{"id":865,"date":"2026-09-07T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aippacademia.org\/?page_id=865"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T11:11:30","slug":"anna-belfer-cohen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aippacademia.org\/en\/anna-belfer-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Belfer-Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-fa978270\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignwide has-2-columns has-desktop-oneTwo-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-collapsedRows-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-2a5561ec\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<h2 id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-0d6cdc6c\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-0d6cdc6c\">Academic Titles<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-9119adc8\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1988 \u2013&nbsp;Ph.D., Prehistoric Archaeology, Hebrew University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2002-2018 \u2013&nbsp;Full Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019 \u2013&nbsp;Professor Emerita<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-fd344b65\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignwide has-1-columns has-desktop-oneTwo-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-collapsedRows-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-82b86a4e\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-87ff16d8\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-87ff16d8\">Research Areas<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> Transitions and Beginnings: The <strong>Upper Palaeolithic<\/strong> and modern humans; the <strong>Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic<\/strong>, and the transition to village life<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Cognition in Prehistory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prehistoric Art and its place in the evolution of human institutions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lithic Technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Physical Anthropology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Biological Anthropology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-fe64fa61\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignwide has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-top\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-09b39b5d\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-3b0db9e0\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-3b0db9e0\"><strong>Professional services in the University&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Member, Senate\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, University Executive committee\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Head, Institute of Archaeology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Head, the Authority\u00a0for Research Students (non-experimental Sciences)\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Head, Committee assessing correspondence between personnel and the activities of\u00a0the HU libraries<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Academic head (Co- with Prof. Patricia Smith), Anthropological collections, National Collections at the HU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-47b9dbd9\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignwide has-2-columns has-desktop-oneTwo-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-collapsedRows-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-8130fa36\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<h2 id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-7ddc1e03\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-7ddc1e03\"><strong>Other Professional Services<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-cb76aaa3\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Member, the scientific editorial board of Pal\u00e9orient (Paris, France)\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, the scientific editorial board of J. of Anthropological Research (Chicago, USA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-editor (one of three) of Journal of Eurasian Prehistory (Harvard, USA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, Scientific editorial board of Mediterranean Arch. &amp; Archaeometry (Crete and Greece)\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, Advisory Board of Neo-Lithics (Neolithic of Western Asia; Berlin, Germany)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, panel of ERC Granting Authority (Brussels)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, ICREA Panel (Barcelona)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, panel\/head ISF (Israel Science Foundation) granting panel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, Wenner-Gren Foundation panel of reviewers (New York)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, Leakey Foundation panel of reviewers (New York)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) granting panel (Berne)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, NCN (National Science Centre, Poland) granting panel (Krakow)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Secretary\/Treasurer CARE Foundation\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, International Academy of Prehistory and Protohistory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, Israel Archaeological Council<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, Steering Committee, Dan David Center for Human Evolution &amp; Biohistory Research, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-34c3902f\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignwide has-2-columns has-desktop-oneTwo-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-collapsedRows-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-b68278f3\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<h2 id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-3b7ae725\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-3b7ae725\"><strong>External Referent (granting)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-2c0b45bd\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>BSF (Israel-USA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CBRL (UK)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Earthwatch (USA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ISF (Israel)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NSF (USA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NGS (USA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GIF (Israel-Germany)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leakey Foundation (USA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tempelton Foundation (USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-d0d1c427\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignwide has-2-columns has-desktop-oneTwo-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-collapsedRows-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-3fcd619a\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<h2 id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-ef3263f9\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-ef3263f9\"><strong>Referring for International Peer-Reviewed Journals<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-77d2c720\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">African Archaeological Review; American Antiquity; Antiquity; Archaeological and Anthropological Studies; Archaeological Research in Asia; Current Anthropology; Eurasian Prehistory; European Journal of Archaeology; Evolutionary Anthropology; Food and History Journal; Frontiers; Humanities and Social Sciences Communication; Intellectica; Israel Exploration Journal; Journal of Anthropological Archaeology; Journal of Archaeological Science; Journal of Archaeological Science Reports; Journal of Field Archaeology; Journal of Human Evolution; Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society; Journal of Method and Theory; Journal of Social Anthropology; Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry; Nature; Pal\u00e9orient; Palestine Exploration Quarterly; Paleoanthropology; Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA); Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (UK); PlosOne; Psychology; Quaternary International; Quaternary Science Review; Scientific Reports; Science.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-eda7683b\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignwide has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-top\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-8e179860\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-bffa8804\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-bffa8804\"><strong>Recent Excavation Projects<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Reconstruction of the Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic sequence of Georgia, the southern Caucasus (the caves Dzudzuana and Satsurblia and the rockshelter of Kotias Klde).<\/strong> This is an on-going international project, originally established jointly by the Late Prof. O. Bar-Yosef (Harvard, USA), Dr. Tengiz Meshviliani, Georgia State Museum and myself, on behalf of the Institute of Archaeology, The HU. Currently, the other foreign co-director is Dr. Mareike Stahlschmidt, Vienne University (Austria).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Study of the lithic assemblages<\/strong> from the open-air site Nahal Ein Gev II \u2013 A Natufian Village in collaboration with Prof. Leore Grosman.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Comparative study of Natufian assemblages from different environments<\/strong>: Fazael VI, Salibiya XII (Jordan Valley), Nahal Besor IV (the Negev High mountains), Azgad Cave (the Arava region) in collaboration with Prof. Nigel A. Goring-Morris.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Study of bone tool assemblages from the Levantine and Caucasus Upper Palaeolithic,<\/strong> in collaboration with Dr. Jose-Miguel Tejero.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The First cemeteries \u2013 The nature and meaning of Burial Practices in the Natufian Society. Cultural complexity on the eve of subsistence chang<\/strong>e. Studies of skeletal material as well as material finds from the burials at Hayonim and Hilazon Tachtit caves, in collaboration with Prof. Leore Grosman.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Artistic manifestations<\/strong> from the open-air Natufian site Eynan (\u2019Ain Mallaha) excavation project in collaboration with Dr. Fanny Bocquentin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-72b8919e\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignwide has-2-columns has-desktop-oneTwo-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-collapsedRows-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-afdc11d0\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<h2 id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-7a6e519f\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-7a6e519f\"><strong>National and International Conferences, Workshops and other Meetings (as organizer only)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-7730c63b\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2024<\/strong>, October 21-23, Barcelona, Spain, Conference \u201cSocial Interactions in Mediterranean prehistory\u201d, SIMEP 2024, <strong>Organizer, Chairperson and Moderator of Session<\/strong>: \u201cCirculation, Exchange and Trade\u201d (19 lectures).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2024<\/strong>, November 4-8, Sanliurfa, T\u00fcrkiye, \u201cWorld Neolithic Congress\u201d, Session R11: \u201cThe Neolithic of Southern Levant in its wider context\u201d <strong>Co-organizer<\/strong> (A. Nigel Goring-Morris) (25 lectures).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-44cc1024\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignwide has-2-columns has-desktop-oneTwo-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-collapsedRows-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-337d9095\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<h2 id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-e0da7ffc\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-e0da7ffc\">Academic production<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-991447db\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>List of 20 last publicaions (past 7 years \u2013 a selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bar-Yosef, O., A. Belfer-Cohen 2019. The Upper Paleolithic Industries of Kebara Cave. In: <em>Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel: The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archaeology. Part II.<\/em> L. Meignen, O. Bar-Yosef, eds., 309-404. Cambridge: American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin 51. Harvard University, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.&nbsp;<br>Belfer-Cohen, A., E. Hovers 2020 Prehistoric Perspectives on \u201cOthers\u201d and \u201cStrangers\u201d. <em>Frontiers in Psychology<\/em> 10(3063). <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Abadi, I., Bar-Yosef, O., A. Belfer-Cohen 2020. &#8220;Kebara V &#8211; A Contribution for the Study of the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition in the Levant&#8221; <em>PaleoAnthropology<\/em> 2020: 1-28.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hovers, E., A. Belfer-Cohen 2020. Are Lithics and Fauna a Match Made in (Prehistoric) Heaven? <em>Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology<\/em> 3: 108-125. