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CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Steven A. Rosen

1. Personal Details

Work Address: Archaeological Division

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Beersheva, Israel

Tel. 972 (0)8-6477945, 6477149

Fax. 972 (0)8-6472913, 6479434

E-mail: [email protected]

https://bgu.academia.edu/SteveRosen

2. Education

A.B. (with Honors), March 1975, University of California at Berkeley,

Anthropology and Mathematics.

Advisor: Glynn Isaac

Honors thesis: The Magnetometer Survey at Monte Leone, a Late Bronze Age Site

in Northern Italy.

A.M. Dec. 1978, University of Chicago, Anthropology.

Advisor: Karl W. Butzer

A.M. paper: A Study of Megafauna from the Levantine Paleolithic.

University of Chicago unendowed fellowship, 1977-1978.

Ph.D., June 1983, University of Chicago, Anthropology.

Advisor: Karl W. Butzer

Ph.D. thesis: Lithics in the Bronze and Iron Ages in Israel.

Fuerstenberg Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1978-1980.

Zion Research Fellowship (American Schools of Oriental Research), 1979-1980.

3. Employment History

1988 - present, Ben-Gurion University (Full professor 2000, tenure 1992)

2014 – present, Affiliated visiting professor, University of Texas at Austin

1999 - 2000 Cotsen Visiting Scholar, Institute of Archaeology, UCLA

1994 - 1995 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Calgary

1987 - 1988 External lecturer, Ben-Gurion University

1980 - 1988 Research archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of Israel

1987 Tutor, Empire State University

4. Professional Activities

a. Position in academic administration

2014-current, Vice President for External Affairs, BGU

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2012 – 2014, deputy rector, Ben-Gurion University

2012 – 2014, Academic director, Office of International Academic Affairs, BGU

2010 – 2012, assistant dean, Kreitman School of Advanced Studies, BGU

2010 – 2014, 2002-2006, member university faculty promotions committee

2010 – 2014, academic senate

2010 – 2011, advisor to the rector for the Humanities

2010 member search committees, Dean of Kreitman School, Dean of Faculty of

Humanities and Social Sciences

2008 – 2011 chair, Academic Staff Disciplinary Appeals court

2009 – 2010 member faculty doctoral committee

2007 – 2008 chair, faculty space allocations committee

2006 – 2008 member Humanities/Social Sciences faculty promotions committee

2006 – 2010 member research committee for Center for Bedouin Studies

2005 – 2008 director Humphrey Institute for Social Research

2004 – 2008 member Herzog Center Advisory council, Herzog Center Steering

committee, (2005-2008) Herzog Center scientific council

member board of directors Heksherim (Israel Cultural Studies Center)

2003 Interim Director BGU Overseas Students Program

2002 – 2004 member Ben-Gurion Univ. Press academic committee

2002 – 2004 chair ad hoc committee for space allocation in Faculty of Humanities

and Social Sciences

2001 – 2005 member Planning and Development Committee, Faculty of

Humanities and Social Sciences

2001 member search committee for dean, Faculty of Social Sciences/Humanities

2001 – 2012 member ad hoc committee for student reserve duty, representative for

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

2000 – 2003 head Archaeological Division in the Dept. of Bible

1998 – 1999 vice-chair university student disciplinary court

1997 – 1999 chair, faculty doctoral committee (member university doctoral studies

committee)

1995 – 1999 chair, Dept. of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies

1995 – 1997 chair, university student disciplinary appeals court

1993 – 1994 academic advisor college preparatory program, Humanities/Social

Sciences.

head, Archaeological Division of the Dept. of Bible and Ancient Near East,

member at large of the Advisory Committee for the Faculty of the Humanities and

Social Sciences.

1991 – 2012 lecturer BGU Overseas Students Program

b. Professional functions outside universities

2013 – current member Scientific Board, Paléorient

2010 – 2011 member Israel Science Foundation grant distribution committee (4

previous times)

2010 – 2013 member Committee on the State of Archaeology in Israel, Israel

Academy of Sciences (chair of subcommittee on Research)

2006 – current member Permanent Council of the International Union of the

Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences

2006 – 2012 member of board of directors, Eshmor for archaeological preservation

2005 – 2007 member Bikura Managing committee, Israel Science Foundation

1997 – present member Archaeological Council of Israel

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2004-2010 member Preservation Committee,

2011 – present member Excavation license committee

1986 – present Board of Directors, Israel Prehistoric Society

1977 – 1979 lecturer, Israel Information Service Chicago.

1976 – Research assistant Calabria Survey Project, A. Ammerman, Stanford Univ.

Computerization of data.

1974 – 1975 lecturer, Archaeology of Israel, Lehrhaus Judaica, Hillel House,

Berkeley.

c. Professional consulting

1984 – 1987 Consultant – Israel Hydrological Company (TAHAL) - Prehistoric

Archaeological Survey for the Nuclear Reactor Project (conducted under auspices

of Israel Archaeological Survey)

d. Reviewing

Journals and Publishers

African Archaeological Review

American Antiquity

AmS-Skrifter

Antiquity

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy

Atiqot

Before Farming: the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

Current Anthropology

The Holocene

Israel Exploration Journal

Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution

Jamaa

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Journal of Archaeological Research

Journal of Archaeological Science

Journal of Arid Environments

Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

Journal of Public Archaeology

Journal of the Serbian Archaeological Society

Levant

Lithic Technology

Near Eastern Archaeology

Paléorient

PLOS ONE

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean

Quaternary International

Radiocarbon

Science

Altamira Press

Ben-Gurion University Press

Left Coast Press

Council for British Research in the Levant

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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Yale University Press

Granting Agencies

Wenner-Gren

National Geographic

Israel Science Foundation

Israel Ministry of Science and Technology

German-Israel Binational fund

National Science Foundation (USA)

British Research Council

Royal Society, New Zealand

The Dutch Research Council (Council for the Humanities)

e. Courses taught

Introduction to the Prehistory of Israel - first year undergraduate - Ben-Gurion

University

Archaeology of Pastoral Nomadism - upper division undergraduate - Ben-Gurion

University, graduate seminar, UCLA and University of Calgary

Toward an Archaeology of Pastoral Nomadism - graduate seminar - University of

Calgary, Ben-Gurion University

Origins of Civilization in the Near East - upper division undergraduate - Ben-

Gurion University

Lithic Typology and Technology - first year undergraduate - Ben-Gurion

University, advanced undergrad, UCLA Extension

The End of the Stone Age in the Levant - upper division undergraduate - Ben-

Gurion University

Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherers - upper division undergraduate - Ben-Gurion

University

Scientific Methods in Archaeology - upper division undergraduate - Ben-Gurion

University

Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations - graduate seminar - University of Calgary - team

taught with James Helmer

Problems in Prehistory Seminar: Prehistory of the Negev and Sinai - team taught

with Isaac Gilead - senior undergraduate - Ben-Gurion University

The Earliest Farming Societies of the Levant - upper division undergraduate - Ben-

Gurion University

The Archaeology of the American Southwest - upper division undergraduate -

Ben-Gurion University

Environmental Archaeology - upper division undergraduate - Ben-Gurion

University

Ancient Technology - upper division undergraduate - Ben-GurionUniversity

An Introduction to the Archaeology of the Near East - 3rd-4th year undergraduate -

University of Calgary.

Archaeology of the Negev - upper division undergraduate Ben-Gurion University

Overseas Program

Anthropological Approaches to Archaeology - graduate level, Ben-Gurion

University

Archaeology of North America - upper division undergraduate, Ben-Gurion

University

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A History of Archaeology and Archaeological Thought, upper division and

graduate, Ben-Gurion University

Theoretical Approaches to the Origins of Civilization – graduate level, Ben-Gurion

University

f. Memberships in professional organizations

1978 - present Society for American Archaeology

1978 - present Current Anthropology Associate

1980 - present Israel Prehistoric Society

1983 - present American Schools of Oriental Research

1988 - 1995 Association of Archaeologists in Israel (defunct)

1990 - 2003 American Anthropological Association

1992 - present Sigma Xi

1995 - present Chacmool Society, University of Calgary

1998 - 2010 International Council for Zooarchaeology

1998 - 2010 World Archaeological Congress

5. Awards, Honors, Research Fellowships

a. Honors and Awards

1985 Alexander Babbin Prize in Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1985-1986 Honorary research fellowship, Albright Institute, Jerusalem

1991 Fellow of the American Anthropological Association

1998 American Schools of Oriental Research G. Ernest Wright Award for

Archaeological Publication for Lithics After the Stone Age

2005-2013 Honorary professor, Institute of Archaeology, University College

London

2008 Visiting professor, University of California at San Diego, Anthropology

2010 – current Canada Chair in Near-Eastern Archaeology in Honor of Wolfe

Goodman, Ben-Gurion University

2013 – current Adjunct Full Professor, University of Texas at Austin

b. Research Fellowships

1986 - 1987 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow,

Albright Institute, Jerusalem - $12,000

Lithic Analysis in the Historic Periods in the Levant

1994 - 95 (beginning 8/94) Canada-Israel Academic Exchange Fellowship,

University of Calgary

1997 (summer), visiting scientist, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

The Lithic Assemblage from Tell Jemmeh

1999-2000 Cotsen Visiting Scholar, Institute of Archaeology, University of

California at Los Angeles

6. Scientific Publications

a. Books and monographs

1. Rosen, Steven A. 1994. Archaeological Survey of Israel Map of Makhtesh Ramon

204. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem.

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2. Rosen, Steven A. and Avni, G. 1997. The ‘Oded Sites: Investigations at Two Early

Islamic Pastoral Encampments in the South Central Negev. Beersheva XI - Monographs

of the Dept. of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern, Ben-Gurion University, Beersheva.

Review: Whitcomb, D. 1998. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental

Research.

3. Rosen, Steven A. 1997. Lithics After the Stone Age: A Handbook of Stone Tools

from the Levant. AltaMira Press (Sage), Walnut Creek, CA.

Reviews: Betts, A.V.G. 1998. American Journal of Archaeology.

Coquegniot, E. 1998. Paleorient.

Zbenovich, V. 1998.Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society.

Clark, G.A. 1999. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Bergson, C. 1999. Palestine Exploration Quarterly.

Sinclair, A. 1997. Antiquity.

4. Rosen, Steven A. and Roux, Valentine (eds.) 2009. Techniques and People:

Anthropological Perspectives on Technology in the Archaeology of the Proto-Historic and

Early Historic Periods in the Southern Levant. Mémoires et travaux du centre de

recherché français de Jérusalem 9, de Boccard, Paris.

