel . Human Evolution 24:1-12.
Stiner, C. M., Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 2009 . Cooperative hunting and meat sharing 400-200 kya at Qesem Cave , Israel . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of America vol. 106 no. 32: 13207-13212.
Galili, E., Eshed, V., Rosen, B., Kislev, M. E., Simchoni, O, Hershkovitz, I. and Gopher, A. 2009. Evidence for a separated burial ground at the submerged Pottery Neolithic site of Neve-Yam , Israel. Paleorient 35.1:31-46.
Abbo, S., Saranga, Y., Peleg, Z.,Kerem, Z., Lev-Yadun, S. And Gopher, A. 2009 Reconsidering domesticationof legumes versus cereals in the ancient Near East. Quarterly Review of Biology 84.1:29-50.
Abbo, S., Lev-Yadun, S. and Gopher, A. 2010. Yield stability: an agronomic perspective on the origins of Near Eastern agriculture. Vegetation history and Archaeobotany 19:143-150.
Gopehr, A., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M. Barkai, R., Frumkin, A., Karkanas, P.,and Shahack-Gross, R. 2010. The chronology of the late Lower Paleolithic in the Levantbased on U-TH ages of speleothems from Qesem cave, Israel. Quaternary Geochronology 5:644-656.
Maul, L., Smith, K,. Barkai, R., Barash, A., Karkanas, P., Shahack-Gross, R. and Gopher, A. 2010. Microfaunal remains at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel: Preliminary results on small vertebrates, environment and biostratigraphy. Journal of Human Evolution (available online).
Hershkovitz ,I; Smith, P; Sarig, R; Quam, R; Rodríguez, L; García, R; Arsuaga, J-L; Barkai, .R. and Gopher,.A. 2010. Middle Pleistocene dental remains from Qesem Cave, Israel. American Journal of Physical Anthropology .
Barkai, R ., Lemorini, C., and Gopher,.A. 2010. Palaeolithic cutlery 400 000–200 000 years ago: tiny meat-cutting tools from Qesem Cave , Israel . Antiquity 84 (325).
Abbo, S., Lev-Yadun, S. Gopher, A. 2010. Agricultural origins: centers and noncenters; a Near Eastern reappraisal. Critical Review in Plant Sciences 29: 317-328.
Gopher, A. 2010. Qadesh Barnea 3, A Neolithic site in the western Negev Highlands: A report. Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 40:183-218.
Abbo, S., Lev-Yadun, S., Gopher, A. 2010 Origin of Near Eastern plant domestication: homage to Claude Levi-Strauss and “ La Pensée Sauvage ”, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution . (in press).
Stiner, M., Gopher, A. and Barkai, R. 2010. Hearth-side socioeconomics, hunting and paleoecology during the late Lower Paleolithic at Qesem Cave , Israel . Journal of Human Evolution (in press)
Ph.D. Students
Ran Barkai, 2001.
Thesis title : Bifacial tools in the Natufian and Neolithic industries of the Levant .
Vered Eshed, 2003.
Thesis Title : Neolithic populations of the Levant - a Physical Anthropological study. (with Prof. I. Hershkovitz, TAU).
Ehud Galili, 2005.
Thesis title : Submerged prehistoric settlements from the 6th and 5th millinnia B.C. in the Northern Carmel Coast .
Shimelmitz, R., 2010
Thesis title: Lithic Blade Production in the Middle Pleistocene of the Levant : Technological and social aspects.
Iris Groman, ongoing, at Haifa University
Thesis title: The Transition to Early Neolithic Economy Reconstructed by Functional Analysis of Blades; A case study of Late Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Sites from the Salybia Basin, Southern Jordan Valley. (With D. Nadel, University of Haifa ).
Asaf Nativ, 2010
Thesis title: Death and Burial in the Land of Israel during the Chalcolithic Period (6500-5500 BP).
M.A students
Estelle Orrelle, 1993/4
Thesis title : Nahal Zehora I and II: Fifth Millennium B.C. Villages of the Wadi Raba Culture; Quantitative studies on the Pottery Assemblages.
Noga Blokman, 1996
Thesis title : Newe Yarak - Lod, A Pottery Neolithic Site in the Shephela.
Gideon Sorjer, 1996
Thesis title : Regionalism in burial customs in the Southern Levant from the late Epipaleolithic to the Chalcolithic period (11th - 4th millennium B.C.).
Ran Barkai, 1996
Thesis title : The flint Assemblage from Nahal Zehora I, A Wadi Raba site in the Menashe Hills: the implications of a technological and typological analysis.
Danny Naveh, 1999
Thesis title : Aspects of Gender Relations in the Pottery Neolithic Period: Results of an Analysis of Spatial Distribution of Archaeological Assemblages in the site Nahal Zehora II.
Neta Lev-Tov, 2001
Thesis title: Dietary specialization in the Chalcolithic period (with Prof. D. Sweeny, TAU).
Ron Shimelmitz, 2002
Thesis title: Epipaleolithic flint technology at Nahal Hadra V.
Assaf Holtzer (with Prof. A. Horwitz), 2003
Thesis tiltle: Desert kites.
Iris Yaroslawsky Groman, 2004
Thesis title: Variability in lithic industries of the early Neolithic in the southern Levant .
Danny Rosenberg, 2004
Thesis title: The pestele: Characteristics and changes of stone pounding implemements in the southern Levant from the early Epipaleolithic through the Pottery Neolithic period.
Galit Samora, 2006
Thesis title : Cribra Orbitalia, Osteoarchaeological and Paleoecological Aspects. (with Prof. I. Hershkovitz, TAU).
Assaf Nativ, 2006
Thesis title: Pottery traditions in the Pottery Neolithic period – a phenomenological view (with Prof. Y. Goren, TAU).
Sigal Golan, 2006
Thesis title: The Nazur Culture, a lithic perspective: A case study from the site Nazur 4 – The end of the Pottery Neolithic or the beginning of the Chalcolithic period.
Inbar Zezak, 2008
Thesis title: Eperimental harvest of wild pea populations in Israel , bearing on legumes domestication (with Prof. S. Abbo, Hebrew University ).
Zohar Lev, 2010
Thesis title: The Qesem scrapers: A techno-typological analysis of a Yabrudian assemblage from Qesem Cave .
Tali Kuperman, 2010
Thesis title: Eretz Israel Population in the Pottery Neolithic Period and its Burial Customs (5500-4000 BC).
Yael Zehavi, 2010
Thesis title: Ecological aspects of pea domestication (with S. Abbo, Hebrew University )
