Issa Sarie, M.S.

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Lecturer of anthropology and archaeology at the Institute of archaeology/ al Quds University. Educated at Birzeit University; Yarmouk University and the Hebrew University. Fellow of the Albright Institute of archaeological research in Jerusalem. Visiting Fellow and Instructor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T), U.S.A (2006/2007). Training in anthropology (Human osteology, dental anthropology, field and laboratory work) in Service Départemental d'Archeologie de Val d'Oise/Paris in 1991-1992 and Centre de la Recherché Archeologiques (CNRS), Val Bonne/ France, in 1994.

Research Interest

• The roots of violence with the emerging of the settling communities in the Levant? Traced from their skeletal remains.
• The impact of Agriculture invention on the people's health status, subsistence and social activities.
• Rituals; religious beliefs and cultic practices of the Neolithic people of the Near East as appeared in their burial practices, offerings and marks on their bones.
• The impact of the transition from hunter-gatherer into sedentary life on the emerging of complex societies in villages and towns during the prehistoric Epi-paleolithic and Neolithic period in the Near East.
• Pleo-pathology and Paleo-demography of past population based on their archaeological bone remains and settlement patterns and size.