MICHAL BIRKENFELD
Position: Head of GIS research branch
Department: Archaeological Research Department
fax: (972)25892238
Higher education:
Ph.D., 2017,Hebrew University
Research interests:
GIS applications for archaeological research
Ongoing research projects:
- ‘Changing Systems’: PPNB settlement patterns in the Lower Galilee, Israel
- Incipient agriculture in the Southern Levant during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
- ‘Sites at Risk’: Interactive mapping and predictive modelling for archaeological sites in risk of earthquake damage (in collaboration with M. Cohen and the Geological Institute)
- Ancient agricultural systems and measuring carrying capacity – Beit Natif as a case study (in collaboration with Z. Adawi and A. Ben-Arieh)
- ‘Ein Zippori: Stratigraphy and spatial analysis at a multi-strata proto-historic site (part of the ‘Ein Zippori project headed by N. Getzov and I. Milevski)
Selected publications:
- Birkenfeld M. and Goring-Morris A.N. 2014. Stratigraphy and Spatial Analysis at Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Kfar HaHoresh, Israel: Using GIS Applications in Inter-Site Analyses. In A. Garcia, J. Garcia, A. Maximiano and J. Rios-Garaizar eds. Debating Spatial Archaeology. Santander: Institute for Prehistoric Research, University of Cantabria. Pp. 65–80.
- Birkenfeld M., Avery M.D. and Horwitz L.K. 2015. GIS Virtual Reconstructions of the Temporal and Spatial Relations of Fossil Deposits at Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa). African Archaeological Review 32(4):857–876.
- Birkenfeld M. and Goring-Morris A.N. 2015. "Out of sight": The Role of Kfar HaHoresh within the PPNB Landscape of the Lower Galilee, Israel. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 30(1):95–14.
- Birkenfeld M. and Milevski I. In Press. Quleh-Mazor (West), regional and viewshed analyses of burial sites and settlements. In I. Milevski, R. Lupu and A. Cohen-Weinberger eds. Excavations at Quleh and Mazor (West): Iconography and Burial Practices in Southern Levantine Chalcolithic Cemeteries (Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences.
- Paz Y. and Birkenfeld M. Forthcoming. Reconstructing Socio-Political Urban-Rural Interactions using Viewshed Analysis: The Late Bronze Age at Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel. Journal of Landscape Ecology.