KOBOTOOLBOX | ASOR CHI TUTORIALS (ARABIC)

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دروس استقصائية عن التراث الثقافي | ASOR

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KoboToolbox | QGIS | LibreCAD | Photogrammetry

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طورت ASOR وشركاؤها سلسلة من البرامج التعليمية والوحدات التدريبية التي تهدف إلى مساعدة المتخصصين في التراث الثقافي على إجراء الاستبيانات وتقييمات الحالة من خلال أدوات وبرامج مفتوحة المصدر، بما في ذلك QGIS و KoboToolbox و LibreCAD و RealityCapture.

توفر هذه الوحدات دروس تعليمية تشرح خطوة بخطوة كيفية تنزيل التطبيقات والبرامج وتثبيتها واستخدامها بشكل فعال أثناء جمع البيانات وتحليلها وإخراجها.

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KoboToolbox & KoboCollect

صندوق ادوات كوبو KoBoToolbox عبارة عن حزمة برامج مجانية ومفتوحة المصدر لموقع مجموعة بيانات وصفية. يمكن جمع المعلومات في مواقع التراث من خلال الأجهزة اللوحية والهواتف باستخدام تطبيق KoBoCollect أو من خلال واجهة متصفح شبكة الانترنت، حتى عندما تكون هذه الأجهزة غير متصلة بالإنترنت. يمكن بعد ذلك مزامنة بيانات الموقع والبيانات الوصفية المسجلة في الميدان مع برنامج GIS بمجرد إعادة الاتصال بالإنترنت.

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الإلكترونية ASOR بوابة

*هام* على المستخدمين الراغبين في الوصول إلى الدروس التعليمية إنشاء حساب مستخدم على بوابة ASOR الإلكترونية. هذا الحساب مجاني، ولا يتطلب اشتراكًا للوصول إلى الدروس.

شاهد هذا الفيديو لمعرفة كيفية إعداد حسابك مجانًا في البوابة.

يمكنك العثور على معلومات إضافية حول بوابة ASOR هنا.

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إنشاء حساب لمستخدم

تعرف على كيفية إنشاء حساب مستخدم جديد في KoboToolbox.

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إنشاء مسح / مشروع جديد

أنشئ أول نموذج استبيان (مشروع) في KoboToolbox. يقدم هذا الدرس أيضًا مقدمةً لموقع Kobo الإلكتروني وبعض الإعدادات العامة للبدء.

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نموذج الاستبيان | أنواع الأسئلة (حقول قاعدة البيانات)

تعرف على كيفية عمل أنواع الأسئلة عند استخدام منشئ النماذج في Kobo.

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نموذج الاستبيان | الميزات المتقدمة

هذا الدرس مُصمَّم لمستخدمي Kobo المُتقدِّمين. تعلَّم كيفية إنشاء تسلسلات هرمية بين أسئلة النموذج (حقول قاعدة البيانات) وكيفية مشاركة المشاريع مع مستخدمي Kobo الآخرين.

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نشر نموذج الاستبيان (المشروع)

لماذا يُعد نشر مشروعك أمرًا مهمًا؟ تعرّف على كيفية نشر مشروعك ولماذا يجب عليك نشره عند إجراء أي تعديلات على نموذج مشروعك.

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جمع البيانات باستخدام اتصال الإنترنت

يوضح هذا الدرس كيفية جمع البيانات عبر موقع Kobo الإلكتروني بعد الانتهاء من نموذج مشروعك. تعمل خطوات هذا البرنامج التعليمي عند توفر اتصال بالإنترنت. تعمل هذه المنهجية على جميع الأجهزة.

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تحرير البيانات

يمكن للمستخدمين تعديل البيانات بعد جمعها في كوبو. يقدم هذا الدرس إرشادات حول إجراء تعديلات على البيانات المجمعة.

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تنزيل تطبيق KoboCollect (أجهزة Android فقط)

يمكن لمستخدمي Kobo جمع البيانات حتى بدون اتصال بالإنترنت عبر تطبيق KoboCollect. يُمكنهم تنزيل هذا التطبيق على أي جهاز يعمل بنظام Android. للأسف، هذه الطريقة غير مُناسبة لمستخدمي iPhone أو iPad.

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جمع البيانات في KoboCollect (بدون اتصال بالإنترنت)

تعرّف على كيفية جمع البيانات باستخدام تطبيق KoboCollect دون اتصال بالإنترنت. يوفر هذا الدرس أيضًا خطوات إرسال البيانات المخزنة محليًا على KoboCollect إلى مشروعك الرئيسي على موقع Kobo الإلكتروني.

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تصدير البيانات من مشروع Kobo

هل انتهيت من جمع البيانات؟ سيوضح لك هذا البرنامج التعليمي كيفية تصدير البيانات الوصفية وملفات الوسائط إلى جهاز الكمبيوتر المحلي لديك، وقاعدة البيانات، وحتى إلى نظام معلومات جغرافية (GIS) لرسم الخرائط.