5. Rosen, Steven A. 2011. An Investigation into Early Desert Pastoralism: Excavations

at the Camel Site, Negev. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Los Angeles.

Reviews: Rollefson, G. 2012. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental

Research

Coqueugnot, E. 2013. Paleorient.

b. Chapters in collective volumes, conference proceedings, etc.

1. Rosen, Steven A. 1985. The En Shadud Lithics. Editor: Braun, E. En Shadud, Salvage

Excavations at a Farming Community in the Jezreel Valley, Israel. British Archaeological

Reports Inter. 249, Oxford. Pp. 153-67.

2. Rosen, Steven A. 1986. A Note on the Gezer Flint Caches. Editor: Dever, W.G. Gezer

IV. Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, Jerusalem. Pp. 259-64.

3. Rosen, Steven A. 1987. The Potentials of Lithic Analysis in the Chalcolithic of the

Northern Negev. Editor: Levy, T.E. Shiqmim I. British Archaeological Reports, Inter. 356,

Oxford. Pp. 295-312, 610-11.

4. Levy, Thomas E., and Rosen, Steven A. 1987. The Chipped Stone Industry at

Shiqmim: Typological Considerations. Editor: Levy, T.E. Shiqmim I. British

Archaeological Reports Inter. 356, Oxford. Pp. 281-294, 564-610.

5. Rosen, Steven A. 1987. The Lithic Assemblage of the Iron Age Strata. Authors: Ben-

Tor, A. and Portugali, Y. Tell Qiri, an Iron Age Village in the Jezreel Valley. Qedem 24:

Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Pp. 246-8.

6. Rosen, Steven A. 1988. Notes on the Flint Implements from Tell Yarmouth, 1980-

1982. Editor: Miroschedji, P. de. Yarmouth I. Editions Recherches sur des Civilisations

76, Paris. Pp. 135-142, 242-249, 279.

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7. Rosen, Steven A. 1989. The Analysis of Early Bronze Age Chipped Stone Industries:

A Summary Statement. Editor: Miroschedji, P. de. L’urbanisation de la Palestine á l'âge

du Bronze ancien. British Archaeological Reports International 527, Oxford. Pp. 199-222.

8. Rosen, Steven A. 1989. The Origins of Craft Specialization: A Lithic Perspective.

Editors: Hershkovitz, I. People and Culture in Change. British Archaeological Reports

International 508, Oxford. Pp. 107-114.

9. Boutié, Paul and Rosen, Steven A. 1989. Des Gisements Mousteriennes dans le

Neguev Central: Resultats Preliminaires de Prospections Recentes. Editors:

Vandermeersch, B. and Bar-Yosef, O. Investigations in South Levantine Prehistory.

British Archaeological Reports Int. 497, Oxford. Pp. 147-167.

10. Rosen, Steven A. 1991. Paradigms and Politics in the Terminal Pleistocene

Archaeology of the Levant. Editor: Clark, G.A. Perspectives on the Past: Theoretical

Biases in Mediterranean Hunter-Gatherer Research. University of Pennsylvania Press,

Philadelphia. Pp. 307-321.

11. Rosen, Steven A. 1992. The Case for Seasonal Movement of Pastoral Nomads in the

Late Byzantine/Early Arabic Period in the South Central Negev. Editors: Bar-Yosef, O.

and Khazanov, A. Pastoralism in the Levant: Archaeological Materials in

Anthropological Perspective. Prehistory Press, Madison. Pp. 153-164.

12. Rosen, Steven A. 1992. Negeb (Bronze Age). Anchor Bible Dictionary (Freedman,

D.N., ed.) vol. IV, pp. 1061-1064.

13. Rosen, Steven A. 1993. Metals, Rocks, Specialization and the Beginning of

Urbanism in the Northern Negev. Editors: Biran, A. and Aviram, J. Biblical Archaeology

Today 1990: Pre-Congress Symposium Supplement - Population, Production, and Power.

Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem. Pp. 41-56.

14. Goring-Morris, A. N., Gopher, A., and Rosen, S.A. 1994. The Tuwailan Cortical

Knife Industry of the Negev, Israel. Editors: Gebel, H.G. and Kozlowski, S.K. Neolithic

Chipped Stone Industries of the Fertile Crescent: Studies in Early Near Eastern

Production, Subsistence, and Environment I. ex Oriente, Berlin. Pp. 511-524.

15. Rosen, Steven A. 1996. The Decline and Fall of Flint. Editor: Odell, George H. Stone

Tools, Theoretical Insights into Human Prehistory. Plenum, New York. Pp. 129-158.

16. Rosen, Steven A. 1996. Flint Implements. Editors: Ariel, D.T. and De Groot, A.

Excavations at the City of David 1978-1985 IV.Qedem35, Monographs of the Institute of

Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Pp. 257-267.

17. Rosen, Steven A. 1997. Lithics: Typology and Technology. Editor: E. Meyer. Oxford

Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. Oxford University Press, New York. Vol.

3, pp. 369-374.

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18. Rosen, Steven A. 1997. Lithics: Artifacts of the Bronze and Iron Ages. Editor: E.

Meyer. Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. Oxford University Press,

New York. Vol. 3, pp. 378-382.

19. Rosen, Steven A. 1997. Craft Specialization and the Rise of Secondary Urbanism: A

View from the Southern Levant. Editors: Aufrecht, W. and Mireau, N. Aspects of

Urbanism in Antiquity: From Mesopotamia to Crete. Journal of Old Testament Studies

Supplement 244, Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield. Pp. 82-91.

20. Rosen, Steven A. 1997. Subsistence. Editor: Fagan, B. Oxford Handbook of

Archaeology. Oxford University Press: Oxford. Pp. 701-2.

21. Rosen, S.A. and Grinblat, M. 1997. The Chipped Stone Assemblages from Yiftah’el.

Author: Braun, Eliot. Yiftah’el: Salvage and Rescue Excavations at a Prehistoric Village

in Lower Galilee. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 2: Jerusalem. Pp.132-154.

22. Rosen, Steven A. 1998. The Archaeology of Nomadism: Perspectives from Material

Culture (Hebrew). Editor: Ahituv, S. Researches in the Archaeology of Pastoral

Nomadism in the Negev and Sinai. (Hebrew). Ben-Gurion University Press: Beersheva.

Pp. 27-41.

23. Rosen, Steven A. 1998. The Chipped Stone Assemblage. Editors: Edelstein, G. and

Milevski, I. and Aurant, S. Villages, Terraces, and Stone Mounds: Excavations at

Manahat, Jerusalem. 1987-1989. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 3: Jerusalem. Pp.

78-88.

24. Rosen, Steven A. 1998. The Development of Pastoral Nomadic Systems in the

Southern Levantine Periphery: An Economic Model Based on Archaeological Evidence.

Editors: Pearce, M. and Tosi, M. Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting: Pre- and

Protohistory. BAR International S. 717, Oxford. Pp. 92-97.

25. Rosen, Steven A. 1998. One Hundred Years After Petrie: Is Archaeological

Education in Israel Stagnating? Editor: Marantz, H. Judaism in Education: Essays in

Honor of Walter Ackerman. Ben-Gurion University Press: Beersheva. Pp. 219-230

26. Rosen, Steven A. 2000. The Decline of Desert Agriculture: A View from the

Classical Period Negev. Editors, Barker, G. and Gilbertson, D. The Archaeology of

Drylands. Routledge, One World Archaeology, London and New York. Pp. 45-62.

27. Rosen, Steven A. 2001. The Nabateans as Pastoral Nomads: A View from

Archaeology. Editors: Aren Maier and Eyal Baruch. Settlement, Civilization and

Culture. Institute of Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan. Pp. 151-166

(Hebrew). A more complete version was published in #43.

28. Rosen, A.M. and Rosen, S.A. 2001. Determinist or Not Determinist? Climate,

Environment, and Archaeological Explanation in the Levant. Editor: Wolff, S. Studies in

the Archaeology of Israel and Neighboring Lands in Memory of Douglas L. Esse. The

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization No.

59, Chicago, and The American Schools of Oriental Research Books No. 5, Atlanta. Pp.

535-550.

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29. Gopher, A. and Rosen, S.A. 2001. Lithics of Strata XIII-III, The Pre-Pottery

Neolithic-Early Bronze Age. Authors: Eisenberg, E., Gopher, A., and Greenberg, R. Tel

Te’o, A Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Early Bronze Age Site in the Hula Valley. Israel

Antiquities Authority Report 13, Jerusalem, Pp. 49-82.

30. Rosen, Steven A. 2002. The Evolution of Pastoral Nomadic Systems in the Southern

Levantine Periphery. Editors: van den brink, Edwin, and Yannai, E. In Quest of Ancient

Settlements and Landscapes. Archaeological Studies in Honour of Ram Gophna.

Ramot Publishing, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. Pp. 23-44.

31. Rosen, Steven A. 2002. An Economic Model for Early Bronze Age Pastoral

Nomadism. Editors, Ahituv, S. and Oren, E.D. Beer-Sheva XVIII Kempinsky Memorial

Volume. Monographs of the Dept. of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion

University, Beersheva. Pp. 344-359.

32. Rosen, Steven A. 2002. Invention as the Mother of Necessity: An Archaeological

Examination of the Origins and Development of Pottery and Metallurgy in the Levant.

Editors: Harrison, R., Gillespie, M., and Peuramki-Brown, M. Eureka: The Archaeology

of Innovation and Science. Chacmool Society, University of Calgary Press, Calgary.

Pp.11-21.

33. Rosen, S.A. and Gopher, A. 2003. Flint Tools from the Survey. Author: Beit-Arieh,

I. Archaeology of Sinai, the Ophir Expedition. Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. Pp. 184-

195.

34. Rosen, Steven A. 2003. Settlement and Survey Archaeology: A View from a

"Periphery". Editors, Papadopoulos, J.K. and Leventhal, R.M. Theory and Practice in

Mediterranean Archaeology: Old World and New World Perspectives. The Cotsen

Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. Pp. 173-181.

35. Rosen, S.A. and Rose, J. 2003. Chapter 10: Chipped Stone Assemblage

By Leibowitz, H. Tel Yin’am I: The Late Bronze Age. Studies in Archeology 42, Texas

Archeological Research Laboratory, the University of Texas at Austin. Pp. 211-219.

36. Rosen, Steven A. 2003. The Chipped Stone Artifacts from Tel Qashish. Ben-Tor, A.,

Bonfil, R. and Zuckerman, S. Tel Qashish, A Village in the Jezreel Valley. Qedem Reports

5, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, pp. 395-412.

37. Rosen, Steven A. 2004. Chapter 31. The Chipped Stone Assemblages. Editor,

Ussishkin, David The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish V. Tel Aviv

University, Tel Aviv. Pp. 2197-2225.

