Prof. Danny Rosenberg (PhD. 2011, University of Haifa) is an archaeologist specializing in the archaeology of food, food-related technologies, and their social and economic environments. He is the head of the Laboratory for Ancient Food Processing Technologies (LAFPT) at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology and the School of Archaeology, University of Haifa, and the Chair of the International Association for Ground Stone Tools Research (AGSTR). Hand-in-hand with his interest in the links between people, their environment, food, and technology, Prof. Rosenberg advances the research by the establishment into the so-called 'Mediterranean diet' in the Near East during the 6th-4th millennia cal. BC, and its link to the notable intensification of agricultural production, specific environmental conditions, testable changes in foodways, material culture, and communities' social organization. As part of this endeavour, he initiated a regional research project focusing on the Jordan Valley as its core area, with the Middle Chalcolithic site of Tel Tsaf, Israel, as its key site. Prof. Rosenberg is also studying late-period Chalcolithic cult and burial practices. In this capacity, he is co-directing multidisciplinary research of the Late Chalcolithic sites of Ein Gedi in the Judean Desert and the cemetery of Qarqar in Shefela, Israel.