ANCIENT
FOODS AND FOODWAYS
Section Chair:
Albert Leonard, Jr., Department of Classics, University of Arizona,
ML 371, Tucson, AZ 85721-0001. Tel: 520 621-1689; Fax: 520 621-3678;
Email: albertl@u.arizona.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003.
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ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS: RECENT DISCOVERIES, NEW EDITIONS, AND NEW READINGS
Section
Chair: Christopher Rollston, Emmanuel School of Religion, One Walker
Dr., Johnson City, TN 37601. Tel: 423 461-1501; Fax: 423 926-6198;
Email: rollstonc@esr.edu.
One section is
planned for 2003. The focus of this proposed section will be on the
most recent developments within the field of epigraphy: new provenanced
discoveries, new editions, new readings and interpretations, and discussions
of epigraphic theory and method. The field of epigraphy will be defined
broadly, and will include Northwest Semitic (e.g., Aramaic and various
Aramaic dialects; Phoenician; Hebrew; Ammonite; Moabite; and Ugaritic),
Northeast Semitic (i.e., Akkadian), Southeast and Southwest Semitic
(e.g., Arabic, OSA, Ethiopic). In addition, submissions treating Sumerian
and Greek and Latin are also most welcome.
ANCIENT
MEDITERRANEAN TRADE
Section Chair:
Eric Cline, Dept of Classics and Semitics, George Washington University,
345 Phillips Hall, 801 22nd St. NW, Washington, DC 20052.
Tel: 202 994-0316; Fax: 202 994-2156; Email: ehcline@gwu.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003.
ARABIA
Section Chair:
David F. Graf, Department of History, University of Miami, POB 248107,
Coral Gables, FL 33124-4662. Tel: 305 284-5965; Email: dgraf@mail.as.miami.edu.
Two sessions
are planned for 2003: (1) The Nabataeans and Petra and (2) Archaeology
and Epigraphy in Arabia. For participants coming from the Middle
East, limited funding is available. Requests should be addressed to
David Graf at the above address.
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ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE PUBLIC: INTERPRETATION, PRESENTATION AND CONSERVATION
OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
One session is
planned for 2003. Section Chairs: Joseph Greene, Semitic Museum, Harvard
University, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, 02138. Tel: 617 495-5656;
Fax: 617 496-8904; Email: greene5@fas.harvard.edu; and Ann Killebrew,
Dept. of Classics and Mediterranean Studies/Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania
State Univ., 108 Weaver Building, University Park, PA 16802-5500.
Tel: 814 231-7780; Fax: 814 867-6294; Email: aek11@psu.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003. As archaeology enters the 21st century, excavators
are faced with increasing accountability to the site itself, to government
authorities, and to the public in general, both local and international.
This session will address issues relating to on-site conservation,
interpretation, presentation, and stewardship of archaeological sites
- issues that are increasingly an integral part of all field projects
in the region. Additional topics to be discussed are the relationship
between the archaeologist and the public, site ownership and management,
local community empowerment and dissemination of information about
sites. Session is closed: invited papers only.
ARCHAEOLOGY
OF ANATOLIA
Section
Chair: Sharon Steadman, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology, P.O. Box
2000, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY 13045. Tel: 607 257-‑3262;
Email: srsteadman@aol.com.
Two sessions
are planned for 2003. Themes: 1) Current Excavations; 2) Seaside
to Mountaintop: Settlements Across Anatolia. Limited space
available.
ARCHAEOLOGY
OF CYPRUS: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS ON CYPRUS
Section
Chairs: Dr. Danielle Parks, Brock University, Department of Classics,
St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, CANADA. Tel: 905 688 5550 (ext 3321);
Email: dparks@spartan.ac.brocku.ca; Dr. Ann-Marie Knoblauch, Dept
of Art and Art History, 201 Draper Rd (0103), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg,
VA 24061. Tel: 540 231-3170; Fax: 540 231-5761; Email: amk@vt.edu.
