As in every year, the prehistoric department will be holding a seminar including lectures on various topics, given by researchers from Israel and abroad. The talks will be given weekly on Tuesday 16:30, in room 300. The program of the seminar for the first semester is as follows:
Date |
Lecturer |
Title |
Affiliation |
09/01/2024 |
Marion Prévost |
The use of ground stone tools in the Middle Paleolithic: the evidence from the Nesher Ramla archaeological sequence |
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
16/01/2024 |
Rachel Sarig |
Dental anthropology: what can we learn from human teeth? |
Tel-Aviv University |
23/01/2024 |
Nigel Goring-Morris |
Initial sedentism in Cappadocia – Results of the 2023 season at Balikli |
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
30/01/2024 |
Maayan Lev |
Paleoenvironments and climate conditions at Nahal Me'arot (Mount Carmel, Israel) during the Middle and Late Pleistocene: The herpetofauna of Tabun Cave and el-Wad Terrace |
University of Haifa |
06/02/2024 |
Yossi Zaidner |
In the foothills of Pamir: a new Paleolithic sequence at Soii Havzak, Tajikistan |
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
13/02/2024 |
Tegenu Gossa Aredo |
Large Cutting Tool technologies at the Melka Wakena early Acheulian site-complex (ca. 1.6-1.0 Ma): Conservative practices and progressive trends |
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
20/02/2024 |
Onn Crouvi |
Dust, loess and their impact on soils in Israel |
The Geological Survey of Israel |
27/02/2024 |
Zohar Turjeman |
A matter of intensity? An archaeological and taphomonical study of the lower sequence at Nesher Ramla |
Israel Antiquity Authority |
05/03/2024 |
Lior Weissbrod |
Towards a revised biochronology of the south Levantine Middle Paleolithic |
Israel Antiquity Authority |
12/03/2024 |
Shira Gur-Arieh |
Potentials and limitations of reconstructing diet from dental calculus |
University of Haifa |