38. Rosen, Steven A. 2004. The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Nessana Region.

Editor. Urman, D. Nessana Excavations and Studies I. Beersheva XVII, Monographs of

the Dept. of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern, Ben-Gurion University, Beersheva. Pp.

119*-157*.

39. Rosen, Steven A. 2006. Desertification and Pastoralism: A Historical Review of

Pastoral Nomadism in The Negev Region. Land Use and Land Cover, from Encyclopedia

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of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss

Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net].

40. Rosen, Steven A. 2006. The Tyranny of Texts: A Rebellion against the Primacy of

Written Documents in Defining Archaeological Agendas. Editors, Maier, A. and

Miroschedji, P. de: I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times: Archaeological and

Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday.

Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, IN. Pp. 879-893.

41. Rosen, S.A., Hermon, S., Vardi, J. and Abadi, Y. 2006. The Chipped Stone

Assemblage from Be’er Resisim in the Negev Highlands: A Preliminary Study. Editors,

Gitin, S., Wright, J.E. and Dessel, J.P. Confronting the Past: Archaeological and

Historical Essays in Honor of William G. Dever. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake. Pp. 133-144.

42. Rosen, Steven .A. 2006. The Chipped Stone Assemblage from Tel Batash. Editors,

Panitz-Cohen, N. and Mazar, A. Timnah (Tel Batash) III: The finds from the Second

Millennium BC. Qedem 45: Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew

University. Jerusalem. Pp. 281-290.

43. Rosen, Steven A. 2007. The Nabateans as Pastoral Nomads: An Archaeological

Perspective. Editor, Politis, K. The World of the Nabateans. Steiner -Verlag, Stuttgart. Pp.

345-374.

44. Vardi, J., Hermon, S. and Rosen, S.A. 2007. The Early Bronze IV (2200-2000 BCE)

Economy in the Negev Highlands- The Lithic Evidence. Editors: van der Steen, E. and

Saidel, B.A. On the Fringe of Society: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological

Perspectives on Pastoral and Agricultural Societies. British Archaeological Reports

International Series 1657, Oxford. Pp. 93-110.

45. Abadi, Y. and Rosen, S.A. 2008. A Chip Off the Old Millstone. Editors, Rowan, Y.

and Ebeling, J.: New Approaches to Old Stones: Recent Studies of Groundstone Artifacts.

Equinox Publishing Ltd., London. Pp. 99-115.

46. Rosen, Steven A. 2008. Desert Pastoral Nomadism in the Longue Durée. A Case

Study from the Negev and the Southern Levantine Deserts. Editors, Barnard, H. and

Wendrich, W.: The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New world Nomadism.

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Los Angeles. Pp. 115-140.

47. Rosen, Steven A. 2008. Desert Landscapes in Archaeology: A Case Study from the

Negev. Editors: David, B. and Thomas, J. Handbook of Landscape Archaeology. Left

Coast Press, Walnut Creek. Pp. 409-423.

48. Rosen, Steven A 2009. History Does Not Repeat Itself: Cyclicity and Particularism

in Nomad-Sedentary Relations in the Negev in the Long Term. Editor: Szuchman, J.

Nomads, Tribes and the State in the Ancient Near East: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives.

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Seminar 5, Chicago, Pp. 57-87.

49. Roux, V. and Rosen, S.A. 2009. An Introduction to Technological Studies in the

Archaeology of the Proto-Historic and Early Historic Periods in the Southern Levant.

Editors: Rosen, Steven A. and Roux, Valentine. Techniques and People: Anthropological

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Perspectives on Technology in the Archaeology of the Proto-Historic and Early Historic

Periods in the Southern Levant. Mémoires et travaux du Centre de recherché français de

Jérusalem 9, de Boccard, Paris. Pp. 11-22.

50. Rosen, Steven A. 2009. Production in the Protohistoric Desert: Comparative

Perspectives. Editors: Rosen, Steven A. and Roux, Valentine, Techniques and People:

Anthropological Perspectives on Technology in yhe Archaeology of the Proto-Historic

and Early Historic Periods in the Southern Levant. Mémoires et travaux du Centre de

recherché français de Jérusalem 9, de Boccard, Paris. Pp. 251-268.

51. Rosen, Steven A. 2009. Epilogue: How Far We Have Come? Editors: Rosen, S.A.

and Roux, V. Techniques and People: Anthropological Perspectives on Technology in the

Archaeology of the Proto-Historic and Early Historic Periods in the Southern Levant.

Mémoires et travaux du Centre de recherché français de Jérusalem 9, de Boccard, Paris.

Pp. 269-273.

52. Rosen, S. A., and A. N. Goring-Morris 2010. The Deir el-Balah Lithics. Editors:.

Dothan, T. and Brandl, B. Excavations at the Cemetery and the Settlement of Deir el-

Balah. The Finds, vol. II. Qedem 50, Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology, The

Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem, pp. 273-277

53. Rosen, Steven A. 2010. The Tents of Jacob? Editor: Yona, S. Or Le-Mayer: Studies

in Bible, Semitic Languages, Rabbinic Literature, and Ancient Civilizations. Ben-Gurion

University Press, Beersheva. Pp. 145-156.

54. Rosen, Steven A. 2010. The Desert and the Sown: A Lithic Perspective. Editor:

Eriksen, Berit. Lithic technology in metal using societies. Jutland Archaeological Society

Publications 67, Jutland Archaeological Society, Hojberg. Pp. 203-221.

55. Rosen, S.A. 2011. Desert Chronologies and Periodization Systems. Editors: Lovell, J.

and Rowan, Y. Culture, Chronology and the Chalcolithic: theory and transition. Council

for British Research in the Levant, London. Pp. 71-83.

56. Vardi, J. and Rosen, S.A. 2011. Chipped Stone. Editors: Stager, L.G., Master, D. M.

and Schloen, J.D. Ashkelon 3. Eisenbraun's, Winona Lake, Indiana. Pp. 547-554.

57. Rosen, Steven A. 2011. Blood From Stone: Can We Really Do Ethnicity from Flint?

Editor: Chesson, M. Daily Life, Materiality, and Complexity in Early Urban Communities

of the Southern Levant Papers in Honor of Walter E. Rast and R. Thomas Schaub.

Eisenbraun’s, Winona Lake. Pp. 247-264.

58. Rosen, S.A., Ben-Ari, C. and Gotesman, Z. 2012. Chapter 22 – The Chipped Stone

Assemblage from Tell es-Safi/Gath: Preliminary Observations. Editor: Maeir, A. M. Tell

es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996–2005 Seasons. Ägypten und Altes Testament 69,

Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden. Pp. 501-508, Plates 22:1-22:5 (vol. 2).

59. Rosen, S.A. 2012. Lithic Industries during the Holocene Period. Editor: Potts, D.T. A

Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Blackwell Wiley, London. Pp.

236-260.

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60. Savinetsky, A.B., Babenko, A.N., Debella, H.J., Khassanov, B.F., Kiseleva,

N.K., Krylovich,O.K., Kuzmicheva, E.A., Rosen, S., and Yirga, S. 2012. Editor: Lefèvre,

C. Zoogenic deposits in rock shelters from the Old World (experience for palaeoecological

purposes). In Proceedings of the General Session of the 11th

International Council for

Archaeozoology Conference (Paris, 23-28 August 2010).. BAR International Series 2354,

Oxford. Pp. 25-31.

61. Rosen, S. A. and Vardi, J. 2014. The Chipped Stone Assemblage from Be’er

Resisim—A Final Report. In Dever, W.G., Excavations at the Early Bronze IV Sites of

Jebel Qa‘aqir and Be’er Resisim. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana. Pp. 327-339.

62. Rosen, Steven A. 2014. Lithic systems of the 4th

millennium BC: A brief

comparison between the industries of Egypt and the Southern Levant. Editor: Mączyńska,

A. The Nile Delta as a centre of cultural interactions between Upper Egypt and the

Southern Levant in the 4th millennium BC. (Studies in African Archaeology 13), Poznań

Archaeological Museum, Poznań. Pp. 253-267.

63. Rosen, S.A. and Vardi, J. 2014. Chipped Stone Assemblage from Tell Jemmeh. In

Ben-Shlomo, D. and Van Beek, G.W. The Smithsonian Institution Excavation at Tell

Jemmeh, Israel, 1970–1990. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 50, Smithsonian

Institution Scholarly Press, Washington DC. Pp. 987-1003.

64. Shimelmitz, R. and Rosen, S.A. 2014. The Flint Assemblage (from Bet Yerah).

Editor: Greenberg, R. Bet Yerah : The Early Bronze Age Mound Volume II, Urban

Structure and Material Culture, 1933–1986 Excavations. Israel Antiquities Reports 54,

Jerusalem. Pp. 159-180.

65. Rosen, S.A. and Gotesman, Z. 2014. The Chipped Stone Collection from the Gezer

Fields. In Gilmour, G. Gezer VI, the Objects from Phases I and II (1964-1974). Annual of

the Hebrew Union College/Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology Vol. X,

Jerusalem and Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns. Pp. 290-302.

66. Rosen, S.A., Shugar, A. and Vardi, J. 2015. Function and Value in Sickle Segment

Analysis: Odellian Perspectives. In Shott, M. (ed.) Works in Stone, Contemporary

Perspectives on Lithic Analysis. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. Pp. 116-30.

67. Rosen, S.A. 2015. Cult and the rise of desert pastoralism: a case study from the

Negev. In Defining the Sacred: Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion in the Near

East. Ed. N. Laneri. Oxford, Oxbow. Pp. 38-47.

68. Rosen, Steven A. and Rosen, Arlene M. In press. The Saharo-Arabian Early

Pastoral Complex: An East-West Hypothesis on the Development of Early Desert

Nomadism in the Near East and North Africa. In A River Runs Through it: Essays in

honour of Professor Fekri A. Hassan. Editors Aloisia de Trafford, G. J. Tassie, Joris van

Wetering and Okasha El Daly. Annales du Service des Antiquités de L’Egypte, The

Egyptian Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA), Cairo. (Pp. 10, 2 figs.).

69. Rosen, Steven A., and Goring-Morris, A. Nigel - in press. Har Qeren XV. Author:

Goring-Morris, A.N. Prehistoric Investigations around the Haluza Dunes. In press. (10

pp. text, 2 tables, 5 figs.).

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70. Rosen, S.A. – in press. The Beginnings of Desert Pastoralism: Hypotheses from the

Negev. Editor, K. Wright. The Ancient Levant. Institute of Archaeology, UCL. London.

