December 2014

Resources on the Cultural Crisis in the Near East

The scale of the human crisis in Syria has expanded and now involves Europe. Damage to archaeological and heritage sites also continues at an alarming rate.

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Beyond Ceramic Unguentaria

At the 2014 ASOR Annual Meeting, Pamela Koulianos (North Carolina State University) presented her paper, “Beyond Ceramic Unguentaria: A Closer Look at Late Antique Trade of Glass Unguentaria in the Roman Province of Egypt.” Amidst the excitement of  exhibitors, presentations, and networking with colleagues, Koulianos took the time to meet with the ASOR staff to read her paper for ASORtv…Read More

Filling in the Gaps: New Technologies for Archaeological Reconstructions

As architects collaborating in archaeological missions in the Near East—Tell Massaikh (Syria) and Qasr Shemamok (Iraq)—we face the challenge of generating graphical and visual documents to help understand, reconstruct, and publish the findings…Read More

Luxury, Prestige, and Grandeur: the Mansions and Daily Life of the Social Elite of the Roman Near East during the 1st-6th Centuries CE

By: Shulamit Miller

The time I spent during the past year as the R. and E. Hecht Fellow at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research was dedicated to formulating the topic of my dissertation, writing the proposal, and starting to compile the data to be used in my study…Read More

2014 ASOR Annual Meeting Plenary Address

By Jason Ur

The 2014 ASOR Annual Meeting was held in sunny San Diego this year. It was a nice break for the staff from the encroaching cold weather in Boston. The meeting had many great events and presentations, and this year we were lucky enough to have Jason Ur give the Plenary Address…Read More

The Context of Ancient Egyptian Statuary in the Levant

By: Ashley Fiutko Arico

The presence of Egyptian material culture in the Levant has long intrigued scholars in the fields of Levantine archaeology and Egyptology alike as evidence of interconnections between the two regions in antiquity. My dissertation focuses on a distinct subset of this material, stone statuary…Read More

November 2014

Who is Who in the Ur III Dynasty

By: Yuhong Wu

Drehem is a small village situated seven kilometers south of Nippur, the religious center of Sumer and Akkad. The site was extensively looted in 1909-1910 and its clay tablets were brought to the antiquity market and eventually reached museums and private hands…Read More

Migrations or Acculturations?

By: Krzysztof Nowicki

My research project focused on two problems in the broad context of ongoing studies of settlement history in Crete, which have only been preliminarily touched upon in the past by other scholars…Read More

A Comparative Study of the Origins of Cavalry in the Ancient Near East and China

By: Yinglan Zhang

Cavalry was one of the dominant military forces in ancient times. Since its creation, it has played an important role in warfare, and has also had a profound influence on the formation and evolution of civilizations in Europe and Asia…Read More

Extensive Recent Looting Revealed

By: Yinglan Zhang

The very important ancient site of Mari (Tell Hariri) in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, which appears on the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, has recently seen a pronounced increase in looting under ISIL control. Artifacts stolen from this and other heritage sites are sold to collectors, and the proceeds fund ISIL. On Tuesday, November 11th, imagery was taken of the site of Mari by a Digital Globe satellite which reveals widespread looting…Read More

Do not Ostracize the Ostraca: a Discussion on ASOR’s Proposed Ethics

By: Bezalel Porten

Unprovenanced documents invariably raise the suspicion of inauthenticity. There is not a little irony in an ancient use to which the ostracon was put and the origin of the current corpus. In the century before the dates of our corpus, ancient Athens (487-417 B.C.E) had a practice known as ostracism…Read More

Discussion of ASOR’s Ethics Policy

On Friday, November 21st, 12:45-1:45pm, the ASOR Membership will hold a discussion about our Professional Ethics Policy (see draft here). Please attend! This meeting is the centerpiece of a multi-year project to revise our policy. We need as many members as possible at our discussion to ensure that we create a new policy that reflects the views and interests of our members…Read More

Biblical Monotheism and Translating the First Commandment in the Chinese Context

By: Haihua Tian

Archaeology plays a significant social scientific role in understanding the world of the Bible. During my tenure as a Noble Group Fellow at the Albright Institute, I had a great opportunity to look closely at the Land of the Bible through a number of field trips to a variety of archaeological sites related to the religion of ancient Israel…Read More

