AKADEMISCHE TÄTIGKEITEN UND POSITIONEN

seit 2025   

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Freien Universität Berlin

2023–2025   

Gastwissenschaftler am Deutschen Archäologischen Institut, Berlin

2020–2023   

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Deutschen Archäologischen Institut, Berlin

2017   

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Deutschen Archäologischen Institut, Berlin

2005           

Lehrkraft und Schnittleiter, Tel Bet Shemesh Archaeological Project, Universität Tel Aviv

2004–2013   

Lehrkraft und Techniker, Laboratory for Comparative Microarchaeology, Universität Tel Aviv 

2003–2015   

Keramik-Analytiker und Lehrkraft, Tel Bet Yerah Research Project, Universität Tel Aviv 

AKADEMISCHER WERDEGANG

2017–2019   

Postdoc am Deutschen Archäologischen Institut. Projekt „Maikop Phenomenon of the Northern Caucasus: Back to Basics”

2015–2017   

Postdoc am Deutschen Archäologischen Institut. Projekt „Domesticating People: Pottery Technology in the Process of Neolithization of the Southern Caucasus“

2008–2016

Promotion in Archäologie, Universität Tel Aviv. Dissertation: „Khirbet Kerak Ware and The Early Transcaucasian Culture: Technological Behavior as Cultural Signifier"

2003–2007

MA in Archäologie, Universität Tel Aviv. Thema: „Khirbet Kerak Ware and Local Ceramics at Tel Bet Yerah in the Early Bronze Age 3: Petrographical and Technological Aspects"

Aktuelles Forschungsprojekt

• Contextualizing the Leylatepe Phenomenon of the Southern Caucasus

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Neolithikum, Chalkolithikum und Bronzezeit in der Levante und im Kaukasus
• Sozialer und kultureller Kontext der Technologie
• Migration, Identität und materielle Kultur
• Interkulturelle Kontakte
• Kura-Araxes Phänomen
• Maikop- und Leylatepe-Phänomene
• Keramikanalyse
• Archäometrie

Forschungsprojekte (Auswahl)

• Technologische Analyse von Keramik aus der frühen bis mittleren Bronzezeit aus Irmis Rka, Georgien (mit Dr. E. Luneau und Dr. G. Chingiranishvili)
• Analyse und Veröffentlichung der spätchalkolithischen Siedlung Teghut, Armenien (mit Prof. R. Badalyan, Dr. A. Harutyunyan und Dr. K. Hruby) 
• Agriculture and food practices in the Late Chalcolithic Southern Caucasus (mit Dr. K. Joka, Dr. K. Hruby, Dr. G. Maurer und Prof. D. Langutt)
• Technologie der spätchalkolithischen Leylatepe-Keramik (Aserbaidschan, Georgien und Armenien)
• Sereginskoe Excavations and Publication Project, Adygea (mit Dr. O. Brileva, Institut für Archäologie, Russische Akademie der Wissenschaften) 
• Tel Yaqush Research and Excavation Project, Jordan Valley (mit Dr. Y. Rotem)
• Domesticating People: Pottery Technology in the Process of Neolithization of the Southern Caucasus (mehrere Kooperationspartner in Aserbaidschan, Deutschland, Frankreich und Georgien)
• Comparative Technological Study of Kura-Araxes Ceramics and Their Derivatives (mit Prof. R. Greenberg; mehrere Kooperationspartner in Aserbaidschan, Armenien, Daghestan, Georgien, der Türkei und den USA) 

Schriftenverzeichnis Dr. Mark Iserlis (orcid.org/0000-0003-0746-8215)

Herausgeber

• Iserlis, M., Rotem, Y. and Davidovich, U. eds. 2023. Regionalism, Social Boundaries and Cultural Interaction in the Levantine Early Bronze Age. Levant 55.1.

Peer Review-Zeitschriften

• Iserlis, M. 2009. Khirbet Kerak Ware at Bet Yerah: Segregation and Integration through Technology. Tel Aviv 36: 181–195.

• Iserlis, M., Greenberg, R., Badalyan, R. and Y. Goren. 2010. Bet Yerah, Aparan III and Karnut I: Preliminary Observations on Kura-Araks Homeland and Diaspora Ceramic Technologies. TÜBA-Ar: Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Archaeology 13: 245–262.

• Greenberg, R., Paz, S., Wengrow, D. and Iserlis, M. 2012. Tel Bet Yerah: Hub of the Early Bronze Age Levant. Near Eastern Archaeology 75.2: 88–107.

• Nativ, A., Iserlis, M. and Paz, Y. 2012. Transformation of Lodian Pottery Assemblages as Recorded at the Site of Yesodot, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 42: 115–135.

• Groman-Yaroslavski, I., Iserlis, M.and Eisenberg, M. 2013. Potter's use of Canaanean Flint Blades in the Early Bronze Age Site of Qiryat Ata, Northern Israel. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 13.1: 171–184.

