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Karkanas, P., Bar-Yosef, O., Goldberg, P. and Weiner, S. 2000.
Diagenesis in prehistoric caves: the use of minerals formed in situ to assess the completeness of the archaeological record.
Journal Archaeological Science 27, 915-929.

Albert, R.M., Weiner, S., Bar-Yosef, O. and Meignen, L. 2000.
Phytoliths in Kebara Cave, Israel: Study of the plant materials used for fuel and other purposes.
Journal of Archaeological Science 27, 931-947.

Boaretto, E., Berkovits, D., Hass, M., Hui, S.K., Kaufman, A., Paul, M and Weiner, S. 2000.
Dating of prehistoric cave sediments and flints using 10Be and 26Al in quartz from Tabun Cave (Israel): Progress report.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B172, 767-771.

Stiner, M.C., Kuhn, S.L., Surovell, T.A., Goldberg, P., Meignen, L., Weiner, S. and Bar-Yosef, O. 2000.
Bone preservation in Hayonim Cave (Israel): a macroscopic and mineralogical study.
J. Archaeological Science 28, 643-659.

P. Goldberg, P.,Weiner, S., Bar-Yosef, O., Xu, Q. and Liu, J. 2001.
Site Formation Processes at Zhoukoudian, China.
J. Human Evolution (in press)

Meignen, L., Bar-Yosef, O., Goldberg, P. and Weiner, S. 2001.
Le feu Pale¢olithique moyen: recherches sur les structures de combustion et le statut des foyers. L¢exemple du Proche Orient.
Paleorient 26, 9-22.

Goring-Morris, N., Boaretto, E. and Weiner, S. 2001.
Radiometric dating of the PPNB mortuary site of Kfar HaHoresh, Lower Galilee, Israel: problems and preliminary results.
Journal Israel Prehistoric Society 31, 213-217.

Weiner, S., Goldberg, P. and Bar-Yosef, O. 2002.
Three dimensional distribution of minerals in the sediments of Hayonim Cave, Israel: diagenetic processes and archaeological implications.
J. Archaeological Science 29, 1289-1308.

Alon, D., Mintz, G., Cohen, I., Weiner, S. and Boaretto, E. 2002.
The use of Raman spectroscopy to monitor the removal of humic substances from charcoal: quality control for 14C dating of charcoal.
Radiocarbon 44, 1-11.

Elbaum, R., Albert, R.M., Elbaum, M. and Weiner, S. 2003.
Detection of burning of plant materials in the archaeological record by changes in the refractive indices of siliceous phytoliths.
Journal Archaeological Science 30, 217-226.

Shahack-Gross, R., Marshall, F. and Weiner, S. 2003.
Geo-ethnoarchaeology of pastoral sites: the identification of livestock enclosures in abandoned Maasai settlements.
Journal Archaeological Science 30, 439-459.

Albert, R.M., Bar-Yosef, O., Meignen, L. and Weiner, S. 2003.
Quantitative phytolith study of hearths from the Natufian and Middle Paleolithic levels of Hayonim Cave (Galilee, Israel).
Journal Archaeological Science 30, 461-480.

Berna, F., Matthews, A. and Weiner, S. 2003.
Solubilities of bone mineral from archaeological sites: the recrystallization window.
Journal Archaeological Science 31, 867-882.

Rink, W.J., Schwarcz, H.P., Weiner, S., Goldberg, P., Stiner, M.C., Meignen, L. & Bar-Yosef, O. 2004.
Age of the Mousterian industry at Hayonim Cave, Northern Israel, using electron spin resonance and 230Th/234U methods.
Journal Archaeological Science (in press).

Trueman, C.N.G., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Tuross, N. and Weiner, S. 2004.
Mineralogical and compositional changes in bones exposed on soil surfaces in Amboseli National Park, Kenya: Diagenetic mechanisms and the role of sediment pore fluids.
Journal Archaeological Science 31, 21-39.

Verri, G., Barkai, R., Bordeanu, C., Gopher, A., Hass, M., Montanari, P., Paul, M., Ronen, A., Weiner,S. and Boaretto, E. 2004.
Mining in prehistory recorded by in situ produced cosmogenic 10Be in flint.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101, 7880-7884.

Shahack-Gross, R., Berna, F., Karkanas, P. and Weiner, S. 2004.
Bat guano and preservation of archaeological remains in cave sites.
Journal Archaeological Science 31, 1259-1272.

Shahack-Gross, R., Ryan, K., Marshall, F. and Weiner, S. 2004.
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.

Verri, G., Barkai, R., Gopher, A., Hass, M., Kubik, P., Paul, M., Ronen, A., Weiner, S and Boaretto, E. 2004.
Flint mining in the Late Lower Palaeolithic recorded by in situ produced cosmogenic 10Be in Tabun and Qesem Caves (Israel).
Journal Archaeological Science 32,207-213.

Karkanas, P., Koumouzelis, M., Kozlowski, J.K., Sitlivy, V., Sobczyk K., Berna, F. & S. Weiner. 2004.
Aurignacian clay hearth structures in Klisoura Cave 1, southern Greece: the earliest evidence of clay use.
Antiquity 78, 513-525.

Salamon, M., Tuross, N., Arensburg, B., and Weiner, S. 2005.
Relatively well preserved DNA is present in the crystal aggregates of fossil bones.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 102, 13783-13788.

Yizhaq, M., Mintz, G., Cohen, I., Khalally, H., Weiner, S. and Boaretto, E. (2005).
Quality controlled radiocarbon dating of bones and charcoal from the early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) of Motza (Israel).
Radiocarbon 47, 193-206.

