Our Team
Co-director
Professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Head of the Laboratory for the Study of Human Cultural Evolution
Prof. Israel Hershkovitz
Co-director
Head of the Dan David Center for the Study of Human Origins, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
DR. Marion Prevost
Co-director
Post-doctoral researcher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Laboratory for the Study of Human Cultural Evolution, Israel
DR. Natasha solodenko-vernovsky
Administrative and logistic management/ Archaeology
Post-doctoral researcher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Laboratory for the Study of Human Cultural Evolution, Israel
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Sapir Ben Haim
Archaeology/Lab & field technician/Limestone analysis
MA student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Laboratory for the Study of Human Cultural Evolution, Israel
DAVID GAITERO-SANTOS
Archaeology/ Ochre analysis
PhD Student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Laboratory for the Study of Human Cultural Evolution, Israel
yam shemesh
Archaeology/ Archaeo-thanatology
MA Student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Laboratory for the Study of Human Cultural Evolution, Israel
dr. alice rodriguez
Use-wear analysis
Post-doctoral researcher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Laboratory for the Study of Human Cultural Evolution, Israel
DR. Hila May
Physical Anthropology
Dan David Center for the Study of Human Origins, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Collaborators
Dating:
DR. Naomi Porat
The Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
DR. Norbert Mercier
Archéosciences Bordeaux. UMR 6034 CNRS - Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France
DR. Hélène Valladas
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
DR. Christophe Pecheyran
Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique Bio-inorganique et Environnement, Institut Pluridisciplinaire de Recherche sur l’Environnement et les Matériaux, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, Pau, France
DR. Asmodée Galy
Post-doctoral researcher, Archéosciences Bordeaux. UMR 6034 CNRS - Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France
zooarchaeology:
DR. Reuven Yeshurun
DR. susan lagle
Post-doctoral researcher, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel
DR. LIOR WEISsBROD
Israel Antiquity Authority
GEOARCHAEOLOGY AND GEOMORPHOLOGY:
DR. Ruth Shahack-Gross
Laboratory for Sedimentary Archaeology, Department of Maritime Civilizations, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel
DR. Amos Frumkin
Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY:
DR. Rachel Sarig
Department of Oral Biology, the Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Sarah borgel
PhD candidate, Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
ARCHAEOLOGY:
DR. Antonella Pedergnana
TraCEr, laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments, MONREPOS, Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Schloss Monrepos, 56567 Neuwied, Germany