ASOR

2008 Annual Meeting

ACOR at 40 Session 1
	Barbara A. Porter	ACOR Director	Presiding, “ACOR at 40—The People and Places”
	Gary Rollefson	Whitman College	"Leave No Stone Unturned: ACOR’s Expansion into Prehistory”
	R. Thomas Schaub	Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain	“Studies on the Early Bronze Age in Jordan from 1968-2008: A Period of Downsizing from an "Urban" Culture to Corporate Villages"
	Burton MacDonald	St. Xavier University	“ACOR and Survey Archaeology in Jordan”

ACOR at 40 Session 2
	Barbara A. Porter	ACOR Director	Presiding
	Øystein LaBianca	Andrews University	"Collaborative Research on Empires in Jordan and the Levant”
	Christopher A. Tuttle	ACOR	"Highlights of ACOR Projects in the Greater Petra Region”
	Bert de Vries	Calvin College	“Umm el-Jimal and the Empires of Late Antiquity”
	Bethany Walker	Missouri State University	“Islamic Archaeology in Jordan”

Ancient Mediterranean Trade
	Barry M. Gittlen	Baltimore Hebrew University	Presiding
	Christopher Monroe and Ezra Marcus	Cornell University/ Independent Scholar	“Bronze Age Sunk Costs in the Shipwreck at Uluburun”
	Aaron Koller	Yeshiva University	“Negotiating Ethnicity and Technology: Late Bronze and Iron Age Swords of the Eastern Mediterranean”
	Brian Janeway	University of Toronto	“’What's in a Face?’: A Painted Sherd from Tell Tayinat in the Tradition of Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting”
	George Pierce	University of California, Los Angeles	“The Late Bronze Bichrome Ware of Jaffa”
	Zuzana Chovanec	University at Albany	“The Opium Poppy in Prehistoric Cyprus and the Origins of the Opium Trade”
	Celia Bergoffen	Fashion Institute of Technology	“A New Type of Cypriot Pottery Import at Ashkelon: Cypriot Imitations of Red Lustrous Wheelmade Spindle Bottles”

Arabia
	David F. Graf	University of Miami	Presiding
	Jason T. Herrmann	University of Arkansas	“Human Ecodynamics at Three Sites in Dubai, UAE.”
	Oren Tal	Tel Aviv University	“Coins and Arabian Trade: The Coinages of Southern Palestine under Achaemenid Rule.”
	M. Barbara Reeves	Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario	“Civilians and Soldiers in Provincia Arabia: A View from Hawara.”
	Moti Haiman	Israel Antiquities Authority and Bar Ilan University	“The Northern Border of Palestina Tertia: Results from Recent Landscape Surveys in the Northern Negev, Israel.”
	Crystal Fritz	Bryn Mawr College
	Stephan Batiuk and A. Catherine D'Andrea	University of Toronto/ Simon Fraser University

Archaeology and the Media
	Eric H. Cline	The George Washington University	Presiding
	Ray Bruce	CTVC	“Archaeology and the Media — A Dig With a View”
	Jonathan L. Reed	University of La Verne	“Lights … Action … Edit — 'I Said What?'”
	Gary Glassman	Providence Pictures	“Fact Is Better Than Fiction: A Documentary Filmmaker’s Point of View”
	Jodi Magness	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	“Archaeology and the Media: Setting the Record Straight”
	Eric M. Meyers	Duke University	Respondent

Archaeology of Anatolia Session 1
	Jennifer C. Ross	Hood College	Presiding
	Kevin Cooney	Boston University	"The Lithics Of Ulucak Hoyuk"
	Sharon R. Steadman and Ronald L. Gorny	SUNY Cortland/ University of Chicago	"The 2007-2008 Seasons of Work at Çadır Höyük on the North Central Plateau "
	Christopher H. Roosevelt and Christina Luke	Boston University	"New Light on the Archaeology of Central Western Anatolia in the Middle and Late Bronze Age"
	Philip Graham and Alexia Smith	University of Connecticut	"The Archaeobotanical Remains from the Site of Kenan Tepe, Southeastern Turkey"
	Ann E. Killebrew, Gunnar Lehmann, and Marie-Henriette Gates	Pennsylvania State University, Ben Gurion University, and Bilkent University	"The Mopsos Survey 2008: The Archaeology of Mediterranean Identities in Issos and Iskenderun Plains (Cilicia, Turkey)"
	Timothy Matney	University of Akron	"Current Excavations at Late Assyrian Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey"

Archaeology of Anatolia Session 2
	Sharon R Steadman	SUNY Cortland	Presiding
	Catherine Foster	University of California, Berkeley	"Household Archaeology and the Uruk Phenomenon: A Case Study from Late Chalcolithic Kenan Tepe, Turkey"
	Johannes Verstraete	University of Cincinnati	"The Amuq Valley: Ethnic Identity during the Early Iron Age"
	Gregory McMahon	University of New Hampshire	"Agency, Identity, and the Hittite State"
	Charles Gates	Bilkent University	"The Achaemenid Persian and Hellenistic Periods at Kinet Höyük: Results from 1998-2007"
	Michal Artzy and Hayat Erkanal	University of Haifa and Ankara University	"News from the Ancient Harbor at Liman Tepe, Turkey"

