Academic profile

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Academic position

Associate Professor

Head of the Deapartment of Maritime Civilisations, School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, University of Haifa


Research projects

DEADSEA_ECO, ERC (Jan-2019--Dec-2023)

Zooarchaeology of Southern Phoenicia, ISF (Jan-2020--Dec-2023)


Students

MA

Adva Olga Perez: Water voles of Lake Hula: past, present, future (Tel Aviv University, w/ Shai Meiri, 2020- )

Sierra Harding: The faunal remains from Maagan Michael B shipwreck (w/ Debbie Cvikel, 2020-2021)

Tal Lavi: Taphonomy of the Cave of Skulls in the Judean Desert (w/ Ignacio Lazagabaster, 2020-2023)

Uri Wolkovski: Hartebeests in the southern Levant (w/ Meirav Meiri & Nir Sapir, 2023 - )

Ana Nicole Farrell: Elephant remains from the North Bridge Acheulean Site (2023 - )

Daria Lokshin: Avian feather remains from Early Islamic Omer (w/ Guy Bar-Oz, 2023 - )


PhD

Sierra Harding: Archaeological Faunal Remains: A Proxy for Maritime Connectivity in the Pre-Modern Eastern Mediterranean (2022-2023).

Hagar Reshef: The zooarchaeology of Ein Zippori (w/ Guy Bar-Oz, 2018- )

Mitya Kletzerman: Dogs as a Means of Transportation: Dog Husbandry in prehistoric Arctic (w/ Guy Bar-Oz, 2024 - )


Postdocs

Ignacio Lazagabaster (2019-2020), Paleontology of the Judean Desert Caves

Natalia Égüez (2020-2021), Isotop analysis of biogenic remains from the Judean Desert

Valentina Rovelli (2021-2022), aDNA analysis of mammalian remains from the Judean Desert (w/ Meirav Meiri)

Shlomit Bechar (2019-2020), Resilience and storage in Bronze Age communities (w/ Assaf Yasur-Landau)

Laura Strolin (2022), The zooarchaeology of the Incense Route (w/ Guy Bar-Oz)

Linoy Namdar (2025), Zooarchaeology of Chalcolithic Siqmim (w/ David Friesem)

Ionuț Cornel Mirea (2025) Pleistocene Megafaunal Migrations: A Case Study from Romania Using Modern Analogues.