Academic program

10C. Archaeology of Anatolia I

Harbor 3

Theme: This session focuses on current archaeological research in Anatolia and presents the results of excavations and surveys.
CHAIR: Levent Atici (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
PRESENTERS:
10:40
Introduction (5 min.)
10:45
Patrick Willett (University at Buffalo), Ralf Vandam (University of Leuven), Peter Biehl (University at Buffalo), and Jeroen Poblome (University of Leuven), “New Results from the Dereköy Archaeological Survey Project: Exploring the Cultural Past in the Marginal Landscapes of the Western Taurus Mountains, SW Turkey” (15 min.)
11:05
Levent Atici (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), “Complex Hunter-Gatherers of Upper Tigris Valley: New Zooarchaeological Data from Körtik Tepe, SE Turkey” (15 min.)
11:25
Benjamin Arbuckle (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Prehistoric Horse Exploitation on the Central Anatolian Plateau” (15 min.)
11:45
Sharon R. Steadman (SUNY Cortland), Gregory McMahon (University of New Hampshire), Jennifer C. Ross (Hood College), “Recent Investigations at Çadır Höyük on the North Central Anatolian Plateau” (15 min.)
12:05
Madelynn von Baeyer (University of Connecticut), “Farming at the Frontier: Plant Use during the Late Chalcolithic at Çadır Höyük, Turkey” (15 min.)
12:25
Lolita Nikolova (International Institute of Anthropology), “Anatolia and the Balkans during the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3600–2000 cal B.C.E.)” (15 min.)

10D. Archaeologists Engaging Global Challenges
Burroughs

CHAIRS: Catherine Foster (Ancient Middle East Education and Research Institute) and Erin Darby (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

PRESENTERS:
10:40

Introduction (5 min.)

10:45
Suzi Wilczynski (Dig-It! Games), “Leveraging the Power of Gaming for Cultural Preservation” (25 min.)
11:15
Louise Hitchcock (University of Melbourne), “Aged Tasmanian Whiskey in Boston Is the New Faience Rhyton in Cyprus: Globalization and Plutocracy, Populism, and Piracy” (25 min.)
11:45

Mitra Panahipour (University of Arkansas), “Settlement Expansion and Agricultural Intensification: The Case of a Sasanian Hinterland in Upper Diyala/Sirwan River Valley, Kurdistan” (25 min.)

12:15

Jody Michael Gordon (Wentworth Institute of Technology), “Globalizing the Past for Humanity’s Future: Globalization and Cosmopolitan Archaeologies” (25 min.)

10E. The Tells of Two Cities: Did Tell es-Sultan and Tall el-Hammam Interact during the Middle Bronze Age?

Carlton

CHAIRS: Steven Collins (Trinity Southwest University) and Lorenzo Nigro (Sapienza University of Rome)
PRESENTERS:
10:40
Introduction (5 min.)
10:45
Steven Collins (Trinity Southwest University), “Tall el-Hammam during the Middle Bronze Age: Data and Insights from 12 Excavation Seasons” (15 min.)
11:05
Carroll Kobs (Trinity Southwest University), “The Middle Bronze Age Fortifications of Tall el-Hammam as Seen in Field LA” (15 min.)
11:25
Gary Byers (Trinity Southwest University), “2,500 Years of Continuous Occupation Ends: Evidences of Tall el-Hammam’s Terminal Middle Bronze Age Destruction” (15 min.)
11:45
Daria Montanari (Sapienza University of Rome), “Weapons in Middle Bronze Age Tombs at Tell es-Sultan/Jericho: Types, Chronology and Implications” (15 min.)
12:05
Chiara Fiaccavento (Sapienza University of Rome), “The Fortifications of Tell es-Sultan/Jericho in the Middle Bronze Age: Evolution and Comparisons of a Major Levantine Defense System” (15 min.)
12:25

Lorenzo Nigro (Sapienza University of Rome), “Tell es-Sultan/Jericho in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages: A City-State of Palestine during the Second Millennium B.C.E.” (15 min.)

