7:00
– 8:30pm
Plenary
Session [Fairbanks Ballroom]
Eric
H Cline, Presiding
- Introductions
Official
Welcome to the 2007 ASOR Annual Meeting
Southern California ASOR Welcome
Committee - Norma Kershaw (ASOR & AIAR), David Noel Freedman (UCSD),
Tom Levy (UCSD), Bill Schniedewind (UCLA)
Plenary Introduction
Robert
R. Cargill (The UCLA Qumran Visualization Project)
“A Virtual
Tour of Qumran” (10 min.)
Plenary Address
Jodi Magness
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
“The Current State of
Qumran Archaeology” (60 min.) 8:30-10:30am The
Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East [Bel Aire South]
Theme:
Crossing Boundaries: Cultural Exchange in the 6th through
8th Centuries
Debra
Foran (University of Toronto), and Asa Eger (University of Chicago),
Presiding •
Debra
Foran (University of Toronto), “Relations between Monastic and Lay Communities
in the Byzantine Period at
Ma‘in,
Jordan” (20 min.)
• Carolyn
Swan (Brown University), “Early Islamic Glass from Ayla: Further Investigations”
(20 min.)
• Donald
Whitcomb (University of Chicago), “From Aqaba to Jerusalem: Palestinian Glazed
Ceramics” (20 min.)
•
Jodi
Magness (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Early Islamic Urbanism
and Building Activity in Jerusalem and at
Hammath
Gader” (30 min.)
•
Mahmoud
Hawari (University of Oxford), “The Transformation of Holy Places in the Topography
of Jerusalem from the Late
Byzantine to the Early Islamic Period” (25 min.) Medor
ledor bedor: New Insights from Tel Dor [Fairbanks AB]
Jeffrey R. Zorn (Cornell University), Presiding •
Ilan
Sharon (Hebrew University), “ Twenty Years of Excavations at Dor… and Then
Five?” (5 min.)
•
Ayelet
Gilboa (Haifa University), “Early Iron Age Dor – An Interim Summary after
25 Years” (25 min.)
•
Yiftah
Shalev (Hebrew University), “Was the Hippodamian Method Used at Dor? An Assessment
of the Urban Layout of the
Persian Period Town” (15 min.)
•
S.
Rebecca Martin (University of California, Berkeley), “From ‘Dor’ to ‘Doros’:
A New Approach to the Material Culture of
the Persian Period” (15 min.)
•
Elisabetta.
Boaretto (Weizmann Institute), “Tel Dor: On-site and Off-site Analysis of
the Microscopic Record” (25 min.)
•
Avshalom
Karasik (Weizmann Institute), “Pottery in High Resolution: Computerized Typological
Classification Based on
3D Documentation and Automatic Drawing of Ceramic Shreds
from Tel Dor, Israel” (15 min.)
•
Noa
Raban (Haifa University), “Early Iron Age Dor: Faunal Insights” (15 min.) Hebrew
Bible, History, and Archaeology I [Catalina]
Daniel
C. Browning, Jr. (William Carey College), Presiding •
Oded
Lipschits (Tel Aviv University), Manfred Oeming (Heidelberg University),
and Yuval Gadot (Hebrew Union College),
“New
Discoveries, New Interpretations and a Fresh Look on the Administrative Center
at Ramat Rahel during the Late Iron
Age
and Persian Periods” (20 min.)
•
Richard
Hess (Denver Seminary), “Katuwas and Rehoboam: Rebellion Stories in the West
Semitic World” (20 min.)
General
Discussion (20 min.)
•
Deborah
Cantrell (Vanderbilt University), “The Horsemen of Israel” (20 min.)
•
Uzi
Leibner (Hebrew University), “The Origins of the Jewish Galilee of the Early
Roman Period” (20 min.)
General
Discussion (20 min.) Archaeology
of Anatolia I: Agency, Ethnicity, and Identity [Fairbanks
CD]
Jennifer
Ross (Hood College), Presiding •
Sharon
R. Steadman (SUNY Cortland), “Agency, Archaeology, and Architecture at Later Prehistoric
Sites in Anatolia” (20 min.)
•
Jennifer
Piro (New York University), “Pastoral Economies in the Northeastern Anatolian
Highlands from the Mid-4th to
3rd Millennium B.C.” (20
min.)
•
Paul
Zimansky (Stony Brook University), “Urartian Ethnicity and its Contemporary
Communicants” (20 min.)
Discussion
(10 min.)
•
Timothy Matney (University of Akron), “A Late Assyrian Ritual Hoard
from Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey” (20 min.)
•
Omur Harmansah (Brown University), “Event Place Performance: Social Memory
and Technological Agency in Early Iron
Age Karkamis” (20 min.)
