Selected Publications
Ahituv H., Henry A.G., Melamed Y., Goren-Inbar N., Bakels C., Shumilovskikh L., Cabanes D., Stone J.R., Rowe W.F., & Alperson-Afil Nira. (2025) Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago: Evidence from Acheulian percussive stone tools. PNAS 122 (3): e2418661121 (1-8)
Cohen P,. Bacilieri R., Ramos-Madrigal J., Privman E., Boaretto E., Weber A., Fuks D., Weiss E., Erickson-Gini T., Bucking S., Tepper Y., Cvikel D., Schmidt J., Gilbert M.Th.P. Wales N., Bar-Oz G., Meiri M. (2023) Ancient DNA from a lost Negev Highlands desert grape reveals a late antiquity wine lineage. PNAS 120(17): e2213563120 (1-8)
Dong Y., et al. (2023) Dual domestications and origin of traits in grapevine evolution. Science 379(6635): 892-901
Rachimi O., Ziffer Berger J., Shtein I., Kher M., Frumin S., Hubner S., Weiss E., & Drori E. (2023) Wild grapevine (Vitis vinifera L. subsp. Sylvestris (C.C. Gmelin) Hegi) – Novel species from Israel. Horticulturae 9(9): 998 (1-12)
Guo Y., Himmelbach A., Weiss E., Stein N. & Mascher M. (2022) Six-rowed wild-growing barleys are hybrids of diverse origins. The Plant Journal 111: 849-858
Landa V., Shapira Y., David M., Karasik A., Weiss E., Reuveni Y. & Drori, E. (2021) Accurate classification of fresh and charred grape seeds to the varietal level, using machine learning based classification method. Scientific Reports 11: 13577
Sivan A., Rahimi O., Lavi B., Salmon‐Divon M., Weiss E., Drori E. & Hübner S. (2021) Genomic evidence supports an independent history of Levantine and Eurasian grapevines. Plants, People, Planet 3(4): 414-427
Fuks D., Bar-Oz G., Tepper Y., Erickson-Gini T., Langgut D.,Weissbrod L. & Weiss E. (2020) The rise and fall of viticulture in the Late Antique Negev Highlands reconstructed from archaeobotanical and ceramic data. PNAS 117(33): 19780-19791
Bar-Oz G., Weissbrod L., Erickson-Gini T., Tepper Y., Malkinson D.,Benzaquen M., Langgut D., Dunseth Z.C., Butler D.H., Shahack-Gross R., RoskinJ., Fuks D., Weiss E., Marom N., Ktalav I., Blevis R., Zohar I., Farhi Y.,Filatova A., Gorin-Rosen Y., Yan X. & Boaretto E. (2019) Ancient trash mounds unravel urban collapse a century before the end of Byzantine hegemony in the southern Levant. PNAS 116(17): 8239-8248.
Karasik A., Rahimi O., David M., Weiss E. & Drori E. (2018) Development of a 3D seed morphological tool for grapevine variety identification, and its comparison with SSR analysis. Scientific Reports 8: 6545.
Drori E., Rahimi O., Marrano A., Henig Y., Brauner H., Salmon-Divon M.,Netzer Y., Pazzoli M.L., Stanevsky M., Fallia O., Weiss E. & Grado M.S. (2017) Collection and characterization of grapevine genetic resources (Vitis vinifera) in the Holy Land, towards the renewal of ancient winemaking practices. Scientific Reports 7: 44463
Mascher M., Schuenemann V.J., Davidovich U., Marom N., Himmelbach A.,Hubner S., Korol A., David M., Reiter E., Riehl S., Schreiber M., Vohr S.H.,Green R.E., Dawson I.K., Russel J., Kilian B., Muehlbauer G.J., Waugh R.,Fahima T., Krause J., Weiss E. & Stein N. (2016) Genomic analysis of 6,000-year-old cultivated grain illuminates the domestication history of barley. Nature Genetics 48(9): 1089-1093
Melamed Y., Kislev M.E., Geffen E., Lev-Yadun S. & Goren-Inbar N. (2016) The plant component of an Acheulian diet at Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel. PNAS 113(51): 14674-14679
Frumin S., Maeir A.M.,Kolska-Horwitz L. & Weiss E. (2015) Studying ancient anthropogenic impacts on current floral biodiversity in the southern Levant as reflected by the Philistine Migration. Scientific Reports 5: 13308
