University at Buffalo.
PhD candidate.
Having assisted last season with excavation logistics, I joined the team this season as a Square and Area Supervisor.
I have personally excavated other sites in Israel such as Jaffa, Tel Esut, Hazor, and am extremely excited to be part of the Tel Akko team.
Michal Artzy is a professor emerita at the University of Haifa. Her PhD, from the Dept. of Mediterranean Studies at Brandeis University, was the first ever to solve an archaeological problem using provenience analyses. She did a post doctorate utilizing science in archaeology at LBL, University of California at Berkeley, where she also taught. Upon joining the Maritime Civilization Department at the University of Haifa, she undertook studies concerned mainly with coastal archaeology, anchorages/harbors and trade utilizing science and history for furthering the understanding of mechanisms involved in the Longue durée habitation patterns of coastal sites, especially in the Carmel Coast. Prof. Artzy is presently involved in the Tel Regev project and the Kursi Beach Excavation as well as preparing publications, including the Bichrome Ware, Tel Nami and Tell Abu Hawam excavations and Moshe Dothan’s and Avner Raban’s legacies. She serves as a co-director for the Tel Akko Total Archaeology Project.
Assistant Professor of Archaeology in the Departments of Anthropology and Classics at Miami University in Ohio.
I’m at Akko as a communications expert. I build websites, write books and dabble in photography and video making. In London, where I live with my daughter, Kate and a golden retriever called Milly, I own a publishing company called Fernro Publishing Ltd. I’m a survivor of the marketing and advertising industry. Having spent many years living in Africa, I am now associated with rhino conservation through Project Rhino, a charity dedicated to saving the rhino and other endangered species. My first novel is called Motohuma the Firehead, and is set in what was once Rhodesia, and is now Zimbabwe.
I am a project manager at Oxford Archaeology, in the UK, and I specialise in landscape archaeology; looking at the bigger picture, and the tool of my trade has increasingly become the drone, rather than the trowel. But my claim to fame (or is it infamy) is that I worked at Akko in the early 1980s, and was area supervisor of Area AB. I broke my archaeological teeth on some of the most remarkable Middle Bronze and Late Bronze Age remains that any archaeologist should feel privileged to be involved in. The Tel has had its metaphorical claws in me for a long time, which have dragged me back to be involved in the present excavations.
I work on photogrammetry, a form of digital 3D modeling, for Tel Akko and our regional survey. In previous years, I have worked on other aspects of this project including artifact registration, pottery processing, and database entry. At home in Connecticut, I’m a high school student at Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy. My main interests –besides Akko – are math and the arts.
Trinity College in Hartford.
Classics Professor.
I’m a Classics professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and have participated in archaeological projects in Greece, Turkey, Italy, the United States, and Israel. My scholarly interests focus on Classical art and archaeology, especially pottery. At Akko, I’m part of the team that processes and studies ceramics found during the excavations. One of our site’s names is Tell el-Fukhar (Potsherd Hill), which gives some indication of how busy we are.
Penn State.
B.A. Anthropology, History Minor; M.A. World Heritage Studies.
This is my fifth summer with the Tel Akko project. I work as a square supervisor during field school season and continue database entry throughout the year. Most recently, I have been researching methods of incorporating cultural heritage conservation into natural resource planning and management.
Penn State.
Anthropology B.A. | CAMS B.A.
This is my third year at Akko. I’ve been working as a contract archaeologist in the USA for the past 2.5 years. I’ve worked in the Northeast, Southeast and Mid-west; most recently with the American Museum of natural History at St Catherine’s Island, GA.
I’m interested in Southeastern Historical Archaeology and the African diaspora. After Akko, I’ll be attending UMass Boston’s Historical Archaeology MA program.
Yale University|Penn State.
M.A. Archeology| B.A. Classics| B.S. Archaeological Science.
I’ve worked on the Tel Akko Total Archaeology project since 2010. My role with the project is as a GIS expert and stratigrapher. I draw the plans and sections for the excavations and work intensively with the field documentation. I work with Akko material all year round.