1999 Annual Meeting - Academic Schedule

AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH

1999 ANNUAL MEETING ACADEMIC SCHEDULE

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Wednesday 17 November

A1 Salon I, II

7:00pm-8:30pm Plenary Session on the Future of Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant

Douglas Clark (Walla Walla College), Presiding

Introduction (10 mins)

1) James D. Muhly, Director (The American School of Classical Studies at Athens), "Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean: Where We Went Wrong in the 20th Century and How We Can Do Better in the 21st" (30 mins)

2) Neil A. Silberman (Archaeology Magazine), "A Century of American Archaeology in the Middle East: Looking Back and Looking Ahead" (30 mins)

3) Robert S. Merrillees (Director, Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute), Respondent (20 mins)

Thursday 18 November

A2 Dana

8:30am-10:30am Arabia, Session I

David F. Graf (University of Miami), Presiding

4) Christopher Edens (Northwestern University), "Bronze Age Developments in Highland Yemen" (20 mins)

5) George E. Mendenhall (University of Michigan), "The Nature and History of the Midianite Confederation" (20 mins)

6) Juris Zahrins (Southwest Missouri State University), Response and Discussion (15 mins)

7) David J. Johnson (Brigham Young University), "Excavation and Survey of Non-elite Nabataean Funerary, Domestic and Cultic Features, Wadi Mataha, Petra" (20 mins)

8) Fawzi Zayadine (Department of Antiquities, Jordan), "New Discoveries at the Qasr al-Bint Temple at Petra" (Subject to funding by Kress) (15 mins)

9) David F. Graf (University of Miami), "New Nabataean Inscriptions from the Hisma (Southern Jordan)" (20 mins)

Discussion (10 mins)

A3 Coolidge

8:30am-10:30am New Discoveries from Material Science in the Archaeology of the Near East

Michael Sugerman (Peabody Museum, Harvard University), Presiding

10) Michelle Bonogofsky (University of California, Berkeley), "A Radiometric Examination of 8,500 year old Plastered Skulls from Jericho" (20 mins)

11) Elizabeth Friedman (University of Chicago), "Elements as Proxies of Environmental Change: The Amuq Valley" (20 mins)

12) Daniella Bar-Yosef (Peabody Museum, Harvard University), "Bangles, Food and Money: Mollusc Shells from the Archaeology of the Levant" (20 mins)

13) Carolina Aznar (Harvard University), "Phoenicians and Natives in Northern Tunisia: A Petrographic Analysis of 7th-5th c. BC Pottery from the Region of Carthage (Tunisia)" (20 mins)

14) Jan Gunneweg (Hebrew University), "Does the Provenience of Qumran Pottery Shed Light on the Origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls?" (20 mins)

Discussion (20 mins)

A4 Salon VI, VII

8:30am-10:30am Poster Display

Judith Cochran (Modesto, California), Presiding

15) Niel Bierling (Ada Christian School and Phoenix Data Systems), "Eureka! Project" (15 mins)

16) Jonathan Lawrence (University of Notre Dame), "Salvation Symbolized: Baptismal Imagery in a 6th Century Baptismal Font from Kelibia, Tunisia" (15 mins)

17) Michelle Bonogofsky (University of California, Berkeley), "Bioarchaeological Snapshots: Skeletal Markers at Early Neolithic ªAin Ghazal and Jericho" (15 mins)

18) Christina Kahrl (Museum of Texas Tech University), "Preventive Conservation in Near Eastern Archaeological Sites" (15 mins)

19) Kelly Gilbride (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville), "Byzantine Bioarchaeology" (15 mins)

20) Samuel M. Paley (SUNY Buffalo), Richard P. Sobolewski (Polish Excavations at Nimrud), Alison B. Synder (University of Oregon at Eugene), Donald H. Sanders (Learning Sites, Inc.), "The Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud, a VR Model" (15 mins)

21) Richard Cleave (ROHR Productions, Ltd.), "Recent Advances in the use of Satellite Imagery of the Holy Land" (15 mins)

22) Rhonda Root (Andrews University), "The Role of an Artist on a Dig" (15 mins)

A5 Salon I, II

8:30am-10:30am Reports on Current Excavations, ASOR Affiliated, Session I

Sidnie White Crawford (University of Nebraska), Presiding

23) Farland H. Stanley, Jr. (University of Oklahoma), "The Combined Caesarea Expeditions: The 1999 Field Season at Caesarea Maritima" (25 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

24) Burton MacDonald (St. Francis Xavier University), "Preliminary Report on the First Season of the ‘Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey’" (25 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

25) Rudolph Dornemann (American Schools of Oriental Research), "The 1999 Season of Excavations at Tell Qarqur, Syria" (25 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

26) Steven Falconer, Patricia Fall, and Jennifer Jones (Arizona State University), "Recent Excavations of the Jordan Valley, Village Project, 1996/97" (25 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

A6 Longfellow

10:00am-12:45pm EUREKA! Satellite Link-up to Giza Excavations

Arranged by Niel Bierling

A7 Coolidge

10:45am-12:45pm Ancient Food and Foodways

Albert Leonard, Jr. (University of Arizona), Presiding

Introduction (5 mins)

27) Jennie Ebeling (University of Arizona), "Methods of Processing Grain (or wheat) from the Neolithic through Roman Periods on the basis of the Ground Stone Implements" (15 mins)

28) Brian Hesse (University of Alabama, Birmingham), "Rethinking the Place of Animals in the Neolithic Period: New Evidence from Sha’ar Hagolan and Ashkelon" (15 mins)

29) Paula Wapnish (University of Alabama, Birmingham), "EB Megiddo - The Sacrificial System" (15 mins)

Discussion (10 mins)

30) David McCreery (Willamette University), "Bronze Age Agriculture and Diet in the Dead Sea Basin: The Cases of Bab edh-Dhra’, Numeira and Tell Nimrin" (15 mins)

