UNEARTHING THE PAST SINCE 1900

Collections Fellowship Report: Michael Press

2022 Study of Collections Fellowship Report: The Antiquities Market in Late Ottoman Palestine Michael Press, University of Agder How did people buy and sell antiquities in Palestine in the 19th century? This […]

Fieldwork Report: Bruno Barros

Bringing Azekah’s Walls into the Light Bruno Barros, 2022 G.E. Wright/Shirlee Meyers Fellowship Recipient Sunrise in Area N1. Yalla, Yalla! That was the call to jump on the bus around 4:50 […]

Fieldwork Report: Rosemary Hanson

The Colors of the Badia Rosemary Hanson, 2022 Platt Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient From the sky, the kites of the Jordanian Steppe are easy to spot. The low walls of piled […]

Stipend Report: Kacey Garcia

Khirbet al-Balu’a 2021 Study Season: Pottery and Figurines Kacey Garcia, 2021 Shirlee Meyers-G. Ernest Wright Summer Stipend Recipient I would like to thank the Shirlee Meyers-G. Ernest Wright Scholarship donors […]

Stipend Report: Annissa Malvoisin

Generating Jebel Barkal: Metadata Organization from the Field Diaries of Dr. George A. Reisner at Jebel Barkal Annissa Malvoisin, Archival Researcher for the Jebel Barkal Archaeological Project, 2021 Strange/Midkiff Families Summer Stipend […]

Stipend Report: Hanna Erftenbeck

Summer Research at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Hanna Erftenbeck, 2021 Strange/Midkiff Families Summer Stipend Recipient The term fieldwork is mostly associated with working on excavations, but this summer […]

Stipend Report: Alexis Greene

Tell al-Judaidah Publication Project  Alexis Greene, 2021 Summer Stipend Recipient In May, I was awarded a grant to allow me to join the Tell al-Judaidah Publication Project which is directed […]

Stipend Report: Julian Hirsch

Using Experimental Wear to Study Early Bronze Age Wearers Julian Hirsch, 2021 Eric and Carol Meyers Summer Stipend Recipient The cemeteries of the Dead Sea Plain (Map by Austin “Chad” […]

Stipend Report: Lilly Hickox

Casting Light on Humayma’s Roman Town Lilly Hickox, 2021 Eric and Carol Meyers Summer Stipend Recipient Hickox studying the lamps of Humayma’s vicus. (photo courtesy of M. Schwenteck) Humayma, located in […]

Geraty Grant Report

Doing unto others as we would have others do unto ourselves: A Report on ASOR’s Lawrence T. Geraty Endowment for Community Archaeology An inconvenient truth about most archaeological excavations is […]