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A2
8:30 – 10:30am, Reports on Current Excavations, ASOR-Affiliated I
Rachel Hallote
(Purchase College SUNY), Presiding
- Rami Arav (University
of Nebraska at Omaha), “Bethsaida Excavations, Report on 2003 Season”
(20 min.)
- Discussion
(10 min.)
- Thomas E. Levy
(University of California, San Diego), “The 2002 Excavations at Khirbat
en-Nahas in the Jabal Hamrat Fidan, Jordan” (20 min.)
- Discussion
(10 min.)
- Russell Adams
(McMaster University), “The 2002 Surveys in the Jabal Hamrat Fidan,
Jordan” (20 min.)
- Discussion
(10 min.)
- Ron Tappy (Pittsburgh
Theological Seminary), “The Zeitah Excavations: Preliminary Results
of the First Three Seasons of Fieldwork (1999-2001)” (20 min.)
- Discussion (10
min.)
A3
8:30 – 10:30am, Ancient Inscriptions: Recent Discoveries, New Editions,
and New Readings
Christopher A.
Rollston (Emmanuel School of Religion), Presiding
- Annalisa Azzoni
(Vanderbilt University), “On Rock, Papyrus, and Potsherd: Towards
a Corpus Inscriptionum Nabataearum” (25 min.)
- P. Kyle McCarter,
Jr. (Johns Hopkins University), “The Earliest Alphabetic Texts and
Their Decipherment” (25 min.)
- Yardenna Alexandre
(Israel Antiquities Authority), “A Canaanite-early Phoenician Inscribed
Bronze Bowl from Kfar Vradim, Upper Galilee, Israel” (25 min.)
- Christopher
A. Rollston (Emmanuel School of Religion), “Recent Research in Amman
and Beirut: Iron Age NWS Inscriptions” (25 min.)
- Discussion (20
min.)
A4
8:30 – 10:30am, Artifacts: the Inside Story
Elizabeth Friedman
(Illinois Institute of Technology), Presiding
- Otto Kopp (University
of Tennessee at Knoxville), “Did Ancient Karak (Jordan) Potters Learn
how to Make their Wares with less Calcite?” (25 min.)
- Discussion
(5 min.)
- Anne McKinney
Dehnisch (University of Texas at Austin), “Neutron Activation Analysis
of Selected Iron Age Pottery from Tel Yin’am, eastern Lower Galilee”
(25 min.)
- Discussion (5
min.)
- Naama Yahalom
(Hebrew University), “Technology and Iconography between Canaan, Cyprus
and Egypt in the Iron Age” (25 min.)
- Discussion (5
min.)
- Aaron Shugar
(Lehigh University) and Thilo Rehren (University College London),
“Re-evaluation of Late Bronze Age Glass Production in Egypt: Evidence
for an Alternative Explanation.” (25 min.)
- Discussion (5
min.)
A5
8:30 – 10:30am, Prehistoric Archaeology I
Theme: Paleolithic-Neolithic
Gary O. Rollefson
(Whitman College), Presiding
- Julie Scrivner
Brodie (University of California - Riverside), “Acheulian Core-Reduction
Strategies at 'Ain Soda, Jordan” (20 min.)
- April Nowell
(University of Victoria), “A Preliminary Survey of Middle Paleolithic
Sites in the Wadi al-Koum Region, Jordan” (20 min.)
- Ehud Weiss (Harvard
University), “Plant Assemblages as Markers for Space Specialization
in Ohalo II, a Levantine Upper Palaeolithic Site” (20 min.)
- Michael Gregg
(University of Toronto), “Fabricating Ideas: Cognitive Processes and
Image Creation in the Southern Levant at the End of the Pleistocene”
(20 min.)
- Taryn Rampley
(University of California - Riverside), “Sickle Blade Data from 'Ain
Ghazal: More Insights on Neolithic Grain Harvesting” (20 min.)
- Discussion (20
min.)
A6
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” (10 min.)
Part I: The Monumental Mud-brick Structure at Aqaba: The Oldest
Purpose-built Church in the World?
- Mary-Louise
Mussell (University of Ottawa), “The Putative Church at Aqaba: Architectural
Development and Phasing of the Structure” (20 min.)
- David L. Chatford
Clark (University College London), “A Putative Church at Aqaba: A
Space Syntax Analysis” (20 min.)
- L. Michael White
(University of Texas at Austin), Respondent (20 min.)
- Discussion (20
min.)
Part II: Aila's Economy: The Implications of the Artifactual Evidence
- Walter Ward
(University of California at Los Angeles), “Camels or Ships? An Economic
Comparison of Roman and Byzantine Aila” (20 min.)
- Discussion (10
min.)
A7
10:45am – 12:45pm, Symposium on Recent Research in the Madaba Plains
Region of Jordan I
Theme: Recent Research on the Archaeology of the Madaba Plain
Debra Foran (University
of Toronto) and Andrew Graham (University of Toronto), Presiding
- Stanley Klassen
(University of Toronto), “The Early Bronze Age Ceramic Industry of
the Madaba Plain Region as Reflected through Petrographic Analysis”
(20 min.)
- Discussion
(10 min.)
- David Merling
(Andrews University), “The Small Finds of Tall Jalul, 1992-2000” (20
min.)
- Discussion (10
min.)
- Robert Bates
(Andrews University) and Randall W. Younker (Andrews University),
“An Egyptian Seal from Tall Jalul, Jordan” (20 min.)
- Discussion (10
min.)
- Jonathan Ferguson
(University of Toronto), “Settlement Patterns and Shifting Borders:
The Madaba Plains in the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman/Nabataean
Periods” (20 min.)
