Selected Publications
Scientific books
Rosenberg, D. 2010. An Early Pottery Neolithic Occurrence at Beisamoun, the Hula
Valley, Northern Israel. BAR International Series 2095, Oxford: Archaeopress. (138 p)
Rosenberg, D. and Garfinkel, Y. 2014. The Groundstone Industry of Sha‘ar Hagolan –
Stone Working at the Dawn of Pottery Production in the Southern Levant. The Institute
of Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israel Exploration Fund,
Jerusalem. (336 p)
Peer reviewed articles
Rosenberg, D. 2008. Serving meals making a home – The PPNA limestone vessel industry of the southern Levant and its importance to the Neolithic Revolution. Paléorient 34(1):23–32.
Rosenberg, D., Getzov, N. and Assaf, A. 2010. New light on long-distance ties in Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic Near East: The chlorite vessels from Hagoshrim, northern Israel. Current Anthropology 51(2):281–293.
Rosenberg, D. 2013. Not ‘just another brick in the wall?’ The symbolism of groundstone tools in Natufian and Early Neolithic Levantine constructions. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23(2):185–201.
Rosenberg, D. 2013. Not ‘just another brick in the wall?’ The symbolism of groundstone tools in Natufian and Early Neolithic Levantine constructions. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23(2):185–201.
Rosenberg, D. and Nadel, D. 2014. The sounds of pounding: Boulder mortars and their significance to Natufian burial customs. Current Anthropology 55(6):784–812, (major article with commentaries).
Rosenberg, D and Davidovich, U. 2015. Looking at the overlooked: The possible significance of the ground stone assemblage from the Cave of the Treasure, Judean Desert, Israel. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 373: 151–165.
Rosenberg, D. and Gluhak, T. 2016. Trade me an axe? Interpretive challenges of the distribution and provenance of Neolithic basaltic bifacial tools in Israel. Antiquity 90(349):48–63.
Rosenberg, D., Agnon, M. and Kaufman, D. 2016. Conventions in freshwater fishing in the prehistoric southern Levant: The evidence from the study of Neolithic Beisamoun notched pebbles. Journal of Lithic Studies 3(3):457–478.
Rosenberg, D., Chasan, R. and van den Brink, E.C.M. 2016. Craft specialization, production and exchange in the Chalcolithic of the southern Levant: Insights from the study of the basalt bowl assemblage from Namir Road, Tel Aviv, Israel. Journal of Eurasian Prehistory 13(1-2):105–128.
Rosenberg, D. and Shimelmitz, R. 2017. "Perforated stars" - Networks of prestige item exchange and the role of perforated flint objects in the Late Chalcolithic of the southern Levant. Current Anthropology 58(2):295–306.
Rosenberg, D., Garfinkel, Y. and Klimscha, F. 2017. Large scale storage and storage symbolism in the ancient Near East: A clay silo model from Tel Tsaf. Antiquity 91(358):885–900.
Rosenberg, D. and Chasan, R. 2018. The characteristics and significance of prestige goods during the Early Bronze Age period of the southern Levant: The particular case of the four-handled basalt vessels phenomenon. Quaternary International 464:241–259.
Rosenberg, D., Love, S., Hubbard, E., and Klimscha, F. 2020. 7,200 years old constructions and mudbrick technology: The evidence from Tel Tsaf, Jordan Valley, Israel. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0227288. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0227288.
Rosenberg, D., Love, S., Hubbard, E., and Klimscha, F. 2020. 7,200 years old constructions and mudbrick technology: The evidence from Tel Tsaf, Jordan Valley, Israel. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0227288. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0227288.
Rosenberg, D. and Nadel, D. 2020. The function and context of Natufian stone mortars. Current Anthropology 61(1):129-131.
Rosenberg, D. and Chasan, R. 2020. Fishing for answers: The rarity of fish and fishhooks in the Late Chalcolithic of the southern Levant and the significance of copper fishhooks. The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 49(2): 229–237.
Rosenberg, D., Buchman, E., Shalev, S. and Bar, S. 2020. Evidence for Late Chalcolithic copper recycling in the southern Levant: New discoveries from the Fazael Basin. Documenta Prehistorica 47:246-261.
Rosenberg, D. and Chasan, R. 2021. Between novelty and variability: Natufian hunter-gatherers (c. 15–11.7 kyr) proto-agrotechnology and the question of morphometric variations of the earliest sickles. Proceeding of the Prehistoric Society 87: 31–50
Rosenberg, D., Gluhak, T. M., Kaufman, D., Yeshurun, R. and Weinstein-Evron, M. 2021. Exploring exchange and direct procurement strategies for Natufian food processing tools of el-Wad Terrace, Israel. Scientific Reports 11, (2021):9480. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88484-1.
Rosenberg, D., Levine, M.; Klimscha, F., Shalem, D. and Liu, L. 2021. From hangovers to hierarchies: Beer production and use during the Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant – New evidence from Tel Tsaf and Peqi‘in Cave. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 64:1–17.
Rosenberg, D., Ktalav, I., Groman-Yaroslvski, I. and Klimscha, F. 2022. Unique Theodoxus jordani shell beads from the Middle Chalcolithic site of Tel Tsaf (ca. 5200–4700 cal BC), Jordan Valley, Israel. Archaeological Research in Asia 29:1–9.
Chasan, R., Spiteri, C. and Rosenberg, D. 2022. Dietary continuation in the southern Levant: A Neolithic-Chalcolithic perspective through organic residue analysis,
Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14: 49 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01519-0
Rosenberg, D., Elkayam, Y., Garfinkel, Y., Klimscha, F., Vučković, V. and Weiss, Y. 2022. Long-distance trade in the Middle Chalcolithic of the southern Levant: the case of the olivine beads from Tel Tsaf, Jordan Valley, Israel. PLoS ONE 17(8): e0271547. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271547.
Rosenberg, D., Rizzuto, B., Klimscha, F. and Carter, T. 2022. The obsidian beads from Middle Chalcolithic Tel Tsaf (ca. 5,200–4,700 cal. BC), Jordan Valley, Israel: technology, provenance, and socio‑economic significance. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14: 113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01570-x
Liu, L., Levin, M. J., Klimscha, F., & Rosenberg, D. (2022). The earliest cotton fibers and Pan-regional contacts in the Near East. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13.