Category : Specialists

By Jennifer Munro

MADELYNN VON BAEYER

Madelynn is an archaeobotanist who uses botanical macrofossils to examine the reciprocal relationship between humans and plants. Particularly interesting to her is how environmental conditions and climate change impact agricultural systems and how changes in the human/environment relationship can foster cultural resilience in both ancient and modern populations. She works in the Eastern Mediterranean and Central Asia. Staring in Spring 2023 Dr. von Baeyer joins the University of Haifa as a Lecturer. She recently completed her stay as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology (formerly the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) and the Harvard University Herbaria. Prior to that, she studied macrofossils from Turkey as part of her PhD project at the University of Connecticut.

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ÜMIT GUDER

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JUSTIN LEV TOV

I am an archaeologist, or was for the first (almost) 20 years of my post-doctorate career. I write mainly about Near Eastern archaeology and bones. I’m also an assistant editor for the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies. I have worked at the Smithsonian, two campuses of the University of Alabama, and for two private archaeology firms.

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EMILY HOLT

I’m an environmental archaeologist and zooarchaeologist working in the Mediterranean broadly and particularly on the Sardinian Bronze Age. I received my PhD in anthropology and classical archaeology from the University of Michigan in 2013, and I’m currently a Research Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo.

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JENNIE MUNRO

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.

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AGNES TESSNER RISSER

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.