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Higher education:

 Ph.D. 2005, Tel Aviv University

Research interests:

  Biblical archaeology (Chalcolithic, Early and Intermediate Bronze Ages), ancient Egyptian culture, Megalithic phenomena, landscape archaeology, ancient warfare and weaponry, theoretical approaches in archaeology

Ongoing research projects:

• Regional landscape archaeology at Ramat Bet Shemesh – human-landscape interaction in antiquity
• The EBIA settlement at Kafr Qana (publication project)
• Production of beer out of ancient yeasts found in pottery vessels dated between the 3^rd–1^st millennia BC (with the Hebrew University, Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv University)
• Identification and study of ancient agricultural plots (with the Geological Institutes and various universities).
• Submerged monument and prehistoric/protohistoric sites along the southwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee (with the marine branch in the IAA).

Selected publications: 

• Getzov N., Paz Y. and Gophna R. 2001. Shifting Urban Landscapes During the Early Bronze Age in Canaan. Tel Aviv.

• Greenberg R., Eisenberg E., Paz S. and Paz Y.  2006. eds. Tel Bet Yerah 1: Excavation Reports (IAA Reports 30). Jerusalem.

• Paz Y. 2011. Re-Examining Space Fillers and Potmarks: A New Perspective on their Role in Early Bronze Age Canaanite Glyptic and Ceramic Traditions. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 24(1):3–26.

• Caracuta V., Barzilai O., Khalaily H., Milevski I., Paz Y., Vardi J., Regev L. and Boaretto E. 2015. The Onset Of Faba Bean Farming in the Southern Levant. Nature Archaeological Reports 5:1–9.

• Caracuta V., Vardi J., Paz Y. and Boaretto E. 2017, Farming Legumes in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic: New Discoveries from the Site of Ahihud (Israel). PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177859. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177859