• Taxel, I., Iserlis, M. and Yannai, E. 2013. The Inside Out of Childhood Archaeology: Petrographic and X-Ray Analysis of Early Islamic Ceramic Rattles from Mishmar David (Israel) and Their Cultural Implications. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 1.3: 219–227.

• Gadot, Y., Finkelstein, I., Iserlis, M., Maier, A., Nahshoni, P., Namdar, D. 2014. Tracking Down Cult: Production, Function and Content of Chalices in Iron Age Philistia. Tel Aviv 41: 55–76.

• Greenberg, R., Shimelmitz, R. and Iserlis, M. 2014. New Evidence for the Anatolian Origins of ‘Khirbet Kerak Ware People’ at Tel Bet Yerah (Israel), ca 2800 BC. Paléorient 40.2: 185–204.

• Iserlis, M., Goren, Y., Hovsepyan, I. and Greenberg, R. 2015. Early Kura-Araxes Ceramic Technology in the 4th Millennium BC Site of Tsaghkasar, Armenia. Paléorient 41.1: 9–24.

• Nativ, A., Shimelmitz, R., Sapir-Hen, L. and Ktalav, I. and Iserlis, M. 2017. Ard el-Samra: A Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age and Intermediate Bronze Age Site at the Acco Plain. Salvage Excavation Reports 10: 1–72.

• Greenberg, R., Ashkenazi, H., Iserlis, M., Paz, Y. Berger, A., Rotem, Y., Shimelmitz R. and Paz, S. 2017. The Circles Building (Granary) at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak): A New Synthesis (Excavations of 1945–1946, 2003–2015). Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 378: 163–202.

• Rotem, Y., Iserlis, M., Höflmayer, F. and Rowan, Y. 2019. Tel Yaqush – An Early Bronze Age village in the Central Jordan Valley, Israel. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 381: 107–144.

• Iserlis, M., Steiniger, D. and Greenberg, R. 2019. Contact between First Dynasty Egypt and Specific Sites in the Levant: New Evidence from Ceramic Analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24: 1023–1040.

• Iserlis, M. 2019. Insight into Ceramic Technology at the Maikop Site of Ust-Dzheguta, Karachay-Cherkessia. Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia 47.2: 13–23.

• Greenberg, R. and Iserlis, M. 2020. A Note on First Dynasty Egypt, Tel Bet Yerah, and the Origins of Commodity Exchange on the Levantine Seaboard. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 27: 38–50.

• Iserlis, M. 2020. Local Dynamics and the Emergence of Pottery Traditions in the Neolithic Southern Caucasus. Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 49: 1–48.

• Brileva, O.A, Iserlis, M and Dneprovskiy, K.A. 2020. New Analysis of Stratigraphy of the Sereginskoe Settlement excavated in 1986-1988. Brief Communications of the Institute of Archaeology 259: 114–131.

• Iserlis, M., Brileva, O.A. and Dneprovskiy, K.A. 2020. The General Plan and Architecture of Constructions at the Sereginskoe Settlement. Brief Communications of the Institute of Archaeology 259: 132–147.

• Iserlis, M., Brileva, O.A. and Dneprovskiy, K.A. 2021. Initial Description of Ceramic Industries at the Sereginskoe Settlement. Brief Communications of the Institute of Archaeology 263: 409‒427.

• Iserlis, M. 2021. Technological Choices and Socio-Cultural Landscapes in the Southern Caucasus during the Neolithization Processes (6th Mill. BCE). Eurasia Antiqua 23: 117–136.

• Rotem, Y., Iserlis, M., Rosenblum, A., & Rothman, M. S. 2021. A Late 4th Millennium BCE Cylinder-Seal Amulet from Tel Yaqush and its Contribution to the Understanding of EB I–II Communities in the Central Jordan Valley. Levant 53.1: 13–29. DOI 10.1080.00758914.2021.1926723

• Greenberg, R., Iserlis, M. and Paz, S. 2022. Twenty Years of Kura-Araxes Research at Tel Bet Yerah: What we have learned. Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies 16.1-2: 166–181.

• Hruby, K., Paz, S., Rotem, Y., Iserlis, M. and Rosenberg, D. 2022. Tracing Social Dynamics of the Khirbet Kerak Ware Diaspora and Local Early Bronze Age III Jordan Valley Communities: Food Processing and other Ground Stone Tools as Cultural Markers. Mi-teḳufat ha-ʾeven Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 52: 115–154.

