BOOKS
2018. Chazan, M. The Reality of Artifacts: An Archaeological Perspective. Routledge.
2016. Lillios, K. and M. Chazan. Fresh Fields and Pastures New: Papers Presented in Honor of Andrew M.T. Moore. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
2008. Chazan, M. Pathways Through Time: An Introduction to Prehistory and Archaeology. Canadian Edition. Toronto: Pearson Canada (2nd edition 2011, 3rd edition 2014).
2007. Chazan, M. Pathways Through Time: An Introduction to Prehistory and Archaeology, Allyn and Bacon Publishers (2nd edition 2010 Prentice Hall, 3rd edition 2013).
2007. Chazan, M. and L. Kolska Horwitz (eds.) The Lower Paleolithic Site of Holon, Israel. Cambridge: Peabody Museum Press.
2006. Banning, E.B. and M. Chazan (Eds). Domesticating Space: New Research on Neolithic Architecture in the Middle East. Berlin: Ex Oriente.
FILM
2015 Kalahari Reflections, with Susan Pfeiffer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgFhtIwbX0Y
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
2020. Chazan, M., Berna, F., Brink, J., Ecker, M., Holt, S., Porat, N., Thorp, J.L., Horwitz, L.K. Archaeology, paleoenvironment, and chronology of an Ealry Middle Stone Age context in the interior of southern Africa. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-020-00051-8
2020. Lukich, V., Cowling, S. and Chazan, M. Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Kathu Pan, South Africa, based on sedimentological data. Quaternary Science Reviews, 230, p.106153.
2020. Rhodes, S., Banning, E.B. and Chazan, M. Mugharat an-Nachcharini: A specialized sheep-hunting camp reveals high-altitude habitats in the earliest Neolithic of the Central Levant. PloS one, 15(1), p.e0227276.
2019. Lukich, Vasilija, Naomi Porat, Galina Faershtein, Sharon Cowling, and Michael Chazan. New Chronology and Stratigraphy for Kathu Pan 6, South Africa. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 2, no. 3: 235-257.
2019. Papadimitrios, K. S., Bank, C. G., Walker, S. J., & Chazan, M. Palaeotopography of a Palaeolithic landscape at Bestwood 1, South Africa, from ground-penetrating radar and magnetometry. South African Journal of Science, 115(1-2), 1-7. (C)
2018. Magness, J., Kisilevitz, S., Grey, M., Mizzi, D., Schindler, D., Wells, M., Britt, K., Boustan, R.. O’Connell, S., Hubbard, E., George, J., Ramsay, J., Boaretto, E., Chazan, M. The Huqoq Excavation Project: 2014–2017 Interim Report. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 380(1), 61-131. [My contribution limited to input on radiocarbon dating and micromorphology).
2018. Ecker, M., Brink, J.S., Rossouw, L., Chazan, M., Horwitz, L.K. and Lee-Thorp, J.A., 2018. The palaeoecological context of the Oldowan-Acheulean in southern Africa. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 1080-1086.
2017. Chazan, M., L.K. Horwitz, M. Ecker, C. Koopowitz, S.E. Rhodes, D. Morris, F. Berna. Renewed excavations at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 26(6): 258-260.
2017. Chazan, M. “Variability, Flexibility and Constraint: Towards the Evolutionary Roots of Teaching.” Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2017): 1-8.
2017. Chazan, M. “Toward a Long Prehistory of Fire,” Current Anthropology 58, no. S16: S351-S359.
2017. Ecker, M., Brink, J., Chazan, M., Horwitz, L.K., and Lee-Thorp, J.A. Radiocarbon dates constrain the timing of environmental and cultural shifts in the Holocene strata of Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa. Radiocarbon 59(4): 1067-1086.
2016. Demarchi, B., Hall, S., Roncal-Herrero, T., Freeman, C.L., Woolley, J., Crisp, M.K., Wilson, J., Fotakis, A., Fischer, R., Kessler, B.M. and Jersie-Christensen, R.R., Olsen, J.V., Haile, J., Thomas, J., Marean, C.W., Parkington, J., Presslee, S., Lee-Thorp, J., Ditchfield, P. Hamilton, J.F., Ward, M.W., Wang, C.M., Shaw, M.D., Harrison, T., Dominguez-Rodrigo, M., MacPhee, R.D.E., Kwekason, A., Ecker, M., Horwitz, L.K., Chazan, M., Kröger, R., Thomas-Oates, J. Harding, J.H., Cappellini, E., Penkman, K., Collins, M.J. Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time. Elife, 5, p.e17092.