Snir A., Nadel D., Gorman-Yaroslavski I., Melamed Y., Sternberg M., Bar-YosefO. & Weiss E. (2015) The origin of cultivation and proto-weeds, long before Neolithic farming. PLOS ONE 10(7): e0131422
Zohary D., Hopf M. & Weiss E. (2013) Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Link)
Weiss E. & Zohary D. (2011) The Neolithic Southwest Asian Founder Crops. Current Anthropology 52(S4): 237-254
Alperson-Afil N., Gonen S.,Kislev M., Melamed Y., Zohar I., Ashkenazi S., Rabinovich R., Biton R., WerkerE., Hartmann G., Feibel C. & Goren-Inbar N. (2009) Spatial organization of hominin activities at Gesher Benot Ya’akov. Science 326(5960): 1677-1680
Hartmann A., Kislev M.E. & Weiss E. (2006) Response to “How and when was wild wheat domesticated”. Science 313(letters): 296
Kislev M.E., Hartmann A. & Bar-Yosef O. (2006) Response to comment on “Early domesticated fig in the Jordan valley”. Science 314(5608): 1683
Kislev M.E., Hartmann A. & Bar-Yosef O. (2006) Early domesticated fig in the Jordan Valley. Science 312(5778): 1372-1374
Weiss E., Kislev M.E. & Hartmann A. (2006) Autonomous cultivation before domestication. Science 312(5780): 1608-1610
Goren-Inbar N., Alperson N.,Kislev M.E., Simchoni O., Melamed Y., Ben-Nun A. & Werker E. (2004) Evidence of hominin control of fire at Gesher Benot Ya’akov. Science 304(5671): 725-727
Kislev M.E., Weiss E. & Hartmann-Shenkman A. (2004) Impetus for sowing and the beginning of agriculture: ground collecting of wild cereals. PNAS 101(9): 2692-2695
Nadel D., Weiss E., Simchoni O.,Tsatskin A., Danin A. & Kislev M.E. (2004) Stone age hut in Israel yields world’s oldest evidence of bedding. PNAS 101(17): 6821-6826
Piperno D.R., Weiss E., Holst I. & Nadel D. (2004) Processing of wild cereal grains in the Upper Paleolithic revealed by starch grain analysis. Nature 430: 670-673
Weiss E., Wetterstrom W., Nadel D. & Bar-Yosef O (2004) The broad spectrum revisited: evidence from plant remains. PNAS 101(26): 9551-9555
Goren-Inbar N., Sharon G., Melamed Y. & Kislev M.E. (2002) Nuts, nut cracking and pitted stones at Gesher Benot Ya’akov. PNAS 99(4): 2455-2460
Goren-Inbar N., Feibel C.S.,Verosub K.L., Melamed Y., Kislev M.E., Tchernov E. & Saragusti I. (2000) Pleistocene milestones on the out of Africa corridor at Gesher Benot Ya’akov, Israel. Science 289(5481): 944-947
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Fuks D., Schmidt F., Garcia-Collado M.I., Besseiche M., Payne N., Bosi G., Bouchaud Ch., Castiglioni E., Dabrowski V., Frumin S., Fuller D.Q., Hovsepyan R., Muthukumaran S., Peña-Chocarro L., Pérez Jordá P., Ros J., Rottoli M., Ryan Ph., Spengler R., Stevens Ch.J., Valamoti S.M., Weiss E., Alexander M. & Gros-Balthazard M. (2024) Orphan crops of archaeology-based crop history research.
Plants, People, Planet, 1-28
Nickelsberg R., Levy T. E., Shahack-Gross R., Tamberino A., McAvoy S., Bermatov-Paz G., Marom N., Arkin Shalev E., Weiss E., Frumin S. & Yasur-Landau, A. Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel (2024) Antiquity 98(398): 343-362
Frumin S., Maeir A., M. & Weiss. E. (2023) Continuous evolvement of the constant diet of the southern Levant of 3rd to 1st millennia BCE: Macro-botanical proxies from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 50: 104091(1-10)
Fuks D., Melamed Y., Langgut D., Erickson-Gini T., Tepper Y., Bar-Oz G. & Weiss, E. (2023) Unprecedented yet gradual nature of first millennium CE intercontinental crop plant dispersal revealed in ancient Negev desert refuse.
eLife 12: e85118 (1-20).