Pagan Monotheism in the Early Islamic Period

By: Dong Xiuyuan

Pagan Monotheism refers to a different (if not independent) type of monotheism than the so-called revealed or Abrahamic monotheism. It is not a spontaneous result of the evolution of sophisticated Polytheism but an adaptation of pagan religions under the pressure of dominant Christianity in Late Antiquity…Read More

October 2014

Continuity & Discontinuity in the LB IIB/Iron I Transition: A Study of Glyptic Technology and Iconography

By: Laura Wright

During the early 20th century, the transition between the Late Bronze IIB and Iron I was characterized as one of discontinuity, based primarily upon the biblical model of Israelite emergence and Philistine arrival. On the Philistine coastal plain, changes in ceramics, textile technology, and cooking traditions accompanied the Philistine arrival on the southern Levantine coast…Read More

Desert Devotions: Ritual Deposition, Storage and Disposal in the Iron Age Wilderness of the Southern Levant

By: Andrea Creel

Imagine the desert. Imagine a place at once desolate and overrun with life, a place where one may only see the horizon for miles and then suddenly a town, a structure, or, perhaps a drawing etched on a rock. Imagine a place where humans live and wander side by side with gods and spirits, where one can go to find one’s gods, to give and receive from them…Read More

The Fabric of Society: Textile Production Workshops in the Southern Levant

By: Deborah Cassuto

During the academic year (2013-2014), I served as the Ernest S. Frerichs Fellow/Program Coordinator and assisted the AIAR Director, Sy Gitin in compiling and implementing a full program of field trips, lectures, dinners with guest scholars, the fellows’ trip abroad to Jordan, and fellows’ workshops…Read More

Philistine Pottery in the Core and Periphery Production Centers, Stylistic Groups and Individual Artists

By: Linda Meiberg

The Philistines settled in the southern coastal plain of Israel, in the area that later came to be known as Philistia, in the first half of the 12th century BCE. The predominant theory regards the Philistines as immigrants from the greater Aegean world…Read More

Tel Miqne-Ekron during the Late Bronze Age Field INW/SW – The Acropolis Summit

By: Ann E. Killebrew

magine the desert. Imagine a place at once desolate and overrun with life, a place where one may only see the horizon for miles and then suddenly a town, a structure, or, perhaps a drawing etched on a rock. Imagine a place where humans live and wander side by side with gods and spirits, where one can go to find one’s gods, to give and receive from them…Read More

Royal Assassination in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East: A Brief Synopsis

By: Christopher A. Rollston

Royal assassinations were not particularly rare events in the ancient world. Indeed, within ancient historical and literary sources one reads fairly often about the assassination of a king, a queen, a prince, a princess, a royal governor, and, at times, multiple members of an entire royal family…Read More

New Data on the Chalcolithic Period Marj Rabba and the Galilee Prehistory Project

By: Yorke Rowan

Traditionally less scholarly attention has been focused on the southern Levantine 5th and early 4th millennia BCE (the Chalcolithic period, or the “Ghassulian” period after the type site of Tulaylat al-Ghassul) than on the earlier Neolithic Period or the later biblical periods…Read More

September 2014

Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals

By: Tzvi Abusch

I was in residence at the Albright Institute in Jerusalem from January – May, 2014 as the Annual Professor. During my stay, I continued to work on the preparation of critical editions and studies of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals. But I should preface my report on this work with a few words of introduction about Mesopotamian magic and witchcraft and about the ancient literature that centers upon such concerns…Read More

European Steppe Nomads in the Military History of the Near East

By: Anatoly Khazanov

During my residence at the Albright Institute as a Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor (January 2-April 8, 2014), I worked on my research project, “Eurasian Steppe Nomads in the Military History of the Near East.” The project was aimed at studying the influence of these steppe nomads on the military organization, warfare, and weaponry of Iran, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, the Levant, Egypt, and some adjacent regions from the 8th century BCE until the middle of the second millennium CE…Read More

