2007 ASOR Annual Meeting Schedule:
Academic Sessions


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Wednesday sessions - November 14th

 

7:00pm-8:30pm

Plenary Session:

Eric H Cline (Vice President of Programs), Presiding - Welcome

Robert R. Cargill (The UCLA Qumran Visualization Project) - Plenary Introduction
"A Virtual Tour of Qumran"

Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) - Plenary Speaker
"The Current State of Qumran Archaeology"


Thursday sessions - November 15th

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8:30-10:30am

· The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
· medor ledor bedor: New Insights from Tel Dor
·
 Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology I
· 
Archaeology of Religion and the Sacred I
· Archaeology of Anatolia I: Agency, Ethnicity, and Identity

10:45am- 12:45pm

· Landscape Archaeology
· 
Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology II
· Copyright Law for Archaeologists and Other Academics
· 
Archaeology of Religion and the Sacred II
· Archaeology of Anatolia II: Current Work

12:30-2:00pm

Order and Conflict: Roundtables on the Agency Role of Empires in the Levant

2:00- 4:00pm

· The Archaeology of Israel - New Developments
· Current Excavations Non-ASOR Affiliated I
· Art and Artifacts of the Ancient Near East: Context, Content, Contacts
· Individual Submissions I
· The Madaba Plains Project After 40 Years I

4:15-6:15pm

· The Tel Zayit Abecedary
· The Madaba Plains Project After 40 Years II
· Current Excavations Non-ASOR Affiliated II
· Individual Submissions II
· The World of Women: Gender and Archaeology

8:00pm

San Diego Museum of Man & ASOR Reception, featuring special tours of
"Journey to the Copper Age: Archaeology in the Holy Land" exhibit.


Friday sessions - November 16th

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8:30-10:30am

· Ancient Inscriptions
· The Incense Trade Road from Arabia to the Southern Levant
· Ancient Mediterranean Trade
· Prehistoric Archaeology I
· Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to Near Eastern and East Mediterranean Art and
  Archaeology I

10:45am-12:45pm

· Prehistoric Archaeology II
· Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to Near Eastern and East Mediterranean Art and
  Archaeology II
· Archaeology of Cyprus I

· Reports on Current Excavations ASOR-Affiliated
· Social Aspects of Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East I

2:00-4:00pm

· Archaeology of Syria
· Social Aspects of Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East II
· Archaeology of Jordan
· Material Culture in Ottoman Syro-Palestine
· The Archaeology of Cyprus II

4:30-6:30pm

ASOR Members Meeting


Saturday sessions - November 17th

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8:30-10:30am

· The Bioarchaeology of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean I
· Workshop on the Roman Aqaba Project
· Artifacts: The Inside Story
· Archaeology of Iran I
· Problems in Ceramic Typology

10:45am-12:45pm

· The Bioarchaeology of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean I
· Current Issues in Palestinian Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Management
· 
Eastern Mediterranean Diasporas: Cultural and Economic Implications
· The Ties That Bind: Social Integration in Near Eastern Antiquity
· Archaeology of Iran II

2:00-4:00pm

· Egypt and Canaan I
· Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, and Archaeology
· Israel's Political Landscape
· Workshop on Caesarea Maritima
· Ethnoarchaeology of Ancient Pottery


 

 


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