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KOBOTOOLBOX | ASOR CHI TUTORIALS (ENGLISH)

ASOR TUTORIALS

FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE SURVEY

KoboToolbox | QGIS | LibreCAD | Photogrammetry

ASOR and its partners have developed a series of tutorials and training modules aimed to help cultural heritage specialists perform surveys and condition assessments through open source tools and software, including QGIS, KoboToolbox, LibreCAD, and RealityCapture.

These modules provide step-by-step tutorials on how to download, install, and effectively use applications and software during data collection, analysis, and output.

SITE DOCUMENTATION

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KoboToolbox & KoboCollect

KoBoToolbox is a free and open source software package for location and descriptive data collection. Information can be collected at heritage sites through tablets and phones using the KoBoCollect app or through the web browser interface, even when those devices are offline. Location and descriptive data recorded in the field can then be synched up with GIS software once an internet connection has been reestablished. KoboToolbox website: https://www.kobotoolbox.org/

 

ASOR’S ONLINE PORTAL

* IMPORTANT * Users accessing a tutorial will need to create a user account in ASOR’s Online Portal. This is a free account. You are not required to purchase a membership to access the lessons.

Watch this video to learn how to set up your account for free in the portal.

Additional information about the ASOR Portal can be found here.

01.01

Creating a User Account

Learn how to create a new user account in KoboToolbox.

01.02

Creating a New Survey Form

Create your first survey form (project) in KoboToolbox. This lesson also provides an introduction to the Kobo website and some of the global settings when getting started.

01.03

Survey Form | Question Types (Database Fields)

Understand how question types work when using the form-builder in Kobo.

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Survey Form | Advanced Features

This lesson is built for advanced Kobo users. Learn how to create hierarchies among your form questions (database fields) and how to share projects with other Kobo users.

01.05

Deploying a Survey Form (Project)

Why is deploying your project important? Learn how to deploy your project and why you should deploy anytime you make edits to your project form.

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Collecting Data with an Internet Connection

This lesson outlines how to collect data through the Kobo website once you have finalized your project form. The steps in this tutorial work when you have an internet connection. This methodology works for all devices.

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Editing Data Collected in Kobo

Users may edit data after they have collected it in Kobo. This lesson provides guidance on making changes to collected data.

01.08

Downloading the KoboCollect App (Android Devices Only)

Kobo users are able to collect data even without an internet connection through the KoboCollect app. Users may download this app on any Android device. Unfortunately, this methodology will not work for iPhone or iPad users.

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Collecting Data in KoboCollect (without an internet connection)

Learn how to collect data using the KoboCollect app without an internet connection. This lesson also provides steps for sending data that is stored locally on KoboCollect to your main project on the Kobo website.

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Exporting Data from a Kobo Project

Finished collecting data? This tutorial will show you how to export descriptive data and media files to your local computer, database, and even into a GIS for mapmaking.

New ASOR-Affiliated Projects 2025

New ASOR-Affiliated Projects: May 2025

Currently, 152 projects are affiliated with ASOR. This includes 122 field projects and 30 publication projects. Twelve new projects have received ASOR affiliation since last summer. Read more about these new ASOR-affiliated projects below!

ASOR-affiliated projects adhere to ASOR policies, most notably the Non-Discrimination Policy, Policy on Professional Conduct, and Code of Conduct for the ASOR Annual Meeting and Other ASOR Sponsored Events. These policies affirm ASOR’s commitment to high standards for research integrity, academic mentoring and ethical professional behavior. Project Principal Investigators may apply for ASOR affiliation for their projects through the Committee for Archaeological Research and Policy (CAP).  Principal Investigators of ASOR-affiliated projects are eligible to apply for ASOR Project Grants and Shepard Urgent Action Grants. Students working on ASOR-affiliated projects are eligible to apply for Scholarships for Fieldwork Participation.

Fieldwork at S'Urachi in 2017

Fieldwork at S’Urachi in 2017

The S’Urachi Project investigates how the Indigenous Nuragic inhabitants of Iron Age Sardinia coped with Phoenician and subsequent Carthaginian influence, trade and colonization across the first millennium BCE. Long-term excavation at nuraghe S’Urachi on the central west coast of Sardinia offers detailed insights into how Indigenous communities and local households coped with these changes and adapted innovations to their own preferences.

The S’Urachi Project operates with a renewable three-year permit of the Italian Ministry of Culture and in close coordination with its regional office (Soprintendenza archeologica) in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). The project works closely with the town of San Vero Milis, who hold the project’s permit and appoint the project’s co-directors, Dr. Alfonso Stiglitz (director of the local Museo Civico) and Prof. Peter van Dommelen as the academic directors (direttori scientifici). The project is committed to prompt publication and public dissemination in multiple languages. The project website is bi-lingual and hosts (under ‘reports’) both yearly annual reports in Italian and a full list of its publications since 2012; the latter are mostly in Italian and Spanish and open access.

Crafting Landscape: Resources Exploitation and Production Strategies in Iraqi Kurdistan during Urbanisation and State Formation (CraftLand), Iraq (Claire Padovani)

Landscape of the Qara Dagh foothills (Iraqi Kurdistan) © CraftLand

Landscape of the Qara Dagh foothills (Iraqi Kurdistan) © CraftLand

The CraftLand project investigates resource exploitation and production networks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, focusing on a clay-rich area between Sulaymaniyah, Chamchamal and Sangaw. Recent excavations in this area revealed large-scale pottery workshops dating to the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE. Moreover, the region has witnessed recurrent developments of intensive ceramic productions up to the present day, suggesting the presence of natural and social conditions favorable to the establishment and sustainability of a pottery-based economy.

