Adrian Nigel Goring-Morris is a British-born Archaeologist and a Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. He completed his PhD there in 1986 and is notable for his work and discoveries at one of the oldest ritual

Ritual

A ritual is a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value. It may be prescribed by a religion or by the traditions of a community. The term usually excludes actions which are arbitrarily chosen by the performers....

 burial

Burial

Burial is the act of placing a person or object into the ground. This is accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing an object in it, and covering it over.-History:...

 sites in the world; Kfar HaHoresh

Kfar HaHoresh

Kfar HaHoresh is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near Nazareth, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 423....

. The earliest levels of this site have been dated to 8000 BC (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B is a division of the Neolithic developed by Dame Kathleen Kenyon during her archaeological excavations at Jericho in the southern Levant region....

) and it is located in the northern Israel, not far from Nazareth

Nazareth

Nazareth is the largest city in the North District of Israel. Known as "the Arab capital of Israel," the population is made up predominantly of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel...

.

Fieldwork

• 1991-Present Excavations at Kfar HaHoresh
• 2010 Excavations at Nahal Hava
• 2005 Excavations at Nahal Lavan
• 1995 Excavations at Nahal Besor
• 1991 Excavations at Nahal Negarot

Major Publications

• Publication and studies of excavations in the Negev
  Negev
  The Negev is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The Arabs, including the native Bedouin population of the region, refer to the desert as al-Naqab. The origin of the word Neghebh is from the Hebrew root denoting 'dry'...
  
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• Publication of the excavations at Gilgal I
  Gilgal I
  Gilgal I was an ancient village in the Jordan Valley first excavated by Tamar Noy in 1979. It became further notable as a Neolithic archaeological site in 2005 when Ofer Bar-Yosef of Harvard University and Mordechai E. Kislev and Anat Hartmann of Bar-Ilan University released details of their...
  
   by Tamar Noy (with Ofer Bar-Yosef
  Ofer Bar-Yosef
  Ofer Bar-Yosef is an Israeli archaeologist whose main field of study has been the Palaeolithic period.He was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the institution where he originally studied archaeology at undergraduate and post-graduate levels in the 1960s...
  
   & Avi Gopher
  Avi Gopher
  Avi Gopher is a Israeli Archaeologist and a Professor at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel. He completed his B.A. there in 1978, M.A. in 1981 and PhD in 1986 and specialises in prehistoric Israel...
  
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• "Religion as the Basis for Power and Property in the First Civilizations" 2009-2011, invited to participate in the Templeton project at Neolithic Catalhoyuk
  Çatalhöyük
  Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BCE to 5700 BCE...
  
  , Turkey
  Turkey
  Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
  
  , directed by Ian Hodder
  Ian Hodder
  Ian Hodder FBA is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology that first took root among his students and in his own work between 1980-1990...
  
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Selected Bibliography

Books

• Goring-Morris, A. Nigel,. At the Edge: Terminal Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers in the Negev and Sinai. BAR International Series 361, Oxford, 1987.
• Goring-Morris, A. Nigel. & A. Belfer-Cohen., More Than Meets the Eye: Studies on Upper Palaeolithic Diversity in the Near East. Oxbow Press, Oxford, 2003.
• Bar-Yosef, Ofer., Goring-Morris, A. Nigel. & Gopher, Avi., Gilgal: Excavations at Early Neolithic Sites in the Lower Jordan Valley. The Excavations of Tamar Noy. ASPR & David Brown/Oxbow, Oakville, CT., 2010.