One session
is planned for 2003. This session celebrates the 25th anniversary
of the foundation of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute
in 1978. We invite papers focusing on all aspects of the history of
American archaeologists working on Cyprus both before and after the
foundation of CAARI.
ARCHAEOLOGY
OF JORDAN
Section
Chair: Bruce Routledge, Department of Anthropology, 325 University
Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 33rd & Spruce Streets,
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6398. Tel: 215 573-6295; Fax: 215 898-7462;
Email: routledg@sas.upenn.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003.
ARCHAEOLOGY
OF MESOPOTAMIA
Section
Chair: Constance E. Gane, Old Testament Dept., Seminary, Andrews University,
Berrien Spring, MI 49104-1500. Tel: 269 471-6345; Fax: 269 471-6202;
Email: cgane@andrews.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003. This section seeks submissions in all areas illuminated
by archaeology that relate to the material, social, and religious
culture, history and international relations, and texts of ancient
Mesopotamia.
THE
ARCHAEOLOGY OF PEOPLE
Section
Chairs: Walter Aufrecht, The University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge,
Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada. Tel: 403 329-2485; Fax: 403 329-2016; Email:
aufrecht@uleth.ca; and Meredith Chesson, University of Notre Dame.
Tel: 219 631-3775; Fax: 219 631-4268; Email: Meredith.Chesson.3@nd.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003, with the theme of “The Archaeology of Early Bronze
Age People: Celebrating the Contributions of Walter Rast and
Thomas Schaub.” This session honors the immense contributions
of Rast and Schaub to our understandings of life on the Southeastern
Dead Sea Plain and in the southern Levant during the Early Bronze
Age. Drawing on the research of bioarchaeologists, ethnoarchaeologists,
and archaeologists, this session strives to present reconstructions
of Early Bronze Age communities with people as active participants
in the creation of a society and its archaeological record. Participants
are encouraged to incorporate men, women, and children into their
reconstructions of the archaeological past, bridging the gap between
material remains we excavate to the people who created, used, and
discarded the objects, buildings, and bodies we find. Topics of inquiry
may include, but are not limited to, issues of individual and group
identity, gender, race, social differentiation, ethnicity, life histories,
craft specialization and production, diet and nutrition, exchange,
social organization, and conflict during the Early Bronze Age. Please note:
Session is now closed - invited papers only.
ARCHAEOLOGY
OF SYRIA
Section
Chair: Mark Chavalas, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-La-Crosse,
La Crosse, WI 54601. Tel: 608 785-8350; Fax: 608 785-8370; Email:
chavalas.mark@uwlax.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003. This section is concerned with all areas of Syria
that are illuminated by archaeology. These include a discussion of
recent archaeological excavations, history, religion, society, and
texts. There is the possibility of a second session if enough quality
papers are submitted.
ART
OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Section
Chair: Eleanor Guralnick, 1301 East 55th St, Chicago, IL 60615. Tel:
773 752-5069; Fax: 773 752-8680 (call before faxing); Email: eleanorguralnick@aol.com.
One session is
planned for 2003.
ARTIFACTS:
THE INSIDE STORY
Section
Chair: Elizabeth Friedman (Illinois Institute of Technology), 1369
E. Hyde Park Blvd., Apt. 1001, Chicago, IL 60615. Tel: 773 324-4813;
Email: esf@hydepark-chicago.org.
One session is
planned for 2003. This session welcomes submissions in which the
analysis of Near Eastern artifacts by means of physical or chemical
techniques has led to a new or re-interpretation of the archaeological
record. This year's theme will focus on high-temperature pyrotechnological
industries.