31) Sandra Arnold Scham (Pontifical Biblical Institute Museum, Jerusalem), "Ritual Feasting at Teleilat Ghassul" (15 mins)

32) Felicity Cobbing (Palestine Exploration Fund), "Oil for the Pharaohs" (15 mins)

Discussion (15 mins)

A8 Dana

10:45am-12:45pm Symposium on Recent Research in the Madaba Plains Region of Jordan, Session I

Session Theme: Field and Related Research

Douglas Clark (Walla Walla College), Presiding

33) Timothy P. Harrison (University of Toronto) "The 1998 and 1999 Seasons of the Tell Madaba Archaeological Project" (20 mins)

Discussion (4 mins)

34) Douglas R. Clark (Walla Walla College) "Iron I Domestic Household Construction in the Madaba Plains Region of Jordan: The Human Investment" (20 mins)

Discussion (4 mins)

35) Randall W. Younker (Andrews University) "The 1999 Excavations at Tall Jalul of the Madaba Plains Project" (20 mins)

Discussion (4 mins)

36) David Merling (Andrews University) "Tall al-’Umayri and Tall Jalul: A Comparison of their Black Ware - Political Relations between Two Iron Age Sites in the Madaba Plains Project" (20 mins)

Discussion (4 mins)

37) Chang-Ho Ji (LaSierra University) "The Hellenistic and Early Roman Settlements in the Regions of ‘Iraq al-Amir and the Wadi Hisban" (20 mins)

Discussion (4 mins)

A9 Salon I, II

10:45am-12:45pm Workshop on Caesarea Maritima, Session I

Session Theme: Architecture and Occupation History of City and Harbor

Kenneth G. Holum (University of Maryland), Presiding

Introduction (5 mins)

38) Beverley N. Goodman (Pennsylvania State University) "The Faulty Towers of Caesarea Maritima" (15 mins)

39) Avner Raban (The Recanati Center for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa), "The "Reflecting Pool" in Area I at Caesarea" (20 mins)

40) Kathryn L. Gleason (Cornell University), "The University of Pennsylvania Museum Excavations at Caesarea: the 1999 Study Season" (20 mins)

41) Marie Spiro (University of Maryland), "An Inhabited VineScroll from Caesarea Maritima" (15 mins)

42) Jennifer A. Stabler (University of Maryland), "The Medieval Monumental Phase on the Temple Platform (Area TP)" (15 mins)

43) Yael D. Arnon (The Recanati Center for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa), "Ceramic Dating of the Medieval Monumental Phase on the Temple Platform (Area TP)" (15 mins)

Evaluation and Discussion (15 mins)

A10 Salon III

2:00pm-4:00pm Ancient Mediterranean Trade

Albert Leonard, Jr. (University of Arizona), Presiding

Introduction (5 mins)

44) Michael Artzy (University of Haifa, Israel), "Phylakopi, Enkomi/Milia and Tell el-’Ajjul: A Mediterranean Bronze Age koine?" (20 mins)

45) Celia Bergoffen (Bard College), "White Slip I bowls at Tell el’Ajjul and the Beginning of Late Bronze Age Cypriot Ceramic Exports to Canaan" (20 mins)

46) Kjell Malmgren (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), "Klavdhia and its External Contacts at the Beginning of the Late Cypriote Bronze Age" (20 mins)

47) Kathryn Eriksson (Deakin University, Australia), "Cypriot Ceramics in Egypt during the Reign of Thutmosis III: The Evidence of Trade for Synchronizing the Late Cypriot Cultural Sequence with Egypt at the Beginning of the Late Bronze Age" (20 mins)

48) Bernard Knapp (University of Glasgow), Respondent (20 mins)

General Discussion (15 mins)

A11 Longfellow

2:00pm-4:00pm Egypt, Canaan and Jacob, Session I

Session Theme: The Hyksos

K. Lawson Younger, Jr. (Trinity International University), Presiding

49) John S. Holladay, Jr. (University of Toronto), "The Hyksos: A Social and Economic Paradigm" (30 mins)

50) Graham Philip (University of Durham), "The Hyksos: An Alternate Approach (to Ethnicity)" (30 mins)

51) Frank Yurco (Field Museum of Natural History), "Ipu-wer’s Admonitions: A New Light on the Hyksos Era" (30 mins)

52) Joseph Weinstein (Somerville, Massachusetts), "The Israelite ‘Conquest,’ the ‘Expulsion of the Hyksos,’ and the End of the Middle Bronze Age" (30 mins)

A12 Dana

2:00pm-4:00pm Symposium on Recent Research in the Madaba Plains Region of Jordan, Session II

Session Theme: Strategies for Data Sharing and Controlled Comparison among Projects working in and around the Madaba Plains Region

Larry G. Herr (Canadian University College), Presiding

Introductory Remarks (5 mins)

53) Suzanne Richard (Drew University) and Paul Holdorf, Khirbet Iskander Expedition), "Statistics-Based Typology: A Strategy for Data Sharing" (15 mins)

Discussion (15 mins)

54) Andrew Graham (University of Toronto), "Information Systems and the Tell Madaba Archaeological Project" (15 mins)

Discussion (15 mins)

55) Gary Christopherson (University of Arizona), "Fifteen Years on the Madaba Plain: A Comparison of the MPP Hinterland Surveys" (15 mins)

Discussion (15 mins)

56) Khaled Nashef (Birzeit University) and Oystein S. LaBianca (Andrews University), "Controlled Comparison of Food System Cycles at Khirbet Birzeit (Palestine) and Tall Hisban (Jordan)" (15 mins)

General Discussion (10 mins)

A13 Salon I, II

2:00pm-4:00pm Workshop on Caesarea Maritima, Session II

Session Theme: Environment, Food Supply, and Cultural Change: Evidence from Material Culture

Avner Raban (University of Haifa), Presiding

Introduction (5 mins)

