Curriculum Vitae 

EDUCATION

2015              Ph.D. in Archaeology

                        Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures, Tel-Aviv University, 

                        Kimmel Center for Archaeological Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science

2010               M.A. in Archaeology

                       Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University

                       Kimmel Center for Archaeological Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science

2008             B.A. in Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures

                       Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures, Tel-Aviv University

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2023-present    Associate Professor, Department of Maritime Civilizations, University of Haifa, Israel

2023-present    Co-Director, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History, University of Haifa, Israel

2023-present     Honorary Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, United-Kingdom

2020-present    Senior Member, The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa, Israel

2020-2023         Senior Lecturer, Department of Maritime Civilizations, University of Haifa, Israel

2020-2023         Research Member, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History, University of Haifa, Israel

2017-2020          Affiliated Researcher, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, United-Kingdom

2016-2020          Postdoctoral Researcher, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel

2015-2020          Associate Researcher, Homerton College, Cambridge, United-Kingdom

2015-2017          Marie Curie Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, United-Kingdom

2014                    Teaching Fellow, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Germany

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles 

2024

• Friesem, D.E., Lew-Levy, S., Boyette, A., Lavi, N. (2024). Mobility, site maintenance and archaeological formation processes: An ethnoarchaeological perspective. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 74, 101588.

2023

• Ogloblin-Ramirez, I., Grono, E., Zuckerman-Cooper, R., Langgut, D., Galili, E., Friesem, D.E. (2023). A micro-archaeological approach to underwater stratigraphy of submerged settlements: A case study of Atlit-Yam Pre-Pottery Neolithic site, off the Carmel coast, Southern Levant. Geoarchaeology 38, 534-564.

• Runjajic, M., Garfinkel, Y., Hasel, M.G., Yasur-Landau, A., Friesem, D.E. (2023). Fire at the Gate of Hazor: A Micro-Geoarchaeological Study of the Depositional History of a Bronze Age City Gate. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 49, 103914.

2022

• Beresford-Jones, D. G., Friesem, D.E., Sturt, F., Pullen, A., Chauca, G., Gorriti, M., Maita, P. K., Joly, D., Huaman, O., French, C. (2022). Insights into Changing Coastlines, Environments and Marine Hunter Gatherer Lifestyles on the Pacific Coast of South America from the La Yerba II Shell Midden, Río Ica Estuary, Peru. Quaternary Science Reviews 285, 107509.

• Friesem, D.E., Ogloblin-Ramirez, I., Zuckerman-Cooper, R., Grono, E., Galili, E. (2022). Deep Stratigraphy of submerged Neolithic sites: A micro-geoarchaeological approach to the study of Coastal settlements in the Eastern Mediterranean. Antiquity 96, 1606-1611.

• Friesem, D.E., Shimelmitz, R., Schumacher, M.L., Miller, C.E., Kandel, A.W. (2022). A micro-geoarchaeological view on stratigraphy and site formation processes in the Middle, Upper and Epi-Paleolithic layers of Sefunim Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14, 222.

• Gambash, G, Pestarino, B., Friesem, D.E., (2022). From Murex to Fabric: The Mediterranean Purple. Technai 13, 85-113.

• Grono, E., Friesem, D.E., Dzung, L.T.M., Thuy, N.T., Quy, T.T.K., Hamilton, R., Bellwood, P., Piper, P., Denham, T. (2022). Microstratigraphy reveals cycles of occupation and abandonment at the mid Holocene coastal site of Thach Lac, northern-central Vietnam. Archaeological Research in Asia 31, 100396.

• Grono, E., Friesem, D.E., Wood, R., Denham, T., Kien, N.K.T., Kinh, D. N., Piper, P. (2022). Site formation processes of outdoor spaces in tropical environments: a micro-geoarchaeological case study from backyard Lo Gach, southern Vietnam. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14, 211.

• Grono, E., Piper, P., Kien, N.K.T., Kinh, D. N., Denham, T., Friesem, D.E. (2022). The identification of dwellings and site formation processes in archaeological settlements in the tropics: a micro-geoarchaeological case study from neolithic Loc Giang, southern Vietnam. Quaternary Science Reviews 291, 107654.

• Slon, V., Clark, J.L., Friesem, D.E., Orbach, M., Porat, N., Meyer, M., Kandel, A.W., Shimelmitz, R. (2022). Extended longevity of DNA preservation in Levantine Paleolithic sediments, Sefunim Cave, Israel. Scientific Reports 12, 14528.