Discussion
(10 min.) Archaeology
of Religion and the Sacred I [Bel Aire North]
Yorke
Rowan (NMNH, Smithsonian Institution), Presiding •
Cory
D. Crawford (Harvard
University), “'Ai Citadel Sanctuary A and the Demarcation of Sacred Space in Early
Bronze
Age
Palestine” (20 min.)
Discussion (4 min.)
• Chang-Ho
Ji (La Sierra University), “The Iron
I-II Settlement and Cultic Structures at Khirbat 'Ataruz, Jordan: Excavating the
High
Place, Sanctuary, and Settlement Village” (20 min.)
Discussion (4 min.)
• James
Osborne (Harvard University), “The Bench
Tomb in Iron Age Judah: Secondary Mortuary Practice and Social Values”
(20
min.)
Discussion (4 min.)
•
Jane
DeRose Evans (Temple University), “Mount Gerizim and the Temple of Zeus: landscape,
sanctuary and symbol on coins of
the
second and third centuries CE.” (20 min.)
Discussion
(4 min.) 10:45am-12:45pm Landscape
Archaeology [Bel Aire South]
M.
Peilstocker (Israel Antiquities Authority), Presiding •
Raanan
Kislev (Israel Antiquities Authority), “Urban archeology and conservation
- Old Acre as a test case” (20 min.)
•
Elie
Hadad (Israel Antiquities Authority),“Lod and Ramle (Israel): A Venture in
Urban Archaeology” (20 min.)
•
Rahel Bar-Natan (Israel Antiquities Authority) and Debbie Sklar-Parnes
(Independent Scholar ), “A Jewish Settlement
Revealed in the Shu’afat Neighborhood of Jerusalem”
(15 min.)
•
Celia
Bergoffen (Fashion Institute of New York), “Digging in New York City” (20
min.)
•
Aaron
Burke (UCLA) and Martin Peilstocker (Israel Antiquities Authority),
“The Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project:
Archaeological Exploration in an Urban Environment”
(15 min.)
General Discussion (10 min.) Copyright
Law for Archaeologists and Other Academics [Fairbanks AB]
Jane
Cahill (Hebrew University), Presiding •
Beth
Sufian (Attorney at Law, Sufian & Passamano, L.L.P., Houston, Texas),
“What a Copyright Is, How a Copyright Arises,
Who Owns a Copyright, and What Rights a Copyright Bestows”
(25 min.)
•
James
A. Passamano (Attorney at Law, Sufian & Passamano, L.L.P., Houston, Texas),
“Fair Use, Infringement, and
Enforcement of a Copyright” (25 min.)
•
John
Stanford (Soliciter, Legal Education and Training Consultant, and Immigration
Judge, Cambridge, England), “Copyright
Protection in the European Union and International Law”
(25 min.)
•
Erin
Powers (Principal, Powers MediaWorks, LLC, The Woodlands, Texas), “Strategic
Communications Considerations
for Archaeologists” (25 min.)
General
Discussion (20 min.) Hebrew
Bible, History, and Archaeology II [Catalina]
Dale
W. Manor (Harding University), Presiding •
Eric
Cline (The George Washington University), “From Noah’s Ark to the Ark of the
Covenant and Beyond: A Call-to-Arms
Against ‘Junk Science,’ Amateur Enthusiasts, and Uninformed
Documentary Filmmakers” (20 minutes)
•
Zvi
Lederman (Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University) and Shlomo Bunimovitz
(Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv
University), “‘Come, Let Us Meet Face to Face:’ The
Archaeological Implications of Amaziah’s and Jehoash’s Clash at
Beth-Shemesh” (20 minutes)
General
Discussion (20 minutes)
•
Yosef
Garfinkel (Hebrew University) and Saar Ganor (Israel Antiquities Authority),“Khirbet
Kiafa: Biblical Azekah?” (20 minutes)
•
Carolina
Aznar (Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus), “Storage Jar Transportation
and Exchange Types in the Iron
Age II Southern Levant” (20 minutes)
General
Discussion (20 minutes) Archaeology
of Anatolia II: Current Work [Fairbanks CD]
Sharon
R. Steadman (SUNY Cortland), Presiding •
Yoko Nishimura (UC Los
Angeles), “A Close Look at the Spatial Organization in the Residential Quarters
at Titriş Höyük, A
Small Urban Center in 3rd
Millennium Upper Mesopotamia” (20 min.)
•
Katsuji
Kobayashi (University of Melbourne), Antonio
Sagona (University of Melbourne), Janet
Hergt (University of
Melbourne), and Alan Greig
(University of Melbourne) “Obsidian Exploitation at Eastern Anatolia in the
Late Prehistoric
Periods” (20 min.)
•
Peter
Jablonka (University of Tuebingen), “From Citadel
to City: Current Work at Bronze Age Troy” (20
min.)
Discussion
(10 min.)
