Nessana Expedition
Director
Yana Tchekhanovets
Yana (PhD, Hebrew University) specializes in late antique archaeology, Caucasian Christian communities of Byzantine Palestine, and archaeology of pilgrimage. After many years of field work in Jerusalem, Yana is now a senior lecturer at the Department of Archaeology at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Area Supervisor
Anat Rasiuk
Anat received her B.A. in Archaeology and Jewish Thought and her M.A. in Archaeology from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is currently a PhD student at the BGU, working on research of The Churches of Nessana: Structure, Function and Identities. Anat works in the Southern District of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Area Supervisor
Assaf Peretz
Assaf received his B.A. in Archaeology and History and M.A in History from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is an archaeologist and field photographer of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Assaf’s main research interest is the archaeology of the WWI battlefields in Israel.
Area Supervisor
Pablo Betzer
Pablo (PhD, Hebrew University) specializes in funerary customs of classical antiquity. His dissertation focuses on burials of the Negev region, from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine period. Pablo works in the Israel Antiquities Authority, currently directing a large-scale excavations at Yavne.
Area Supervisor
Adina Notarius
Adina is a graduate student of the Archaeology Department at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and works of the Southern District of Israel
Antiquities Authority. Adina’s M.A. thesis is dedicated to the organic man-made
materials (textile and leather objects) from the Dan Urman’s excavations at
Nessana.
Lab manager
Bat-El Arabov
Bat-El is a graduate student of the Archaeology Department at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her M.A. thesis focuses on Byzantine and Early Islamic wall paintings discovered at Nessana.
Assistant Area Supervisor
Nikita Saveliev
Nikita received his archaeological degrees and field experience in Moscow, and since 2003 works on the problematics of medieval cities, historical topography, and the archeology of the Golden Horde.
Assistant Area Supervisor
Liav Yekutiel
Liav received his B.A. in history and archaeology at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and currently completing his M.A. studies.
GIS and survey
Yakov Shmidov
Received his B.A. in Fine Arts from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and his M.A. in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing from the University of Haifa. He is currently working as a surveyor in the Israel Antiquities Authority.
GIS and survey
Alexander Wiegman
Received his B.A. in Archaeology and Jewish History and his M.A. in Archaeology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently a PhD student at BGU, working on the research of agricultural systems in the Negev Highlands in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods. Alexander works as the head of the field technologies branch at the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Epigraphy
Ofer Pogorelsky