The Archaeology of Cyprus			The Archaeology of Insularity: Cyprus at the Crossroads of the Mediterranean
	Derek B. Counts	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Presiding
	A. Bernard Knapp	University of Glasgow	“Insularity or Connectivity? Early Maritime Ventures to Cyprus”
	Alan Simmons	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	“Cyprus Before the Neolithic: Prospects and Problems”
	Nicholas Blackwell	Bryn Mawr College	“A Lesson for Island Archaeology: The Isolation of the Cellarka Cemetery at Salamis”
	Erin Averett	Creighton University	“‘Hath not the potter power over clay?’ Constructing Identity at the Crossroads of the Mediterranean”
	Jody M. Gordon	University of Cincinnati	“Roman Cyprus: A Study of the Effect of “Permanent Island Features” on Imperial Agendas and Local Identities”

The Archaeology of Israel – New Developments
	Gideon Avni	Israel Antiquities Authority	Presiding
	Ronny Reich and Eli Shukrun	University of Haifa and Israel Antiquities Authority	"New Epigraphic Hebrew Seals and Bullae from the City of David in Jerusalem and their Chronological Significance"
	Doron Ben Ami and Yana Tchekhanovetz	Israel Antiquities Authority	"The Destruction of Jerusalem at 70 AD: Recent Discoveries from the City of David"
	Yehiel Zelinger	Israel Antiquities Authority	"The Southern Fortifications of Jerusalem during the Hasmonean and Byzantine Periods"
	Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah	Israel Antiquities Authority	"Archaeological Excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem – The Western Wall Plaza"
	Aaron Burke and Martin Peilstocker	UCLA and Israel Antiquities Authority	"Excavations of the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project in 2008"

Archaeology of Jordan Session 1
	Suzanne Richard	Gannon University	Presiding
	Stanley Klassen	University of Toronto	“The Ceramic Industry of Central Jordan in the EB IV Period”
	Robert Chadwick	Bishops University	“Changing Forms of Gate Architecture in the Transjordan during the Bronze and Iron Ages”
	Jack Green	Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford	“A review of the Tell es-Sa‘idiyeh cemetery excavations by the British Museum”
	Douglas R. Clark and Larry G. Herr	La Sierra University and Canadian University College	“The 2008 Season of Excavations of the Madaba Plains Project at Tall al-`Umayri, Jordan”
	Owen Chestnut	Andrews University	“A Reassessment of the Excavations at Tall Safut”
	Friedbert Ninow	Theologische Hochschule Friedensau	“Balu’ – A Major Moabite Site in Retro- and Prospective”

Archaeology of Jordan Session 2
	Suzanne Richard	Gannon University	Presiding
	Chang-Ho Ji, Nathan Jeon, and Joohyun Park	La Sierra University	“A Gateway to Dhiban: Surveys, Excavations, and History of Khirbat al-Bayada in the Dhiban Plateau”
	Annlee Dolan	University of Toronto	“Moabite Domestic Architecture: New Insight from Field E at Khirbat al-Mudayna”
	Christopher Gohm	University of Toronto	“Iron Points from Tall Jawa and Khirbat al-Mudayna ath-Thamad: Cross-cultural comparisons and the problem of consumption”
	Friedrich Schipper, Mechthild Ladurner, and Anne Lykke	University of Vienna	“The Nabataean Landscapes Project”
	Martha Sharp Joukowsky	Brown University	“The Roman-Byzantine Baths at the Petra Great Temple: Further Reflections”
	David Chapman	Covenant Theological Seminary	“Roman Remains at Decapolis Abila: A Summary Assessment After Twenty-Eight Years of Excavation”

Archaeology of Lebanon
	Jessica L. Nitschke	Georgetown University	Presiding
	Helene Sader	American University of Beirut	“Tell Hizzin in the Biqaa: New Evidence from an Old Excavation”
	Bettina Fischer-Genz and Holger Ehrig	German Archaeological Institute	“Settlement Patterns and Land-Use in the Territory of Ancient Heliopolis/Baalbek, Lebanon”
	Marlies Heinz	University of Freiburg	“Kamid el-Loz in Lebanon”
	Hermann Genz	American University of Beirut	“Recent Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Site of Tell Fadous/Kfarabida: the Results of the 2007 and 2008 seasons”

Archaeology of Mesopotamia Session 1
	Constance E. Gane	Andrews University	Presiding
	Alexandra Witsell	University of Chicago	"New Evidence for Southern Mesopotamian Urbanism: A GIS Application for Third-Millennium Khafajah"
	Xianhua Wang	School of History, Beijing Normal University	"Seeing Texts as Artifacts: Notes from Early Mesopotamia"
	Matthew Rutz	University of Pennsylvania	"Kassite Cartography in the Context of Mesopotamian Mapmaking"
	Katharyn Hanson	University of Chicago	"Mesopotamian Seals: When the Market Goes Online"

