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Benjamin Saidel

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professional service activities

  • Reviewer for International Journal of Historical Archaeology Reviewed manuscript on the archaeological remains of Soviet air power in World War II. 2025
  • Reviewer For Études et Travaux Reviewed a manuscript submitted to Études et Travaux. This is a peer-reviewed (double-blind) journal published annually by the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences. http://www.etudesettravaux.iksiopan.pl/index.php/en/
    This journal has an impact factor of 0.09 and a h-index of 6. 2024
  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Historical Archaeology Associate Editor, International Journal of Historical Archaeology. Invited because of my research on "Levantine archaeology." IJHA is published by Palgrave Macmillian. Journal Metrics: CiteScore 1.4; H-Index 29; SJR Q1; SNIP 1. 2024
  • Reviewer for Journal of Near Eastern Studies Reviewed the following manuscript for the Journal of Near Eastern Studies:Villages in Transition: Ottoman Rule and Rural Life in 16th-17th-Century JudeanFoothills - The Case of Horvat Midras/DrsyeJNES2023 CiteScore*: 1.2Ranked #30 out of 173 "General Arts and Humanities" journals 2024
  • Submission of Manuscript to J.I.A. for publication The following manuscript was submitted for publication in the Journal of Islamic Archaeology:Agriculture as a Pathway for the Sedentarization of the Jabarat Bedouin in the northern Negev, in Pre-State Israel.This journal has an impact score of 0.599 2024
  • Reviewer for Holocene Reviewed manuscript # HOL-23-0098 entitled "The geographical and archaeological anchors affecting the Bedouin migration before 1948, in the Negev desert southern Israel" for journal Holocene. 2023
  • Reviewer International Journal of Historical Archaeology Reviewed manuscript IJHA-D-23-00042, which was submitted for publication in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology for Publication. 2022
  • Reviewer Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society Reviewed the following manuscript submitted for publication in the Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society. 2022
  • Reviewer, American Journal of Archaeology Reviewed manuscript 1378 for the American Journal of Archaeology.
    "The American Journal of Archaeology (ISSN 0002-9114; E-ISSN 1939-828X), the journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, was founded in 1885 and is one of the world's most distinguished and widely distributed peer-reviewed archaeological journals. The AJA reaches more than 40 countries and approximately 700 universities, learned societies, departments of antiquities, and museums." 2021
  • Reviewer, Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies ;Reviewed Manuscript 1013-IJAS ;Petrography usage in geoarchaeological investigation of Pre-Islamic and Islamic periods Farming Tools from Soh area (Northwest of Isfahan, Central Iran) 2021
  • Virtual meeting I had a 45 minute meeting with Ms. Tova Kadish to disscuss a possible topic for Ph.D. dissertation on the archaeology of Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine.
    Ms. Kadish is a Ph.D. Candidate, Bard College.
    Bard College is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States. 2021
  • Invited by the Ben-Gurion University, Israel to review promotion file Reviewed Dr. Yuval Yekutieli's file for promotion to Associate Professor in the Department of Bible, Archaeology, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel.
    The request to evaluate his file came from the Dean's Office, The Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
    I reccomended promotion to the rank of Assoicate Professor. 2021
  • Reviewer, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences Reviewed the following proposal submitted to the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Decoding the Ancient Sacred Landscapes of the Arid Southern Levant (Southern Jordan/Israel): The Desert Cults Mapping Project. 2021
  • Reviewer Historical Archaeology Reviewed the following manuscript submitted the journal Historical Archaeology: "Here be dragons": Historical and Contemporary Archaeology and Heritage in the Aegean Sea. 2020
  • Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies Member of the editorial board ofJournal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies.
    This journal is published by Penn State University Press.
    https://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_JEMAHS.html 2020
  • External Reviewer, Tel Aviv University, Israel Reviewed a Ph.D. proposal for the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University. The student is a Ph.D. candidate in the Departments of Archaeology and Jewish Studies. 2020
  • Reviewer, Journal of Islamic Archaeology Reviewed the following manuscript that was submitted for publication:
    The Late Ottoman Cemetery of Majdal Yaba 2020
  • Routledge Proposal for Review: Caravans in Global Perspective Invitation to review this book proposal declined for the the following reasons: ;
    1. The remuneration of 50 GBP is a joke
    2. No time
    Invitation to review book proposal is attached. ; 2019
  • Reviewer, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research ;Reviewed the following submitted manuscript for publication, TOWARDS DISCERNING AND DEFINING THE LATE CHALCOLITHIC TO EB I TRANSITION ; IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT 2019
  • Reviewer, Journal of Arid Environments Reviewed ; ;Ref: JAE20-80Title: Faecal Pellets, Rock Shelters, and Seasonality: The Chemistry of Stabling in the Negev of Israel in Late PrehistoryAuthors: S. Y. Landau; Levana Dvash; Philippa Ryan; David Saltz; Tova Deutch; Steven Rosen 2019
  • Conference : Archaeology does not End at 1700 CE: The Archaeology of the British Mandate. Co-organized with Dr. Tali Erickson-Gini, Israel Antiquities Authority. This conference contained 12 presenters who are affiliated with the following institutions and organizations: Bar-Ilan University; Escuela de Estudios Arabes, Granada; Spain; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Israel Antiquities Authority; Israel Police Heritage Centre; Tel Aviv University; University of Wisconsin-Madison 2018
  • Reviewer, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Reviewed, based on my expertise, manuscript number JARM-D-18-00133. 2018
  • Reviewer, British Journal of Middle East Studies Reviewed the following submission, ;
    "The increasing roles of women, youth, and international outreach in the evolving Bedouin resistance in the Naqab" for British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 2017
  • Reviewer, The Southern Levant and the Ancient Near Eastern Canon (R. Hallote) ;This paper is slated for publication in Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, coedited by Ann Shafer (Baltimore Museum of Art) and Amy Gansell (St. John’s University) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2016
  • Reviewer, Geoarchaeology: An International Journal ;Reviewed manuscript ;GEO-14-068.R1 entitled "Basic Instabilities? Climate and Culture in the Negev over the Long Term" for ;Geoarchaeology. ; 2015
  • Reviewer, Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project/Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press ;Reviewed, prior to publication, an 880 page manuscript containing 25 chapters. This excavation report describes the Late Ottoman and British Mandate periods at Jaffa, Israel. ; 2015
  • Reviewer, Journal of Anthropological Research Reviewed Households without Houses: Mobility and Moorings on the Eurasian Steppe (5132) 2015
  • Reviewer, Left Coast Press https://www.lcoastpress.com/index.php ;Reviewed for publication the book manuscript Revolutions in the Desert: The Rise of Mobile Pastoralism in the Negev and the Arid Zones of the Southern Levant. ; This manuscript is ;272 pages in lenth, single spaced. 2015

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