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Fossil hominids

Faerman, M., Kharitonov, V., Batsevich, V., Zilberman, U. and Smith, P. (1994) A Neandertal infant from the Barakai Cave, Western Caucasus. J. Human Evolution, 27(5): 405-415. [pdf]

Smith, P., Gomori, J.M., Spitz, S. and Becker, J. (1997) Model for the examination of evolutionary trends in tooth development. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop., 102: 283-294.[pdf]

Haydenblit, R. Podbilewicz, B. and Smith, P. (2000) Evolution of human enamel growth analyzed by confocal microscopy. In: Proceedings of the11th International Symposium on Dental Morphology, eds. J. Mayhall and T. Heikkinen, Finland, Oulu University Press, pp.228-235. [pdf]

Smith, P., Gomori, J.M., Shaked, R., Haydenblit, R. and Joskowicz, L. (2000) A computerized approach to reconstruction of growth patterns in hominid molar teeth. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Dental Morphology, eds. J. Mayhall and T. Heikkinen, Finland, Oulu University Press, pp. 388-397. [pdf]

Zilberman, U., Smith, P., Piperno, M. and Condemi, S. (2004). Evidence of amelogenesis imperfecta in an Early African Homo erectus. J Hum Evol. 46: 647-653 [pdf]


Skeletal Biology

Smith, P. (1995) People of the Holy Land from prehistory to the recent past. In: The Archeology of Society in the Holy Land, ed. T. Levy, Leicester University Press, pp.58-74. [pdf]

Smith, P. and Sabari, P. (1996) The human remains from the Church. In: Yoqne'am I. Qedem Reports 3, eds. A. Ben-Tor, M. Avissar and Y. Portugali, pp.242-245.

Smith, P. (1997) Skeletal analysis. In: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (Ed.-in-chief: E. Meyers), Oxford University Press vol. 4, pp. 51-56.

Smith, P., Horwitz, L.K. (1997) Human skeletal remains from areas A and B at Yiftah'el. In: Yiftahe'l. Salvage and Rescue Excavations at a Prehistoric Village in Lower Galilee, Israel. Antiquities Monographs, ed. E. Braun, Jerusalem, Israel Antiquities Authority, pp.172-180.

Levy, T.E., Alon, D., Smith, P., Yekutieli, Y., Rowan, Y., Goldberg, P., Porat, N., van den Brink, E.C.M., Witten, A.J., Golden, J., Grigson, C., Kansa, E., Dawson, L., Holl, A., Moreno, J., Kersel, M. (1997) Egyptian-Canaanite interaction at Nahal Tillah, Israel (ca. 4500-3000 B.C.E.): An interim report on the 1994-1995 excavations. Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research, 307: 1-51.

Horwitz, L.K. and Smith, P. (1997) The taphonomy of human bones from hyaena accumulations. In L.A. Hannus, L. Rossum and R. P. Winham (eds.) Proceedings of the 1993 Bone Modification Conference, Hot Springs South Dakota. Occasional Publication No. 1, Augustina College Sioux Falls, pp.188-194.

Smith, P., Horwitz, L.K. (1998) Human and animal remains from Sha'ar Ephraim. Tel Aviv, 25: 110-115.

Smith, P. (1998) A human skull from Tel Te'enim. Tel Aviv, 25: 104.

Smith, P. and Siegal, S. (1998) The human remains. In: Villages, Terraces and Stone Mounds. Excavations at Manhat, Jerusalem 1987-1989, eds. G. Edelstein, I. Milevski and S. Aurant, Jerusalem, Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 3, Chapter 10: pp.102-103.

Oakberg, K., Levy, T. and Smith, P. (2000) A method for skeletal arsenic analysis applied to the Chalcolithic copper smelting site of Shiqmim, Israel. Journal of Archeological Science, 27: 895-901. [pdf]

Horwitz, L.K. and Smith, P. (2000) The contribution of animal domestication to the spread of Zoonoses: A case study from the southern Levant. IBEZ, J. Mt. ECOL., 5: 77-84 (Anthropozoologica, 31:77-84, 2000). [pdf]

Smith, P. (2000) Human remains. In: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, vol 2, eds. L.H. Schiffman and J.C. VaderKam, Oxford University Press, pp.880-882.

