Igor Kreimerm

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. His research combines the use of geoarchaeology, experimental archaeology and traditional archaeological methods for the study of formation processes, especially construction and destruction, in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant.

Areas of Interest: Archaeology of the Bronze Age and Iron Age in the Land of Israel, ancient construction materials and techniques, architecture, urban planning, destruction by fire, the seam between archaeology and text-based disciplines.

Short Biography: Born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) in the Soviet Union. Immigrated to Israel at the Age of five. Earned a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Archaeology (2011), M.A. in archaeology (2013) and Ph.D in archaeology (2019) all from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Spent a postdoctoral year at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (2018–2019), a postdoctoral year at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History at Heidelberg University (2019–2020), and another postdoctoral year at The Roger and Susan Hertog Center for the Archaeological Study of Jerusalem and Judah, the Institute of Archaeology, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2020–2021). In 2021 Joined the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.