Nigel Goring-Morris

Adrian Nigel Goring-Morris is a British-born Archaeologist and a Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.[1] He completed his PhD there in 1986 and is notable for his work and discoveries at one of the oldest ritual burial sites in the world; Kfar HaHoresh. The earliest levels of this site have been dated to 8000 BC (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) and it is located in the northern Israel, not far from Nazareth.[2]

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.
  • Publication of the excavations at Gilgal I by Tamar Noy (with Ofer Bar-Yosef & Avi Gopher).
  • "Religion as the Basis for Power and Property in the First Civilizations" 2009-2011, invited to participate in the Templeton project at Neolithic Catalhoyuk, Turkey, directed by Ian Hodder.

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.[3]
  • 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.[4]
  • 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.[5]

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: 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). 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 entries.

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See also

References
  1. Cook, Jonathan., @ Nazareth, The Guardian, Article, 15 December 2003.
  2. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Staff Page, Prof. A. Nigel Goring-Morris - Retrieved 22-03-2011
  3. A. Nigel Goring-Morris (1987). At the edge: terminal Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in the Negev and Sinai. B.A.R. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
  4. A. Nigel Goring-Morris; Anna Belfer-Cohen (2003). More than meets the eye: studies on upper Palaeolithic diversity in the Near East. Oxbow. ISBN 978-1-84217-082-3. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
  5. Ofer Bar-Yosef; Avi Gopher; A. Nigel Goring-Morris (21 September 2010). Gilgal: Early Neolithic Occupations in the Lower Jordan Valley: The Excavations of Tamar Noy. OXBOW. ISBN 978-1-84217-413-5. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
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