PhD Student Karolina Hruby and Prof. Danny Rosenberg from the Department of Archaeology have published a paper entitled Urbanizing food: New perspectives on food processing tools in the Early Bronze Age villages and early urban centers of the southern Levant, examining food access, provisioning strategies, and dietary patterns. Their research concludes that the shift in socio-economic priorities accompanying urbanization led to a decline in the basalt bowl industry and a reorganization of food processing practices within expanding settlements. The study seeks to understand the broad impacts of social complexity that arise with urban development.