- Discussion (10
min.)
A8
10:45am – 12:45pm, Landscape Archaeology
Theme: Research Questions in Arid Zone Archaeology
Benjamin A. Saidel
(W. F. Albright Institute), Presiding
- Oren Ackermann
(Bar Ilan University), “The Tell es Safi/Gath Environmental Geoarchaeology
Project in a Semi Arid Region” (30 min.)
- Tali Erickson-Gini
(Israel Antiquity Authority), “Subsistence Patterns and Adaptive Strategies
of Settled Populations in Hyper-Arid Regions: The Transformation of
the Roman Nabataean Economy in the Negev in the Late Roman Period”
(25 min.)
- Jeffrey A. Blakely
(Archeological Assessments Inc.), “Establishing a Regional Historical
Context in a "Desert": The Hesi Region in Mamluk/Ottoman
Times” (25 min.)
- Moti Haiman
(Israel Antiquities Authority), “The Iron Age II Settlement in the
Negev Desert - Issues of Environment and Subsistence” (25 min.)
A9
10:45am - 12:45pm, Prehistoric Archaeology II
Theme: Neolithic – Early Bronze Age
Leslie A. Quintero
(University of California – Riverside), Presiding
- Jessie Karnes
(University of California – Riverside), “An MPPNB Blade Cache at 'Ain
Ghazal” (20 min.)
- Philip J. Wilke
(University of California – Riverside), “Home on the Range” (20 min.)
- Christopher
Foley (University of Saskatchewan) and Dawn Cropper (University of
Sydney), “Umm Meshrat I and II: Two Early Pottery Neolithic Sites
along the Wadi ath-Thamad, Jordan” (20 min.)
- Elizabeth Healey
(University of Manchester), “The Ubaid Chipped Stone Industries at
Kenan Tepe, Anatolia” (20 min.)
- Leslie A. Quintero
(University of California-Riverside), Philip J. Wilke (University
of California - Riverside), and Gary O. Rollefson (University of California
- Riverside), “The Percussion Blade Industry of the Late Prehistoric
al-Jafr Industrial Complex” (20 min.)
- General Discussion
(20 min.)
A10
2:00pm – 4:00pm, Reports on Current Excavations, ASOR-Affiliated II
Constance E. Gane
(Andrews University), Presiding
- Rudolph Dornemann
(ASOR), “Thoughts on the Early Bronze Age IV and Iron I Remains at
Tell Qarqur” (20 min.)
- S. Thomas Parker
(North Carolina State University), “The 2002 Season of the Roman Aqaba
Project” (20 min.)
- Discussion (10
min.)
- Martha Sharp
Joukowsky (Brown University), “A Decade of Brown University Excavations
at the Petra Great Temple” (20 min.)
- Sara Karz Reid
(Brown University), “Excavations at the Small Temple of Petra, Jordan”
(20 min.)
- Susan Cohen
(Montana State University), “Excavation and Analysis of the Middle
Bronze Age IIA Cemetery Site of Gesher, Israel” (20 min.)
- Discussion (10
min.)
A11
2:00pm – 4:00pm, Symposium on Recent Research in the Madaba Plains Region
of Jordan II
Theme: State of Research Projects in the Madaba Plain and Prospects
for the Future
Debra Foran (University
of Toronto) and Andrew Graham (University of Toronto), Presiding
Discussion
A12
2:00pm – 4:00pm, The Ethics of Collecting and Communicating the Near
Eastern Past
Theme: Fakes and Forgeries
Ellen Herscher
(CAARI), Patty Gerstenblith (DePaul University), and Morag Kersel (University
of Cambridge), Presiding
- Introduction
(5 min.)
- Neil Silberman
(Independent), “Second Class Relics: Forgery, Fantasy, and the Ideology
of Antiquities Collecting in the Holy Land” (20 min.)
- Questions (5
min.)
- Alexander Joffe
(Independent), “What's Wrong with Fakes?” (20 min.)
- Questions (5
min.)
- Yuval Goren
(Tel Aviv University), “The Jerusalem Syndrome in Archaeology - from
Jehoash to James” (20 min.)
- Questions (5
min.)
- Amir Ganor (Israel
Antiquities Authority), “Antiquities Theft in Israel” (20 min.)
- Discussion (20
min.)
A13
2:00pm – 4:00pm, Roman and Byzantine Palestine
Jürgen Zangenberg
(University of Wuppertal), Presiding
- Joe Zias (Hebrew
University), “The Tomb of Absalom. It definitely ‘ain't necessarily
so’” (20 min.)
- Discussion
(5 min.)
- Ze'ev Weiss
(Hebrew University), “The House of Orpheus, a Domicile in the Civic
Center of Roman Sepphoris” (20 min.)
- Discussion (5
min.)
- Jerome C. Rose
(University of Arkansas), “Prosperity at Late Roman/Byzantine Sa'ad,
a Rural Site in North Jordan” (20 min)
- Discussion (5
min.)
- Stephen Shoemaker
(University of Oregon), “The Church of the Kathisma and its Influence
on the Qur'anic Nativity Tradition” (20 min.)
- Ofer Sion (Israel
Antiquities Authority), “A Palatial Home in Bet Shean from the Late
Byzantine to Umayyad Period” (20 min.)
- Discussion (5
min.)
A14
7:00pm – 8:15pm, Public Program session: Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt
this session will be held at Emory University (shuttle
bus service will be available)
Edward Bleiberg
(Brooklyn Museum of Art), “Scenes from a Marriage: A Jewish Family Archive
from Ancient Egypt”
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