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Index: Wednesday & Thursday     Friday     Saturday

Wednesday sessions - November 19th

8:30am-8:30pm

Wadi Arabah symposium (at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History):
    Crossing the Rift: Resources, Routes, Settlement Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah  papers abstracts

7:00pm-8:30pm

Plenary Session (at Hyatt) - "The World's Diminishing Archaeological Heritage: the Role of Museums and Scholars"
  Colin Renfrew, Plenary Speaker (read more about Renfrew)

Thursday sessions - November 20th

8:30-10:30am

Reports on Current Excavations, ASOR-Affiliated I  papers abstracts
Ancient Inscriptions: Recent Discoveries, New Editions, & New Readings  papers abstracts
Artifacts: The Inside Story  papers abstracts
Prehistoric Archaeology I: Paleolithic-Neolithic  papers abstracts

10:45am-12:45pm

Workshop on the Roman Aqaba Project  papers abstracts
Symposium on Recent Research in the Madaba Plains Region of Jordan I papers abstracts
Landscape Archaeology  papers abstracts
Prehistoric Archaeology II: Neolithic-Early Bronze Age  papers abstracts

2:00-4:00pm

Reports on Current Excavations, ASOR-Affiliated II  papers abstracts
Symposium on Recent Research in the Madaba Plains Region of Jordan II papers
The Ethics of Collecting & Communicating the Near Eastern Past papers abstracts
Roman and Byzantine Palestine  papers abstracts

7:00-8:45pm

Special Session at Emory Univ. on Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt, followed by reception and tour of Carlos Museum  paper title abstract
   to be held at Emory University - shuttle bus service will be available for a small fee (go to more information and the evening's schedule)

Friday sessions - November 21st

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8:30-10:30am

Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology  papers abstracts
Egypt and Canaan I  papers abstracts
Ancient Food and Foodways papers abstracts
Reports on Current Excavations, non-ASOR Affiliated I  papers abstracts
Stories of Legitimacy by the Kings of the Ancient Near East  papers abstracts

10:45am-12:45pm

Maritime/Nautical Archaeology  papers abstracts
Egypt and Canaan II  papers abstracts
Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to Near Eastern and Eastern
     Med. Art and Archaeology (until 1:15pm)  papers abstracts
Reports on Current Excavations, non-ASOR Affiliated II  papers abstracts
E.L. Sukenik (1953-2003): "Jewish Archaeology" Fifty Years Later  papers abstracts

12:45am-2:15pm

Outreach Education Session: Communicating Archaeology to the Public  paper abstract
Khirbet Qana Publication Workshop I  papers

2:00-4:00pm

Archaeology of Anatolia I  papers abstracts
Archaeology and the Public  papers abstracts
Individual Submissions I  papers abstracts
Problems in Ceramic Typology  papers abstracts
ETANA workshop: Integrating Technology-Enabled Archaeology

4:15-6:15pm

Archaeology of Anatolia II  papers abstracts
Presidential Forum: The Future of American Archaeology in the Post-Saddam
     Middle East  papers abstracts
Individual Submissions II  papers abstracts
Archaeology of Cyprus: A History of American Archaeologists on Cyprus
    (until 6:45pm)  papers abstracts

Saturday sessions - November 22nd

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8:30-10:30am

Archaeology of Early Bronze Age People I  papers abstracts
Archaeology of Syria  papers abstracts
Art of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean  papers abstracts
Ancient Mediterranean Trade  papers abstracts

10:45am-12:45pm

Archaeology of Early Bronze Age People II  papers abstracts
Workshop on Caesarea Maritima  papers abstracts
Material Culture and History: Ottoman Syro-Palestine  papers abstracts
The World of Women: Gender and Archaeology (until 1:00pm)  papers abstracts

12:45-2:00pm

Khirbet Qana Publication Workshop II  papers

2:00-4:00pm

Archaeology of Mesopotamia  papers abstracts
Arabia I  papers abstracts
Archaeology of Jordan I  papers abstracts
Casting the First Stone: Recent Studies of Ground and Chipped Stone Tools  papers abstracts

4:15-6:15pm

Organic Approaches to Near Eastern Archaeology  papers abstracts
Arabia II workshop  papers abstracts
Archaeology of Jordan II  papers abstracts
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Archaeology  papers abstracts

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