Dr. Roey Nickelsberg
Postdoctoral researcher
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Dr. Roey Nickelsberg was raised in Arad, Israel. He acquired his undergraduate degree from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Archaeology. Interested in studying the maritime culture of the Levant, he then enrolled in the Department of Maritime Civilizations for a PhD where he completed a geoarcheological research on the Middle Bronze Age palace of Tel Kabri, under the supervision of Prof. Ruth Shahack-Gross and Prof. Assaf Yasur-Landau. He is now continuing into postdoctoral research project in cooperation with Prof. David Friesm, with the aim of exploring the maritime adaptations of the Early Bronze Age population of the Carmel coast. He will examine the submerged landscape offshore Megadim (north of Atlit, Carmel Coast), with the aim to shed new light on the paleoenvironmental conditions during the emergence and abandonment of Neolithic villages in light of Holocene sea level rise.
rnickelsberg@gmail.com
Current Research
Current Research
The Tel Hreiz Survey
At the end of the last glacial maximum, ca. 21,000 years ago, when the earth entered a warm period, global sea started to rise with an estimated total of 120 m over the next few millennia (Lamback, 1990). Therefore, many villages that where situated along the coast, were eventually inundated and are now below current msl (Galili et al., 2020). This is evident from the archaeological record from the Carmel Coast, where multiple villages from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic C to the Pottery Neolithic, Wadi Rabba, period where discovered (Nickelsberg et al., 2024; Galili et al., 2020). Until now the research has mainly focused on the areas near the coast, ca. 150 m west of the coastline and at shallow depths, between 15-1 m below msl due to the rich archaeological record. Although the rich archaeological record in these locations, the sites themselves are from relatively the same archaeological periods, leaving tremendous earlier historical gaps of potential coastal habitations which exist in the Carmel Coast, as seen in the Nahal Hamearot area and their utilization of marine resources such as mollusks (Bar-Yosef Mayer and Zohar, 2010). Some archaeological evidence for earlier presence has been found, however, very fragmented and not conclusive of early occupation (Galili et al., 2020). The question that arises is where would these sites be located geographically?
The Carmel coast.
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