(34 pp. text).

c. Refereed articles in scientific journals

1. Rosen, Steven A. 1981. Observations on Bedouin Archaeological Sites near Ma'aleh

Ramon. Middle East Research Associates Forum 5:11-14.

2. Rosen, Steven A. 1982. Flint Sickles of the Late Protohistoric and Early Historic

Periods in Israel. Tel Aviv 9:139-46.

3. Rosen, Steven A. 1982. Flints from Atarha Par. Eretz Israel 16:143-44. (Hebrew).

4. Rosen, Steven A. 1983. The Microlithic Lunate: An Old-New Tool Type from the

Negev, Israel. Paleorient 9/2:81-83.

5. Rosen, Steven A. 1983. The Tabular Scraper Trade: A Model for Material Culture

Dispersion. Bulletin of the American Schools for Oriental Research 249:79-86.

6. Rosen, Steven A. 1983. The Canaanean Blade and the Bronze Age in Israel. Israel

Exploration Journal 33:15-29.

7. Rosen, Steven A. 1984. Kvish Harif: Preliminary Investigations at a Late Neolithic

Site in the Central Negev. Paleorient 10/2:111-121.

8. Rosen, Steven A. 1984. The Adoption of Metallurgy in the Levant: A Lithic

Perspective. Current Anthropology 25 (4):504-5.

9. Rosen, Steven A. 1985. The Potentials of Lithic Analysis in the Historic Periods in the

Levant. Mitekufat Haeven (Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society) 18:37-43.

10. Rosen, Steven A. 1986. The Analysis of Trade and Craft Specialization in the

Chalcolithic Period: Comparisons from Different Realms of Material Culture. Michmanim

3:21-32.

11. Rosen, Steven A. 1986. A Note on Frequencies, Proportions and Diversity: A

Response to Cannon. American Antiquity 51:409-411.

12. Rosen, Steven A. 1987. Demographic Trends in the Negev Highlands: Preliminary

Results from the Emergency Survey. Bulletin of the American Schools for Oriental

Research 266:45-58.

13. Rosen, Steven A. 1987. Byzantine Nomadism in the Negev: Results from the

Emergency Survey. Journal of Field Archaeology 14:29-42.

14. Rosen, Steven A. 1988. Finding Evidence of Ancient Nomads. Biblical Archaeology

Review 14:46-53, 58-9.

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15. Rosen, Steven A. 1988. Notes on the Origins of Pastoral Nomadism: A Case Study

from the Negev and Sinai. Current Anthropology 29:498-506.

16. Rosen, Steven A. 1988. A Preliminary Note on the Egyptian Component of the

Chipped Stone Assemblage from Tel Erani. Israel Exploration Journal 38(3):105-116.

17. Rosen, Steven A. 1988-9. Pottery Neolithic Flint Artifacts from Tell Lachish.

Tel Aviv 15-16:193-196.

18. Goring-Morris, A. N., and Rosen, S.A. 1989. An Upper Paleolithic Assemblage

with Chamfered Pieces from the Central Negev, Israel. Mitekufat Haeven (Journal of the

Israel Prehistoric Society) 22:31-40.

19. Rosen, S.A. and Avni, G. 1989. Excavations around Har Oded. Israel Exploration

Journal 39:117-120.

20. Rosen, Steven A. 1990. Appendix A: The Lithic Assemblages of Sites 911 and 915

in Bi'qat 'Uvda. Atiqot10:4*-8*.

21. Rosen, Steven A. 1990. Givat Hayil 33, an Epipaleolithic Site in the Western Negev.

Mitekufat Haeven (Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society) 23:60-78.

22. Rosen, Steven A. 1991. The Lithic Assemblage from the Early Bronze Age Site at

Har Horsha. Atiqot 20:169-176.

23. Levy, T.E, Alon, D., Goldberg, P., Grigson, C., Smith, P., Buikstra, J. Holl, A.,

Rosen, S.A., Shalev, S., Ben Izhak, S., and Ben-Yosef, A. 1991. Protohistoric

Investigations at the Shiqmim Chalcolithic Village and Cemetery: Interim Report on the

1987 Season. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research Supplement 27:29-

46.

24. Belfer-Cohen, A., Gilead, I., Goring-Morris, A.N. and Rosen, S.A. 1991. An

Epipaleolithic Rockshelter at Nahal Nekarot in the Central Negev. Journal of the Israel

Prehistoric Society – Mitekufat Haeven 24:164-168.

25. Gilead, I., Rosen, S.A. and Fabian, P. 1991. Excavations at Tell Abu Matar (Hazerim

Neighborhood), Beersheva. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society – Mitekufat Haeven

24:173-179.

26. Rosen, Steven A. 1992. Nomads in Archaeology: A Response to Finkelstein and

Perevoletsky. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 287:75-85.

27. Rosen, S.A. and Eldar, I. 1993. Horvat Beter Revisited: The 1982 Salvage

Excavations. Atiqot 22:13-27.

28. Rosen, Steven A. 1993. The Lithic Assemblages from Nahal Mitnan. Atiqot 22:62-

70.

29. Rosen, Steven A. 1993. A Roman Period Pastoral Tent Camp in the Negev, Israel.

Journal of Field Archaeology 20:441-451.

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30. Rosen, Steven A. and Goodfriend, G.A. 1993. An Early Date for Gaza Ware from

the Northern Negev. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 125:143-148.

31. Rosen, Steven A. 1993. A Note on the Flint Assemblage (Ashdod). Authors: Dothan,

M. and Porat, Y. Atiqot 23 (Ashdod V. Excavation of Area G): 117-121.

32. Rosen, S.A. and Avni, G. 1993. The Edge of Empire: The Archaeology of Pastoral

Nomads in the Southern Negev Highlands in Late Antiquity. Biblical Archaeologist

56(4):189-199. (Reprinted in the series Formation of the Classical Islamic World).

32a. Rosen, S.A. and Avni, G. 1995. The Edge of Empire: The Archaeology of Pastoral

Nomads in the Southern Negev Highlands in Late Antiquity. Archaeologiya 4:29-41.

(Hebrew version).

33. Rosen, Steven A. 1994. The Nomadic Periphery: Archaeology of Pastoralists in the

South Central Negev in Late Antiquity. Aram 6:295-309

34. Rosen, Steven A. 1994-5. Microlithic Drills from the Camel Site, Mizpe Ramon.

Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 26:148-158.

35. Gopher, A., Goring-Morris, A. N., and Rosen, S.A. 1995. ‘Ein Qadis I: A Pre-

Pottery Neolithic B Occupation in Eastern Sinai. Atiqot 27:15-33.

36. Rosen, S.A. and Clark, J.E. 1996. What Mean these Stones? Thoughts on Teaching

Lithic Analysis in the Core Curriculum. Lithic Technology 21:40-47.

37. Rosen, Steven A. 1996. The Chipped Stone Assemblage from Hartuv. Bulletin of the

American Schools of Oriental Research 302:41-50.

38. Rosen, Steven A. 1997. Beyond Milk and Meat: Lithic Evidence for Economic

Specialization in the Early Bronze Age Pastoral Periphery in the Levant. Lithic

Technology 22:105-115.

39. Goring-Morris, A.N., Baruch, U., Belfer-Cohen, A., and Rosen, S.A. 1998.

Epipaleolithic Occupations in Nahal Neqarot Rockshelter, Negev, Israel: Radiocarbon

Dating and Identification of Charred Wood Remains. Geoarchaeology 13:219-232.

40. Matney, T., Algaze, G., and Rosen, S.A. 1999. Early Urban Structure at Titris

Hoyuk, Southeastern Turkey: The 1998 Season. (especially see Rosen, S.A., Aricanli,

S. and Hartenberger, B. “Suburbs”). Anatolica 25:185-201.

41. Algaze, G., Matney, T., Rosen, S.A., and Erdal, D. 1999. Excavations at Titris

Hoyük, Sanliurfa Province: Preliminary Report for the 1998 Season. Kazi Sonuחlari

Toplantisi 21: 145-156.

42. Rosen Steven A. 2000. Dissecting the Site: Assays in Decoding Artifact

Distribution in a Terminal Pleistocene Campsite in the Negev. Lithic Technology 25:27-49

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43. Hartenberger, B., Rosen, S.A., and Matney, T. 2000. The Early Bronze Age Blade

Workshop at Titris Hoyük: Lithic Specialization in an Urban Context. Near Eastern

Archaeology 63:51-58.

44. Rosen, Steven A. 2001. The Lithic Assemblage from Biq’at ‘Uvdah 917 and Its

Spatial Implications. Atiqot 62:109-119.

45. Rosen, S.A. and Schneider, J. 2001. Early Bronze Age Milling Stone Production and

Exchange in the Negev: Preliminary Conclusions. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society

31:201-212.

46. Algaze, G., Dinckan, G., Hartenberger, B., Matney, T., Pournelle, J., Rainville, L.,

Rosen, S., Rupley, E., Schlee, D., and Vallet, R. 2001. Research at Titris Hoyuk in

Southeastern Turkey: the 1999 Season. Anatolica 22: 23-106.

47. Rosen, S.A. and Rosen, Y.J. 2003. The Shrines of the Setting Sun. Israel

Exploration Journal 53:1-19.

48. Rosen, Steven A. 2003. Early Multi-Resource Nomadism: Excavations at the Camel

Site in the Central Negev. Antiquity 77:750-761

49 Rosen, S.A., Savinetsky, A.B., Plakht, Y., Kisseleva, N.K., Khassanov, B.F.,

Pereladov, A.M. and Haiman, M. 2005. Dung in the Desert: Preliminary Results of

the Negev Holocene Ecology Project. Current Anthropology 46:317-327.

50. Rosen, S.A., Tykot, R.T., and Gottesman, M. 2005. Long Distance Trinket Trade:

Early Bronze Age Obsidian from the Negev. Journal of Archaeological Science 32:775-

784.

51. Rosen, Steven A. 2005. Coming of Age: The Decline of Archaeology in Israeli

Identity. BGU Review 1:43-58. (Hebrew version published in Pp. 171-186, Feige, M. and

Shilony, Z. 2008 (eds.) A Spade to Dig With: Archaeology and Nationalism in the Land of

Israel. Ben-Gurion Institute, Sede Boqer.

52. Rosen, S.A. and Horwitz, L.K. 2005. Givat Hayil 35: A stratified Epipaleolithic site

in the western Negev. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 35:201-228.

53. Segal, I., and Rosen, S.A. 2005. Copper Among the Nomads: Early Bronze Age

Copper Objects from the Camel Site, Central Negev, Israel. Bulletin of the Institute of

Archaeometallurgy 25:3-8.

