Ilan Sharon, the managing partner of the new consortium was the senior field archaeologist of the first Dor expedition.
He was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Ph.D. 1995) where he currently holds the post of Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology. Recent awards include the Berger prize for outstanding doctoral dissertations in the humanities (1996), the Golda Meir fellowship (1997) and the Alon scholarship (1997).
He excavated in several sites in Israel, and has been on the staff of the Tel Dor excavations since its inception in 1980. His published articles are about archaeological methodology, the Iron Age in Israel, and Dor.
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