NAHAL TILLAH PROJECT STAFF

Note: During the summer field school, the Nahal Tillah Staff present illustrated lectures and workshops for the student participants.


PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR and CO-FIELD DIRECTOR
Prof. Thomas E. Levy,
Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego.

CO-FIELD DIRECTOR
David Alon,
Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem.

PRINCIPAL ADVISOR
Prof. A. Biran,
Director, Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Jerusalem.

PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
Prof. Patricia Smith,
Dental Division, Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem.

GEOLOGIST
Prof. Paul Goldberg,
Department of Archaeology, Boston University.

GEOPHYSICIST
Prof. Alan J. Witten,
Department of Geophysics, University of Oklahoma.

RADIOCARBON ANALYST
Israel Carmi,
Head, Radiocarbon and Tritium Laboratory, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

ARCHAEOMETALLURGIST
Dr. Sariel Shalev,
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Materials and the Research Laboratory for Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK

PETROGRAPHY
Dr. Naomi Porat,
Israel Geological Survey, Jerusalem.

ARCHAEOLOBOTANIST
Prof. Mordechai Kislev,
Department of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

PLANT PHYTOLITH ANALYST
Dr. Arlene Rosen,
visiting scholar, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

ARCHAEOZOOLOGIST
Dr. Caroline Grigson,
Conservator, Museums of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, UK.

SOCIAL
Prof. Augustin F. C. Holl,
Department of Ethnology and Prehistory, University of Paris X, Nanterre.

EGYPTOLOGIST
Edwin C. M. van den Brink,
Researcher, Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem. Ph.D. (ABD) Tel Aviv University.

EARLY BRONZE POTTERY CONSULTANT
Yuval Yekutieli,
lecturer, Ph.D. (ABD), Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel.

LITHIC ANALYST AND FIELD SUPERVISOR
Yorke Rowan, Ph.D. candidate (ABD), Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.

SURVEYOR
Morag Kersel,
MA. Austin, Texas.

POTTERY ANALYST
Eric Kansa,
Ph.D. candidate (ABD) Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

FIELD SUPERVISOR
Jonathan Golden, Ph.D. candidate (ABD), Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania.

FIELD SUPERVISOR
Kerry Adams,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona

ASSISTANT PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
Leslie Dawson,
Ph.D. candidate, University Of Alberta

FIELD SUPERVISOR
Yoav Arbel,
B.A. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

LABORATORY SUPERVISOR
Wendy Conner,
B.A. University of California, San Diego

LABORATORY SUPERVISOR
Christine Gray,
B.A. University of California, San Diego

MAJOR DOMO
Ibrahim Al-Assam,
Tel Sheva

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
John Stevens,
Multimedia Development Center, University of California at San Diego