54. Porat, N., Rosen, S.A., Boaretta, E., and Avni, Y. 2006. Dating the Ramat

Saharonim Late Neolithic Desert Cult Site. Journal of Archaeological Science 33: 1341-

55. Saidel, B., Erickson-Gini, T., Vardi, J., Rosen, S.A., Maher, E. and Greenfield, H.

2006. Test Excavations at Rogem Be’erotayim in Western Negev. Journal of the Israel

Prehistoric Society 36:201-229.

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56. Rosen, S.A., Avni, Y., Bocquentin, F., and Porat, N. 2007. Investigations at Ramat

Saharonim: A Desert Neolithic Sacred Precinct in the Central Negev. Bulletin of the

American Schools of Oriental Research 346:31-57.

57. Babenki, A.N., Kiseleva, N.K., Plakht, I., Rosen, S., Savinetskii, A.B., and

Khasanov, B.F. 2007. Reconstruction of the Holocence Vegetation in the Central Negev

Desert, Israel, on the Basis of Palynological Date on the Atzmaut Zoogenic Deposit.

Russian Journal of Ecology 38(6):388-397. (Russian version Ekologiya 38(6):417-426).

58. Lehmann, G., Rosen, S.A. Berlejung, A., and Niemann, M. 2009. Ausgrabungen in

Qubur el-Waleyide, Israel, 2007-2008. ZPDV 125: 1-28.

59. Rosen, Steven A. 2010. Givat Ha’aralot: an Archaeological Parable. Dig-it-al Near

Eastern Archaeology http://www.bu.edu/asor/pubs/nea/dig-it-al-nea.html.

60. Lehmann, G., Rosen, S.A., Berlejung, A., Neumeier, B.-A., and Niemann, H.M.

2010. Excavations at Qubur al-Walaydah, 2007–2009. Die Welt des Orients 40:1–23.

61. Rosen, S.A. and Lehmann, G. 2010. Hat das biblische Israel einen nomadischen

Ursprung? Kritische Beobachtungen aus der Perspektive der Archäologie und

Kulturanthropologie. Die Welt des Orients 40: 24–53

62. Rosen, S. A. and Saidel, B.A. 2010. The Camel and the Tent: an Exploration of

Technological Change among Early Pastoralists. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 69:63-

77.

63. Rosen, S.A. 2010. Activity Areas, Workshops, and Variations on the Theme from

a Near Eastern Lithic Perspective. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 40:167-182.

64. Horwitz, L.K., Rosen, S.A. and Bocquentin, F. 2011. A Late Neolithic Equid

Offering from the Mortuary-Cult Site of Ramat Saharonim in the Central Negev. Journal

of the Israel Prehistoric Society 41: 71-82.

65. Rosen, S.A. 2011. The Desert and the Pastoralist: An Archaeological Perspective

on Human-Landscape Interaction in the Negev over the Millennia. Annals of Arid Zone

50(3&4): 295-309.

66. Rosen, S.A. 2012. The Chipped-Stone Assemblage [from Sha'ar Hagolan]

'Atiqot 69:53-59.

67. Rosen, S.A. 2013. Evolution in the Desert: Scale and Discontinuity in the Central

Negev in the Fourth Millennium BCE. Paléorient 39:139-148.

68. Rosen, S.A. 2013. Arrowheads, Axes, Ad hoc, and Sickles: An Introduction to

Aspects of Lithic Variability across the Near East in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Lithic

Technology 38(3)141-149.

69. Eisenberg-Degen, D. and Rosen, S.A. 2013. Chronological Trends in Negev Rock-

Art: The Har Michia Petroglyphs as a Test Case. Arts 2:225-252.

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70. Asscher, Y., Lehmann, G., Rosen, S.A., Weiner, S., and Boaretto, E. 2015.

Absolute Dating of the Late Bronze to Iron Age Transition and the Appearance of

Philistine Culture in Qubur el-Walaydah, Southern Levant. Radiocarbon 57:1-21.

71. Shamir, O. and Rosen, S.A. 2015. Early Bronze Age Textiles from the Ramon I

Rock Shelter in the Central Negev. Israel Exploration Journal 65: in press (7 pp. text, 8

figs. 1 table).

72. Clarke, J., Brooks, N., Banning, E.B., BarMatthews, M., Campbell, S., Clare, L.,

Cremaschi, M., di Lerniah, S., Drake, N.,Gallinaroj, M., Manning, S., Nicolll, K., Philip,

G., Rosen, S., Schoopo,U.-D., Tafurip, M.A., Weninger, B., Zerboni, A. 2015. Climatic

changes and social transformations in the Near Eastand North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th

millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and archaeological evidence.

Quaternary Science Reviews in press Available online 19 October 2015.

73. Rosen, S.A. - in press. The Biqat Uvda 16 Lithic Assemblage. Atiqot (20 pp. text, 6

tables, 7 figs.).

d. Published scientific reports and technical papers

1. Goring-Morris, A.N., and Rosen, S.A. 1987. Final Report to TAHAL on the

Results of the Prehistoric Conducted by the Archaeological Survey of Israel and Other

Projects Within 25 Km of the Site. Israel Electric Corporation, pp. 79, 23 figs.

e. Unrefereed professional articles and publications

2. Boutie, P. and Rosen, S.A. 1985. Les Gisements mousteriens du Neguev Central

(Israel). Bulletin de la Societe Prehistorique Francaise 82 (7):197.

3. Rosen, S.A. 1985. Commentary on V. Kabo's "Origins of the Food Producing

Economy." Current Anthropology 26:611-12.

4. Rosen, S.A. 1987. Commentary on "Theory and Experiment in the Study of

Technological Change,"by M.B. Schiffer and J. Skibo. Current Anthropology 28:613.

5. Rosen, S.A. 1987. South by Southwest: the Prehistory of the American Southwest

through Negev Eyes (Book review of The Prehistory of the Southwest by L. Cordell).

Mitekufat Haeven 20:191-94.

6. Rosen, S.A. 1992. Review of Nomads in Archaeology by R. Cribb. Mitkeufat

Haeven 24:191-193.

7. Rosen, S.A. 1992. Review of A History of Archaeological Thought by B. Trigger.

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 85:94-95.

8. Gilead, I., Rosen, S.A., Fabian, P. and Rothenberg, B. 1992. New Archaeo-

Metallurgical Evidence for the Beginnings of Metallurgy in the Southern Levant.

Excavations at Tell Abu Matar, Beersheva (Israel) 1990/1. Bulletin of the Institute for

Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies 18:11-14.

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9. Rosen, S.A. 1993. Reponse to "Interdisciplinary Aspects of Biblical Archaeology.

Editors: Biran, A. and Aviram, J. Biblical Archaeology Today 1990. Israel Exploration

Society, Jerusalem. Pp. 489-490.

10. Rosen, S.A. 1996. Review of Neolithic Chipped Stone Industries of the Fertile

Crescent, edited by H.G. Gebel and S.K. Kozlowski. Lithic Technology 21:79-80.

11. Rosen, S.A. 1997. Review of Natufian Chipped Stone Assemblage from Sunakh,

Near Petra, Southern Jordan, by C.H. Pederson. Journal of Field Archaeology 24:123-

125.

12. Rosen, S.A. 1998. Commentary on Michael Rosenberg’s ‘Cheating At Musical

Chairs’. Current Anthropology 39:672-3.

13. Rosen, S.A. 1998. Review of Interpreting the Landscape: Landscape

Archaeology and Local History, by M. Aston. Geography Research Forum 18:106-7.

14. Rosen, S.A. 2000. Review of Prehistory of Jordan II, edited by Gebel, H.G.,

Kafafi, Z., and Rollefson, G. Journal of the American Oriental Society 120:100-101.

15. Rosen, S.A. 1999. Review of Tell SabiAbyad, The Late Neolithic Settlement:

Report on the Excavations of the University of Amsterdam (1988) and the National

Museum of Antiquities Leiden (1991-1992) in Syria, edited by Akkermans, P.M.M.G.

Levant 31:323-324.

16. Rosen, S.A. 2000. Review of Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western

Asia, edited by Akazawa, T., Aoki, K., and Bar-Yosef, O. Israel Exploration

Journal 50:132-134.

17. Rosen, S.A. 2000. Review of Canaan and Ancient Israel. University of

Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, PA. Permanent Installation. American

Anthropologist 102:598-599.

18. Rosen, S.A. 2001. Review of Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Lithic Analysis,

by Andrefsky, W. European Journal of Archaeology 4:148-149.

19. Rosen, S.A. 2001. To Dig or Not to Dig? A Critical Response to Kletter and De-

Groot. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 14:95-98.

20. Rosen, S.A. 2002. Review of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and

Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society, by Abu El-Haj, N. Hagar 3:157-160.

21. Rosen, S.A. 2002. Review of The Wilderness of Zin, by Woolley, C.L. and

Lawrence, T.E. Near Eastern Archaeology 65:286-287.

22. Rosen, S.A. 2004. Review of Let Shepherding Endure, by G. Kressel.

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10:724-5.

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23. Rosen, S.A. 2007. Review of After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex

Societies, eds. G. Schwartz and J. Nichols. Geography Research Forum 27:139-140.

24. Rosen, S.A. 2007. Review of Millennial Landscape Change in Jordan:

Geoarchaeology and Cultural Ecology, by C. Cordova. Geography Research Forum

27:114-116.

25. Rosen, S.A. 2008. Review of Human ecology in the Wadi al-Hasa: land use and

abandonment through the Holocene by J. Brett Hill. Journal of the Royal Anthropological

Institute 14:672-73.

26. Rosen, S.A. 2011. Review of Metals, Nomads and Culture Contact by N. Anfinset.

Journal of Anthropological Research 67:114-115.

27. Rosen, S.A. 2012. Review of Lithics in the Scandinavian Late Bronze Age by A.

Hogberg. Lithic Technology 37: 65-67.

28. Rosen, S.A. 2012. Review of The Dispersal of the Neolithic over the Arabian

Peninsula by P. Drechsler. Paléorient 37(2):201-204.

29. Rosen, S.A. 2015. Review of Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near

Eastern Civilizations Weaving Together Society by A. Porter. Journal of Near Eastern

Studies 74:153-155.

f. Unpublished articles and reports (selected)

Berlin, A., Miller, A., Rosen, S.A., and Verhaaran, B.

1980 Survey Critique. In Results of the Archaeological Survey of the Boiler Area, Sawmill

Creek, Argonne, Report on file at Argonne National Labs, Il.

Rosen, Steven A.

1980 The Ramat Matred VI Lithics. Report submitted to E. Braun, Israel Dept. of

Antiquities.