Papers

• Goring-Morris, A. N., Upper Palaeolithic Sites from Wadi Fazael, Lower Jordan Valley, Paleorient 6: 173-191, 1980.
• Goring-Morris, A. N. & A. Gopher Nahal Issaron: A Neolithic Settlement from the Southern Negev, Israel. A Preliminary Report of the 1980 Excavations, Israel Exploration Journal 33: 149-162., 1983.
• Belfer-Cohen, A., & A. N. Goring Morris, Har Horesha I: An Upper Palaeolithic Site in the Central Negev Highlands, Mitekufat Haeven 19: 43*-57*, 1986.
• Goring-Morris, A. N., The Harifian of the Southern Levant. In O. Bar-Yosef & F. R. Valla (eds.), The Natufian Culture in the Levant, International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor, pp. 173-216, 1991.
• A. Belfer-Cohen, I. Gilead, A. N. Goring-Morris, & S. A. Rosen., An Epipalaeolithic Rockshelter at Nahal Neqarot in the Central Negev. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society - Mitekufat Haeven 24: 164-168, 1992.
• Goring-Morris, A. N., From Foraging to Herding in the Negev and Sinai: the Early to Late Neolithic Transition. Paleorient 19/1: 63-87, 1993.
• Goring-Morris, A. N., Aspects of the PPNB Lithic Assemblage from Kfar HaHoresh, near Nazareth, Israel. In H.-G. Gebel & S. K. Kozlowski (eds.), Neolithic Chipped Lithic Industries of the Fertile Crescent. SENEPSE 1: 427-444. Berlin: ex oriente, 1994.
• Gopher, A., A. N. Goring-Morris & D. Gordon., Nahal Issaron - The Lithics of the Later PPNB Occupation. In H.-G. Gebel & S. K. Kozlowski (eds.), Neolithic Chipped Lithic Industries of the Fertile Crescent. SENEPSE 1: 479-494. Berlin: ex oriente, 1994.
• Carmi, I., D. Segal, A. N. Goring-Morris & A. Gopher., Dating of the Prehistoric Site of Nahal Issaron in the Southern Negev, Israel, by 14C. Radiocarbon 36/3: 391-398, 1995.
• Goring-Morris, A. N., Complex Hunter-Gatherers at the End of the Paleolithic. 20,000-10,000 BP. In T. E. Levy (ed.), The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land. Pp. 141-168. Leicester University Press. London. 1995.
• Gopher, A., A. N. Goring-Morris & S.A. Rosen., Ein Qadis I: A Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Occupation in Eastern Sinai. 'Atiqot 27: 15-33, 1995.
• Goring-Morris, A. N., The Early Natufian Occupation at El Wad, Mt. Carmel, Reconsidered. In M. Otte (ed.), Nature et Culture. ERAUL 68: 417-427, 1996.
• Goring-Morris, A. N., A Late Natufian Campsite at Givat Hayil I, Western Negev Dunes, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 27: 43-61. 1997.
• Baruch, U., & A. N. Goring-Morris., The Arboreal Vegetation of the Central Negev Highlands, Israel, at the End of the Pleistocene: Evidence from Archaeological Charred Wood Remains. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 6/4: 249-259, 1997.
• Goring-Morris, A. N.& A. Belfer-Cohen., The Articulation of Cultural Processes and Late Quaternary Environmental Changes in Cisjordan. Paleorient 23/2: 71-93, 1997.
• Gopher, A., & A. N. Goring-Morris., Abu Salem
  Abu Salem
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  : A Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Camp in the Central Negev Highlands. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 312: 1-20, 1998.
• Goring-Morris, A. N., P. Goldberg, Y. Goren, U. Baruch & D. Bar-Yosef., Saflulim: A Late Natufian Base Camp in the Central Negev Highlands, Israel. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 131/1: 36-64, 1999.
• Horwitz, L.K., & A. N. Goring-Morris 2001. Fauna from the Early Natufian Site of Upper Besor 6 in the Central Negev, Israel. Paleorient 26/1: 111-128.
• Kuijt, I., & A. N. Goring-Morris., Foraging, Farming and Social Complexity in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the South-Central Levant: A Review and Synthesis. Journal of World Prehistory 16/4:361-440, 2002.
• Goring-Morris, A. N. & A. Belfer-Cohen., Symbolic Behaviour from the Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic of the Near East: Preliminary Observations on Continuity and Change. In H.-G. Gebel, B. D. Hermansen & C. Hoffmann (eds.), Magic Practices and Ritual in the Near Eastern Neolithic. SENEPSE 8: 67-79. Berlin: ex oriente. 2002.
• Davidzon, A., & A. N. Goring-Morris., Sealed in Stone: An Example of Early Ahmarian Technology and Mobility in the Light of Refitting Studies at Nahal Nizzana XIII, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society - Mitekufat Haeven 33:75-205, 2003.
• Belfer-Cohen, A., A. Davidzon, A. N. Goring-Morris, D. Lieberman & M. Spiers., Nahal Ein Gev I: A Late Upper Palaeolithic Site by the Sea of Galilee, Israel. Paleorient 30/1: 25-46, 2004.
• Goren, Y. & A. N. Goring-Morris., Early Pyrotechnology in the Near East: Experimental Lime Plaster Production at the PPNB Site of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel. Geoarchaeology 23/6:779-798, 2008.
• Goring-Morris, A. N., Two Kebaran Occupations near Nahal Soreq, and the Reconstruction of Group Ranges in the Early Epipalaeolithic of the Israeli Littoral. Eurasian Prehistory 6/1-2:75-93., 2009.
• Goring-Morris, A. N., O. Marder & D. Amit., Prehistoric Occupations in Me'arat Ha'Sela (Upper Nahal Hever
  Nahal Hever
  Nahal Hever is a stream in the Judean Desert that flows from Ein Gedi and Masada to the Dead Sea.At the head of the stream are two caves, the "cave of letters" , and, further up, the "cave of horrors" in which have been found archeological evidences of the Bar Kokhba revolt .The sites were...
  
  ). Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 39:1-16, 2009.
• Goring-Morris, A. N. & A. Belfer-Cohen., 'Great Expectations', or, the Inevitable Collapse of the Early Neolithic in the Near East. In M. S. Bandy & J. R. Fox (eds.), Becoming Villagers. Comparing Early Village Societies. Pp. 62-77. Amerind Studies in Archaeology, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2010.
• Belfer-Cohen, A., and A. N. Goring-Morris., The initial Neolithic in the Near East: Why it is so difficult to deal with the PPNA... Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 40:1-18, 2010.

Goring-Morris has also contributed to several encyclopedia

Encyclopedia

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entries.