Tzilla Eshel is a Ph.D. candidate in archaeology and a research associate in the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, where she completed her M.A. (2014, summa cum laude). Her dissertation topic is on the provenance of silver hoards from the Bronze and Iron Ages, based on Lead Isotope Analysis, and her master’s thesis (unpublished) was titled, Four Iron Age Silver Hoards from Northern Israel – Comparative Study. Eshel is coauthor of a number of articles dealing with the ancient use of silver.