Academic program

8E. Digging “Lustily” into Cypriot Prehistory: Studies in Honor of Stuart Swiny

Carlton

Theme: This symposium is inspired by the life, work, and legacy of Stuart Swiny and addresses his contributions to Cypriot archaeology as long-time director of CAARI and dedicated mentor and professor at the University at Albany. Papers in this session are presented by colleagues, family, and students.
CHAIRS: Zuzana Chovanec (Tulsa Community College) and Walter Crist (Arizona State University)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Introduction (5 min.)
4:25
Helena Wylde Swiny (Harvard University), “Why Cyprus?” (15 min.)
4:45
Francesca Chelazzi (University of Glasgow), “Settlement Archaeology in Bronze Age Cyprus: The Pioneering Legacy of Stuart Swiny in the Southwest Forty Years Later” (15 min.)
5:05
Thomas Davis (Tandy Institute for Archaeology, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary), “The House of the Dancing Bird” (15 min.)
5:25
Laura Swantek (Arizona State University) and William Weir (University of Cincinnati), “A Dig of a ‘Certain Kind’: Stuart Swiny and the Past and Future Potential of Sotira Kaminoudhia” (15 min.)
5:45
Zuzana Chovanec (Tulsa Community College) and Sean M. Rafferty (University at Albany), “A Legacy of Education and Collaboration: Stuart Swiny’s Role in Cypriot Studies at the University at Albany” (15 min.)
6:05
Alan Simmons (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), “Thinking Outside the Hippo: A Personal Tribute to Stuart Swiny” (15 min.)

8F. History of Archaeology

Lewis

CHAIR: Kevin M. McGeough (University of Lethbridge)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Rannfrid Thelle (Wichita State University), “Early Explorations of the ‘City of David’ in the Context of British and German Agendas in the Holy Land” (25 min.)
4:50
Caitlin Chaves Yates (Metropolitan Museum of Art), “Archaeology’s Role in the Development of the Ancient Near Eastern Art Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art” (25 min.)
5:20
Sveta Matskevich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Daphna Tsoran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Lost & Found: The Institute of Archaeology (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Israel Exploration Society Archival Collections” (25 min.)
5:50
Kevin M. McGeough (University of Lethbridge), Discussant (25 min.)


8G. The CRANE Project II

Otis
Theme: Chronology, Regional Landscapes, and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction

CHAIR: Timothy P. Harrison (University of Toronto)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Sturt Manning (Cornell University) and Brita Lorentzen (Cornell University), “Highly Resolved Timeframes for the CRANE Project: Bayesian Chronological Modeling on Orontes Sites from the Third to First Millennia B.C.E.” (20 min)
4:45
Dominique Langis-Barsetti (University of Toronto), “The CRANE Site Database Project” (20 min.)
5:10

Kamal Badreshany (Durham University), Graham Philip (Durham University), and Melissa Kennedy (University of Sydney), “Ceramic Development in the Upper Orontes Basin from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age: Dealing with the Challenge of Diffuse and Dynamic Ceramic Regionalism in Ancient Syria” (20 min.)

5:35
Doğa Karakaya (University of Tübingen), “Current Progress in Archaeobotanical Research at Tell Tayinat and Zincirli” (20 min)
6:00
Lynn Welton (University of Toronto), “Modeling the Interaction of Social and Environmental Processes in the Orontes Watershed: The CRANE Simulation Project” (20 min.)

8H. Ambiguity in the Ancient Near East: Mental Constructs, Material Records, and Their Interpretations III

Stone

Theme: The papers in this session interpret particular writings, spaces, and types of objects.
CHAIRS: Elizabeth Knott (New York University) and Lauren McCormick (Syracuse University)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Jay Crisostomo (University of Michigan) and Eduardo Escobar (Stevanovich Institute for the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago), “An Assortment of Kinds: Determinatives in Cuneiform Scholarship” (20 min.)
4:45
Martin Worthington (University of Cambridge and Institute for the Study of the Ancient World), “The Rain, the Wheat, and the Trick” (20 min.)
5:10
Gina Konstantopoulos (University of Helsinki), “Public and Private: the Role of Text and Ritual in Constructing and Maintaining Protected Spaces in Mesopotamia” (20 min.)
5:35
Miriam Said (University of California, Berkeley), “Stamped and Staring: Pazuzu Stamp Seals and the Ambiguity of Form” (20 min.)
6:00
Victoria Almansa-Villatoro (Brown University), “An Image that Means Another: Syncretism and the Case-Study of a Mummiform Dwarf” (20 min.)

