Academic Sessions

Wednesday & Thursday     Friday     Saturday

Wednesday session - November 14th

7:00-8:30pm

Plenary Session on Recent Findings at Ashkelon
Larry Stager, Plenary Speaker

Thursday sessions - November 15th

8:30-10:30am

Maritime/Nautical Archaeology
Reports on Current Excavations, ASOR-Affiliated
Beth Shean Valley Archaeological Project I
Archaeology of Cyprus I
Posters and Applied Technologies

10:45am-12:45pm

Archaeology of Cyprus II
Symposium on Recent Research in the Madaba Plains Region of Jordan I
Beth Shean Valley Archaeological Project II

10:45am-1:15pm

New Discoveries from Materials Science in the Archaeology of the Near East

2:00-4:00pm

Recent Research in the Cave of Letters
Symposium on Recent Research in the Madaba Plains Region of Jordan II
Connectivity in Antiquity I (Joint ASOR/AAA Session)
Reports on Current Excavations, non-ASOR Affiliated I

4:15-6:15pm

Archaeology of Syria
Stories of Legitimacy by the Kings of the Ancient Near East
Connectivity in Antiquity II (Joint ASOR/AAA Session)
Reports on Current Excavations, non-ASOR Affiliated II

8:00-10:00pm

Special Session: Can a History of Ancient Israel be Written?

Friday sessions - November 16th

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8:30-10:30am

Pottery Analysis and Interpretation
Egypt and Canaan
Archaeology of Mesopotamia
Workshop on Caesarea Maritima I

10:45am-12:45pm

Workshop on Caesarea Maritima II
Ancient Mediterranean Trade
The World of Women: Gender and Archaeology
Individual Submissions I

12:45-2:00pm

Outreach Education Session: Communicating Archaeology to the Public

2:00-4:00pm

Problems in Ceramic Typology
The Anatolian Mother Goddess
Roman and Byzantine Archaeology
Hebrew Bible, History and Archaeology

8:00-10:00pm

Outreach Education Public Session: The Archaeology of Jerusalem through the Ages

Saturday sessions - November 17th

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8:30-10:30am

Prehistoric Archaeology I
Landscape Archaeology
Archaeology of People
Individual Submissions II

10:45am-12:45pm

Archaeology of Anatolia I
Not the Same Old Grind: Recent Studies of Ground Stone Artfacts in the Southern Levant
Prehistoric Archaeology II
Individual Submissions III

2:00-4:00pm

Archaeology of Anatolia II
Arabia
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Archaeology
Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to Near Eastern Archaeology I

4:15-6:15pm

Ancient Food and Foodways
Material Culture and History
Workshop in the Roman Aqaba Project
Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to Near Eastern Archaeology II