CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. Gonen Sharon
Personal details:
Permanent Address: Lehavot Habashan, 12125 Israel
Phone numbers: Work: 972-4-8181601
E-mail address: [email protected]
Higher Education
2000 - 2007
1996 - 2000
1993 - 1996
Ph.D. Summa cum Laude, Prehistory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A. Prehistoric Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
B.A. Magna cum Laude, Archaeology and Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Archaeological Field Research
2014 - present
2014 - present
2007 - present
2002 - present
2001
2000
1999
1998-99
1998
1998-2002
1996-98
1995-97
1994
Director of excavation, Early Epipaleolithic site of Jordan River Dureijat (JRD).
Director of Shamir Dolmen Rock Art Project (with Uri Berger – IAA).
Director of excavation, Late Pleistocene site at Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet (NMO).
Coordinator, geo-archaeological study of new sites of the Upper Jordan River
(Epipaleolithic, Mousterian, Acheulian, with Israel Antiquity Authority).
Supervisor, Dzudzuana Cave Upper Paleolithic excavation, Republic of Georgia, The
Caucasus Paleolithic: International Joint Project of the Hebrew University, Harvard
University and the Tbelisi Archaeological Museum.
Supervisor, Hilazon Cave Natufian excavation.
Team member, Hayonim Cave excavation.
Staff member, Revadim Lower Paleolithic excavation.
Team member, Riparo Tagliente Mousterian-Mezulithic excavation, Verona, Italy.
Basalt lithic experiments, Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, with B. Madsen & Prof. N. GorenInbar.
Team member, prehistoric survey at Wadi Zihor, Southeastern Negev.
Staff member, Gesher Benot Ya’aqov excavation.
Tel Hazor educational biblical excavation.
Appointments at academic institutions
2011 - present Senior Lecturer, Multidisciplinary Studies, Tel Hai College
2007 - 2009
Lecturer, Multidisciplinary Studies, Tel Hai College
2007 - 2009
Post-doctoral Fellow, ISF Center of Excellence, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2000 - 2010
Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Administrative positions in academic institutions
2014 - present Chair, Research Committee, Tel Hai College
2010 - present Staff member, Center for Excellence in Teaching, Tel Hai College
Positions in non-academic and research institutions
2012 - present
2009 - 2014
1999 - present
1999 - 2005
Chair and Curator, Maayan Barukh Upper Galilee Museum of Prehistory
Editor, Website of the Israel Prehistoric Society (www.prehistory.org.il)
Board member of the Israel Prehistoric Society
Chair of the Israel Prehistoric Society
Membership in professional organizations
1995 - present
2010 - present
2010 - present
2012 - present
Israel Prehistoric Society
Society of American Archaeologist
Paleoanthropology Society
ESHE, the European Society for the study of Human Evolution
Teaching (selected)
Man and Environment in Prehistoric Galilee (M.A. in Galilee Studies)
The Emergence of Complex Societies (Seminar, M.A. in Galilee Studies)
Paleo-Diet (B.A. in Nutrition Sciences)
The Stone Age (Seminar, B.A. in Israel Studies).
The Earliest Civilizations: Introduction to Later Prehistory (B.A. in Israel Studies)
Galilee Archaeology: One million years of regional human presence
Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers and Shepherds: Humans and environment in the past
The Neolithic Revolution in the Galilee (Field excursion course)
Field school: archaeological excavation (summer program for B.A. students)
List of Publications
1 Dissertations
1. Sharon, G. 2006. Acheulian Large Flake Industries: Technology, Chronology, Distribution and
Significance. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2. Sharon, G. 2000. Acheulian Basalt Tools of Gesher Benot Ya´aqov: Experimental and
Technological Study. Masters Thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2 Books (Academic)
1. Sharon, G. 2007. Acheulian Large Flake Industries: Technology, Chronology, and Significance.
BAR (British Archaeological Reports) International Series 1701. Archaeopress, Oxford.
3 Books Edited
1. Goren-Inbar, N. and G. Sharon (editors). 2006. Axe Age: Acheulian Tool-making from Quarry to
Discard. Equinox, London.
4 Special Issue Guest Editor
1. Sharon, G., Y. Zaidner and E. Hovers. 2014. Special Issue: Opportunities, problems and future
directions in the study of open-air Middle Paleolithic sites - an introduction. Quaternary
International 331.