Archaeology of Mesopotamia Session 2
	Richard L. Zettler	University of Pennsylvania	Presiding
	Aubrey Baadsgaard	University of Pennsylvania	"The Case for Violent Death and Primitive Mummification in the Early Dynastic Royal Cemetery of Ur"
	William Hafford	University of Pennsylvania	"Balance Pan Weights from Ur"
	Alexandra Fletcher	The British Museum	"Partners Through Time: Current Research About Ur at the British Museum, London"
	Spencer Allen	University of Pennsylvania	"The State of the Pantheon: Evidence from the Sargonid Period God Lists"

Archaeology of Religion 1
	Y.M. Rowan	Smithsonian Institution	Presiding
	James Strange	University of South Florida	"Archaeology and Religion: Some Theoretical Considerations"
	Sharon Zuckerman	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	"Materializing Canaanite Ritual: A New Look at the Middle Bronze Age Temple at Nahariya"
	Jill Katz	Yeshiva University	"Spatial Layout of a Middle Bronze Age Sacred Area: Tel Haror, Israel"
	Yifat Thareani-Sussely	Tel Aviv University and Hebrew Union College	"Between Sacred and Secular: A New Site Narrative for Kuntillet 'Arjud"
	Kerry L. Adams	University of Arizona	"Patterns of Pilgrimage in Iron Age Israel”

Archaeology of Religion 2
	A. Cohen	Brandeis University	Presiding
	Garth Gilmour	University of Oxford	"An Iron Age II Pictorial Inscription from Jerusalem Illustrating Yahweh and Asherah"
	Sara Rich	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	"'She Who Treads on Water': Sacred and Secular in Phoenician Art and Religion"
	Joel Burnett	Baylor University	"Terra-Cotta Shrines from Iron Age Jordan: Evidence for the Goddess?"
	Erin Kuhns	Duke University	"Theorizing Terracotta Pillar Figurines: Religion on the Ground in Ancient Judah"
	Joe Zias	Science and Archaeology Group-Jerusalem	"The Cave of John the Baptist: John or Lazarus, the Patron Saint of Leprosy"
	Carl Savage	Drew University	"How Many Light Bulbs Does it Take Change a Culture? Oil Lamp Transition Between Hellenistic and Jewish Bethsaida"

Archaeology of Syria Session 1
	Michael Danti	Boston University	Presiding
	Kathryn Grossman and Tate Paulette	University of Chicago	"Urban Trajectories in the Third Millennium BC: Recent Excavations in the Lower Town at Hamoukar"
	Michael Danti and William Hafford	University of Pennsylvania	"The 2008 Excavations at Tell es-Sweyhat, Syria"
	Jocelyn Boor	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	"Tell Hadidi and X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis: Are There Ceramic Geochemical Signatures?"
	Andrew McCarthy	University of Edinburgh	"The End of Empire: Akkadian Glyptic and Administration from Tell Leilan"
	Adam Maskevich	Johns Hopkins University	"In Search of an Elusive Empire: The Archaeology of Mitanni"

Archaeology of Syria Session 2
	Mark W. Chavalas	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse	Presiding
	Kate Birney	Harvard University	"Mycenaean Influence in Iron Age Syria: Reconstructing the “Big Picture"
	Eric Jensen	University of Arkansas	"Digging still Deeper: The Latest from the Early Iron Age Levels at Tell Qarqur"
	Noam Rifkund	Boston University	"Hellenistic Period Settlement Patterns on the Middle Euphrates"
	Lidewijde de Jong	Wilfrid Laurier University	"Uncovering Tell Sheikh Hasan (Balikh Valley, Syria): The Roman and Abbasid Periods Compared"
	Cynthia Finlayson	Brigham Young University	"The Great Roman Theatre at Apamea-New Perspectives"

Art and Artifacts of the Ancient Near East Session 1
	Elise A. Friedland and Marian Feldman	University of California, Berkeley	Presiding
	Joanna Smith	Columbia University	“Archaeological Analogy and an Approach to Artistic Change”
	Stephanie Langin-Hooper	University of California, Berkeley	“Text as Art: Interaction and Connections between the Image, Text, and Visual Aspects of the Text in the ‘Inu Anum Sirum’ Stele of Hammurabi”
	Tugba Tanyeri Erdemir	Middle East Technical University, Ankara	“How ‘Urartian’ Are the Ivories from the Urartian Kingdom?”
	Elif Denel	Middle East Technical University, Ankara	“Between the Natural and Supernatural: Eunuchs and the King in Assyrian Artistic Representation”
	Eleanor Guralnick	University of Chicago	“The Rediscovery of Khorsabad: The Sculptures”

Art and Artifacts of the Ancient Near East Session 2			Celebrating the Career of Irene J. Winter
	Jack Cheng and Marian Feldman	Independent Scholar/University of California, Berkeley	Presiding
	Melissa Eppihimer	Harvard University	“Standardization and Replication in the Statues of Manishtushu”
	Kathryn Slanski	Yale University	“From East to West: A Visual Articulation of an Akkadian Idiom in the Black Obelisk”
	Cory Crawford	Harvard University	“Art as Empire: The Tell Ahmar Wall Paintings in Political Context”
	Clemens Reichel	University of Chicago	“Administrative ‘Zones of Control’: A View from Clay Sealings”
	Heidi Miller	Harvard University	“From Urban to Non-Urban: Context and Meaning of Stylistic Change in the Painted Pottery of the Lower Indus Valley, 3rd Millennium BCE”

