Selected Papers

For a comprehensive CV and a full list of publications see: https://huji.academia.edu/GideonShelachLavi

 

 

- Hua Xia and Shelach-Lavi G., 2024. Bronze Art, Cultural Norms and Group Identity: A Group of Western Zhou He Vessels Analyzed in their Temporal and Spatial Context. Asian Perspectives. 63 (1). https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.0.a915111

- Goren Yuval, Lonia Friedlander, Ofer Marder, Noam Shalev, Mingyu Teng, Dongdong Tu and Gideon Shelach-Lavi, 2024. Ceramic production and the transition to agriculture in Northeast China: Neolithic pottery technology in the Fuxin Region. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 16 (9). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01912-3

-Ying Tung Fung, Angaragdulguun Gantumur, Ido Wachtel, Amartuvshin Chunag, Zhidong Zhang, Or Fenigstein, Dan Golan & Gideon Shelach-Lavi. 2023. Unraveling the Mongolian Arc: A Field Survey and Spatial Investigation of a Previously Unexplored Wall System in Eastern Mongolia, Journal of Field Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2023.2295198

- Shelach-Lavi, G., T. Ulus and G. Avni. 2023. Insights from a Recent Workshop on

Walls, Borders, and Frontier Zones in the Ancient and the Contemporary World. Offa’s Dyke Journal. 5: 13-18.

- Shelach-Lavi, G. 2022. How Neolithic farming changed China. Nature Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00899-4

- Tu, D., G. Shelach-Lavi, and T.F. Ying, 2022. Economy, Sharing Strategies and Community Structure in the Early Neolithic Village of Chahai, Northeast China. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101420

 - Jaffe, Y., G. Shelach-Lavi and R. Campbell 2022. Shimao and the Rise of States in China: Archaeology, Historiography and Myth. Current Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1086/719398

- Shelach-Lavi, G., Y. Jaffe and G. Bar-Oz (2021). Cavalry and the Great Walls of China and Mongolia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(16): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2024835118

Storozum, M., D. Golan, I. Wachtel, Z. Zhang, J. S. Lotze,and G. Shelach-Lavi, (2021). Mapping the Medieval Wall System of China and Mongolia: A Multi-Method Approach. Land 10(997). https://doi.org/10.3390/land10100997

- Shelach-Lavi, G., Honeychurch, W. and Chunag, A (2020). Does extra-large equal extra-ordinary? The ‘Wall of Chinggis Khan’ from a multidimensional perspective. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7, 22. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0524-2

- Jaffe, Y., Castellano, L., Shelach-Lavi, G., & Campbell, R. (2020). Mismatches of scale in the application of paleoclimatic research to Chinese archaeology. Quaternary Research, 1-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.60

- Stevens, Chris J., Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Hai Zhang, Mingyu Teng, and Dorian Q Fuller (2021), A model for the domestication of Panicum miliaceum (common, proso or broomcorn millet) in China. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-020-00804-z

- Wachtel I., R. Zidon, and G. Shelach‐Lavi. 2020. Using the Maximal Entropy Modeling Approach to Analyze the Evolution of Sedentary Agricultural Societies in Northeast China. Entropy. 22(3); https://doi.org/10.3390/e22030307.

- Shelach-Lavi G, Ido Wachtel, Dan Golan, Otgonjargal Batzorig, Amartuvshin Chunag, Ronnie Ellenblum, and William Honeychurch (Forthcoming 2020), Long-Wall construction in the Mongolian steppe during the Medieval Period (11th to the 13th centuries CE), Antiquity.

- Shelach-Lavi G., M. Teng, Y. Goldsmith, I. Wachtel, C.J. Stevens, O. Marder, X. Wan, X. Wu, D. Tu, R. Shavit, P. Polissar, H. Xu, D.Q. Fuller (2019) Sedentism and plant cultivation in northeast China emerged during affluent conditions. PLoS ONE. 14(7): e0218751.

- Li Yali, G. Shelach-Lavi, R. Ellenblum, 2019.  Short-Term Climatic Catastrophes and the Collapse of the Liao Dynasty (907-1125) – The Textual Evidence. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 49 (4): 591-610.

- Shelach-Lavi, G. 2019. Archaeology and politics in China: Historical paradigm and identity construction in museum exhibitions. China Information: 33 (1): 23-45.

- Wachtel, Ido, Royi Zidon, Shimon Garti, and Gideon Shelach-Lavi. 2018. Predictive modeling for archaeological site locations: Comparing logistic regression and maximal entropy in north Israel and north-east China. Journal of Archaeological Science 92: 28-36.

- Shelach-Lavi, G. and Tu Dongdong, 2017. Food, Pots and Socio-Economic Transformation: The Beginning and Intensification of Pottery Production in North China. Archaeological Research In Asia.

- Shelach-Lavi, G. Mingyu Teng, Y. Goldsmith, I. Wachtel, A. Ovadia, Xiongfei Wan, and O. Marder. 2016. Human Adaptation and Socio-Economic Change in Northeast China: Results of the Fuxin Regional Survey. Journal of Field Archaeology 41(4): 467-485.

- Shelach, G. and Y. Jaffe , 2014. The Earliest States in China: A long-Term Trajectory Approach. Journal of Archaeological Research. 22 (4): 327-364.

- Chen Bo, and G. Shelach , 2014. An Archaeological and Regional Perspective on the Fortified Settlements and the Settlement System in the Northern Zone of the Han Empire (206BCE-220CE). Antiquity 88: 222-240.

- Shelach, G. 2012. On the Invention of Pottery. Science. 336:1644-1645.

- Peterson, C . and G. Shelach , 2012. Jiangzhai: Social and Economic Organization of a Middle Neolithic Chinese Village. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 31:265-301 (Translated into Chinese and published in Nanfang Wenwu 南方文物 2015.4: 250-265).

- Shelach, G. , K. Raphael, and Y. Jaffe. 2011. Sanzuodian: The Structure, Function and Social Significance of the Earliest Stone Fortified Sites in China. Antiquity. 85: 11-26.

- Other papers can also be found in my Academia.edu site.