• Iserlis, M., Rotem, Y. and Davidovich, U. 2023. Regionalism, Social Boundaries and Cultural Interaction in the Levantine Early Bronze Age. Levant 55.1: 1–5. DOI 10.1080.00758914.2023.2206697

• Brileva, O.A., Iserlis, M., Svoisky, Yu. M., Romanenko, E.V., Ziganshina, A.A. and Pichugina, A.S. 2024. The Results of Exploration in 2021 at the Sereginskoe Settlement in the Shovgenovsky District of the Republic of Adygea. Herald of Daghestan Scientific Center 95: 51–58. DOI 10.31029.vestdnc95.8

• Iserlis, M., Almamedov, Kh., Hruby, K., Maurer, G., Joka, K., Aghalarov, M., Heit, I. and Poulmarc’h, M. 2025. Preliminary Results of the Study of Two Late Chalcolithic Settlements in the Karabakh Steppe. Tempus Pontem: Azerbaijan Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology I.1: 30–43.

Sammelbände

• Paz, Y. and Iserlis, M. 2009. Golanite Production and Distribution Center of Cooking Pots during the Early Bronze Age II. In: Rosen, S.A. and Roux, V. eds. Techniques and People: 2 Anthropological Perspectives on Technology in the Archaeology of the Proto-Historic and Early Historic Periods in the Southern Levant.Mémoires et travaux du Centre de recherché français de Jérusalem 9, de Boccard, Paris: 97–108.

• Iserlis, M. and Thareani, Y. 2011. Petrographic Analysis. In: Thaerani, Y. ed. Tel Aroer: An Iron Age II Caravan Town and a Roman Settlement in the Negev: 179–187.

• Iserlis, M. and Paz, Y. 2011. Urban Cooking Pot in the Early Bronze Age II-III: A Comparative Technological Perspective. In: Aviram, Y., Gitin, S., Mazar, A., Neeman, N., Zuckerman, S. and Stern, E. eds. Eretz-Israel. Amnon Ben-Tor Volume. Jerusalem: 38–45. (in Hebrew)

• Greenberg, R. and Iserlis, M. 2012. A Comparative Technological Study of Kuro-Araxes Ceramics and their Derivatives: Project Design and First Results. In: Avetisyan, P. and Bobokhyan, A. eds. 2012. Archaeology of Armenia in Regional Context. Proceedings of the International Conference dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography Held on September 15-17, 2009 in Yerevan. Gitutyun, Yerevan: 70–75.

• Iserlis, M., Greenberg, R. and Y. Goren. 2012. A Technological Study of the Early Bronze Age III Pottery. In: Mazar, A. ed. Excavations at Tel Beth Shean 1989-1996.Volume IV, the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE. Jerusalem: 318–337.

• Golding-Meir, N. and Iserlis, M. 2012. Petrographic Examination of Ceramics. In: Avrutis, V.W. Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age I Remains at Nesher-Ramla Quarry. Jerusalem: 255–268.

• Taxel, I. and Iserlis, M. 2014. Two-part Ceramic Incense Burners in Late Roman and Byzantine Palestine: Technological, Regional and Ethno-Religious Aspects. In: Fischer-Genz, B., Gerber, Y. and Hamel, H. eds. Roman Pottery in the Near East. Local Production and Regional Trade. Oxford: 159–169. (GS citations = 10)

• Greenberg, R. and Iserlis, M. 2014. The Early Bronze Age Pottery Industries. In: Greenberg, R. ed. Bet Yeraḥ—The Early Bronze Age Mound, Vol. II: Urban Structure and Material Culture, 1933–1986 Excavations. IAA Reports 54: 53–150.

• Iserlis, M., Fantalkin, A. and Tal. O. 2015. Optical Mineralogy Analysis of Selected Pottery Finds of the Iron Age IIB. In: Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. Tell Qudadi: An Iron Age II fortress on the Central Mediterranean Coast of Israel (with References to Earlier and Later Periods). Colloqua Antiqua. Leuven-Paris-Wapole: 70–81.

• Iserlis, M. 2015. Thin-section Analysis of Samaritan Oil Lamps and Incense Bowl. In: Tal, O. and Taxel, I. eds. Samaritan Cemeteries and Tombs in the Central Coastal Plain: Archaeology and History of the Samaritan Settlement outside Samaria (ca. 300–700 CE). Ägypten und Altes Testament 82: 223–228.

• Iserlis, M. and Goren, Y. 2016. Petrographic Analysis. In: Herzog, Z and Singer-Avitz, L. eds. Beer-Sheba III: The Early Iron IIA Enclosed Settlement and the Late Iron IIA-Iron IIB Cities (Tel Aviv University Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series). Volume II: The Pottery. Tel Aviv: 1029–1042.

