IWC Archaeology
IWC Explores Tel Aviv's Ancient Past
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