Seeing God(s) in Temples, the Heavens, and in Model Shrines: A Problem in Ancient Metaphysics

By: Ziony Zevit

In the 21st century, we have access to two types of texts written by ancient Israelites. The first consists of anthologies of poems, collections of worldly observations and aphorisms, historiographic writings, and extended ethno-narratives. These were curated and ended up—as a result of processes understood but darkly, in a collection, the Hebrew Bible…Read More

7 Things You Should Know About ASOR’s Syrian Heritage Initiative

By: Kurt Prescott

Beginning August 4, 2014, the American Schools of Oriental Research entered into a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of State to document, monitor, and report on cultural heritage damage in Syria (note: see disclaimer below). In addition to raising the global awareness of such destruction, the project also aims to facilitate short-term mitigation projects, as well as develop large-scale preservation plans for the future…Read More

Finding Common Ground: Roman- Parthian Embassies in the Julio-Claudian Period

Diplomatic embassies between Parthia and Rome were a relatively frequent occurrence during the first centuries B.C.E. and C.E. Scholars have traditionally characterized these embassies as elaborate political set pieces, which did little to foster genuine cultural understanding, and in some cases, even produced violent hostility…Read More

August 2014

WorldMap – Geospatial Visualization and the Digital Humanities

By: Jeff Howry

WorldMap is a collaborative, interactive web-based mapping platform, not just a static presentation of map data.  Users can contribute data to build their own maps or add their own data layers using any of 13 different base maps provided by Bing, Google, ESRI, OpenStreetMap and others…Read More

Fellowship Report: Archaeology, Photography, Culture

By: Timothy Snow

This summer, I had the opportunity to work with the Karak Resources Project, which excavates an Iron Age site of Khirbat Mudaybi, located about a 45-minute drive southeast of Karak. This was made possible with an excavation scholarship from ASOR. I express thanks for the donors who have provided the funding for these scholarships….Read More

My Time with the Associates for Biblical Research at Khirbet el Maqatir in Israel

By: Matt Glassman

This May, I was able to join the Associates for Biblical Research for their excavation at Khirbet el Maqatir in Israel.  I am grateful for the excavation scholarship I received from ASOR, without which I may not have been able to go on the dig.  This was my first time on excavation, as well as my first trip to the Middle East, and the experience turned out to be both personally and academically rewarding.  I was charged with helping uncover the remains of an Iron I structure initially thought to be an Israelite 4-room house built into an earlier Middle or Late Bronze Age Amorite city wall…Read More

Andrews University Sicily Excavation

By: Joel E. Lisboa

Studying archaeology, reading books related to the subject, and obtaining good grades in archaeology related courses does not turn one into a bona fide archaeologist. Having the privilege to participate in an archaeological excavation on the field is an experience that I will be forever grateful to ASOR and the Platt Fellowship donors. Although I have been studying archaeology for over a year, this is my first dig experience…Read More

Architecture and Archaeology: What an Architect Does Among Archaeologists

At the 2013 ASOR Annual Meeting, Pedro Azara, of Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, presented his paper. His paper, “Architecture and Archaeology: What an Architect Does Among Archaeologists (The Case of Tell Masaikh, Syria and Qasr Shamamok, Iraq),” was co-written by Marc Marín (Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona), and Eric Rusiñol (Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona), and presented during the, “Archaeology in Context: history, Politics, Community, identity” session…Read More

Managing Egyptian Heritage – A Master Degree offered by the French University in Egypt and Paris 1 Sorbonne Pantheon

By: Fekri Hassan

As the winds of political change were sweeping the region, bringing in its wake an unprecedented threat to the archaeological heritage of Egypt, a Cultural Heritage Management Program, the first of its kind in Egypt was launched in January 2011…Read More

July 2014

ASOR Members’ Most Memorable Annual Meeting Moment

ASOR’s membership spans across many fields of study. We’re fortunate to have historians, geologists, archaeologists, and so many more among our ranks. Every year, we come together to discuss discoveries in the field and our research at the ASOR Annual Meeting…Read More