Artifacts: The Inside Story
	Elizabeth S. Friedman	Illinois Institute of Technology	Presiding
	Elif Unlu	University of Pennsylvania	“Technological Assessment of the 3rd Millennium BCE Pottery Production at Tarsus-Gözlükule, Turkey”
	Mohamed Marouf	Sohag University, Egypt	“Technical Analysis of Weft- Looping and Supplementary Weft in Archaeological Egyptian Textiles: Comparative Study”
	Christopher Davey	La Trobe University	“A Bronze Age Crucible Technology”
	Jeff Zorn, Francesco Berna, and Naama Yahalom-Mack	Cornell University, Boston University, and Hebrew University	“Late Bronze age /Iron I Bronze Smithies at Tel Dor: Cultural Context and Pyrotechnological Analyses”
	Yuval Goren	Tel Aviv University	“Marine Interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 2nd Millennium BCE: Petrographic Study of Pottery and Anchors from the Uluburun and Cape Gelidonya Shipwrecks”

Bioarchaeology in the Near East
	Megan A. Perry	East Carolina University	Presiding
	Christina Torres-Rouff, William J. Pestle and Blair M. Daverman	Colorado College/University of Illinois, Chicago/Colorado College	“Where Kingship Came from the Heavens: Social, Political, and Temporal Patterns of Health at Kish”
	Michele Buzon and Jennifer Pelletier	Purdue University/University of Alberta	“The Effects of Water on Tomb Architecture and Bone Microstructure at the Egyptian Colonial New Kingdom Cemetery of Tombos in Nubia”
	Roy King, Axel Ducourneau, Jacques Chiaroni, and Peter Underhill	Stanford University/University of Cambridge/EFSAM/Stanford University	“Y Chromosome Correlates of Sedentary Agriculture Versus Nomadic Pastoralism in the Southern Levant”
	Margaret Judd	University of Pittsburgh	“Mount Nebo: Tales from the Crypt”
	Megan Perry, Drew Coleman, and Abdel Halim al-Shiyab	East Carolina University/UNC-Chapel Hill/Yarmouk University	“Condemned to Metallum: Who were the Residents of the Byzantine Mining Camp at Phaeno?"

Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
	Debra Foran and Asa Eger	University of Toronto and University of Chicago	Presiding
	Hamed Salem	Birzeit University	“The Byzantine Settlement System of the Birzeit/ Ramallah Region”
	Carrie Duncan	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	“The Search for Nestorians in the Archaeological Record”
	Gideon Avni	Israel Antiquities Authority	“The Conquest of Jerusalem by the Persians (614 CE) - An Archaeological Assessment”
	Marica Cassis	Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies	“Cooking Pots and Rubble Walls: Secular Sites in the Byzantine Near East”
	Asa Eger	University of Chicago	“Christian Highlands and Lowland Muslims? Settlement and Interaction on the Byzantine-Islamic Frontier”

Christianity and Judaism Late Antiquity Session 1
	Steven H. Werlin and Carrie Duncan	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	Presiding
	Doug Edwards	University of Puget Sound	“A Second Century Synagogue at Khirbet Qana”
	Uzi Liebner	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	“The Galilean Synagogue of Khirbet Wadi Hamam”
	James Strange	Samford University	“Church, Cardo, and Processionals: Constantine’s Basilicas as Solid Metaphors”
	Joshua Edward Burns	Yale University	“The Necropolis of Beth She‘arim and Jewish Social Networking in the Roman Near East”
	Yael Wilfand	Duke University	“‘Even the Dead Need It (Shalom)’: The Meaning of Shalom on the Zoar Tombstones”

Christianity and Judaism Late Antiquity Session 2
	Carrie Duncan and Steven H. Werlin	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	Presiding
	James Strange	University of South Florida	“Archaeology and Religion: Some Theoretical Considerations”
	Gregg Gardner	Princeton University	“Light to the Nations: The Menorah and Candlestick Lamps in Byzantine Christian-Jewish Discourse”
	Karen Stern	Getty Villa Research Institute and Brooklyn College, CUNY	“Deconstructing Categories to Reconstruct a Jewish Cultural History: Toward a Reevaluation of Jewish and Christian Artifacts in the Late Ancient Mediterranean”
	Matthew Grey	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	“The Presence and Significance of Hanging Veils in the Synagogues of Late Antiquity”
	Alan Todd	Duke University	“‘Reading’ Images and Producing Meaning In Liturgical Settings”

Eastern Mediterranean Diasporas
	Peter Van Alfen	American Numismatic Society	Presiding
	Christopher Monroe	Cornell University	“Liminality in the Eastern Mediterranean Maritime Sphere”
	Eric Welch	Unaffiliated	“Phoenician Gadir and the Tartessian Hinterland: A Study in Port-Hinterland Interaction”
	Carolina Anzar	Saint Louis University, Madrid	“The Phoenicians, their Pots, and the Ancient Cypriots”
	Richard Buxton	University of Washington	“Athenian Coinage in 4th c. Cilicia: Behavioral Aspects”

