Teaching

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I teach mandatory and elective courses examining all periods studied within the Biblical Archaeology division, including the Late Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages, alongside courses dealing with spatial, regional and landscape archaeology, survey methods and spatial analysis.

Selected courses (2017-2022)

Late Prehistory and Early historic archaeology of the southern Levant

  • Introduction to the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant: 8th-4th Millenia B.C.
  • Early Pottery A
  • Topics in Biblical Archaeology, B.A. Seminar: Nomadism and Sedentism (2022); Violence and its Archaeological Expressions (2019)
  • Topics in Biblical Archaeology, M.A. Seminar: Transitions and Transitional Periods (2021, with Naama Yahalom-Mack); Borders and Boundaries (2020, with Naama Yahalom-Mack); the Desert and the Sown (2018, with Ilan Sharon)
  • Unsuccessful Revolution: The Chalcolithic Period
  • The Ghassulian Culture: Society, Economy and Cult
  • The Early Bronze Age I in the Southern Levant
  • Bronze Age Landscapes
  • The Negev, Arabah and Edom in the Iron Age
  • In the Footsteps of Kings and Rebels: Judean Desert during the Roman and Byzantine Periods

Spatial, regional and landscape archaeology

  • Introduction to Spatial Archaeology
  • GIS applications in Archaeology
  • Regional Campuses (intensive 4-day field courses in landscape archaeology): Golan Heights, Judean Desert, Negev Highlands, Galilee
  • Advanced Survey and Regional Analysis
  • Caves and Complex Societies
  • Field Archaeology (with Yossi Zaidner)
  • Regional Archaeology: From Theory to Practice (with Gideon Shelach-Lavi)
  • Roads, Boundaries and Walls: The Archaeology of Movement (with Gideon Shelach-Lavi)