Kahila Bar-Gal, G., and Smith, P. (2001) The human remains. In: Tel Te’o. A Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Settlement in the Hula Valley, eds. E. Eisenberg, A. Gopher, and R. Greenberg, Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority Reports, no. 13, pp.163-169. [pdf]

Zagerson T. and Smith P. (2002) The human remains. In: The Chalcolithic Mortuary Site at Kissufim Road, Israel, eds. Y. Goren and P. Fabian. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports. no.16, chapter 10, pp. 57-65. [pdf]

Smith P. (2002) The paleobiological evidence for admixture between populations in the Southern Levant and Egypt in the Fourth to third Millenia BCE. In: Egypt and the Levant: New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology, eds. T.E. Levy and E.C.M. Van der Brink, London, Leicester University Press, pp. 118-128. [pdf]

Lev Tov N., Smith P. and Gopher A. (2003) Dental Evidence for Dietary Practices in the Chalcolithic period: The Findings from a Burial Cave in Peqi’in (Northern Israel). Paleorient Vol. 29/1: 121-134. [pdf]

Peretz, B. and Smith, P. (2004) Dental morphology and pathology of Middle Bronze Age populations in Israel: Sasa and Jebel Qa’aqir. Atiqot 46:45-49. [pdf]

Smith, P. (2004). Middle Bronze Age II burials at Sasa, Upper Galilee (Tomb 1 and Graves 37, 39). Atiqot 46:35-43. [pdf]


Dental Anthropology

Smith, P., Peretz, B. and Forte-Koren R. (1995) The ontogeny of cusp morphology: The evidence from tooth germs. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Dental Morphology, Berlin, Sept. 6-10, 1995, eds. R.J. Radlanski and H. Renz, Berlin, "M" Marketing Services, pp.49-53.

Peretz B., Shapira J., Farbstein, H., Arieli, E. and Smith, P. (1996) Modification of tooth size and shape in Down's syndrome. J. Anat., 188: 167-172.

Smith, P., Gomori, J.M., Spitz, S. and Becker, J. (1997) Model for the examination of evolutionary trends in tooth development. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop., 102: 283-294.[pdf]

Peretz, B., Nevis, N. and Smith, P. (1997) Morphometric variables of developing primary maxillary first molar crowns in humans. Arch Oral Biol., 42: 423-427. [pdf]

Peretz, B., Nevis, N., Smith, P. (1998) Morphometric analysis of developing crowns of maxillary primary second molars and permanent first molars in humans. Archives of Oral Biology, 43: 525-533. [pdf]

Peretz B, Shapiro J and Smith P. (2000) Size and shape modification of molars in children with Down syndrome. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Dental Morphology, eds. J. Mayhall and T. Heikkinen, Finland, Oulu University Press, pp.140-143. [pdf]

Haydenblit, R. Podbilewicz, B. and Smith, P. (2000) Evolution of human enamel growth analyzed by confocal microscopy. In: Proceedings of the11th International Symposium on Dental Morphology, eds. J. Mayhall and T. Heikkinen, Finland, Oulu University Press, pp.228-235. [pdf]

Smith, P., Gomori, J.M., Shaked, R., Haydenblit, R. and Joskowicz, L. (2000) A computerized approach to reconstruction of growth patterns in hominid molar teeth. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Dental Morphology, eds. J. Mayhall and T. Heikkinen, Finland, Oulu University Press, pp. 388-397. [pdf]

Zilberman, U., Smith, P and Alvesalo, L. (2000) Crown components of mandibular molar teeth in 45,x females (Turner syndrome). Archives of Oral Biology, 45: 217-225. [pdf]