The project adopts a bottom-up approach to the study of early economies in a “rural” region, offering a fresh perspective on local impacts of Mesopotamian urbanisation and State formation. It will reconstruct production networks and resource exploitation strategies, in order to assess patterns of landscape use that supported the operation of extensive pottery production. Craftland integrates multiple disciplinary perspectives, combining environmental, archaeological, and ethnographic studies. The research methodology includes geomorphological and geological surveys, satellite imagery, targeted field interventions (micro-surveys and test excavations), archaeometric analyses, and interviews with local potters. In addition, CraftLand contributes to cultural heritage preservation by documenting endangered artisanal traditions and fostering local engagement in the study and conservation of ancient craftsmanship.

Humayma Excavation Project, Jordan (Craig A. Harvey, Sarah E. Wenner)

Aerial view of Humayma. Photo by Jane Taylor.

Aerial view of Humayma. Photo by Jane Taylor

The archaeological site of Humayma is located in southern Jordan, approximately equidistant between Petra and Aqaba. Founded by the Nabataean peoples in the 1st century BCE to control communication and trade in the heartland of the Nabataean Kingdom, Humayma became home to the earliest Roman fort in the region following the kingdom’s annexation in 106 CE. The site thrived economically throughout the Roman and early Byzantine periods, as demonstrated by the presence of no less than five churches from this time. In the early Islamic period, Humayma rose to global significance as home to the Abbasid dynasty before its overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate in the 8th century. The sustained prosperity of this site throughout its occupation demonstrates the proficiency of local inhabitants to effectively exploit their surrounding landscape and leverage the strategic location of Humayma as a nexus of regional and long-distance trade and communication.

This project represents a renewal of archaeological investigation at Humayma, which will build on the success of previous work at the site. Preliminary goals of the first three seasons will be the creation of a high-resolution map of the site and investigation of its economic development from the Nabataean to Islamic periods, particularly regarding local resource extraction and use at the site.

Bioarchaeology of Syedra: Reconstructing lived experiences through human skeletal remains at Syedra Antik Kenti (Syedra Archaeological Site), Alanya Province, Turkey (Kathryn Marklein, Ertug Ergurer)

An overview of Syedra

An overview of Syedra

What happens to people and communities when empires “fall”? The “Bioarchaeology of Syedra” project seeks to understand how the political transition from the Roman to Byzantine Empires impacted the sociobiological, cultural, and epidemiological landscape of ancient Syedra, Turkiye. A vital coastal economy in the Roman period (2nd-4th c. CE), this city transformed during the Byzantine period (11th-12th c. CE). Current excavations of the site have revealed multiple Byzantine burial grounds as well as extramural Roman tombs. Implementing methods and datasets from ancient DNA, paleopathology, and mortuary archaeology, the broader bioarchaeological research project aims to identify: 1) (dis)continuity in population structure between periods, as assessed through genetic diversity and kinship; 2) analyze transitions in cultural beliefs, as assessed spatially and materially in Roman and Byzantine period cemeteries; and 3) contextualize biological stress and resilience, as assessed through demographic and paleopathological data. Bioarchaeological fieldwork will include the excavation of Roman and Byzantine graves, processing of human skeletal remains post-excavation, and preliminary osteobiographical analyses of skeletons. The “Bioarchaeology of Syedra” is part of the larger Syedra Antik Kenti Archaeological Site, under the auspices of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. This excavation seeks to 1) uncover the Roman period city to better understand its place in the Roman and later Byzantine Empires; 2) increase local and international interest in archaeology and history; and 3) preserve the site for local and global cultural heritage.

Athenian Agora Excavations, Greece (John Papadopoulos)

 
 
 
Overview of the current excavation area in the northern section of the Agora
Overview of the current excavation area in the northern section of the Agora
 
 
 
Students excavating in the field
Students excavating in the field

The Agora of Athens, located immediately north of the Athenian Acropolis, was the central marketplace of the ancient city. In addition to its commercial activities, the Agora was also a major religious, political, administrative, and legal center for Athens, and the site of the world’s first democracy. Excavations at the site have been conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) since 1931. Since then, workmen and volunteers have uncovered a history that spans from the Late Neolithic period (ca. 4000 BCE) to the modern period.

Most recently, the Agora excavations are focused in the northern area of the site, directly above part of a Middle Byzantine neighborhood, as well as the central portion of the Classical Stoa Poikile, or Painted Stoa. In addition to continuing the traditional program of field excavations, we have implemented new collection strategies related to material artifacts and faunal and archaeobotanical remains, as well as programs of geophysical survey, LiDAR modeling, and photogrammetry. Work in the field is conducted by a team of volunteers that are selected annually after an open call for applications, as well as supervisors and specialists who typically return for multiple seasons. Volunteers are typically undergraduate or graduate students of archaeology and while many have experience already, for some this is their first experience in the field.

