Dr. Hai Ashkenazi
Campus Westend, IG-Farbenhaus
Zimmer V5, 6.512
Tel. 069 798-32134
Fax: 069 798-32121
ashkenazi@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Reseach topics
Hai Ashkenazi is currently working on his postdoc research at the Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie department of the Goethe University Frankfurt. With a B.Sc. in Engineering and a PhD in archaeology Hai Ashkenazi is dealing with the archaeology of the Near East during the Proto-Historic periods, the rise of social hierarchy, ancient war and violence, and GIS and computer based analysis of sites, including 3D modelling. His current research is dealing with the rise of social hierarchy in the southern Levant during the Middle Bronze Age and its expression in the period's material culture and architecture.
Publications
Ashkenazi, H. Accepted for Publication. Microhistory in Archaeology and its Contribution to the Archaeological Research: The Burial from “The Cave of the Warrior” as a Test Case. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies.
Ashkenazi, H. 2020. Sometimes defence is just an excuse: fortification walls of the Southern Levantine Early Bronze Age. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 30(1): 45-67.
Ashkenazi, H. and Greenberg, R. 2019. Shattered maceheads at Early Bronze Age Tel Bet Yerah: Symbolic power and destruction, but whose? In: Hansen, S. and Krause, R. (eds.), Materialisation of Conflicts. Proceedings of the Third International LOEWE Conference, 24-27 September 2018 in Fulda. (Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie, 345. Habelt Verlag, Bonn): 85-92.
Gopher, A. Eirikh-Rose, A., Ashkenazi, H., Marco, E., May, H., Makoviychuk, J., Sapir-Hen, L., Galmor, S., Schechter, H., Ackerfeld, D., Haklay, G., and Zutovski, K. 2019. Nahal Yarmuth 38: a new and unique PPNB site in central Israel. Antiquity 93(371): E29. doi:10.15184/aqy.2019.162
Greenberg, R. and Ashkenazi, H. 2019. On the collective ethos of fortification in the Levantine Bronze Age. In: Hansen, S. and Krause, R. (eds.), Bronze Age Fortresses in Europe. Proceedings of the Second International LOEWE Conference, 9-13 October 2017 in Alba Iulia (Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie, 335. Habelt Verlag, Bonn): 17-28.
Greenberg, R., Ashkenazi, H., Berger, A. Iserlis, M., Paz, Y., Rotem, Y., Shimelmitz, R., Tan, M., and Paz, S. 2017. The Circles Building (granary) at Tel Bet Yerah (Kh. el-Kerak): A new synthesis (excavations of 1945-6, 2003-15). Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 378: 163-202.
Gopher, A. and Ashkenazi, H. 2017. Lithics. In: Gopher, A., Gophna, R. Eyal, R., and Paz, Y. Jacob Caplan’s Excavations of Protohistoric Sites 1950s-1980s (Eisenbrauns and Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Winnona Lake and Tel Aviv): 144-157.
Ashkenazi, H. 2017. A Byzantine aqueduct and road near Um el-Amad West (Gideona) – Jezreel Valley. Salvage Excavation Reports 10: 73-80.
Ashkenazi, H. 2017. Gizo North: a wine Press and a cave. Salvage Excavation Reports 10: 181-184.
Ashkenazi, H. 2017. Hurvat el-Za’atar. Salvage Excavation Reports 10: 253-260.
Ashkenazi, H., Gadot, Y., Shavit, A., and Shmueli, O. 2016. GIS reconstruction of ancient Lod settlement patterns. Lod “Diospolis – City of God”: Collected Papers on the History and Archaeology of Lod 2: 11-45.
Ashkenazi, H., Goren, Y. 2010. The Archaeology of the individual: Reconstructing the life of the deceased from “The Cave of the Warrior”. In: Matthiae, P., Pinnock, F., Nigro, L., and Marchetti, N. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden): 177-87.
Hebrew Publications
Ashkenazi, H. 2020. When defence is just an excuse. Haaretz: https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/the-edge/.premium-1.9085049.
Ashkenazi, H. Accepted for publication. Digital Archaeology – opportunities and hazards. In: Birkenfeld, M. and Garfinkel, Y. (Eds.) Digital Archaeology: New Researches and Advanced Technologies (Israel Antiquities Authority and The Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem): 107-114.