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Dr. Haskel Greenfield

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Dr. Haskel Greenfield

Distinguished Professor
Office: 447 Fletcher Argue or 141 St. Paul's College
Phone: (204) 272-1591
Email: Haskel.Greenfield@umanitoba.ca
http://haskelgreenfield.wordpress.com/

Education:
PhD (City University of New York, Graduate Center)

      


Recent Courses:

  • ANTH 1210 - Human Origins and Antiquity
  • ANTH 2060 - European Archaeology
  • ANTH 2600 - Old World Prehistory
  • ANTH 2610 - Old World Civilizations
  • ANTH 3910 - Archaeological Field Training
  • ANTH 3990 - Faunal Analysis in Archaeology
  • ANTH 7410 - Interpretive Methods in Archaeology

Areas of Specialization:

Currently Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Near Eastern and Biblical Archaeology Lab, and Coordinator of Judaic Studies at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He is an anthropological archaeologist whose research focuses on the evolution of early agricultural and early complex societies in the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia) from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Geographically, his research covers a large swath of Old World societies, from Europe through the Near East and into Africa. He is currently co-director (with Prof. Aren Maeir, Bar-Ilan University, Israel) of the excavations of the Early Bronze Age city at Tell es-Safi, Israel, the Canaanite precursor of the famous Philistine site of ancient Gath (home of Biblical Goliath).

Current Research (including grants and student funding opportunities):

• Early urban neighbourhoods in the southern Levant – excavation of EBA Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel.
• Productive intensification and the spread of animal secondary products in the Old World.
• The origins and spread of metallurgy in the Old World: analysis of butchering marks on Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age animal bones from archaeological sites in Europe and Asia.
• Pleistocene butchering patterns from North America and Europe: analysis of megafaunal remains (mammoth and giant ground sloth remains from Wisconsin, Ohio and Poland).
• Non-elite urban subsistence systems in the Early Bronze Age of the Near East (Israel and Turkey)
• Urban household subsistence and taphonomy in the southern Levant: analysis of zooarchaeological remains from Tel es-Safi (ancient Gath), Israel.


Recent Publications:

Books

  • Greenfield, Haskel J. (ed.) 2014 Animal Secondary Products: Domestic Animal Exploitation in Prehistoric Europe, the Near East and the Far East. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Journal articles

