News and Updates
26/02/2024 Prof. Ehud Galili and Dr. Isaac Ogloblin making significant progress with a new coring method for collecting archaeological sediments underwater (Photograph by E. Galili showing I. Ogloblin).
22/02/2024 More cores have been opened and sampled. We also started to sample for aDNA analysis in order to gain new and exciting information from the earliest coastal settlements and the littoral environment.
31/09/2023 We're thrilled to announce the successful completion of core sampling at our project site for Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating. Our team is now gearing up for the next phase of analysis to uncover the site's historical timeline.
14-15/09/2023 Elle Grono presented our micro-archaeology research of Atlit-Yam at the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (AIMA)-ICUCH conference 'Connected by Water' in Canberra, Australia. It was a wonderful opportunity to place our research in an international perspective and learn about current themes and approaches in underwater archaeology in the Australasian region.
02/07/2023 We begin to cut and impregnate the core sediments for micromorphology analysis! We select core locations based on C14 dating, microarchaeological evidence and core sediment descriptions. The cut sections are dried at room temperature for several days; in an oven overnight at 40’C; impregnated with a polyester-resin mixture; and, left to harden for several weeks before thin-sectioning. We eagerly await the thin sections!
27-30/06/2023 Isaac and Elle attended the Archaeological Soil Micromorphology Workshop (WASM) held in Utrecht University Science Park in Utrecht. We shared thin sections from around the world and discussed site formation processes in wetland and submerged coastal environmental settings. We thank the organisers of the event for a wonderful few days!
19/05/2023 Our new article presents an integrated microarchaeological field and laboratory protocol for investigating deep stratigraphy from submerged archaeological sites. We apply the protocol to pilot sedimentary cores from the Atlit-Yam site. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21967
16/12/2022 After extracting pollen using palynological procedures in the laboratory, Elle is currently analysing pollen grains under the microscope from the first core
14/12/2022 A month has passed from fieldwork and we have sampled 300 samples from our first core and developed our multiproxy high-resolution sampling protocol
16/11/2022 Back from the sea with 23 deep sediment cores from Atlit-Yam
13/11/2022 We are excited to officially start new fieldwork
for BeforeTheFlood! Drilling sediment cores
from Atlit-Yam
24/10/2022 We are out at sea again! Diving at Atlit-Yam to prepare for drilling sediment cores
23/10/2022 Meeting at the marine workshop to undertake preparations before fieldwork in the sea!