2005 ASOR Annual Meeting
Papers

S A T U R D A Y  S E S S I O N S

A38
8:30 – 10:30am, Archaeology of Iran

Javier Alvarez-Mon (University of California, Berkeley), Presiding

• Mark B. Garrison (Trinity University), "The Seal of Cyrus the Anšanite, Son of Teispes (PFS 93*): Susa - Anšan - Persepolis" (20 min.)
• Wouter Henkelman (Leiden University), "Elamite-Iranian Religious Acculturation and the Fortification Archive" (20 min.)
• Dan T. Potts (University of Sydney), "The Limits of Anshan" (20 min.)
• Margaret C. Root (University of Michigan), "Elam in the Imperial Imagination" (20 min.)
• Matt Waters (Univ. of Wisconsin, Eau Claire), "Cyrus and Elam" (20 min.)
• Discussion (20 min)

A39
8:30 – 10:30am, Archaeology of Anatolia I
Theme: Current Work

Jennifer C. Ross (Hood College), Presiding

• Sharon R. Steadman (SUNY Cortland) and Ronald L Gorny (University of Chicago), "The 2005 Season at Çadir Hoyuk: New and Refined Interpretations" (20 min.)
• Michael Rosenberg (University of Delaware), "Current Perspectives on the Aceramic Neolithic of Southwestern Asia: The View from Southeastern Turkey" (20 min.)
• Discussion (10 min.)
• Lynn Rainville (Sweet Briar College), "Urban Planning in Assyria" (20 min.)
• Marie-Henriette Gates (Bilkent University), "The Hittite Late Bronze Age at Kinet Höyük (Cilicia)" (20 min.)
• Lynn Swartz Dodd (Univ. of Southern California), Catherine Painter (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Bradley Parker (University of Utah), Meg Abraham (Oxford University), Ashley Sands (Univ. of Southern California), Claudia Fen Zhang (Univ. of Southern California), "The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP): A Report on the 2004-2005 Excavation Seasons at Kenan Tepe" (20 min.)
• Discussion (10 min.)

A40
8:30 – 10:30am, Egypt and Canaan I

James K. Hoffmeier (Trinity International University), Presiding

• David Ilan (Hebrew Union College), "The Dawn of Imperialism: Egyptians at Megiddo in the 4th Millennium BCE" (25 min.)
• Noga Blockman (Tel Aviv University) and Iris Groman-Yeroslavski (Tel Aviv University), "Have the Egyptians been caught Knapping at Early Bronze Age Megiddo?" (25 min.)
• Christie Goulart (Andrews University) and Oystein S. LaBianca (Andrews University), "Can We Speak of a Canaanite Civilization during the Middle Bronze Age?" (25 min.)
• Phyllis Saretta (Metropolitan Museum of Art), "A Closer Look at the Representation of West Semitic Aamu in the Tomb of Khnumhotep II at Beni Hasan" (25 min.)
• Discussion (20 min.)

A41
8:30 – 10:30am, Problems in Ceramic Typology

Celia Bergoffen (SCIEM 2000), Presiding

• Suzanne Richard (Gannon University) and Paul S. Holdorf (Khirbet Iskander Excavations), "Khirbet Iskander Tomb and Tell Ceramics: Corpus Comparisons, with Reference to Bab edh-Dhra" (30 min.)
• Elliot Braun (Independent Scholar), "Typology of Iron I Pithoi from Sites in Galilee: A New Proposal" (20 min.)
• Linda Meiberg (University of Pennsylvania), "Philistine Lion-Headed Cups: Aegean or Anatolian?" (20 min.)
• Celia Bergoffen (SCIEM 2000), "Some Observations on the Bichrome Pottery from Tell el Ajjul" (20 min.)
• Avshalom Karasik (Hebrew University), "Pottery Analysis using Mathematical and Computational tools" (30 min.)