5 Chapter in edited books
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1. Sharon, G. 2014. The Early Prehistory of West and Central Asia. In The Cambridge World
Prehistory, edited by C. Renfrew and P. Bahn. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
2. Sharon, G. 2011. New Acheulian Locality North of Gesher Benot Ya´aqov – Contribution for the
Study of the Levantine Acheulian In The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in the Middle East and
Neighboring Regions, edited by J.-M. L. Tensorer, R. Jagher and M. Otte, pp. 25-33. ERAUL,
vol. 126. Liège.
3. Goren-Inbar, N. and G. Sharon. 2006. Invisible Handaxes and Visible Acheulian Biface
Technology at Gesher Benot Ya´aqov, Israel. In: Axe Age: Acheulian Tool-making from Quarry
to Discard, edited by N. Goren-Inbar and G. Sharon, pp. 111-135. Equinox, London. Google
Scholar cited by 6.
4. Sharon, G. and P. Beaumont. 2006. Victoria West - A Highly Standardized Prepared Core
Technology. In: Axe Age: Acheulian Tool-making from Quarry to Discard, edited by N. GorenInbar and G. Sharon, pp. 181-199. Equinox, London. Google Scholar cited by 14.
5. Sharon, G., C. S. Feibel, S. Belitzky, O. Marder, H. Khalaily and R. Rabinovich. 2002. 1999
Jordan River Drainage Project Damages Gesher Benot Ya'aqov: A Preliminary Study of the
Archaeological and Geological Implications. In: Eretz Zafon - Studies in Galilean Archaeology,
edited by Z. Gal, pp. 1-19. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem.
6 Articles in refereed journals
Published
1. Aharonovich, S., G. Sharon and M. Weinstein-Evron. 2014. Palynological Investigations at the
Middle Paleolithic Site of Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet, Israel. Quaternary International 331:149166.
2. Kalbe, J., S. Mischke, P. Dulski and G. Sharon. 2014. The archaeological Site Nahal Mahanayeem
Outlet (NMO, Israel): potential of ostracodes for the reconstruction of Paleolithic wetland
environments in the Levant. Journal of Archaeological Science 54: 385-395.
3. Kalbe, J., G. Sharon, N. Porat, C. Zhang and S. Mischke. 2014. Geological Setting of the Middle
Paleolithic Site of NMO (Upper Jordan Valley, Israel). Quaternary International 331:139-148.
4. Sharon, G. and M. Oron. 2014. The Lithic Tool Arsenal of a Mousterian Hunter. Quaternary
International 331:167-185.
5. Sharon, G., Y. Zaidner and E. Hovers. 2014. Opportunities, problems and future directions in the
study of open-air Middle Paleolithic sites - an introduction. Quaternary International 331:1-5.
6. Grosman, L., G. Sharon, T. Goldman-Neuman, O. Smikt and U. Smilansky. 2011. Studying Post
Depositional Damage on Acheulian Bifaces Using 3D Scanning. Journal of Human Evolution
60(4):398-406.
7. Sharon, G. 2011. Flakes Crossing the Straits? Entame Flakes and the Northern Africa-Iberia
Contact during the Acheulian. African Archaeological Review 28:125-140.
8. Sharon, G. 2011. The Early Prehistory of the Dead Sea Rift. Melakh Haaretz 5: 93-110 (in
Hebrew).
9. Sharon, G., N. Alperson-Afil and N. Goren-Inbar. 2011. Cultural conservatism versus variability
in the Acheulian sequence of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov. Journal of Human Evolution 60:387-397.
10. Sharon, G., L. Grosman, H. Fluck, Y. Melamed, Y. Rak, R. Rabinovich and M. Oron. 2010.
The First Two Excavation Seasons at NMO: A Mousterian Site at the Bank of the Jordan River.
Eurasian Prehistory 7(1):135-157.
11. Sharon, G. 2010. Large Flake Acheulian. Quaternary International 223-224: 226-233.
12. Sharon, G., C. Feibel, N. Alperson-Afil, Y. Harlavan, G. Feraud, S. Ashkenazi and R.
Rabinovich. 2010. New Evidence for the Northern Dead Sea Rift Acheulian.
PaleoAnthropology 2010:79-99.
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13. Alperson-Afil, N., G. Sharon, M. Kislev, Y. Melamed, I. Zohar, S. Ashkenazi, R. Rabinovich, R.
Biton, E. Werker, G. Hartman, C. Feibel and N. Goren-Inbar. 2009. Spatial Organization of
Hominin Activities at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel. Science 326(5960):1677-1680.
14. Sharon, G. 2009. Acheulian Giant Core Technology – a World Wide Perspective. Current
Anthropology 50(3):335-367.
15. Goren-Inbar, N., G. Sharon, N. Alperson-Afil and I. Laschiver. 2008. The Acheulian Massive
Scrapers of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov - A Product of the Bifaces’ Chaîne Opératoire. Journal of
Human Evolution 55:702-712.