Zeygerson T, Smith P., and Heydenblit R. (2000) Intercusp differences in enamel prism patterns in early and late stages of human tooth development. Arch Oral Biol., 45: 1091-1099.[pdf]

Zilberman, U. and Smith, P. (2001) Sex and age related differences in primary and secondary dentine formation. Adv. Dent. Res., 15: 42-45. [pdf]

Smith P., Avishai G., (2005) The Use of Dental Criteria for Estimating Postnatal Survival in Skeletal Remains of Infants, Journal of Archeological Sciences 32/1 pp. 83-89. [pdf]

Faerman, M., Kharitonov, V., Batsevich, V., Zilberman, U. and Smith, P. (1994) A Neandertal infant from the Barakai Cave, Western Caucasus. J. Human Evolution, 27(5): 405-415. [pdf]

Zilberman, U. and Smith, P. (2001) Sex and age related differences in primary and secondary dentine formation. Adv. Dent. Res., 15: 42-45. [pdf]

Zilberman, U., Smith, P., Kupietzky, A., and Mass, E. (2004) The effect of hereditary disorders on tooth components: a radiographic morphometric study of two syndromes. Arch Oral Biol, 49:621-929. [pdf]

Peretz, B. and Smith, P. (2004) Dental morphology and pathology of Middle Bronze Age populations in Israel: Sasa and Jebel Qa’aqir. Atiqot 46:45-49. [pdf]

Zilberman, U., Smith, P., Piperno, M. and Condemi, S. (2004). Evidence of amelogenesis imperfecta in an Early African Homo erectus. J Hum Evol. 46: 647-653 [pdf]

Lev Tov N., Smith P. and Gopher A. (2003) Dental Evidence for Dietary Practices in the Chalcolithic period: The Findings from a Burial Cave in Peqi’in (Northern Israel). Paleorient Vol. 29/1: 121-134. [pdf] Coming soon

Avishai G., Müller R., Gabet Y., Bab I., Zilberman U., Smith P. (2004) A New Approach to Quantifying Developmental Variation in the Dentition Using Serial Microtomographic Imaging, Microscopy Research and Technique 65:263-269. [pdf]


Palaeopathology

Smith, P. (1990). The trephined skull from the Early Bronze Age period at Arad. The Israel Exploration Society 21:89-93.[pdf]

Filon, D., Faerman, M., Smith, P. and Oppenheim, A. (1995) Sequence analysis reveals a beta-thalassemia mutation in the DNA of skeletal remains from the archaeological site of Akhziv, Israel. Nature Genetic, 9: 365-368.[pdf]

Smith, P. and Horwitz, L.K. (1998) Culture, environment and disease: Paleo-anthropological findings for the Southern Levant. In: Archaeology of Emerging Diseases, eds. C. Greenblatt and I. Cohen, Rehovot: Balaban Publishers, pp.201-240. [pdf] 

Faerman, M., Jankauskas, R., Gorski, A., Bercovier, H. & Greenblatt, C.L. (1997). Prevalence of human tuberculosis in Medieval population of Lithuania based on ancient DNA analysis. Ancient Biomolecules 1 : 205-214.

Faerman, M., Nebel, A., Filon, D., Thomas, M.G., Bradman, N., Ragsdale B., Schultz, M., Oppenheim, A. (2000). From a dry bone to a genetic portrait: A case study of sickle cell anemia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 111 (2): 153-163. [pdf]

Faerman, M., Jankauskas, R. (2000). Palaeopathological and molecular evidence of human bone tuberculosis in Iron Age Lithuania. Anthropologischen Anzeiger 58 (3): 57-62.



