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2023

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  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Avi Gopher is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and conducts research primarily in the fields of Arts and Humanities and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses extensively on Archeology and Paleontology, with contributions in Anthropology, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. The scientist's research covers multiple topics related to ancient history and environmental studies.

The main topics of Avi Gopher's work include:

  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Ancient Near East History
  • Archaeology and Historical Studies
  • Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Ancient Egypt and Archaeology

The scientist's publication record includes papers such as:

  • "Shaped stone balls were used for bone marrow extraction at Lower Paleolithic Qesem Cave, Israel" (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Plant domestication in the Neolithic Near East: The humans-plants liaison" (2020), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Geometry and Architectural Planning at Göbekli Tepe, Turkey" (2020), published in Cambridge Archaeological Journal
  • "Estimating temperatures of heated Lower Palaeolithic flint artefacts" (2020), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "The use of ash at Late Lower Paleolithic Qesem Cave, Israel-An integrated study of use-wear and residue analysis" (2020), published in PLoS ONE

Avi Gopher is also the author of the book Plant Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture in the Ancient Near East, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Frequent publication venues for the scientist's work include:

  • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • PLoS ONE
  • Cambridge Archaeological Journal

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Shahal Abbo
  • Gila Kahila Bar-Gal
  • Ran Barkai
  • Gil Haklay
  • Simcha Lev-Yadun

Best Publications

  • Evidence for habitual use of fire at the end of the Lower Paleolithic: site-formation processes at Qesem Cave, Israel.

    Panagiotis Karkanas;Ruth Shahack-Gross;Avner Ayalon;Mira Bar-Matthews

  • Cooperative hunting and meat sharing 400–200 kya at Qesem Cave, Israel

    Mary C. Stiner;Ran Barkai;Avi Gopher

  • Musculoskeletal stress markers in Natufian hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers in the Levant : the upper limb

    Vered Eshed;Avi Gopher;Ehud Galili;Israel Hershkovitz;Israel Hershkovitz

  • Evidence for the repeated use of a central hearth at Middle Pleistocene (300 ky ago) Qesem Cave, Israel

    R. Shahack-Gross;F. Berna;P. Karkanas;C. Lemorini

  • Atlit-Yam: A Prehistoric Site on the Sea Floor off the Israeli Coast

    Ehud Galili;Mina Weinstein-Evron;Israel Hershkovitz;Avi Gopher

  • Man the fat hunter: the demise of Homo erectus and the emergence of a new hominin lineage in the Middle Pleistocene (ca. 400 kyr) Levant.

    Miki Ben-Dor;Avi Gopher;Israel Hershkovitz;Ran Barkai

  • Hearth-side socioeconomics, hunting and paleoecology during the late Lower Paleolithic at Qesem Cave, Israel

    Mary C. Stiner;Avi Gopher;Ran Barkai

  • Uranium series dates from Qesem Cave, Israel, and the end of the Lower Palaeolithic.

    R Barkai;A Gopher;S E Lauritzen;Amos Frumkin

  • Middle Pleistocene dental remains from Qesem Cave (Israel).

    Israel Hershkovitz;Patricia Smith;Rachel Sarig;Rolf Quam;Rolf Quam

  • Paleopathology and the origin of agriculture in the Levant.

    Vered Eshed;Avi Gopher;Ron Pinhasi;Israel Hershkovitz

  • Has the transition to agriculture reshaped the demographic structure of prehistoric populations? New evidence from the Levant.

    Vered Eshed;Avi Gopher;Timothy B. Gage;Israel Hershkovitz;Israel Hershkovitz

  • Systematic blade production at late Lower Paleolithic (400-200 kyr) Qesem Cave, Israel.

    Ron Shimelmitz;Ran Barkai;Avi Gopher

  • Use-wear analysis of an Amudian laminar assemblage from the Acheuleo-Yabrudian of Qesem Cave, Israel

    Cristina Lemorini;Mary C. Stiner;Avi Gopher;Ron Shimelmitz

  • The chronology of the late Lower Paleolithic in the Levant based on U–Th ages of speleothems from Qesem Cave, Israel

    A. Gopher;A. Ayalon;M. Bar-Matthews;R. Barkai

  • Qesem Cave: An Amudian Site in Central Israel

    Avi Gopher;Ran Barkai;Ron Shimelmitz;Muhamad Khalaily

  • Netiv Hagdud: An Early Neolithic Village Site in the Jordan Valley

    Ofer Bar-Yosef;Avi Gopher;Eitan Tchernov;Mordechai E. Kislev

  • Using Bones to Shape Stones: MIS 9 Bone Retouchers at Both Edges of the Mediterranean Sea

    Ruth Blasco;Jordi Rosell;Felipe Cuartero;Josep Fernández Peris

  • Cultures of the eighth and seventh millennia BP in the southern Levant: A review for the 1990s

    Avi Gopher;Ram Gophna

  • A blade for all seasons? Making and using Amudian blades at Qesem Cave, Israel

    R. Barkai;C. Lemorini;R. Shimelmitz;Z. Lev

  • Fire for a Reason: Barbecue at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel

    Ran Barkai;Jordi Rosell;Ruth Blasco;Avi Gopher

Frequent Co-Authors

Ran Barkai
Ran Barkai Tel Aviv University
Simcha Lev-Yadun
Simcha Lev-Yadun University of Haifa
Shahal Abbo
Shahal Abbo Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jordi Rosell
Jordi Rosell Rovira i Virgili University
Ruth Blasco
Ruth Blasco Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution
Ofer Bar-Yosef
Ofer Bar-Yosef Harvard University
Amos Frumkin
Amos Frumkin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Panagiotis Karkanas
Panagiotis Karkanas American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Zvi Peleg
Zvi Peleg Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yehoshua Saranga
Yehoshua Saranga Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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