Prof. Lidar Sapir-Hen's Lab
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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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Dr. José Luis Ramos Soldado, Post Doc Fellow 2025 -
The temple at Motza
Dr. Omri Yagel, Post Doc Fellow 2025 -
Animals and animals' movement around Timna
Nimrod Katzir, PhD student 2026 -
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)
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Lab's Alumni
Nimrod Katzir
MA 2025
Human-animal relations at Motza II: The Animal Management Strategy of a ‘Megasite’ in the FPPNB Levant
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).