The Edom Lowlands Project
	Thomas E. Levy	University of California, San Diego	Presiding
	Thomas E. Levy, Thomas Higham, and Mohammad Najjar	University of California, San Diego/Oxford University/Friends of Archaeology, Jordan	“Modeling Iron Age Social Organization in the Faynan Region, Jordan – New Insights from Archaeology and High Precision Radiocarbon Dating”
	Adolfo Muniz	University of California, San Diego	“Iron Age Foodways in Faynan –Zooarchaeology Perspectives on Paleo-Economies in Southern Jordan”
	Kyle Knabb and Jurgen Schultz	Calit2/University of California, San Diego	“Iron Age Settlement Patterns in Faynan: Regional and On-Site Spatial Analyses Using 3D Visualization and other Tools”
	Erez Ben-Yosef	University of California, San Diego	“The Iron Age Roads to Busayra: A New Regional Survey in Edom, Jordan”
	Marc A. Beherec	University of California, San Diego	“Envisioning the Dead: Iron Age Anthropomorphic Standing Stones in the Edom Lowlands and Iconography of the Ancient Near East”
	Neil G. Smith	University of California, San Diego	“Pottery Informatics at Khirbat en-Nahas – A New Digital Archaeology Tool for Analyzing South Levantine Iron Age Pottery”

Egypt and Canaan
	K. Lawson Younger, Jr.	Trinity International University	Presiding
	Eliot Braun	W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeology	"A Reappraisal of the Context of the Narmer Serekh from Arad"
	Robyn Gillam	York University	"Cusae: Bulwark of Upper Egypt"
	Deborah Cantrell	Vanderbilt University	"Egyptian Chariotry: The Kushite Horse Examined"
	Gregory Mumford	University of Alabama at Birmingham	A Northeast Delta Port at Tell Tebilla: Egypt's regional and international trade during Egypt's Late Period (ca.664-343 BCE)
	Robert Deutsch	Tel Aviv University	"New Hebrew Bullae Reveal Egyptian Iconography"
	Maria Swetnam-Burland	Getty Research Institute/ College of William & Mary	"The Appropriated Egyptian Life of the Montecitorio Obelisk"

Hebrew Bible, History and Archaeology
	Dale W. Manor and Daniel Browning	Harding University/ William Carey College	Presiding
	Zvi Lederman and Shlomo Bunimovitz	Institute of Archaeology Tel Aviv University/Tel Aviv University	“Can the Real Canaanite Stand Up? Tel Beth-Shemesh and Iron Age I Cultural Persistence in the Northern Shephelah”
	Peter Feinman	Institute of History, Archaeology and Education	“Archaeology and the History of Israel”
	Hayah Katz	The Open University of Israel	“Population Increase and the Olive Oil Industry in 8th Century BCE Judea”
	Eric Smith	Nebraska Christian College	“Babylonian kudurru and the Granting of Land: Joshua 24 in Light of the Sun-God Tablet”

The History of Archaeology
	Yehiel Zelinger	Israel Antiquity Authority	"In the Footsteps of Bliss and Dickie on the Slopes of Mount Zion"
	Jonathan Tubb	British Museum	"Most of What We Know about Gezer comes from Macalister"
	Felicity Cobbing	Palestine Exploration Fund	"John Garstang's excavations at Jericho: A Cautionary Tale"
	Eric Meyers	Duke University	"The Six Day War and ASOR in Jerusalem"
	Jeffrey Blakely	University of Wisconsin-Madison	"Conversations with Larry Toombs on the American Method"

Household Arch. Bronze Iron Age Levant

Landscape Archaeology
	Martin Peilstocker	Israel Antiquities Authority	Presiding
	Carrie Hritz	Washington University in St. Louis	"Reading the Relict Landscapes: GIS and Remote Sensing in Ancient Mesopotamia"
	Graham Phillip	Durham University	"Settlement and Landscape: the Northern Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages"
	Wolfgang Zwickel	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz	"Landscape and settlement in the area of the Sea of Galilee"
	Ofer Sion	Israel Antiquities Authority	"Research Issues from the Excavations Along the Eastern Periphery of Ramla"
	Donald Whitcomb	The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago	"Urban landscape analysis in the archaeology and documentation of Fustat, Egypt"
	Jon Seligman	Israel Antiquities Authority	"The Integration of Urban Archaeology in Urban Planning - Jerusalem as a Case Study"

Maritime World of Ancient Cyprus
	Justin Leidwanger and Duncan S. Howitt-Marshall	University of Pennsylvania/University of Cambridge	Presiding
	Duncan S. Howitt-Marshall	University of Cambridge	“The Maritime Landscape of Southwest Cyprus: Trade, contact, and cultural exchange”
	Elizabeth S. Greene	Brock University	“Cypro-Levantine Connections with the Aegean: The 2008 Excavation Season of an Iron Age Shipwreck at Kekova Adası, Turkey”
	Stella Demesticha	University of Cyprus	“The Mazotos Shipwreck in Cyprus”
	Helena Wylde Swiny	Semetic Museum, Harvard University	“Ready for a Journey: Outfitting an Ancient Merchantship"
	John R. Leonard, Bradley A. Ault, and Stella Demesticha	Lake Forest College/University at Buffalo, SUNY/University of Cyprus	“Dreamer's Bay 2006-08: A Land-Sea Study of an Ancient Port in Cyprus”
	Justin Leidwanger	University of Pennsylvania	“The Institute of Nautical Archaeology’s 2007-2008 Eastern Cyprus Maritime Survey”