•
Ann
E. Killebrew (Pennsylvania State University), Marie-Henriette Gates
(Bilkent University), and Gunnar Lehmann
(Ben Gurion University), “The
Mopsos Survey (2004-2007 Sesons): Landscape Archaeology in the Issos and Iskenderun
Regions, Eastern Cilicia”
(20 min.)
•
Brian
Janeway (University of Toronto), “Dating the Early Iron Age at Tell Ta’yinat
in Southeast Turkey” (20 min.)
Discussion
(10 min.) Archaeology
of Religion and the Sacred II [Bel Aire North]
Andrew
Cohen (Brandeis University), Presiding •
Brian
Doak (Harvard University), “'No statues
or familiar images': Re-evaluating the Claim for Phoenician Aniconism” (20 min.)
Discussion
(4 min.)
•
Steven Werlin (University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill), “ Jewish Art in Its Christian Context: Eagles and Angels in
Late Antiquity” (20 min.)
Discussion
(4 min.)
•
Michele
Burns (Independent Scholar), “The Mandorla
in Christian Art : Light as Symbol and Substance (20 min.)
Discussion
(4 min.)
• Joe
Uziel, (Bar Ilan University), “Religion in
Middle and Late Bronze Age Canaan: What Changes, What Stays the Same
and
Why” (20 min.)
Discussion
(4 min.)
•
Uzi
Avner (Arava Institute for Environmental
Studies), “Nabatean Sanctuaries in Southern Sinai” (20 min.)
Discussion
(4 min.) 12:30-2:00pm Order
and Conflict: Roundtables on the Agency Role of Empires in the Levant [Point
Loma A]
Theme: Inaugural Meeting of ASOR’s Cross
Border Research Initiative
Øystein
S. LaBianca (Andrews University), Presiding •
Øystein
S. LaBianca (Andrews University), "The Agency Role of Empires in
the Levant: An Introduction to ASOR’s Cross
Border Research Initiative." (20 mins.)
•
Yuval
Gadot (Hebrew Union College), "Local
Societies, Separatism and Globalization in Early Antiquity: Overview of an
Emerging
Research Collaboration" (10 mins.) Roundtable
Discussion on Early Antiquity Empires
Thomas Levy (UCSD), Nils Anfinset
(University of Bergen), Itzik Shai (Bar Ilan University), Joe Uziel
(Bar Ilan University)
and Yifat Thareani-Susely (Jerusalem and
Tel Aviv University), Facilitators Roundtable
Discussion on Classical Era Empires
Bert deVries (Calvin
College) and Oystein S. LaBianca (Andrews University), Facilitators Roundtable
Discussion on Late Medieval and Early Modern Empires
Bethany Walker (Grand Valley State University) and Anders Bjorkelo
(University of Bergen), Facilitators 2:00-4:00pm The
Archaeology of Israel – New Developments [Fairbanks CD]
Theme:
Transitions in Prehistory in the Light of Recent Researches in Israel
Ofer Marder (Israel Antiquities Authority), Presiding •
Michael
Chazan (University of Toronto), ”Current Issues in the Archaeology of the
Later Lower Paleolithic of the Levant” (20 min.)
• Ofer
Marder (Israel Antiquities Authority) and A. Nigel Goring-Morris (Hebrew
University of Jerusalem), "The Transition
from the Upper Paleolithic to the Epipaleolithic in
Israel according to Lithic Researches" (20 min.)
• Hamoudi
Khalaily (Israel Antiquities Authority), "The "Ghazalian Culture",
a Transitional Phase from Pre-Pottery to the
Early Pottery Neolithic Periods: Technological Innovation
and Economic Adaptations" (20 min.)
• Yossi
Garfinkel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "The Middle Chalcolithic
site of Tell Tsaf: 2004-2007 Seasons" (20 min.)
•
Steven
A. Rosen (Ben-Gurion University), "Herding to Hunting: The Transition
to Food Production in the Desert" (20 min.)
General
discussion (20 min.) Current
Excavations Non-ASOR Affiliated I [Fiarbanks AB]
David
Ilan (Hebrew Union College), Presiding •
Aren
Maeir (Bar-Ilan University), “The MB, LB and Iron Age levels at Tell es-Safi/Gath:
Update for the 2006 and 2007
seasons” (25 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
• Avraham
Faust (Bar-Ilan University), “The Tel 'Eton Excavations” (25 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
• Stefan
Münger (University of Bern / Switzerland), Juha Pakkala (University
of Helsinki), Jürgen Zangenberg
(Leiden University), and Wolfgang Zwickel (Johannes
Gutenberg-University Mainz), “Kinneret Regional Project -
The 2007 Season” (25 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
• Shawn
Bubel (University of Lethbridge) and Dale Manor (Harding University,
Arkansas), “The Late Bronze-Iron Age
Transition at Tel Beth-Shemesh: New Finds from the Northern
Slope” (25 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.) Art
and Artifacts of the Ancient Near East: Context, Content, Contacts [Bel
Aire North]
Marian
H. Feldman (University of California, Berkeley), Presiding •
Emily
Hammer (Harvard University), “Spatiality in the Palaces of Assurnasirpal II,
Sargon II, and Sennacherib” (20 min.)