Reuveni Y., Landa V., Shapira Y., Behar A., Ben-Arie R., Weiss E. & Drori, E. (2023) Determination of charring conditions of archaeological grape seeds, towards machine-learning based classification. Scientific Reports 14, 16148
David M., Kislev M., Melamed Y., Ben-Yosef E. & E. Weiss. (2022) Plant Remains from Rothenberg’s Excavations in Timna: Smelters’ Food and Cultic Offerings at the Turn of the First Millennium BCE. Tel Aviv 49(2): 230-249
Ashkenazi H., Langgut D., Lev-Yadun S., Weiss E., Liphschitz N., Kahila Bar-Gal G. & Goren, Y. (2021) Microhistory in Archaeology and Its Contribution to the Archaeological Research: The Burial from “The Cave of the Warrior” as a Test Case. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 9(4): 376-395
Frumin S., Melamed Y., Maeir A.M., Greenfield H.J. & Weiss, E. (2021) Agricultural subsistence, land use and long-distance mobility within the Early Bronze Age southern Levant: Archaeobotanical evidence from the urban site of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37: 102873
Landa V., Shapira Y., David M., Karasik A., Weiss E., Reuveni Y. & Drori E. (2020) Utilizing machine-learning-based 3D image analysis for classifying charred grape seeds to the varietal level. Research Square
Fuks D., Amichay O. & Weiss E. (2020) Innovation or preservation? Abbasid aubergines, archaeobotany, and the Islamic Green Revolution. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 12, 50
Hartman G., Brittingham A., Gilboa A., Hren M., Maas K., Pilver J. & Weiss E. (2020) Post-charring diagenetic alternation of archaeological lentils by bacterial degradation. Journal of Archaeological Science 117(May 2020) 105119
Sharon G., Grosman L., Allué E., Barash A., Bar-Yosef Mayer D. E., Biton R., Bunin J.E., Lanngut D., Melamed Y., Mischk S., Valleta F. & Munro N.D. (2020) Jordan River Dureijat: 10,000 Years of Intermittent Epipaleolithic Activity on the Shore of Paleo lake Hula. PaleoAnthropology March: 34-64
Sivan A., Rahimi O., Salmon-Divon M., Weiss E., Drori E., & Hübner S. (2020) Genomic Evidences Support an Independent History of Grapevine Domestication in the Levant
Rajiv S., Shaaf s., Neumann K., Go Y., Mascher M., David M., Al-Yassin A., Özkan H., Blake T., Hübner S., Castañeda-Álvarez N.P., Grando S., Ceccarelli S., Baum M., Graner A., Coupland G., Pillen K., Weiss E., Mackay I.J. , Powell W., Kilian B. (2020) On the origin of photoperiod non-responsiveness in barley
Ahituv H, Weiss, E. & Alperson-Afil N. (2019) Breaking the Mold of Natufian Basalt Mortars: Experimental Production and Archeological Implications. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 2: 98–114
Amichay O., Ben-Ami D., Tchekhanovets Y., Shahack-Gross R., Fuks D. & Weiss E. (2019) A bazaar assemblage: Reconstructing consumption, production and trade from mineralised seeds in Abbasid Jerusalem. Antiquity 93(367): 199-217
Dunseth Z.C., Fuks D., Langgut D., Weiss E., Melamed Y., Butler D.H., Yan X., Boaretto E., Tepper Y., Bar-Oz G. & Shahak-Gross R. (2019) Archaeobotanical proxies and archaeological interpretation: a comparative study of phytoliths, pollen and seeds in dung pellets and refuse deposits at Early Islamic Shivta, Negev, Israel. Quaternary Science Reviews 211(1): 166-185
Frumin S., Melamed Y. & Weiss E. (2019) The wheat people of Canaan. In The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Southern Canaan. Series: Archaeology of the Biblical Worlds 2, Chapter 2. Berlin Boston: de Gruyter, pp. 19-36.
Maeir A.M., Ben-Shlomo D., Cassuto D., Chadwick J.R., Davis B., Behar A.E., Frumin S., Gur-Arieh S., Hitchcock L.A., Kolska-Horwitz L., Manclossi F., Rosen S.A., Verduci J., Weiss E., Welch E.L. & Workman V. (2019) Technological Insights on Philistine Culture: Perspectives from Tell es-Safi/Gath. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 7(1): 76-118
Weiss E., Mahler-Slasky Y., Melamed Y., Lederman Z., Bunimovitz S., Bubel S. & Manor D. (2019) Foreign food plants as prestigious gifts: the archaeobotany of the Amarna Age Palace at Tel Beth-Shemesh. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 381: 83-105
Frumin S., Frumin M. & Weiss E. (2018) When Alexander Eig met Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov – an influential meeting for Israeli botany. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 66(1-2): 7-18
Frumin S. & Weiss E. (2018) Plant use in the bronze and iron ages at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Near eastern Archaeology 81(1): 77-78
Frumin S., Melamed Y. & Weiss E. (2018) Current vegetation of Tel Zafit. In Tell it in Gath – Studies in the History and Archaeology of Israel (Shai I. et al eds). Ägypten und Altes Testament 90: Zaphon, pp. 386-413
Fuks D. & Marom N. (2018) Plants and Animals of the Land of Israel. In Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament – cultural, social and historical context (Greer J.S. et al eds). Part I – the stage: Historical Geography. Michigan: Baker Academic. pp. 28-38.
