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Steven A Rosen

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Born1954
United States
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology
InstitutionsBen-Gurion University of the Negev
Doctoral advisorKarl Butzer
Websitebgu.academia.edu/SteveRosen

Steven A Rosen (Steve Rosen) is the Canada Chair in Near Eastern Archaeology in the Archaeological Division of the Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near East at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He serves as the Vice President for External Affairs. His research has focused on two general areas, the continued use of chipped stone tools in the periods during which metals were already exploited (the Chalcolithic, Bronze, and Iron Ages), and the archaeology of mobile pastoralists, using the Negev (the southern desert of Israel) as an in-depth case study.

Background

Rosen was born in the United States. He completed his B.A. degree (1975) at the University of California at Berkeley in Mathematics and Anthropology and his M.A (1978) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees at the University of Chicago in Anthropology. He completed his doctoral research under the tutelage of Karl W. Butzer, the thesis entitled Lithics in the Bronze and Iron Ages in Israel. While conducting his doctoral research, in 1980 he joined the Archaeological Survey of Israel, Negev Emergency Survey for which he carried out archaeological surveys and excavations in the Central Negev from 1980 through 1987, and also conducted contract field survey for the Israel Electric Company. He joined the academic faculty of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1987 as an external lecturer, beginning full-time work as a lecturer (assistant professor) in 1988, achieving tenure in 1992 and full professor in 2000.

Academic and public service

Rosen has accepted numerous roles in academic administration.[1] He served as program head for the Archaeological Division within the Department of Bible, Archaeology, and Ancient Near East, later serving as chair of the department. He was director of the Humphrey Institute for Social Research, assistant dean of the Kreitman School for Advanced Studies, Deputy Rector (vice provost), and Vice President for External Affairs.[2] He has served on numerous committees, including various disciplinary courts (both student and faculty), promotions committees, search committees, and space allocation committees.

Beyond his work within the university, Rosen serves on the Israel Archaeological Council, the Board of the Directors of the Israel Prehistoric Society, and the Scientific Board of Paléorient. He has served on committees for the Israel Science Foundation and the Israel Academy of Sciences. He was associate editor of the Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society (Mitekufat Haeven) from 1985-1990 and editor from 2005-2012. He was an honorary professor at the Institute of Archaeology of University College London, the first Cotsen Fellow at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, and is an affiliate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has organized research conferences and workshops under the auspices of the Israel Prehistoric Society, Ben-Gurion University, ICAANE, and ARCANE.

Research and students

General research has focused on stone tool analysis and desert archaeology, with more general interests in prehistoric archaeology and Near Eastern archaeology. Rosen’s work on the use of stone tools during the Metal Ages has pioneered the study of this entire realm of material culture, demonstrating how the study of stone tools traditionally considered a relict of earlier technologies was integral to Bronze and Iron Age societies.[3][4][5][6][7] This work culminated in the publication of Lithics After the Stone Age,[8] which won the G.E. Wright Publication Prize of the American Schools of Oriental Research in the following year. Rosen continues to train students in the analysis of stone tool assemblages and recent work has continued to expand on related subjects such as the economics and functions of later period stone tools.[9][10][11][12][13]

The study of mobile desert pastoralists has traditionally been assumed to be inaccessible to standard archaeological methods. Rosen’s work, based on intensive survey in the Central Negev and excavations and analyses of about a dozen camps and small campsites[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] dating from the introduction of domesticated herd animals into the desert more than 8000 years ago and up until recent times, has demonstrated that adopting the methods of prehistoric archaeology offers an effective way of addressing the relative paucity of remains from campsites and rock shelters used as stabling sites. Of particular note is the work he has conducted on stabling rock shelters filled with ancient dung layers[24][25] and cult sites.[21][26] His most recent book, Revolutions in the Desert: the Rise of Mobile Pastoral Societies in the Negev and the Arid Zones of the Southern Levant[27] summarizes the evolution of these societies in the Negev and surrounding regions. An earlier volume, An Investigation into Early Desert Pastoralism: Excavations at the Camel Site, Negev[28] offers a case study of the excavation of just such a camp site, dating from ca. 3000 BCE.

Rosen has advised some 25 research students (M.A. and Ph.D.) and post-docs from Israel, the USA, the Netherlands, France, and the United Kingdom. His students have worked on a wide range of subjects including stone tool analysis, settlement patterns, the archaeology of desert pastoralism, Negev archaeology, antiquities law, rock art, and ethnoarchaeology.