1980 Fields 1 and 2, Tell Dor: Field Report. Submitted to the Israel Dept. of Antiquities.

1983 Mitzpeh Ramon Archaeological Survey: Interim Report. Submitted to Israel

Academy of Sciences.

1983 The Tell Hesi Lithics, 1979-1983. Report submitted to V. Fargo, University of

Chicago.

Rosen, S.A. and Haiman, M. 1983 Nahal Mitnan II Excavations: Preliminary Report.

Submitted with M. Haiman to Israel Dept. of Antiquities.

Rosen, Steven A.

1986 Prehistoric Survey in Mishor Haruchot. Report submitted to the Israel Ministry

of Science.

1988 The Lithic Assemblage from Site A-403, North Sinai. Report submitted to Eliezer

Oren, Ben Gurion Univ.

1988 Notes on the Lithic Assemblage from Tell Wawiyat. Report submitted to Bonnie

Wisthoff, Univ. of Arizona.

1988 A Brief Note on the Lithic Assemblage from Horvat Hor. Report submitted to

Archaeological Survey of Israel.

Rosen, S.A, Abadi, Y. and Rose, J.

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2000 The Lithic Assemblage from Ein Zippori. Report submitted to J.P. Dessel,

University of Kentucky.

Rosen, S. A. and Gotesman, Z.

2003 The Lithic Assemblage from Handakuk South. Report submitted to M. Chesson,

Notre Dame University.

7. Lectures and presentations at meetings and invited seminars

a. Plenary lectures at and lectures at invited conferences

1986 The Analysis of Early Bronze Age Chipped Stone Industries: A Summary Statement.

Colloque d'Emmaus: L'urbanisation en Palestine a l'age du Bronze ancien: Bilan et

perspectives des recherches actuelles. 20-24 Octobre, Emmaus (Latrun).

1990 Metals, Rocks, Specialization, and the Beginning of Urbanism in the Northern

Negev.

Pre-Congress Symposium: The Second International Congress on Biblical Archaeology.

June 24-July 4, Jerusalem.

1993 Archaeology of Pastoral Nomads in the Negev Highlands. Annual Meeting of the

Association of Archaeologists in Israel. Nizzana, May 14-15, 1993.

- The Decline and Fall of Flint. Second Tulsa Conference on Theory in Lithic Analysis.

University of Tulsa, June 12-16, 1993.

1996 Invention as the Mother of Necessity: An Archaeological Examination of the

Origins and Development of Pottery and Metallurgy in the Levant. Chacmool Conference,

University of Calgary, Nov. 14-17, 1996.

- Fifteen Years After: What We Have Learned from the Negev Emergency Survey.

“Before the Picks: The Archaeology of Survey,” conference at the University of Haifa,

May 1, 1997.

2003 Early Cultures and Quarries in the Makhtesh Ramon. Geological Survey of Israel

Amateur Geology Conference. April 13, Mitzpe Ramon

2004 Climatic Determinism and Social Collapse: A Critique from Archaeology.

Annual Earth Sciences Day of the Israel Geological Society. Weizmann Institute,

Dec. 12.

- The Rise of Desert Cult: The Sacred Precinct at Ramat Saharonim. Yad Ben Zvi:

Religion and Ritual in the Land of Israel. Dec. 16, Jerusalem.

2005 The Sun Cult at Ramat Saharonim. MidreshetSedeBokercoference on Early

Cult in the Desert. 14-15/4. MidreshetSedeBoker.

- Early Shepherds and Rockshelters in the Negev Highlands. Conference on Excavations

and Investigations in Southern Israel. Ben-Gurion University and the Israel Antiquities

Authority, Beersheva, May 5.

- The Development of the Periphery: The Negev as a Case Study. Yad Ben-Zvi “Center

and Periphery in Light of Archaeological Research” Dec. 8.

2006 Production in the Protohistoric Desert. Conference on Techniques and People at the

French Research Center, Jerusalem, Nov. 14-16.

2008 Nomadism in the Longue Durée: An archaeological overview from the Negev

and the southern Levantine deserts. Nomadism in Archaeology, a Symposium, Leiden

University, June 6.

- History Does Not Repeat Itself: Cyclicity and Particularism in Nomad-Sedentary

Relations in the Negev in the Long Term. The Oriental Institute of the University of

Chicago Seminar 5: Nomads, Tribes and the State in the Ancient Near East: Cross-

Disciplinary Perspectives, April.

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2011 The Time-Space Discontinuum: Scale in the Geography and Chronology of Negev

Archaeology. CNRS Seminar at Nanterre, Discontinuities and Continuties: Theories,

Methods and Proxies for an Historical and Sociological approach to the Evolution of Past

Societies. Jan. 26-28.

- It Ain’t Simple: Patterns of Settlement Dynamics in the 4th

Millennium BC in the Negev.

Environmental Network Workshop, Norwich, U.K. Feb. 25-26.

-Pastoralism in the Desert: Rock Shelters and Campsites in the Negev. Symposium on

Mediterranean Archaeology XV, March 3-5, Catania, Sicily

-Archaeology in Israel: A personal perspective. Lecture series delivered to Limmud,

University of Warwick, Dec. 25-29.

2012 Revolutions in the Desert: Perspectives on the Prehistory of the Negev. 32nd

Annual

conference of the Land of Israel Studies, Bar-Ilan University, 31/5.

-Egyptian and Levantine Lithic Systems in the 5th

through 3rd

millennia BC: a brief

summary. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research Symposium “Imports During the

Naqada Period: A workshop Investing Two Sides of Egyptian and Southern Levantine

Phenomenon. Nov. 29.

-The Camel Site: Nomadism in the Desert 5000 Years Ago. Midreshet Sede Boqer

"Conceptions of the Desert in Different Religions" Dec. 7.

- Archaeology: A Personal Perspective. Tel Aviv University Conference “What is

Archaeology? Trends and Current sin Contemporary Archaeological Discourse in Israel.

Dec. 27.

- Respondent, Ethical Perspectives on Archaeology in Israel, 10th

Annual Joint

Conference, Ben-Gurion University and the Israel Antiquities Authority, Beersheva Jan.

10.

-Human Cognitive Diversity and Nature Versus Culture: A View from Chipped Stone

Tools. The Dan David Prize Symposium, June 10, 2013, Tel Aviv University.

2013 The Shrines at Ramat Saharonim: Desert Cult in Social Perspective. Workshop

“From the Red Sea to the Gulf”, University of Warsaw, Oct. 18-19.

2015 The Herding Revolution in the Desert: adoption, adaptation and social evolution in

the Negev and Levantine deserts. Workshop: Revolutions, the Neolithicisation of the

Mediterranean Basin, the transition to food producing economies in North Africa and

Southern Europe. Topoi House, Dahlem, Berlin. Oct. 29-31.

b. Presentation of papers at conferences

Rosen, Steven A.

1981 Historic Lithic Assemblages in Israel. The 46th annual meetings of the Society for

American Archaeology, April 30 - May 2, San Diego.

1982 The Transition from the Chalcolithic to the Early Bronze Age: A Lithic Perspective.

The 9th annual Israel Archaeological Congress, April 21-22, Jerusalem.

1983 Lithic Implements in the Negev during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Ages.

The 10th Annual Israel Archaeological Congress, May 26-27, Jerusalem.

- The Cultural Periphery: Intensive Survey in the Negev Desert. The 48th annual meeting

of the Society for American Archaeology, April 27-30, Pittsburgh.

1985 The Origins of Pastoral Nomadism in the Negev Desert, Israel. The 50th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, May 1-5, 1985, Denver.

1986 Archaeological Evidence for Pastoral Nomadism during Byzantine Times in the

Negev Desert, Israel. The 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology, April 13-27, 1986, New Orleans.

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- The Analysis of Trade and Craft Specialization in the Chalcolithic Period:

Comparisons from Different Realms of Material Culture. "New Perspectives in Research

on the Chalcolithic Period." March 18, Haifa.

- Boutie, Paul, and Rosen, Steven A. Les Gisements du Paleolithique moyen decouverts

lors de prospections recentes dans le Neguev central. Colloque Franco-Israelien:

Contribution a l'etude de l'evolution de l'homme au sud Levant: Anthropologie,

Prehistoire, Paleo-environment. Emmaus (Latrun), 7-9 Octobre.

1987 The Edge of the Sown: Byzantine Pastoral Nomadism in the Negev Highlands.

The 13th Archaeological Congress in Israel. Beersheva, Feb. 16-18, 1987.

- The Origins of Craft Specialization: A Lithic Perspective. Second Symposium on Upper

Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Populations of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.

Tel Aviv, Sept. 6-10.

1991 Investigations of Classical Period Pastoral Sites in the Negev. 12th Congress of the

International Union of Protohistoric and Prehistoric Sciences, Bratislava, Sept. 1-7.

1993 The Nomadic Periphery: Archaeology of Pastoralists in Late Antiquity in the South

Central Negev. ARAM 2nd International Conference On Cultural Exchange during the

Umayyad Period. Oxford University, Sept 27. - Oct. 1, 1993.

- Learning from the Longue Duree: The Negev Periphery over the Past Six Millennia.

International Conference on Regional Development: The Challenge of the Frontier. The

Negev Center for Regional Development, Ben-Gurion University. EinBokek, Dec. 27-30.

1994 From Byzantium to Islam: Mechanisms of Transition in the Central Negev. Annual

Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Chicago, Nov. 1994.

1995 Microlithic Drills from the Camel Site, Mitzpe Ramon. Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, May 1995.

1997 The Camel Site and Pastoral Nomadism in the Negev in the Early Bronze Age. The

23rd Archaeological Congress in Israel, Jerusalem, April, 1997/

- The Development of Pastoral Nomadic Systems in the Southern Levantine Periphery: An

Economic Model Based on Archaeological Evidence. Third Annual Meeting of the

European Association of Archaeologists, Ravenna, Sept. 1997.

- The Tyranny of Texts: An Archaeological Rebellion Against the Primacy of Texts in

Defining Archaeological Agendas. Presented at the UCLA-BGU Symposium “Text and

Artifact: Alternative Approaches to Historical Interpretation,” Ben-Gurion University,

Dec. 10-11, 1997.

1998 The Origins of Pastoral Nomadism in the Southern Levant: Anthropological

Perspectives. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Israel Anthropological Society,

March 18-19, 1998, Beersheva.

- Dissecting the Site: Spatial Analysis of an Epipaleolithic Site in the Central Negev.

Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle,

March 25-29, 1998.

1999 The Rise and Fall of the Desert. Paper presented at the World Archaeology

Congress, Capetown, Jan. 1999.

