Since 09/2025

Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin. Project title: Decoding economy of the Leylatepe communities in the Chalcolithic Caucasus through functional analyses of ground stone tools

03/2024 – 08/2025

Postdoctoral Fellow of the Minerva Stiftung, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Berlin

12/2022 – 12/2023

Postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory for Ancient Food Processing Technologies, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, University of Haifa

04/2021 – 12/2023

Adjunct researcher, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa

11/2017 – 07/2023

PhD, University of Haifa. Dissertation title: Urbanizing food: Ground stone food processing tools in urban and non-urban sites in the southern Levant during the Early Bronze Age I–III

Research

• Macrolithic technology

• Functional (use-wear) analyses of macrolithic tools

• Archaeology of the 6th—3rd millennium BC in the southern Caucasus and the southern Levant

• Craft and food production approaches in the Late Chalcolithic Caucasus

• Interregional dynamics in 6th—4th millennium BC in south-west Asia

• Food processing technologies in transition to complex societies

In press

•  Hruby, K., Rosenberg, D., The Late Chalcolithic ground stone tool assemblage of Yehud, Ha-‘Azma’ut Street A8013/A7975 and its affiliation with other contemporaneous assemblages from Yehud. ‘Atiqot.

2025

• Iserlis, M., Almamedov, K., Hruby, K., Maurer, G., Joka, K., Aghalarov, M., Heit, I., Poulmarch, M., Preliminary results of the study of two Late Chalcolithic settlements in the Karabakh steppe. Azerbaijan Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology 1(1), 2025, 30–43. DOI: 10.30546/679523.1.2025.26

• Rosenberg, D., Meier, Weiss, Y., Pinsky, S., Hruby, K., Horden, M., Weiss, E., Ahituv, H., Shimelmitz, R., Talmor, B., Klimscha, F., The Characteristics of the Earliest Levels of Tel Tsaf and the Onset of the Middle Chalcolithic Period in the Jordan Valley, Israel. Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology 8, 2025, 1–40. DOI:  10.52486/01.00008.1

2024

• Hruby, K., Klimscha, F., Rosenberg, D. (2024) The Tel Tsaf decoration: Contextualizing a Chalcolithic pottery phenomenon on a regional scale. Archaeological Research in Asia 40, 2024, 100541. DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2024.100541

• Hruby, K., Kowalewska, A., Rosenberg, D., Eisenberg, M. (2024) A Chalcolithic presence east of the Sea of Galilee: The earliest finds on Mt. Sussita. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 156(4), 2024, 295–321. DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2023.2277625

2023

• Hruby, K., Rosenberg, D., Urbanizing food: New perspectives on food processing tools in the Early Bronze Age villages and early urban centers of the southern Levant. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 72, 2023, 101549. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101549

• Brink, E.C.M. van den, Golani, A., Groman-Yaroslavski, I., Piliponsky, M., Hruby, K., Rosenberg, D., Mienis, H.K., Berger, U., The Pre-Early Bronze Age remains at Tel Qishyon, eastern Jezreel Valley, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 53, 2023, 4–82.

• Rosenberg, D., Pinsky, S., Hruby, K., Klimscha, F., Tel Tsaf, a Middle Chalcolithic site in the Jordan Valley: An interim report on the 2013–2022 excavation seasons. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 53, 2023, 208–241.

2022

• Hruby, K., Paz, S., Rotem, Y., Iserlis, M., Rosenberg, D., Tracing social dynamics of the Khirbet Kerak Ware diaspora and local Early Bronze Age III Jordan Valley communities: Food processing and other ground stone tools as cultural markers. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 52, 2022, 6–40.

2021

• Hruby, K., Cendrowska, M., Chasan, R., Groman-Yaroslavski, I., Rosenberg, D., The function of the south-Levantine Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age basalt vessels bearing circumferential depressions: Insights from use-wear analyses. PLOS One 6(6), 2021, e0252535. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252535
• Brink, E.C.M. van den, Jakoel, E., Yaroshevich, A., Hruby, K., Rosenberg, D., Chasan, R., Ackermann, O., Anker, Y., Roskin, J., Eshed, V., Peters, I., Kapul, R., Asscher, Y., Perry-Gal, L., Boaretto, E., Additional Late Chalcolithic shafts and pits east of Namir Road, Tel Aviv. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 51, 2021, 136–224.