Allan GilbertJustin Lev-Tov (PhD University of Tennessee) was assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama Birmingham from 2003 through 2005. Since that time, Justin has worked for cultural resource management firms in the U.S. In his spare tie, he continues to conduct and publish zooarchaeological research as a part of various excavation projects in Israel and Jordan, most recently the Tel Akko Total Archaeology Project in Israel. Paula Wapnish Hesse (PhD Columbia University) served as staff zooarchaeologist for the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon (Israel) from 1985 the conclusion of excavations. She continues to research and publish on many of Ashkelon's unique features, such as the dog burials and the worked bone and ivory industries. Allan S. Gilbert is Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. After early research in the zooarchaeology of the Near East, Gilbert has been engaged in geoarchaeology and the historical archaeology of New York City during the past two decades. Read More Read Less