  • 2017 Adi Eliyahu-Behar, Itzick Shai, Shira Gur-Arieh, Suembikya Frumin, Shira Albaz, Ehud Weiss, Francesca Manclossi, Steve Rosen, Tina L. Greenfield, Haskel J. Greenfield and Aren Maeir. Early Bronze Age Pebble Installations from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: evidence for their function and utility. Levant (The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant) 49 (1): 46-63. ISSN: 0075-8914 (Print) 1756-3801.
  • 2016 Adi Eliyahu Behar, Itzick Shai, Lior Regev, David Ben Shlomo, Shira Albaz, Aren M. Maeir, and Haskel J. Greenfield. Early Bronze Age pottery covered with lime-plaster: technological observations. Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology 43 (1): 27-42, DOI: 10.1080/03344355.2016.1161373. ISSN: 0334-4355 (Print) 2040-4786 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ytav20.
  • Jeremy A. Beller, Haskel J. Greenfield, Itzhaq Shai, and Aren Maeir. 2016. Ground stone tools from the EB III neighbourhood at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Lithic Studies 3 (3): XX-XX (Special Issue: Ground Stone Artifacts and Society: An international workshop on ground stone artifacts: Quarrying, production, function and exchange at the University of Haifa, edited by Danny Rosenberg and Yorke Rowan). doi:10.2218/jls.v3i3.1675.
  • Elizabeth V. Arnold, Gideon Hartman, Haskel J. Greenfield, Itzick Shai, Lindsay Babcock, and Aren M. Maeir. 2016. Isotopic evidence for early trade in animals between Old Kingdom Egypt and Canaan. PLoS One 11 (6): 1-12 e0157650. (R, S)
  • Jeremy A. Beller, Haskel J. Greenfield, Mostafa Fayek, Itzhaq Shai, and Aren M. Maeir 2016 Provenance and exchange of basalt ground stone artefacts of EB III Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 9: 226–237. (R, S)
  • Itzhaq Shai, Haskel J. Greenfield, Annie Brown, Shira Albaz, and Aren M. Maeir. 2016 The importance of the donkey as a pack animal in the Early Bronze Age southern Levant: A view from Tell es-Safi/Gath. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina Vereins (ZDPV) 132 (1): 1-25. (R, S)
  • Itzhaq Shai, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Eric Welch, Jill Katz, Haskel J. Greenfield and Aren M. Maeir. 2016 The Early Bronze Age Fortifications at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 148 (1): 42–58. (R, S)
  • Adi Eliyahu-Behar, Shira Albaz, Itzhaq Shai, Aren M. Maeir, and Haskel J. Greenfield. 2016 Faience beads from Early Bronze Age contexts at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 7 (June): 609–613. (R, S) 
  • Haskel J. Greenfield and Elizabeth R. Arnold 2015 “Go(a)t milk?” New zooarchaeological perspectives on the earliest intensification of dairying during the Neolithic of Europe. World Archaeology 47 (5): 792-818. (R, S) DOI:10.1080/00438243.2015.1029076.
  • Haskel J. Greenfield, N. Colin Moore and Steppan Karlheinz. 2015 Estimating the age- and season-of-death for wild equids: a comparison of techniques utilising a sample from the Late Neolithic site of Bad Buchau-Dullenried, Germany." Open Quaternary 1 (1): 1-28. (R, S)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield 2015 Looking into the Horse’s Mouth: How cementum can tell us about age and season of death. Blog for Open Quaternary. (S)
    12.11. Itzhaq Shai, Haskel J. Greenfield, Adi Eliyahu-Behar, Johanna Regev, Elisabetta Boaretto, and Aren M. Maeir. 2014 The Early Bronze Age remains at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: an interim report. Tel Aviv 41 (1): 20–49. (R, S)
  • Pawłowska, Kamilla, Haskel J. Greenfield, and Czubla Piotr 2014 ‘Steppe’ mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) remains in their geological and cultural context from Bełchatów (Poland): A consideration of human exploitation in the Middle Pleistocene. PNAS. Quaternary International, Volumes 326–327 (1 April): 448–468. Special Volume "European Middle Palaeolithic, MIS8-MIS3: Cultures-Environment-Chronology", Krzysztof Cyrek & Adam Nadachowski, Guest Editors. (R, S)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield and Tina L. Jongsma Greenfield 2014 Subsistence and settlement in the Early Neolithic of temperate SE Europe: a view from Blagotin, Serbia. Archaeologia Bulgarica XVIII (1): 1-33. (R, S)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield 2013 “The Fall of the House of Flint”: a zooarchaeological perspective on the decline of chipped stone tools for butchering animals in the Bronze and Iron Ages of the southern Levant. Lithic Technology 38 (3): 161-178 (special issue edited by Steven Rosen). (R, S) 
  • Elizabeth R. Arnold, Haskel J. Greenfield, and Robert A. Creaser 2013 Domestic cattle mobility in early farming villages in southern Africa: Harvest profiles and strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotope analyses from Early Iron Age sites in the lower Thukela River valley of South Africa. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 5: 129–144. DOI 10.1007/s12520-013-0121-z.  (R, S)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield, Itzhaq Shai, Aren Maeir 2012 Being an "ass": An Early Bronze Age burial of a donkey from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Bioarchaeology of the Near East 6: 21-52. (R, S).
  • Brian G. Redmond, H. Gregory McDonald, Haskel J. Greenfield, and Matthew L. Burr 2012 New evidence for late Pleistocene human exploitation of Jefferson’s Ground Sloth (Megalonyx Jeffersonii) from northern Ohio, U.S.A. World Archaeology 44 (1): 75-101. (R, S). 
  • Ktalav, Inbar and Haskel J. Greenfield 2010 Production methods of worked shells. In Molluscs from Iron Age Tel Halif by Inbar Ktalav and Oded Borowski. Tel Aviv (Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University) 37 (1): 126-136 (pp. 128-129). (R, S).
  • Haskel J. Greenfield 2010 The Secondary Products Revolution: the past, the present and the future. World Archaeology 42 (1): 29–54 (Issue on Agricultural Innovation). (R, S)

Book chapters

  • Haskel J. Greenfield 2017 Hunting and herding in the Middle Neolithic of central Serbia: a zooarchaeological analysis of Stragari-Šljivik, Serbia. In Economic Zooarchaeology: Studies in Hunting, Herding and Early Agriculture, edited by Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson and Paul Halstead. Oxbow; Oxford, pp, 183-196. (R)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield, Annie Brown, Itzhaq Shai, and Aren Maeir. 2016 Preliminary analysis of the fauna from the Early Bronze Age III neighbourhood at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Bones and Identity: Zooarchaeological Approaches to Reconstructing Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia (Proceedings of the ICAZ-SW Asia Conference, Haifa, June 23-28, 2013), edited by Nimrod Marom, Reuven Yeshurun, Lior Weissbrod, and Guy Bar-Oz. Oxford; Oxbow Press, pp. 170-192. (R, S)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield, Trent Cheney, and Ehud Galili.  2016 A taphonomic and technological analysis of the butchered animal bone remains from Atlit Yam, a submerged PPNC site off the coast of Israel. Bones and Identity: Zooarchaeological Approaches to Reconstructing Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia (Proceedings of the ICAZ-SW Asia Conference, Haifa, June 23-28, 2013), edited by Nimrod Marom, Reuven Yeshurun, Lior Weissbrod, and Guy Bar-Oz. Oxford; Oxbow Press, pp. 89-112. (R, S)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield and Annie Brown 2016 ‘Making the cut’: Changes in butchering technology and efficiency patterns from the Chalcolithic to modern Arab occupations at Tell Halif, Israel. Bones and Identity: Zooarchaeological Approaches to Reconstructing Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia (Proceedings of the ICAZ-SW Asia Conference, Haifa, June 23-28, 2013), edited by Nimrod Marom, Reuven Yeshurun, Lior Weissbrod, and Guy Bar-Oz. Oxford; Oxbow Press, pp. 273-291. (R, S)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield, Itzhaq Shai and Aren M. Maeir 2016 Understanding Early Bronze urban patterns from the perspective of an EB III commoner neighbourhood: the excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. In Proceedings of 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (June 9-13, 2014, Basel), Reports, vol. 3, pp. 1537–1551. Edited by Rolf A. Stucky, Oskar Kaelin and Hans-Peter Mathys. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden. (R, S)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield and Tina L. Greenfield 2015 The Near Eastern and Biblical Archaeology Laboratory (NEBAL) at St. Paul’s College. In Christine Butterill (ed.), St. Paul’s College: A Centenary Celebration. St. Paul’s College, Winnipeg, pp. 338-350. 
  • Haskel J. Greenfield 2015 The Secondary Products Revolution. In Karen Bescherer Metheny and Mary C. Beaudry (eds.) The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia, pp. 451-454. Rowman & Littlefield. (R)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield, Deland Wing, and Aren M. Maeir 2015 LiDAR technology as an analytical tool at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Breaking Barriers: Proceedings of the 2014 Chacmool Conference, November 7-10, 2014. University of Calgary, Dept. of Archaeology, Calgary, pp. 76-85. (S, R).
  • Haskel J. Greenfield and Nancy Lapp 2015 Faunal remains. In Tell er-Rumeith: The Excavations of Paul W. Lapp, 1962 and 1967. American Schools of Oriental Research Archeological Reports, Number 22, edited by Tristan Barako and Nancy Lapp. ASOR; Boston, pp. 332-341. ISBN 978-0-89757-089-3.
  • Haskel J. Greenfield 2014 Appendix II: the faunal remains from the old excavations. In The Sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis, edited by Michael B. Cosmopoulos. The Archaeological Society of Athens, vol. 296, pp. 217-227. Athens Archaeological Society.
  • Haskel J. Greenfield 2014 Introduction. In Haskel J. Greenfield (ed.) Animal Secondary Products: Domestic Animal Exploitation in Prehistoric Europe, the Near East and the Far East, pp. 1-18. Oxbow Press; Oxford. (S)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield 2014 Some reflections on the origins and intensification of dairying in the archaeological record. In Haskel J. Greenfield (ed.) Animal Secondary Products: Domestic Animal Exploitation in Prehistoric Europe, the Near East and the Far East, pp. 20-39. Oxbow: Oxford. (S)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield and Elizabeth Arnold 2014 ‘Crying over spilt milk’: An evaluation of recent models, methods, and techniques on the origins of milking during the Neolithic of the Old World. In Haskel J. Greenfield (ed.) Animal Secondary Products: Domestic Animal Exploitation in Prehistoric Europe, the Near East and the Far East, 130-185. Oxbow Press; Oxford. (S)