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Goren-Inbar, N., A. Belfer-Cohen 2020. Reappraisal of hominin group size in the Lower Paleolithic: An introduction to the special issue. <em>Journal of Human Evolution<\/em> 144: 102821.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Goring-Morris, N., A. Belfer-Cohen 2020. Highlighting the PPNB in the Southern Levant. <em>Neolithics<\/em> 20: 3-22.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Goring-Morris, A. N., A. Belfer-Cohen 2020. Noisy beginnings: The Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Southwest Asia. <em>Quaternary International<\/em> 551: 40-46.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Belfer-Cohen, A., N. Goring-Morris 2020. From the Epipalaeolithic into the earliest Neolithic (PPNA) in the South Levant. <em>Documenta Praehistorica<\/em> XLVII: 36-52.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Belfer-Cohen, A., A. N. Goring-Morris 2021. The Role of Networks in the Connectivity of the Levantine Epipaleolithic. <em>Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society<\/em> 51: 65\u201381.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tejero, J.-Miguel, G. Bar-Oz, O. Bar-Yosef, T. Meshveliani, N. Jakeli, Z. Matskevich, R. Pinhasi, A. Belfer-Cohen 2021. &#8220;New insights into the Upper Palaeolithic of the Caucasus through the study of personal ornaments. Teeth and bones pendants from Satsurblia and Dzudzuana caves (Imereti, Georgia).&#8221; <em>PLOS ONE<\/em> 16 (11): e0258974.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tejero, J.-M, R. Rabinovich, R. Yeshurun, T. Abulafia, O. Bar-Yosef, O. Barzilai, M. Goder-Goldberger, I. Hershkovitz, R. Lavi, M. Shemer, O. Marder, A. Belfer-Cohen 2021. &#8220;Personal ornaments from Hayonim and Manot caves (Israel) hint at symbolic ties between the Levantine and the European Aurignacian.&#8221; <em>Journal of Human Evolution<\/em> 160: 102870.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Goren-Inbar, N., A. Belfer-Cohen, L. Grosman, G. Herzlinger, A. Agam 2022. &#8220;Kaizer Hill (Modi\u2018in), a pre-pottery neolithic a quarry site \u2013 the terraced slopes.&#8221; <em>PLOS ONE<\/em> 17 (3): e0265727. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Goring-Morris, N., A. Belfer-Cohen 2022. &#8220;\u2018Far and wide\u2019: Social networking in the Early Neolithic of the Levant.&#8221; <em>L&#8217;Anthropologie<\/em> 126 (3): 103051.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grosman, L., A. Belfer-Cohen 2022. &#8220;Moving On: Natufian After-life Phases and Stages. Hilazon Tachtit Cave as a Case Study&#8221;. In: <em>Dealing with the Dead: Studies on Burial Practices in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Levant<\/em>, edited by D. Ackerfeld and A. Gopher, Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment, 23, 65-75. Berlin: Ex-oriente.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grosman, L., A. Belfer-Cohen 2023. &#8220;Insights into Natufian Social Identity: A Case Study from the Graveyard of Hayonim Cave.&#8221; Cambridge Archaeological Journal 33 (2): 247-264.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hovers, E., A. Belfer-Cohen 2023.&nbsp; &#8220;A Pleistocene Record of Making Symbols.&#8221; In T<em>he Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology<\/em>, edited by Thomas Wynn, Karenleigh A. Overmann and Frederick L. Coolidge. Oxford University Press&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Belfer-Cohen, A., N. Goring-Morris 2024. &#8220;\u201cSomething old, something new, something borrowed, something blue\u2026\u201d Ornaments in the Levantine Early Neolithic.&#8221; Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 54: 104442.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parow-Souchon, H., A. Belfer-Cohen. 2024. &#8220;The use of carinated items in the Levantine Aurignacian\u2014Insights from layer D, Hayonim Cave, W. Galilee, Israel.&#8221; PLOS ONE 19 (7): e0301102. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Goring-Morris, A. N., A. Belfer-Cohen. 2024. &#8220;When environment meets culture in the arid margin of the Southern Levant.&#8221; Journal of Arid Environments 225: 105262. &nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Longo, Laura, Mauro Veronese, Clarissa Cagnato, Giusi Sorrentino, Ana Tetruashvili, Anna Belfer-Cohen, Nino Jakeli, Tengiz Meshveliani, Moreno Meneghetti, Alfonso Zoleo, Antonio Marcomini, Gilberto Artioli, Elena Badetti, and Karen Hardy. 2025. &#8220;Direct evidence for processing <em>Isatis tinctoria L<\/em>., a non-nutritional plant, 32\u201334,000 years ago.&#8221; PLOS ONE 20 (5): e0321262. &nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Goring-Morris, Nigel and Anna Belfer-Cohen. 2025. Salibiya XII and Fazael VI: Two Natufian Sites in the Lower Jordan Valley within Their Contexts <em>Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology<\/em>, <em>8<\/em>(2788-8819), 74\u2013105 <a href=\"https:\/\/jjar.huji.ac.il\">https:\/\/jjar.huji.ac.il<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Belfer-Cohen, Anna, and Leore Grosman. 2025. An Epipaleolithic Example of Symmetry for the \u201cMind\u2019s Eye\u201d, Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology, 8: 120\u2013130.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Belfer-Cohen, Anna, 2025. Comment on: Pondering Prehistory &#8211; Southern Levantine Homo populations\u2019 dynamic during the Late Lower and Middle Paleolithic (400-50 ka): A personal perspective\/ Israel Hershkovitz.&nbsp; <em>Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society &#8211; Mitekufat Haeven<\/em> 55: 214-217.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Davin, L., Sindel, M., Yeshurun, R., Weinstein-Evron, M., Kaufman, D., Shklyar, B., Grosman, L., Belfer-Cohen, A., Khalaily, H., &amp; Valla, F. R. (2026). Modeling identities among the first-sedentary communities: Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia. <em>Science Advances<\/em>, <em>12<\/em>(12), eaea2158.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tsahar, E., Bar-Oz, G., Izhaki, I., Avner, U., Barzilai, O., Belfer-Cohen, A., Edeltin, L., Goder-Goldberger, M., Hovers, E., Oron, M., Rosen, S. A., Shafir, R., Vardi, J., Weinstein-Evron, M., Weissbrod, L., Yeshurun, R., Wolkowski, U., Zaidner, Y., Horwitz, L. K., &amp; Marom, N. (2026). Archaeological ostrich eggshell structure as a taxonomic and paleoenvironmental indicator. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 691, 113723.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Groman-Yaroslavski, I., Krugman, T., Belfer-Cohen, A., Yeshurun, R., Grosman, L., Kaufman, D., Barshay, K., Piliponsky, M., Vardi, J., Abadi, I., &amp; Weinstein-Evron, M. (2026). Natufian sickle blades (ca. 15,000\u201311,700&nbsp;cal. BP) reveal cereal cultivation ca. 4.5 millennia before domestication. 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