2021

• Friesem, D.E., Shahack-Gross, R., Weinstein-Evron, M., Teutsch, N., Weissbrod, L., Shimelmitz, R. (2021). High-resolution study of Middle Palaeolithic deposits and formation processes at Tabun Cave, Israel: Guano-rich cave deposits and detailed stratigraphic appreciation of Layer C. Quaternary Science Reviews 274, 107203. 

• Friesem, D.E., Teutsch, N., Weinstein-Evron, M., Shimelmitz, R., Shahack-Gross, R. (2021). Identification of Fresh and Burnt Bat Guano and Pigeon Droppings in Eastern Mediterranean Karstic Cave Sites based on Micromorphological and Chemical Characteristics. Quaternary Science Reviews 274, 107238.

• Milks, A., Lew-Levy, S., Lavi, N., Friesem, D.E., Reckin, R. (2021). Hunter-gatherer children in the past: An archaeological review. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 64, 101369.

• Ward, I.A.K., Friesem, D.E. (2021). Many words for fire: an etymological and micromorphological consideration of combustion features in Indigenous archaeological sites of Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 104, 11-24.

• Zaidner, Y., Centi, L., Prévost, M., Mercier, N., Falguères, C., Guérin, G., Valladas, H., Richard, M., Galy, A., Pécheyran, C., Tombret, O., Pons-Branchu, E., Porat, N., Shahack-Gross, R., Friesem, D.E., Yeshurun, R., Turgeman-Yaffe, Z., Frumkin, A., Herzlinger, G., Ekshtain, R., Shemer, M., Varoner, O., Sarig, R., May, H., Hershkovitz. (2021). Middle Pleistocene Homo behavior and culture at 140,000 to 120,000 years ago and interactions with Homo sapiens. Science 372, 1429-1433.

2020

• Friesem, D.E., Anton, M., Waiman-Barak, P., Shahack-Gross, R., Nadel, D. (2020). Variability and complexity in calcite-based plaster production: A case study from a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B infant burial at Tel Roʻim West and its implications to mortuary practices in the Southern Levant. Journal of Archaeological Science 131, 105048. 

• Grosman, L., Raz, T., Friesem, D.E. (2020). Tomorrow’s mundane is today’s extraordinary: A case study of a plastered installation during Neolithization. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7, 87.

• Lew-Levy, S., Milks, A., Lavi, N., Pope, S. M., Friesem, D.E. (2020). Hunter-gatherer children and adolescents as innovators: An ethnographic and archaeological review. Evolutionary Human Sciences 2, E31. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.35

• Liu, C., Shimelmitz, R.,Friesem, D.E., Yeshurun, R., Nadel, D. (2020). Diachronic Trends in Occupation Intensity of the Epipaleolithic Site of Neve David (Mount Carmel, Israel): A Lithic Perspective. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 60, 101223.

• Wilson, R.J.A., Friesem, D., Tsimbaliouk, D., Ramsay, J., Broida, J., Veal, R., Mukai, T. (2020). UBC Excavations of the Roman Villa at Gerace, Sicily: Results of the 2018 Season. Mouseion 17, 95-212. 

2019

• Friesem, D.E., Abadi, I., Shaham, D., Grosman, L. (2019). Lime plaster cover of the dead 12,000 years ago - new evidence for the origins of lime plaster technology. Evolutionary Human Sciences 1, e9, 1-23. 

• Friesem, D.E., Malinsky-Buller, A., Ekshtain, R., Gur-Arieh, S., Vaks, A., Mercier, N., Richard, M., Guérin, G., Valladas, H., Auger, F., Hovers, E. (2019). New Data from Shovakh Cave and Its Implications for Reconstructing Middle Paleolithic Settlement Patterns in the Amud Drainage, Israel. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 2, 298-337. 

• Greenbaum, G., Friesem, D.E., Hovers, E., Feldman, M.W., Kolodny, O. (2019). Were changes in inter-population connectivity of Neanderthals and Modern Humans the drivers of the Upper Paleolithic transition rather than its product?. Quaternary Science Reviews 217, 316-329.

• *Gur-Arieh, S., Madella, M., Lavi, N., *Friesem, D.E. (2019). Potentials and limitations for the identification of outdoor dung plasters in humid tropical environment: A geo-ethnoarchaeological case study from South India. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11,  2683-2698 (*both authors contributed equally to this paper). 