Material Culture and History: Ottoman Period			Cities as links between the Ottoman imperial center and the Syro-Palestinian country-side
	Bethany Walker and Bert de Vries	Missouri State University/Calvin College	Presiding
	Edna J. Stern	Israel Antiquities Authority	”The Political and Economic Links of Ottoman Acre ('Akka, 'Akko) as Reflected in the Ceramic Record”
	Ruba Kana'an	York University	“Two Cities, Two Worlds: Nablus and Jaffa during the Nineteenth Century”
	Lars Wahlin	Stockholm University	“As-Salt as the Centre of al-Balqa’ in the 19th Century”
	Michael R. Fischbach	Randolph-Macon College	“Irbid as Conduit of Tanzimat-Era Ottoman Land Policies in Southern Syria (Northern Transjordan)”

Order & Conflict Roundtables
	Oystein S. LaBianca	Andrews University	Presiding, “Analyzing Imperial Ordering Templates: Introduction to the Session Theme”
	Stephen H. Savage	Arizona State University	“The Digital Archaeology Atlas of the Holy Land (DAAHL): Web-based interactive mapping and site synthesis for the southern Levant.”
	Thomas H. Levy	University of California, San Diego	Host: Roundtable on Empires of Early Antiquity
	Bert De Vries	Calvin College	Host: Roundtable on Empires of the Classical Era and Late Antiquity
	Bethany Walker	Missouri State University	Host: Roundtable on Empires of Medieval and Early Modern Times

Philistia and the Philistines Iron Age Session 1
	Jeffrey R. Chadwick	Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center	Presiding
	Aren M. Maeir	Bar-Ilan University	“Insights on the Philistine Culture following 13 years at Tell es-Safi/Gath”
	Ayelet Gilboa	Haifa University	“Fragmenting the Sea Peoples: An outsider's view of the Philistines”
	Gunnar Lehmann	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	“Excavations at Qubur al-Walaydah, Israel, 2007”
	Louise Hitchcock	University of Melbourne	“Building Philistine Identities: Architecture, Embodiment, and the Spatial Organization of Culture”
	Assaf Yasur-Landau	University of California, Santa Cruz	“In Pursuit of the Philistine Bird: Feasts and Cultic Iconography of the Iron I Period”

Philistia and the Philistines Iron Age Session 2
	Aren M. Maeir	Bar-Ilan University	Presiding
	Laura Mazow	East Carolina University	“Looming Ahead: Textile Technologies and the Settlement of the Philistines”
	David Ben-Shlomo	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	“The Philistines and an Eastern Mediterranean 'Koine' during the Late 2nd Millennium BCE”
	Itzhaq Shai	Bar-Ilan University	“Understanding the Migration of the Philistines: City Names and Their Implications”
	Shira Gur-Arieh	Bar-Ilan University	“Archaeological, historical and military aspects of the Aramean Siege System at Tell es-Safi/Gath”
	Jeffrey R. Chadwick	Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center	“Assyrian and Judean Presence at Gath of the Philistines in the 8th Century BCE”

Prehistory of Jordan
	April Nowell	University of Victoria	Presiding
	Michael Bisson, April Nowell, Carlos Cordova, Regina Kalchgruber, and Basam Ghaleb	McGill University/University of Victoria/Oklahoma State University/Oklahoma State University/and Université de Québec à Montréal	“A Middle Paleolithic Flint Acquisition and Processing Site on the Madaba Plateau.”
	Chantal White and Miriam Belmaker	Boston University and Harvard University	“Midden Contexts from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site of el-Hemmeh: Integrated Botanical and Microfaunal Analyses.”
	Omry Barzilai	Israel Antiquities Authority	“The Neolithic Site at Mishmar Ha'emeq, Israel.”
	Gary Rollefson and Alexander Wasse	Whitman College	“The Late Prehistoric Wissad Necropolis in the Eastern Badia of Jordan.”
	Nils Anfinset	University of Bergen	“Levantine and Western Desert pastoral traditions?”
	Yorke Rowan	W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research	“Crossing The Nile: Tracing Southern Levantine Interaction With Egypt During The Chalcolithic.”

Problems in Ceramic Typology
	Celia J. Bergoffen	Fashion Institute of Technology	Presiding
	Yehudah Rapuano	Israel Antiquities Authority	“The Church of the Episkopos Johannes and the Date of the Pottery at Baraqa”
	Avshalom Karasik, Uzy Smilansky, Ayelet Gilboa, and Ilan Sharon	Hebrew University/Weizmann Institute of Science/Haifa University/Hebrew University	“Computerized Classification of Ceramics, is it really that good?”
	Mara Horowitz	Alalakh Excavations	“Building an Integrated Typology for the Alalakh Ceramic Assemblage”
	Juan Manuel Tebes	Pennsylvania State University	“Iron Age Edomite Pottery: A New Typology and Its Relationship with the Midianite Wares”
	Neil Smith and and Thomas E. Levy	University of California, San Diego	“Pottery Informatics at Khirbat en-Nahas * A New Digital Archaeology Tool for Analyzing South Levantine Iron Age Pottery”

