He has published extensively on the Philistines and anthropological approaches to the archaeology of ancient Israel. Since 2005 he co-directs the excavations of Tel Kabri in Israel, where frescoes in the Middle Bronze Age palace have exposed long-distance connections with the Minoan world during the first half of the second millennium B.C.E. In addition to his terrestrial archaeological work, he is also conducting maritime archaeological excavations off the coast of Israel.