57) Robert R. Stieglitz (Rutgers University), "Fish Farming at Tel Tanninim" (20 mins)

58) Arlene Fradkin (Florida Atlantic University), "Bones of a Fishy Nature: Preliminary Analysis of the Fishing Economy at Caesarea Maritima" (15 mins)

59) Carole Cope (Combined Caesarea Expeditions), "Arab Butchering Patterns: Their Relation to Traditional Marketing of Meat" (15 mins)

60) Jennifer Ramsay (Simon Fraser University), "Archaeobo-tanical Remains: Their Relation to the Economy and Environment of Caesarea" (20 mins)

61) Peter Lampinen (Combined Caesarea Expedtions), "Coin Finds from Caesarea’s Harbor" (15 mins)

62) Shari Pinkas (University of Haifa), "Corpus of Oil Lamps from Caesarea Maritima" (20 mins)

Evaluation and Discussion (10 mins)

A14 Longfellow

4:15pm-6:15pm Egypt, Canaan and Jacob, Session II

Session Theme: Egyptian Motifs

Shmuel Givon (Bar Ilan University), Presiding

63) Catherine Roehrig (Metropolitan Museum of Art), "Wet Nurses and Tutors of the Royal Children in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt" (25 mins)

64) Michael Homan (University of California, San Diego), "The Tabernacle: Aaron and the Exodus: A 19th Dynasty Egyptian Context for Ancient Israel’s Sacred Tent and High Priest" (20 mins)

65) Uzi Avner (Israel Antiquities Authority ), "The ‘Egyptian’ Sanctuary in Timna Valley, Southern Negev, and its Social Historical Implications" (20 mins)

66) James Hoffmeier (Trinity International University), "A New Late Bronze/New Kingdom Fort in Northern Sinai" (15 mins)

67) Daniel C. Browning, Jr. (William Carey College), "‘Why Have You Brought Us Up Out of Egypt to Die in the Wilderness?’: Murmurings Against a 15th Century Date for the Exodus" (20 mins)

68) Ahmed Osman (London, England), "The Exodus in Egyptian Sources" (20 mins)

A15 Coolidge

4:15pm-6:15pm Material Culture and History (Ottoman Empire)

Uzi Baram (New College of the University of Southern Florida), Presiding

69) Uzi Baram (New College of the University of Southern Florida), "Where Napoleon’s Dreams Vanished: Historical Events and Material Changes in Akko During the Ottoman Period" (20 mins)

70) Juliana Nairouz (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Qusur: The Stone Structures of Historic Palestine" (20 mins)

71) Allaire Brumfield (Towson State University), "The Development of Agricultural Technology on Ottoman Crete" (20 mins)

72) Lynda Carroll (Binghamton University, SUNY), "Not for Pashas, but for Peasants: Rethinking Ceramic Consumption in Late Ottoman Anatolia" (20 mins)

73) Benjamin Saidel (W. F. Albright Institute), "The Chronological Implications for the Use of Matchlock Muskets among Ottoman Period Bedouin in the Southern Levant" (20 mins)

Discussion (20 mins)

A16 Dana

4:15pm-6:15pm Problems in Ceramic Typology

Session Theme: Diagnosing Late Middle Bronze to early Late Bronze Age ceramic assemblages from Canaan, Egypt and Cyprus

Celia Bergoffen (Bard College) Presiding

74) Bob Mullins (Hebrew University), "Pottery of the MB/LB Transition at Tel Beth Shean" (20 mins)

75) Joe D. Seger (Mississippi State University), "The Typology of Pottery through the MB-LB Transition at Tell Halif" (20 mins)

76) Jonathan Tubb (The British Museum), Respondent (10 mins)

Recess (15 mins)

77) Irmgard Hein (University of Vienna), "Ezbet Helmi / Tell el Dabºa: Typological Changes in Pottery at the Beginning of the New Kingdom" (20 mins)

78) Kathryn Eriksson (Deakin University), "Evolving Technology and the Beginning of the Late Bronze Age: the Definition of Developmental States within the Classification of Proto White Slip and Transition to White Slip I Wares of the Late Cypriot I Period" (20 mins)

Respondent: Jonathan Tubb (15 mins)

A17 Salon I, II

4:15pm-6:15pm Reports on Current Excavations, ASOR-Affiliated, Session II

Eric H. Cline (University of Cincinnati), Presiding

79) Andrea Berlin (University of Minnesota) and Sharon Herbert, (University of Michigan), "New Excavations at Tel Kedesh: Phoenician-Jewish Interactions in Hellenistic Times" (25 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

80) J. P. Dessel (University of Delaware), "The First Four Seasons of Excavation at Tell ‘Ein Zippori: The Late Bronze and Iron Age from a View Perspective" (25 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

81) Martha Joukowsky (Brown University), "The 1999 Brown University Excavations at the Great Temple of Petra, Jordan" (25 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

82) Thomas E. Levy (University of California at San Diego) and Russell B. Adams (University of Bristol, U.K.), "Early Metallurgy, Interaction and Social Evolution: The Jabal Hamrat Fidan Regional Archaeology Project, Jordan (1999)" (25 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

A18 Harvard Semitic Museum

4:15pm-6:15pm Workshop on Cypriot Archaeology: The Cesnola Collection at the Semitic Museum, Harvard University

Robert Merrillees (CAARI), Presiding

83) Joseph A. Greene (Harvard University), "A Nineteenth Century Collection of Cypriot Antiquities in the Semitic Museum, or How Cesnola Finally Got to Harvard" (10 mins)

84) Helena Wylde Swiny (Semitic Museum), "Placing Cesnola Back in Context: The Ancient Cyprus Exhibit at the Semitic Museum and the Curation of the Cesnola Collection" (10 mins)

85) Stuart Swiny (State University of New York at Albany), "Unprovenanced but Valuable: Metal Artifacts in the Cesnola Collection at the Semitic Museum" (20 mins)

