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2004 ASOR Annual Meeting
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S A T U R D A Y  S E S S I O N S

A37
8:30 – 10:30am, Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology

Dale W. Manor (Harding University) and Daniel C. Browning, Jr. (William Carey College), Presiding

  • Jane Cahill (Hebrew University), "Jerusalem at the Time of the United Monarchy: The Archaeological Evidence" (20 min.)
  • Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv University) and Ronny Reich (University of Haifa), "Back to Ramat Rahel: New Observations Based on Old Field Plans" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (20 min.)
  • Jeff Zorn (Cornell University), "The Burials of Israel's Canaanite Kings" (20 min.)
  • Anson F. Rainey (Tel Aviv University), "The Search for Bethel" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (20 min)

A38
8:30 – 10:30am, Writing Workshop

Billie Jean Collins (ASOR Director of Publications), Presiding

  • Billie Jean Collins (ASOR Director of Publications), "Ten Things Every Author Should Know About Publishing" (30 min.)
  • James Weinstein (Editor, BASOR), "A Guide to Publishing in BASOR, or How to Make a Journal Editor Happy" (20 min.)
  • Sandra Scham (Editor, NEA), "Writing About Archaeology for the General Public-Forget What You Learned in Graduate School" (40 min.)
  • John Kutsko (Abingdon Press), "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book" (30 min.)

A39
8:30 – 10:30am, Content, Context, Contacts: Art and Artifacts of the Ancient Near East

Eleanor Guralnick (Independent Researcher), Presiding

  • Alice Petty (Johns Hopkins University), "Bronze Age Figurines from Umm el-Marra, Syria, Style and Meaning" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (4 min.)
  • Marian Feldman (University of California, Berkeley), "Context as Content: Two Case Studies" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (4 min.)
  • Trudy Kawami (Arthur M. Sackler Foundation), "An Ostrich-Egg Rhyton" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (4 min.)
  • Pauline Albenda (Independent Researcher), "The Queen of the Night, Or: Lilith, Ishtar and the Owl" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (4 min.)
  • Eleanor Guralnick (Independent Researcher), "Bronzes from Khorsabad" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (4 min.)

A40
8:30 – 10:30am, Prehistoric Archaeology I
Theme: Paleolithic Archaeology

April Nowell (University of Victoria), Presiding

  • Leslie A. Quintero and Philip J. Wilke (University of California-Riverside), "From al-Jafr To el-Kowm: A Broader Perspective on the Lower Paleolithic of the "Levantine Corridor" " (20 min.)
  • Gary O. Rollefson (University of California-Riverside), "A Lower/Middle Paleolithic Blade Facies from 'Ayn Soda, Eastern Jordan: A Southern Example of the Hummalian Industry?" (20 min.)
  • April Nowell (University of Victoria), "The Levant and the Emergence of Behavioral Modernity" (20 min.)
  • John Shea (Stony Brook University), "Neandertals, Competition, and the Role of the Levant in Modern Human Origins" (20 min)
  • Deborah Olszewski (University of Pennsylvania), "Temporal Trajectories in the Early to Late Epipaleolithic, Wadi al-Hasa, Jordan" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (20 min.)

A42
10:45am – 12:45pm, Workshop on the Roman Aqaba Project

S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University), Presiding

  • S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University), "Introduction" (5 min.)
  • Part I: Nabataean Domestic Complexes at Aqaba
  • Susan Gelb (University of Texas at Austin), "A Nabataean Domestic Complex in Area O" (15 min.)
  • Sarah Morgan Harvey (Kent State University), "A Nabataean Domestic Complex in Area B" (15 min.)
  • Joseph Anthony Stumpf (Montgomery College), "The Domestic Evidence from the Nabataean/Roman Phases of Area K" (15 min.)
  • Discussion (15 min.)
  • Part II: Aila's Economy: The Implications of Ceramic Evidence
  • S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University), "Imported Fine Wares of the Roman Period at Aqaba" (15 min.)
  • Cheri Williams (North Carolina State University), "Egyptian Fine Wares of the Byzantine Period at Aqaba" (15 min.)
  • Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Discussant (10 min.)
  • Discussion (20 min.)

A43
10:45am – 12:45pm, Archaeology of Jordan

Bethany J. Walker (Grand Valley State University), Presiding

  • Jaimie Lovell (University of Sydney), "The Wadi Rayyan Project: Investigating the Chalcolithic - EBA Transition" (20 min.)
  • Douglas R. Clark (ASOR) and Larry Herr (Canadian University College), "The 2004 Excavations at Tall al-'Umayri" (20 min.)
  • Chang-Ho Ji (La Sierra University), "Cities and Tents: A Quantitative Study of the Iron Age Settlement and Society in the Dhiban Plateau" (20 min.)
  • P.M. Michèle Daviau (Wilfrid Laurier University), "Khirbat al-Mudayna: The Iron Age Town" (20 min.)
  • Martha Joukowsky (Brown University), "The 2004 Brown University Excavations at the Petra Great Temple" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (20 min.)

