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Itzhaq Shai

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Bar-Ilan University
Itzhaq is a professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests are the contact and influence between people and societies in the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Levant.
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Amir Sumaka'i Fink

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University of Chicago/ Tel Aviv University
Amir is a professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Chicago and Tel Aviv University.
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Assaf Yasur-Landau

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UC Santa Cruz
Assaf is a professor in the Department of History at University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests are the interconnections between the Aegean and the Levant.
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Robert Schiestl

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Freie Universität Berlin
Robert is a professor in the Department of Egyptology at Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests are: Egyptian archaeology, in particular 2nd millennium BCE; funerary culture; pottery; and Egyptian-Levantine relations and interactions.
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Aren M. Maeir

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Bar-Ilan University
Aren is a professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests are: Ancient Near Eastern archaeology; archaeology and science; and ancient weapons and warfare.
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Amihai Mazar

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Amihai is a professor in the Institute for Archaeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: the archaeology of Israel and its neighbours in the Bronze and Iron Ages; Ancient Near Eastern art and architecture; and history and historical geography of the biblical period.
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Sharon Zuckerman

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sharon is a professor in the Institute for Archaeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Louise A. Hitchcock

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University of Melbourne
Louise is a professor in the Centre for Classics and Archaeology and the Centre for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are: Bronze Age Aegean archaeology.
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Marie-Henriette Care Gates

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Bilkent University
Marie-Henriette is a professor in the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at Bilkent University. Her research interests are: archaeology of Bronze Age Anatolia and the Ancient Near East; and Ancient Near Eastern chronology.

Interconnections and Regional Narratives in Mediterranean Archaeology (ca. 1700-700 BCE)

[RG #114] Interconnections and Regional Narratives in Mediterranean Archaeology (ca. 1700-700 BCE)

September 1, 2008 - February 28, 2009

Organizers:

Aren Maeir, Bar-Ilan University
Amihai Mazar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Assaf Yasur-Landau, University of California, Santa Cruz

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The tension between pan-Mediterranean tendencies in history and archaeology as opposed to perspectives more oriented to the uniqueness of each regional narrative has seldom been discussed in relation to the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Eastern Mediterranean. Our research group will tackle key questions of trade, migration and other interactions in the eastern Mediterranean, ca. 1700-700 BCE, by reconciling insights from both studies that concentrate on regional archaeologies, with those dealing with intercultural contacts such as trade, migration, emulation, military conflicts and diplomacy.

 

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Uri Rubin

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Tel Aviv University
Uri is a professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University.
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Christian Robin

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CNRS
Christian is a professor at CNRS, Paris. His research interests are: history and civilization of ancient Arabia and the first century of Islam; history and civilization of ancient Ethiopia; archaeology (Yemen, Ethiopia); South Arabian epigraphy; history.
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Joseph Patrich

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joseph is a professor in the Institute of Archaeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: Nabatean art and archaeology; archaeology of Israel and of the Middle East in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods.