Dr. Aaron Greener is a Research Fellow at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, where he previously was a post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratory for  Ancient Food Processing Technologies (LAFPT). Aaron received his PhD from Bar-Ilan University, and researches various aspects of Bronze and Iron Age archaeology in the Southern Levant. He specializes – among other things – in imported Mycenaean and Cypriot pottery during the Late Bronze, Ground-Stone Tools at domestic and industrial sites, especially from the Timna copper production site in the ‘Arabah Valley in southern Israel.

References 

• Greener, A., Finkelstein, I. and Langgut, D. 2020. Settlement Oscillations along the Desert Fringes of the Southern Levant: Impact of Climate versus Economic and Historical Factors. Ugarit-Forschungen 49 (2018): 165-196.
• Greener. A. 2019. Archaeology and Religion in Late Bronze Age Canaan. Religions 10(4).
• Greener, A. and Ben-Yosef, E. 2016.The Ground Stone Assemblage of a Metal Workers Community: An Unexplored Dimension of Iron Age CopperProduction at Timna, Journal of Lithic Studies 3(3): 191-220.
• Greener, A. 2012. The Symbolic and Social Meanings of the Intermediate Bronze Age Copper Daggers. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 143.1:32-45.

Aaron Greener, The Characteristics of the Terracotta Figurines from the Temple Mount Soil, mai 2020 (©Temple Mount Sifting Project – פרויקט הסינון).

Mots clés
Archaeology, Southern Levant, Iron and Bronze Ages, Mortuary, Social Archaeology, Ground-Stone Tools