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Corrections
Please note the following changes to the Program Book above, made after printing:

Board and Committee Meetings

CANCELLED: B8 Punic Project Publications Planning Session, Joseph Greene, Harvard Semitic Museum, Presiding

B19 CAARI Board of Trustees Meeting has been changed to a CAARI Planning Session - they will hold their Board Meeting in January instead.

B28 Tel el-Hesi Board and Publications Committee meeting has been changed from 8:30-11:00am to 1:30-3:30pm.

Academic Sessions

session A2
4) Daniella Bar-Yosef's paper title should be listed as "Trade in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages as Reflected by the Shells of Lachish" instead of "Arabs in Neo-Assyrian Provinces."

session A6
24) John Holladay's paper should be listed as co-authored with Taber M. James (TMJames Multimedia).

session A18
75) Klaas Vansteenhuyse's paper, "The Excavations at Jebeleh (Syria)" has been cancelled.

session A27
115) Eva von Dassow's paper has been moved to be the first paper in session A41, replacing Faust.
116) Christin Engstron's last name should be spelled Engstrom. The full title of his presentation is "Assyrian Influence in the Negev: A Survey of Imitation Assyrian Palace Ware"
118.5) New paper after #118:
Ilan Sharon, Ayelet Gilboa (Hebrew University), and Elisabetta Boaretto (Weizmann Institute of Science) "The Hebrew University - Weizmann Institute of Science Project for Resolving the Chronology of the Levantine Iron Age: A Progress Report."

session A32
134) Norma Franklin's paper title should read "Megiddo and Samaria Compared: Six Nails in the 'Old Chronology' Coffin."

session A33
138) Ronny Reich's correct institutional affiliation is the University of Haifa.
139) Hillel Geva's correct institutional affiliation is the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

session A38
159) Elizabeth Stone and Paul Zimansky's paper, "Society and Settlement in the Heartland of Urartu: Survey and Excavation in the Outer Town of Ayanis, 2001," has been cancelled.

session A41
171) Avraham Faust's paper has been moved to be the first paper of session A27, replacing von Dassow.

session A43
178) Orit Shamir's paper, "Textiles, Basketry and Cordage along the Spice Route joining Petra and Gaza from the Nabataean Period," has been cancelled.

session A46
This session will be chaired by Kate MacKay, University of Arizona, replacing Al Leonard, Jr.
196) Al Leonard's paper has been cancelled. All other papers in the session remain on the current schedule.