8I. Archaeology of the Southern Levant II

Webster

CHAIR: Owen Chesnut (North Central Michigan College)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Joshua Walton (Capital University), “The Iron Age IIB Remains from Ashkelon: A Preliminary Report” (20 min.)
4:45
Vanessa Workman (Bar-Ilan University) and Adi Eliyahu-Behar (Bar-Ilan University), “Early Iron Workshops at Tel Megiddo and Tell es-Safi/Gath: Comparative Analysis of Working Debris and Paraphernalia” (20 min.)
5:10
Eric Welch (University of Kansas), “The Gats of Gath: Ninth Century Olive Oil Production in Area K at Tell es-Safi/Gath” (20 min.)
5:35
Barry M. Gittlen (Towson University), “An Enigmatic Death At Tel Miqne/Ekron, Stratum IB” (20 min.)
6:00
Casey Sharp (University of Haifa), Ladislav Smejda (University of West Bohemia), Itzhaq Shai (Ariel University), and Chris McKinny (Bar-Ilan University), “New Methods in Excavating the Periphery: Tel Burna Area C in the Bronze and Iron Ages” (20 min.)

8J. Religion in “Edom”

Hancock

Theme: Papers in this session draw upon multiple approaches to Iron Age religion in southern Israel and Jordan, focusing on sites and artifacts that, traditionally, have been associated with the territory of Edom or the Edomites.
CHAIRS: Erin Darby (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Andrea Creel (University of California, Berkeley)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Juan Manuel Tebes (University of Michigan), “Late Bronze Age/Iron Age Extra-mural Shrines of the Arid Southern Levant and the Syro-Arabian Desert Cultic Architecture” (20 min.)
4:45
Regine Hunziker-Rodewald (University of Strasbourg), “Ready to Give Birth—Towards an Interpretation of the Iron Age Female Terracotta Figurines from Edom” (20 min.)
5:10
Joel Burnett (Baylor University), “Do We Have an Image of Qaus? Ceramic Anthropomorophic Statues in Edom and Beyond” (20 min.)
5:35
Andrea Creel (University California, Berkeley), “Connectivity on the Edge of Empire: Ḥorvat Qitmit as Ritual Node in a Landscape of Movement” (20 min.)
6:00
Erin Darby (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), “Religion and Edomite Expansion: The View from ‘En Hazeva” (20 min.)
6:30–10:30pm
Digital Archaeology Demo Showcase and Reception
Marina 2–4

Saturday, November 18
8:20–10:25am Session 9



9A. Developing Isotopic Investigations in the Ancient Near East and Caucasus

Harbor 1

Theme: In recent years, biogeochemical analysis has gained pace in the archaeology of the Near East and Caucasus, embracing a holistic understanding of human ecology. Having focused on Environment and Mobility in 2016, this year’s session focuses on diet and other practices, methodological advances, and region-specific challenges in research design.
CHAIRS: G. Bike Yazıcıoğlu-Santamaria (University of Chicago) and Maureen E. Marshall (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
PRESENTERS:

8:20
Introduction (5 min.)

8:25
Estelle Herrscher (Aix Marseille University; French National Center for Scientific Research—CNRS), Liana Bitadze (Tbilisi State University), Modwene Poulmarc’h (ArchéOrient; French National Center for Scientific Research—CNRS), Nikolos Vanishvili (Georgian National Museum), Giorgi Bedianashvili (Georgian National Museum), Gela Giunashvili (Georgian National Museum), Giorgi Gogochuri (Georgian National Museum), Kakha Kakhiani (Georgian National Museum), Johny Kozsiashvili (Kashuri Museum, Georgia), Bitdzina Murvanidze (Georgian National Museum), Elena Rova (University of Venice), Guy André (Aix Marseille University; French National Center for Scientific Research—CNRS), “Dietary Practice Changes during the Bronze Age in the Southern Caucasus: Evidence of Millet Consumption Using a Multi-isotopic Approach” (20 min.)
8:50
Benjamin Irvine (Freie Universität Berlin), “Stable Isotopes of Sulphur to Further Investigate Dietary Habits in Anatolian Early Bronze Age Populations” (20 min.)
9:15
G. Bike Yazıcıoğlu-Santamaria (University of Chicago) and Lynn Welton (University of Toronto), “A Reassessment of ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr Data from Human Remains at the Anatolian Bronze Age Sites of Kültepe and Ikiztepe: New Observations in Light of Weaning Age” (20 min.)
9:40
Maureen E. Marshall (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “The Biogeochemistry of Agro-pastoralism in the Bronze Age Tsaghkahovit Plain,

Armenia” (20 min.)