10F. Strategies for Cultural Resource Protection in Libya
Lewis
CHAIRS: Susan Kane (Oberlin College) and Mohamed Hesein (Omar al Mukhtar University)
PRESENTERS:
10:40
Susan Kane (Oberlin College), “Capacity Building for Cultural Resource Protection: The Work of the American Mission in Libya” (20 min.)
11:05
Mohamed Hesein (Omar al Mukhtar University), “Initiatives of the Centre for Archaeological Research and Studies, Omar al Mukhtar University in Libya” (20 min.)
11:30
Scott Branting (American Schools of Oriental Research; University of Central Florida), Susan Penacho (American Schools of Oriental Research), Angelica Costa (University of Central Florida), Paige Paulsen (University of Central Florida), and Samuel Martin (University of Central Florida), “ASOR CHI Satellite Analysis of Libyan Cultural Heritage” (20 min.)
11:55
Robert Bewley (Oxford University), “Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: Approach, Results, and Next Steps in Libya” (20 min.)
12:20
Will Raynolds (Columbia University), “Islamic Heritage in Libya: Too Sensitive to Protect?” (20 min.)

10G. The Enigma of the Hyksos II

Otis

CHAIRS: Manfred Bietak (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Hanan Charaf (Lebanese University)
PRESENTERS:
10:40
Manfred Bietak (Austrian Academy of Sciences), “Tracing the Origins of the Hyksos Elite of Egypt as Seen from a Comparative Study of Sacred Architecture” (15 min.)
11:00
Silvia Prell (Austrian Academy of Sciences), “Bronze Age Equid Burials in the Fertile Crescent” (15 min.)
11:20
Christine Lilyquist (Metropolitan Museum of Art), “The Impact of the Hyksos as Seen at Thebes” (15 min.)
11:40
Anna-Latifa Mourad (Austrian Academy of Sciences), “Cultural Interference? The Impact of the Hyksos Dynasty on Cultic Beliefs and Activities in Egypt” (15 min.)
12:00
Felice Israel (University of Genoa), Discussant (20 min.)
12:25
General Discussion (20 min.)

10H. Archaeology of Islamic Society

Stone

CHAIR: Beatrice St. Laurent (Bridgewater State University)
PRESENTERS:
10:40
Asa Eger (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), “Bronze Surgical Instruments from Tüpraş Field, Turkey and the Islamic-Byzantine Medical Trade” (20 min.)
11:05

Gideon Avni (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Israel Antiquities Authority), “The Spread of Qanats in the Early Islamic World—A Case Study for the Transfer of Agricultural and Water Management Technologies” (20 min.)

11:30
Veronica Morriss (University of Chicago), “Ribats and the Levantine Coastal Support Network” (20 min.)
11:55
Ian Jones (University of California, San Diego), Mohammad Najjar (University of California, San Diego), and Thomas E. Levy (University of California, San Diego), “An Assemblage without a Slash: Ayyubid Ceramics from Khirbat Nuqayb al-Asaymir, Faynan, Southern Jordan” (20 min.)
12:20
Benjamin Saidel (East Carolina University), “Ethnoarchaeological Insights on the Sedentarization of the Terabin Bedouin during the British Mandate Period: A Case Study from the Tze’elim Survey Map (129) in the Western Negev” (20 min.)
10I. Gender in the Ancient Near East

Webster

Theme: Session explores the art, archaeology, and texts of the ancient Near East through the lens of gender issues and the study of gender groups in antiquity. Papers could explore subjects such as the household and domestic life, industry and commerce, religion, etc. Other topics may also be included.
CHAIR: Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper (Southern Methodist University)
PRESENTERS:
10:40
Introduction (5 min.)

 

10:45

Becky Martin (Boston University), “Representations of the Goddess Tanit” (15 min.)
11:05
Agnes Garcia-Ventura (IPOA, Universitat de Barcelona), “Amazons in Ancient Hattuša? On the Construction of Gender Roles and Stereotypes in the Early 20th Century C.E.” (15 min.)
11:25
Delanie Linden (Southern Methodist University), “Confronting the Status Quo: Cross-cultural Gender in the Portraits of the Ptolemies” (15 min.)
11:45
Amy Gansell (St. John's University), “Enthroning the Neo-Assyrian Queen” (15 min.)
12:05
Celia Bergoffen (Fashion Institute of Technology), “A New Interpretation of Philistine Ashdoda Figurines as Anthropomorphized Chairs” (15 min.)
12:25
Jillianne Laceste (Southern Methodist University), “Antiochus I and Ideal Masculinity at Nemrud Dag” (15 min.)