Nineveh East Project, Iraq (Timothy Harrison, Khaled Abu Jayyab)

An overview of eastern Nineveh

 

An overview of eastern Nineveh

The Nineveh East Project, a collaboration between the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) and the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC), University of Chicago, focuses on assessing damage, restoration, and scientific excavations at Nineveh following extensive destruction during ISIS’s occupation of Mosul (2014-2017). Efforts are centered on eastern Nineveh, which includes the city’s expansion under King Sennacherib (705-681 BCE). The project began work at the Shamash Gate in 2020 under the Joint Iraqi-Italian Expedition to Nineveh. One of the largest gates along Nineveh’s eastern wall, the Shamash Gate sustained severe damage due to tunneling by ISIS, which destabilized its structure. While the core structure of the gate remained largely intact, ISIS tunneling within the gate has led to its destabilization.

Between 2021-2024, operations that encompassed stabilization, excavation, and restoration took placed led by Dr. Timothy Harrison and field director Dr. Khaled Abu Jayyab. The primary objectives included stabilizing the gate by reinforcing and filling the tunnels, the systematic removal of debris from the 612 BCE destruction of Nineveh, and the delineation of tower chambers within the gate. Starting in 2025, work will expand across eastern Nineveh to investigate post-Sennacherib urban development while continuing restoration efforts. This new phase includes collaboration with the local municipality to develop public spaces, reinforcing Nineveh’s significance as a landmark in East Mosul. Additionally, these efforts aim to support tourism infrastructure by integrating archaeological heritage into the city’s cultural and economic future.

The Promontory Palace Project at Caesarea Maritima, Israel (Barbara Burrell, Kathryn Gleason)

The Promontory Palace. Photo by Barbara Burrell

The Promontory Palace. Photo by Barbara Burrell

The Promontory Palace, first identified by Ehud Netzer as that of Herod the Great, is built out into the Mediterranean Sea, just west of the theater in the SE area of Caesarea Maritima. Initially, the lower palace was constructed for Herod to plan and supervise the great harbor, and the palace was extended later in his reign to provide reception space for guests at spectacles and official functions. On his death, the palace served as the official praetorium of his heirs and subsequent Roman officials for centuries. Lower Promontory Excavations in the 1970s by Netzer and Lee I. Levine in the lower area of the palace revealed a series of luxurious reception rooms and heated chambers centering on a large (35 x 18 m.) rock-cut swimming pool enclosed by a colonnade. Cuttings in the bedrock between the columns suggested to Netzer that planters had been built between the columns, offering a pluteus around the pool, as well as the effect of a garden for swimmers in the pool. The Upper Palace Excavations were undertaken by K. Gleason and B. Burrell for the University of Pennsylvania Museum (1990-1996), in collaboration with Netzer and Hebrew University.

The project is now in the final stages of publication by Burrell and Gleason for the University of Cincinnati and Cornell University, respectively, together with Lisa Kahn, co-editing the Finds Volume. Although the building was thoroughly looted over the centuries, the project is providing an exceptional insight into the transition of an official residence from Hellenistic basilaea to Roman praetorium in terms of architecture and material culture. The project has also made contributions to the environmental archaeology of maritime villas, to the study of ceramic building materials, to the corpus of defixiones (curse tablets). The publication will comprise two volumes and an open access database of the excavation’s stratigraphy and finds.

American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus (Pamela Gaber)

Fieldwork in the Lower City of ancient Idalion

Fieldwork in the Lower City of ancient Idalion

Idalion was the first in the ancient Assyrian lists of Copper trading cities in Cyprus. Help us apply the latest digital methods to piece together the history of this fascinating and important ancient metropolis. The 2025 season of the American Expedition to Idalion will be a short season focused on removing baulks in two of the previously excavated fields not dug since Covid. There will be much orientation, and strict stratigraphic attention to aligning visible soil changes with legacy data, while employing digital recording techniques in the field using OCHRE, the University of Chicago’s platform for digital research. Associate Director Andrew Wright will oversee this aspect of the work. Associate Director Valerie Woelfel will conduct the GIS aspects of the project. All volunteers and students will be introduced to all techniques. Director Pamela Gaber will be overall excavation coordinator and presenter of Idalion’s place in history.

The Casa della Regina Carolina (CRC) Project, Pompeii, Italy (Caitie Barrett, Kathryn Gleason, Annalisa Marzano)

This excavation and survey of a large house and garden at Pompeii investigates relationships between domestic material culture, social performance, and historical change. Pompeii is central to any account of Roman daily life, but much of its archaeological record results from early excavations conducted before modern field practices. This project combines innovative archaeological and environmental field methods with a rigorous approach to legacy data, applying new detection and recording techniques while also salvaging and synthesizing information from early excavations to investigate the relationship between the “macro-scale” of ancient historical change and the “micro-scale” of daily domestic experience. Scholars have historically treated changes in household material culture as a reaction to developments that “really” took place in other spheres, such as the political or military events that dominate traditional historical narratives. However, recent research questions such assumptions, suggesting that domestic material culture wielded an agency of its own. The Casa della Regina Carolina site spans multiple periods of occupation, with at least two pre-Roman (2nd/1st century BCE) houses underlying the Roman-period standing architecture. By investigating change over time in the material conditions of life at this site, we explore relationships between domestic material culture, social performance, and historical change.

