Haskel Greenfield (born 1953) is an American archaeologist with a Balkan and Mid-East areal specialization within a general focus on cultural history. Greenfield was born in Newark, New Jersey.
Haskel Greenfield was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1953. He turned a childhood interest in ancient history and dinosaurs into his profession by getting his doctorate in anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (1985) after a B.A. (1975) and an M.A. (1980) from Hunter College. His first professional position was at Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana.[1] [2] In 1989, he began working at the University of Manitoba in Canada.
In 2015 Greenfield was designated a "Distinguished Professor" by the University of Manitoba.[3]
He is married to the archaeologist Tina Jongsma-Greenfield.
He characterizes himself in this way: "I am an anthropological archaeologist specializing in the evolution of Old World societies, from the beginning of early farming to the development of states and empires.
"Regionally, my research centers on a transect of countries extending from Europe (Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Hungary, Poland and Romania), through the Near East (Israel, Jordan and Turkey), down to South Africa."[4] He is well known in the zooarchaeological community.
In addition to the 2006 book The Origins of Transhumant Pastoralism in Temperate Southeastern Europe: A Zooarchaeological Perspective from the Central Balkans, he has published over seventy academic articles.[5]