EGYPT
AND CANAAN
Section
Chair: K. Lawson Younger, Jr., Trinity International University, 2065
Half Day Rd., Deerfield, IL 60015. Tel: 847 317-8063; Fax: 847 317-8141;
Email: lyounger@trin.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003. The purpose of this section is to provide a venue
for dialogue between Egyptologists (who normally attend the ARCE conference)
and ASOR. Aspects of the Egyptian culture, religion, or history in
the Bronze or Iron Ages that shed light on the cultures, religions,
or history of other people in the ancient Near East or eastern Mediterranean
are welcome.
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ELIEZER LIPPA SUKENIK (1953-2003): "JEWISH ARCHAEOLOGY"
FIFTY YEARS LATER
Section
Chairs: Steven Fine, Univ. of Cincinnati, POB 210169, Cincinnati,
OH 45221-0169. Tel: 513 556-2297; Email: steven.fine@uc.edu; and Eric
Meyers, Duke University, 230C Gray Building, Durham, NC 27708; Email:
emc@acpub.duke.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003. The purpose of this section is to evaluate the contribution
of E.L. Sukenik to the study of Jewish antiquities fifty years after
Sukenik's death.
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THE ETHICS OF COLLECTING AND COMMUNICATING THE NEAR EASTERN PAST
Section
Chairs: Ellen Herscher, 3309 Cleveland Ave. NW, Washington DC, 20008;
Patty Gerstenblith, DePaul University College of Law, 25 East Jackson
Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604; and Morag Kersel, Dept. of Archaeology,
Cambridge University, Downing St., Cambridge, UK CB2 3DZ; Tel (w):
202 260-5234, (h) 202 547-3923, Email: mmk29@cam.ac.uk.
One session is
planned for 2003. Over the course of three years, papers in this section
will examine the ethics of collecting and disseminating the Near Eastern
past, the effects on the destruction of archaeological heritage, and
the consequences for our understanding of the past. Potential solutions
and compromises in the current debate will also be considered. In
the first year of this section, papers will focus on fakes and forgeries.
Stories of fakes and forgeries have been part of the history of the
Near East for centuries. Near Eastern scholars often overlook provenience
when the importance of a find is under consideration. Some antiquities
dealers falsify the alleged find spot of looted antiquities, thus
introducing more fabricated information into the archaeological record.
Underestimating the harmful effects of these distortions, institutions
and individuals often acquire and display items with questionable
background, thus creating false provenience and providing credibility
to forgeries. Have Near Eastern researchers become complacent in the
search for provenience and artifact legitimacy? Has the continued
existence of fakes in collections and museums skewed the archaeological
record? What should be the responses of the archaeological community
to these problems in attempting to ensure the legitimacy and accuracy
of the historical and archaeological record?
GEOGRAPHIC
INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Section
Chair: Gary Christopherson, Center for Applied Spatial Analysis, Box
3, Harvill 460, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. Tel: 520
621-6267; Fax: 520 621-6181; Email: garych@casa.arizona.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003.
HEBREW
BIBLE, HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Section
Chair: Dale W. Manor, College of Bible & Religion, Harding University,
P.O. Box 12280, Searcy, AR 72149. Tel: 501 279-4456; Fax: 501 279-4042;
Email: dmanor@harding.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003.
INDIVIDUAL
SUBMISSIONS
Section
Chair: Susan L. Cohen, Dept of History and Philosophy, Montana State
University, Bozeman, MT 59717; Tel: 406 994-5202; Email: scohen@montana.edu.
Two sessions
are planned for 2003. This section is for papers which do not fit
into other sessions in the program. Submissions must be made by Email.
LANDSCAPE
ARCHAEOLOGY: RESEARCH QUESTIONS IN ARID ZONE ARCHAEOLOGY
Section
Chair: Benjamin Saidel, 2126A N. Forgeus St, Tucson, AZ, 85716. Tel:
520 784-0641; Fax:: 520 621-2088; Email: benjaminsaidel@hotmail.com.
One session
is planned for 2003. This session seeks to discuss new research questions
pertaining to archaeological and ethnoarchaeological investigations
of arid zone populations in the Near East. The chronological span
of this session ranges from the Epipaleolithic through the Ottoman
periods.
