Publications

ancient dna and population turnover in southern levantine pigs--signature of the sea peoples migration?	near eastern wild boars possess a characteristic dna signature. unexpectedly, wild boars from israel have the dna sequences of european wild boars and domestic pigs. to understand how this anomaly evolved, we sequenced dna from ancient and modern pigs from israel. pigs from late bronze age (until ca. 1150 bce) in israel shared haplotypes of modern and ancient near eastern pigs. european haplotypes became dominant only during the iron age (ca. 900 bce). this raises the possibility that european p ...	2013	24186332
a 12,000-year-old shaman burial from the southern levant (israel).	the natufians of the southern levant (15,000-11,500 cal bp) underwent pronounced socioeconomic changes associated with the onset of sedentism and the shift from a foraging to farming lifestyle. excavations at the 12,000-year-old natufian cave site, hilazon tachtit (israel), have revealed a grave that provides a rare opportunity to investigate the ideological shifts that must have accompanied these socioeconomic changes. the grave was constructed and specifically arranged for a petite, elderly, a ...	2008	18981412