• Lavi, N., Friesem, D.E. (2019). Hunter-gatherer sharing: New perspectives from the past and present. Hunter Gatherer Research 3, 361-366.

• Shochat, H., Yeshurun, R., Friesem, D.E., Kaufman, D., Porat, N., Rosen, A.M., Nadel, D., (2019).  The Neolithic Occupations of Neve David, Mount Carmel, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 49,152-189.

• Wilson, R.J.A., Coleman, K.M., French, C., Friesem, D., Mukai, T. (2019). UBC Excavations of the Roman Villa at Gerace, Sicily: Results of the 2017 Season. Mouseion 16, 249-342.

2018

• Friesem, D.E. (2018). Geo-ethnoArchaeology of fire: Geoarchaeological investigation of fire residues in contemporary context and its archaeological implications. Ethnoarchaeology 10, 159-173.

• Vardi, J., Marder, O., Bookman, R., Friesem, D.E., Groman-Yeroslavski, I., Edeltin, L., Porat, N., Boaretto, E., Roskin, J. (2018). Middle to Late Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherer encampments at the Ashalim site, on a linear dune-like morphology, along dunefield margin water bodies, Quaternary International 464, 187-205.

• Shimelmitz, R., Friesem, D.E., Clark, J., Groman-Yaroslavski, I., Weissbrod, L., Porat, N., Kandel, A.W. (2018). The Upper and Epipaleolithic of Sefunim Cave, Israel. Quaternary International 464, 106-125.

2017

• Haaland, M.M., Friesem, D.E., Miller, C.E., Henshilwood, C.S. (2017). Heat-induced alteration of glauconitic minerals in the Middle Stone Age levels of Blombos Cave, South Africa: Implications for evaluating site structure and burning events. Journal of Archaeological Science 86, 81-100.

• Friesem, D.E., Lavi, N., Madella, M., Boaretto, E., Ajithprasad, P., French, C. (2017). The formation of fire residues associated with hunter-gatherers in humid tropical environments: A geo-ethnoarchaeological perspective. Quaternary Science Reviews 171, 85-99.

• Friesem, D.E., Lavi, N. (2017). Foragers, tropical forests and the formation of archaeological evidences: An ethnoarchaeological view from South India. Quaternary International 448, 117-128.

• Roskin, J., Bookman, R., Friesem, D.E., Vardi, J. (2017). A Late Pleistocene linear dune dam record of aeolian-fluvial dynamics at the fringes of the northwestern Negev dunefield. Sedimentary Geology 353, 76-95.

2016

• Friesem, D.E., Lavi, N., Madella, M., Ajithprasad, P., French, C. (2016). Site formation processes and hunter-gatherers use of space in a tropical environment: A geo-ethnoarchaeological approach from South India. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0164185. 

• Friesem, D.E. (2016). Geo-Ethnoarchaeology in action. Journal of Archaeological Science 70, 145-157. 

• Zaidner, Y., Frumkin, A., Friesem, D.E., Tsatskin, A., Shahack-Gross, R. (2016). Landscapes, depositional environments and human occupation at Middle  Paleolithic open-air sites in the southern Levant, with new insights from Nesher Ramla, Israel. Quaternary Science Reviews 138, 76-86. 

2015

• Forget, M.C., Regev, L., Friesem, D.E., Shahack-Gross, R. (2015). Physical and mineralogical properties of experimentally heated chaff-tempered mud bricks: Implications for reconstruction of environmental factors influencing the appearance of mud bricks in archaeological conflagration events. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 2, 80-93.

2014

• Friesem, D.E., Tsartsidou, G., Karkanas, P., Shahack-Gross, R. (2014).  Where are the roofs? A geo-ethnoarchaeological study of mud structures and their collapse processes, focusing on the identification of roofs. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 6, 73-92.

• Friesem, D.E., Zaidner, Y., Shahack-Gross, R. (2014). Formation processes and combustion features at the lower layers of the Middle Palaeolithic open-air site of Nesher Ramla, Israel. Quaternary International 331, 128-138.

• Friesem, D.E., Karkanas, P., Tsartsidou, G., Shahack-Gross, R. (2014). Sedimentary processes involved in mud bricks degradation in temperate environment: An ethnoarchaeological case study from northern Greece. Journal of Archaeological Science 41, 556-567.

2011

• Friesem, D., Boaretto, E., Eliyahu-Behar, A., Shahack-Gross, R. (2011). Degradation of mud brick houses in an arid environment: A geoarchaeological model. Journal of Archaeological Science 38, 1135-47.

Edited Books (peer-reviewed)

2019

• Lavi, N., Friesem, D.E. (Eds.), Towards a broader view of hunter-gatherer sharing. McDonald Institute Monographs Series, Cambridge.

Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)

2024

• French, C., Friesem, D.E. (2024). Micromorphology. In: Knight, M., Ballantyne, R., Cooper, A., Gibson, D., Robinson Zeki, I. (Eds.), Must Farm Pile dwelling settlement. Volume 2. Specialist reports. McDonald Institute Monographs Series, Cambridge. Ch. 9, Pp. 179-234.

2023

• Friesem, D.E., Goldberg, P. (2023). Tabun Cave. In: Gilbert, A.S., Goldberg, P., Mandel, R., Aldeias, V. (Eds.), Earth Sciences Series. Encyclopaedia of Geoarchaeology, 2nd Edition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44600-0_206-1.

2022

• Friesem, D.E. (2022). Tracking down the house: The contribution of micro-geo-ethnoarchaeology to the study of degraded houses in arid, temperate and humid tropical environments. In: Sulas, F., Lewis, H., Arroyo-Kalin, M. (Eds.), Inspired Geoarchaeologies: Past Landscapes and Social Change. McDonald Institute Monographs Series, Cambridge. Ch. 12, Pp. 183-191.

2019

• Friesem, D.E., Lavi, N. (2019). An ethnoarchaeological view on hunter-gatherer sharing and its archaeological implications for the use of social space. In: Lavi, N. and Friesem, D.E. (Eds.), Towards a broader view of hunter-gatherer sharing. McDonald Institute Monographs Series, Cambridge. Ch. 6, Pp. 85-96.

• Lavi, N., Friesem, D.E. (2019). Introduction. In: Lavi, N. and Friesem, D.E. (Eds.), Towards a broader view of hunter-gatherer sharing. McDonald Institute Monographs Series, Cambridge. Pp. 1-11.

2017

• Friesem, D.E., Wattez, J., Onfray, M. (2017). Earth construction materials. In: Nicosia, C. and Stoops, G. (Eds.), Archaeological soil and sediment micromorphology. Wiley-Blackwell. Ch. 10, Pp. 99-110. 

2013

• Friesem, D., Shahack-Gross, R. (2013). Area J. Part V: Analyses of sediments from the Level J-4 temple floor. In: Finkelstein, I., Ussishkin, D., Cline, E. (Eds.), Megiddo V: The 2004-2008 Seasons, Volume 1. Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv. Pp. 143-52.

Journal Editing

2018-present    Associate Editor of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

2017-2018        Guest editor for a special issue on hunter-gatherer sharing in Hunter-Gatherer Research

GRANTS & AWARDS

2023

• Israel Science Foundation, Personal Research Grants - The Floors of Shiqmim: A Micro-Geoarchaeological Study of Society, Economy and Ecology at the Chalcolithic Village of Shiqmim: ₪1,400,000 NIS

• Israel Science Foundation, New-Faculty Equipment Grant - The Laboratory for Environmental Micro-History: ₪1,600,000 NIS

2022

• University of Haifa Rector's prize for Excellent Young Researcher - Award to the best young faculty researcher for 2022 based on academic achievements and contribution to the university

• European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant - BEFOREtheFLOOD: Neolithic coastal settlements and responses to environmental dynamics: A pioneering world lost beneath the Mediterranean Sea: €1,500,000

2021

• German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) for Scientific Research and Development - Go West: Mobility as a means for Sustainability in the Phoenician Coast during the Iron Age – with Meir Edrey (University of Haifa) and and Bärbel Morstadt (Ruhr University, Bochum): €75,000

• Research Grants, Irene Levi Sala Care Archaeological Foundation - Reconstructing prehistoric lime plaster technology: Field experiments stage: $5,000

2019

• Forrest Visiting Fellowship, University of Western Australia - Research collaboration with Peter Veth, Alistair Paterson, Jo McDonald and Ingrid Ward (University of Western Australia): A$15,000