Chazan, M. 2016. Geology/archaeology in action: a personal perspective.Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences: 1-6. (doi:10.1007/s12520-016-0412-2)
Rhodes, S.E., Walker, M.J., López-Jiménez, A., López-Martínez, M., Haber-Uriarte, M., Fernández-Jalvo, Y. and Chazan, M., 2016. Fire in the Early Palaeolithic: Evidence from burnt small mammal bones at Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar, Murcia, Spain. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 9, pp.427-436.
2016. Watts, I., Chazan, M., Wilkins, J. Early evidence for brilliant ritualized display: Specularite use in the Northern Cape (South Africa) between ~500 ka and ~300 ka. Current Anthropology 57, no. 3 (June 2016): 287-310.
2016. Chazan, M. Technological Radiation and the Process of Technological Change at the end of the Levantine Lower Paleolithic. Quaternary International 411: 59–66
2016. Macdonald, D., Chazan, M., and Janetski, J. The Geometric Kebaran Occupation and Lithic Assemblage of Wadi Mataha, Southern Jordan. Quaternary International 396 (issue edited by D. Olszewski): 105-120.
2015. Chazan, M. The Fauresmith and archaeological systematics.Changing Climates, Ecosystems and Environments within Arid Southern Africa and Adjoining Regions: Palaeoecology of Africa 33: 59-69.
2015 Horwitz, L.K., Chazan, M. Past and Present at Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. African Archaeological Review 32(4): 595-612.
2015. Chazan, M. Technological Trends in the Acheulean of Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa. African Archaeological Review 32(4): 701-728 .
2015. Goldberg, P., Berna, F., and Chazan, M. Deposition and diagenesis in the Earlier Stone Age of Wonderwerk Cave, Excavation 1, South Africa. African Archaeological Review 32(4): 613-643.
2015. Matmon, A., Hidy, A.J., Vainer, S., Crouvi, O., Fink, D., Erel, Y., ASTER TEAM5, Horwitz, L.K. and Chazan, M.. New chronology for the southern Kalahari Group sediments: implications for sediment cycle dynamics and early hominin occupation. Quaternary Research 84(1): 118-132.
2015. Wilkins, J., B.J. Schoville, K.S. Brown, and M. Chazan. Kathu Pan 1 points and the assemblage-scale, probabilistic approach: a response to Rots and Plisson,“Projectiles and the abuse of the use-wear method in a search for impact. Journal of Archaeological Science 54: 294-299.
2014. Walker, S. J., Lukich, V., & Chazan, M. Kathu Townlands: A High Density Earlier Stone Age Locality in the Interior of South Africa. PloS one,9(7): e103436.2014 Riddle, Andrew TR, and Michael Chazan. “Stone tools from the inside out: radial point distribution.” World Archaeology ahead-of-print: 1-14.
2013 Lister, A.M., W. Dirks, A. Assaf, M. Chazan, P. Goldberg, Y.H. Applbaum, N. Greenbaum, and L.K. Horwitz. New fossil remains of Elephas from the southern Levant: Implications for the evolutionary history of the Asian elephant. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 386 (2013): 119-130.
2013 Chazan, M. Butchering large animals with small tools: The Implications of the Evron Quarry assemblage for the Behaviour of Homo erectus. Antiquity 87(336): 350-367.
2013. Chazan, M., N. Porat, A. Sumner, L.K. Horwitz. The use of OSL dating in unstructured sands: The archaeology and chronology of the Hutton Sands at Canteen Kopje (Northern Cape Province, South Africa). Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences. 5: 351-363.
2012. Chazan, M., Avery, M.D., Bamford, M.K., Berna, F., Brink, J., Fernandez-Jalvo, Y., Goldberg, P., Matmon, A., Porat, N., Ron, H., Rossouw, L., Scott, L., Horwitz, L.K. Oldowan Occupation at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa: Archaeology, Geology, Paleontology, and Paleoclimate. Journal of Human Evolution 63: 859-866.