Discussion
(4 min.)
•
Lisa
Mallen (Bryn Mawr College), “Esoteric Astroglyphs and the Assyrian Elite”
(20 min.)
Discussion
(4 min.)
•
Jennifer
Ross (Hood College), “The Archaic Metals List: Material Culture and Mental
Codes at the Emergence of
Urbanism” (20 min.)
Discussion
(4 min.)
•
Cynthia
Colburn (Pepperdine University), “Prestige and Power in Third Millennium B.C.E.
Crete and the Near East” (20 min.)
Discussion
(4 min.)
•
Heather
Jackson (The University of Melbourne), “Erotes on the Euphrates? Redecorating
the Walls of a Hellenistic
House in Syria” (20 min.)
Discussion
(4 min.)
General
Discussion (20 min.) Individual
Submissions I [Bel Aire South]
Laura
B. Mazow (East Carolina University), Presiding •
Helen
Malko (Stony Brook University), “A Comparison of Social and Economic Organization
of Cities and Small
Settlements in Mesopotamia” (20 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
•
Adolfo
Muniz (University of California, San Diego), “Early Bronze Age Economies of
the Faynan District, Southern
Jordan” (20 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
•
Norma
Franklin (Tel Aviv University), “Water Systems: Getting to the Source” (20
min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
•
Emily
Miller (California State University, Fullerton), “The Cretan Beehive: The
Evidence from Early Cretan Tombs for
a Heterarchical Society” (20 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
•
Lucas
Petit (University of Leiden), "The Deir 'Alla Regional Project: understanding
settlement and abandonment behavior in the Middle Jordan Valley during Iron Age II" (20 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.) The
Madaba Plains Project After 40 Years I [Catalina]
Lawrence
T. Geraty (La Sierra University), Presiding •
Lawrence
T. Geraty (La Sierra University), Introduction (10 min.)
•
Larry
G. Herr (Canadian University College), “The Early Bronze, Middle Bronze, and
Iron II at Tall al-`Umayri” (25 min.)
•
Douglas
R. Clark (La Sierra University), “The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages at Tall
al-`Umayri” (25 min.)
•
Randall
W. Younker (Andrews University), “Fifteen Years at Tall Jalul” (25 min.)
•
Øystein
S. LaBianca (Andrews University), “Tall Hisban: Palimpsest of Great and Little
Traditions of Transjordan
and
the Ancient Near East” (25 min.)
General
Discussion (10 min.) 4:15-6:15pm The
Tel Zayit Abecedary [Fairbanks CD]
Ron
Tappy (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) and P. Kyle McCarter (The Johns
Hopkins University), Presiding •
Ron
Tappy (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary), “The Archaeological Context of the
Tel Zayit Abecedary and Why That
Context is Important” (10 min.)
• Christopher
Rollston (Emmanuel School of Religion—A Graduate Seminary), “Literacy, the
Phoenician and Hebrew
Script Series, and the Tel Zayit Abecedary” (25 min.)
• David
Carr (Union Theological Seminary, New York), “The Tel Zayit Abecedary in (Social)
Context” (25 min.)
• Seth
Sanders (Trinity College), “Nonstate Writing and Early Iron Age Israel: Old
Problems and New Connections” (25 min.)
• P.
Kyle McCarter (The Johns Hopkins University), Respondent (25 min.)
General Discussion (10 min.) The
Madaba Plains Project After 40 Years II [Catalina]
Douglas R. Clark (La Sierra University), Presiding •
William
G. Dever (University of Arizona, emeritus), “Celebrating the 40th
Anniversary of the Madaba Plains Project” (25 min.)
•
P.M.
Michèle Daviau (Wilfrid Laurier University), “Discovering Iron Age Towns in
Central Jordan: The Legacy of
the Madaba Plains Project” (25 min.)
•
Timothy
P. Harrison (University of Toronto), “Beyond the MPP: A Regional Approach
to the Archaeology of the
Madaba Plain Region” (25 min.)
•
Bethany
J. Walker (Grand Valley State University), “From the Madaba Plains to Northern
Jordan” (25 min.)