2018

• Institutional Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Haifa - Micro-geoarchaeological study of Tabun Cave and Neve-David – with Mina Weinstein-Evron, Dani Nadel, Reuven Yeshurun and Ron Shimelmitz,  (University of Haifa): ₪138,000 NIS

• Tübingen Reloaded Program, University of Tübingen - Geoarchaeological work on site formation processes at Sefunim Cave – with Andrew Kandel and Chris Miller (University of Tübingen): €1,000

2017

• Open-AIRE open-access publication, European Research Council - Open access publication of the monograph: Towards a Broader View of Hunter-Gatherer Sharing, McDonald Institute Monographs Series: Cambridge – edited by Noa Lavi and David E. Friesem: €6,000

2016

• D.M. McDonald Grants & Awards, University of Cambridge - International conference on SHARING the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers – with Noa Lavi (University of Haifa): £5,000

• Capital Fund: New Equipment, University of Cambridge - Purchase of a bench Fourier-Transfrom Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer – with Charles French (University of Cambridge): £18,780

2015

• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission - Tropical Micro-Archaeology: An interdisciplinary project aiming to study site formation processes in tropical environment related to hunter-gatherers' use of space: €231,283

2014

• Teach@Tübingen fellowship, University of Tübingen - Teaching courses on microarchaeology; and geoethnoarchaeology: €17,000

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Papers Presented

2023

• ‘Archaeological Site formation Processes of Mudbrick Structures in Temperate and Arid Environments in the Eastern Mediterranean’. International Seminar on Ethnoarchaeology of buildings. How can it help the study of the past?, Universidad de Alicante. November 21, 2023.

• ‘An alternative perspective on cultural changes from the eyes of the Nayaka people in South India’. The Forum for Asian Studies in Israel, Tel-Aviv University. June 4, 2023.

2022

• ‘Site formation processes and newly-identified Middle Palaeolithic guano-rich cave deposits: A revised stratigraphic examination of Tabun Cave Layer C’. The 12th annual meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE). University of Tübingen, Germany, September 22-24, 2022.

• ‘From murex to fabric - The Levantine purple’. Ancient Science and Technology of colour: Pigments, dyes, drugs and their perception in Antiquity. University of Pisa, Italy, April 28-29, 2022.

2021

• ‘Early trajectories of advanced pyrotechnology among the Natufians in the Southern Levant'. Virtual XIX International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP) congress, September 1-6, 2021.

• ‘Plaster technology during Neolithization in the Southern Levant'. 9th Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference. University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal. May 17-19, 2021.

2019

• ‘A micro-geoarchaeological approach to site formation processes associated with the transition from mobile to sedentary lifeways’. Tracking Early Sedentism: Comparative micro-archaeological perspectives from semi-arid and wet tropical environments. Australian National University, Canberra Australia. September 2-3, 2019.

• ‘Site formation processes and use of fire at the lower units of Nesher Ramla’. Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. February 5, 2019.

2017

• ‘The microscopic evidence for hunter-gatherers’ social behaviour’. University of Tübingen, Germany. November 13-16, 2017.

• ‘The formation of anthropogenic fire residues in tropical forests’.  Ethnoarchaeology of Fire Symposium, University of La Laguna, Spain. February 8-11, 2017.

2016

• ‘Geoarchaeology in tropical forests: human and environmental factors’. Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck Institute for the Sciences of Human History, Jena, Germany. October 3-6, 2016.

• ‘Formation processes related to foragers in tropical forests’. European Association of Archaeologists, Vilnius, Lithuania. September 1-4, 2016.

• ‘The aftermath of mud houses- degradation and archaeological site formation’. European Association of Archaeologists, Vilnius, Lithuania. September 1-4, 2016.

2015

• ‘Hunter-gatherers use of space in tropical environment: an integrated study combining social anthropology, ethnoarchaeology and geoarchaeology’. European Association of Archaeologists, Glasgow, United Kingdom. September 2-5, 2015.

• ‘The macroscopic and microscopic properties and identification of degraded mud structures’. European Association of Archaeologists, Glasgow, United Kingdom. September 2-5, 2015.

2014

• ‘Ethnoarchaeology of mud structures across the near east: taphonomy, preservation and site formation processes’. International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Basel, Switzerland. June 9-13, 2015.

2013

• ‘Micromorphological processes involved in mud structures degradation and their implication to the archaeological interpretation’. International Soil Micromorphology conference, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. May 9-11, 2013.