References

  1. ^ "Steve Rosen | Ben Gurion University of the Negev - Academia.edu". bgu.academia.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-04.
  2. ^ "Vice-President for External Affairs". in.bgu.ac.il. Retrieved 2017-02-04.
  3. ^ Rosen, Steven A. (1983-01-01). "Tabular Scraper Trade: A Model of Material Cultural Dispersion". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (249): 79–86. doi:10.2307/1356563.
  4. ^ ROSEN, STEVEN A. (1983-01-01). "The Canaanean Blade and the Early Bronze Age". Israel Exploration Journal. 33 (1/2): 15–29.
  5. ^ Rosen, Steven A (1989). The analysis of Early Bronze Age chipped stone industries: a summary statement. British Archaeological Reports International 527, Oxford. pp. 199–222.
  6. ^ "The Origins of Craft Specialization : Lithic Perspectives". BAR. International Series (508).
  7. ^ Rosen, Steven A. (1996). The Rise and Fall of Flint”. Odell, George H., ed. Stone Tools. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer US. pp. 129–158. doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-0173-6_6. ISBN 9781489901750.
  8. ^ Rosen, Steven A. (1997-01-01). Lithics After the Stone Age: A Handbook of Stone Tools from the Levant. Rowman Altamira. ISBN 9780761991243.
  9. ^ Abadi, Y; Rosen, S. A (2008). A Chip Off the Old Millstone. Editors, Rowan, Y. and Ebeling, J.: New Approaches to Old Stones: Recent Studies of Groundstone Artifacts. London: Equinox Publishing Ltd. pp. 99–115.
  10. ^ Manclossi, F.; Rosen, S. A.; Miroschedji, P. (2016). "The Canaanean Blades from Tel Yarmuth: A Technological Analysis". Paléorient. 42: 53–79.
  11. ^ Rosen, S. A. (2011). Blood From Stone: Can We Really Do Ethnicity from Flint? Editor: Chesson, M. Daily Life, Materiality, and Complexity in Early Urban Communities of the Southern Levant Papers in Honor of Walter E. Rast and R. Thomas Schaub. Eisenbraun’s, Winona Lake. pp. 247–264.
  12. ^ Rosen, S. A. (2014). Lithic systems of the 4th millennium BC: A brief comparison between the industries of Egypt and the Southern Levant. Editor: Mączyńska, A. The Nile Delta as a centre of cultural interactions between Upper Egypt and the Southern Levant in the 4th millennium BC. Poznań Archaeological Museum, Poznań: Studies in African Archaeology 13. pp. 253–267.
  13. ^ Rosen, Steven A. (2012-01-01). Potts, D. T. (ed.). A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 236–260. doi:10.1002/9781444360790.ch13/summary. ISBN 9781444360790.
  14. ^ Rosen, Steven A. (1987-01-01). "Byzantine Nomadism in the Negev: Results from the Emergency Survey". Journal of Field Archaeology. 14 (1): 29–42. doi:10.1179/jfa.1987.14.1.29. ISSN 0093-4690.
  15. ^ Rosen, Steven A. (1988-06-01). "Notes on the Origins of Pastoral Nomadism: A Case Study from the Negev and Sinai". Current Anthropology. 29 (3): 498–506. doi:10.1086/203667. ISSN 0011-3204.
  16. ^ Rosen, S. A. (1992). The Case for Seasonal Movement of Pastoral Nomads in the Late Byzantine/Early Arabic Period in the South Central Negev. Editors: Bar-Yosef, O. and Khazanov, A. Pastoralism in the Levant: Archaeological Materials in Anthropological Perspective. Madison: Prehistory Press. pp. 153–164.
  17. ^ Rosen, Steven A. (1993-01-01). "A Roman-period Pastoral Tent Camp in the Negev, Israel". Journal of Field Archaeology. 20 (4): 441–451. doi:10.1179/jfa.1993.20.4.441. ISSN 0093-4690.
  18. ^ Rosen, S. A. (2002). The Evolution of Pastoral Nomadic Systems in the Southern Levantine Periphery. Editors: van den brink, Edwin, and Yannai, E. In Quest of Ancient Settlements and Landscapes. Archaeological Studies in Honour of Ram Gophna. Tel Aviv: Ramot Publishing, Tel Aviv University. pp. 23–44.
  19. ^ Rosen, Steven A. (2003-12-01). "Early multi-resource nomadism: Excavations at the Camel Site in the central Negev". Antiquity. 77 (298): 749–760. doi:10.1017/S0003598X0006169X. ISSN 0003-598X.
  20. ^ "The edge of the empire: the archaeology of pastoral nomads in the southern Negev highlands in Late Antiquity". The Biblical archaeologist. 56 (4). ISSN 0006-0895.
  21. ^ a b Rosen, S. A. (2007). The Nabateans as Pastoral Nomads: An Archaeological Perspective. Editor, Politis, K. The World of the Nabateans. Stuttgart: Steiner -Verlag. pp. 345–374.
  22. ^ Rosen, S. A. (2008). Desert Pastoral Nomadism in the Longue Durée. A Case Study from the Negev and the Southern Levantine Deserts. Editors, Barnard, H. and Wendrich, W.: The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New world Nomadism. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. pp. 1155–140.
  23. ^ Rosen, Steven A.; Saidel, Benjamin A. (2010-04-01). "The Camel and the Tent: An Exploration of Technological Change among Early Pastoralists". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 69 (1): 63–77. doi:10.1086/654940. ISSN 0022-2968.
  24. ^ Rosen, StevenA.; Savinetsky, ArkadyB.; Plakht, Yosef; Kisseleva, NinaK.; Khassanov, BulatF.; Pereladov, AndreyM.; Haiman, Mordecai (2005-01-01). "Dung in the Desert: Preliminary Results of the Negev Holocene Ecology Project". Current Anthropology. 46 (2): 317–326. doi:10.1086/428789.
  25. ^ Rosen, Steven A. (2013-01-01). "Evolution in the Desert: Scale and Discontinuity in the Central Negev (Israel) in the Fourth Millennium BCE". Paléorient. 39 (1): 139–148.
  26. ^ Rosen, S. A. (2015). Laneri, N. (ed.). Cult and the rise of desert pastoralism: a case study from the Negev. In Defining the Sacred: Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion in the Near East. Oxbow: Oxford. pp. 38–47.
  27. ^ Rosen, Steven (2016-11-25). Revolutions in the Desert: The Rise of Mobile Pastoralism in the Southern Levant. Routledge. ISBN 9781315399928.
  28. ^ A, Rosen, Steven (2011-10-01). "An Investigation into Early Desert Pastoralism: Excavations at the Camel Site, Negev". eScholarship.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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