10J. Mesopotamian Civilizations: The Economic Scope of Institutional Households II

Hancock
CHAIRS: Claudia Glatz (University of Glasgow), Jacob Lauinger (The Johns Hopkins University), and Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan)

PRESENTERS:
10:40
Noemi Borrelli (Università degli Studi di Napoli “l'Orientale”), Palmiro Notizia (CCHS-CSIC, Madrid), “No Man’s Land: Searching What Lies beyond Temple and Palace in the Ur III Period” (25 min.)
11:10
Jesse Casana (Dartmouth College), “Counting Sheep: Wool, Wealth, and Institutionally-Managed Pastoralism in Bronze Age Mesopotamia” (25 min.)
11:40
Eloisa Casadei (Sapienza University of Rome), “Temple Agencies and Temple Economy in Fourth and Third Millennium B.C Southern Mesopotamia: an Archaeological Perspective” (25 min.)
12:10
Melanie Groß (Leiden University), “It Is All about the People: The Workforce of the Palace and Temple Institutions in the Neo-Assyrian Empire” (25 min.)
10K. Maritime Archaeology

Griffin

CHAIR: Caroline Sauvage (Loyola Marymount University)
PRESENTERS:

10:40
Miroslav Bárta (Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University) and Douglas Inglis (Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University), “The Discovery of an Old Kingdom Boat at Abusir” (20 min.)

11:05
Caroline Sauvage (Loyola Marymount University) and Marie-Louise Nosch (Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen), “The Fabric of the Sea—Sail Manufacture in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean” (20 min.)

11:30

Amani Abu Hmid (University of Haifa; Israel Antiquities Authority) and Michal Artzy (University of Haifa), “Aegean Mercenaries in Akko during the Persian Period” (20 min.)
11:55
Stella Demesticha (University of Cyprus), “The Cargo of the Mazotos Shipwreck, Cyprus” (20 min.)
12:20
Zaraza Friedman (University of Haifa), “Ancient Navigation and Seaborne Trade in the Dead Sea, Israel” (20 min.)

12:45–2:00pm
Projects on Parade Poster Session
Galleria
12:45–2:00pm
Initiative on the Status of Women in ASOR Mentoring Meeting: Speed Networking
Marina 1
2:00–4:05pm Session 11
11A. Archaeology of Arabia II
Harbor 1
CHAIR: Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (University of Wisconsin–Madison) and Steven Karacic (Florida State University)
PRESENTERS:
2:00
Introduction (5 min.)
2:05
Jennifer Swerida (Johns Hopkins University), “Reading the Umm an-Nar Settlement” (15 min.)
2:25
Eli Dollarhide (New York University), “Mapping Magan: Investigating the Bronze Age Bat-‘Amlah Region in Oman” (15 min.)
2:45
Charlotte Cable (University of New England), Kristina Franke (University of New England), Hélène David-Cuny (Independent Scholar), Claire Newton (Université du Québec à Rimouski), Steven Karacic (Florida State University), James Roberts (University of New England), Ivan Stepanov (University of New England), Yaaqoub Yousif Al Ali (Dubai Municipality), Mansour Boraik Radwan (Dubai Municipality), and Lloyd Weeks (University of New England), “Saruq al-Hadid: New Insights from Three Years of Field and Laboratory Research” (15 min.)
3:05
James Roberts (University of New England), Lloyd Weeks (University of New England), Melanie Fillios (University of New England), Charlotte Cable (University of New England), Yaaqoub Yousif Al Ali (Dubai Municipality), Mansour Boraik Radwan (Dubai Municipality), and Hussein Qandil (Dubai Municipality), “The Faunal Remains from Saruq al-Hadid: a New Insight into Human-Animal Interactions in Prehistoric Southeastern Arabia” (15 min.)

3:25
Steven Karacic (Florida State University) and Peter Magee (Bryn Mawr College), “The Production of Common Wares in Iron Age II (1100-600 B.C.E.) Southeastern Arabia” (15 min.)

