Prof. Danny Rosenberg (PhD. 2011, University of Haifa) is an archaeologist specializing in the archaeology of food and food-related technologies and the transition to farming and social complexity. He is the former head of the Department of Archaeology, the University of Haifa, the head of the Laboratory for Ancient Food Processing Technologies (LAFPT), at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa and the Chair of the  Association for Ground Stone Tools Research (AGSTR).

 

Hand in hand with his interest in the link between humans, their environments and technologies, Prof. Rosenberg advances multidisciplinary research of the establishment of the so-called "Mediterranean diet" in the Near East during the 6th–4th millennia cal. BC, and the link between this diet, alcohol production and the notable intensification of agricultural production. Prof. Rosenberg research group also studied the interactions between specific environmental conditions, testable changes in foodways, material culture, and communities & social organization. As part of this endeavour, he initiated a multidisciplinary, regional research project, focusing on the Jordan Valley as its core area with the site of Tel Tsaf, with its extraordinary preservation of organic remains, as its key site.

 

Two other projects he is currently advancing are co-directing the micro-archaeological research at the Chalcolithic temple of Ein Gedi, which is now revisited and studying prehistoric fibres.