TEDx talk on connections in the ancient world

On April 10, I gave a TEDx talk titled ‘An archaeologist’s view of how connectivity shaped our human past’ at the 6th annual TEDx Youth Prague conference.

Agro-pastoral diversity in prehistoric Greece

In my recent paper titled “Exploring Diversity in Neolithic Agropastoral Management in Mainland Greece Using Stable Isotope Analysis” (2021, Environmental Archaeology), I collaborated with archaeologists and archaeological scientists from Greece, England, France, Australia, and the United States on three very exciting archaeological assemblages from Neolithic Greece. The three sites provided distinct environmental settings from the […]

Coming together during a pandemic

In November 2020, we took advantage of the boom in video communication and online conferencing and hosted a symposium that brought together researchers from Australia, Japan, China, Lithuania, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Under the auspices of the McDonnell Institute at Washington University in St Louis, the symposium ‘The Origin of Eurasian […]

Climate change in the Byzantine Negev Desert

In my new paper published in Nature: Scientific Reports, I collaborated with archaeologists and scientists from the University of Haifa, the Geological Survey of Israel, the Israeli Antiquities Authority and the University of Connecticut. We analyzed faunal material from three archaeological sites in the Negev Desert, which were recently excavated by Guy Bar-Oz and his team […]

Introduction to Roman Jerusalem trade economy project

The city of Jerusalem has a long history of political, religious, economic and social transformations. Over the last 3000 years, it was besieged, captured, destroyed and rebuilt several times, its population shrank and grew cyclically, and the shifting demographic called for a re-organization of the urban landscape. During the 3rd– 4thcenturies CE, the city witnessed […]

We are starting an R club!

R is a free open access programming tool that is used in Academia and industry to manage very large datasets, carry out statistical analyses and produce professional-looking figures. It’s highly flexible, meaning you can adjust anything you can dream of to your liking. It does require learning how to code, however.  If you:  1) Have […]