Computational Archaeological Laboratory

After a short hiatus, we are back to our meet the team posts!
This week, meet Nadav Rosenthal, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Nadav is an M.A student, he joined the lab in 2022 as a lab technician and research student.
He is writing his master’s thesis on the use of lathes in the chalkstone vessel industry in early Roman Judea, incorporating the cutting-edge tools of the laboratory.
He is also involved in the Kfar Nahum scanning project.

His favorite part of the laboratory is the scanning days in the field, and dragging lab members across the country to help in the scanning efforts.
He also loves the ‘cardamon in the black coffee’ consensus in the lab.

New paper alert!

The paper analyzes 1108 3D scans of Acheulean handaxes from 12 sites from the Great Rift Valley. Computational 3D methods were used to estimate how skilfully each handaxe was made.