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PROFESSOR THOMAS EVAN LEVY Disnguished Professor, Department of Anthropology Co-Director, Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology The University of California, San Diego Coastal zones are some of the most sensitive ecosystems for examining how societies adapt to climate, environmental and social change. The new Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology at UC San Diego has initi- ated a three-prong approach to the deep-time study of human adaptation of coastal zones in the eastern Mediterranean. This involves the use of a wide array of shallow marine geophysical survey instruments; sediment coring to obtain proxy data for studying landscape, climate and ecosystem change on land and sea; and underwater archaeological excavation and photogrammetry to understand how human cultural systems adapt to deep-time environmental and social change. The work takes a transdisciplinary or ‘team science’ approach integrating anthropology, geosciences, humanities (Jewish and Hellenic studies), infor- mation technology, and other fields. This lecture discusses recent underwater fieldwork at Biblical Tel Dor along Israel’s Carmel coast and at Methoni - a submerged Middle Bronze Age settlement off the southern coast of Messenia in the Peloponnesus region of Greece. Thomas Evan Levy is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and the inaugural holder of the Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Levy is a Levantine field archaeologist with interests in how early mining and metallurgy influences social evolution and human adaptation along coastal zones. Widely published, Levy recently received an honorary doctorate from Charles University in the Czech Republic; he serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Cyprus. Tom is an alum of the University of Arizona’s Department of Anthropology where he earned a BA in 1975, followed by a PhD at the University of Sheffield in 1981. In 2016, Tom was appointed Co-Director of the new UC San Diego Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology at UC San Diego and has carried out underwater archaeology projects in Greece and Israel. The Sally & Ralph Duchin Campus Lecture Series is made possible by the generous support of Sally & Ralph Duchin Jointly sponsored with The School of Anthropology Lecture Series February 20th at 2 pm | UA Hillel | 1245 E. 2nd St. FREE ADMISSION | OPEN TO ALL CONTACT US | judaic.arizona.edu | 520.626.5758 EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN TRANSDISCIPLINARY MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE Recent Reasearch off the Carmel Coast (Israel) and the Peloponnesus Coast (Greece) COLLEGE OF SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES School of Anthropology
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PROFESSOR THOMAS EVAN LEVY
Distinguished Professor,Department of AnthropologyCo-Director, Scripps Center for Marine ArchaeologyThe University of California, San Diego
Coastal zones are some of the most sensitive ecosystems for examining how societies adapt to climate, environmental and social change. The new Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology at UC San Diego has initi-ated a three-prong approach to the deep-time study of human adaptation of coastal zones in the eastern Mediterranean. This involves the use of a wide array of shallow marine geophysical survey instruments; sediment coring to obtain proxy data for studying landscape, climate and ecosystem change on land and sea; and underwater archaeological excavation and photogrammetry to understand how human cultural systems adapt to deep-time environmental and social change. The work takes a transdisciplinary or ‘team science’ approach integrating anthropology, geosciences, humanities (Jewish and Hellenic studies), infor-mation technology, and other �elds. This lecture discusses recent underwater �eldwork at Biblical Tel Dor along Israel’s Carmel coast and at Methoni - a submerged Middle Bronze Age settlement o� the southern coast of Messenia in the Peloponnesus region of Greece.
Thomas Evan Levy is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and the inaugural holder of the Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Levy is a Levantine �eld archaeologist with interests in how early mining and metallurgy in�uences social evolution and human adaptation along coastal zones. Widely published, Levy recently received an honorary doctorate from Charles University in the Czech Republic; he serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Cyprus. Tom is an alum of the University of Arizona’s Department of Anthropology where he earned a BA in 1975, followed by a PhD at the University of She�eld in 1981. In 2016, Tom was appointed Co-Director of the new UC San Diego Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology at UC San Diego and has carried out underwater archaeology projects in Greece and Israel.
The Sally & Ralph Duchin Campus Lecture Series is made possible by the generous support of Sally & Ralph DuchinJointly sponsored with The School of Anthropology Lecture Series
February 20th at 2 pm | UA Hillel | 1245 E. 2nd St.FREE ADMISSION | OPEN TO ALL
CONTACT US | judaic.arizona.edu | 520.626.5758
EASTERN MEDITERRANEANTRANSDISCIPLINARY MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE
Recent Reasearch off the Carmel Coast (Israel)and the Peloponnesus Coast (Greece)
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
School of Anthropology
