Dr. Naama Yahalom-Mack is a senior lecturer of Bronze and Iron Age archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is head of the Institute’s Laboratory for Archaeological Materials and Ancient Technologies. She holds a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Hebrew University, and wrote on Bronze in the Beginning of the Iron Age in the Land of Israel. Yahalom-Mack is currently co-director of the Tel Abel Beth Maacah excavations in the Hula Valley.  Her research focuses on archaeometallurgy and on the provenancing of archaeological materials as a proxy for reconstructing ancient trade and economic interaction.