Hopf M., Weiss E. & Zohary D. (2018) La domestication des plantes: Le Croissant Fertilre. Paris: ACTES SUD
Seker-Proborukmi M., Urban B., Mischke S., Mienis H.K., Melamed Y., Dopont-Nivet G., Jourdan F. & Goren-Inbar N. (2018) Evidence for climatic changes around the Matuyama-Brunhes Boundary (MBB) inferred from a multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental study of the GBY#2 core, Jordan River Valley, Israel. Palaeogeograpy, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 489(1): 166-185
Ackermann O., Maeir A.M., Frumin S., Svoray T., Weiss E., Zhevelev H. & Kolska-Horwitz L. (2017) The paleo-anthropocene and the genesis of the current landscape of Israel. Journal of Landscape Ecology 10 (3): 109-140
Ackermann O., Greenbaum N., Bruins H.J., Ayalon A., Bar-Matthews M., Cabanes D., Kolska-Horwitz L, Neumann F., Osband M., Porat N., Weiss E. & Maeir A.M. (2017) Ancient environment and human interaction at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 80(4): 244-246
Behar A.E., Shai I., Gur-Arieh S., Frumin S., Elbaz S., Weiss E., Manclossi F., Rosen S.A., Greenfield T., Greenfield H.J. & Maeir A.M. (2017) Early bronze age pebble installations from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: evidence for their function and utilization. Levant 49 (1): 46-63
Faust A., Katz H., Sapir Y., Avraham A., Marder O., Bar-Oz G., Weiss E., Auman-Chazan C., Hartmann-Shenkman A., Sadiel T., Vinay O, Tsesarsky M., Pariente S., Ackermann O., Timmer N., Katz O., Langgut D. & Benzaquen M. (2017) The birth, life and death of an iron age house at Tel ‘Eton, Israel. Levant 49(2): 136-173
Fuks D., Ackermann O., Ayalon A., Bar-Matthews M., Bar-Oz G., Levi Y., Maeir A.M., Weiss E., Zilberman T. & Safrai Z. (2017) Dust clouds, climate change and coins: consiliences of palaeo-climate and economy in the late antique southern levant. Levant 49(2): 205-223
Paz Y., Ackermann O., Avni Y., Ben-Hur M., Birkenfeld M., Langgut D., Mizrahi A.S., Weiss E. & Porat N. (2017) An early bronze age fertilized agricultural plot discovered near Tel Yarmouth, Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 15: 226-234
Peters I. & Weiss E. (2017) Ancient seeds of knowledge. In Jerusalem and the Holy Land(fill). Biblical Archaeology Review 44(1): 37-45
Weiss E. (2017) Palaeolithic vegetal diet in the southern Levant. In Quaternary of the Levant – Environment, Climate Change and Humans (Enzel Y. & Bar-Yosef O. eds). chapter 38, Part IV: Paleoecology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 329-335
Fuks D., Weiss E., Tepper Y. & Bar-Oz G. (2016) Seeds of collapse? Reconstructing the ancient agricultural economy at Shivta in the Negev. Antiquity 90 (353): 1-5
Groman-Yaroslavski I., Weiss E. & Nadel D. (2016) Composite sickles and cereal harvesting methods at 23,000 years old Ohalo II Israel. PLOS ONE 11(11): e0167151.