DNA analysis

a) Ancient DNA

Filon, D., Faerman, M., Smith, P. and Oppenheim, A. (1995) Sequence analysis reveals a beta-thalassemia mutation in the DNA of skeletal remains from the archaeological site of Akhziv, Israel. Nature Genetic, 9: 365-368.[pdf]

Faerman, M., Filon, D., Kahila, G., Greenblatt, C.L., Smith, P. and Oppenheim, A. (1995) Sex identification of archaeological human remains based on amplification of the X and Y amelogenin alleles. Gene, 167: 327-332. [pdf]

Woodward, S.R., Kahila, G., Smith, P., Greenblatt, C., Zias, J. and Broshi, M. (1996) Analysis of parchment fragments from the Judea Desert using DNA techniques. In: Current Research and Technological Developments on the Dead Sea Scrolls, eds. D.W. Parry and S.D. Ricks, Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp.215-238.

Faerman, M., Kahila, G., Smith, P., Greenblatt, C.L., Stager, L., Filon, D., Oppenheim, A. (1997) DNA analysis reveals the sex of infanticide victims. Nature, 385: 212-213. [pdf]

Faerman, M., Kahila Bar-Gal, G., Filon, D., Greenblatt, C.L., Stager, L., Oppenheim, A., Smith, P. (1998) Determining the sex of infanticide victims from the Late Roman era through ancient DNA analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science, 25: 861-865. [pdf]

Smith, P., Kahila, G., Filon, D., Oppenheim, A., Eisenburg E., Faerman, M. (1999) The applications of ancient DNA analysis to archaeological problems. In: The Practical Impact of Science on Near Eastern and Aegean Archaeology, eds. S. Pike and S. Gitin, Wiener Laboratory Publication No. 3, London: Archetype Press, pp.71-74.

Faerman, M., Jankauskas, R., Gorski, A., Bercovier, H. & Greenblatt, C.L. (1997). Prevalence of human tuberculosis in Medieval population of Lithuania based on ancient DNA analysis. Ancient Biomolecules 1 : 205-214.

Faerman, M., Nebel, A., Filon, D., Thomas, M.G., Bradman, N., Ragsdale B., Schultz, M., Oppenheim, A. (2000). From a dry bone to a genetic portrait: A case study of sickle cell anemia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 111 (2): 153-163. [pdf]

Faerman, M., Jankauskas, R. (2000). Palaeopathological and molecular evidence of human bone tuberculosis in Iron Age Lithuania. Anthropologischen Anzeiger 58 (3): 57-62.

Mays, S. & Faerman, M. (2001). Sex identification in some putative infanticide victims from Roman Britain using ancient DNA. Journal of Archaeological Science. 28: 555-559. [pdf]



b) Modern DNA

Nebel, A., Filon, D., Weiss, D., Weale, M., Faerman, M., Oppenheim, A., Thomas, MG. (2000). High-resolution Y chromosome haplotypes of Israeli and Palestinian Arabs reveal geographic substructure and substantial overlap with haplotypes of Jews. Human Genetics 107: 630-641. [pdf]

Nebel, A., Filon, D., Hohoff, C., Faerman, M., Brinkmann, B., Oppenheim, A. (2001). Haplogroup-specific deviation from the stepwise mutation model at the microsatellite loci DYS388 and DYS392. European Journal of Human Genetics 9:22-26. [pdf]

Nebel, A., Filon, D., Brinkman, B., Majumder, P., Faerman, M., Oppenheim, A. (2001). The Y chromosome pool of Jews as part of the genetic landscape of the Middle East. American Journal of Human Genetics 69(5):1095-112.[pdf]

Nebel A, Landau-Tasseron E, Filon D, Oppenheim A, Faerman M. (2002). Genetic evidence for the expansion of Arabian tribes into the Southern Levant and North Africa. American Journal of Human Genetics 70(6):1594-6. [pdf]

Nebel, A, Filon, D, Faerman, M, Soodyall, H, Oppenheim, A. (2005). Y chromosome evidence for a founder effect in Ashkenazi Jews. European Journal of Human Genetics 13(3):388-391. [pdf]




 

Fossil skull from Qafzeh (Israel)

A robustus, found in Africa