Report on 2010–2013 Excavations at Horvat Kur, Galilee

At the 2013 ASOR Annual Meeting, Wofford College professor, Byron McCane sat down with us to present his paper for ASORtv. His paper, “Report on 2010–2013 Excavations at Horvat Kur, Galilee,” was co-written by Juergen Zangenberg (Leiden University), Stefan Muenger(University of Bern), and Raimo Hakola (University of Helsinki), and presented during the Reports on Current Excavations, Non-ASOR Affiliated session…Read More

Peer Review of 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

By: Rachel Hallote

When archaeology makes the news, it is most often due to sensationalist claims made by journalists or others who misrepresent archaeological finds and their significance. It is therefore particularly gratifying when an archaeologist gets to start the conversation himself or herself, and for the profession to represent itself publicly…Read More

Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP)

Started in 2011, the LCP is an open source, interactive website that focuses on ceramics from the Neolithic era through the Ottoman period that were produced in the Levant. It allows registered users to submit and find information about ceramic wares, specific vessels, kiln sites, and much more. Professor Berlin joked, though I think she’d be thrilled if this really happened, that she hopes one day the LCP could be like Google for pottery…Read More

June 2014

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 6/27/14

If you missed anything from the ASOR Facebook or Twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news from around the web into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section…Read More

The early bronze age Çadır höyük Metals in the Context of Central Anatolian Metallurgy

Every year at the ASOR Annual Meeting, the Projects on Parade Poster Session takes place. It’s an ideal opportunity to see the types of projects (both field and publication) that ASOR members are involved with. At the 2013 ASOR Annual Meeting,  Stefano Spagni (Sapienza – Università di Roma, Roma, Italy) presented his poster, “The early bronze age Çadır höyük Metals in the Context of Central Anatolian Metallurgy.” Read More

Roast and Toast of Retiring Albright Director, Sy Gitin

At the 2013 ASOR Annual Meeting, we gathered to celebrate the career of Sy Gitin. Sy became director of the Albright Institute (formerly the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem) in 1980, and is retiring after an amazing 34 years of service…Read More

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 6/20/14

If you missed anything from the ASOR Facebook or Twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news from around the web into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section…Read More

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 6/13/14

If you missed anything from the ASOR Facebook or Twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section…Read More

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 6/6/14

If you missed anything from the ASOR Facebook or Twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section…Read More

May 2014

Artifacts of Unknown Origin: A Conservation Perspective

A primary objective of archaeological conservation is the preservation of archaeological materials for the future. Conservation activities may sometimes play an integral role in the acquisition, authentication, scientific analysis, or display of unprovenienced artifacts, and conservators can provide a unique perspective in the discussion of the ethics of studying such materials…Read More

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 5/2/14

If you missed anything from the ASOR facebook or twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section…Read More

April 2014

The “Women in Archaeology” Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania

By: Dr. Yoko Nishimura

Despite the rainy weather on March 29, 2014, our one-day symposium on “Women in Archaeology” was well-attended and was carried out with a great success at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Endowed with generous funds and kind supports from a number of institutions at Penn, prominent female archaeologists of all generations offered meaningful and thought-provoking talks…Read More

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 4/25/14

If you missed anything from the ASOR facebook or twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section…Read More

Why We Love Archaeology (And You Should, Too)

Archaeology … that’s when people dig in the dirt and find fossils and artifacts that just go in a museum, right?Wrong. It’s so much more than that. So, why is archaeology so important? First, archaeologists do not find “fossils,” that’s paleontology, which is not included under archaeology. Trust me, you don’t want to make that mistake…Read More

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 4/18/14

If you missed anything from the ASOR facebook or twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section…Read More

Ask an Archaeologist: Dr. Farouk El-Baz

For this week’s episode of Ask an Archaeologist we sat down with Dr. Farouk El-Baz, the Director of Boston University’s Center for Remote Sensing.  Dr. Farouk has been on of the leaders in using Remote Sensing in Archaeology and we knew he would be the right specialist to answer one of the questions we received at National Archaeology Day…Read More

Ask an Archaeologist: Dr. Emily Holt, Zooarchaeologist and Oberlin College Assistant Professor