General Discussion (20
min.) Current
Excavations Non-ASOR Affiliated II [Fairbanks AB]
Robert
Mullins (Azusa Pacific University), Presiding
•
David
Schloen (University of Chicago) and Amir Sumakai-Fink (Tel Aviv University),
“New Excavations at Zincirli
(Ancient Sam'al)” (25 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
•
Steven
Collins (College of Archaeology & Biblical History, Trinity Southwest
University), “Tall el-Hammam: A Key
Witness to the Archaeology and History of the Southern
Jordan Valley, Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations
from the '06/'07 Excavation Season” (25 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
•
Craig
Bowman (Rochester College), Mark Shipp (Austin Graduate School of Theology),
and Terrance Christian
(University of Texas, Austin), “Renewed Excavations
at En Hazeva, 2005-2007” (25 min.)
Discussion (5 min.)
• Matthew
Adams (Pennsylvania State University), "Early Bronze Excavations at Megiddo, 2004-2006"
(20 min.)
Discussion (5 min.) Individual
Submissions II [Bel Aire South]
Benjamin
Saidel (East Carolina University), Presiding •
Miriam
Clinton (University of Pennsylvania), Shannon Martino (University of
Pennsylvania), George Myer (Temple
University), Dennis Terry (Temple University),
Eva Campo (University of Pennsylvania Regional Nanotechnology Facility)
and Philip Betancourt (Temple University), “Rapid
Cooling Effects in Copper Smelting Slags from Chrysokamino” (20 min.)
•
Isabelle
Pafford (University of California, Berkeley), “A Greek Sends a Persian to
Egypt and Drives him Crazy: Medical
Construction and Political Philosophy in Herodotus”
(20 min.)
•
Rachel
Hallote (Purchase College SUNY), “Photography and the American contribution
to early “biblical” archaeology,
1870-1920” (20 min.)
•
Theodore
Burgh, Maurice Benson and Shane Baptista (University of North Carolina,
Wilmington), “Virtual Studies of
the Past” (20 min.)
•
Darrell
Rohl (Andrews University), “Reassessing the Stratigraphy of Early Roman Esbus
(Tall Hisban)” (20 min.)
Discussion (5 min.) The
World of Women: Gender and Archaeology [Bel Aire North]
Beth
Alpert Nakhai (The University of Arizona), Presiding •
Jeffrey
R. Chadwick (Brigham Young University), "Your Daughters ...
as Cooks and Bakers" - Women's Roles
as Reflected in the Organization and Operation of an
Eighth Century BCE Elite Zone Kitchen and Bakery at
Tell es-Safi/Gath” (25 min.)
Discussion (5 min.)
•
Kerry
Adams (The University of Arizona), “An Ethnoarchaeological Investigation
of Shrine Site Creation and Evolution:
Evidence for Iron Age Women's Pilgrimage?” (25 min.)
Discussion (5 min.)
•
Kevin
McGeough (University of Lethbridge) and Elizabeth Galway (University
of Lethbridge), "Working Egyptians
of the World Unite!” How Edith Nesbit Used Near Eastern Archaeology and Children's
Literature to Effect Social
Change (20 min.)
Discussion (5 min.) Roundtable
Discussion:
•
Jennie
Ebeling (University of Evansville) and Beth Alpert Nakhai (The University
of Arizona), Conveners
“Where
are the Women in Near Eastern Archaeology? An Open Discussion on the Status of
Women in the Profession” (30 min.) 8:30-10:30am Ancient
Inscriptions [Catalina]
Christopher A. Rollston (Emmanuel School of Religion) and Annalisa
Azzoni (Vanderbilt University), Presiding
•
Aaron
Demsky (Bar Ilan University), “Hear the Alphabet: Understanding the Tel Zayit
Abecedary” (25 min.)
•
Itzhaq
Shai (Bar Ilan University) and Alexander Zukerman (Albright Institute
of Archaeological Research), “The Royal City
of the Philistines in the ‘Azekah Inscription’ and
the History of Gath in the Eighth Century BCE” (30 min.)
•
K.
Lawson Younger (Trinity International University, Divinity School), “Some
of What's New in Old Aramaic Epigraphy” (25 min.)
•
Eran
Arie (Tel Aviv University and Israel Museum) and Yuval Goren (Tel Aviv
University), “Indelible Impression: The
Judahite Correspondence According to Petrographic Analysis
of Clay Bullae” (30 min.)
General Discussion (5 min.) The
Incense Trade Road from Arabia to the Southern Levant [Fairbanks
AB]
Michael
Jasmin (The Semitic Museum - Harvard University)
and Yifat Thareani-Sussely (Tel-Aviv University
and the Nelson
Glueck School
of Biblical Archaeology), Presiding
•
Crystal Fritz (Bryn Mawr College), “Ceramic
Correlates for Non-Sedentary Lifeways in Late Prehistoric South-East
Arabia” (20 min.)
• Gregory
Mumford (Independent Scholar), “The Egyptian Perspective of the Red-Sea Trade
during the 25-26
Dynasties” (20 min.)
