Biography
-2019-present: PhD in Archaeology, part of the SeaChanges International Doctoral Training Network, University of Cambridge
-2015—2018: MA in Zooarchaeology (distinction), University of Haifa
(Thesis: Fish in the Desert: Parrotfish from the Negev as Trade Indicators in the Byzantine-Islamic Transition Period)
-2011—2015: BSc in Biology and Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research
My PhD research focuses on developing osteometric and quantitative image analysis protocols for the classification and size reconstruction of archaeological fish bones. These protocols, together with zooarchaeological analysis, will be applied to archaeological material from early medieval England in order to assess changes in represented taxa and exploited fish size as commercialized trade in marine fish started to expand.
Special emphasis is placed on the analysis of the Atlantic cod species Gadus morhua, which has been consistently exploited and commercially valued in the North Atlantic region throughout the archaeological record. My research will shed light on the characteristics of cod populations prior to the advent of commercial fishing activities, as well as on past fishing techniques and fishing grounds.
Key Publications
Bar-Oz, G., Weissbrod, L., Erickson-Gini, T., Tepper, Y., Malkinson, D., Benzaquen, M., ... Blevis, R., et al. 2019. Ancient trash mounds unravel urban collapse a century before the end of Byzantine hegemony in the southern Levant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116. (17): 8239-8248.
Teaching and Supervisions
Supervisors: Dr James Barrett
Advisors: Prof Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb
Other Professional Activities
Member of Newnham College