Research Projects
Unraveling adaptive strategies to living by the sea during the early-middle Holocene through the study of resource utilization in the Carmel coast settlements
Israel Science Foundation funded project
Isaac Ogloblin (Ph.D. student, co-supervised with E. Galili): Neolithic submerged settlements along the Carmel coast, looking into materials collected during underwater survey (mud bricks, pottery, deposits associated with combustion features) to understand technological choices and subsistence practices. Sites explored: Atlit Yam (Pre-Pottery Neolithic C), Neve Yam (Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah), Tel Hreiz (Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah).
Roey Nickelsberg (Ph.D. student, co-supervised with A. Yasur-Landau): Adaptation of coastal settlements in the Dor-Habonim area to the Carmel coast, including coastal and underwater excavations, and a focus on the procurement strategies of coastal societies through pottery. Sites explored: Dor South (Early Bronze Age I), Habonim North (Yarmoukian).
Reconstructing Bronze Age maritime networks: A new provenance study of stone anchors from Israel and Cyprus
Honor Frost Foundation funded project (PIs: A. Yasur-Landau, R. Shahack-Gross; in collaboration with S. Manning and C. Fulton)
Sara Macke (M.A. student, co-supervised with A. Yasur-Landau): Development of a new method to identify sources of Bronze Age anchors made of carbonate rocks found along the Carmel coast and Cyprus. Includes analysis of reference coastal rocks as well as Brnze Age stone anchors from various sites along the Carmel coast.
Geoarchaeology at the Middle Paleolithic sites of Nesher Ramla and Tinshemet Cave, Israel: Stratigraphy, depositional-post depositional processes and inferences about human behavior and use of space
Collaboration project (PI: Y. Zaidner; The Middle Paleolithic in the Levant)
Alyssa Pietraszek (Ph.D. student, co-supervised with Y. Zaidner): A geoarchaeological study of the stratigraphy and deposits at Tinshemet Cave and Nesher Ramla, including spatial micro-remain quantifications, micromorphology and a study of ochre to explore a possible symbolic relationship between use of fire, ochre and human burials.
The Early Bronze Age in Tel Arad, Israel: a multidisciplinary study of chronology and subsistence economy
Zach Dunseth (Post-doctoral fellow, co-supervised with I. Finkelstein, TAU).
Bone taphonomy and preservation in the Geometric Kebaran site of Neve David
Mason Seymore (MA student, co-supervised with R. Yeshurun, UH).
Pottery from a trash accumulation at the Middle Bronze palace at Tel Kabri
Silvana Kreines (MA student, co-supervised with A. Yasur-Landau, UH).