Tall al-Handaquq South Archaeological Project, Jordan (Hanna Erftenbeck, Natalia M. Handziuk)

Tall al-Handaquq South Archaeological Project (HAP) is investigating the earliest cities in Jordan, dating to the Early Bronze Age (EBA, 3800–2000 BCE). As one of the larger EBA sites in the Levant, Tall al-Handaquq South (THS) offers significant insights into the earliest urban phenomenon in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. Our research project engages with key transformations brought on by the first cities, including how people fed, organized, and housed a rapidly growing community.

Understanding the visibility of archaeological sites in satellite imagery through the analysis of soils and their reflectance, Jordan Valley (Sayantani Neogi)

The potential of satellite imagery as a technique of archaeological site prospection, particularly in the Middle East, has been widely recognised since the beginning of the 21st century (e.g., Donoghue, 2001; Donoghue et al., 2002; Philip, Donoghue, et al., 2002; Pournelle, 2003). However, while traditional extensive desk-based survey methods have proved effective in locating the morphologically distinctive nucleated tell sites characteristic of settlement in the Bronze and Iron Ages, they have been less successful in recognising the smaller, dispersed settlements common during prehistoric and Graeco-Roman and Medieval occupation – especially in landscapes where mudbrick was the main building material and/or where topographic features have been reduced by ploughing. Many such sites can only be distinguished from background soils by differences in soil reflectance (colour, texture). While multispectral satellite imagery can reveal areas of differential reflectance, not all such features are sites, and the relationship between surface reflectance and the composition of archaeological deposits indifferent environments is poorly understood.

This project seeks to address this gap by investigating and comparing the field-observed and image-derived reflectance properties of the soils/sediments from a sample of archaeological sites, of different types, located in several geomorphological units within Jordan, thus increasing the ability of researchers to identify anthropogenic despots when reliant upon satellite imagery.

Türkmen-Karahöyük Archaeological Project (TKAP), Turkey (Michele Massa, James Osborne)

The Türkmen-Karahöyük Archaeological Project excavates a Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Hellenistic urban center in the Konya Plain, Türkiye.

2025 ASOR Strategic Plan Task Force

 

2025-2026 ASOR STRATEGIC PLAN TASK FORCE

Members

  • Sharon Herbert, Co-chair
  • Jane DeRose Evans, Co-chair
  • Gary Arbino
  • Emily Miller Bonney
  • Sarah Costello
  • Petra Creamer
  • Helen Dixon
  • Patricia Fall
  • Sheldon Fox
  • Bianca Hand
  • Debora Heard
  • Kevin McGeough
  • Yorke Rowan
  • Julia Troche
  • Jason Ur
  • Andy Vaughn

FOA Webinar: Amy Gansell

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The Queens of Nimrud’s Northwest Palace: Beauty, Power, and Presence in the Neo-Assyrian World, c. 865–705 BCE

Friends of ASOR present the next webinar of the 2024-2025 season on May 14, 2025, at 7:00 pm EDT, presented by Dr. Amy Gansell. This webinar will be free and open to the public. Registration through Zoom (with a valid email address) is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will be sent a recording link in the days following the webinar.

Nearly three thousand years ago, at the ancient site of Nimrud (near modern Mosul, Iraq), a succession of ten Neo-Assyrian kings reigned in collaboration with their queens from the magnificence of the Northwest Palace, the seat of the empire and center of their world. Too often overshadowed by the well documented legacy of Neo-Assyrian kings, this presentation illuminates the queens who reigned with them. Dr. Gansell focuses on the queens of Nimrud’s Northwest Palace (c. 865–705 BCE) because it is here, in the late 1980s, that Iraqi archaeologists uncovered their partially intact royal tombs. The tombs contained heaps of precious jewelry and regalia, along with cuneiform inscriptions, and even some skeletal remains. Putting together these artifacts of death and connecting them to the art, architecture, and written record of the palace, we can learn about the names, lives, appearance, royal duties, and religious roles of the queens. Piece by piece, and layer by layer, across about 150 years of evidence, we discover the beauty, power, and presence of Nimrud’s Northwest Palace queens in life, death, and for eternity.

Although research into the deep past inevitably reveals gaps in our knowledge and raises unanswerable questions, what we don’t know can also stimulate curiosity and creativity, which Dr. Gansell applies in offering a virtually rendered snapshot of the world of the queens of Nimrud’s Northwest Palace. If we just said “we don’t know” to all our questions about the queens, soon we’d be left just talking about the kings, and the story of the Neo-Assyrian empire would remain a conventional history of a man’s world.

Dr. Amy Gansell is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art & Design at St. John’s University, where she serves as the Assistant Department Chair and Coordinator for the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Interdisciplinary Minor. She received her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, Dr. Gansell held a full-time position with the US Department of State as the Associate Coordinator for Afghan and Iraqi Cultural Heritage. In this capacity, she worked on diplomatic projects to restore and build professional capacity at the Afghan National Museum, the National Museum of Iraq, and the site of Babylon. Dr. Gansell returned to academic life in 2010 as a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University’s Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, after which she taught art history to art and design students at Pratt Institute and the State University of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).