86) Jan Jackson (Semitic Museum), "A Study of Iron Age Amphoroid Kraters in the Cesnola Collection" (20 mins)

87) Doreen Danis (Texas A&M University), "Digital Documentation and Presentation of the Cesnola Collection at the Semitic Museum" (20 mins)

Discussants (40 mins):

Robert Merrillees (CAARI)

David Detrich (CAARI)

Matthew Griggs (State University of New York at Albany)

Ellen Herscher (CAARI)

A19 Coolidge

8:00pm-10:00pm Anthropological Archaeology in the (Historical-Period) Levant

Session theme: The Use of Anthropology in Interpretation of Archaeological Data

Robert D. Miller, II (Mount St. Mary’s Seminary), Presiding

88) Justin Lev-Tov (W. F. Albright Institute / University of Tennessee), "Zooarchaeology and Relations of Power during the Neo-Assyrian Empire: An Example from Tel-Miqne-Ekron" (25 mins)

89) Garth Gilmour (University of Cape Town), "The Archaeology of Cult in the Ancient Near East: Methodology and Practice" (25 mins)

Discussion and Recess (10 mins)

90) Ann E. Killebrew (University of Haifa), "The Material Culture of Egyptian Imperialism in Canaan During the Late Bronze Age" (25 mins)

91) Bruce Routledge (University of Pennsylvania), "‘Will Women Now Hunt …?’: Hunting and the Construction of Gender in Iron Age Palestine" (25 mins)

Discussion (10 mins)

A20 Salon III

8:00pm-10:00pm Arabia, Session II

Session Theme: Southern Arabia: Origins of the Incense Trade

Jana Owen (University of California at Los Angeles), Presiding

92) Ronald Blom (JPL / NASA), "Frankincense Trade Routes, Anthrosols and Monsoon Patina: Aspects of Space Imaging Technology Applications" (15 mins)

93) T. J. Wilkinson (University of Chicago), "Ecological Adaptations in Highland Yemen" (15 mins)

94) Lynne S. Newton (University of Minnesota), "The Southwest Monsoon and Southern Arabia Archaeology: Trends, Developments and Implications" (15 mins)

Discussion and Recess (10 mins)

95) Julis Zarins (Southwest Missouri State University), "Early Holocene Cultures of South Arabia" (15 mins)

96) Serge Cleuzoiu (CNRS, France), and Maurizio Tosi, (Universita di Bologna, Italy), "A Reconstruction of the Arabian-Indian Trade in the Early Bronze Age Based on the Archaeological Record: Ship Construction, Navigational Techniques and Commodities" (15 mins)

97) Burkhardt Vogt (German Archaeological Institute, Yemen), "Sabir, Africa and the Yemen Coast during the Bronze Age" (15 mins)

98) Eduard Reinhardt (McMaster University, Ontario), Respondent (10 mins)

99) Maurizio Tosi (University of Bologna/ IsIAO, Rome), Respondent (10 mins)

A21 Salon I, II

8:00pm-10:00pm Archaeology of the Roman and Byzantine Periods

Jodi Magness (Tufts University), Presiding

100) Douglas R. Edwards (University of Puget Sound), "Khirbet Cana in the Roman and Byzantine Periods: The Nature of a Small Town" (15 mins)

101) Linda Wheatley-Irving (University of Chicago), "Samosata and its Environs in the 7th-9th Centuries CE" (15 mins)

102) Bryan Renfro (University of Arkansas), "Paleopathology, Demography, and Health of Human Skeletal Material from the site of Yasileh, Jordan" (15 mins)

103) Matthew Anderson, Melissa Zabecki, Bryan Renfro, and Wendy Willis (University of Arkansas), "Bioarchaeological Analysis of a Multiple Interment Tomb at the Site of Yasileh, Jordan" (15 mins)

104) Joseph Basile (Maryland Institute College of Art), "The Function of the ‘Great Temple’ at Petra, Jordan" (15 mins)

105) Leigh-Ann Bedal (University of Pennsylvania), "Petra’s Paradeisos: New Discovery in the City Center" (15 mins)

106) Sara Karz (Brown University), "Roman and Byzantine Glass Color at the Petra Great Temple" (15 mins)

107) S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University), "An Early Church at Aqaba" (15 mins)

A22 Dana

8:00pm-10:00pm Hebrew Bible, History and Archaeology

Diana Edelman (James Madison University), Presiding

108) Adam Zertal (Haifa University), "El-Ahwat: The Connections with Nuraghic Sardinia and the Settlement of the Northern Sea Peoples" (30 mins)

109) Nili Fox (Hebrew Union College), "Israelite Officials and State Administration: The Case for Foreign Influence Reexamined" (30 mins)

110) Amir Sumakai-Fink (University of Chicago), "The Bethsaida Stela: Ramifications of a Recent Discovery" (30 mins)

111) Paper withdrawn.

112) Dale Manor (Harding University), "High Places: An Anthropological Study of Sacred Space" (30 mins)

Friday 19 November

A23 Salon I

8:30am-10:30am Art of the Ancient Near East amd the Eastern Mediterranean, Session I

Eleanor Guralnick (Independent Researcher, Chicago), Presiding

113) Trudy S. Kawami (Arthur M. Sackler Foundation), "Bronze Basins with Raptor-Shaped Handles from Iron-Age Iran" (20 mins)

Discussion (4 mins)

114) Seth Richardson (Columbia University), "The Geneonomy Garden of Asurnasirpal II: Room I at Kalhu" (20 mins)

Discussion (4 mins)

115) Allison Karmel Thomason (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville), "Imagining the Exotic Periphery: Representations of the North Syrian Landscape in the Neo-Assyrian Period". (20 mins)

Discussion (4 mins)

116) Theodore Burgh (University of Arizona, Tucson), "Let the Music Play: A Discussion of Music Artifact and Iconographic Interpretation" (20 mins)

Discussion (4 mins)