Shahack-Gross, R., Albert, R.M., Gilboa, A., Nagar-Hilman, O, Sharon, I and Weiner, S. (2005).
Geoarchaeology in an urban context: the uses of space in a Phoenician Monumental building at Tel Dor (Israel).
J. Archaeological Science 32, 1417-1431.

Elbaum, R., Melamed-Bessudo, C., Boaretto, E., Galili, E., Lev-Yadun, S., Levy, A.A. and Weiner, S. (2005)
Ancient olive DNA in pits: preservation, amplification and sequence analysis.
Journal of Archaeological Science 33, 77-88.

Cohen-Ofri, I., Weiner, L., Boaretto, E., Mintz, G. and Weiner, S. (2006).
Modern and fossil charcoal: aspects of structure and diagenesis.
J. Archaeological Science 33, 428-439.

Mercier, N., Valladas, H., Froget, L., Joron, J.-L., Reyss, J.-L., Weiner, S., Goldberg, P., Meignen, L., Bar-Yosef, O., Kuhn, S.L., Stiner, M.C., Tillier, A.-M., Arensburg, B. and Vandermeersch, B. (2006).
Hayonim cave: a TL-based chronology for this Levantine Mousterian sequence.
J. Archaeological Science 34, 1064-1077.

Berna, F., Behar, A., Shahack-Gross, R., Berg, J., Boaretto, E, Gilboa, A., Sharon, I., Shalev, S., Shilshtein, S., Yahalom-Mack, N., Zorn, J.R. and Weiner, S. 2007.
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

Gueta, R., Natan, A., Addadi, L., Weiner, S., Refson, K. and Kronik, L. 2007.
Local atomic order and infrared spectra of biogenic calcite.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46, 291-294.

Cohen-Ofri, I., Popovitz-Biro, R. and Weiner, S. 2007.
Structural characterization of modern and fossil natural charcoal using high resolution TEM and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS).
Chem. Eur. J.13, 2306-2310.

Albert, R.M., Shahack-Gross, R., Cabanes, D., Gilboa, A., Lev-Yadun, S., Portillo, M., Sharon, I., Boaretto, E. Weiner, S. 2007.
Phytolith-rich layers from the Late Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel Dor (Israel): Mode of formation and archaeological significance.
J. Archaeological Science (in press).

Tsartsidou, G, Lev-Yadun, S., Albert, R.M., Miller-Rosen, R., Efstratiou, N. and Weiner, S. 2007.
The Phytolith Archaeological Record: Strengths and Weaknesses Evaluated Based on a Quantitative Modern Reference Collection from Greece.
Journal of Archaeological Science 34, 1262-1275.

Tsartsidou, G., Lev-Yadun, S., Efstratiou, N. and Weiner, S. 2007.
Ethnoarchaeological Study of Phytolith Assemblages from an Agro-Pastoral Village in Northern Greece (Sarakini): Development and Application of a Phytolith Diversity Index.
Journal of Archaeological Science. In press.

Chu, V., Regev, L., Weiner, S. and Boaretto, E. 2007.
Differentiating between calcite produced at high temperatures in plaster, mortar and ash and natural calcite using infrared spectroscopy: implications in archaeology.
Journal of Archaeological Science (in press)

Namdar, D., Neumann, R., Sladezki, Y., Haddad, N. And Weiner, S. 2007.
Alkane composition variations in beeswax.
Apidologie (in press).

Elbaum, R., Melamed-Bessudo, C.,Tuross, N., Levy, A.A. and Weiner, S. 2007.
New methods to isolate organic materials from silicified phytoliths reveal fragmented glycoproteins but no DNA
Quaternary International (in press).

Mazar, A., Namdar, D., Panitz-Cohen, N., Neumann, R. and Weiner, S. 2007.
The Iron Age beehives in Tel Rehov in the Jordan Valley: archaeological and analytical aspects.
Antiquity (in press).

Chapters in Books

Stiner, M.C., Kuhn, S.L., Surovell, T.A., Goldberg, P., Margaris, A., Meignen, L., Weiner, S. And Bar-Yosef, O. 2005.
Bone, ash, and shell preservation in Hayonim Cave. In: The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel: a 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography and Society.
American School of Prehistoric Research, Bull. 48, Ch. 4, Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. pp. 59-80.

Stiner, M.C., Bar-Yosef, O., Kuhn, S.L., and Weiner, S.. 2005.
Experiments in fragmentation and diagenesis of bone and shell.
In: The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel: a 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography and Society.
American School of Prehistoric Research, Bull. 48, Ch. 3, Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. pp. 39-58.

Bar-Yosef, O., Belfer-Cohen, A., Goldberg, P., Kuhn, S.L., Meignen, L., Vandermeersch, B. and Weiner, S. 2005.
Archaeological background to Hayonim Cave and Meged rockshelter.
In: The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel: a 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography and Society.
American School of Prehistoric Research, Bull. 48, Ch. 2, Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. pp. 17-38.

Albert, R.M., Bar-Yosef, O. and Weiner, S. 2006.
Use of plant materials in Kebara Cave: phytoliths and mineralogical analyses.
In: Archaeology of Kebara Cave. Eds. Bar-Yosef, O. and Meignen, L. (in press).

Weiner, S., Berna, F., Cohen, I., Shahack-Gross, R., Albert, R.M., Karkanas, P., Meignen, L. and Bar-Yosef, O. 2006.
Mineral distributions in Kebara Cave: diagenesis and its affect on the archaeological record.
In: Archaeology of Kebara Cave. Eds. Bar-Yosef, O. and Meignen, L. (in press).

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