• ‘Where are the houses? studies on archaeological site formation processes’. Young Researchers Conference, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. April 18, 2013.

2012

• ‘Geoarchaeological research of the early layers of the Mousterian site in Nesher Ramla. Annual Conference of the Israeli Prehistoric Society, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. December 13, 2012.

2011

• ‘Micromorphology of degrading pre-modern mud brick houses: insights into tell formation processes’. Working Group on Archaeological Soil Micromorphology Workshop, University of Pisa, Italy. May 18-22 , 2011.

• ‘Mud brick degradation in an arid environment: implications for field archaeology and radiocarbon dating’. Radiocarbon and Archaeology International Symposium, Pafos, Cyprus. April 10-15, 2011.

• ‘Degradation of mud brick houses in relation to tell formation processes.’ Microarchaeology Workshop, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. April 3-7, 2011.

Conferences Organized

2016

• SHARING the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers. Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United-Kingdom. September 20-21, 2016.

• The Geoarchaeological Laboratory Network Meeting. McDonald Institute of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, United-Kingdom. January 26-27, 2016.

Panels Organized

2023

• Mediterranean Societies and Climate Change: Where we are and where are we going to?. The Conference of the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History (HCMH), Israel. May 29-31, 2023.

2022

• 21st Century Hunter-Gatherer Studies: Ethical, scientific and socio-political implications. Conference of Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS) 13, University College Dublin. Ireland. June 27 – July 1, 2022. 

2016

• Geoarchaeology of Prehistoric settlements: new insights into use of space, dwellings, household activities and land use. European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Vilnius, Lithuania. September 1-4, 2016.

INVITED TALKS

2023

• ‘Domestic Ecology: The Archaeological Site as a Distinct Ecological Niche’. Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. May 15, 2023.

• ‘Scientific Approaches to Study Ecology, Economy and Society in Ancient Periods’. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. January 18, 2023.

2021

• ‘High-resolution study of Middle Palaeolithic deposits and formation processes at Tabun Cave, Israel: Guano-rich cave deposits and detailed stratigraphic appreciation of Layer C’. The Scientific Archaeological Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science. December 16, 2021.

• 'Hunter-gatherers mobility and intra-site use of space: An ethnoarchaeological view'. Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. April 6, 2021.

2020

• ‘Environmental Microhistory: A micro-scale approach to Mediterranean studies’. The Haifa Center for Mediterranean History, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. March 29, 2020.

2019

• ‘An ethno-archaeological perspective on social behaviour and environmental adaptation among hunting and gathering societies’. Department of Maritime Civilizations, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. December 24, 2019.

• ‘FTIR applications in Palaeolithic Archaeology’. Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Nuewied, Germany. November 21, 2019.

• ‘Towards high-resolution of the human past: The invisible record of human ecological adaptation, technology and social behaviour during the Palaeolithic’. University of Western Australia, Perth. September 26, 2019.

2018

• ‘Geo-Ethnoarchaeology: Ethnography and microscopic study of modern sites as an interpretive tool for archaeological research’. American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. March 27, 2018.

• ‘Towards high-resolution of the human past: on site formation processes, chronology and human behaviour during the Palaeolithic ’. Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. March 20, 2018.

• ‘Palaeolithic use of fire and pyrotechnology as cultural markers’. Institute of Archaeology, University College London, United-Kingdom. February 1, 2018.

2017

• ‘Towards higher resolution of the human past: on site formation processes, chronology and human behaviour’. Department of Human Evolution, Max-Planck for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. June 30, 2017.

2016

• ‘Hunter-gatherers use of space in tropical environment: an ethnoarchaeological case study from South India’. School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. January 28, 2016.

2013

• ‘Hunter and gatherers micro-archaeology’. Institució Milà i Fontanals - Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain. June 28, 2013.

• ‘Formation processes related to the degradation of mud brick structures and their archaeological implications’. Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Germany. January 26, 2013.

CAMPUS TALKS

2023

• ‘What's hiding in the sediments?’. Archaeological Sciences Course, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. April 17, 2023.

2020

• ‘Technological innovation, ecology and social structure during the Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic transition in southwest Asia’. The PalMeso Seminar, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. January 24, 2020. 

2017

• ‘Microscopic signature of Palaeolithic human activity’. McBurney Laboratory for Geoarchaeology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. December 15, 2017.