117) Pauline Albenda (Independent Researcher, New York City), "Horses of Different Breeds and Colors: The Assyrian Evidence" (20 mins)

Discussion (4 mins)

A24 Salon II

8:30am-10:30am Theoretical Approaches to Near Eastern Archaeology, Session I

Session Theme: Contested Peripheries: System and Structure

Bernard Knapp (University of Glasgow), Presiding

118) Miriam Chernoff (Boston University), "Gender, Family, and Farming in Turkish Agricultural Villages: Multiple Perspectives on the Past" (20 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

119) Sandra Blakely (Emory University), "Production, Religion, and Semiotics: On the Uses of Myth in Archaeological Interpretation" (20 mins)

Discussion and Recess (10 mins)

120) Eric Cline (University of Cincinnati), "Armageddon at the Edge: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley as a ‘Contested Periphery’ in World Systems Theory" (25 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

121) Bryan Jack Stone (University of California, Los Angeles), "Peer Polity Interaction and Secondary State Formation in the Iron Age Southern Levant" (20 mins)

Discussion and Interim Remarks (10 mins)

A25 Salon III

8:30am-10:30am Reports on Current Excavations, Non-ASOR Affiliated, Session I

Ann Killebrew (University of Haifa), Presiding

122) Nigel Goring-Morris (Hebrew University), and Steven Kangas (Dartmouth College), "Early Neolithic Funerary Rituals in the Levant: Evidence from Kfar Hahoresh, Israel" (20 mins)

123) David Ussishkin (Tel Aviv University), "Megiddo 1996-1998-The Early Bronze Age Cultic Compound" (20 mins)

124) Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University), "Megiddo 1996-1998-The Iron Age" (20 mins)

125) Carl Ehrlich (York University) and Aren Maier, "The 1999 Season at Tell es-Safi/Gath" (20 mins)

126) Rami Arav (University of Nebraska at Omaha), "Bethsaida Iron Age City Gate: An Update on the 1999 Excavations" (20 mins)

127) Sandra Fortner (Ludwig-Maximilans University at Munich), "Bethsaida-Julias: The Archaeological Evidence" (20 mins)

A26 Salon IV

8:30am-10:30am Israel and Canaan, Session I

Session Theme: The Search for Historical Canaan

Peter Feinman (Manhattanville College), Presiding

128) Zacharia Kallai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "EA 288 and Biblical Historiography" (25 mins)

129) Richard Hess (Denver Seminary), "Canaan and Canaanites at Alalakh" (25 mins)

130) Donald Redford (Pennsylvania State University), "Destruction Level and House Plans: The Interpretation of Evidence" (30 mins)

131) Wendy Raver (Brooklyn Museum of Art), "The Canaanite Goddess Abroad: Understanding Canaanite Godesses Through Non-Canaanite Evidence" (25 mins)

132) Anson Rainey (Tel Aviv University), "Merneptah’s Wall Reliefs of Conflict in Canaan" (15 mins)

A27 Salon I

10:45am-12:45pm Art of the Ancient Near East amd the Eastern Mediterranean, Session II

Pauline Albenda (Independent Researcher, New York, NY), Presiding

133) Louise A. Hitchcock (University of California, Los Angeles), "SPACE 1999 (B)CE: Contextual Approaches to Minoan Architecture" (20 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

134) Marian Feldman (University of California, Berkeley), "Why Does the Minet el-Beida Pyxis Lid Look the Way it Does?" (20 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

135) Eleanor Guralnick (Independent Researcher, Chicago), "Fabric Patterns in the Near East and Greece: 900-500 B.C." (20 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

136) Jonathan Lawrence (University of Notre Dame), "Salvation Symbolized: Baptismal Imagery in a 6th Century Baptismal Font from Kelibia, Tunisia" (20 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

General Discussion (20 mins)

A28 Salon II

10:45am-12:45pm Pottery Analysis and Interpretation

Helena Wylde Swiny (Semitic Museum, Harvard University), Presiding

137) Ellen Herscher (CAARI), "The Early Bronze Age Sequence at Sotira Kaminoudhia, Cyprus" (20 mins)

138) Jeremy Rutter (Dartmouth College), "Late Bronze Age Ceramic Imports to Kommos, Crete from Regions to the East: An Updated Summary" (20 mins)

Discussion (10 mins)

139) Pamela Russell (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), "Aegean and Cypriot Fine Wares from Marsa Matruh, Egypt" (20 mins)

140) Amélie Beyhum (Harvard University), "Petrographic Analysis of Phoenician Red Slip" (20 mins)

141) Nava Panitz-Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "The Pottery Assemblages of Iron Age II Tel Batash-Timnah: Regionality and Chronology" (20 mins)

Discussion (10 mins)

A29 Salon IV

10:45am-12:45pm Israel and Canaan, Session II

Session Theme: Israel and the Hebrew Bible

Anson Rainey (Tel Aviv University), Presiding

142) Shoshana Schulman (Jewish Theological Seminary), "The New JPS Translation of the Hebrew Bible (1962-1985): Philosophy and Methodology" (30 mins)

143) Peter Feinman (Manhattanville College), "The Birth of the Alphabet Prose Narrative: The Discovery of the First Alphabet Prose Author" (30 mins)

144) Gerald Klingbeil (Universidad Peruana Uman), "Playing Word Games: Mules, Donkeys, and Horses - Equids in Texts, Artifacts and Pictures in a Multidisciplinary Framework" (30 mins)

145) K. Lawson Younger, Jr. (Trinity International University), "Israel and the Assyrian Exile: A Reassessment" (30 mins)

A30 Salon III

10:45am-12:45pm The Sepphoris Regional Project Workshop

Session Theme: Archaeological Investigations and Literary Responses

Milton Moreland (Huntingdon College), Presiding

146) Eric M. Meyers (Duke University), "The Fort, the Fill, and Sepphoris’ Pro-Roman Stance in 68-73 CE" (20 mins)