Dr. Gansell’s current research focuses on the architecture, art, and artifacts that help to tell the stories of ancient Mesopotamia’s Neo-Assyrian queens (c. 865–612 BCE). Her monograph on this subject is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Dr. Gansell has co-edited CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions (Brill, 2018) and Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology (Oxford University Press, 2020), and her scholarly essays have appeared in prestigious international journals including the American Journal of Archaeology, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, and the Journal of Archaeological Science. Dr. Gansell’s research and publications have been supported through two National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants as well as a grant from The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARI).

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Table of Contents for Near Eastern Archaeology 88.1 (2025)

Table of Contents for Near Eastern Archaeology 88.1 (March 2025)

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Pp. 4–14: “From Seasonal Hunting Base to Permanent Settlement: Insights from the High-altitude Hormangan Site,” by Morteza Khanipour and Masashi Abe

The lifestyle and subsistence patterns of Neolithic people during the second half of the seventh millennium BCE has become a topic of scientific discussion worldwide. This topic has rarely been discussed in the archaeology of Iran. Based on findings from the Hormangan archaeological site, this article discusses this period in southern Iran within the broader context of southwest Asia. The paper introduces the findings of the excavation of the Hormangan site. It also discusses why the subsistence pattern of Fars societies changed in this period, and the development of Neolithic societies toward social complexity. These changes were likely caused by climatic shifts during the second half of the seventh millennium BCE.

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Pp. 16-23: “Tappeh Ziar: A Chalcolithic Site along the Zayandeh Rud River Basin (ZRB) in Isfahan, Iran,” by Jaleh Kamalizad and Alireza Sardari

The Zāyandeh Rūd River played an important role in shaping the society of ancient Isfahan, although the river basin had not been well investigated archaeologically. In 2021 an archaeological survey was conducted by the Isfahan Hydraulic Heritage Project along the Zāyandeh Rūd River. Roughly thirty kilometers southeast of the city of Isfahan, prehistoric pottery sherds attributed to the Bakun period came to light on the surface of a tell-site called Tappeh Ziar. The analysis and comparison of the sherds show some interactions with the Fars prehistoric cultures, especially the Kur River Basin during the fifth millennium BCE.

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Pp. 24-34: “Art as the Child of Nature: Investigating the Interplay between Human Society, Environment, and Artistic Production in Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus,” by Zuzana Chovanec

This article presents research that examines how changing characteristics of the natural world were incorporated into ancient Cypriot art. A key objective is to synthesize and apply data pertaining to the distribution and socioeconomic uses of animals during the Bronze Age to analysis of their representation in Cypriot material culture. This permits trends in human-environment relationships to be examined, including characteristics of transported landscapes, changing attitudes toward the natural world, the evolution of artistic convention, and, more broadly, the interplay between human occupation, cultural production, and environmental impact in Cyprus during a period of increasing social, economic, and cultural integration. Preliminary observations pertaining to animal representations in the prehistoric Bronze Age in Cyprus are presented.

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Pp. 36-46: “Ayios Iakovos-Dhima, Ideological Stake-Claiming, and Social Reproduction in Northeast Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age,” by Thomas John William Humphrey

This article reexamines the Late Bronze Age activity at Ayios Iakovos-Dhima in the northeast of Cyprus to better understand the nature of the activity at the site. A detailed spatial and biographical examination of the finds draws on a recent analysis of the unpublished sherds suggesting a more complex stratigraphy and dating than previously thought. This is combined with an examination of the site’s location, phases of use, and local and regional context to explore Dhima’s place in the ritual landscape of northeast Cyprus. The surviving MC III/LC IA evidence suggests Dhimawas used as a means of ideological stake-claiming during a period of upheaval, while the importance of the site appears to have influenced its later use for similar purposes. The LC IB/IIA activity at the site appears to have been centered around performative rituals of commensality and libations as a means of ideological stake-claiming and social reproduction.

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Pp. 48-56: “Ritual Banqueting at a Hellenistic Sacred Area on the top of Fabrika Hill, Nea Paphos,” by Jolanta Młynarczyk

A joint French-Polish team carried out excavations in the southern part of a hillock known as Fabrika in Nea Paphos from 2018 to 2022. The foremost focus of the research was the detailed investigation of a temple site recognizable in a rock-cut platform and with some confidence attributed to the cult of Paphian Aphrodite. Careful examination of the temple’s surroundings led to the identification of three different places in which ritual banquets were being held during the Hellenistic period. Each of the respective banqueting places, dated on the basis of associated ceramics and coins, had a different appearance and character, doubtless having been destined for diverse groups of participants.