- The Lithic Workshop at TitrisHoyuk, Eastern Turkey. With Britt Hartenberger. Annual

Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Cambridge, Nov.

2000 The Decline of the Periphery. Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia.

April.

- The Canaanean Blade Workshop at TitrisHoyuk, Eastern Turkey (With Britt

Hartenberger). Annual Meetings of the Israel Prehistoric Society, Jerusalem, Dec.

2001 The Nabateans as Pastoral Nomads: An Archaeological Perspective. British

Museum Conference on the World of the Herods and the Nabateans. April 16-18,

London.

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- The Origins of Pastoral Nomadism in the Negev. Bar-Ilan University Negev

Conference, May 3-5, Tel Aviv.

- The Nabateans as Pastoral Nomads: A View from Archaeology. Settlement,

Civilization and Culture, Conference in Memory of David Alon, Bar-Ilan University,

Ramat Gan, May 17.

- Politics, Nationalism, and Prehistoric Archaeological Research in Israel.

Conference on Archaeology, Nationalism, and Religion in Israel and its Neighbors.

Ben-Gurion Heritage Center, MidreshetSedeBoqer, June 17-19.

- The Shrine of the Setting Sun, with Y. Rosen, Annual meetings of the Israel

Prehistoric Society, Dec. 14, Haifa

2002 Activity Areas, Workshops, and Variations on the Theme from a Near

Eastern Lithic Perspective. Paper presented at the 2002 Meetings of the Society

for American Archaeology, Denver.

- A Sacred Landscape. Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental

Research. Toronto, Nov. 19-23.

- Preliminary Results of Excavations of the Sun Shrines at Ramat Saharonim,

Annual Meetings of the Israel Prehistoric Society, Beersheva, Dec. 5.

2003 Dung in the Desert. Israel Prehistoric Society Meetings Dec., Tel Aviv U niv.

- Vardi, Y., Hermon, S. and Rosen, S. Microdrill Industries In Negev Sites in the

Chalcolithic, Early Bronze and Middle Bronze I Periods. Paper presented at the

Israel Prehistoric Society Meetings, Dec., Tel Aviv Univ.

2004 The Rise of Desert Cult. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the

British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Reading, March

24-27.

- The Sacred Precinct at Ramat Saharonim. Poster presented at the annual meetings

of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, March 31-April 4.

- Desert Pastoral Nomadism in the Longue Durée: A Case Study from the Negev

and the Southern Levantine Deserts. Paper presented at the Cotsen Institute

Advanced Symposium of Pastoralism, June 21-24, UCLA.

- Segal, I. And Rosen, S.A. Copper Among the Nomads. Annual meetings of the

American Schools of Oriental Research, Nov. 17-20, San Antonio.

- Shugar, A. and Rosen, S.A. Assays in Understanding Sickle Gloss. Annual

Meetings of the Israel Prehistoric Society, Dec. 9, Jerusalem.

- Vardi. Y., Rosen, S.A. and Hermon, S. The Lithic Assemblages of the Early

Bronze Age IV in the Negev Highlands. Annual Meetings of the Israel Prehistoric

Society, Dec. 9, Jerusalem.

2005 Rosen, S.A. Savenitsky, A., Plakht, Y., Kisseleva, N., Khassanov, B.,

Pereladov, A., Haiman, M. and Babenka, A. Dung in the Desert: Preliminary

Results of the Negev Holocene Project. Poster presented at Conference Material

and Bio-Culture in Connection with Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. May 22-23,

Hebrew University, Jersualem.

- Rosen, S.A. Savenitsky, A., Plakht, Y., Kisseleva, N., Khassanov, B., Pereladov,

A., Haiman, M. and Babenka, A. Dung in the Desert: Preliminary Results of the

Negev Holocene Project. Annual Negev Archaeology Conference, May, Ben-

Gurion University.

- A Sacred Landscape: The Shrines and Tumulus System at Ramat Saharonim,

Central Negev. Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research,

Philadelphia, Nov. 16-19.

2006 Desert Chronologies and Periodization Systems. ICAANE 5, Madrid, April

4-8, 2006

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- Blood from Stone. Can We really do Ethnicity from Lithics? Annual Meetings of

the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, April 25-30.

-.Nomadic Exploitation in the Negev in the Longue Duree: The Myth of Overgrazing.

Conference on Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change. Institute of Advanced

Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 5-8 June.

2007 Assays in Understanding Sickle Gloss. Poster presented at the Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas. April 27-May 1.

- From Hunting to Herding. American Schools of Oriental Research, Annual Meetings,

San Diego, Nov. 14-17.

2008 Rockshelters in the Negev. Israel Prehistoric Society, Dec. 25. (Poster)

- Rockshelters in the Negev. British Association of Near Eastern Archaeologist, Feb.

(Poster).

2009 The Development of Pastoral Tribes in the Desert: A Case Study from the Negev.

Society for American Archaeology April 22-26, Atlanta Ga.

2010 Lithic Variability Across the Near East: Speculations and Hypotheses. 7ICAANE,

London April 12-16.

- Evolution in the Desert. The Transition from Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze in the

Southern Levant: Continuity and/or Discontinuity. Work of the French Research center in

Jerusalem. Oct. 18-20.

2011 Rosen, S.A., Shugar, A. and Vardi, J. Wear, Attributes, and Types in Sickle Segment

Analysis: Odellian Perspectives. Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, March

30-April 3.

- The Shrines at Ramat Saharonim: the link between Economy an d Cult in the Pottery

Neolithic. Symposium on Economy and Cult in the Prehistory of the Negev. May 5-6, The

Israel Prehistoric Society and Midreshet Sede Boker.

- Lehmann, G. and Rosen, S.A. Iron Age Settlement in the Negev in Light of New

Excavations at Qubur el Walaydeh. Annual meetings of the American Schools of Oriental

Research, Nov. 16-19, San Francisco.

2012 Cult and the Rise of Desert Pastoralism. 8ICAANE meetings, Warsaw, April 30-

May 4.

-The Goody Trade: Layers of Meaning in Desert Exchange. Annual Meeting of the

American Schools of Oriental Research, Chicago, Nov. 14-18.

- Yegorov, D., Khalaily, H., and Rosen, S.A. The Flint Industry at Beisamun and the

Question of Yarmukian Settlement in the Huleh Valley. Annual Meeting of the Israel

Prehistoric Society, Dec. 13.

2013 Paleoecology of Early Pastoralism in the Negev: Phytolith Tales from the Dung

(A.M.Rosen, E. Reiczyk, and S.A. Rosen). Society for American Archaeology, annual

meeting, Honolulu, April 3-7.

- The Pastoral Nomadic Edge. Society for American Archaeology, annual meeting,

Honolulu, April 3-7.

- Nahal Tsafit: A Middle Timnian Site on the Road between Feinan and Beersheva. Timna

Park International Conference ”Mining for Copper: Environment, Culture and Copper in

Antiquity” April 22-25, Timna, Israel.

- Use-Life, Retouch, and Value: the Economics of Sickle Production (Rosen, S.A., Vardi,

J., and Shugar, A.). Annual Meeting of the Israel Prehistoric Society, Jerusalem, Nov. 28.

2014 Basic Instabilities? Climate and Culture in the Negev over the Long Term. Society

for American Archaeology, annual meeting, April 24-28, Austin.

2015 The Importance of Being Ad Hoc: Patterns and Implications of Expedient Lithic

Production in the Bronze Age in Israel (Manclossi, F, and Rosen, S.A.). 80th annual

meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 15-19, San Francisco.

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c. Seminars at universities and institutions (selected)

1989 The Archaeology of Pastoral Nomadism. Weizmann Institute, Dept. of Geoisotopes

1990 The Neolithic Period in Israel. Tel Aviv University, Institute of Archaeology.

- Lithic Analysis in the Historic Periods in Israel. University of Haifa, Dept. of

Archaeology.

1991 Recent Research in the Archaeology of Pastoralism. Hebrew Union College.

1993 Seminar: Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology and Flint Knapping, Bible Lands

Museum, Jerusalem.

- Origins and Development of Pastoral Nomadism. Seminar given at the Institute of

Archaeology, University of London.

1994 Ancient Bedouin: Toward an Archaeology of Pastoral Nomadism. Seminar and

public lecture given at UCLA under the auspices of the UCLA-BGU academic exchange

program.

- Invited seminars on lithics and archaeology of pastoralism given at Univ. of Calif. at

San Diego, Stanford Univ., Univ. of Durham, Univ. of London, Univ. of Edinburgh,

Univ. of Manchester, and Oxford Univ.

1995 Invited seminars on lithics and the archaeology of pastoralism given at University of

Manitoba, Univ. of Winnipeg, University of Lethbridge, and Harvard University.

- Archaeology and Politics in the Larger Perspective. Seminar sponsored by Yad Ben Zvi

and Ben-Gurion University, on Archaeology and Chauvinism. Dec. 26, 1995.

1996 Invited seminars at Tel Aviv University, University of Lethbridge.

1997 Seminar at the Smithsonian Instituton, Dept. of Anthropology.

1998 American Institute of Archaeology at Berkeley, The Development of Pastoral

Nomadic Systems in the Southern Levantine Periphery; Bible Lands Museum.

1999 Tel Aviv University - Archaeology and the Public, various at UCLA.

2000 Invited seminars at UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Riverside, Los Angeles Museum of

Natural History, University of Arizona, Weizmann Institute and others.

2004 The Rise of Desert Cult: The Sacred Precinct at Ramat Saharonim. Dept. of

Anthropology, University of California at San Diego, Dec. 22.

2005 Invited seminars on nomadism at the Oriental Institute, Free University, Berlin; the

University of Halle; Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

- Three seminars at East Carolina University on Desert Shrines and the History of

Archaeology in Israel.

2006 Invited seminar on the Social Sciences in archaeology, Bar-Ilan University.

2007 The Rise of Desert Cult, Museum of Man, San Diego, Ca., Sept. 23.

2008 Invited seminars at Durham University, UC San Diego, University College London

on pastoralism, lithics, and rockshelters

2009 Invited seminars at University of Oregon, Leipzig University and University of East

Anglia, Norwich, Institute for Advanced Study Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute on

rockshelter research and ancient pastoralism

2010 Invited seminars at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London on

Bronze Age lithic analysis

2011 Invited seminars at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, Bar-

Ilan University, on lithic analysis, field methods, pastoralism

2012 Invited seminar at the University of Texas at Austin, on pastoralism, rock shelters

2103 Invited seminars at the University of Texas at Austin, University of California at

Davis, on lithic analysis, pastoralism, Israeli academia

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2014 Invited seminars at the University of Sydney, University of Texas, on lithics,

archaeology of pastoralism

2015 Invited seminars at the University of Texas at Austin on desert environment and

culture. Workshop at the University of California at San Diego

d. conferences and symposia organized

1997 Text and Artifact: Alternative Approaches to Historical Interpretation. A Joint

UCLA-BGU Symposium, Ben-Gurion University, Dec. 10-11.