10:05
Stanley H. Ambrose (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Discussant (10 min.)
10:15
General Discussion (10 min.)

9B. Approaches to Dress and the Body I

Harbor 2

Theme: Traces of practices relating to dress and the body are present in many ways in the archaeological, textual, and visual records of the ancient world, from the physical remains of dressed bodies, to images depicting them, to texts describing such aspects as textile production and sumptuary customs. Previous scholarship has provided useful typological frameworks but has often viewed these objects as static trappings of status and gender. The goal of this session is to illuminate the dynamic role of dress and the body in the performance and construction of aspects of individual and social identity, and to encourage collaborative dialogue within the study of dress and the body in antiquity.
CHAIR: Megan Cifarelli (Manhattanville College)
PRESENTERS:
8:20
Amir Golani (Israel Antiquities Authority), “Beyond Ornamentation: Contextualizing Research of Personal Adornment in the Ancient Near East” (20 min.)

 

8:45

Nili Fox (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati), “Sanctifying Body Marking: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence” (20 min.)

 

9:10

Christine Palmer (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary), “Israelite High Priestly Apparel: Constructing an Identity between Human and Divine” (20 min.)

 

9:35

Sarah Mady (The Graduate Center at the City University of New York), “Transvestite Female Saints in Byzantine Traditions: The Case of Marina of Qalamoun” (20 min.)
10:00
Betty Hensellek (Cornell University; Metropolitan Museum of Art), “Banqueting, Dress, and the Idealized Sogdian Merchant” (20 min.)
9C. Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to the Ancient Near East

Harbor 3

CHAIRS: Emily Miller Bonney (California State University, Fullerton) and Leann Pace (Wake Forest University)
PRESENTERS:
8:20
Introduction (5 min.)
8:25
Anne Chapin (Brevard College), “The Expert’s Eye: Theory, Method, and Connoisseurship in Aegean Fresco Studies” (15 min.)
8:45
Neil Erskine-Fisher (University of Glasgow), “Religiosity in Routine: Movement, Landscape, and Bridging the Data-Theory Divide” (15 min.)
9:05
Christopher Brinker (Johns Hopkins University), “The Rehabilitation of Segmentary Lineage Systems as a Heuristic Model” (15 min.)
9:25
Kristine Garroway (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles), “Childist Archaeology: Children, Toys, and Skill Transmission in Ancient Israel” (15 min.)
9:45
Maurits Ertsen (Delft University of Technology), “‘Youths in the Future, Elderly in the Past, but Ancestors in the Present’—Time and Space in Ancient Near Eastern Irrigation” (15 min.)
10:05
Frederic Brandfon (Expedition to the Coastal Plain of Israel), “Digging a Hole and Telling a Tale: Science and Art in Archaeology” (15 min.)
9D. Putting your Degree to Work: How to Apply for Careers Inside and Outside the Academy (Workshop)
Burroughs

CHAIRS: Tiffany Earley-Spadoni (University of Central Florida) and Fred Winter (F. A. Winter Associates)

This workshop will discuss the often overlooked practical aspects of seeking employment such as CVs vs. resumes, cover letters, networking, dossiers, references, when to apply, etc. It will be led by Fred Winter, who worked first as a tenured university professor, subsequently for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of Education, and presently runs his own consulting firm addressing non-traditional academic employment; and Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, who previously worked in the private and public sectors and is now a tenure-track university professor.  They will focus the discussion on the unique traits of academic vs. private-public job markets and how to apply for each. This workshop is meant to complement the “Careers Options for ASOR Members” session.
9E. Archaeology of the Natural Environment: Archaeobotany and Zooarchaeology in the Near East

Carlton

Theme: This session presents papers that examine past human resources (flora and fauna) uses and human/environment interactions in the ancient Near East.
CHAIRS: Melissa S. Rosenzweig (Miami University) and Madelynn von Baeyer (University of Connecticut)
PRESENTERS:
8:20
Introduction (5 min.)
8:25
Melina Seabrook (Stony Brook University) and Katheryn C. Twiss (Stony Brook University), “Animals of Ur: Preliminary Faunal Data from the Ur III and Old Babylonian Deposits” (15 min.)
8:45
Kathryn Grossman (North Carolina State University), “Animals in the Orontes Basin: Contextualizing the Zooarchaeological Assemblage from Tell Qarqur, Syria” (15 min.)
9:05
Edward F. Maher (North Central College), “Where the Wild Things Are: Non-Domesticated Animals from Late Bronze Age Jaffa” (15 min.)
9:25
Alexia Smith (University of Connecticut), Thomas Hart (University of Texas at Austin), Lucas Proctor (University of Connecticut), and Gil Stein (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago), “Ubaid Period Agriculture and Fuel Use at Tell Zeidan, Syria: Integrating Macrobotanical and Phytolith Data” (15 min.)
9:45
Andrew Fairbairn (The University of Queensland) and Nathan Wright (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge), “Feasting and Burning in Middle Bronze Age Anatolia: Archaeobotanical Evidence for Elite Food Consumption from Büklükale” (15 min.)
10:05
John Marston (Boston University) and Kate J. Birney (Wesleyan University), “Hellenistic Agricultural Economy in the Southern Levant: New Evidence from Ashkelon” (15 min.)
9F. Ancient Texts and Modern Photographic and Digital Technologies