MARITIME/NAUTICAL
ISSUES
Section
Chairs: Aaron J. Brody, Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Avenue,
Berkeley, CA 94709. Tel: 510 849-8201; Fax: 510 845-8948; Email:
abrody@psr.edu; and Ezra Marcus, Recanati Center for Maritime Studies,
University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel. Email: ezra@research.haifa.ac.il.
One session is
planned for 2003. Papers in this session will be concerned with
the Kyrenia shipwreck. Invited papers only. 3/10/03:
The Kyrenia theme has been postponed to a future year. The session
is now open to submitted papers.
MATERIAL
CULTURE AND HISTORY
Section
Chairs: Organizers: Øystein LaBianca, Dept of Behavioral Sciences,
Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI 49104. Tel: 269 471-1290;
Fax: 269 471-3108; Email: labianca@andrews.edu; and Bert deVries (Calvin
College).
One session is
planned for 2003. The purpose of this section is to feature current
and promote new research on the nature of tribal and supratribal polities
in Syro-Palestine during the Ottoman Centuries (ca AD 1600-1900).
While the primary goal of the section is to facilitate networking
and sharing of data sources and results among scholars working on
this and related topics, a secondary goal of the session is to heighten
interest and awareness among ASOR scholars in the Ottoman period as
a crucial source of insight and understanding for development of theoretical
models for understanding long-term indigenous survival strategies
in this region. A special effort will be made to include scholars
from Middle Eastern countries and elsewhere who are doing cutting-edge
research on this topic.
CASTING
THE FIRST STONE: RECENT STUDIES OF GROUND AND CHIPPED STONE TOOLS
IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT
Section
Chairs: Jennie R. Ebeling, University of Evansville, 1800 Lincoln
Avenue, Evansville, IN 47722; Tel: 812 488-1019; Fax: 812 474-4079;
Email: je55@evansville.edu; and Yorke M. Rowan, Department of Anthropology,
Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, National Museum of Natural
History, MRC 112, Washington, DC 20013-7012; Fax: 202 357-2208;
Email: Rowan.Yorke@NMNH.SI.EDU.
One session is
planned for 2003. This section relates the results of recent studies
of ground and chipped stone assemblages from sites in the southern
Levant dating from late prehistory to the historical periods. Although
the analysis of ground and chipped stone tools still lags behind that
of other material culture assemblages in this region, emerging specialists
have demonstrated the potential these objects show for understanding
diverse phenomena in antiquity. We welcome submissions on any theme
relating to stone tools for ASOR 2003, but are particularly interested
in papers that explore the economics of stone tool production and
exchange.
ORGANIC
APPROACHES TO NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY
Section
Chair: Edward F. Maher, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Illinois,
1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607; Tel: 312 413-3570;
Fax: 312 413-3573; Email: efmaher@hotmail.com.
One session is
planned for 2003. A number of themes will be explored in this session
that may include diet, but will also address a number of other phenomena
from an organic perspective including social stratification, technological
development, cult, symbolism, trade, pathology, and differential modes
of resource exploitation and management. These and other topics will
be addressed through the analysis of the biological and botanical
components of prehistoric and historic archaeological sites from the
Near East. Presenters are encouraged to adopt a multidisciplinary
perspective, and their work should emphasize the wider cultural aspects
of their investigations.
OUTREACH
EDUCATION
Section
Chair: Gloria London, 7701 Crest Drive NE, Seattle WA 98115; Tel:
206 522-6426; Email: galondon@earthlink.com.
This session
will likely be held outside of the regular meeting schedule and separate
registration will be required.
NEW
TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR USES IN ARCHAEOLOGY (POSTER SESSION)
Section
Chairs: Rhonda Root, Division of Architecture, Andrews University,
Berrien Springs, MI 49104-0450. Tel: 269-471-3496; Fax:
269-471-6261; Email: rroot@andrews.edu and Gary Christopherson, Center
for Applied Spatial Analysis, Box 3, Harvill 460, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ 85721. Tel: 520-621-6267; Fax: 520-621-6181; Email:
garych@casa.arizona.edu.
