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Crossing the Rift: Resources, Routes,
Settlement Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah
hosted
by the Fernbank
Museum of Natural History
767 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta
Wednesday November 19, 2003
Katharina Galor
(Brown University), Presiding
Piotr Bienkowski (Liverpool Museum), Organizer
the following
five sessions will be held at the Fernbank Museum
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session
1
8:30 – 10:15am
- Piotr Bienkowski
(Liverpool Museum), "The Wadi Arabah: Barrier or Interface?" (15 min.)
Hendrik J. Bruins (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), "Desert Environment
and Geoarchaeology of the Wadi Arabah" (15 min.)
- Burton MacDonald
(St Francis Xavier University), "Water Resources and associated Archaeological
Sites and Routes in the Southern Ghawrs and north-east Arabah, Jordan"
(15 min.)
- Tina Niemi
(University of Missouri-Kansas City), "Geological and Archaeological
Evidence for Historical Ground-rupturing Earthquakes along Wadi Arabah,
southern Dead Sea Transform, Jordan" (15 min.)
- Eveline van
der Steen (W. F. Albright Institute), "The Wadi Arabah: Nineteenth-century
and Earlier Sources" (15 min.)
- Clinton Bailey
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Transitions in Hostility and Friendship
between Bedouin that met in Wadi Arabah: A Study in Inter-tribal Relations"
(15 min.)
- Discussion and
Questions (15 min.)
10:15 -
10:45am Continental breakfast
session
2
10:45am – 12:15pm
- Moti Haiman
(Israel Antiquities Authority), "The Archaeological Surveys of the
Arabah Reconsidered: History, Data, Metadata and Settlement Patterns"
(15 min.)
- Uzi Avner (Aravah
Institute for Environmental Studies), "Settlement Patterns in the
Negev and Sinai deserts" (15 min.)
- Klaus Schmidt
(German Archaeological Institute, Berlin), "The Chalcolithic Culture
of the Aqaba Region" (15 min.)
- Russell B. Adams
(McMaster University), "Evidence for Copper-trading Networks across
the Wadi Arabah during the Early Bronze Age" (15 min.)
- Yuval Yekutieli
(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), "The Dynamics of an Early Bronze
Age II Ascent from the Northern Arabah towards the Arad valley" (15
min.)
- Discussion and
Questions (15 min.)
12:15 -
1:30pm Lunch
session
3
1:30 – 3:00pm
- Andreas Hauptmann
(Deutsches Bergbau-Museum), "Archaeometallurgy in the Wadi Arabah:
Strategy, Design and the Importance of Modern Research" (15 min.)
- Thomas E. Levy
(University of California, San Diego) and Russell B. Adams (McMaster
University), "The Wadi Arabah and the Gateway to Faynan: a Deep-time
Study of early Copper Ore Procurement, Metallurgy and Social Change
in the Jabal Hamrat Fidan, Jordan (Neolithic-Iron Age)" (15 min.)
- John Bartlett
(Trinity College, Dublin), "The Wadi Arabah in the Hebrew Scriptures"
(15 min.)
- Michael Jasmin
(CNRS, Paris), "The Emergence and First Development of the Arabian
Trade across the Wadi Arabah" (15 min.)
- Mary-Louise
Mussell (University of Ottawa), "Tell el-Kheleifeh: Crossroad at the
Sea" (15 min.)
- Discussion
and Questions (15 min.)
3:00 -
3:30pm Coffee break
session
4
3:30 – 5:00am
- Tali Erickson-Gini
(Israel Antiquities Authority), "'Down to the Sea' - Nabataean Colonization
in the Negev Highlands" (15 min.)
- Benjamin Dolinka
(University of Liverpool), "The Rujm Taba Archaeological Project:
Results of the 2001 Survey and Reconnaissance" (15 min.)
- Orit Shamir
(Israel Antiquities Authority), "Textiles, Basketry and Cordage found
along the Spice Route joining Petra and Gaza from the Nabataean period"
(15 min.)
- Yigal Yisrael
(Israel Antiquities Authority), "En Hazeva excavations 1987-1995"
(15 min.)
- Ze'ev Meshel
(Tel Aviv University), "Gold mines in the Arabah according to Eusebius"
(15 min.)
- Discussion
and Questions (15 min.)
5:00 -
5:30pm Afternoon tea
session
5
5:30 – 7:00pm
- Ben Isaac (Tel
Aviv University), "The Wadi Arabah in the Classical Period: Greek
and Latin Sources" (15 min.)
- Andrew Smith
(University of Maryland), "Communication, Trade and Transport in the
South and Central Wadi Arabah" (15 min.)
- S. Thomas Parker
(North Carolina State University), "Roman Aila and the Wadi Arabah:
an Economic Relationship" (15 min.)
- Yizhar Hirschfeld
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Jews, Pagans and Christians in
the Southern Half of the Dead Sea" (15 min.)
- Donald Whitcomb
(Oriental Institute), "Aqaba and the Wadi Arabah during the Islamic
period" (15 min.)
- Discussion and
Questions (15 min.)
7:00 -
7:30pm Concluding discussion and priorities for future
fieldwork
7:30 -
8:30pm Reception
the following session
will be held at the Grand Hyatt (conference hotel)
Opening Plenary Session
A1
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Eric H. Cline (George
Washington University), Presiding
Colin Renfrew (Cambridge
University), "The World's Diminishing Archaeological Heritage: the Role
of Museums and Scholars"
This session will be followed by a reception from 8:30-10:30pm, hosted by our Chairman of the Board, P.E. MacAllister.
Read more about
Renfrew and the Illicit
Antiquities Research Centre (IARC) of which he is the director.
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