Dr.Ariel Malinsky-Buller

Dr. Ariel Malinsky-Buller received his BA (2004), MA (2009), and PhD (2015) from the Hebrew University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Connecticut (2015-16) and a senior researcher at the MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution (2016-2021) before happily returning to the Institute of Archeology at the Hebrew University in 2021.

Dr. Malinsky-Buller is a Palaeolithic archaeologist and over the past 15 years He hase been conducting multidisciplinary research encompassing a wide range of topics: material culture studies, mainly lithic technology; geology; geomorphology and paleoclimate. He has been conducting excavations and surveys at Paleolithic sites, directing and coordinating research efforts as well as analyzing lithic assemblages dating from the Lower Paleolithic to Neolithic periods in Israel, France, Georgia and Armenia. Since 2016, he has been leading interdisciplinary and international research projects in Armenia.