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Index: Wednesday & Thursday     Friday     Saturday

Wednesday sessions - November 16th

7:00pm-8:30pm

Plenary Session - "The Mesopotamian Metals Project: Recent Discoveries"
  James Muhly, Plenary Speaker

Thursday sessions - November 17th

8:30-10:30am

· Reports on Current Excavations, ASOR-Affiliated papers
· Archaeology of Mesopotamia I papers
· Archaeology of Cyprus I papers
· Arabia I papers
· ETANA Workshop I papers

10:45am-12:45pm

· Archaeology and the Public papers
· Archaeology of Mesopotamia II papers
· Archaeology of Cyprus II papers
· Arabia II papers
· Material Culture in Ottoman Palestine papers

2:00-4:00pm

· The Ethics of Collecting and Communicating the Near Eastern Past papers
· Science and Technology in the Ancient World papers
· Archaeology of Syria I papers
· Ancient Mediterranean Trade papers

4:15-6:15pm

· Excavations at Tell Gezer in Retrospect and Prospect (4:00-6:00pm) papers
· Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, and Archaeology papers
· Archaeology of Syria II papers
· Individual Submissions I papers

7:00-8:30pm

Presidential Forum on Fakes and Forgeries - presenters

Friday sessions - November 18th

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8:30-10:30am

· Prehistoric Archaeology I papers
· Theoretical and Anthropoogical Approaches to Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology papers
· Archaeology of Religion and the Sacred papers
· Organic Approaches to Near Eastern Archaeology papers

10:45am-12:45pm

· Hebrew Bible, History and Archaeology papers
· Theoretical and Anthropoogical Approaches to Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology II papers
· Archaeology of Jordan papers
· Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East papers

1:00-2:00pm

Outreach Education Session: Communicating Archaeology to the Public paper

2:00-4:00pm

· Artifacts: the Inside Story papers
· Archaeology of Israel papers
· Problems in the Archaeology of Central Transjordan papers
· The World of Women: Gender and Archaeology I papers

4:15-6:15pm

· Workshop on Caesarea Maritima papers
· Ancient Inscriptions: Recent Discoveries, New Editions and New Readings papers
· Prehistoric Archaeology II papers
· The World of Women: Gender and Archaeology II papers

7:30pm

Banquet and Public Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, featuring Dr. William Dever more information

Saturday sessions - November 19th

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8:30-10:30am

· Archaeology of Iran papers
· Archaeology of Anatolia I papers
· Egypt and Canaan I papers
· Problems in Ceramic Typology papers

9:00am-4:00pm

ETANA II: Workshop  description

10:45am-12:45pm

2:00-4:00pm

· The Persian Levant in Transition papers
· Reports on Current Excavations, non-ASOR Affiliated papers
· Egypt and Canaan II papers
· Individual Submissions II papers

Joint Sessions of the American Schools of Oriental Research and
Society of Biblical Literature
November 19th & 20th

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Other Related Sessions held at the Annual Meeting
of the Society of Biblical Literature
(Click below on date to access SBL search site and enter session title in "Keyword")

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Nov. 19th SBL

Nov. 21st SBL

S21-8      Assyriology and Bible (Royal Iconography in Mesopotamia
                 and Syria- Palestine)
S21-11    Biblical Lands and Peoples in Archaeology and Text
S21-24    Meals in the Greco-Roman World
S21-67    Hebrew Bible, History and Archaeology
S21-102  Archaeology of Religion in the Roman World
S21-121  Paleographical Studies in the ANE

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