• Yifat
Thareani-Sussely (Tel-Aviv University and the Nelson
Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology), “The Spirit of Clay:
‘Edomite Pottery’ and Social Awareness in the Late
Iron Age” (20 min.)
• Stephen
Batiuk (University of Toronto), “South-Arabian Influence in Northern Ethiopia:
Results of Eastern Tigrai
Archaeological Project 2005-2007” (20 min.)
•
Israel Roll (Tel-Aviv
University), “Reaching the Mediterranean Shore: The Environmental Aspects of the
Incense Roads
Crossing the Negev” (20 min.) Ancient
Mediterranean Trade [Fairbanks CD]
Barry
M. Gittlen (Baltimore Hebrew University), Presiding •
Hayah Katz (The Open University of Israel), “The Ship from Uluburun and
the Ship from Tyre: An International Trade Network
in the Ancient Near East.” (25 min.)
• Nicholas
Blackwell (Bryn Mawr College), “The Nature of Interaction between Cyprus and
Sardinia at the Transition of the
Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age.” (20 min.)
•
Shlomo
Bunimovitz and Zvi Lederman (Tel Aviv University), “Iron Age Iron: Collapse
and Innovation.” (25 min.)
• Barry
J. Beitzel (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), “Joint Nautical Ventures
on the Mediterranean Sea by Tyrian
Phoenicians and Early Israelites.” (20 min.)
•
Mark E.
Polzer (Texan A&M University), “Phoenician Ships in Neo-Assyrian Art:
An Analysis of the Ships Depicted in
Bas-Reliefs from Sennacherib’s Palace at Nineveh.” (20
min.)
General Discussion (10 min.) Prehistoric
Archaeology I [Bel Aire North]
April
Nowell (University of Victoria), Presiding •
Erez
Ben-Yosef (UC, San Diego), Hagai Ron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem),
Lisa Tauxe (Scripps Institution of
Oceanography), Amotz Agnon (Hebrew University
of Jerusalem), Thomas E. Levy (UC, San Diego), Uzi Avner (Arava
Institute for Environmenal Studies) and Mohammad
Najjar (Department of Antiquities of Jordan), “Archaeological
Applications of New Approach to Archaeomagnetic Paleointensity
Investigation” (20 min.)
Discussion (5 min.)
•
Ofer
Marder (Israel Antiquities Authority) and Ianir Milevski (Israel Antiquities
Authority), “The Lower Paleolithic Site of
Revadim Quarry, Israel” (20
min.)
Discussion (5 min.)
•
Michael
Neely (Montana State University), “Techno-Typological Variability in the Late
Epipaleolithic from the Wadi Juheira,
West-Central Jordan” (20
min.)
Discussion (5 min.) Theoretical
and Anthropological Approaches to Near Eastern and East Mediterranean Art and
Archaeology I [Bel Aire South]
Theme:
The Future of the Past: New Approaches in Biblical Archaeology
Louise
Hitchcock (University of Melbourne), Presiding •
Matthew
Suriano (University of California, Los Angeles), “The Marginality of the Dead
Funerary-Rites and the Concept
of the Afterlife in Ancient Israel” (20 min.)
Discussion (5 min.)
•
Morag
Kersel (University of Toronto), “Bridging the Divide – A Case Study in Archaeological
Ethnography” (20 min.)
Discussion (5 min.)
•
Jonathan
Lawrence (Canisius College), “Water, Water, Everywhere – Jewish and Christian
Bathing Practices in India”
(25
min.)
Discussion (5 min.)
•
Eyal
Regev (Bar-Ilan University), “The Archaeology of Sectarianism: A Socio- Anthropological
Analysis of Kh. Qumran”
(30
min.)
Discussion (10 min.) 10:45-12:45pm Prehistoric
Archaeology II [Bel Aire North]
Alan Simmons
(UNLV), Presiding •
Daniella
E. Bar-Yosef Mayer (University of Haifa) and Naomi Porat (Geological Survey
of Israel), “Early Neolithic Stone
Beads of Gilgal” (20 min.)
Discussion (5 min.)
•
Alan
Simmons (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), “The Role of Cyprus in the Neolithic
World” (20 min.)
Discussion (5 min.)
•
April
Nowell (University of Victoria) and Donald Henry (University of Tulsa),
“Patterns Observed in PPNB Points from
Ayn Abu Nukhayla” (20 min.)
Discussion (5 min.)
•
David
Ilan (Hebrew Union College) and Yorke Rowan (NMNH, Smithsonian Institution),
“The Judean Desert as a
Chalcolithic Necropolis” (20 min.)
Discussion (5 min.)
•
Omran
Garazhian (University of Tehran), “Cultural Changes of Calcolithic Cultures
to Bronze Age in Northern Iran” (20 min.)