147) Stuart S. Miller (University of Connecticut), Respondent (10 mins)

148) Jonathan L. Reed (University of La Verne), "The Stone Vessel Assemblage of the Western Acropolis" (20 mins)

Response: Stuart S. Miller (10 mins)

149) Mellisa Aubin (Florida State University), "The Changing Landscape of Byzantine Sepphoris" (20 mins)

Respondent: Stuart S. Miller (10 mins)

Business Meeting (30 mins)

A31 Salon I

1:15pm-3:40pm AIAR Centennial Symposium: The House That Albright Built, Session I

Lydie Shufro (AIAR), Presiding

Welcome and Opening Remarks (5 mins)

150) Sy Gitin (AIAR), "The House that Albright Built" (20 mins)

151) J. P. Dessel (University of Delaware), "Between the Lines: Digging the New Millennium" (20 mins)

152) Larry Herr (Canadian University College), "Pottery" (20 mins)

Discussion (10 mins)

153) Gordon Hamilton (Huron College), "Old Canaanite Epi-graphy" (20 mins)

154) Aaron Brody, "Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: The Albright School, the Albright Institute, and Advances in the Study of Canaanite and Phoenician Civilization" (20 mins)

155) Mark Smith (St. Joseph’s University), "Ugaritic" (20 mins)

Discussion (10 mins)

A32 Salon II

2:00pm-4:00pm Theoretical Approaches to Near Eastern Archaeology, Session II

Session Theme: Narrativising History: Post-Processual Responses

Louise Hitchcock (CAARI), Presiding

156) Sandra Arnold Scham (Pontifical Biblical Institute Museum), "Iconography and Ideology: Animal Images from Teleilat Ghassul" (20 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

157) Marc Verhoeven (Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden), "Space, Society and Ritual at Later Neolithic Tell Sabi, Syria" (20 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

158) Willam G. Dever (University of Arizona), "Post-Processual Archaeology: Back to History Writing?" (20 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

159) Robert D. Miller (West Virginia University), "Neither a Canaanite nor an Israelite Be’: The Trope of Ethnicity in the Archaeological Record" (20 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

General Discussion (20 mins)

A33 Salon III

2:00pm-4:00pm Individual Submissions, Session I

David Merling (Andrews University), Presiding

160) Shawn O’Bryhim (Southern Illinois University), "An Oracular Scene from the Pozo Moro Funerary Monument" (20 mins)

161) Miri Hunter Haruach (California Institute of Integral Studies), "The Queen of Sheba: An Ancient Woman for Modern Times" (30 mins)

Discussion and Recess (10 mins)

162) Daniel Casey, Jr. (Society for Biblical Studies), "Discoveries in the Judean Desert: The Radical Impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls on "Re-Imaged" Biblical Women" (30 mins)

163) Jerome C. Rose (University of Arkansas), "Childhood Disease and Mortality During the Crusader Period in Jordan" (20 mins)

Discussion (10 mins)

A34 Salon V

2:00pm-4:00pm Mortuary Evidence and Social Change in the Levant, Session I

Rachel Hallote (Pennsylvania State University), Presiding

164) Alexander Joffe (Pennsylvania State University), "Slouching Toward Beersheva: Chalcolithic Mortuary Practices in Local and Regional Context" (20 mins)

165) David Ilan (Tel Aviv University, Hebrew Union College), "Early Bronze Age Mortuary Variability" (20 mins)

166) Anne Porter, "Life and Death: The Manipulation of Social Ideologies in the Euphrates River Valley in the Third Millenium B.C." (20 mins)

167) Rachel Hallote (Pennsylvania State University), "Mortuary Ritual in the Middle B ronze Age Southern Levant: A Small Scale Complex Society in Transition" (20 mins)

168) Garth Gilmour (University of Cape Town), "LBA ‘Foreign’ Burials in Palestine: A Comparative Study" (20 mins)

Discussion (20 mins)

A35 Salon I

3:55pm-6:30pm AIAR Centennial Symposium: The House That Albright Built, Session II

Lydie Shufro (AIAR), Presiding

169) Paul Alain Beaulieu (Harvard University), "Assyriology" (20 mins)

170) Carolyn Higginbotham (Muskingum College), "Egypt" (20 mins)

171) David Schloen (University of Chicago), "Origins of Israel" (20 mins)

Discussion (10 mins)

172) Ed Wright, "Remodeling the House that Albright Built: Albright’s Vision of Israelite Religion" (20 mins)

173) Sidnie White Crawford, "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Retrospective and Prospective" (20 mins)

174) Jodi Magness (Tufts University), "The Israelite and Muslim Conquests of Palestine" (20 mins)

Discussion (10 mins)

Closing Remarks and Adjournment (15 mins)

A36 Salon II

4:15pm-6:15pm Maritime/Nautical Issues, Session I

Session Theme: The Mediterranean

Aaron Brody (White-Levy Publications Fellow), Presiding

175) Tristan Barako (Harvard University), "The Seaborne Migration of the Philistines" (25 mins)

176) Assaf Yasur-Landau (Tel Aviv University), "Social Complexity and Maritime Migration" (25 mins)

Discussion (10 mins)

177) Daniel Master (Harvard University), "Deep Sea Archaeology and the 1999 Ashkelon Deep Sea Archaeology Season" (25 mins)

178) Edward F. Maher (University of Illinois at Chicago), "The Acquisition of Imported Fish Through Long Distance Trade" (25 mins)

Discussion (10 mins)

A37 Salon III

4:15pm-6:15pm Individual Submissions, Session II

Mark Chavalas (University of Wisconsin, Lacrosse), Presiding

179) Louise Steele and Joanne Clarke (Council for British Research in the Levant [CBRL]), "New Evidence for Bronze Age Demographic Patterns and Settlement in the Southern Coastal Levant: Results of Regional Survey in and around Gaza" (25 mins)

180) P. M. Daviau (Wilfrid Laurier University), "Family Religion: Evidence for the Paraphernalia of the Domestic Cult" (20 mins)