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Pp. 58-69: “Medieval Settlement Excavations at Arpa, Armenia: Regional Context and Chronology for a Silk Road Town,” by Astghik Babajanyan and Kate Franklin

This article focuses on the medieval Arpa settlement, situated in the Vayots Dzor region of the Republic of Armenia. The site of Arpa was a significant settlement in the Middle Ages; since the nineteenth century the site has been used as a cemetery, resulting in significant destruction to the medieval layers. This article presents the results of the 2023 season of excavations in the eastern extent of the settlement, an attempt to recover material assemblages, and addresses the early chronology of the site. In the process of these excavations, living and working contexts from the later Middle Ages (fourteenth–fifteenth centuries CE) were uncovered. The discussion of these contexts and their assemblages provides new information on the end of the Middle Ages in Armenia and a transitional period in the overland movement of people and goods referred to by later scholars as the Silk Roads.

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Pp. 70-77: “Byzantine Epitaphs: Unearthing New Sources of Christian Socioreligious Landscape from Southeastern Al-Karak Plateau (Southern Jordan),” by Musallam R. Al-Rawahneh

The objective of this article is to bring to light seven previously unpublished Byzantine funerary inscriptions discovered in the southeastern Al-Karak Plateau (southeastern Moab, Jordan). These inscriptions are currently preserved in the Al-Karak Archaeological Museum in southern Jordan. Fortunately, most of these inscriptions are in relatively good condition, and the scripts correspond to types 2, 3, and 4 of the Canova classification. The inscriptions bear a striking resemblance to the many epitaphs from the fifth through seventh centuries CE carved on rectangular tombstones and adorned with Christian symbols in the same region.

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FOA Webinar: Kristine Garroway

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The Dying Child: Death and Personhood of Children in Ancient Israel

Friends of ASOR present the next webinar of the 2024-2025 season on April 16, 2025, at 7:00 pm EDT, presented by Dr. Kristine Garroway. This webinar will be free and open to the public. Registration through Zoom (with a valid email address) is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will be sent a recording link in the days following the webinar.

The death of a child is perhaps the most painful, heartbreaking, and seemingly unnatural experience we have the displeasure of living with. Yet it is difficult to say with certainty whether this sentiment was shared by the inhabitants of ancient Isarel. Some anthropologists have found that in societies which experience a high rate of infant mortality and childhood death, parents remain emotionally detached from their children and do not mourn their deaths. We know that ancient Israel, like many pre-industrial societies, had a very high rate of infant mortality and childhood deaths. Did Israelites therefore care for their dying children? Did they give them a proper burial? Did they consider their children part of their families? The Hebrew Bible does not offer much information on the subject. Every time a child’s death is referenced, it is as a plot device in a narrative to prove an ethical, moral, or theological point. Abraham must sacrifice his child to show his commitment to God; Elijah shows off his wonder-working skills when he revives a dead child; David and Bathsheba’s first child dies because David committed murder and adultery; and Solomon demonstrates his wisdom when he commands a child to be cut in half. Yet, none of the biblical texts discuss how, or even if, Israelites cared for their dying children. Fortunately, there is another source to which we can turn to answer such questions: archaeology.

The archaeological record provides us with an incredible amount of information regarding the way that families coped with the death of a child. Yet, it has gone underappreciated, even unnoticed in the scholarly literature. This talk will take you along a journey to explore the ways in which people living in the time of the Israelite monarchy (Iron Age II ca. 1200-587 BCE) cared for their dying children. It will examine the different methods of burying children and the possible beliefs driving the choice of interment. We will discuss the relationship between a belief in rebirth and jar burials in the Northern Kingdom and cremations on the coast, as well as the Judahite concern for ethnically marking one’s child as Israelite and including them in the family tomb. While the array of burial practices attests to the heterodox beliefs of people living in the land of Israel, one thing unifies them: as we will see, people understood even young children to have some degree of personhood, which necessitated both burial and post-mortem care.

Kristine Henriksen Garroway is Professor of Bible at the HUC-JIR’s Skirball Campus in Los Angeles where she joined the faculty in 2011. She received her doctorate in Hebrew Bible and Cognate Studies at the HUC-JIR/Cincinnati in 2009. She has spent time studying and researching in Israel and has participated in excavations at Ashkelon, Tel Dor, and Tel Dan. Garroway’s scholarship focuses on children using archaeology and texts of ancient Israel and Mesopotamia. She has published in various scholarly journals and is a regular contributor to thetorah.com. Garroway’s books include: Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household(Eisenbrauns 2014), Growing Up in Ancient Israel: Children in Material Culture and Biblical Texts (Society of Biblical Literature 2018), and The Dying Child: the Death and Personhood of Children in Ancient Israel (Oxford, 2025). She is the recipient of the Biblical Archaeological Society’s 2019 Publication Award for Best Book Relating to Hebrew Bible.

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AASOR 78: Ethics in Archaeological Practice

Annual of ASOR 78: Ethics in Archaeological Practice

Ethics in Archaeological Practice

ed. by Sarah Kielt Costello and Sarah Lepinski

with articles from  Sarah Kielt Costello, Sarah Lepinski, Beth Alpert Nakhai, Laura E. Heath-Stout, Grace Erny, Dimitri Nakassis, Debby Sneed, Mason Shrader, Nadhira Hill, Maggie Beeler, Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir, Christopher Thornton, Annelies Van de Ven, Louise A. Hitchcock, and Benjamin W. Porter.