Sivan D., Greenbaum N., Cohen-Sheffer R., Sisma-Ventura G., Almigi-Labin A., Porat N., Melamed Y., Boaretto E. & Avnaim-Katav S. (2016) Palaeo-environmental archive of groundwater–surface water interaction zone, the Kebara wetlands, Carmel coast, Israel. Quaternary International 296: 138-149
Tchekhanovets Y. & Frumin S. (2016) Plant imprints on pottery reveal fig tree in Hellenistic Jerusalem. Israel Exploration Journal 66(2): 188-201
Ackermann O., Greenbaum N., Osband M., Almogi-Labin A., Ayalon A., Bar-Matthews A., Boaretto E., Bruins H.J., Cabanes D., Horwitz L.K., Neumann F.H., Porat N., Schilman B., Weiss E. & Maeir A.M. (2015) Soil and Sediments as an Archive of Landscape History: The Case Study of Tell es-Safi/Gath, The Eastern Mediterranean. In Soils and Sediments as Archives of Environmental Change (Lucke, B. et al eds). Erlangen: Palm und Enke Verlag, pp. 281-294
Hartmann-Shenkman A., Kislev M. E., Galilli E., Melamed Y. & Weiss E. (2015) Invading a new niche: obligatory weeds at Neolithic Atlit-Yam. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 24: 9-18
Marder O., Biton R., Boaretto E., Feibel C.S., Melamed Y., Mienis H.K., Rabinovich R., Zohar I. & Sharon G. (2015) Jordan River Dureijat – A New Epipaleolithic Site in the Upper Jordan Valley. Journal of Israel Prehistoric society 45: 5-30
Olsvig-Whittaker L., Maeir A.M., Weiss E., Frumin S., Ackermann O. & Kolsa-Horwitz L. (2015) Ecology of the past – late Bronze and Iron Age landscapes, people and climate change in Philistia (the southern coastal plain and Shephelah), Israel. Journal of Mediterranean Ecology 13: 57-75
Snir A., Nadel D. & Weiss E. (2015) Plant-food preparation on two consecutive floors at Upper Paleolithic Ohalo II, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 53: 61-71
Weiss E. (2015) “Beginnings of fruit growing in the old world” – two generations later. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 62(1-2): 75-85
Ackermann O., Greenbaum N., Ayalon A., Bar-Matthews M., Boaretto E., Bruins H.J. Cabanes D., Kolska-Horwitz L., Neumann F., Porat N., Weiss E. & Maeir A.M. (2014) Using palaeo-environmental proxies to reconstruct natural and anthropogenic controls on sedimentation rates, Tell es-Safi/Gath, eastern Mediterranean. Anthropocene 8: 70-82
Ackermann O., Greenbaum N., Bruins H.J., Porat N., Bar-Matthews M., Almogi-Labin A., Schilman B., Ayalon A., Kolska-Horwitz L., Weiss E. & Maeir A.M. (2014) Palaeoenvironment and anthropogenic activity in the southeastern Mediterranean since the mid-Holocene: The case of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Quaternary International 328-329: 226-243
Caracuta V., Weiss E., van den Brink C.M., Liran R., Vardi J. & Barzilai O. (2014) From natural environment to human landscape: new archaeobotanical data from the Neolithic site of Nahal Zipori 3, Lower Galilee. Neo-Lithics 14: 33-41.
Faust A. & Weiss E. (2014) Between Assyria and the Mediterranean world: the prosperity of Judah and Philistia in the Seventh Century BCE in context. In Interweaving worlds – systemic interactions in Eurasia, 7th to 1st Millenia BC (Wilkinson T.C. et al eds). Chapter 15. Barnsely: Oxbow Books. pp. 189-204.
Goren-Inbar N., Melamed Y., Zohar I., Kumar A & Pappu S. (2014) Beneath still waters – multistage aquatic exploitation of Euryale ferox (Salisb.) during the Acheulian. Internet Archaeology 37(37).
Marder O., Bridget A., Ayalon A., Bar-Matthews M., Bar-Oz G., Bar-Yosef Mayer D., Berna F., Boaretto E., Caracula V., Frumkin A., Goder-Goldberger M., Hershkovitz I., Latimer B., Lavi R., Matthews A., Weiner S., Weiss E., Yas’ur G., Yeshurun R. & Brazilai O. (2013) Upper Palaeolithic of Manot Cave, Western Galilee, Israel: the 2011-12 excavations. Antiquity 87(337): 277-284.
Snir A. & Weiss E. (2014) A novel morphometric method for differentiating wild and domesticated barley through intra-rachis measurements. Journal of Archaeological Science 44(1): 69–75.
Melamed Y. (2013) Botanical remains from the excavations on the southern beach of Ashdod. Atiqot 74: 127-131.
Kislev M.E. & Hartmann A. (2012) Food crops from Nahal Zehora II. In Village communities of the pottery neolithic period in the Menashe Hills, Israel (Gopher A. ed) chapter 32. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University. Chapter 32, pp. 1321-1326.
Nadel D., Riperno D.R., Holst I., Snir A. & Weiss E. (2012) New evidence for the processing of wild cereal grains at Ohalo II, a 23,000-year-old campsite on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel. Antiquity 86 (334): 990-1003.
Kislev M.E., Simchoni O., Melamed Y. & Maroz L. (2011) Flax seed production: evidence from the early Iron Age site of Tel Beth-Shean, Israel from written source. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 20(6): 579-584.
Melamed Y., Kislev M.E., Weiss E. & Simchoni O. (2011) Extinction of water plants in the Hula Valley: evidence for climate change. Journal of Human Evolution 60 (4): 320-327.