2012. Chazan, M. Handaxes, Concepts, and Teaching. Mind, Brain, and Education, 6(4): 197-203.
2012. Wilkins, J., Schoville, B. J., Brown, K. S., Chazan, M. Evidence for Early Hafted Hunting Technology. Science, 338(6109): 942-946.
2012. Berna, F., P. Goldberg, L.K. Horwitz, J. Brink, S. Holt, M. Bamford, and M. Chazan. Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: E1215-E1220.
2012. Jacobson, L., F.C. de Beer, R. Nshimirimana, L.K. Horwitz, and M. Chazan. Neutron tomographic assessment of incisions on prehistoric stone slabs: a case study from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa. Archaeometry. Article first published online: 30 MAR 2012 |
2012. Wilkins, J. and M. Chazan. Blade production ~500 thousand years ago at Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: support for a multiple origins hypothesis for early Middle Pleistocene blade technology. Journal of Archaeological Science, Available online 4 February 2012.
2012. Matmon, A., H. Ron, M. Chazan, N. Porat, L.K. Horwitz. Reconstruction the history of sediment deposition in caves: A case study from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa. Geological Society of America Bulletin 124 (3-4): 611-625.
2012. Smith, P., R. Nshimirimana, F. de Beer, D. Morris, L. Jacobson, M. Chazan, and L.K. Horwitz. Canteen Kopje: A new look at an old skull. South African Journal of Science 108(1-2): 9 pags.
2011. Gregg, M., M. Chazan, and J.C. Janetski .Variability in symbolic behavior in the southern Levant at the end of the Pleistocene. Before Farming 11(1): Article 1.
2011. Maher, L.A., E.B. Banning, and M. Chazan. Oasis or Mirage? Assessing the Role of Abrupt Climate Change in the Prehistory of the Southern Levant. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 21(1): 1-30.
2010. Baadsgaard, A., M. Chazan, L. Scott Cummings, and J.C. Janetski . Natufian strategy shifts: evidences from Wadi Mataha 2, Petra, Jordan. Eurasian Prehistory 7(1): 7-27.
2010. Chazan, M. Technological perspectives on the Upper Paleolithic. Evolutionary Anthropology 41(4): 57-65.
2010. Chazan, M. and Horwitz, L.K. Milestones in the development of symbolic behaviour: A case study from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa. World Archaeology.41(4): 521-539.
2009. Chazan, M. Consequently That Now In Our Possession Was Sold: The Sale of the De Mortillet Collection. Histories of Anthropology Annual, edited by R. Darnell and F.W. Gleach. University of Nebraska Press, pp. 73-89.
2009. Porat, N., Chazan, M., Grun, R., Aubert, M., Eisenmann, V., Kolska-Horwitz, L New radiometric ages for the Fauresmith industry from Kathu Pan, Southern Africa: Implications for the Earlier to Middle Stone Age Transition. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 269-283.
2009. Ruther, H., M. Chazan, R. Schroeder, R. Neeser, C. Held, S.J. Walker, A. Matmon, and L.K. Horwitz. Laser scanning for conservation and research of African cultural heritage sites: The case study of Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa. Journal of Archeological Science 38: 1847-1856.
2008. Chazan, M., H. Ron, A. Matmon, N. Porat, P. Goldberg, R. Yates, M. Avery, A. Sumner, and L.K. Horwitz. First radiometric dates for the earlier stone age sequence in Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 55:1-11.
2008. Chazan, M. Culture, information, and inheritance: New perspectives on old questions. Reviews in Anthropology 37(1): 3-15.
2006. Chazan, M. and L.K. Horwitz. Finding the Message in Complexity: The Association of Lithics and Fauna on Lower Paleolithic Multiple Carcass Sites. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 25: 436-447.
2005. Stock, J.T., S. Pfeiffer, M. Chazan, and J. Janetski F-81 skeleton from Wadi Mataha, Jordan, and its bearing on human variability in the Epipaleolithic of the Levant, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128(2): 453-465.
2002. Porat, N., M. Chazan, H. Schwarcz and L. Horwitz. Timing of the Lower to Middle Paleolithic boundary: new dates from the Levant. Journal of Human Evolution 43(1): 107-122.
