Elisabetta Boaretto

Research interests

Publications

• Early Neolithic wine of Georgia in the South Caucasus

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714728114

• Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14134

• The onset of faba bean farming in the Southern Levant

  Scientific Reports · 2015 · 10.1038/srep14370

• The taphonomy and preservation of wood and dung ashes found in archaeological cooking installations: case studies from Iron Age Israel

  Journal of Archaeological Science · 2014 · 10.1016/j.jas.2014.03.011

• New insights into Levantine copper trade: analysis of ingots from the Bronze and Iron Ages in Israel

  Journal of Archaeological Science · 2014 · 10.1016/j.jas.2014.02.004

• Dead Sea pollen record and history of human activity in the Judean Highlands (Israel) from the Intermediate Bronze into the Iron Ages (∼2500–500 BCE)

  Palynology · 2014 · 10.1080/01916122.2014.906001

• Absolute Chronology of Megiddo, Israel, in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages: High-Resolution Radiocarbon Dating

  Radiocarbon · 2014 · 10.2458/56.16899

• An ethnoarchaeological study of cooking installations in rural Uzbekistan: development of a new method for identification of fuel sources

  Journal of Archaeological Science · 2013 · 10.1016/j.jas.2013.06.001

• Chronology of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant: New Analysis for a High Chronology

  Radiocarbon · 2012 · 10.1017/s003382220004724x

• Iron and bronze production in Iron Age IIA Philistia: new evidence from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel

  Journal of Archaeological Science · 2011 · 10.1016/j.jas.2011.09.002

• Dzudzuana: an Upper Palaeolithic cave site in the Caucasus foothills (Georgia)

  Antiquity · 2011 · 10.1017/s0003598x0006779x

• New radiocarbon dating of the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic in Kebara Cave, Israel

  Journal of Archaeological Science · 2011 · 10.1016/j.jas.2011.05.010

• Degradation of mud brick houses in an arid environment: a geoarchaeological model

  Journal of Archaeological Science · 2011 · 10.1016/j.jas.2010.12.011

• Rapid phytolith extraction for analysis of phytolith concentrations and assemblages during an excavation: an application at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel

  Journal of Archaeological Science · 2010 · 10.1016/j.jas.2010.01.016

• Decoupling Local Disorder and Optical Effects in Infrared Spectra: Differentiating Between Calcites with Different Origins

  Advanced Materials · 2010 · 10.1002/adma.201003890

• Distinguishing between calcites formed by different mechanisms using infrared spectrometry: archaeological applications

  Journal of Archaeological Science · 2010 · 10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.027

• Radiocarbon dating of charcoal and bone collagen associated with early pottery at Yuchanyan Cave, Hunan Province, China

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 10.1073/pnas.0900539106

• 30,000-Year-Old Wild Flax Fibers

  Science · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1175404

• Dating the demise: Neandertal extinction and the establishment of modern humans in the southern Caucasus

  Journal of Human Evolution · 2008 · 10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.08.010

• Phytolith-rich layers from the Late Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel Dor (Israel): mode of formation and archaeological significance

  Journal of Archaeological Science · 2007 · 10.1016/j.jas.2007.02.015

• Report on the First Stage of the Iron Age Dating Project in Israel: Supporting a Low Chronology

  Radiocarbon · 2007 · 10.1017/s0033822200041886

• Differentiating between anthropogenic calcite in plaster, ash and natural calcite using infrared spectroscopy: implications in archaeology

  Journal of Archaeological Science · 2007 · 10.1016/j.jas.2007.06.024

• Sediments exposed to high temperatures: reconstructing pyrotechnological processes in Late Bronze and Iron Age Strata at Tel Dor (Israel)

  Journal of Archaeological Science · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2006.05.011

• Quality Controlled Radiocarbon Dating of Bones and Charcoal from the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) of Motza (Israel)

  Radiocarbon · 2005 · 10.1017/s003382220001969x

• Modern and fossil charcoal: aspects of structure and diagenesis

  Journal of Archaeological Science · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2005.08.008

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