The Institute of Archaeology
Subject: Social Boundaries in the EBA Southern Levant: A View Through Communal Ritual, Cooperative Action, and Social Memory.
Advisor: Dr. Uri Davidovich.
Abstract: My research concerns the discernment of shifting social boundaries throughout the Levantine Early Bronze Age. In order to do so, I focus on activities that would have implicated large numbers of people including cooperative building and gathering, communal ritual, and shared senses of and uses of collective memory. I argue that focusing on these categories and their discernment in the archaeological record can help us to better understand the shifting mosaic of people and lifeways that existed in and around Israel in late prehistory.
President Scholarship 2021/22