Nadel D., Weiss E. & Tschauner H. (2011) Gender-specific division of indoor space during the upper palaeolithic? A brush hut floor as a case study. In Site-internal spatial organization of hunter-gatherer societies: case studies from the European palaeolithic and Mesolithic (Gaudzinski-Windheuser S. et al eds). Schnell & Steiner Publication. pp. 263-276.
Weiss E. (2011) Botanical remains. In The Excavations of Khirbet er-Rasem, Israel – the Changing Faces of the Countryside (Faust A. & Erlich A. eds). BAR International Series. pp. 166-270.
Weiss E., Kislev M.E. & Mahler-Slasky Y. (2011) Plant remains. In The Leon Levy expedition to Ashkelon – Ashkelon 3. (Master D.M. et al eds). Chapter 23. Eisenbrauns Publication. pp. 591-613.
Weiss E., Kislev M.E., Simchoni O. & Nadel D. (2011) Morphogenetics of dicots and large and small grained wild grasses from the paleolithic era Ohalo II, Israel (23,000 BP). In Plant Archaeogenetics. (Gábor Gyulai ed). Nova Science Publishers. pp. 23-30.
Gonen S., Grosman L., Fluck H., Melamed Y., Rak Y., Rabinovich R. & Oron M. (2010) The first two excavation seasons at NMO: a Mousterian site at the bank of the Jordan River. Eurasian Prehistory 7(1): 129-151.
Kislev M.E., Hartmann A. & Noy T. (2010) The vegetal subsistence of Gilgal I as reflected in the assemblage of Locus 11. In: Gilgal – Early Neolithic occupations in the lower Jordan Valley: the excavations of Tamar Noy (Bar-Yosef ed) Chapter 16, p. 251-257.
Fairbairn A.S. & Weiss E. eds (2009) From Foragers to Farmers: Paper in Honor of Gordon C. Hillman. London: Oxbow Books.
Kislev M.E., Simchoni O., Melamed Y. & Maroz L. (2009) Botanical remains – food and industrial crops. In Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean Vol. III (1989-1996): The 13th-11th Century BCE Strata in Areas N and S (Matar M. et al eds). Israel Exploration Society, pp. 764-771.
Melamed Y., Plitmann U., Shimda A. & Golan O. (2009). Lathyrus clymenus L. in Israel: a revival” of an ancient species. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 57(1-2): 125-130
Spiro B., Ashkenazi S., Mienis H.K., Melamed Y., Feibel C., Delgado A. & Starinsky A. (2009) Climate variability in the Upper Jordan Valley around 0.78 Ma, inferences from time-series stable isotopes of Viviparidae, supported by mollusc and plant paleoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 282(1-4): 32-44
Weiss E. (2009) Glimpsing into a hut: the economy and society of Ohalo II’s inhabitants. In From Foragers to Farmers (Fairbairn A.S. & Weiss E. eds). London: Oxbow Books. pp. 153-160
Frumin S. & Shammash I. (2008) Types of Anthemis in the Herbarium of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 56(3): 279-293
Melamed Y., Plitmann U. & Kislev M.E. (2008) Vicia peregrina: an edible early Neolithic legume. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17: 29-34
Weiss E., Kislev M.E., Simchoni O., Nadel D. & Tschauner H. (2008) Plant-food preparation area on an upper paleolithic brush hut floor at Ohalo II, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(8): 2400-2414
Bar-Oz G., Bouchnick R., Weiss E., Weissbrod L., Bar-Yosef D. & Reich R. (2007). “Holy Garbage”: a quantitative study of the city-dump of early Roman Jerusalem. Levant 39(1): 1-12
Boaretto E., Shahack-Gross R., Shalev S., Weiner S. & Weiss E. eds (2007) Archaeological Science in Israel. Special issue of Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 56 (2-4). Weizmann Science Press
Simchoni O., Kislev M.E. & Melamed Y. (2007) Beth-Shean as a trade center for crops in the bronze age: botanical and entomological evidence. In Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989-1996, volume II – The Middle and Late Bronze Age Starta in Area R (Mazar M. et al eds). Israel Exploration Society. pp. 702-714
Weiss E. & Kislev M.E. (2007) Plant remains as a tool for reconstruction of the past environment, economy and society: archaeobotany in Israel. Journal of Earth Sciences 56(2): 163-173
Kislev M.E., Melamed Y. & Langsam Y. (2006) Plant remains from Tel Batash. In Timnah (Tel Batash) III: The Finds from the Second Millennium BCE (Panitz-Cohen N. & Mazar A. eds). Qedem 45: Jerusalem. The Hebrew University, pp. 295-311
Weiss E. & Simchoni O. eds (2006) Changes in Agriculture Economy and Trade in Antiquity – Meeting in honor of Prof. M. Kislev. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press
Faust A. & Weiss E. (2005) Judah, Philistia and the Mediterranean world: reconstructing the economic system of the seventh century BCE. Bulletin of the Americans Schools of Oriental Research 338: 71-92
Melamed Y. & Kislev M.E. (2005) Remains of seeds, fruits and insects from the excavations in the village of ‘En Gedi. Atiqot 49: 139-140.