2016

• ‘Tropical forest foragers and the formation of a (micro)archaeological evidence’. The George-Pitt Rivers Laboratory for Bioarchaeology Seminar, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. November 25, 2016.

• ‘The renewed archaeological project at Sefunim Cave: A Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Cave in the Southern Levant’. The PalMeso Seminar, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. June 3, 2016.

2015

• ‘Hunter-gatherers use of space in tropical environment: an ethnoarchaeological multidisciplinary study’. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Weekly Seminar, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. November 4, 2015.

2013

• ‘The sedimentary sequence of mud brick structures and a new FTIR analysis for sediments characterization’. Seminar at the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. May 30, 2013.

• ‘The complexity of roofs identification in the archaeological record’. Seminar at the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. January 3, 2013.

2011

• ‘Anthropology & Archaeology: connecting social and material cultures in the domestic context’. Seminar at the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. November 10, 2011.

2010

• ‘Formation processes related to the degradation of mud brick structures and their archaeological implications’. Seminar at the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. December 2, 2010.

MEDIA APPEARANCES

Articles

2023

• When did humans start settling down? Smithsonian Magazine - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-did-humans-start-settling-down-180982328/. July/August, 2023.

• The next generation of Israeli science (in Hebrew). N12 - https://www.mako.co.il/news-n12_magazine/2023_q2/Article-b578508b5484881027.htm. May 25, 2023

2020

• When man started to store food? An installation revealed in Nahal Ein-Gev hint on a surprising answer (in Hebrew). Ha’aretz - https://www.haaretz.co.il/science/archeology/.premium-1.9291864 . November 8, 2020. 

2019

• Israel blijkt 12.000 jaar geleden al een ‘startup nation’ te zijn geweest (in Dutch). Joods.nl - https://www.joods.nl/2019/12/israel-was-12-000-jaar-geleden-al-een-startup-nation-blijkt-uit-opgravingen/. December 8, 2019.

• 12,000-year-old Galilee artifacts reset plaster production clock by 2 millennia. Times of Israel - https://www.timesofisrael.com/12000-year-old-galilee-artifacts-reset-plaster-production-clock-by-2-millennia/. December 5, 2019.

• Prehistoric Alchemy: This is how they made lime plaster 12,000 years ago at the Sea of Galillee (in Hebrew). Ynet -https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-5637612,00.html. December 5, 2019.

Radio

2019                

• Lime plaster at Nahal Ein Gev II (Interview). This Morning Kan Reshet B - https://www.kan.org.il/radio/program.aspx/?progId=1140. December 17, 2019.

Videos

2018

• VIDEOCAST - Geo-ethnoarchaeology: Ethnography and microscopic study of modern sites as an interpretative tool for archaeological research (talk). American School of Classical Studies in Athens  - https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/newsDetails/videocast-geo-ethnoarchaeology-ethnography-and-microscopic-study-of-modern/. April 11, 2018.

2017                

• David Friesem in Ethnoarchaeology of Fire symposium (short interview). YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOdt4uCwuQE. April 5, 2017.

• David Friesem in Ethnoarchaeology of Fire (ERC Paleochar) (talk). YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krf_d720iTY. March 30, 2017.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Course instructor, University of Haifa

Human-Environment relations: From the field to the lab (Winter and Spring 2023-24)

2053 Campus Carmel Coast from the Paleolithic to the Roman Period (Spring 2021; 2022; 2023; 2024)

2108 Mediterranean Ethnographies (Spring 2021)

2105 The Sea and Societal Collapse (Winter 2020/21; 2021/22)

2106 Mediterranean Environmental History (Winter 2020/21; 2021/22)

2109 (in Hebrew) Mediterranean Environmental History (Winter 2020/21; 2021/22; Spring 2023)

2031 Scientific Writing (Spring 2022; Winter 2022/23)

3911 Practical Geoarchaeology (Spring 2022; 2023)

Course Instructor, University of Cambridge

ARC09/G10 Archaeological Science: Geoarchaeology Module (Michaelmas 2018, Lent 2019)

Course instructor, University of Tübingen

SS 15-52 Geo-Ethnoarchaeology (Spring 2015) 

WS 14/15-61 Microarchaeology (Winter 2014/5)

Visiting Lecturer, University of Cambridge

‘Climate Change, New Environments and Early Modern Human Peopling of the World’ in ARC07 Water and Environment (March 9, 2018)