Discussion (5 min.) Reports
on Current Excavations ASOR-Affiliated [Fairbanks AB]
M. L. Pruitt (UC-Berkeley / GTU), Presiding •
Jesse
C. Long (Lubbock Christian University), “Expedition 2007 to Khirbet Iskander,
Jordan” (20 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
•
Jonathan
Ferguson (University of Toronto), “Rediscovering az-Za`faran and az-Zona: The
Wadi ath-Thamad Project
Regional Survey” (20 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
•
Rami
Arav (University of Nebraska at Omaha), “Bethsaida, Excavation Season of 2007”
(20 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
•
Michael
Toumazou (Davidson College), “Athienou Archaeological Project, 2007: Investigations
at Athienou-Malloura,
Cyprus” (20 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.) Theoretical
and Anthropological Approaches to Near Eastern and East Mediterranean Art and
Archaeology II [Bel Aire South]
Theme:
The Future of the Past: Memory, Economy & Agency
Andrew
P. McCarthy (University of Edinburgh) and Sarah Kielt Costello (University
of Houston), Presiding
• Alysia
Fischer (Miami University of Ohio), "Building an Anthropology of Craft" (20
min.)
Discussion (7 min.)
•
Ann
Shafer (American University in Cairo), “Postmodernism on the Periphery: Neo-Assyrian
Stelae in Review” (20 min.)
Discussion (7 min.)
•
Jennifer
Ramsay (Simon Fraser University), “World Systems Theory and Its Application
to Archaeobotanical Remains in
the Near East” (20 min.)
Discussion (7 min.)
•
Emily
Anderson (Yale University), “Questionable Individuals: Reassessing an Interpretive
Commonplace” (30 min.)
Discussion (7 min.) Archaeology
of Cyprus I [Catalina]
Theme:
Material as Culture: The Archaeology of ‘Cypriote’ Identity
at Home and Abroad
Derek
B. Counts (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Presiding •
Albert Ammerman (Colgate
University), “Two New Early Sites on Cyprus: Voyaging Toward an Island Identity”
(25 min.)
•
Andrew McCarthy (University
of Edinburgh), “Identity on the Horizon: Viewshed Analysis of the Dhiarizos Valley
in
the Chalcolithic” (20 min.)
General Discussion (10 min.)
•
A. Bernard Knapp
(University of Glasgow), “Materiality, Identity and Ideology on Prehistoric Cyprus”
(20 min.)
•
Matthew Spigelman (New
York University), “Competing Elite Strategies in the Middle to Late Bronze Age
Transition
on
Cyprus” (20 min.)
General Discussion (5 min.) Social
Aspects of Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East I [Fairbanks
CD]
Glenn Schwartz (Johns Hopkins University), Presiding •
Glenn
Schwartz (Johns Hopkins University), “Social Aspects of Human and Animal Sacrifice:
An Introduction” (20 min.)
• Elizabeth
Carter (UCLA), Stuart Campbell (University of Manchester), and Suellen Gauld
(Santa Monica College),
“Feasting
on the Dead?” (20 min.)
• Andrew
Cohen (Brandeis University), “A Comparative Look at Human Sacrifice in the
Royal Cemetery of Ur” (20 min.)
Discussion
(10 min.)
• Jill
Weber (University of Pennsylvania), “Restoring Order: Death, Display
and Authority” (20 min.)
• Anne
Porter (University of Southern California), “Death by Unnatural Causes: The
Social Significance of Ritualized
Killing”
(20 min.)
Discussion
(10 min.) 2:00-4:00pm Archaeology
of Syria [Bel Aire North]
Mark
W. Chavalas (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) Presiding •
Adam
Maskevich (Johns Hopkins University), “Umm el-Marra and the Mitanni Empire
in Inland Syria” (20 min.)
•
Rudolph
H. Dornemann (ASOR), “The 2007 Season of Excavations at Tell Qarqur, Syria”
(30 min.)
•
Jesse
Casana (University of Arkansas), "Settlement History and Environmental
Change at Tell Qarqur" (20 min.)
•
Laurent
Tholbecq (Universite Laval), “A New Joint Syro-Canadian Project on Hosn Suleiman
(Jabal Ansariyeh, Syria):
The Architectural Study of the Hellenistic and Roman
Sanctuary of Baetocaece” (20 min.)
•
Lidewijde
de Jong (Stanford University), “Tombs in Roman Syria: Reconstructing Ancient
Imperialism through Mortuary
Practices” (20 min.) Social
Aspects of Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East II [Fairbanks
CD]
Anne Porter (University of Southern California), Presiding •
Gillian
Goslinga (University of California at Santa Cruz ), “On Sakti-Filled
Bodies and Divinities: An Anthropological
Perspective on Animal Sacrifice and Ritual in Contemporary
South India” (20 min.)
