A call for applications for a tenure-track position in the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures 

A new study headed by Dr. Z. Kuplik, Dr. D. Kerem, and Prof. D. Angel, on the Rhopilema nomadica Jellyfish, has been featured on the N12 news site (in Hebrew). The…

The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies (RIMS) at the University of Haifa, with a history of 50 years of marine and coastal archaeology research, invites outstanding candidates to apply…

The Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies congratulates our very own Debbie Cvikel on her promotion to the rank of Associate Professor! Read all about some of her exciting projects here and…

A new book, authored by Dr. Matthew Susnow, RIMS research associate, and titled "The Practice of Canaanite Cult: The Middle and Late Bronze Ages" was recently published by Zaphon. This richly…

A new paper was recently published in Levant, authored by Dr. Yael Rotem et al., titled "A Late 4th millennium BCE cylinder-seal amulet from Tel Yaqush and its contribution to…

A new paper on human–environmental interactions at Tel Dor was recently published in Quaternary Research. The protected Tel-Dor coastal embayment in the eastern Mediterranean preserves an unusually complete stratigraphic record that…

A new paper co-authored by two members of the Recanati Institute, Prof. Ruth Shahack-Gross and Dr. David Friesem, was recently published in the prestigious journal Science! Our understanding of the origin,…

Congratulations to Dr. Federico Ugolini,  Research Associate of the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, for winning the British School at Athens John Morrison Memorial Fund for Hellenic Maritime Studies…

New study on sea level rise head by Prof. Assaf Yasur Landau was recently published in Plos ONE. The article presents new archaeological observations and multidisciplinary research from Dor, Israel to…