Prof. Aharon Horowitz

Emeritus in Archaeology
Archaeology & Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
ארכיאולוגיה אמריטוס
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Professor of Quaternary Geology and Palynology

haharon@post.tau.ac.il

Education

BA - Hebrew University, 1962
MSc - Hebrew University, 1964
Ph.D. - Hebrew University, 1969
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Late Pleistocene-Holocene Climate and Vegetation of the Northern Jordan Valley.

Fields of Research

Quaternary Paleoenvironments and Human Settlements in Connection with the Natural Environment.

Temporary Appointments

1965Geologist, Israeli South Red Sea Expedition
1970Palynologist, Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici, Capo di Ponte, Italy
1971Visiting Professor, Department of Geology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1975Sabbatical, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa
1976Geologist and Palynologist, Huelva Archaeo-Metalurgical Expedition, Spain
1978-1979Geologist, The Arava Expedition, Timna, Israel
1979Sabbatical, Department of Geology, University of Texas, El Paso, Texas, USA
1980Sabbatical, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1983Geologist, Research Project on Acheulian settlement pattern in the Zeekoe Valley, Republic of South Africa
1986Sabbatical, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Kanazawa, Japan
1989Summer sabbatical, Laboratoire de Palynologie, Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier, France
1993Summer sabbatical, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, and Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
1996-1997Sabbatical, Geological Survey of Israel's Library, Jerusalem
1999-2000Sabbatical, Geological Survey of Israel's Library, Jerusalem
  

Academic and professional experience

1963-1966Department of Geology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Teaching Assistant
1967-1970Geological Survey of Israel, Palynologist
Since 1970Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, Tel Aviv University, Quaternary Geologist and Palynologist, teaching and research
1970Senior Lecturer
1975Associate Professor
1995Professor
  

Membership in Learned Societies

Since 1961The Israel Geological Society, Israel
1964-1965Secretary
1970-1985(then merged with the Israel Geological Society): The Israel Pleistocene Association, Israel
1970-1972Secretary
1979-1981Chairman
Since 1967American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, USA
Since 1972Associacion Latinoamericana de Paleobotanica y Palynologìa, Argentina
Since 1972Quaternary Research Association, England
Since 1980American Quaternary Association, USA
  

Current Projects

The Geology, Environments and Human Settlement of the Jordan Rift Valley.

 

Publications

Selected Publications

Books

Horowitz, A. 1979. The Quaternary of Israel. New York.

Horowitz, A. 1992. Palynology of Arid Lands. Amsterdam.

Horowitz, A. 2001. The Jordan Rift Valley. Rotterdam.

Articles

Horowitz, A. 1989. Continuous Pollen Diagrams for the last 3.5 Million Years from Israel: Vegetation, Climate and Correlation with the Oxygen Isotope Record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 72:63-78.

Horowitz, A. 1989. Palynological Evidence for the Quaternary Rates of Accumulation along the Dead Sea Rift, and Structural Implications. Tectonophysics 164:63-71.

Horowitz, A. 1989. Prehistoric Cultures of Israel: Correlation with the Oxygen Isotope Scale. BAR International Series 497. Oxford: 5-17.

Fuji, N. and Horowitz, A. 1989. Brunhes Epoch Paleoclimates of Japan and Israel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 72:79-88.

Nissenbaum, A. and Horowitz, A. 1992. The Levantine Amber Belt. Journal of African Earth Sciences 14(2):295-300.

Rosensaft, M. and Horowitz, A. 1993. Point Counter for palynologists. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Newsletter 26(4):8-11.

Horowitz, A. 1997. Review of Lower Paleolithic Site locations in Israel, Ppossibly Controlled by Deposition and Erosion Processes. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 45(3):137-145.

Horowitz, A. 2000. The Middle Oligocene of the Dead Sea and Vicinity. Geological Survey of Israel Current Research 12:197-205.

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