1999 Annual Meeting of the Israel Prehistoric Society, Ben-Gurion University, Dec. 25.

2002 Annual Meeting of the Israel Prehistoric Society, Ben-Gurion University, Dec. 5.

2004 First Annual Meeting, Archaeology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University, May.

2006 Techniques and People: anthropological perspectives on technology in the

archaeology of the proto-historic and early historic periods in the Southern Levant

(organized with V. Roux), Centre recherché français de Jérusalem, Nov. 14-16.

- Annual Meeting of the Israel Prehistoric Society, BGU, Dec. 21.

2008 ARCANE Workshop on Early Bronze Age Lithic Industries, April 13-16,

Blaubeuren

2010 7ICAANE workshop on Lithic Industries of the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Near

East, April 12-16, London.

8. Editorship of scientific journals

a. Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society

Associate editor 1985 - 1990

b. The Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society (formerly Mitekufat Haeven)

Editor 2005-2012 (volumes 36-42).

9. Research Grants

1984 - Israel Ministry of Science and Development - Rosen, Steven A.

Archaeological Survey around Makhtesh Ramon

One year

ca. $6000

1988 - Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research - Rosen, Steven A.

Archaeology of Byzantine Pastoral Nomadism

$3000

1988 Dr. M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation - Gopher, A. and Rosen, Steven A.

Publication of Mitekufat Haeven

750 pounds sterling

1990 Israel Antiquities Authority - Gilead, I. and Rosen, S.

Salvage Excavations at Abu Matar, Beersheva

300,000 New Shekels

1991 Irene Sala CARE Foundation - Steven A. Rosen

Prehistoric Investigations at Givat Hayil, Negev

$4000

1991 Jo Alon Center for Bedouin Studies - Steven A. Rosen

The Archaeology of Ancient Bedouin

5000 N.S.

1998 American Research Institute in Turkey - Steven A. Rosen

Excavations at the Lithic Workshop at Titris Hoyuk.

$1500

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1998 BGU seed money - Steven A. Rosen

Research at the Camel Site, Mizpe Ramon

15,000 N.S.

1999 Jo Alon Center for Bedouin Studies - Steven A. Rosen

The Sacred Precinct at Ramat Saharonim, Makhtesh Ramon

3000 N.S.

1999 American Research Institute in Turkey - Steven A. Rosen

Continued Excavations at the Lithic Workshop at TitrisHoyuk.

$2500

2002 National Geographic Society – Steven A. Rosen

Excavations at the Sacred Precinct at Ramat Saharonim, Makhtesh Ramon

$17,000

2002-2004 Israel Science Foundation – Steven A. Rosen

Social and Economic Perspectives on the Third Millennium BCE Cultures of the

Negev Highlands: New Research Directions from Lithic Analysis

$75,000

2002-3 Israel Ministry of Science and Development (with Joseph Plahkt)

Paleoecology of the Negev Highlands in the Holocene

$13,000 x 2 years

2005 CARE Foundation for Prehistoric Research

Rock shelter Sediment Analysis and Early Pastoralism

$7000

2007 CARE Foundation for Prehistoric Research

Rock shelter Sediment Analysis and Early Pastoralism (cont.)

$3000

2007-2008 Israel Ministry of Science and Development (with Josef Plahkt)

Rock Shelter analyses

100,000 shekels (over two years)

2007-2008 National Geographic, (with Avinoam Meir),

Geographic Anchors and Sedentarization of the Bedouin around the Ancient City

of Avdat.

$20,000

2010 Green Campus (With Noa Avni)

Summer Camp for Reconstruction of the Camel Site, Mitzpe Ramon

NIS 5000

2010-2012 Israel Science Foundation

Pastoralism, Climate, and Society in the Negev over the Long Term: Investigations

of Dung Layers in Rock Shelters in the Central Negev

$35000 x three years

10. Research Students (includes thesis)

Benjamin Saidel, Ph.D. Harvard University external advisor (completed 1998)

Azriel Gorski, Ph.D. Hebrew University (co-advisor with C. Greenblatt)

(completed 2004)

Yael Abadi, MA BGU (completed 2003)

Hananya Vanda, MA BGU (completed 2005)

Nitzan Amitai-Preiss, Ph.D. BGU (co-advisor with N. Hurvitz, completed 2008)

Yigal Yisrael, MA BGU (completed 2004), Ph.D. BGU (completed 2007),

Tatiana Birovna, MA BGU (completed 2005)

Jacob Vardi, MA BGU (primary advisor with I. Gilead, completed 2005)

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Hans Barnard, Ph.D. Leiden (co-advisor with J. Bintliff) (completed 2008)

Caroline Skelton, MA (University College London) (completed 2004)

Jeffrey Szuchman, Ph.D. (UCLA, on committee, completed 2007)

Yoram Haimi, M.A. BGU (completed 2006)

Davida Degen, Ph.D. BGU (completed 2012)

Ariel Meriot, Ph.D. BGU (co-advisor with A. Meir, completed 2011)

Yuval Ardon, M.A. BGU (completed 2010)

Virpi Holmquist, Ph.D. University College London (external advisor completed

2010)

DmitryYegorov, M.A. BGU (completed 2011) Ph.D. in progress (co-advisor with

O. Marder)

Noé Michael, M.A. BGU (co-advisor with S. Pardo, Political Science, completed

2012)

Nissim Golding, Ph.D. BGU (co-advisor with G. Lehmann, in progress)

Francesca Manclossi, Ph.D. Nanterre and BGU (advisor with Eric Boeda, in

progress)

Amit Melman, MA BGU (co-advisor with Daniella Talmon, Middle Eastern

Studies, in progress)

Tamar Gresser, MA BGU (co-advisor with Gunnar Lehmann, in progress)

Gregory Seriy, MA BGU (in progress)

Elizabeth Hart, Ph.D. University of Virginia (external advisor, in progress).

David Luria, MA Tel Aviv University (co-advisor with A. Fantalkin, in progress)

Roy Galili, MA BGU (co-advisor with Y. Yekutieli, in progress)

Ifat Shapira, MA BGU (co-advisor with Joshua Schmidt, in progress)

Kyle Knabb, Fulbright post-doc (2015-2016, in progress)

11. Present Activities

a. Research in Progress

Excavations at Qubur Walaydeh (with G. Lehmann), a Bronze-Iron Age site in the

western Negev

Analysis

Excavations at the Titris Hoyuk Lithic Workshop, Turkey

Analysis and write-up

Excavations at Nahal Tsafit, an Early Bronze Age Camp near Dimona

Analysis

Central Negev Rockshelters.

Ongoing analyses and write-up

Lithic Analyses of Metal Age assemblages,

Ongoing work

12. Field Experience

2007-2011 Co-director, Excavations at Qubur Walaydeh (with G. Lehmann)

2003-current Director: Negev Rockshelters, Paleoecology and Archaeology .Director: Excavations at Nahal Tsafit 2001‏

2000 Director: Excavations at Ramat Saharonim North lithic quarry.

1999-03 Director: Fieldwork at Ramat Saharonim Sacred Precinct, Makhtesh

Ramon.

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1998-9 Co-director: Excavations at the lithic workshop at Titris Hoyuk, general

project directed by G. Algaze and T. Matney.

1992-6 Director: Excavations at the Camel Site, Mitzpe Ramon.

1990-91 Winter: Co-director: Excavations at Abu Matar, with Isaac Gilead.

1990 Summer: Co-director: Survey around Tel Haror, with Eliezer Oren.

1989 Summer: Director: Excavations at G'vaotReved, Central Negev.

1980-1988 Survey archaeologist for Archaeological Survey of Israel, Negev

Emergency Survey.

1988 Winter, Summer: co-Director, with G. Avni: Excavations at N. Oded, Har

Oded, Central Negev.

1987 Winter: Director: Excavations and Surveys, GivatHayil, Western Negev.

1984-1986 Summer-Winter: Co-director with A.N. Goring-Morris: TAHAL Negev

Prehistory Survey.

1983-1985 Summers. Co-director with Dr. Paul Boutie: Negev Mousterian Project.

Collection and analysis of six Mousterian quarry sites.

1983 Winter. Co-director with Mordecai Haiman: Excavations at NahalMitnan

II, a Chalcolithic site in the Negev Highlands.

1982 Fall. Co-director with Iris Eldar: Excavations at HorvatBeter, a

Chalcolithic site in the Beersheva Basin.

Spring. Director: Excavations at KvishHarif, a Late Neolithic site in the

Negev Highlands.

Winter. Co-director with A. Gopher and A.N Goring-Morris: Excavations

at En Qadis, a PPNB site in Sinai.

Winter. Co-director with A.N. Goring-Morris: Ma'aleh Ramon East and

West, two Harifian sites in the Makhtesh Ramon.

1981 Winter. Staff member: Excavations at NahalIssaron, a PPNB site in the

Southern Negev. Project directed by A.N. Goring-Morris.

Winter. Staff member: Excavations at NativhaG'dud, a PPNA site in the

Jordan Valley. Project directed by O. Bar Yosef, and A. Gopher.

1980 Spring. Field supervisor: Excavations at Tell Dor, an historical period tell

on the coastal plain. Project directed by S. Gitin and E Stern.

Summer. Archaeological consultant: Argonne National Labs, Argonne, Il.

Project directed by Andrea Berlin.

Summer. Staff member: Excavations at Rugger's Bottom, Elberton

Georgia. Project directed by D.G. Anderson and J. Schuldenrein, Gilbert

Commonwealth.

1979 Summer. Staff member: Southern Sinai Neolithic Excavations. Project

directed by O. Bar-Yosef.

Summer. Staff member: HaYonim Cave excavations. Project directed by O.

Bar-Yosef.

Summer. Counselor: Tell Michal excavations. Project directed by Z.

Herzog.

1978 Summer. Counselor: Tell Lachish excavations. Project directed by D.

Ussishkin.

1977 Summer. Volunteer: Excavations at La Riera, paleolithic and mesolithic cave

site in northern Spain.Project directed by G.A. Clark Straus.

1975 Fall. Staff member: Calabria Survey in southern Italy. Project directed by

A. Ammerman. Also served as lithic analyst.

1974 Summer. Volunteer: Monte Leone Excavations, northern Italy. Project

directed by A. Ammerman.

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1973 Summer. Volunteer: Tell Sheva Excavations. Project directed by Y.

Aharoni.