The University of Haifa Department of Archaeology Seminar Seminar program – Semester B (2019-20) Mondays, 12:15, Multi‐Purpose Building, room 210 Seminar organizer: Dr. Ron Shimelmitz --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.3.2020 Prof. Gonen Sharon, Tel Hai College. Fishing for change: Epipaleolithic fishers on the verge of sedentism. 16.3.2020 Department staff meeting. No seminar. 23.3.2020 Dr. Peter Gendelman, Israel Antiquities Authority. Urban development of Roman and Late Antiquity Caesarea Maritima in light of new excavations. 30.3.2020 Mr. Aehab Asad, University of Haifa. The Druze settlement of Daliyat al-Carmel, in light of archaeological finds and historical evidence. Mr. Eli Buchman, University of Haifa. Copper finds in Fazael sites and their significance in understanding the Chalcolithic copper industry of the southern Levant. 20.4.2020 Dr. Shlomit Bechar, University of Haifa. Excavating the administrative palace of Hazor: New finds and new expectations. 27.4.2020 Prof. Nurit Shtober-Zisu. University of Haifa. Lithology and the distribution of Early Roman Era tombs in the Jerusalem’s necropolis. 4.5.2020 Ms. Catherine Ujma. University of Haifa. The Late Bronze Age and Iron Age fauna of Tel Shikmona. Ms. Tal Fried. University of Haifa. A high-resolution record of micromammals from the Middle Paleolithic of Tabun Cave Layer C (ca. 165 Ka). 11.5.2020 Prof. Erez Ben-Yosef, Tel Aviv University. Breaking the fixation: On nomads, kingdoms and the study of ancient Israel. 18.5.2020 Dr. Ilaria Patania, University of Haifa. The context of the earliest pottery in the world. 25.5.2020 Dr. Tawfiq Da'adli, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The "too long life" of wall 3 and the deep roots of pre 1948 cities. 1.6.2020 Dr. Sarit Paz, Tel Aviv University. Households and community in the Kura-Araxes village of Kvatskhelebi, Georgia. 8.6.2020 Dr. Rona Avissar Lewis, David Yellin Academic College of Education and University of Haifa. The archaeology of children, how to identify children in the archaeological site. 15.6.2020 Mr. Daniel Fuks, Bar-Ilan University. A season, a century, a millennium in the Negev Highlands: Historical processes from an archaeobotanical perspective on the Byzantine-Early Islamic periods. 22.6.2020 Department staff meeting. No seminar. .