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ABOUT ME

Guy Bar-Oz is holds academic degrees in Biology, Archaeology, Ecology and Zoology.

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In 2003 he founded the Laboratory of Archaeozoology at the University of Haifa. The lab is a hub for collaborative scientific networks with strong foundation in anthropological and biological research.

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Email Address: guybar@research.haifa.ac.il

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Google webpage: link

 

ORCID ID: link

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CRIS profile: link

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POSITION

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Evolution of human hunting and subsistence behavior in prehistory

Near Eastern ZOOARCH: Development of complex economic systems in the Near East

Human impact on ancient environments and large scale hunting and trapping of animal resources

2018

Visiting Professor, University of Sokendai, Kanagawa, Japan

2014 - 

Full Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel

The road to glocalization: Culture and people along the Negev Incense Route

2009-2014

Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel

2003-2009

Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel

Collapse and resilience of past societies in marginal environments

Education

2002 Post-doc   Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA

2001 Ph.D.       Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

1996 M.Sc.       Ecology, Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

1998 B.A.        Department of Archaeology, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

1994 B.Sc.        Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Mentoring and Supervision of Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

2022: 5 PhD and 2 MA students, School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, University of Haifa, Israel

2022: 4 postdoctoral researchers, School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, University of Haifa, Israel

2005-2022: Supervision of 7 PhD and 19 MA students and 9 postdoctoral researchers; all have published their research.​

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Teaching Activities

2013- Technion - Israel Institute of Technology: Cultural History of Domesticated Animals (BA); Food, Culture and Human Evolution (BA).

2003- University of Haifa: Anthropological and biological oriented undergraduate (BA) and graduate courses and seminars (MA) in Near Eastern Bioarchaeology, Molecular Archaeology, Archaeological Science and Environmental Humanities.

 

Institutional Responsibilities

2020: University Promotion Committee; 2019: President Search Committee; 2018: Advisory Committee to Evaluate Faculty of Humanities; 2017-: Institute of Evolution Governors Committee; 2017-: Hecht Museum Governors Committee; 2016, 2019: Rector Search Committee; 2014-2017: Chair, Department of Archaeology; 2022-: Chair, Department of Cultural Heritage.

Major Research Grants as PI

  • 2022-2023 / European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept Grant. From near extinction to market distinction: Developing a methodology for the sustainable revival of heritage grapevine cultivars (150,000€).

  • 2022-2025 / The Volkswagen Foundation. Revealing the Israeli Silk Road: Exploring networks of trade and exchange between East and West through textile finds from Nahal Omer, with a focus on silk and cotton (300,000€).

  • 2021-2024 / Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). Heritage Gardens: Applied interdisciplinary survey and documentation of fruit tree heirloom cultivars in the western Negev and southern coastal plain (100,000€).

  • 202-2023 / Israel Science Foundation. Revealing the lost Byzantine viticulture of the Negev Highlands (180,000€)

  • 2020 / Haifa Center for Mediterranean History. Wine production and climate change in arid environments around the Roman Mediterranean (40,000€).

  • 2015-2020 / European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant. Crisis on the margins of the Byzantine Empire: A bio-archaeological project on resilience and collapse during early Christian development of the Negev Desert (1,451,000€).

  • 2014-2017 / Israel Science Foundation. Collapse and resilience in Byzantine towns of the Negev Desert: Bio-archaeological evidence from the city-dumps of Elusa and Nessana (180,000€).

  • 2013 / Israel Science Foundation Conference Grant. Bones and identity: Reconstructing social and cultural landscapes in the archaeozoology of Southwest Asia (25,000€).

  • 2012 / National Geographic Society. Pigeon-raising in the Roman and Byzantine periods in the Negev of the southern Levant (20,000€).

  • 2010-2014 / Israel Science Foundation. Zooarchaeology of peoples and foods: analyzing the diversity of ethnicities, societies and environments of the Bronze and Iron Ages in the southern Levant (150,000€).

  • 2008. National Geographic Society. The Negev and Arava (southern Levant) desert kites: A multi-disciplinary study of past large-scale game traps (20,000€).

  • 2005. National Geographic Society. Animal bone remains from the city dump of Jerusalem: reconstructing aspects of urban life in the Late Second Temple Period (20,000€).

  • 2004-2007 / Israel Science Foundation. Exploitation and hunting patterns of mountain gazelle and Persian fallow deer during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene of the southern Levant (150,000€).

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