Ramat Rahel Revisited
	Oded Lipschits	Tel Aviv University	Presiding
	Nirit Kedem	Tel Aviv University	“Site Formation at Ramat Rahel and its Place in the Landscape”
	Yuval Gadot and Veronica Zlatkovski	Hebrew Union College/Tel Aviv University	“Ramat Rahel during the Iron and Persian periods: Stratigraphy, Architecture and Artifact Distribution”
	Liora Freud	Tel Aviv University	“A New Look at the Iron Age Pottery from Ramat Rahel”
	Omer Sergi	Tel Aviv University	“The lmlk Stamp Impressions from Ramat Rahel: Typology, Chronology and Historical Considerations”
	Manfred Omeing	Heidelberg University	“Proto-Aeolic Capitals from Ramat Rahel”
	Jacob Wright	Emory University	“A Look at Some of the Small Finds: The Arrowheads from Ramat Rahel”
	Oded Lipschits and Ronny Reich	Tel Aviv University/University of Haifa	“Miqwa'ot (Ritual Baths) at Ramat Rahel"
	Oded Lipschits	Tel Aviv University	“Ramat Rahel in Context: concluding remarks”

Recent Iron Age Discoveries at Ashkelon
	Lawrence E. Stager	Harvard University	Presiding, “Daily Life among the Early Philistines at Ashkelon”
	Brian Doak and Kate Birney	Harvard University/Ashkelon Excavations	“Intramural Infant Burial in Philistia and Iconography of Death on a Newly Discovered Jar Burial from Ashkelon.”
	Michael Press	Ashkelon Excavations	“The Iron Age Terracottas of Ashkelon and Philistia”
	Daniel M. Master	Wheaton College	“Ashkelon, seaport of the Philistines”
	Jane C. Waldbaum	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	“Late 7th Century BCE Greek Pottery from the Nebuchadnezzar Destruction at Ashkelon”

The Red Sea in Antiquity
	Walter D. Ward	UCLA	Presiding
	Lucy Blue	University of Southampton	"Red Sea ports and Roman trade"
	Ross Thomas	University of Southampton	"Roman wine traders on the Red Sea: The evidence from amphora stoppers"
	Walter D. Ward	UCLA	"The effect of Red Sea commerce on the economy of the later Roman province of Third Palestine"
	Kristoffer Damgaard	University of Copenhagen	"Shaping an Islamic Cityscape: New perspectives on Islamic settlement in Aqaba"
	Katherine S. Burke	UCLA	"Texts and Archaeology at Quseir al-Qadim, a 13th c Red Sea Port"

Reports on Current Excavations- ASOR
	M. L. Pruitt	UC-Berkeley / GTU	Presiding
	Samuel Wolff and Steven Ortiz	Israel Antiquities Authority and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary	“The Tel Gezer Excavation Project: The 2006-2008 Seasons”
	Rudolph Dornemann	ASOR	“The 2008 Season of Excavations at Tell Qarqur, Syria”
	Oded Borowski	Emory University	“Lahav Research Project, Phase IV”
	Susan Cohen	Montana State University	“The Excavations at Tel Zahara: Final Results”

Reports on Current Excavations- Non ASOR
	David Ilan	Hebrew Union College	Presiding
	Matthew J. Adams	Albright Institute	"Early Bronze Age Megiddo: the 2008 season"
	Stefan Muenger, Juha Pakkala, Juergen Zangenberg and Wolfgang Zwickel	University of Bern/University of Helsinki/Leiden University/Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz	"Kinneret Regional Project – The 2008 Field Season"
	Amihai Mazar and Navah Panitz-Cohen	Hebrew University	"The Tel Rehov Beehives: Unique Evidence for Industrial Beekeeping in the Ancient Near East"
	David Schloen and Amir Sumakai-Fink	University of Chicago/Tell Aviv University	"Zincirli (ancient Sam'al), 2008"

Theoretical and Anthropological Approcoaches to Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology			Theme: Investigating craft, technology, and social organization
	Sarah Kielt Costello, Louise Hitchcock and Andrew P. McCarthy	University of Houston/University of Melbourne/University of Edinburgh	Presiding
	Britt Hartenberger	Western Michigan University	“Breaking the Mold: Exploring broader relationships around craft in Early Bronze Age Syria/Anatolia”
	Debi Cassuto	Bar Ilan University	“Splitting Threads: Identification of Industrial vs. Domestic Weaving Workshops”
	Shlomo Bunimovitz and Zvi Lederman	Tel Aviv University	“Interpreting Past Behavior: Experimental Archaeology and Water Drawing at Tel Beth-Shemesh”
	Avraham Faust	Bar Ilan University	“The ‘Negbite’ Pottery: Identity and Resistance in the Iron Age IIA”
	Emily Anderson	Yale University	“A Dialectics of Style in Early Cretan Glyptic Analysis”
	Emily Miller	California State University Fullerton	“Evolutionary Theory Challenged Again: Heterarchy as Explanatory Device in Pre-Palatial Crete”
	Juhana Markus Saukkonen	University College London	“The Social in the Spatial: Space Syntax Theory in Archaeology”

