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Index: Wednesday & Thursday     Friday     Saturday

Wednesday sessions - November 17th

7:00pm-8:30pm

Plenary Session - "New Discoveries at Çatalhöyük"
  Ian Hodder, Plenary Speaker (read more about this event)

Thursday sessions - November 18th

8:30-10:30am

· Philistia and the Philistines in the Transition between the Iron Age I and II  papers abstracts
· Individual Submissions I papers abstracts
· New Technologies and their Uses in Archaeology (Poster Session) papers abstracts
· Archaeology of Cyprus papers abstracts

10:45am-12:45pm

· Archaeology of Mesopotamia I papers abstracts
· Individual Submissions II papers abstracts
· The Ethics of Collecting and Communicating the Near Eastern Past papers abstracts
· Ancient Mediterranean Trade papers abstracts

2:00-4:00pm

· Archaeology of Mesopotamia II papers abstracts
· Archaeology and the Public I papers abstracts
· Artifacts: the Inside Story papers abstracts
· Archaeology of Israel papers abstracts

4:15-6:15pm

· Recent Investigations at Tell Atchana (Alalakh) and Tell Ta'yinat and Related Studies in the Amuq papers abstracts
· Archaeology and the Public II: Jerusalem Past and Present papers abstracts
· World of Women papers abstracts
· Ancient Inscriptions papers abstracts

7:00pm

Public lecture at the San Antonio Museum of Art: "The Literary and Spiritual Worlds of Medieval Persia: Exploring SAMA's Islamic Ceramic Collection" by Bethany Walker (more info)

Friday sessions - November 19th

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8:30-10:30am

· Problems in Ceramic Typology papers abstracts
· Reports on Current Excavations, ASOR-Affiliated I papers abstracts
· Individual Submissions III papers abstracts
· Problems in the Archaeology of Central Transjordan papers abstracts

10:45am-12:45pm

· ETANA I: NSF Digital Library Project papers abstracts
· Reports on Current Excavations, ASOR Affiliated II papers abstracts
· Archaeology of Anatolia I papers abstracts
· Southern Levantine Archaeology papers abstracts

12:45-2:00pm

Outreach Education Session: Communicating Archaeology to the Public paper

2:00-4:00pm

· Arabia I papers abstracts
· Archaeology of Anatolia II papers abstracts
· Egypt and Canaan papers abstracts
· Material Culture in Ottoman Syro-Palestine papers abstracts

4:15-6:15pm

· Maritime/Nautical Issues papers abstracts
· Arabia II papers abstracts
· General Session papers abstracts
· Persian Levant papers abstracts

7:00-8:30pm

Presidential Forum: Archaeology and the Silver Screen paper

Saturday sessions - November 20th

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8:30-10:30am

· Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology papers abstracts
· Writing Workshop papers abstracts
· Content, Context, Contacts: Art and Artifacts of the Ancient Near East papers abstracts
· Prehistoric Archaeology I papers abstracts

9:00am-4:00pm

ETANA II: NSF Digital Library Project. Hands-on session for Participants and Project Directors, with Edward Fox.

10:00am-3:00pm

Teacher's Workshop (at San Antonio Museum of Art) presentations

10:45am-12:45pm

· Workshop on the Roman Aqaba Project papers abstracts
· Archaeology of Jordan papers abstracts
· Theoretical & Anthropological Approaches to Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology papers abstracts
· Prehistoric Archaeology II papers abstracts

2:00-4:00pm

· Archaeology of Syria papers abstracts
· Workshop on Caesarea Maritima papers abstracts
· Reports on Current Excavations, non-ASOR Affiliated papers abstracts

ASOR/SBL Co-Sponsored Session at SBL

The Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature immediately following the ASOR Annual Meeting will feature a Sunday session co-sponsored by ASOR and SBL. The session is numbered S21-8 in the SBL program and will run from 9:00am to 11:30am on Sunday, November 21 in Ballroom C3 of the San Antonio Convention Center.

Biblical Lands and Peoples in Archaeology and Text
Theme: Second Temple Jerusalem

Matthew Collins, Society of Biblical Literature, and Douglas Clark, American Schools of Oriental Research, Presiding

Gary Knoppers, The Pennsylvania State University, "What Has Jerusalem to Do with Mt. Gerizim? New Light on the History of Judean-Samarian Relations" (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Joshua Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University, "Prolegomena on a New Reconstruction of the Herodian Temple: Virtual Reality and Josephus" (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Bernard Frischer, University of Virginia, "Prolegomena on a New Reconstruction of the Herodian Temple: Virtual Reality and Josephus" (20 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Orit Peleg, Hebrew University, "Jerusalem Reconstructing King Herod's Royal Stoa: Analysis of the Architectural Decoration" (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Ronny Reich, University of Haifa, "Reconstructing the Herodian Stoa on the Temple Mount: The Confrontation of Written Sources and Archaeological Findings" (25 min)
Discussion (5 min)

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