16. Sharon, G. 2008. The impact of raw material on Acheulian large flake production. Journal of
Archaeological Science 35(5):1329-1344.
17. Sharon, G. 2008. A lion skull and additional finds from the Mousterian site at the Mahanayeem
Stream outlet to the Jordan River. Qadmoniot 41(136):93-95 (Hebrew).
18. Sharon, G. and A. N. Goring-Morris. 2004. Knives, Bifaces, and Hammers: A Study in
Technology from the Southern Levant. Eurasian Prehistory 2(1):53-76.
19. Goren-Inbar, N., G. Sharon, Y. Melamed and M. Kislev. 2002. Nuts, Nut Cracking, and Pitted
Stones at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel. PNAS 99(4):2455-2460.
20. Sharon, G., O. Marder and E. Boaretto. 2002. A Note on14C Dates from the Epi-Paleolithic Site
at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov. Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 32:5-15.
21. Sharon, G. and N. Goren-Inbar. 1999. Soft Percussor use at the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov Acheulian
Site? Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 28:55-79.
Accepted (in print)
1. Goren-Inbar, N., G. Sharon, N. Alperson-Afil and G. Herzlinger. In press. A new type of anvil in
the Acheulian of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel., Philosophical Transactions B. Special issue:
Percussive technology in human evolution, guest editors Ignacio de la Torre and Satoshi Hirata.
2. Grosman, L., G. Sharon, T. Goldman-Neuman, O. Smikt and U. Smilansky. In Press. 3D modeling
- new method for quantifying postdepositional damages. Paper presented at the SCCH09 -Scientific Computing & Cultural Heritage, Heidelberg, Germany.
3. Sharon, G. In Press. It only looks simple: Éclat entame – An Acheulian Giant Core Method from
Ternifine. In: Les cultures à bifaces du Pléistocène inférieur et moyen dans le mond. Emergence
du sens de l’harmonie, edited by H. d. Lumley, Tautavel, France.
4. Sharon, G. In Press. The Acheulian cultural complex. In Quaternary Environments, Climate
Change and Human in the Levant, edited by Y. Enzel and O. Bar-Yosef. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge.
8.Other Publications
1. Madsen, B., G. Sharon and N. Goren-Inbar. The Cutting Edge – A Million Years of Stone
Technology. Educational Film. Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Jerusalem.
2. Sharon, G. (Ed.) Internet Web Site of the Israel Prehistoric Society: www.prehistory.org.il
Current research
2014 - present Director of excavation at the Early Epipaleolithic site of Jordan River Dureijat
(JRD). First excavation season fall 2014.
2014 - present Director of Shamir Dolmen Rock Art Project (with Uri Berger – IAA).
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2014 - present Director of excavation at the Mousterian site of Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet (NMO;
65000 Years BP). NMO is located on the Jordan River bank north of Gesher Benot Ya´aqov and
primary aspects of the multidisciplinary project include:
- Study of the geological and archaeological stratigraphic sequence of the site. Interpretation of the
complex geological setting of the site and the large and small scale spatial distribution of
archaeological finds.
- Study of the geology and sedimentology of the site in collaboration with Dr. S. Mischke
(University of Iceland).
- Dating of the site by OSL method in collaboration with Dr. N. Porat (Israel Geological Survey).
- Analysis of the lithic assemblages from the site’s Middle and Upper Palaeolithic collections.
- Reconstruction of the paleo-environment of the Hula Valley during the Late Pleistocene: fruits
and seeds in collaboration with Dr. Y. Melamed (Bar Ilan University); animal bones in
collaboration with Dr. R. Rabinovich (Hebrew University); pollen study in collaboration with
Prof. M. Evron (Haifa University); ancient fungi community in collaboration with Dr. S. Masaphy,
MIGAL Research Center and Tel Hai College.
1995 - present Analysis of the lithic assemblage of the Acheulian site Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov. With
Prof. N. Goren-Inbar.
Experimental archaeology:
- Studying the effect of high energy accumulation environments (river floods) on stone tools and its
implication for the analysis of lithic assemblages. Application of 3D scanning methodology to the
morphological analysis of the rolling process. In collaboration with the computerized archaeology
lab at the Hebrew University. http://archaeology.huji.ac.il/depart/computerized.asp.
- Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov Lithic Experiments – lithic analysis of experimental replication of
Acheulian tools as comparative data for the study of GBY lithic assemblage. Production of
educational film on understanding prehistoric lithic technology through experimental archaeology.
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