Thomas Levy (archaeologist)

Thomas Evan Levy is Distinguished Professor and holds the Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego. He is a member of the Department of Anthropology and Jewish Studies Program. Levy is co-director of the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology and directs the Center for Cyber-archaeology and Sustainability at the Qualcomm Institute UC San Diego research group at the California Center of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).

Levy is a field archaeologist with interests in the role of technology, especially early mining and metallurgy, on social evolution from the beginnings of sedentism and the domestication of plants and animals in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period (7500 BCE) to the rise of the first historic Levantine state-level societies in the Iron Age (1200 – 500 BCE). He has been the principal investigator of many interdisciplinary archaeological field projects in Israel and Jordan that have been funded by the National Geographic Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, and other organizations.

He has published 10 books and several hundred scholarly articles. Levy edited ''Historical Biblical Archaeology and the Future – The New Pragmatism'' (London: Equinox Publishers, 2010) that in 2011 won the ‘best scholarly book’ from the Biblical Archaeology Society (Washington, DC).

Honors

Levy was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of the Explorers Club, Levy won the 2011 Lowell Thomas Award for “Exploring the World’s Greatest Mysteries.” With his wife Alina Levy and the Sthapathy brothers, traditional craftsmen from the village of Swamimalai, he co-authored the book ''Masters of Fire – Hereditary Bronze Casters of South India''. (Bochum: German Mining Museum, 2008).

Publications

*Levy, T.E. (ed.) 1987 ''Shiqmim I—Studies Concerning Chalcolithic Societies in the Northern Negev Desert, Israel (1982–1984)'', 2 volumes art i: Text, Part ii: Figures and Plates Oxford: BAR International Series 356.
*Holl, A. and Levy, T.E. (eds.) 1993 ''Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics—Case Studies from Food-Producing Societies''. Ann Arbor, MI: International Monographs in Prehistory.
*Levy, T.E.(ed.) 1995 ''The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land''. Leicester University Press (London) and Facts on File, Inc., New York.
*van den Brink, E. and Levy, T.E. (eds.) 2002 ''Egypt and the Levant: Interrelations from the 4th through the Early 3rd Millennium BCE''. London: Leicester University Press.
*Levy, T. E., and T. Higham. Editors. 2005 ''The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating – Archaeology, Text and Science''. London: Equinox.
*Levy, T. E. (ed.) 2006 ''Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult – The Sanctuary at Gilat (Israel)''. London: Equinox Publishers.
*Levy, T.E., Daviau, P.M.M., Younker, R.W., and Shaer, M. (eds) 2007 ''Crossing Jordan – North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan''. London: Equinox.
*Levy, T.E. 2007 ''Journey to the Copper Age – Archaeology in the Holy Land''. San Diego: San Diego Museum of Man.
*Levy, T.E., Levy, A., Sthapathy, R., Sthapathy, S., & Sthapathy, S. ''2008 Masters of Fire – Hereditary Bronze Casters of South India''. Bochum: German Mining Museum
*Levy, T.E (editor). 2010 ''Historical Biblical Archaeology and the Future – The New Pragmatism.'' London: Equinox.

References

External links

TEDx Sonoma CountyTalk 2012Levy's page at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) San Diego Division Levy's Levantine Archaeology Lab page in the Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego
*Documentary on recent Iron Age mining and metallurgy research featured on National Geographic/ NOVA
''Quest for Solomon's Mines''

Interviews with noted archaeologists and Biblical scholars
on UCTV

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