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