Haskel J. Greenfield (Ph.D., 1985, City University of New York) is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Codirector of the Near Eastern and Biblical Archaeology Lab, and Coordinator for Judaic Studies Program (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada). He is an anthropological archaeologist whose research focuses on early agricultural and complex societies in the Old World from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. He has conducted research on butchering technology, spread of metallurgy, regional subsistence and land-use, Secondary Products Revolution, origins of transhumant pastoralism, and intra-settlement spatial organization. Most recently, he has been studying the organization of Early Bronze Age urban communities in the Near East and codirected with Prof. Aren Maeir the Early Bronze Age excavations at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel.