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Yuval Gadot is an Israeli professor and former head of the Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University. Since 2023 he is the incumbent director of the Tel Aviv Institute of Archaeology. Gadot is a leading archaeologist at the excavations of the ‘City of David’ (Ancient Jerusalem), as he co-directs the Givati Parking Lot dig. He also leads the study of ancient and historical rural landscape around Jerusalem, as well as co-directing the excavations at Tel Azekah. He has authored seven archaeological books and over one hundred scientific articles.^[1]

Biography

Yuval Gadot was born in 1967.

Academic career

obtained his PhD in 2004 from Tel-Aviv University. Between 2004 and 2008 Gadot was a research fellow at the Nelson Glick School of Bible and Archeology at Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem). 2018 Gadot served as the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel-Aviv University from 2018 and 2023. ^[1]

Research

Between 2005 and 2010, Yuval (Field Director) directed the Institute's excavations at the Ramat Rachel site (led by Prof. Oded Lipschits and Prof. Manfred Oming).^[1]

At the same time, he was a partner in the project "Ancient Israel through the lens of natural and exact sciences" (Prof. Israel Finkelstein and Prof. Steve Weiner), where he was exposed to the many possibilities that exist in combining science and archaeology.^[1]

Selected publications

Authored books

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• Gadot, Yuval; Teper, Yoram (2008). Regavim - 49. Jerusalem: Society for the Archaeological Survey of Israel - Israel Antiquities Authority. ISBN 978-965-406-211-4.
• Gadot, Yuval; Yadin, Esther (2009). Aphek-Antipatris II: The Remains on the Acropolis: the Moshe Kochavi and Pirhiya Beck Excavations. Monograph Series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology 27. Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology. ISBN 9652660256.
• Gadot, Yuval; Yasur-Landau, Assaf (2012). Qiryat Shemona (S): Fort and Village in the Hula Valley. Salvage Excavation Reports 7. Israel: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology. ISSN 1565-5407.
• Gadot, Yuval; Ilan, David; Tepper, Yotam; Yannai, Eli (2014). The Bronze Age Cemetery at 'Ara. Salvage Excavation Reports 8. Israel: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology. ISSN 1565-5407.
• Lipschits, Oded; Gadot, Yuval; Arubas, Benny; Oeming, Manfred (2017). What are the Stones Whispering?: Ramat Rahel : 3000 Years of Forgotten History. Winona Lake, Indiana. ISBN 978-1-57506-498-7.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (translation of the original Hebrew publication, 2014)
• Lipschits, Oded; Gadot, Yuval; Freud, Liora; Aharoni, Yohanan (2016). Ramat-Raḥel III: Final Publication of Yohanan Aharoni's Excavations (1954, 1959-1962). Winona Lake, Indiana. ISBN 978-1575064901.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Lipschits, Oded; Oeming, Manfred; Godot, Yuval (2020). Ramat Raḥel IV: The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010): Stratigraphy and Architecture (Monograph Series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology). University Park, Pennsylvania. ISBN 978-1646020782.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Lipschits, Oded; Freud, Liora; Oeming, Manfred; Gadot, Yuval (2021). Ramat Raḥel VI: The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010). The Babylonian-Persian Pit. University Park, Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns. ISBN 978-1-64602-113-0.
• Gadot, Yuval (2022). The Landfill of Early Roman Jerusalem: The 2013‒2014 Excavations in Area D3. Penn State University. ISBN 9781646022335.

Edited books

• Lipschits, Oded; Gadot, Yuval; Adams, Matthew J., eds. (2017). Rethinking Israel: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Ancient Israel in Honor of Israel Finkelstein. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. ISBN 978-1575067872.