Settlement and Society Ancient NE
	Jason A. Ur and Jesse Casana	Harvard University/University of Arkansas	Presiding
	Jennifer Gates-Foster, John F. Cherry and Susan Alcock	University of Texas at Austin/Brown University	“The 600 Pound Gorilla in the Landscape: Exploring a Regional Center in Southern Armenia”
	Uzi Avner	Arava Institute	“Ancient Farming Settlement in Uvda Valley, Southern Negev, 6th—3rd Millennia B.C.”
	Jesse Casana	University of Arkansas	“Highlands and Lowlands of the Northern Levant”
	Sarah H. Parcak	University of Alabama at Birmingham	“Evaluating the ‘Settlement patterns’ of Ancient Egypt”
	Lauren Ristvet and Safar Ashuroy	Georgia State University/National Academy of Sciences, Azerbaijan	“Subsistence, Community and Complexity in the Early Bronze Age Caucasus: The View from Naxçivan”
	Elizabeth Stone	Stony Brook University	“Animal Husbandry and Settlement Structure in Ancient Mesopotamia”
	Jason Ur	Harvard University	“Pastoral and Agricultural Landscapes on the Margins of the Upper Tigris River, SE Turkey”

The Ties That Bind
	Edward F. Maher	The Field Museum	Presiding
	Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Stuart A. Campbell	The Alexandria Archive Institute/University of Manchester	“Creating Place, Creating Community in the Late Neolithic of Southeastern Turkey”
	Thomas Leppard	Brown University	“Metallurgy, urbanization, and behavioural structures: a synthetic approach to increased social cohesion in the Cypriot Late Bronze Age”
	Jeffrey Szuchman	University of Chicago	“Arameans at the Dawn of the First Millennium BCE: From Tribes to States?”
	Matthias Skorupka and Marjan Mashkour	University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbone/C.N.R.S./M.N.H.N.	“Ritual practices and animals in Bithnah, an Iron Age site in the Emirate of Fujeirah- UAE”
	Rahul Oka	University of Notre Dame	“Ottoman Economic Integration and the Indian Ocean Commercial Boom: A look from South Asia and East Africa”
	Jim Phillips	The Field Museum

The Ties That Unwind:	Social Disintegration in Near Eastern Antiquity
	Kevin M. McGeough	University of Lethbridge	Presiding
	Thomas D. Hulit	Independent Scholar	“Ancient Military Campaigns: An examination of the supply logistics of a military campaign and the effects on the local populations”
	Amos Nur	Stanford University	“Earthquakes and Systems Collapse at the End of the Late Bronze”
	Kevin M. McGeough	University of Lethbridge	“The Unwinding of the Late Bronze Age”
	Seth Richardson	The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago	“Failed States and Falling Cities: A Modernist Take on Ancient Collapse”
	John Robertson	Central Michigan University	“When Things Fall Apart: Political Collapse and Social Disintegration in the Ancient Middle East”

Workshop on Caesarea Maritima
	Kenneth G. Holum	University of Maryland	Presiding, “King Herod’s Temple to Roma and Augustus in its Urban Setting”
	John Peter Oleson, Christopher J. Brandon and Robert L. Hohlfelder	University of Victoria, British Columbia/London, UK/University of Colorado	“Hydraulic Concrete at Sebastos and Alexandria: New Data on Roman Harbour Technology in the Eastern Mediterranean”
	Michael Zimmerman and Martha K. Risser	St. Paul Catholic High School and Trinity College	“Western Terra Sigillata Wares at Caesarea Maritima”
	Rivka Gersht and Peter Gendelman	Tel Aviv University and Oranim College/Israel Antiquities Authority	“Domestic and Public Furniture from Caesarea Maritima”
	Jennifer A. Stabler	University of Maryland	“The Grain Trade in Medieval Caesarea”

Workshop on Roman Aqaba Project
	S. Thomas Parker	North Carolina State University	Presiding
	Jennifer Ramsay	Simon Fraser University	“Imported or local agriculture: a look at the archaeobotanical remains from Roman Aila”
	Virpi Elisabeth Holmquist	Institute of Archaeology, University of London	“Chemical and mineralogical approach to distribution of ‘Aqaba ceramics”
	Andi Shelton	North Carolina State University	“A Comparison of Imported Roman Ceramics from Aqaba and Humayma”
	Cheri Williams	North Carolina State University	“Egyptian Red Slip Ware Pottery at Aila: Economic Implications”
	S. Thomas Parker	North Carolina State University	“Imported Amphorae and Trade at Aila, A Roman Port on the Red Sea”

World of Women: Gender and Archaeology
	Beth Alpert Nakhai	The University of Arizona	Presiding
	Karen Sonik	University of Pennsylvania	"Boundary-Crosser, Boundary-Keeper: Anu's Terrible Daughter"
	Susan Ackerman and Benjamin D. Cox	Dartmouth College and Harvard Divinity School	"Rachel’s Tomb"
	Rona S. Avissar	Bar Ilan University	"Children and Childhood in the Ancient Land of Israel"
	Mayer Gruber	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	"What I Learned on the Way to the Library"
	Norma Franklin	Tel Aviv University	"Grace Mary Crowfoot and Her Four Daughters"