Earliest evidence for equid bit wear in the ancient Near East: The "ass" from Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel

• Haskel J. Greenfield ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: haskel.greenfield@umanitoba.ca

  Affiliation University of Manitoba, Department of Anthropology, Judaic Studies Program and St. Paul’s College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6703-932X

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• Itzhaq Shai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ariel University, Israel Heritage Department and the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Ariel, Israel

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• Tina L. Greenfield,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Saskatchewan, Department of Religion and Culture, St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Elizabeth R. Arnold,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grand Valley State University, Department of Anthropology, Allendale, Michigan, United States of America

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• Annie Brown,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation University of Manitoba, Department of Anthropology and St. Paul’s College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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• Adi Eliyahu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ariel University, The Institute of Archaeology and the Department of Chemical Sciences, Ariel, Israel

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• Aren M. Maeir

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bar-Ilan University, Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Ramat Gan, Israel

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