‘The Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic of the Levant’ in ARC10/BAN3/G3 Human Evolution and Palaeolithic Archaeology (January 25, 2017)

‘Ethnoarchaeology and Experimental Archaeology’ in ARC09/G10 Archaeological Science: Geoarchaeology Module (November 5, 2015; November 3 2016; November 2, 2017; November 14 2019) 

‘Introduction to Soil Micromorphology’ in ARC08 Introduction to Archaeological Science (November 2 2016; October 31, 2018) 

‘Domestic Use of Space’ in ARC09/G10 Archaeological Science: Geoarchaeology Module (October 29, 2015; October 26, 2017)

‘Landscape Archaeology’ in ARC02 Archaeology in Action (November 10, 2015)

Supervision

Post-doctoral Researchers

• Dr. Isaac Ogloblin-Ramirez (2022-present), co-supervision with Ehud Galili, University of Haifa.  Analysis of sediment cores from the submerged Neolithic site of Atlit-Yam

• Dr. Elle Grono (2022-2024), University of Haifa.  Micro-botanical study of Neolithic submerged settlements off the Carmel Coast

• Dr. Chelsea Wiseman (2022-2023), co-supervision with Assaf Yasur-Landau, University of Haifa and Flinders University.  An integrated approach to the study of Palaeolithic archaeology on the Carmel Coast of Israel.

• Dr. Beatrice Pestarino (2022), co-supervision with Gil Gambash, University of Haifa. The impact of Maritime Connectivity on the formation of archaic and classical Cypriote Cultures 

Doctoral Students

• Sangeetha Raja (2023-present), co-supervisor with Gil Gambash, University of Haifa. The Role of South India in Ancient Indo-Mediterranean trade.

• Vishal Kataria (2022-present), co-supervisor with Nicholas Waldmann, University of Haifa. Reconstruction of the Carmel Coast Paleo-environment during the Early Holocene.

• Marko Runjajic (2022-present), co-supervisor with Assaf Yasur-Landau, University of Haifa. Archaeological formation processes of Bronze Age shipwreck and cargo sites off the Carmel coast, Israel.

• Elle Grono (2016-2020), co-supervision with Tim Denham and Philip Piper, Australian National University, Canberra. Geoarchaeological study of activity areas and domestic use of space at three sites (Thach Lac, Loc Giang and Lo Gach) spanning the Neolithic transition in Vietnam.

Master Students

• Remi Rosen (2023-present), co-supervisor with Assaf Yasur-Landau, University of Haifa. Provenance Study of Ballast Stones from the Shipwreck Sites at Dor, Israel

• Yael Kochin (2023-present). co-supervised with Leore Grosman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Micro-geoarchaeology of the Natufian burial complex at Nahal Ein Gev II

• Neta Regev (2022-present), co-supervisor with Reuven Yeshurun and Shira Gur-Arieh, University of Haifa. Micro-geoarchaeology of Natufian use of space at el-Wad Terrace.

• Jasmine Abrahams (2022-present), co-supervisor with Ron Shimelmitz and Ehud Galili, University of Haifa. Lithic analysis of Middle Paleolithic tools from the Carmel Coast.

• Tomer Balik (2022-present), co-supervised with Yotam Asscher, University of Haifa. Experimental Archaeology of lime plaster technology during the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods.

• Christopher McCarron (2021-present), co-supervisor with Deborah Cvikel, University of Haifa. Ethnographic study on personal relationships that individuals have with traditional sailing.

• Juhee Kim (2021-2024), co-supervisor with Emmanuel Nantet, University of Haifa.  City Fortification of Tiberias in the Byzantine Period: Topographical Analysis of Its Plan and of the Cement.

• Yaara Shafrir (2021-2024), co-supervisor with Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, University of Haifa and Daniela Bar-Yosef, Tel-Aviv University. Production technology and use-wear analysis of plaster beads from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of Nahal Hemar Cave.

• Chandler Houghtalin (2021-2023), co-supervisor with Ruth Shahack-Gross, University of Haifa. Coastal resources during the Middle Bronze Age in the Carmel Coast.

• Marko Runjajic (2020-2022), co-supervisor with Assaf Yasur-Landau, University of Haifa. Geoarchaeological investigation of the Bronze Age city gate at Tel Hazor.

• Timna Raz (2017-2021), co-supervisor with Leore Grosman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Late Natufian building materials and technology in Nahal Ein Gev II.