Prof. Lidar Sapir-Hen's Lab
Lab members
Prof. Lidar Sapir-Hen
PI, Head of the Laboratory of Zooarchaeology
Lidar Sapir-Hen is head of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University.
She is also the curator of Zooarchaeological Collections of the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History.
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Elana Gerber, MA student. 2024 -
(co-advisor: Prof. Yuval Gadot)
Shaul Beirach Shva, MA student. 2023 -
The animal ritual at MB Tel Hazor
(co-advisor: Dr. Igor Kreimerman)
Nimrod Katzir, MA student. 2023 -
Human-animal relations at Motza II: The Animal Management Strategy of a ‘Megasite’ in the FPPNB Levant
Elad Ben Yehuda, MA student. 2022 -
Identity, Cult and Dietary Habits in Tell Qasile: Analysis of Faunal Remains from Tell Qasile of the Early Iron Age, Strata IX-XII
(co-advisor: Prof. Yuval Gadot)
David Bilbinder, MA student. 2021 -
The microfauna from Sfunim Cave
(co-advisor: Dr. Lior Weissbrod)
Amal Atalla, MA student. 2020 -
Refugees' lifeways in Masada
(co-advisor: Dr. Guy Stiebel)
Yulia Gordover, MSc student. 2019 -
Understanding human-environment interactions using faunal remains from early Neolithic sites
(co-advisor: Prof. Tamar Dayan)
Ruth Neuman, Lab assistant
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Lab's Alumni
Linoy Namdar
PhD 2025 Historical zooarchaeology of the Shephelah and Judean hills under the Islamic rule: Villages and urban centers’ economy and trade relations
(co-advisor: Prof. Yuval Gadot)
MA 2019 Human-animal relationships through the remains of animal bones, during the late Pottery Neolithic period in the Southern Levant
See in Publications and in Acadmia.edu for both MA and PhD papers.
Abra Spiciarich
VATAT Post Doc Fellow 2020 - 2021
The Tel Moẓa Archaeozoological Collection: Faunal Remains from an Iron Age Agricultural and Cultic Center in Ancient Judah
PhD 2021 Religious and socioeconomic diversity of ancient
Jerusalem and its hinterland during the 8th-2nd century BCE: A view
from the faunal remains
(co-advisors: Prof. Israel Finkelstein and Prof. Oded Lipschits)
MA 2015 Dietary habits and identity of Early Roman Jerusalem as reflected in the Kidron Valley garbage dump faunal assemblage
(co-advisors: Prof. Oded Lipschits, Dr. Yuval Gadot)
Petunia Fernandes
MA 2023 Animal Economy at Tel Azekah during the Middle Bronze Age and the Nature of the Settlement
(co-advisor: Prof. Oded Lipschits)
Elijah Kollin
MA 2020 The Animal Economy of a Border Town:Iron Age II and Persian Period Faunal Remains from Tel Azekah
(co-advisor: Prof. Oded Lipschits)
Shirad Galmor
MA 2019 The early Neolithic at Ahihud: Between hunters and herders
(co-advisor: Prof. Tamar Dayan)
Christina Jones
MA 2017 Inter-Regional Connections during the Late Bronze Age as Reflected through the Animal Economy: Azekah- A Case Study.
(co-advisors: Prof. Oded Lipschits, Dr. Omer Sergi).
Miriam Pines
MA 2014 Crusader diet: Arsur (Apollonia- Arsuf) as a case study in war and peace (co-advisor: Prof. Oren Tal).