Weiss E. (2005) Des moissons avant l’agriculture. Archeologie, la Recherche 382: 62-65
Frumin S., Eklund H. & Friis, E.M. (2004). Mauldinia hirsuta sp. nov., a New Member of the Extinct Genus Mauldinia (Lauraceae) from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian‐Turonian) of Kazakhstan. International Journal of Plant Sciences 165(5): 883-895.
Kislev M.E., Hartmann A. & Galili E. (2004) Archaeobotanical and archaeoentomological evidence from a well at Atlit-Yam indicates colder, more humid climate on the Israeli coast during the PPNC period. Journal of Archaeological Science 31(9): 1301-1310
Nadel D., Tsatskin A., Belmaker M., Boaretto E., Kislev M.E., Mienis H., Rabinovich R., Simchoni O., Simmons T., Weiss E. & Zohar I. (2004). On the shore of a fluctuating lake: Environmental evidence from Ohalo II (19,500 B.P.). Israel Journal of Earth Science 53: 207-223.
Weiss E. & Kislev M. (2004) Plant remains as indicators for economic activity: a case study from Iron Age Ashkelon. Journal of Archaeological Science 31(1): 1-13
Weiss E. & Kislev M. (2004) Weeds & seeds – what archaeobotany can teach us. Biblical Archaeology Review 30(6): 33-37
Weiss E., Kislev M.E., Simchoni O. & Nadel D. (2004) Small-grained wild grasses as staple food at the 23000-year-old site of Ohalo II. Economic botany 58(1): s125-s134
Nadel D., Bar-Yosef Mayer D., Belmaker M., Boaretto E., Kislev M.E., Hershkovitz I., Rabinovich R., Simchoni O., Simmons T. & Weiss E. (2003) The Ohalo II 2001 season of excavation: a preliminary report. Journal of Israel Prehistoric Society 33: 9-36
Kislev M.E. & Melamed Y. (2002) The burnt plants. In Kissufim Road: A Chalcolithic Mortuary Site (Goren Y. et al eds). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority. pp. 55-56.
Melamed Y. (2002). Chalcolithic and Hellenistic plant remains from Cave V/49. Atiqot 41(2): 101-115
Nadel D., Bar-Yosef Mayer D., Belmaker M., Boaretto E., Kislev M.E., Hershkovitz I., Rabinovich R., Simmons T., Weiss E., Zohar I., Asfur O., Emmer G., Ghraieb t., Grinberg E., Halabi H., Weissbrod L. & Zaidner Y. (2002) The Ohalo II 1999-2000 seasons of excavations: a preliminary report. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 32: 17-48
Kislev M.E. & Melamed Y. (2000) Ancient infested wheat and horsebean at Horbat Rosh Zayit. In Horbat Rosh Zayit: an Iron Age storage fort and village. (Gal Z. et al eds). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority. pp. 206-220
Frumin S. & Friis, E.M. (1999) Magnoliid reproductive organs from the Cenomanian-Turonian of north-western Kazakhstan: Magnoliaceae and Illiciaceae. Plant Systematics and Evolution 216(3): 265-288
Kislev M.E., Melamed Y., Simchoni O. & Marmorstein M. (1999) Computerized keys for archaeological grains: first steps. In The Practical Impact of Science on Near Eastern and Aegean Archaeology. (Pike S. & Gitin S. eds). London: Archetype. pp. 29-31
Kislev M.E., Melamed Y., Simchoni O. & Marmorstein M. (1997) Computerized key of grass grains of the Mediterranean basin. Lagascalia 19(1-2): 289-294
Frumin S. & Friis E.M. (1996). Liriodendroid seeds from the late cretaceous of Kazakhstan and North Carolina, United States. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 94(1): 39-55
Melamed Y. (1996). Dry and charred grains from ‘Afula – a taphonomic approach’. Atiqot 30: 69-70
Frumin S., Zhilin S.G. & Korchagina A. (1995) Alapaja (Taxodiaceae) seeds from the Cenomanian-Turonian of northern Kazakhstan. Paleontological Journal 29(1A): 194-202
Kislev M.E., Simchoni O., Melamed Y. & Marmorstein M. (1995) Computerized key for grass grains of Israel and its adjacent regions. In Res Archaeobotanicae, International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany (Kroll H. et al eds). Proceedings of the 9th Symposium. Kiel: Oetker-Voges. pp. 69-79
Publications in Hebrew
פרומין ס', פרומין מ' וויס א' (תשפ"א) הגנטיקאי שסטלין הרג – מכתב עלום של וָוִילוֹב (1926) השופך אור חדש על התפתחות המחקר החקלאי והבוטני בארץ ישראל. קתדרה 177: 60-35.
