Assaf Yasur-Landau (Ph.D. 2003, Tel Aviv University) is an associate professor at the Department of Maritime Civilizations, the head of the Laboratory for Coastal Archaeology and Underwater Survey, and a senior researcher at the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa. He has published extensively on interactions between the Aegean and the Levant during the second millennium B.C.E. and is the codirector of the excavations at Tel Kabri and the underwater excavations at Tel Dor.