UNEARTHING THE PAST SINCE 1900

Fieldwork Report: Zainab Hweij

From Research to Reality: My Journey to the Balu’a Regional Archaeological Project Zainab O. Hweij, 2026 Strange/Midkiff Families Fieldwork Scholarship For months, I wasn’t sure this excavation season would happen. […]

Fieldwork Report: Leticia Rodriguez

With the other Small Bath supervisor.

Fieldwork Report: Leticia Rodriguez Leticia Rodriguez, 2025 Strange/Midkiff Families Scholarship Recipient In 2005, excavations began at the site of Antiochia ad Cragum, a city founded in the mid-first century CE […]

Collections Fellowship Report: Irene Romano

Irene Bald Romano and John MacGinnis at Qalatga Darband, Kurdistan October 2025.

2026 Study of Collections Fellowship Report Irene Bald Romano, School of Art and School of Anthropology, University of Arizona I am pleased to present this final report of the results […]

Fieldwork Report: Mandy Porter

Team photo of Trench Q, Kissonerga-Skalia 2025.

Archaeology in Prehistoric Cyprus Rocks Mandy Porter, 2025 Strange/Midkiff Families Scholarship Recipient Kissonerga-Skalia is a Bronze Age settlement on the western coast of Cyprus, 10km north of Paphos. The site […]

Mesopotamian Fellowship Report: Aqeel Al-Mansrawi

Fig 4. The temple and other buildings of Umal_Agarib from satellite imagery.

Before the Catastrophe: The Archaeological Sites in Northern Nasiriya Province Threatened by Climate Change Aqeel Al-Mansrawi, State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, Iraq, Mesopotamian Fellowship Recipient Abstract A Mesopotamian Fellowship […]

Collections Fellowship Report: Laura Alvarez

Copper-alloy mirrors from the collections of the Louvre Museum (photograph: Laura Alvarez).

Laura Alvarez, recipient of ASOR’s 2025 Study of Collections Fellowship, examines ancient Near Eastern concepts of identity through museum collections, analyzing mirrors from Mesopotamia and the Levant to explore how ideas of self and social relationships were expressed in the Bronze Age.

Fieldwork Report: Amiella Musser

Amiella Musser, an undergraduate student at Dickinson College, received a 2025 ASOR Stevan B. Dana Fieldwork Scholarship to excavate at Tel Azekah in Israel.

Fieldwork Report: Joshua Feland

Adventure in a Nabatean Town Joshua Feland, 2025 Eric and Carol Meyers Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient In southern Jordan lies Humayma, an extensive archaeological site with a complicated history. The ancient […]

Fieldwork Report: Atakan Atabas

Looking for points for preparing survey grids.

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Atakan Atabas, 2025 Shirlee Meyers/G. Ernest Wright Fellowship Recipient  When I left my hometown in central Anatolia to attend university, I never imagined that […]

Fieldwork Report: Talia Neelis

Here I am doing some baulk cleaning in the early stages of our trench

Sherds of my Labor: Supervising with Pottery Plethoras at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios Talia Neelis, 2025 P.E. MacAllister Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient In the five minutes it takes to wind along the back […]