Tel Dor
Not digging 2020
israel
Ancient Port of Palestine
Unearthed during more than three decades of excavations and published in hundreds of papers and books, discoveries at Dor cannot be summarized in a few paragraphs. From the Late Bronze Age, Dor was a vital commercial port. Dor is currently the most important site for the study of the beginning of Phoenician civilization. It is also a key site for the understanding of the persistence of Phoenician culture in coastal Israel during the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. In each of these periods, maritime contacts were instrumental, connecting the residents of Dor to peoples and places both near and far.
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Details
Geographic Location
Nahsholim, Israel
Periods of Occupation
Bronze Age–Ottoman
Dates of the Dig
Not digging 2020
Directors
Ilan Sharon
Ilan Sharon is codirector of the excavations at Tel Dor, where he has been on staff since the project began in 1980. Prof. Sharon holds the Nahman Avigad Chair of Biblical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He specializes in archaeological method and application of statistics and mathematics in archaeology, and the Iron Age in Israel and the eastern Mediterranean.
Assaf Yasur-Landau
Assaf Yasur-Landau is Associate Professor at the Department of Maritime Civilizations as the University of Haifa, formerly head of the department and currently director of the Maritime Coastal Archaeology and Underwater Survey Lab at the University of Haifa. He specializes in social archaeology, Aegean Bronze Age, Archaeology, Mediterranean underwater archaeology, Mediterranean archaeology, the Iron Age and the Late Bronze Age. He codirects excavations at Kabri and Achziv in Israel and will be codirecting the 2016 season at Dor, in charge of the maritime aspects of the excavation.
S. Rebecca Martin
Becky Martin is the U.S. Coordinator for the excavation. She is Assistant Professor of Greek Art & Architecture at Boston University and began excavating at Dor in 1999. Her research focuses on the ancient Mediterranean, particularly the intersection of the Greek and Phoenician worlds, with emphasis on ethnicity, identity and culture in the Persian/Classical and Hellenistic periods. She has written on Greek and Phoenician art and archaeology, much of which is tied to her participation in the excavations of Dor.
Contact
S. Rebecca Martin
Boston University History of Art & Architecture
725 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: +972-(0)2-5881304
[email protected]
Tel Dor Web Site
