PhD students

Title: Archaeobotany of Epipalaeolithic communities of Mt. Carmel
Supervisors: Prof. Dani Nadel, Prof. Mina Evron and Dr. Valentina Caracuta

Title: The Settlement System of the Late Natufian in Mount Carmel: A View from el-Wad Terrace and Raqefet Cave
Supervisors: Prof. Dani Nadel and Prof. Mina Weinstein-Evron
ResearchGate
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Interests: Epipaleolithic period, Natufian culture, flint-knapping technologies
Phone: +97250-3433340
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Title: Daily Life in Caesarea Maritima in the Roman and Byzantine Periods 1st century BC - 7th century CE, in Light of Small Metal Finds.
Supervisor: Prof. Adi Erlich

Title: Food choices and dietary practices during the 6th to 4th Millennium BC in the southern Levant: Evidence from organic residue analysis
Supervisors: Prof. Danny Rosenberg and Prof. Cynthianne Spiteri
Title: Food processing during the Late Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant - a view from the study of ground stone tools.
Supervisor: Prof. Danny Rosenberg

Title: Rodents remains from Tabun Cave (Carmel Mount.): Taphonomic analysis and environment reconstruction
Supervisors: Prof. Mina Weinstein-Evron and Dr. Lior Weisbrood
ResearchGate
Interests: microfauna, Middle Paleolithic period, environment reconstruction, Byzantine period, bone taphonomy
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Title: Urbanizing food – Food processing in urban and non-urban sites in the southern Levant during the Early Bronze Age I-III
Supervisor: Prof. Danny Rosenberg

Title: Beit Shean Valley during the Intermediate Bronze Age – Archaeological and Ecological Characterization
Supervisor: Prof. Michal Artzy

Title: Crops storage facilities in the late prehistory of the southern Levant and the knowledge stored in them
Supervisor: Prof. Danny Rosenberg

Title: Survival of Nations; The Judahite/Jewish Case
Supervisor: Prof. Ayelet Gilboa

Title: Reconstructing Natufian diet and palaeoenvironment in Mount Carmel: Taphonomy of amphibian, snake and lizard remains.
Supervisors: Prof. Mina Weinstein-Evron and Dr. Reuven Yeshurun
ResearchGate
Interests: Prehistoric archaeology, zooarchaeology, herpetofauna, Natufian period
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Title: Kition in the Classical period
Supervisors: Prof. Ayelet Gilboa, Dr. Dan'el Kahn and Dr. Sabine Fourrier

Title: Food processing images in world archaeological and ethnographic records - a global look on the social perception on food processing in different societies
Supervisor: Prof. Danny Rosenberg

Title: Human prey choice in the middle Paleolithic: insights from human, non-human and natural bone accumulations
Supervisor: Dr. Reuven Yeshurun
ResearchGate
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Interests: human hunting preferences during the Late Pleistocene, the Paleolithic period, hyenas, crocuta
Phone: +972537762741
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Title: Southern Phoenicia during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages: A view from Tel Shiqmona
Supervisor: Prof. Ayelet Gilboa

Title: Israelite and Judean food production in ground stone tools during the Iron Age II in the Southern Levant - comparative research
Supervisor: Prof. Danny Rosenberg

Title: Local and Interregional Exchange Networks at the Southern Levant in the Late Bronze and Iron Age Periods through Ivory Analysis
Supervisors: Prof. Ayelet Gilboa and Prof. Guy Bar-Oz
Academia.edu
ResearchGate
Interests: Late Bronze and Iron Ages, Southern Levantine exchange networks, ivory
Phone: +972523954173
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Title: Defining Pottery Traditions during the 7th through 4th Millennium (cal.BC) in the Jordan Valley, Israel
Supervisors: Prof. Danny Rosenberg and Prof. Yuval Goren
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ResearchGate
Interests: ancient pottery, the Chalcolithic period, petrography, Tel Tsaf
Phone: +972508729912
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Title: The organization of the hunt in the Middle Paleolithic: A zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of the open-Air site of Nesher Ramla
Supervisor: Dr. Reuven Yeshurun
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Interests: archaeozoology, the Middle Paleolithic period, human hunting strategies, the Bronze Age, aggregation events
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Kasia Ujma
Title: Levantine Aurignacian Archaeozoology: Subsistence, seasonality and camp organization in the Early Upper Paleolithic of Manot Cave, Israel
Supervisor: Dr. Reuven Yeshurun and Prof. Ofer Marder
Academia.edu
Interests: upper paleolithic: archaeozoology, subsistence
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Avi Weiss
Title: Frankish concentric fortifications in the 12th-13th centuries: unique and revolutionary architecture, or local adaptions and developments?
Supervisor: Prof. Adrian Boaz and Dr. Rabiah Hamisa
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Title: Social and cultural influence of siege economy: Archaeozoological perspective from the great revolt in Jerusalem (66-73 CE)
Supervisor: Prof. Gay Bar-Oz
Academia.edu
Interests: archaeozoology, archaeozoology of siege economy
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Past PhD Students
Tzilla Eshel
Title: Silver in the southern Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages: Changes in usage, Availability, ore sources and environmental effects
Supervisors: Prof. Ayelet Gilboa, Prof. Yigal Erel and Dr. Naama Yahalom-Mack
Joppe Gosker
Title: Metal artifacts as part of the material culture in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem – Between the Islamic world and Medieval Europe
Supervisor: Prof. Adrian Boas
Academia.edu
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Interests: crusader period, metal objects
Phone: +972523263717
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Past PhD Students
Title: Silver in the southern Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages: Changes in usage, Availability, ore sources and environmental effects
Supervisors: Prof. Ayelet Gilboa, Prof. Yigal Erel and Dr. Naama Yahalom-Mack

Title: Metal artifacts as part of the material culture in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem – Between the Islamic world and Medieval Europe
Supervisor: Prof. Adrian Boas
Academia.edu
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Interests: crusader period, metal objects
Phone: +972523263717
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Title: Hygene in the Latin East: Installations and other aspects
Supervisor: Prof. Adrian Boaz
Interests: crusader period, hygene and latrines
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