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Higher Education:

 Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 2011

Research intrests:

The archaeology of the southern Levant in the Classical and Islamic periods

Ongoing research projects:

• Yavneh-Yam excavations (on behalf of Tel Aviv University, co-directed with Prof. Moshe Fischer)
• Yavneh regional survey (Archaeological Survey of Israel, Map 75; on behalf of Tel Aviv University, co-directed with Prof. Moshe Fischer)
• Publication of the late M. Kochavi excavations at Aphek-Antipatris (the late periods; on behalf of Tel Aviv University, with Prof. Moshe Fischer)
• Geoarchaeological research in the Yavneh dunefield (with Dr. Joel Roskin)
• Research of the life cycle of pottery vessels in the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods

Selected Publlications:

• Tal, O. and Taxel, I. 2015. Samaritan Cemeteries and Tombs in the Central Coastal Plain: Archaeology and History of the Samaritan Settlement outside Samaria (ca. 300–700 CE) (Ägypten und Altes Testament 82). Münster.
• Taxel, I. 2009. Khirbet es-Suyyagh: A Byzantine Monastery in the Judaean Shephelah (Salvage Excavation Reports 6). Tel Aviv.
• Tal, O. and Taxel, I. 2008. Ramla (South): An Early Islamic Industrial Site and Remains of Previous Periods (Salvage Excavation Reports 5). Tel Aviv.
• Langgut, D., Yannai, E., Taxel, I., Agnon, A. and Marco, S. 2016. Resolving a Historical Earthquake Date at Tel Yavneh (Central Israel) Using Pollen Seasonality. Palynology 40.2: 145-159.
• Taxel, I. 2013. The Byzantine-Early Islamic Transition on the Palestinian Coastal Plain: A Re-evaluation of the Archaeological Evidence. Semitica et Classica 6: 73-106.

Links:

https://antiquities.academia.edu/ItamarTaxel

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Itamar_Taxel