For this week’s episode of Ask An Archaeologist we sat down with Dr. Emily Holt, Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College.  Dr. Holt is an environmental archaeologist and zooarchaeologist who studies the Nuragic culture, which is the ancient culture of Bronze Age Sardinia, an island off the Western Coast of Italy. These are the viewer-submitted questions we asked this week…Read More

10 Tips for Packing for a Dig

As the temperature starts to rise outside, many of us will pack our bags and head into the field. In archaeology, summer is a time for excavations and travel. Since a majority of these excavations will not likely be in your backyard, we here at ASOR thought we’d put together some tips for packing for your dig. So, without further ado, in no particular order, “10 Tips for Packing for a Dig”…Read More

Ask an Archaeologist: Dr. Lisa Young

For this week’s episode of Ask an Archaeologist, we sat down with Dr. Lisa Young, an archaeologist at the University of Michigan, via Skype.  We asked Dr. Young the following viewer submitted questions…Read More

March 2014

The Women of ASOR Map: Creating Opportunities for Networking and Mentoring within Near Eastern Archaeology

By: Aviva Cormier

In 2012, I began researching the “Women of ASOR,” on behalf of the ASOR Initiative on the Status of Women, creating a resource map for ASOR’s membership, in order to emphasize the efforts and successes of ASOR’s female members working in Near Eastern archaeology…Read More

Claiming Dig Fashion

By Jennie Ebeling and Hilda Torres

British archaeologist Miles Russell is referring, of course, to the “archaeologist as adventurer” wardrobe that originated in early 20th century cinema (based largely on the dress adopted by archaeologists of that time) and continues to define the way in which archaeologists are portrayed in pop culture…Read More

Breaking In: Women’s Representation in Archaeology

By: Valerie Schlegel

March is Women’s History Month, which highlights the achievements women have made in a variety of disciplines. When thinking about women in the field of archeology, one wonders how often are women found in leadership positions. To answer this question, I have been looking into when, where, and how frequently women are in the position of excavation directors. Why is this important?…Read More

Women on ASOR’s Board of Trustees

By: Beth Alpert Nakhai, Ph.D.

The last several decades have been ones of introspection for professional women, as they look to where they have been in their various vocations – and of activism, as they work to overcome discriminatory practices in the workplace.  For archaeologists, three arenas, fieldwork, publication, and participation in professional societies, are all stepping-stones to academic advancement – and of course, promotion in the workplace is linked to success in each of these three arenas…Read More

Gender, Identity and Memory in The Mortuary Practices of Elite Women in Eighth-Sixth Century BCE Egypt

By Dr. Jean Li

Whenever I teach Ancient Egypt I begin by asking my students, “What comes to mind when you think about Ancient Egypt?” The replies, as one can imagine, invariably include “pyramids”, and “King Tut”. These are indeed our images of ancient Egypt: kings and great monuments to kings. Strikingly absent are narratives of women…Read More

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 03/07/2014

If you missed anything from the ASOR facebook or twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section…Read More

Ask an Archaeologist: Adam Aja – Harvard Semitic Museum

While at the Semitic Museum at Harvard, Ask an Archaeologist also spoke to Dr. Adam Aja, the Assistant Curator of Collections at the Museum and Assistant Director of Harvard’s expedition at Ashkelon in Israel….Read More

February 2014

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 2-21-14

If you missed anything from the ASOR Facebook or Twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section…Read More

ASOR Archives: The Dibon Excavation Collection

Did you know that the ASOR Archives documents over a century of American archaeological research in the Near East? The archive holds about forty collections, including the papers of past ASOR presidents, photograph collections, personal papers, and excavation collections…Read More

Coins and Plain Wares at Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery

By: Anne Destrooper-Georgiades, Smadar Gabrieli and Michael Given

One of the most striking features of the Greco-Roman city of Kourion  on the south coast of Cyprus is the cemetery that lines the road leading up to the Amathous Gate on the south-eastern side of its Acropolis. The tombs range from the Hellenistic to Late Roman period (3rd century BC to 7th century AD), and there is also a range of other interesting and important features such as the remains of quarrying, material from funerary feasting, and a lime kiln…Read More

