Spring Semester 2019 at Tel Aviv University will take us from Iron Age Tel Qudadi at the mouth of the Yarkon River to pre-historic Jaljulia in the east and Persian Ashkelon further south.
Join us for a series of 13 lectures on the ancient history of Israel's vibrant urban center and its periphery.
From pre-historic times to the present, the area of Tel Aviv and its surroundings have adjusted to an array of civilizations, leaving behind a collection of material remains that tell a complex cyclical story of thriving prosperity and eventual cultural and economic decline.
The schedule will be as follows:
05/03/19
Dr. Alexander Fantalkin
Archaeology of Tel Aviv during the Iron Age: Rediscovering the Iron Age Fortress at Tel Qudadi at the mouth of the Yarkon River.
12/03/19
Dr. Ido Koch
The Yarkon/Ayalon Basin and the Assyrian Colonialism
19/03/19
Dr. Oren Tal
Apollonia-Arsuf – The Site, Its Hinterland and Greater Periphery.
26/03/19
Dr. Amir Golani
Beyond Just Pretty Objects: Jewelry's Significance in the Ancient Near East
02/04/19
Dr. Yiftah Shalev
From Tyrian Dor to Sidonian Ashkelon: Southern Phoenicia during the Persian Period
09/04/19
Election day (no lecture)
16/04/19
Dr. Yoav Arbel
Never too Late: Changes and Riddles in Ottoman Jaffa.
30/04/19
Mr. Assaf Kleiman
Aphek in the Sharon and Israel’s Expansion into the Central Coastal Plain.
07/05/19
Mr. Yoram Haimi
Archaeological Research at the Sobibór Death Camp
14/05/19
Mr. Aviad Agam
Watching the River Flow: Acheulian Lifeways and Decision Making in Late Acheulian Jaljulia (Israel)
21/05/19
Ms. Bar Efrati
Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: A Review of the Late Lower Palaeolithic Site of Qesem Cave, Central Israel (420-200,000 years ago).
28/05/19
Prof. Amnon Bar Or
“To Forget Erases Nothing”—Preserving Jaffa
The Toolbox for Conservation in Jaffa Creates Memory Disorder
04/06/19
Mr. Vladimir Avrutis
“His eyes shall be red with wine…”. A Thousand Years of Winemaking in Holy Land
11/06/19
Ms. Heeli Schechter
Jewels from the Sea: The Use of Shells in the Neolithic Period
Place: Gilman Building, Room 282, Tel Aviv University
Lectures: 9am – 11:30am with a half-hour break
Cost for the semester: 400 NIS, 750 NIS per couple
Cost for an individual lecture: NIS 50
Coordinator: Noa Ranzer 054-5906573 noarantz@gmail.com