A42
9:00am – 4:00pm, ETANA (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives): Workshop

James W. Flanagan (Case Western Reserve University) and Douglas R. Clark (ASOR), Presiding

The workshop will allow archaeologists to participate in a usability study of the ETANA-DL prototype, so that further enhancements may be made to match their particular requirements, so that additional site data may be added, and so that all may learn of the new capabilities afforded with regard to data provided from sites such as Bab adh-Dhra' Cemetery, Megiddo, Tall al-`Umayri, Tel Halif, Tall Madaba, and Tall Nimrin.

A43
10:45am – 12:45pm, Maritime/Nautical Issues
Theme: Deep Water Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics

Aaron Brody (Pacific School of Religion) and Ezra Marcus (University of Haifa), Presiding

• Hanumant Singh (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), "Imaging from Underwater Vehicles for Archaeological Applications" (20 min.)
• Justin Dix (University of Southampton), R.K. Plets, J.R. Adams, A.I. Best (University of Southampton) and D.A. Mindell (MIT), "High Resolution Acoustic Imagery from a Shallowly Buried Shipwreck: A Case Study" (20 min.)
• Richard Camilli (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), "In Situ Chemical Sensors for Underwater Archaeology" (20 min.)
• Discussion (10 min.)
• Brian Bingham (Olin College) and David A. Mindell (MIT), "Deep Water Archaeology's Precision Navigation Requirements" (20 min.)
• Brendan Foley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and MIT), Dimitris Kourkoumelis, Theotokis Theodoulou, and Paraskevi Micha (Hellenic Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities), "Collaborative Advances in Deep Water Archaeological Research" (20 min.)
• Discussion (10 min.)

A44
10:45am – 12:45pm, Archaeology of Anatolia II
Theme: People and their Environment

Sharon R Steadman (SUNY Cortland), Presiding

• Yoko Nishimura (UCLA), "Spatial Organization at Titris Höyük, A Small Urban Center in 3rd Millennium Upper Mesopotamia" (20 min.)
• Alexia Smith (University of Connecticut), "Agriculture in Central Anatolia: Plant Remains from Çadir Höyük" (20 min.)
• Discussion (10 min.)
• Nerissa Russell (Cornell University), Katheryn C. Twiss (SUNY Stony Brook), and Louise Martin (University College London), "Depositing Memories: Animal Bones in Sub-floor Deposits at Neolithic Çatalhöyük" (20 min.)
• Mary Voigt (College of William and Mary), "Ritual and Symbolism at Galatian Gordion (Turkey)" (20 min.)
• Jak Yakar (Tel Aviv University), "Spiritual Symbolism in the Prehistoric Art of Anatolia (20 min.)
• Discussion (10 min.)

A45
10:45am – 12:45pm, Landscape Archaeology

Benjamin Saidel (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research), Presiding

• Martin Peilstöcker (Israel Antiquities Authority), "The Urban Landscapes of Jaffa ­ A Case Study for Archaeological Research in an Urban Environment"
• Donald O. Henry (University of Tulsa), "Early Neolithic Adaptation to the Arid Zone, Ayn Abu Nukhayla, Southern Jordan" (25 min.)
• Thomas Estrup (University of Copenhagen), "Shifting Landscapes during the Beginning of the Middle Bronze Age in the Southern Levant: An Alternative View on the Re-urbanization of the Southern Levant and the Role of the Jordan Valley"
• Jason Ur (SUNY at Stony Brook/Harvard University) and Karim Alizadeh (Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, Tehran), "Landscapes of Irrigation and Pastoralism in Northwestern Iran"
• Steven A. Rosen (Ben-Gurion University), "A Sacred Landscape: The Shrine at Ramat Saharonim, Central Negev"
• Shimon Gibson (Albright Institute of Archaeological Research), "An Ancient Landscape of Conflict and Ideology: Archaeological Work at Modi'in of the Maccabees" (20 min.)
• Discussion (20 min.)

