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[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]ASOR’s Annual Meeting in Boston in 2020 promises to be our biggest yet, both in terms of attendees and in terms of the number of papers and sessions. Boston was ASOR’s home for many years and we want to make sure ASOR members are able to take full advantage of everything Boston has to offer. As a new initiative this year, ASOR is putting together a host-city interest group to supplement the academic program, and we are looking to hear from you. This group is designed to help coordinate dates and times of events taking place in the Boston area that ASOR members would be interested in attending.If you know Boston well and would be interested in helping coordinate events outside the meeting’s academic program or if you are already planning an event, please email Marta Ostovich at programs@asor.org.
Some of the types of events we are thinking about include, but are not limited to:
- Discounted entrance fees to museums
- Workshops
- University tours and visits
- Visits to local sites
[/vc_column_text][mk_divider][vc_column_text]Want to help more students and early career archaeologists get into the field? Donate to the cause today by selecting “Student Support” as your gift purpose!
MESSAGE FROM ASOR’S PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
“As a student of early Jewish and Christian literature, one of the lasting effects of my experience this summer will be a vastly improved mental image of the world behind the text, both in terms of the physical landscape and geographical features of Israel, as well as the elements of material culture that shaped daily life in the ancient Mediterranean world. If one wants to gain a better understanding of the setting in which these writings were produced, there is no substitute for the kind of firsthand experience that comes with participating in an excavation.
“As a student studying both archaeology and social anthropology, I am most interested in the intersections and interactions of living and past societies in places like archaeological sites or museums. For my undergraduate honors thesis, I am researching the evolution of community-based research practices in the field of archaeology. Hisban is serving as a case study for me because, since 1996, the project has had an explicit community focus. People from the town had always been involved in the project as hired workers or foremen, and there had also been a substantial number of other Jordanian students, professors, administrators, and even royalty who have been involved in the project over time. But starting with the second phase of the project, there have been a series of community-based initiatives to increase interest in and involvement at the site as well as provide other economic and educational opportunities. The project has sponsored English classes, vocational trainings, school trips, field schools and helped to create the Hisban Cultural Association, a locally-run, non-profit organization.”
“The experience and knowledge I gained through this academic adventure was invaluable. The opportunities to work in the field and in the lab on ongoing projects and my own research allowed me to learn more about archaeological techniques and research project processes. Not only did I grow as an intellectual, but as an individual as well. After being immersed in an unfamiliar place with a completely different way of life and culture, I learned a lot that wouldn’t have been possible without the generosity of ASOR and the P.E. MacAllister Fellowship.”
“[Archaeology] provides an interesting reflection on the details of average life: how will the future humanity see us? Will someone from the future find one of my possessions and wonder what I was like, what I thought and did during the day?”
“This summer working on the Hebrew University staff at Tel Lachish was a truly insightful experience. I have deepened my understanding of what an incredible amount of social organization and labor goes into the building of a city, building a nation. It has left me feeling assured that I have chosen a career path that I truly enjoy, one that has real impact on the world around me. As a prospective graduate student there are few feelings that alleviate the anxiety of taking the next step in my education the way that feeling does. To those that are kind enough to fund fellowships such as the one I was awarded, I cannot thank you enough as I would not have had a chance like this otherwise and there are many others that are in the same situation.”
“Along with the critical research skill set I learned over the summer, I am most appreciative of being a first-hand witness to the journey of an artifact being recovered from the site to the post-field analyses, and finishing with the official write-up of the important archaeological discoveries made during the summer.”
These three volumes offer a comprehensive corpus of ceramic forms and their typological development organized according to period, geographical region, and/or cultural tradition. The focus of each chapter is on the most characteristic pottery types and decorative motifs selected from a broad range of sites. Unique in scope, this publication presents a wide range of ceramic types accompanied by specially prepared pottery plates and color photos illustrating over five thousand forms. A classic reference work, it serves as an essential resource for archaeologists and other scholars and students of ancient Near Eastern studies. The two volumes covering the Iron Age through the Hellenistic period were published in 2015 and the third volume, dealing with the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, in 2019. A fourth volume covering the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods and the Early Bronze Age is in preparation.