2001. Chazan, M. Bladelet production in the Aurignacian of Hayonim Cave, Israel. Paléorient 27(1): 81-88.
2001. Chazan, M. Bladelet Production in the Aurignacian of La Ferrassie (Dordogne, France). Lithic Technology 26(1): 16-28.
2001. Chazan, M., H. Monchot, N. Porat, A. Lister, P. Davies, and L.K. Horwitz. Le site acheuléen d’Holon (Israël): premiers résultats. C.R.A.S. Paris 332: 201-207.
2000. Chazan, M. Flake Production at the Lower Paleolithic Site of Holon (Israel): Implications for the Origin of the Levallois Method. Antiquity 74: 495-499.
2000. Chazan, M. Typological Analysis of the Lower Paleolithic Site of Holon, Israel. Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 30: 7-32.
1999. Porat, N., L.P. Zhou, M. Chazan, T. Noy, and L.K. Horwitz. Lower Paleolithic Open-Air Site of Holon, Israel- Luminescence and ESR Dates. Quaternary Research 51 (3): 328-341.
1997. Chazan, M. Redefining Levallois. Journal of Human Evolution 33: 719-735.
1995. Chazan, M. Response and Counterresponse to the Establishment of Human Antiquity: The Development of Paleolithic Chronology. American Anthropologist 97(3): 457-467.
1995. Chazan, M. An Examination of the Language Hypothesis for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition Based on a Multiregional Lithic Analysis. Current Anthropology 36(5): 749-768.
1995. Chazan, M. A Reassessment of the Middle Paleolithic Lithic Industry from Haua Fteah, Libya. Paleorient 21(1): 65-73.
1993. Chazan, M. Mapping Archaeological Time at the Valley of the Caves. Mitekufat Haeven: The Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 25: 5-12.
1990. Chazan, M. and M. Lehner. An Ancient Analogy: Pot Baked Bread in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Paleorient 16 (2): 21-36.
1984. Chazan, M. and P.E. McGovern. Khirbet Kerak Pottery at Beth Shan: Technological Evidence for Local Manufacture. MASCA Journal 3 (1): 20-24.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2019. Chazan, M., Horwitz, L.K., Koopowitz, C. Wonderwerk Cave: The Search for Ancestral Fire. Natural History Magazine 127(8): 8-10.
2018. Chazan, M.. Tools, Paleolithic. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 1-4. Wiley.
2018. Chazan M. Homo erectus. In T. K. Shackelford, V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, p. 1-3. Springer.
2014. Chazan, M. Lithic Technology, Paleolithic in the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (C. Smith ed.). New York, Springer: 4519-45202014. Chazan, M. Lithic Technology, Paleolithic in the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (C. Smith ed.). New York, Springer: 4519-4520
2012. Chazan, M. Getting a feel for the most successful invention in human history. In World Without Weight: Perspectives on an Alien Mind, by D.J. Povinelli. Oxford, Oxford University press, pp. 7.
2012. Chazan, M., J. Wilkins, D. Morris, and F. Berna. Bestwood 1: a newly discovered Earlier Stone Age living surface near Kathu, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Antiquity 86(331): Antiquity Gallery.
2001. Chazan, M. Civilization and the Lower Paleolithic of Syria. In Canadian Research on Ancient Syria, edited by Michel Fortin. Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies, pp. 3-8.
2000. Janetski, J., D. Johnson, and M. Chazan. Wadi Mataha. In Archaeology in Jordan, edited by V. Egan, P. Bikai and K. Zamora. American Journal of Archaeology 104.
1999. Johnson, D., J. Janetski, M. Chazan, S. Witcher, and R. Meadow. The Wadi Mataha Project 1997 Excavations. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan XLIII, 249-260.
1994. Chazan, M. Public Meeting between Israeli and Palestinian Archaeologists. Anthropology Newsletter.
Web Publications
2004. Chazan, M. Locating Gesture: Leroi-Gourhan among the Cyborgs. Semioticon.com. www.semioticon.com/virtuals/Locating%20Gesture.pdf
2003. Chazan, M. V. Gordon Childe among the “vulgar cognitivists”. Semioticon.com. www.semioticon.com/virtuals/symbolicity/gordon.html
2002. Chazan, M. Towards an archaeology of gesture. www.semioticon.com/virtuals/archaeology/towards.pdf