A46
10:45am – 12:45pm, Art and Artifacts of the Ancient Near East

Marian Feldman (University of California, Berkeley), Presiding

• Jerrold Cooper (Johns Hopkins University), "Incongruent Corpora: Writing and Art in Ancient Iraq" (20 min.)
• Alina Ayvazian (University of California, Berkeley), "The Art and Artifacts of Urartu as a Reflection of Diachronic Change in Urartian State Structure" (20 min.)
• Sarah Scott (University of Pennsylvania), "The Battle Experience: Architecture, Space, and Text in Sennacherib's Lachish Reliefs" (20 min.)
• S. Rebecca Martin (University of California, Berkeley), "High Art from the Periphery: Hellenistic Mosaics of the Southern Levant" (20 min.)
• Elise Friedland (Rollins College), "Art as Cultural Negotiation: Sculptural Dedications at Sanctuaries in the Roman Near East" (20 min.)
• Discussion (20 min.)

A47
2:00 – 4:00pm, The Persian Levant in Transition

S. Rebecca Martin (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Presiding

• S. Rebecca Martin (Univ. of California, Berkeley), "Introduction" (5min.)
• Shelley Wachsman (Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University), John R. Hale (University of Louisville), and Robert L. Hohlfelder (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), "The 2005 Persian War Shipwreck Survey" (20 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
• Jessica Nager (Univ. of California, Berkeley), "Foreign Styles in Art and Architecture as Evidence for Acculturation in Persian and Hellenistic Phoenicia: A Methodological Assessment" (20 min.)
• Amelia Brown (Univ. of California, Berkeley), "Persian Decadence and Influence? Cypriot Sculpture and Society of the "Classical Period" (20 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
• Peter van Alfen (American Numismatic Society), "The Beginning of Coinage in the Levant and the Imitation of Athens' "Owls"" (20 min.)
• Stephanie Langin-Hooper (Univ. of California, Berkeley), "Cultural Continuity and Cross-Cultural Interaction: The Transition to the Hellenistic Period as evidenced in the Terracotta Figurines" (20 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)

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

Erin Christensen (Brown University), Presiding

• Jeffrey Blakely (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell el-Hesi Regional Survey 2004" (20 min.)
• Discussion (10 min.)
• Claude Doumet Serhal (British Museum / University College, London), "Sidon (Lebanon). British Museum Excavations 1998-2004." (20 min.)
• Discussion (10 min.)
• Stefan Münger (University of Bern), Juha Pakkala (University of Helsinki), and Jürgen Zangenberg (University of Tilburg), "Kinneret Regional Project - The 2004-2005 Seasons" (20 min.)
• Discussion (10 min.)
• Ilan Sharon (Hebrew University), "Excavating the Well-Explored Site: The Renewed Tel Dor Project" (20 min.)
• Discussion (10 min.)

A49
2:00 – 4:00pm, Egypt and Canaan II

K. Lawson Younger., Presiding

• James K. Hoffmeier (Trinity International University), "On the Military Road Between Egypt and Canaan: The 2005 Season at Tell el-Borg" (25 min.)
• Jeffrey Zorn (Cornell University), "An Iron I Trough Installation from Tel Dor and its Egyptian and Mediterranean Parallels" (25 min.)
• John Crawford (Johns Hopkins University), "The Egyptianization of the Ancient Near East as a Political Tool" (25 min.)
• Yuval Gadot (Hebrew Union College - Jerusalem), "Egyptian Estates in Late Bronze Canaan: A View from Aphek" (25 min.)
• Discussion (20 min.)

A50
2:00 – 4:00pm, Individual Submissions II

Elizabeth Bloch-Smith (Tel Dor Excavations), Presiding

• Samuel Wolff (Israel Antiquities Authority), "Double Pithos Burials in the Levant: Some New Evidence and Thoughts" (25 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
• Charlotte Whiting (CBRL), "The CBRL Tel Jezreel Post-Excavation and Publication Project: New Results" (25 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
• Ralph Pedersen (Institute of Nautical Archaeology), "Undersea Investigations at Tell el-Burak, Lebanon" (25 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
• Jeffrey Chadwick (Brigham Young University), "The Transition from Late Bronze II to Iron Age I at Hebron (Tell Rumeide)" (25 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)