דוד מ', כסלו מ', מלמד י', בן-יוסף א' וויס א' (2023) מזון, מערך אספקה ומנחות פרי בממצא הבוטני מאתרי תקופות הברונזה המאוחרת והברזל הקדום בבקעת תמנע. מחקרי הנגב, ים-המלח והערבה 14 (4-2): 200-188.
אשכנזי ח', לנגוט ד', לב-ידון ש', ויס א', כחילה ג', ליפשיץ נ' וגורן י' (2023) הביוגרפיה של הנקבר ממערת הלוחם: מקרה מבחן למחקר מיקרו־היסטורי בארכאולוגיה. קדמוניות 165: 23-13.
פורת ר’, קלמן י’, צ’אצ’י ר’, טרם ש’, בר-נתן ר’, ויס א’, אקר א’, בן-גדליה צ’ ואלישיב ד’. (2018) יקב ומחסן יין מלכותי של הורדוס במבנה המעטפת של ארמון-מבצר ההר בהרודיון. קדמוניות 156: 114-106.
אקרמן א’, ויס א’, ז’בלב י’, מאיר א’, פרומין ס’ וקולסקה-הורוביץ ל’ (2015) נקודות מפתח בתקופת הפלאו-אנתרופוקן (Palaeo-anthropocene ) בישראל – פעילות אנושית בעבר כמעצבת המרחב של הנוף הנוכחי. הרשת הגיאוגרפית 8: 74-61.
ויס א’, בוכניק ר’, בר-עוז ג’ ורייך ר’ (2006) מזבלה בבית זבול? שתי תמיהות בנוגע לגל האשפה שליד בית המקדש השני. בתוך חידושים בחקר ירושלים – הקובץ השניים-עשר. ברוך א’ ופאוסט א’ (עורכים) רמת גן תשס”ז: 107-99.
ויס א’ וכסלו מ’ (2005) בוטניקה ארכיאולוגית: שרידי צמחים ככלי לשחזור הסביבה, הכלכלה והחברה בימי קדם. בתוך ארכיאולוגיה וסביבה – הכנס ה-25 המחלקה ללימודי א”י וארכיאולוגיה. אקרמן א’, פאוסט א’ ומאיר א’ (עורכים): 133-117.
מלמד י’ וכסלו מ’ (2005) שרידי זרעים, פירות ומזיקים מחפירות הכפר עין גדי. עתיקות 49: 140-89.
כסלו מ’, שמחוני א’ וויס א’ (2002) שחזור הנוף, הכלכלה והשימוש בסוכות על פי זרעים ופירות שנמצאו באהלו. בתוך אהלו II – מחנה דייגים-ציידים-לקטים בן 23,000 שנה על חוף הכנרת. נדל ד’ (עורך): 22-20.
ויס, א’ וכסלו, מ’ (2001) שרידי צמחים מתקופת הברזל באשקלון –אינדיקטורים לפעילות כלכלית. בתוך אשקלון עיר לחוף ימים. ששון א’, ספראי ז’ ושגיב נ’ (עורכים): 88-75.
ויס, א’ וכסלו, מ’ (1998) עיתוי עונת החורבן של אתרים ארכיאולוגיים בעזרת הממצא הבוטני. בתוך חידושים בחקר מישור החוף – דברי הכנס השנתי השבעה-עשר של המחלקה ללימודי א”י, יום עיון לכבוד פרופ’ יהודה פליקס, תשנ”ז, עמ’ 48-38.
הרטמן, ע’ (1998) עדות בוטנית ואנטמולוגית מעתלית-ים לאקלים קר בתקופת ה-PPNC (7500-8000 לפני זמננו). בתוך חידושים בחקר מישור החוף – דברי הכנס השנתי השבעה-עשר של המחלקה ללימודי א”י, יום עיון לכבוד פרופ’ יהודה פליקס, תשנ”ז, עמ’ 11-3.