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Uri Davidovich

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details

Date and place of birth: Jerusalem, Israel, May 26, 1978
Marital Status: Single
Citizenship and Identity Card Number: Israeli; 03280192-0

Permanent Address: Mishkan Shilo 24/4, Jerusalem, Israel
Mobile Telephone Number: 00-972-54-6604676
Office Address: Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Mount Scopus 91905, Jerusalem, Israel.
Email Address: uri.davidovich@mail.huji.ac.il

Higher Education

2010- Ph.D. Student, Department of Archaeology, Hebrew University
Dissertation Topic: "The Judean Desert during the Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages (Sixth-First Millennia BC): Desert and Sown Relations in light of Settlement Patterns in a defined Desert Environment"
Advisor: Prof. Amihai Mazar, Department of Archaeology
2005-2008 M.A., Department of Archaeology, Hebrew University (cum laude)
"The Chalcolithic Period in the Judean Desert: Identification, Settlement Pattern and Material Culture as a Basis for Socio-economic Reconstruction"
Advisors: Prof. Amihai Mazar, Department of Archaeology; Prof. Amos Frumkin, Department of Geography
2001-2004 B.A., Department of Archaeology, Hebrew University (cum laude)

Scholarships, Awards and Research Grants

PhD

2011-2013 Rotenstreich Fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Students in the Humanities, National Council for Higher Education
2011-2013 President Fellowship, HU Honors Program for PhD Students, Hebrew University
2011-2013 Scholarship, Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies, as part of the research group "Archaeologies of Memory", Hebrew University
2010-2011 Research Grant, Ruth and David Amiran Fund, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University

MA

2008 Scholarship, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University
2008 Research Grant, Ruth and David Amiran Fund, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University
2007 Scholarship, Abraham Negev Fund, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University
2006 Rector Award for Excellence in MA studies, Hebrew University
2005 Award, Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Fund
2005 Excellence Scholarship for MA studies, Dean of Humanities, Hebrew University
2004 Excellence Scholarship for BA studies, Dean of Humanities, Hebrew University

Teaching

2011 Teaching Assistant in "Introduction to the Archaeology of the Land of Israel and the Levant, part III: the Iron Age", Department of Archaeology, Hebrew University
2010 Teaching Assistant in "Archaeology between Humanities, Social Sciences and Science", Department of Archaeology, Hebrew University
2005-2008 Teaching Assistant in "Introduction to Historical Geography and Spatial Archaeology in the Biblical Periods", Department of Archaeology, Hebrew University

Field Experience in Archaeology

Year Site Role Headed by
2006- Masada-Badar Maps Survey Head -
2011 Badar+Zfira Fortresses Co-Director
(with Roi Porat)		 -
2006-2011 Rehov Area Supervisor Prof. Amihai Mazar
2007-2010 Ramat Rahel Area Supervisor Prof. Oded Lipschitz
Prof. Manfred Oeming
Dr. Yuval Gadot
2010 Har Nitai Field Director Dr. Uzi Leibner
2009 Ateret Area Supervisor Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum
2009 Yoram Cave (Masada) Co-Director
(with Nimrod Marom)		 -
2006, 2008 Hazor Area Supervisor Prof. Amnon Ben-Tor
Dr. Sharon Zuckerman
2006 Ramat Rahel Survey of cave systems
(with Roi Porat)		 Prof. Oded Lipschitz
Prof. Manfred Oeming
Dr. Yuval Gadot
2005 Har Zruia Director -
2005 Nahal Mishmar Director -
2005 Zruia Cave Co-Director
(with Amihai Mazar)		 -
2004 Moringa Cave, Ein Gedi Oasis Area Supervisor Prof. Hanan Eshel
Dr. Itzhaq Shai
Roi Porat
2003-2005 Dead Sea Escarpment Survey Member of survey team Prof. Amos Frumkin
Prof. Hanan Eshel
Roi Porat
2003 Rehov Excavation Staff Prof. Amihai Mazar
2002 Ein Avazim Excavator, Administration Yoav Alon
Doron Dag
2001 Ateret Excavator Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum
2001 Hazor Excavator
(educational program)		 Prof. Amnon Ben-Tor

Conferences

  1. The fourth meeting of the Chalcolithic Forum, celebrating 50 years to the discovery of the Nahal Mishmar Hoard, 2011, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
    "The Cave of the Treasure in light of the renewed research in the Judean Desert"

  2. New Studies of Ancient Israel and its Neighbors, Young Scholars Conference, 2011, Tel Aviv University
    "The south-eastern border of the kingdom of Judea in the Judean Desert: a re-assessment"

  3. A Conference in Honor of Prof. Amihai Mazar on Occasion of his Retirement, 2010, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
    "The En Gedi oasis during the Chalcolithic period - the shrine in spatial context"

  4. The Transition from Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze in the southern Levant: Continuity and/or Discontinuity?, International workshop, 2010, The French Research Center in Jerusalem
    "The Chalcolithic-Early Bronze transition: a view from the Judean Desert Caves"

  5. Israel Exploration Society, 36th Annual Archaeological Congress, 2010, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva
    "The Judean Desert in the Late Chalcolithic: a re-assessment"

  6. The 6th Conference of "Melakh Ha'aretz", Pesach Bar-Adon Birth Centenary, 2008, En Gedi
    "Research Expeditions in the Desert Escarpments: Bar-Adon in the Judean Desert, 1962-1982"

  7. New Studies on Jerusalem, 11th Conference, 2006, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan
    "Salvage excavations at Ramot Forest and Ramat Bet-Hakerem: new data regarding Jerusalem's periphery during the First and Second Temple periods"

Current Projects

  • Editing a volume of collected studies on the Cave of the Treasure, Nahal Mishmar (with Prof. Y. Garfinkel)

  • Heading a research group entitled: "Roads and Fortresses in the Judean Desert" (with Roi Porat)

  • Publication of the stratigraphy and architecture of the Columbarium Area and several other underground installations, Ramat Rahel

  • Dating Terraces Project and publication of terrace excavations in Ramat Rahel (with Naomi Porat, Oded Lipschits and Yuval Gadot)

  • Publication the excavations in two caves (Zruia Cave, Yoram Cave) and two enclosures (Zruia Mt., Nahal Mishmar) in the Judean Desert

  • Processing and publication of Proto-Historic materials from several caves in Israel (Twin Cave, Abud Cave, Moringa Cave, Sela Cave)

  • Publication of the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze occupations in caves excavated during the "Judean Desert Operation" in 1960-1961 (Focusing on the Nahal Ze'elim Area)

  • Publication of the stratigraphy and architecture of Area D2, Tel Rehov (with Amihai Mazar and Amir Sumakai-Fink)

  • Publication of the stratigraphy of the southern part of the Outer Gate System in Area B, Tel Dor (with Elizabeth Bloch-Smith and Ilan Sharon)

Past Projects

  • Member in the organizing committee of the conference "100 years for the birth of Pesach Bar-Adon", held in Ein-Gedi on November 30 - December 1, 2008

  • Publication of the 1955 excavation in the Chalcolithic site of Sde-Eliyahu Water-Reservoir, Central Jordan Valley (with Prof. Yosef Garfinkel, completed 2007)

  • Publication of the excavations conducted in two Late Iron Age rural sites in the Jerusalem Periphery (completed 2006)
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