A51
4:15 – 6:15pm, Individual Submissions III

Laura Mazow (University of Arizona), Presiding

• Javier Alvarez-Mon (Univ. of California, Berkeley), "Of Gold and Cotton: Neo-Elamite Textiles and Garments" (25 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
• Sabrina Maras (Univ. of California, Berkeley), "Religious Transformation and the Construction of Royal Identity in Persia, 550-486 BCE" (25 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
• Elizabeth Carter (UCLA), "Death in Elam during the Middle and Neo Elamite Periods" (25 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
• Issa Sarie' (Al-Quds University), "An Ethnographic Approach to Socio-economic Activities in a Living Traditional Village in Southern Palestine" (25 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)

A52
4:15 – 6:15pm, Ancient Foods and Foodways

Albert Leonard, Jr. (University of Arizona), Presiding

• Lance Allred (John Hopkins University), "The "Kitchen" in the Ur III State" (20 min.)
• Philip P. Betancourt (Temple University) and David S. Reese (Peabody Museum, Yale University), "The Consumption of Meat in Lasithi, Crete, in the Early and Middle Bronze Age (20 min.)
• Jennifer Ramsay (Simon Fraser University), "Local Consumption or Trade? A Preliminary Examination of the Botanical Remains from Ancient Hawar, Modern Humayma, Jordan" (20 min.)
• Suzanne Stone (University of Leicester), "Rethinking Investigations of Viticulture and Enology in Dynastic Egypt" (20 min.)
• Jonathan Tubb (British Museum), "A Banquet in the Jordan Valley" (20 min.)

A53
4:15pm – 6:15pm, Workshop on the Roman Aqaba Project
Theme: The Economic Implications of Material Cultural Evidence at Aila, a Roman Port on the Red Sea

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

• S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University), "Introduction" (5 min.)
• John Wilson Betlyon (Pennsylvania State University), "The Coins from Aila Compared to other Levantine Roman Ports and Cities" (15 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
• Janet Duncan Jones (Bucknell University), "Glass from Aila" (15 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
• Eric Christian Lapp (Independent Researcher), "The Ceramic Lamps from Aila" (15 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
• S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University), "Some Issues on the Economy of Aila: The Limits of Archaeological Evidence" (15 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
• Kenneth G. Holum (University of Maryland), Respondent (15 min.)
• Discussion (20 min.)

Joint Sessions held in conjunction with the Society for Biblical Literature

S19-25
11/19/05, 9:00am – 11:30am
Room: Salon C (Level Five) - Marriott
Social Sciences and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scripture
Theme: The Family in Ancient Israel: Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Archaeology

Patricia Dutcher-Walls (Vancouver School of Theology), Presiding

• Victor Matthews (Southwest Missouri State University), "It's 'All in the Family': Aspects of Identity in Ancient Israel" (30 min.)
• David Schloen (University of Chicago), "Demography and Domestic Space in Ancient Israel" (30 min.)
  
• Discussion (15 min.)
• Naomi Steinberg (DePaul University), "Food, Family, and Clothing at Passover: Ancestor Worship in Exod 12:3-13" (30 min.)
  
• Elizabeth Bloch-Smith (St. Joseph's University), "From Womb to Tomb: The Israelite Family in Death as in Life" (30 min.)
• Discussion (15 min.)
  

S20-56
11/20/05, 1:00pm – 3:30pm
Room: Room 114 (Audium) - Pennsylvania Convention Center
Biblical Lands and Peoples in Archaeology and Text
Theme: Jerusalem:The Second Temple Period and Beyond

Douglas Clark (American Schools of Oriental Research), Presiding
Kent Richards (Society of Biblical Research), Presiding

• Jonathan L. Reed (University of La Verne), "Jesus in Jerusalem: Reflections on Biblical Archaeology " (25 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
  
• Milton Moreland (Rhodes College), "Re-thinking Earliest Christianity in Jerusalem in light of Recent Archaeology" (25 min.)
  
• Discussion (5 min.)
• Margareet Steiner (University of Leiden), "Jerusalem in the Persian Period: The Archaeological Evidence " (25 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)
  
• James Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary), "Jerusalem in the Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament in Light of Archaeological Discoveries" (25 min.)
• Discussion (5 min.)

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