AMIR GOLANI
Position: Senior research archaeologist
Department: Archaeological Research Department
fax: 972-5892238
Higher education:
Ph.D, 2011, Tel Aviv University
Research interests:
Bronze Age (with a focus on the EB period), architecture and urbanization, personal adornment in the Bronze and Iron Ages
Ongoing research projects:
- Rescue excavations at the Proto-Historic and Prehistoric site of Eshta'ol (monograph with B. Storchan and J. Vardi)
- The Early Bronze Age Site of Ashqelon Barn'ea (two-part monograph: Vol. I: The Excavation, Vol. II: The Finds)
- Excavations at Tel Dover on the Yarmuk: the Late Bronze and Iron Age periods (with S.R. Wolff)
- Research and publication of ancient jewelry from the Bronze and Iron Age periods.
- Publication of Bronze Age rescue excavations at Tel Beth Yerah, Tel Qishyon, Beqo'a, Beth Shean (Eucalyptus neighborhood) and Ashqelon Afridar
Selected publications:
- Golani A. 2003. Salvage Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Site of Qiryat Ata (IAA Reports 18). Jerusalem.
- Golani A. 2013. Jewelry from the Iron Age II Levant (Orbis Biblicus Orientalis 34, Series Archeologica). Fribourg: Adademic Press.
- Golani A. and Wygna?ska Z. eds. 2014. Beyond Ornamentation: Jewelry as an Aspect of Material Culture in the Ancient Near East (Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, [PAM], Special Studies XIII/2). Warsaw.
- Golani A. and Yannai E. 2016. Storage Structures of the Late Early Bronze I in the Southern Levant and the Urbanization Process. PEQ 148(1):8–41.
- Golani A. 2011. A Built Tomb of the MB IIA and Other Finds from Tel Burga in the Sharon Plain. ‘Atiqot 68:69–98.