181) Shmuel Givon (Bar Ilan University), "The Three-roomed House from Tel Harasin" (25 mins)

182) Elizabeth Ann Willett (University of Arizona), "Benches-Sacred or Secular?" (25 mins)

183) Lael O. Caesar (Andrews University), "African-American Clergy and ANE Archaeology: A Perspective" (25 mins)

A38 Salon V

4:15pm-6:15pm Mortuary Evidence and Social Change in the Levant, Session II

David Ilan (Tel Aviv University & Hebrew Union College), Presiding

184) Elizabeth Bloch-Smith (Ashkelon Excavations), "Burial Practices of the Iron Age" (20 mins)

185) Samuel Wolff (Israel Antiquities Authority), "Mortuary Aspects in the Persian Period" (20 mins)

186) Andrea Berlin (University of Minnesota), "Mortuary Practices of the Hellenistic Period" (20 mins)

Respondents (40 mins):

William Dever (University of Arizona)

Ian Morris (Stamford University)

Discussion (20 mins)

Saturday 20 November

A39 Harvard Semitic Museum

9:00am-3:30pm Educational Outreach Teacher Workshop

Judith Cochran (J.M. Cochran Enterprises, Inc.), Presiding

187) Dena Davis (Harvard Semitic Museum), "Educational Opportunities at the Semitic Museum" (10 mins)

188) Carolyn Draper Rivers (Chair, Educational Outreach Committee), "Overview of Outreach Education" (10 mins)

189) Niel Bierling (Ada Christian School and Phoenix Data Systems), "Beyond Indiana Jones" (45 mins)

Recess (15 mins)

190) Judith Cochran (J.M. Cochran Enterprises, Inc. and Madaba Plains Project), "The Archaeological Process: A Hands-On Approach" (30 mins)

Lunch (60 mins)

191) Christine Nelson (Archaeology Education Outreach Program and University of Western Ontario), "Simulating a Dig Experience" (2 hours)

Tour of the Semitic Museum, Museum Staff (3:00-3:30)

A40 Salon III

10:45am-12:45pm Archaeology of Cyprus, Session I

Session Theme: Cult and Religon

Margaret E. Morden (Brock University, Canada), Presiding

Introduction (10 mins)

192) Georgia Bonny Bazemore (University of Indianapolis), "The Cult of the Hilltop Sanctuary at Rantidi-Lingrin tou Dhiyeni" (25 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

193) Ann-Marie Knoblauch (Virginia Tech), "Sculpture from Idalion: Archaic Votives from a Cypriote Sanctuary" (25 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

194) Margaret E. Morden (Brock University), "Mortuary Ritual in the Early Iron Age" (20 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

195) Carolyn Aslan (Bryn Mawr College), "Elite Residences in Late Bronze Age Cyprus" (20 mins)

Discussion (5 mins)

A41 Salon IV

10:45am-12:45pm Reports on Current Excavations, Non-ASOR Affiliated, Session II

Victor Matthews (Southwest Missouri State University), Presiding

196) Glenn M. Schwartz (Johns Hopkins University), "Umm el-Marra 1996-99, a Bronze Age Center in Western Syria" (30 mins) 197) Michel Fortin (Université Laval) and Elizabeth N. Cooper (University of British Columbia), "Preliminary Results from Soundings at Tell’Acharneh, in the Middle Orontes Valley (Syria)" (25 mins) 198) Taysir ‘Attiyat (The Amman Citadel Museum) and Chang-Ho Ji (La Sierra University), "The 1996-97 Excavations at the Amman Citadel: The Ammonite Domestic Structures and Fortification Walls" (20 mins) 199) Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary), "The Excavation, Restoration and Conservation of the Abila Cruciform Basilica" (25 mins) 200) Mary-Louise Mussell (Carleton University), "Tell el Kheleifeh-the 1999 Excavations" (20 mins)

A42 Longfellow

10:45am-12:45pm Tribes of the Testament, Session I

Session Theme: Benjamin

Gary Herion (Hartwick College), Presiding

201) Daniel Fleming (New York University), "Benjamin and the Binu-Yamina" (30 mins)

202) Peter Feinman (Manhattanville College), "Benjamin Fought the Battle of Jericho: Second Millennium Memories and First Millennium Texts: A Political Story" (30 mins)

203) Scott M. Langston (Southwestern Baptist Seminary), "Cultic Sites and the Tribe of Benjamin: What does it Mean?" (25 mins)

204) Jeffrey R. Zorn (Cornell University), "Benjamin: Jerusalem’s Rural Hinterland and Northern Bastion" (20 mins)

Discussion (15 mins)

A43 Dana

10:45 am-12:45pm Revisiting Tell Er Ras

Session Theme: Analysis of the Material of Tell er Ras, Excavated in the 1960s

Diane Everman (Archeological Assessments, Inc.), Presiding

205) Robert J. Bull (Drew University), "Tell er Ras on Mt. Gerizim" (15 mins) 206) Jane Evans (Temple University), "Coins from the Excavations" (15 mins) 207) Jack Bennett (Archeological Assessments, Inc.), "Digital Stratigraphy" (20 mins) Discussion and Recess (10 mins) 208) Nancy Lapp (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary), "The Hellenistic Ceramics from Tell er Ras and Balata: Similarities and Differences" (15 mins) 209) Jeffrey A. Blakely (Archeological Assessments, Inc.), "Designing a Final Report: The Case of Tell er Ras" (15 mins) Respondents (30 mins): Edward F. Campbell (McCormick Theological Seminary)

James F. Strange (University of South Florida)

