The Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University is pleased to announce details of their first Zoom virtual lecture which will be given by Dr. Katharina Streit on Monday, October 12, 2020 entitled “Transregional Connections Across the Near East – Long distance ties of the Pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods”. The event will last for approximately 1.5 hour including Q&A.

 

In order to receive the Zoom link please write to jana.mynarova@ff.cuni.cz to register your interest. Although the lecture will begin at 11:00am (CEST), access will be available from 10.45pm. Please note that the Zoom link will be circulated approximately 24 hours before the event.

 

Monday, October 12 at 11:00am

Dr. Katharina Streit (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Transregional Connections Across the Near East – Long distance ties of the Pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods

Regional Archaeology of the Ancient Near East II series, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Czech Institute of Egyptology

 

Katharina Streit is currently a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on the archaeology of the Southern Levant from the Pottery Neolithic to the Iron Age, with a special focus on transregional exchange. She has directed excavations at the Early Chalcolithic site of Ein el-Jarba in Israel from 2012 to 2016 and co-directs excavations at Tel Lachish since 2017.