Lewis

CHAIRS: Annalisa Azzoni (Vanderbilt University) and Christopher Rollston (George Washington University)
PRESENTERS:
8:20
Introduction (5 min.)
8:25
Jana Mynarova (Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University), “Acquisition and Adaptation of Cuneiform Writing in Peripheral Areas: A Case Study of Amarna Cuneiform Palaeography” (25 min.)
8:55
Michael B. Toth (University College London; R. B. Toth Associates), Roberta Mazza (University of Manchester), and William A. Christens-Barry (Equipoise Imaging), “New Technologies to Reveal Texts in Mummy Cartonnage” (25 min.)
9:25
Anat Mendel Geberovich (Tel Aviv University), Arie Shaus (Tel Aviv University), Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin (Tel Aviv University), and Barak Sober (Tel Aviv University), “Arad Ostracon 16 Rediscovered via Multispectral Imaging” (25 min.)
9:55
Katherine Jones (The George Washington University), “Likely Lies: A Statistical Analysis of the Prevalence of Modern Forgeries” (25 min.)
9G. The Enigma of the Hyksos I

Otis

CHAIRS: Manfred Bietak (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Hanan Charaf (Lebanese University)
PRESENTERS:
8:20
Introduction (5 min.)
8:25
Danielle Candelora (University of California, Los Angeles), “Defining the Hyksos: A Reevaluation of the Term Ḥḳ3 Ḫ3swt and its Significance” (15 min.)
8:45
Aleksandra Ksiezak (University of Toronto), “Tell el-Yahudiyeh Ware in the Eastern Nile Delta—Production, Distribution, and Fabric Use Specialization at the Site of Tell el-Maskhuta during the Second Intermediate Period” (15 min.)
9:05
Ezra Marcus (University of Haifa), “Trade Floruit and Crisis: A Maritime Approach to the Hyksos Phenomenon” (15 min.)
9:25
Nina Maaranen (University of Bournemouth), “The Hyksos in Egypt—A Bioarchaeological Perspective” (15 min.)
9:45
Hendrik Bruins (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Johannes van der Plicht (Groningen University; Leiden University), Lawrence Stager (Harvard University), and Michael Dee (Groningen University), “Middle Bronze Age Stratigraphies at Ashkelon and Tell el-Dab‘a: Radiocarbon Dating and Material Culture Comparée with Emphasis on the Hyksos Period” (15 min.)
10:05
General Discussion (20 min.)
9H. New Work on Sardis from the Harvard-Cornell Excavations to Sardis

Stone
CHAIRS: Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin–Madison) and Jane DeRose Evans (Temple University)

PRESENTERS:
8:20
Introduction (5 min.)
8:25

Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “The Lydian Palace at Sardis” (15 min.)

8:45
William Bruce (Gustavus Adolphus College), “Religious and Domestic Life in Lydian and Achaemenid Sardis” (15 min.)
9:05
Philip Stinson (University of Kansas) and Bahadır Yıldırım (Harvard Art Museums), “Architecture and Sculpture of a Julio-Claudian Temple in Central Sardis” (15 min.)
9:25
Vanessa Rousseau (Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota), “If These Walls Could Talk: Late Roman Decoration at Roman Sardis” (15 min.)
9:45
Frances Gallart Marqués (Independent Scholar; Archaeological Exploration of Sardis), “A Wink and a Smile: The Terracotta Quadrupeds of Late Roman Sardis” (15 min.)
10:05
Jane DeRose Evans (Temple University), “Coins and Pottery: Tracking the Numismatic Profile of Fourth and Fifth Century Sardis” (15 min.)