  • Sasson, Aharon and Haskel J. Greenfield 2014 The Second Revolution of Secondary Products: Do mortality profiles reflect herd management or specialised production? In Haskel J. Greenfield (ed.) Animal Secondary Products: Domestic Animal Exploitation in Prehistoric Europe, the Near East and the Far East, pp. 206-218. Oxbow Press; Oxford. (S)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield 2014 Zooarchaeology of the Late Neolithic, Eneolithic, and Middle Bronze Ages at Vinča-Belo Brdo, Serbia: the 1982 excavations. In Haskel J. Greenfield (ed.) Animal Secondary Products: Domestic Animal Exploitation in Prehistoric Europe, the Near East and the Far East, pp. 274-334. Oxbow Press; Oxford. (S)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield and Elizabeth Arnold 2014 Harvest profiles and dental cementum analysis of domestic taxa from Late Neolithic and Middle Bronze Age Vinča-Belo Brdo: some thoughts on changes in subsistence and seasonality. In Haskel J. Greenfield (ed.) Animal Secondary Products: Domestic Animal Exploitation in Prehistoric Europe, the Near East and the Far East, pp. 335-352. Oxbow Press; Oxford. (S)
  • Greenfield-Jongsma, Tina L. and Haskel J. Greenfield 2014 Bronze and Iron Age subsistence changes in the Upper Tigris: zooarchaeology of Operation E at Ziyaret Tepe, southeastern Turkey. In Bea De Cupere, Veerle Linseele, and S. Hamilton-Dyer (eds.) Archaeozoology of the Near East X. Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on the Archaeozoology of South-western Asia and Adjacent Areas. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series 44, pp. 121-144. Peeters Publishing, Leuven. ISBN 978-90-429-2966-1. (R)
  • Arkadiusz Marciniak and Haskel J. Greenfield 2013 A zooarchaeological perspective on the origins of metallurgy in the North European Plain: butchering marks on bones from central Poland. In Sophie Bergerbrant and Serena Sabatini (eds.), Counterpoint: Essays in Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Honour of Professor Kristian Kristiansen. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 2508, pp. 457-468. Oxford: Archaeopress. (S, R)
  • Alexander Zukerman, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Justin Lev-Tov, Haskel Greenfield, and Aren M. Maeir 2012 Further Insights on the Notched Scapulae from Stratum A3. In Tel es-Safi/Gath vol. I: The 1996–2005 Seasons, edited by Aren Maeir, pp. 509-530. Ägypten und Altes Testament band 69. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (S, R)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield and Liora Kolska Horwitz 2012 Reconstructing animal-butchering technology: slicing cut marks from the submerged Pottery Neolithic site of Neve Yam, Israel. In Bones for Tools – Tools for Bones: the Interplay between Objects and Objectives (Proceedings of a conference organized at the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge), edited by Krish Seetah and Brad Gravina. Cambridge, MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University, pp. 53-63. ISBN: 978-1-902937-59-5 (S, R)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield and Adam Allentuck 2011 Neighbourhood differences in animal exploitation and consumption patterns in an early (Early Bronze Age) urban center: the zooarchaeology of Titriş Höyük, SE Turkey. In It’s Good to Be King: The Archaeology of Power and Authority (Proceedings of the 41st Chacmool Conference, November 7–10, 2008), edited by Shawn Morton and Don Butler, with Dr. Kathryn Reese-Taylor. University of Calgary, Chacmool Archaeological Association, pp. 171-180. ISBN 978-0-88953-360-8 (S, R)
  • Haskel J. Greenfield and Ram Bouchnick 2010 Kashrut and Shechita – the relationship between dietary practices and ritual slaughtering of animals on Jewish identity. In Identity Crisis: Archaeological Perspectives on Social Identity: Proceedings of the 42nd (2009) Annual Chacmool Archaeology Conference, edited by L. Amundsen-Meyer, N. Engel and S. Pickering, pp. 106-112. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. (S, R)
  • Adam Allentuck and Haskel J. Greenfield 2010 The organization of animal production in an early urban center: the zooarchaeological evidence from Early Bronze Age Titriş Höyük, southeast Turkey. In Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity and Animal Transformations, edited by D. Campana, P. Crabtree, S. deFrance, J. Lev-Tov, and A. Choyke. Oxford: Oxbow Press, pp. 12-29. (S, R)