Meet the Archaeologists

Follow the links to see what these archaeologists have to say about themselves and their work. You may be surprised to find out how much you have in common with them: Many love the actual work of digging (just like the students in Create Your Own Dig!) and get tired of tedious but necessary paperwork. Their most common trait is that they all share a love for archaeology, and are enthusiastic even after many years of work in the subject.

Daniel S. Adler is a Ph.D. candidate and an instructor in archaeology at Harvard University. He is interested in Neanderthals and stone tools.

Dr. Ofer Bar-Yosef, an expert in Stone Age archaeology, is the George Grant MacCurdy and Janet G. B. MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Harvard University. Dr. Bar-Yosef is the director of the Stone Age Laboratory, which combines the Harvard Peabody Museum's famous collections of stone tools dating from 1.8 million to 7000 years ago with state-of-the-art computer technology. Professor Bar-Yosef also directs excavations at Hayonim Cave, in Israel.

Dr. Elizabeth Chilton is an assistant professor of archaeology at Harvard University and director of the New England Archaeology Laboratory. She is most interested in the archaeology and history of native peoples in northeastern North America.

Dr. Yosef Garfinkel is a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He is also the curator of the Sha'ar Hagolan Museum. Dr. Garfinkel's interests are in biblical archaeology and the Neolithic period of the Near East.

Dr. Erella Hovers is a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Her field of interest is in prehistoric archaeology.

Dr. C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky is the Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Over the years, Dr. Lamberg-Karlovsky has been interested in the ways that distant regions came into contact with each other: Mesopotamia, the Gulf, Central Asia, and the Indus Civilization.

Dr. Yun Kuen Lee is an assistant professor of archaeology at Harvard University. He is interested in Chinese archaeology, especially the rise of Chinese civilization.

Dr. Carole A. Mandryk is an assistant professor at Harvard University. She is interested in geoarchaeology and paleoenvironments (that means she studies what the geography and environments were like in ancient or pre-historic times), and in hunter-gatherers, cultural ecology, Paleo-Indians, and North American archaeology.

Dr. Amihai Mazar is a professor at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He is interested in biblical archaeology and the Bronze and Iron ages in the Middle East.

Dr. Ilan Sharon, whose interests include both biblical archaeology and also computers and archaeology, is a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Dr. Zeev Weiss is a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. His field of interest is Classical-Byzantine archaeology.