9I. Archaeology of the Southern Levant III

Webster

CHAIR: Owen Chesnut (North Central Michigan College)
PRESENTERS:
8:20
Mike Freikman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Into the Darkness—Shamanism in the Archaeological Context” (20 min.)
8:45
Vered Eshed (Israel Antiquities Authority) and Avi Gopher (Israel Antiquities Authority), “Agriculture and Lifestyle: Paleodemography of the Pottery Neolithic (8500–6500 cal B.P.) Farming Populations in the Southern Levant” (20 min.)
9:10
Ralph Hawkins (Averett University) and David Ben-Shlomo (Ariel University), “The Bedouin at Modern Ras el-Auja and the Early Iron Age Settlers at Khirbet el-Mastarah” (20 min.)
9:35

Daniel Leviathan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Yosef Garfinkel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “New Light on the Origin of the Triglyphs in the Doric Order” (20 min.)

10:00
Johanna Berkheij-Dol (Leiden University), “The Shape of Rounded Fenestrated Models and Their Contents: Were Shrine Models with a Hollow Base Ever Made to Contain a Figurine?” (20 min.)


9J. Mesopotamian Civilizations: The Economic Scope of Institutional Households I

Hancock

CHAIRS: Claudia Glatz (University of Glasgow), Jacob Lauinger (Johns Hopkins University), and Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan)
PRESENTERS:
8:20
Odette Boivin (University of Toronto), “Institutional Integration in the Sealand I Palace Economy” (25 min.)
8:50
Rune Rattenborg (Durham University), “The Scale and Extent of Institutional Household Economies of the Middle Bronze Age Jazīrah and the Bilād al-Šām: Critical Perspectives” (25 min.)
9:20
Tate Paulette (North Carolina State University), “Storing Like a State in Mesopotamia (4000–2000 B.C.) or: How Great Were the Great Organizations?” (25 min.)
9:50
Susanne Paulus (University of Chicago), “Investment, Debt, and Slavery—The Economy of Nippur in the Kassite Period” (25 min.)

10:25–10:40am Coffee Break
Galleria

10:40am–12:45pm Session 10
10A. Archaeology of Arabia I

Harbor 1

CHAIR: Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (University of Wisconsin–Madison) and Steven Karacic (Florida State University)
PRESENTERS:
10:40
Introduction (5 min.)
10:45
Knut Bretzke (University of Tübingen) and Adrian Parker (Oxford Brookes University), “Exploring Behavioral Strategies in Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers from the Desert Environments of Southeastern Arabia” (15 min.)
11:05
Rémy Crassard (The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS) and Yamandú Hilbert (The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS), “Naviform Technology from Saudi Arabia” (15 min.)
11:25
Thomas Van de Velde (Ghent University), “The Archaeology of the Petroleum Industry: the Surfacing of an Elamite Bitumen Industry in Southeast Arabia” (15 min.)
11:45
Marilisa Buta (University of Bologna), Dennys Frenez (University of Bologna), Eugenio Bortolini (IMF-CSIC, Spanish National Research Council), Vincent Charpentier (Maison de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie), and Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “Bead Production in the Neolithic Coastal Communities of Southeastern Arabia: A Stylistic, Morphometric, and Technological Assessment” (15 min.)
12:05
Olivier Brunet (The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS), “Trends of Production of Carnelian Beads during the Bronze Age in the Oman Peninsula” (15 min.)
12:25
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Dennys Frenez (University of Bologna), and Randall Law (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “Comparing Arabian and Indus Bead Technology and Trade from the Fourth to First Millennia B.C.E.” (15 min.)

10B. Approaches to Dress and the Body II

Harbor 2
 

Theme: Traces of practices relating to dress and the body are present in many ways in the archaeological, textual, and visual records of the ancient world, from the physical remains of dressed bodies, to images depicting them, to texts describing such aspects as textile production and sumptuary customs. Previous scholarship has provided useful typological frameworks but has often viewed these objects as static trappings of status and gender. The goal of this session is to illuminate the dynamic role of dress and the body in the performance and construction of aspects of individual and social identity, and to encourage collaborative dialogue within the study of dress and the body in antiquity.
CHAIR: Megan Cifarelli (Manhattanville College)
PRESENTERS:
10:40
Emily Anderson (Johns Hopkins University), “Formulating Parallels: The Bodies of Man and Beast in Early Aegean Glyptic and Oral Narrative” (20 min.)
11:05
Josephine Verduci (University of Melbourne) and Brent Davis (University of Melbourne), “Adornment, Ritual, and Identity: Inscribed Minoan Jewellery” (20 min.)
11:30
Melissa Eppihimer (University of Pittsburgh), “Tassels, Cultural Identity, and Historical Memory in Royal Statues from Mari and Eshnunna” (20 min.)
11:55
Trudy Kawami (Independent Researcher), “Sumptuous Garb: Who Wears Fringe in Elamite Iran?” (20 min.)
12:20
General Discussion (25 min.)