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Photo of the excavation team in front of the cave. The cave contains some of the earliest ceramic pottery known and this was dated by Dr Elisabetta Boaretto. See Boaretto, E., Wu, X., Yuan, J., Bar-Yosef, O., Chu, V., Pan, Y., Liu, K., Cohen, D., Jiao, T., Li, S., Gu, H., Goldberg, P. and Weiner, S. 2009. Radiocarbon Dating of Early Pottery at Yuchanyan Cave, Hunan Province, China. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 106. 9595-9600.
A small rural site from the Iron Age. A detailed study of the phytolith concentrations and types in and around the site, resulted in a new method for determining the borders of the site beyond the architectural remains. See Cabanes et al 2012 Journal of Archaeological Science 39, 2697-2705.
Showing a typical traditional house built about 300 years ago and abandoned about 60 years ago. We carried out a detailed ethnoarchaeological study of village in order to better understand the potential of phytoliths for reconstructing living areas. See Tsartsidou, G, Lev-Yadun, S., Albert, R.M., Miller-Rosen, R., Efstratiou, N. and Weiner, S. 2007. Journal of Archaeological Science 34, 1262-1275.
Iron Age strata in an area that includes the early Iron Age, and exposed Late Bronze strata. The sediments at the boundary below the Iron Age architecture are unusually enriched in phytoliths, and are currently being studied by Yotam Asscher, a PhD student at the Center supervised by Drs Boaretto and Weiner.
A PPNB site in northern Israel with elaborate plaster floors. Photo shows Dr Lior Regev working at the site. See Poduska, K.M., Regev, L., Berna, F., Mintz, E., Milevski, I., Khalaily, H., Weiner, S. and Boaretto, E. 2012. Radiocarbon 54, 1-10.
Grinding curves of modern enamel and bone showing the much higher degree of atomic order in enamel crystals compared to those in bone. For more information see Asscher, Y.,Weiner, S. and Boaretto, E. 2011. Variations in Atomic Disorder in Biogenic Carbonate Hydroxyapatite Using the Infrared Spectrum Grinding Curve Method. Advanced Functional Materials 21, 3308-3313.
A detailed macro- and micro-archaeological study of this destruction layer was carried out, that showed that the approximately 80cm of destruction layer sediments accumulated over tens of years. In the center is a mud brick wall. The bricks of this wall are thought to have been fired in a kiln. A large mortar was found in the upper level of the layer and was presumably originally located on the roof of the structure. For more information see Namdar, D., Zukerman, A., Maeir, A.M., Katz, J.C., Cabanes, D., Trueman, C., Shahack-Gross, R. and Weiner, S. 2011. The 9th Century BCE destruction layer at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: Integrating macro- and microarchaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science 38, 3471-3482.
Photo of the excavation team in front of the cave. The cave contains some of the earliest ceramic pottery known and this was dated by Dr Elisabetta Boaretto. See Boaretto, E., Wu, X., Yuan, J., Bar-Yosef, O., Chu, V., Pan, Y., Liu, K., Cohen, D., Jiao, T., Li, S., Gu, H., Goldberg, P. and Weiner, S. 2009. Radiocarbon Dating of Early Pottery at Yuchanyan Cave, Hunan Province, China. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 106. 9595-9600.