One poster session
is planned for 2003 with displays remaining available throughout the
conference. Both static and non-static(digital) displays are
welcome. Depending on content, a poster display might include
a formal presentation (10-15 minutes) during the session. All
presenters will be available for questions during the session. After
the formal poster session, static posters will be publicly displayed
for the remainder of the conference; digital displays (using the presenter's
own equipment) will be available at the convenience of the presenter.
Presenters must arrive with poster(s) fully prepared and ready for
display. One “best of show” award, with a cash prize of $100, will
go to the best poster of the session; the competition will be open
to all poster presenters.
PREHISTORIC
ARCHAEOLOGY
Section
Chairs: Gary O. Rollefson, Department of Anthropology, Whitman College,
Walla Walla, WA 99362. Tel: 509 527-4938; Fax: 509 527-5026; Email:
rollefgo@whitman.edu; and Ted Banning, Dept of Anthropology, University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3. Tel: 416 978-2315, Fax: 416
978-3217; Email: banning@chass.utoronto.ca.
Two sessions
are planned for 2003. The first session will consist of papers on
Neolithic and Chalcolithic themes; the second session will be on Paleolithic
and Epipaleolithic themes. Both sessions are open to submitted papers.
PROBLEMS
IN CERAMIC TYPOLOGY
Section
Chair: Celia Bergoffen, 329 West 76th St. #5, New York, NY 10023.
Tel./Fax: 212 721-9855; Email: CB18@nyu.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003. The session will feature papers that attempt to
answer the questions of why, when (in what historical circumstances),
and how pottery shapes or styles of decoration have been copied, imitated
or adapted by one culture from another; period and civilization open.
REPORTS
ON CURRENT EXCAVATIONS—ASOR AFFILIATED
Section
Chair: Rachel Hallote, 56 Irving Place, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Tel:
914 637-6098; Fax: 914 637-6107; Email: rachel.hallote@purchase.edu.
Two sessions
are planned for 2003.
REPORTS
ON CURRENT EXCAVATIONS—NON-ASOR AFFILIATED
Section
Chair: Bob Mullins, 55989 Onaga Trail, Yucca Valley, CA 92284; Tel:
760 228-0929 (H); Email: robertalanmullins@hotmail.com.
Two sessions
are planned for 2003.
ROMAN
AND BYZANTINE PALESTINE
Section
Chair: Jürgen Zangenberg, Bergische Universitaet, Fachbereich 02:
Ev. Theologie, D-42097, Wuppertal, Germany. Tel: 49 202 439-2352,
Fax: 49 202 439-3130, Email: zangenberg@t-online.de.
One session is
planned for 2003. Papers submitted for this session should be devoted
to the archaeology of Palestine during the Roman and Byzantine periods.
SOUTHERN
LEVANTINE ARCHAEOLOGY — CROSSING MODERN POLITICAL BORDERS
Section
Chairs: Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, 123 Upland Tr., Bala Cynwyd, PA, 19004.
Tel: 610 664-7829, Email: bloch-smith@msn.com; and Gunnar Lehmann,
Dept. of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev, POB 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel. Tel: 972 7 6499180;
Email: gunnar@bgumail.bgu.ac.il.
Contemporary
religious and political barriers hinder communication among archaeologists
working in the southern Levant (Lebanon, Israel, and the Palestinian
Authority territories). This session aims to disseminate information
from recent excavations and facilitate communication among archaeologists
working in the region. Possible topics include a particular
time period, an historical event such as a king's campaign, regional
material culture or architecture, or cultural systems adapted
to particular ecological zones.
STORIES
OF LEGITIMACY BY THE KINGS OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Section
Chair: Peter Feinman, Institute of History, Archaeology and Education,
PO Box 41, Purchase, NY 10577. Tel: 914 933-0440; Fax: 914 933-0440;
Email: feinmanp@ihare.org.
