Academic profile
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.