•
Brian
Hesse (Pennsylvania State University), Paula Wapnish (Pennsylvania
State University) and Jonathan Greer
(Pennsylvania
State University), “Sacrificial Animals? -- Between Evidence and Interpretation”
(20 min.)
Discussion
(10 min.)
•
Mary
Voigt (College of William and Mary), “Patterns in the Deposition of Human
Remains in Later Hellenistic Gordion:
The
Arguments for Human and Animal Sacrifice” (20 min.).
• Baruch
Levine (New York University), “The Biblical Evidence: Sacrifice as a Legitimating
Act,” (20 min.)
Discussion
(10 min.) Archaeology
of Jordan [Bel Aire South]
Leigh-Ann
Bedal (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College), Presiding •
Thomas
E. Levy (University of California, San Diego) and Mohammad Najjar (Department
of Antiquities of Jordan), “New Light on Edomite State
Formation - the 2006 Excavations at Khirbat en-Nahas, Jordan” (20 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
•
Mark
Beherec (University of California, San Diego), “Relations of the Iron Age
Dead: Wadi Fidan 40 and Its Neighbors” (20 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
•
Leigh-Ann
Bedal (Penn State Erie), “The Petra Garden & Pool-Complex, 2007”
(20 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
•
Martha
Sharp Joukowsky (Brown University), “2006 Brown University Excavations at
the Petra Great Temple” (20 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.)
•
Eric
Kansa (The Alexandria Archive Institute), Sarah Whitcher Kansa (The
Alexandria Archive Institute), and Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Brown
University), “Petra, Open City: Online Publication of Digital Content from Brown
University's Excavations at the Great Temple” (20 min.)
Discussion
(5 min.) Material
Culture in Ottoman Syro-Palestine [Fairbanks AB]
Theme: The Ottoman Empire as a shaper of society and culture in the Levant.
Bert
de Vries (Calvin College), Presiding
• Bert
de Vries (Calvin College), “Introduction: Nostalgia for Empire” (5 min.)
•
Kamal
Abdulfattah (Birzeit University), “History of relations between the center,
Istanbul, and the periphery, the Levant” (25 min.)
•
Douglas
Howard (Calvin College), “A view from the central bureaucracy in the 17th
century” (25 min.)
•
Anders
Bjørkelo (University of Bergen), “Ottoman reform and socio-economic change
in Transjordan during the 19th Century” (25 min.)
•
Bethany
Walker (Grand Valley State University), “Jordan's economy and culture under
early Ottoman rule” (25 min.)
Discussion
(15 min.) The
Archaeology of Cyprus II [Catalina]
Theme:
Material as Culture: The Archaeology of ‘Cypriote’ Identity
at Home and Abroad
Nancy
Serwint (Arizona State University), Presiding •
Nicolle Hirschfeld (Trinity University), “‘Cypro-Minoan’
beyond the Island” (20 min.)
• Georgia Bazemore (Eastern Washington University), “Symbols,
Ethnic Identity, and Phonetic Meaning: The Cypriote Syllabic
Writing System” (20 min.)
General Discussion (10 min.)
•
Joanna S. Smith
(Columbia University), “Changing Views of the Self
and the Built Environment at Kition” (25 min.)
•
Ann-Marie Knoblauch (Virginia Tech University), “Iconography and Identity: The
Case of Cyprus” (20 min.)
General
Discussion (10 min.) 4:30-6:30pm ASOR
Members Meeting [Fairbanks Ballroom] Eric
Meyers, President (Duke University), Tammi Schneider, Vice President for Membership
(Claremont Graduate University), and Eric Cline, Vice President of Programs, (George
Washington University), Presiding
Members
Meeting Agenda Saturday
17 November 8:30-10:30am The
Bioarchaeology of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean I [Bel
Aire North]
Theme: Population Movement and Postmortem Skeletal
Modifications
Jaime Ullinger (Ohio State University) Presiding •
Susan Sheridan (University of Notre
Dame), Alicia Cooper (University of Notre Dame), and Jaime Ullinger
(Ohio State University), “The Bioarchaeology of Migration:
Reconstructing Pilgrimage to Byzantine Jerusalem” (20 min.)
• Roy
King (Stanford University), Aaron Brody (Pacific School of Religion),
and Peter Underhill (Stanford University), “Y
Chromosome Evidence of
Migration: MB IIA Southern Levant” (20 min.)
• Nathan
Kayne Harper (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), “Types No More: Biodistance
and the Archaeologist” (20 min.)
• Suellen
Gauld (Santa Monica College), S. W. Kansa (Alexandria Archive Institute),
and J.W. Oliver (Department of
Anthropology, Illinois
State Museum), “Feasting on the
Dead? Osteological Evidence of Butchery and Cannibalism at Domuztepe, a Late Neolithic Settlement in
Southern Anatolia” (20 min.)
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