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Dr. Stephen H. Savage

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Position and Institution

Adj. Asst. Professor
Arizona State University

Current Excavation

Tell Madaba Archaeological Project
Madaba Area Site Survey (Jordan)

Specialties

	South Levantine Bronze Age
	Predynastic Egypt
	Early Urbanism and Trade
	GIS in Archaeology
	Mortuary Analysis
	Anthropology
	Spatial Analysis

Former Excavations

	Tell Jemmeh (Israel) 1976-1977
	Southeastern U.S. 1978-1989
	Southeastern Ireland (Bally Lough Archaeological Project) 1989
	Hierakonpolis (Egypt) 1990
	Hu-Semaineh (Egypt) 1991
	Southwestern U.S. 1991-1994
	Tell Madaba 1996-1999

Other Information

I am an anthropologist by training, and my interests are in the development of early complex societies in the Near East, especially Egypt and the Southern Levant. I use GIS and spatial methods to study cycles of urbanism/ruralism, intensification/abatement, and heterarchy/hierarchy in this region. I have been teaching since 1993 as a Visiting Assistant Professor or Adjunct Assistant Professor, at several colleges/universities. I spent the 1997-1998 academic year at Eastern Mediterranean University, in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

My URL is http://archaeology.asu.edu/Jordan/

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