A44
10:45am – 12:45pm, Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology

Sarah Kielt Costello (Binghamton University, SUNY), Louise A. Hitchcock (University of Melbourne), and Andrew McCarthy (University of Edinburgh), Presiding

  • Anne Chapin (Brevard College), "Investigating Youth and Gender Identity in the Theran Frescoes" (25 min.)
  • Discussion (5 min.)
  • Philip Karsgaard (University of Edinburgh), "Creating New Worlds: Symmetrical Interactions in Later Prehistoric Greater Mesopotamia, Anthropological and Cognitive Approaches" (25 min.)
  • Discussion (5 min.)
  • Ömür Harmansah (University of Pennsylvania), "'Sources of the Tigris': Royal Rhetoric and Commemorative Monuments in the Upper Mesopotamian Landscapes of the Early Iron Age" (25 min.)
  • Discussion (5 min.)
  • Scott Bucking (DePaul University), "The Word and the Dirt: Towards a Theory of Papyrology" (25 min.)
  • Discussion and Wrap-Up (5 min.)

A45
10:45am – 12:45pm, Prehistoric Archaeology II
Theme: Neolithic Archaeology

Gary O. Rollefson (Univ. of California - Riverside), Presiding

  • Alan H. Simmons (University of Nevada-Las Vegas), "Sacred Cows? New Research on the Cypriot Neolithic" (25 min.)
  • Donald O. Henry (University of Tulsa), "Early Neolithic Adaptation to the Arid Zone, Ayn Abu Nukhayla, Southern Jordan" (25 min.)
  • Marc Hintzman (University of California-Riverside), "A Technological Consideration of Ground-Bit Tools from the Neolithic Settlement of 'Ain Ghazal" (25 min.)
  • Taryn Rampley (University of California-Riverside), "Sickle Blade Hafting and Reaping Strategies at Neolithic 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan" (25 min.)
  • Discussion (20 min.)

A46
2:00 – 4:00pm, Archaeology of Syria

Mark W. Chavalas (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), Presiding

  • Paul-Louis van Berg (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Marc Vander Linden (National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium), "Rock Art in North Eastern Syria: A New Iconographic source'" (25 min.)
  • Jason Ur (SUNY at Stony Brook) and Philip Karsgaard (University of Edinburgh), "The Evolution of Settlement at Tell Brak, Syria: Preliminary Results of the 2003 Surface Collection" (20 min.)
  • Roger Nam (UCLA), "The Decorative and Administrative Function of Cylinder Seals in Ugarit" (20 min.)
  • Alexia Smith (Boston University),"Bronze and Iron Age Agriculture in Syria: Our Current Understanding" (20 min.)
  • Michael Decker (Rice University) and Carrie Hritz (University of Chicago), "Androna (Syria) Survey, 2004" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (15 min.)

A47
2:00 – 4:00pm, Workshop on Caesarea Maritima
Theme: Studies on Caesarea Maritima, Israel, in Memory of Avner Raban

Kenneth G. Holum (University of Maryland), Presiding

  • Kenneth G. Holum, "Introduction" (10 min.)
  • Laurie Brink, O.P. (University of Chicago), "Setting Sail from Caesarea: Harbors, Sailors, and the Sea in Acts of the Apostles" (20 min.)
  • Jennifer A. Stabler (University of Maryland), "The Temple Platform: Destruction of Herod's Temple and Intermediate Occupation" (20 min.)
  • Jennifer Ramsay (Simon Fraser University), "Plant Remains from the Palace at Caesarea Maritima: A Comparison of Recovery Techniques on a Classical Site" (20 min.)
  • Marylinda Govaars (The Woodlands, TX), "Synagogue or Academy? New Findings on the Synagogue Site at Caesarea" (20 min.)
  • Kenneth G. Holum (University of Maryland), "The Prosperity of Late Antique Caesarea" (20 min.)
  • S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University), Comment (10 min.)

A48
2:00 – 4:00pm, Reports on Current Excavations, non-ASOR-Affiliated

Robert A. Mullins (UCLA), Presiding

  • James Carlson (Portland State University), "The Chipped Stone Assemblage at Çadir Höyük, in the Alishar Regional Project: Technology and Typology in the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages on the north central Anatolian Plateau" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (4 min.)
  • Benjamin Porter (University of Pennsylvania), Danielle Steen (Stanford University), Bruce Routledge (University of Liverpool), "The 2004 Season at Dhiban (Jordan): Prospection, Preservation and Planning" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (4 min.)
  • Wolfgang Zwickel (University of Mainz), Jürgen Zangenberg (University of Wuppertal), Juha Pakkala (University of Helsinki), Stefan Münger (University of Berne), "Kinneret Regional Project: Results from the 2004 Season" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (4 min.)
  • Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Gwyn Davies (Florida International University), Uzi Avner (Arava Institute), "The 2003-2004 Excavations in the Roman Fort at Yotvata, Israel" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (4 min.)
  • Mark Schuler (Concordia University), Arthur Segal (University of Haifa), Jolanta Mlynarczyk (Polish Academy of Science), Mariusz Burdajewicz (National Museum, Warsaw), "Hippos of the Decapolis: Current Excavations of a Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Center" (20 min.)
  • Discussion (4 min.)

 

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