Ido Wachtel
Dr. Ido Wachtel is a post-doctoral fellow at the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University, and a Martin Buber fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (from October 2020). He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University (2018).
Ido is an archaeologist specializing in spatial archaeology and settlement patterns analysis. His recent work focuses on GIS applications and locational/predictive modeling. His research aims to analyze regional and interregional dynamic processes of settlement growth, urbanization, and decline, with a systematic analysis of human-environment interactions through time. Ido's work focuses on the Southern Levant and on the proto-historical and early historical periods. He also participates in regional studies and conducts spatial analyses in North-East China and Mongolia.
Ongoing projects
- Settlement complexity and upland-lowland interactions in early South Levantine urbanism: Tel Qedesh and the Galilee in the Early Bronze Age (with Uri Davidovich).
- Using MaxEnt modeling for the understanding of the first urban cycle in the southern Levant (with Royi Zidon).
- Modeling pastoral nomadism: A regional archaeological study of Bedouin exploitation patterns in the Judean Desert (with Royi Zidon and Uri Davidovich).
Publications