A44 Salon III

2:00pm-4:00pm Archaeology of Cyprus, Session II

Session Theme: Lithic Studies

Alice Kingsnorth (American River College), Presiding

Introduction (10 mins) 210) Larissa Hordynsky (Newton, MA) and Carole McCartney, "Manufacture and Use of Chipped Stone Tools at Kalavasos-Tenta, Cyprus" (20 mins) Discussion and Recess (10 mins) 211) Sarah T. Stewart (University of Toronto), "Caves, Hills and Valleys: Understanding Prehistoric Lithic Use in Central Cyprus" (20 mins) Discussion (5 mins) 212) Dina Coleman (Sonoma State University), "Chipped Stone Data from the North Central Troodos Region, Cyprus: Approaches in Data Management, Theory and Chronology" (20 mins) Discussion (5 mins) 213) Alice Kingsnorth (American River College), "Entrapment by Traditional Tool Typologies: The Case of the Missing Arrowheads" (20 mins) Discussion (10 mins)

A45 Salon IV

2:00pm-4:00pm Archaeology of Anatolia, Session I

Session Theme: Cultural Transitions and Frontiers

Timothy Matney (University of Akron), Presiding

214) Jan Verstraete (University of Cincinnati), "The Social Significance of the Importation and Initiation of Aegean Products in Leventine Society" (20 mins) 215) Greg McMahon (University of New Hampshire), "Cultural Frontiers in Hittite Magic and Religion" (20 mins) 216) Hermann Genz (German Archaeological Institute, Turkey), "The Early Iron Age in Central Anatolia" (20 mins) 217) Lynn Swartz Dodd (University of Southern California), "Hittite to Neo-Hittite: The Late Bronze-Iron Age Transition and the Karamanmarash Valley Survey" (20 mins) 218) Christine M. Thompson (University of California at Los Angeles), "The Aklu and Metrology of 8th c. Silver from Sam’al: Ingot Evidence for ‘Internationally’ Compatible Units and Media of Exchange" (20 mins) Discussion (20 mins)

A46 Longfellow

2:00pm-4:00pm Tribes of the Testament, Session II

Session Theme II: Reuben

Gary Herion (Hartwick College), Presiding

219) Ulrike E. Schorn (Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen), "The Settlement Geography of Reuben from a Biblical Perspective" (30 mins) 220) David Inbar (Bar Ilan University), "Is There any Clue Referring to the Settlement of Israel in the Transjordan in Iron I and II?" (30 mins) 221) Jim Fisher (Andrews University), "Women in Ammonite Society with Proposed Insights from Archaeology and the Hebrew Bible into Intertribal Marriage Alliances between Israel and Ammon" (20 mins) 222) Beth Alpert Nakhai (University of Arizona), "Archaeology and the Structure of Religion in Iron II Israel and Judah" (30 mins) Discussion (10 mins)

A43 Dana

10:45am-12:45pm Maritime/Nautical Issues, Session II

Session Theme: The Indian Ocean, the Gulf, and Mesopotamia

Ezra Marcus (University of Haifa, Israel), Presiding

223) Athena Trakadas (Institute of Nautical Archaeology), "Skills as Tribute: Phoenician Shipwrights and Sailors in the Service of Neo-Assyria" (25 mins) 224) Eduard Reinhardt (McMaster University), "Evolution of the Ancient Harbor at Al Balid, Oman-Sedimentological and Micropaleontological Evidence" (25 mins) Discussion and Recess (10 mins) 225) Jana Owen (University of California at Los Angeles), "Incense and Aromatics: Indian Ocean Maritime Trade-The Archaeology of the Dhofar Coast" (25 mins) 226) Tom Vosmer (Curtin University and the Western Australian Maritime Museum), "Towards a New Understanding: Recent Maritime Developments in the Arabian Sea" (25 mins) Discussion (10 mins)

A48 Salon IV

4:15pm-6:15pm Archaeology of Anatolia, Session II

Session Theme: Current Excavations

Sharon Steadman (State University of New York, Cortland), Presiding

227) Elizabeth C. Stone (SUNY Stony Brook, and Paul Zimansky (Boston University), "Society and Settlement in the Heartland of Urartu: Survey and Excavations in the Outer Town of Ayanis, Turkey, 1999" (15 mins)

228) Timothy Matney (University of Akron), "Excavations at Titri® Höyük, 1998-1999 Season" (15 mins)

229) Ronald L. Gorny (University of Chicago) and Sharon R. Steadman (SUNY Cortland), "Excavations at Çadir Höyük, 1999 Season" (15 mins)

Discussion (15 mins)

230) Jürgen Seeher (German Archaeological Institute, Turkey) and Hermann Genz (German Archaeological Institute, Turkey), "The Excavations at Büyükkaya in Bogazköy/Hattusha" (15 mins)

231) Jennifer Ross (Hood College) and Scott Branting (University of Chicago), "The 1999 Field Season at Kerkenes Da©, Central Anatolia" (15 mins)

232) R. L. Hohlfelder (University of Colorado) and R. L. Fann (University of Maryland), "The Underwater Church at Aperlae in Ancient Lycia" (15 mins)

Discussion (15 mins)

A48 Salon VI

4:15pm-6:15pm Ancient Technology

Nancy Serwint (CAARI), Presiding 233) John J. Shea (State University of New York at Stony Brook), "Projectile Technology, Coalition Maintenance, and the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Transition in the Levant" (25 mins) 234) Britt Hartenberger (Boston University), Steve Rosen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) and Sumru Aricanli (American Museum of Natural History), "The Early Bronze Blade Workshop at Titri® Höyük: Lithic Specialization in an Urban Context" (20 mins) Discussion (5 mins) 235) Nancy Hocking (Triskelion Pottery), "A Modern Potter’s Examination of Cypriot Iron Age White Painted and Bichrome Wares" (25 mins) 236) Joanna S. Smith (Bryn Mawr College), "Changes in Warp-weighted Loom Technology in Late Bronze Age Cyprus" (20 mins) 237) Sarah Lepinski (Bryn Mawr College), "The Production of Early Byzantine Opus Sectile from Salamis-Constantia, Cyprus" (20 mins) Discussion (5 mins)