Ethics in Archaeological Practice explores urgent topics and issues in archaeology as currently practiced in the classroom, the field, the museum, and the public sphere. While addressed primarily to archaeologists working in western Asia, the eastern Mediterranean, and North Africa, the volume raises contemporary ethical questions around race, gender, disability, climate change, and cultural heritage that are pressing and relevant to archaeology students and professionals worldwide. The fifteen contributors offer fundamental case studies and practical guidance for best practices and models of high standards of ethical practice in professional conduct. Together, they offer new approaches to advocacy and the responsible stewardship of heritage sites, collections, and the environment. These compelling and generative discussions make the case for a 21st century archaeology that is proactive and engaged with discourses addressing equity, social justice, anti-colonialism, and climate change.

Annual of ASOR, Volume 78, Series Editor William Caraher, December 2024, 208 pages (7 b/w figs & 2 tbls.). ISBN 9780897571227, $74.95.

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FOA Webinar: Kate Franklin

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A Window on the Silk Road: Archaeology in Medieval Armenia

Friends of ASOR present this upcoming webinar of the 2024-2025 season on April 30, 2025, at 2:00 pm EDT, presented by Dr. Kate Franklin. This webinar will be free and open to the public. Registration through Zoom (with a valid email address) is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will be sent a recording link in the days following the webinar.

To imagine the medieval Silk Road is to conjure up images of exotic commerce: camel caravans crossing wind-swept dunes, bustling city bazaars, silks and spices spilling from saddlebags. If these images loom large in modern imaginations of the Silk Road, how did people actually living in the Middle Ages think about long distance trade and travel? Drawing on textual, architectural and archaeological evidence, this talk explores the social lives of people living not in the city centers of medieval commerce, but in the places in-between, along the road. Specifically, the talk invites us to spend some time along the roadside with medieval people in the Armenian highlands, where special-built caravan inns housed travelers heading for the Mediterranean, to China, to the Middle East, and north into the steppe, and where people had their own imaginaries of the wider medieval world. Kate Franklin will share aspects of her work in the Republic of Armenia which show how global cultures emerge hand-in-hand with local worlds.

Kate Franklin is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Birkbeck, University of London. Kate is a landscape archaeologist and historian focused on the intersections of local and large-scale social worlds in the medieval landscapes of what is now the Republic of Armenia, where she has been co-PI of the Vayots Dzor Silk Road Survey for nearly a decade. Kate’s most recent book, Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages(Routledge 2023, co-authored with Michael Bintley) explores the cultural history of nature in the medieval period.

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LEVANTINE CERAMICS PROJECT: WORKSHOPS (2024)

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LEVANTINE CERAMICS PROJECT

WORKSHOPS (2024)

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][mk_divider thickness=”1″ margin_top=”0″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”ca-sidebar-76439″][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][mk_divider thickness=”1″ margin_top=”0″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]The Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP) is a collaborative venture of archaeologists working on Levantine ceramics of all eras—from the Neolithic period (c. 5500 B.C.E.) through Ottoman times (c. 1920). Regular workshops are an integral component of the project. At workshops contributors present new discoveries and add information to the LCP’s ever-growing data set. We share ideas, discuss issues of terminology and definition, and better our overall understanding of the field.

Since 2012 the LCP has facilitated workshops in Greece, Israel, Turkey, Poland, Belgium, France, and the United States.

If you are interested in hosting or participating in an LCP workshop, please contact the LCP editor (aberlin@bu.edu) for more information.[/vc_column_text][mk_divider thickness=”1″ margin_top=”0″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_wp_text]

2024 Workshops

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May 27-30, 2024: University of Çanakkale and the Troy Museum Workshop

Çanakkale, Turkey

The Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP) and Professor Ekin Kozal (LCP country editor for Turkey) of the University of Çanakkale co-hosted a workshop in May, 2024 at the University of Çanakkale and the Troy Museum. The workshop also included a trip to the important medieval and modern pottery production workshop at Akköy (now on the LCP)! Over 50 Turkish students from around the country came to learn about pottery and the LCP. See the full program here.[/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_column_text]

June 10-14, 2024: LCP Workshop on Eastern Sigillata B

Ephesus Excavation Compound, Turkey

The second 2024 LCP workshop in Turkey was organized by Drs. Laura Rembart and Alice Waldner, of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and the Ephesus excavations. The subject was Eastern Sigillata B, the fine tableware manufactured in several locales close to Ephesus in the first and second centuries CE. The goal was to bring togeter scholars working on ESB at various sites, and launch conversations to help inform the planned LCP Handbook to Eastern Sigillata B. Ceramic experts from a variety of sites in the region gave presententations and spent a day in the Ephesus Excavation House depot, examining a fasciniating array of ESB pottery.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1566332422149{padding-right: 10px !important;}”][mk_image src=”https://www.asor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1-scaled.jpg” hover=”false”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][mk_image src=”https://www.asor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-28-084536.png” crop=”false” hover=”false”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][mk_padding_divider size=”5″][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_divider thickness=”1″ margin_top=”0″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_wp_text]

What is the LCP?

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