• Iserlis, M. 2018. Bazovoe opisanie Maikopskoi keramiki: pervye rezultaty [Basic Description of Maikop Pottery: Preliminary results]. In: Kochkarov, U. Yu. ed. XXX Krupnovskie chteniya po arheologii Severnogo Kavkaza. Karachaevsk. (in Russian). Kochkarov, U. Yu. ed. Kavkaz v sisteme kulturnykh svyazei Evrazii v drevnosti i srednevekovye: 87–89. (in Russian)

• Iserlis, M. 2018. Sioni und Tsopi – Bauern und Viehzüchter. Ihre Rolle in den kulturellen Transformationen des 5. und 4. Jahrtausends v. Chr. In: Giemsch, L. und Hansen, S. (Hrsg.), Gold & Wein. Georgiens älteste Schätze. Mainz am Rhein: 62–73.

• Iserlis, M. 2019. Being Maikop Potters: the Results of Technological Analysis. In: Polyakov, A.V. and Tkach, E.S. eds. Antiquities of East Europe, South Asia and South Siberia in the Context of Connections and Interactions within the Eurasian Cultural Space (New Data and Concepts): II.Connections, Contacts and Interactions between Ancient Cultures of Northern Eurasia and Civilizations of the East during the Palaeometal Period (IV-I mil. BC). St. Petersburg: 32–34.

• Iserlis, M. 2020. Optical Mineralogy Analysis of Samaritan Oil Lamps from Apollonia-Arsuf. In: Tal, O. and Taxel, I. Apollonia-Arsuf: Final Report of the Excavations. Volume II: Excavations Outside the Medieval Town Walls. Tel Aviv: 194–200.

• Iserlis, M. 2021. Resisting Innovation: Kura-Araxes against the Potter’s Wheel. In: Giemsch, L. and Hansen, S. eds. The Caucasus: bridge between the urban centres in Mesopotamia and the Pontic steppes in the 4th and 3rd millennium BC: the transfer of knowledge and technologies between East and West in the Bronze Age: proceedings of the Caucasus conference, Frankfurt am Main, November 28-December 1, 2018 = Der Kaukasus: Brücke zwischen den urbanen Zentren Mesopotamiens und der pontischen Steppe im 4. und 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: der Transfer von Wissen und Technologien zwischen Ost und West in der Bronzezeit: Ergebnisse der Kaukasus-Konferenz. Regensburg: 223–234.

• Iserlis, M. and Greenberg, R. 2023. Ceramic Technology at the Kura-Araxes I and II Site of Khizanaant Gora, Shida Kartli, Georgia. In: Grekyan, Y.H. and Bobokhyan, A. eds. Systemizing the Past (Pavel Avetisyan Fests.). Oxford: 172–188.

• Iserlis, M. 2025. A Technological Study of the Late Chalcolithic Pottery In: Jalabadze, M., Chkartishvili, N., Bedianashvili, G., Chilingarashvili, G. and Chaduneli, N. Berikldeebi Settlement from the Chalcolithic to the Early Iron Age. Tbilisi: Georgian National Museum: 370–387.

Fachaufsätze

• Alməmmədov, X. and İserlis, M. Qarabağın Leylatəpə fenomeni. Məmmədəli Hüseynovun daş dövrü arxeologiyasına verdiyi töhvələr. Baki: 80–84. (in Aserbaidschanisch, englische Zusammenfassung)

• Bastert-Lamprichs, K., Boroffka, R., Hansen, S., Iserlis, M., Krumnow, J., Schlotzhauer, U., Teufer, M., Thomalsky, J., Uhl, R. und Wagner, M. 2023. e-Jahresbericht 2022 des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts – Eurasien-Abteilung. DOI 10.34780.6j22-a2p9.

• Iserlis, M. 2023. Leylatepe und Janavartepe: zwei Siedlungen des 4. Jahrtausends v. Chr. in der Gharabagh –Steppe, Aserbaidschan. In: Archäologie in Eurasien. Berlin: 72–73.

• Iserlis, M. 2023. Tel Yaqush: Die Geschichte eines kleinen Dorfes. In: Archäologie in Eurasien. Berlin: 78–79.

• Boroffka, N., Hansen, S., Hellström, K., Hosner, D., Iserlis, M., Krumnow, J., Reinhold, S., Schlotzhauer, U., Teufer, M., Thomalsky, J., Uhl, R. und Wagner, M. 2024. e-Jahresbericht 2023 des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts – Eurasien-Abteilung. DOI 10.34780.6f36-c31f.

• Alməmmədov, X., İserlis, M., Ağalarov, M., Hruby, K., Babazadə, Ə., Qasımov, G., Maurer, G., Joka, K. Heit, İ. and Poulmarch, M. 2024. Qarabağın Leylatəpə fenomeni layihəsi çərçivəsində Azərbaycan-Almaniya arxeoloji ekspedisiyasının apardığı tədqiqatlar. Azərbaycanda arxeoloji və antropoloji tədqiqatlar: nəticələr və perspektivlər. Baki: 30–34. (in Aserbaidschanisch, englische Zusammenfassung)