One session is
planned for 2003. Papers which deal with Mesopotamia, Greece, Egypt,
and the Bible are welcomed.
SYMPOSIUM
ON RECENT RESEARCH IN THE MADABA PLAINS REGION OF JORDAN
Section
Chairs: Debra Foran and Andrew Graham, Department of Near and Middle
Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, 4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto,
ON M5S 1C1; Fax: 416 978-3305; Email: dforan@chass.utoronto.ca; andrew.graham@utoronto.ca.
Two sessions
are planned for 2003.
THEORETICAL
AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO NEAR EASTERN AND EAST MEDITERRANEAN
ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Section
Chairs: Louise Hitchcock,1309 Palisades Dr. Pacific Palisades, CA
90272-2153. Tel: 310 454-5098 (H); Email: lhitchco@ucla.edu or ashlarblocks@yahoo.com;
Sarah Costello, 3608 Audubon Place #1, Houston, TX 77006, USA, 713-521-9217;
Email: scostell@binghamton.edu; and Andrew McCarthy, University of
Edinburgh, School of Arts, Culture and the Environment, University
of Edinburgh, The Old High School, 12 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh,
Scotland, UK EH1 1LT; Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2553; Fax: +44 (0)131 650
2378; E-mail: Ephphilon@aol.com.
One session is
planned for 2003. As section chairs, we actively solicit submissions
on all areas of explicitly theoretical and anthropological approaches
to ancient Near Eastern and east Mediterranean art and archaeology.
These approaches include the so-called “New Art History,” all interpretive
approaches to the material culture of the Ancient Near East, as well
as applied anthropology from the four-fields of anthropology (and
sub-fields) including archaeology, linguistic anthropology, physical
anthropology, and cultural anthropology. Interpretive approaches that
have characterized archaeological theory in the past have included
systems theory, sampling, cognitive archaeology, chaos theory, meme
theory, semiotics and structuralism, post-structuralism, contextual
analysis, Marxist approaches, material culture studies, concepts of
time and space, structuration theory, phenomenology and performance,
habitus, structured deposition, the Annales school, discourse
analysis, spatial analysis, landscape, and other related areas including
hermeneutics, dialectics, alternative constructions of gender identity,
theories dealing with cultural and ethnic identity, ideology, social
and critical theory; historiography, critical approaches to museology
and heritage management, and the politics of the past. In 2003, we
are particularly interested in abstracts dealing with explicitly theoretical
and critical approaches to the construction of cultural and national
identity in the past and the present, in papers dealing with the politics
of the past, and in papers elucidating a broader east Mediterranean
cultural network, however all approaches will be considered.
WORKSHOP
ON CAESAREA MARITIMA
Section
Chair: Kenneth Holum, Department of History, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742. Tel: 301 405‑4315; Fax: 301 314‑9399;
Email: kh22@umail.umd.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003. Session is closed; invited papers only.
WORKSHOP
ON THE ROMAN AQABA PROJECT
Section
Chair: S. Thomas Parker, Department of History, Box 8108, North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8108. Tel: 919 515-2483; Fax:
919 515-3886; Email: thomas_parker@ncsu.edu.
One
session is planned for 2003. Session is closed; invited papers only.
THE
WORLD OF WOMEN: GENDER AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Section
Chair: Beth Alpert Nakhai, Committee on Judaic Studies, University
of Arizona, 816 E. University Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721. Tel: 520 206-9748;
Fax: 520 624-6127; Email: bnakhai@u.arizona.edu.
One session is
planned for 2003. This session explores the interface between gender
and archaeology, and the ways in which archaeology and related disciplines
can together reconstruct the world of women in antiquity. Submitted
papers should explore subjects such as the household and domestic
life, industry and commerce, religion, and so forth. Topics that
do not fall within these guidelines may be included, as well.