Ask an Archaeologist: Dr. Stephen Bourke

On our trip to the Semitic Museum,  Ask an Archaeologist posed one of it’s more colorful questions to Dr. Greene and Dr. Aja: What do you do when someone breaks a fossil?  Do you beat them up and fire them?…Read More

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 2-14-14

If you missed anything from the ASOR facebook or twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section…Read More

Ask an Archaeologist: Semitic Museum at Harvard with Joe Greene

For this episode, Ask An Archaeologist journeyed across the Charles River to the Semitic Museum at Harvard to speak to the Deputy Director and Curator, Dr. Joseph Greene…Read More

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 2-7-14

If you missed anything from the ASOR facebook or twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section…Read More

5 Reasons to Become a Friend of ASOR

In early 2013, the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) created Friends of ASOR(FOA). Friends of ASOR are people interested in archaeological and historical research in the eastern Mediterranean. Since being founded in 1900, ASOR has supported and encouraged the study of the cultures and history of the Near East, from the earliest times to the present…Read More

The Leo Boer Archive and the Non-Professional Archaeological Photographs-project

By: Bart Wagemakers

As an employee of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leyden, the Netherlands, I happened to meet the late Leo Boer on an ordinary day in 1999. It seems that Boer had studied for the priesthood at the Pontificial Biblical Institute at Rome in the mid-1950s. In the course of his studies, he had the opportunity to stay at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem for one year (1953-1954), where he concentrated on studying the Bible…Read More

Heritage sites during Operation Iraqi Freedom Using Freedom of Information Act Requests

By: Levi Keach

The research I presented at the recent ASOR Annual Meeting in Baltimore, “Heritage sites during Operation Iraqi Freedom Using Freedom of Information Act Requests,” is deeply entangled with my personal journey towards archaeology. While serving with the 1st Infantry Division in Baghdad during the Surge, I came to understand that the rich archaeological heritage of Iraq was a source of both pride and comfort among many of the Iraqis with whom I regularly interacted…Read More

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 1-31-14

If you missed anything from the ASOR Facebook or Twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section!…Read More

January 2014

Artifacts Tell the Story of Boston

Ask an Archaeologist is a YouTube series dedicated to answering your questions about Archaeology.  The series is based on questions submitted by viewers. Viewer’s questions are then answered by professional archaeologists with years of experience…Read More

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 1-24-14

If you missed anything from the ASOR Facebook or Twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section!…Read More

Palaces of the Mediterranean Bronze Age

Every year at the ASOR Annual Meeting, the Projects on Parade Poster Session takes place. It’s an ideal opportunity to see the types of projects (both field and publication) that ASOR members are involved with. This year, North Carolina State University graduate student Jesica Lewis presented her poster, “Palaces of the Mediterranean Bronze Age…Read More

Landscapes of the Dead

By: Morag M. Kersel

The primary objective of the Landscapes of the Dead Research Project is to assess (through aerial photography and a pedestrian survey) the Early Bronze Age (EBA, c.3500-2000 BCE) archaeological landscape at Fifa in order to better understand both the ancient and modern use of a prehistoric mortuary site…Read More

Archaeological Conservation at ASOR

Author: LeeAnn Barnes Gordon

For the past two years, my colleague, Suzanne Davis, Associate Curator and Head of Conservation for the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan, and I have organized a session at the ASOR Annual Meeting on the topic of archaeological conservation…Read More

10 Career Tips From ASOR Members

ASOR’s membership spans across many fields of study. We’re fortunate to have historians, geologists, archaeologists, and so many more among our ranks. Every year, we come together to discuss discoveries in the field and our research at the ASOR Annual Meeting…Read More

Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 1-10-14

If you missed anything from the ASOR Facebook or Twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section!…Read More

Mortuary Patterns in the Tell Abraq Tomb Assemblage, UAE (2200– 2000 B.C.E.)

At the 2013 ASOR Annual Meeting Anna Osterholtz presented the paper “Mortuary Patterns in the Tell Abraq Tomb Assemblage, UAE (2200– 2000 B.C.E.).” She agreed to come in and record the presentation for the ASOR YouTube channel ASORtv. Below is an abstract of the presentation and the embedded video of the paper. Enjoy…Read More