3:45
General Discussion
11B. Material Culture and Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean I
Harbor 2
Theme: Identities from the Early Bronze to the Iron Ages.
CHAIRS: Helen Malko (Fashion Institute of Technology) and Serdar Yalcin (Macalester College)
PRESENTERS:
2:00

Introduction (5 min.)

2:05
Anas Al Khabour (University of Gothenburg), “The Red-Black Burnished Ware (RBBW) People in Kura Araxes” (25 min.)

2:35
Jonathan White (University at Buffalo), “Prosthetics for Osiris: Disability and Accommodation in New Kingdom Egypt” (25 min.)
3:05

Catherine Steidl (Brown University), “Community Identities in Ionian Sanctuaries” (25 min.)

3:35
Leanna Kolonauski (Temple University), “A New Twist on an Old Tradition: Orientalizing Votive Offerings in the Shrine of Eileithyia on Crete” (25 min.)
11C. Archaeology of Anatolia II

Harbor 3

Theme: This session focuses on current archaeological research in Anatolia and presents the results of excavations and surveys.
CHAIR: Levent Atici (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
PRESENTERS:
2:00
Introduction (5 min.)
2:05
Cheryl Anderson (Boise State University), Levent Atici (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Andrew Fairbairn (University of Queensland), and Sachihiro Omura (Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology), “Written in Bone? Testing a Multifaceted Approach to Studying Human Health in the Past” (15 min.)
2:25
Lorenzo d’Alfonso (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University), “The Iron Age in Central Anatolia: New Insights from the Excavations at Niğde-Kınık Höyük” (15 min.)
2:45
Rachel Starry (Bryn Mawr College), “Arch Monuments in Roman Lycia: A Reconsideration of Architectural Form and Function within the Urban Landscape” (15 min.)
3:05
Michael Hoff (University of Nebraska), Rhys Townsend (Clark University), Ece Erdoğmuş (University of Nebraska), Birol Can (Uşak University), and Timothy Howe (St. Olaf College), “Antiochia ad Cragum Excavations: 2015–2017 Seasons” (15 min.)
3:25
Peter Cobb (University of Pennsylvania) and Elvan Cobb (Cornell University), “Investigating Routes among the Upper River Valleys of Western Anatolia” (15 min.)
3:45
Daniel C. Browning Jr. (University of Southern Mississippi) and David Maltsberger (Wayland Baptist University), “Memes, Moons, or Menorahs? Analysis of Claimed Syncretistic Jewish-Pagan Relief Symbols in Rough Cilicia” (15 min.)

11D. Altered States: Alternative Trajectories to Complexity in the Ancient Middle East I

Burroughs

CHAIR: Geoff Emberling (University of Michigan)

PRESENTERS:
2:00
Introduction (10 min.)
2:10
Yael Rotem (University of Pennsylvania), “The Transformation from Complex Village Society to Local Urbanism in the Southern Levant: New Observations in Light of the Evidence from the Central Jordan Valley in the Early Bronze Age I–II” (15 min.)
2:30

Meredith S. Chesson (University of Notre Dame), “Urbanism without Cities and Complexity without Elites? Social, Economic and Political Differentiation in the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant” (15 min.)

2:50
Aaron Burke (University of California, Los Angeles), “Trajectories in Amorite Hegemony during the Early Middle Bronze Age” (15 min.)
3:10
Raphael Greenberg (Tel Aviv University), “Rethinking the Fortified Centers of Second Millennium Canaan” (15 min.)
3:30
Elizabeth Minor (Wellesley College), “Invisible Kings: The Development of Royal Nubian Programs of Legitimization in the Classic Kerma Period” (15 min.)

11E. Talking about Gender-Related “Situations” in Our Workplaces (Workshop)
Carlton



Theme: The ASOR Initiative on the Status of Women workshop is designed to open the conversation about how to handle "situations." We are thinking broadly about gender-related issues that occur in a wide range of settings: in the field, in grad school, in the academy and other workplaces, and more. Such situations might impede professional development and advancement, hinder or obstruct scholarly engagement, impact family decisions, and/or cause personal trauma or distress. The workshop will include several short presentations – and will leave ample time for discussion. The focus will be on opening conversations, sharing ideas, and considering solutions to problems shared by many of us. Toward that goal, the workshop will steer clear of detailed personal narratives, public accusations, and the like.

CHAIR: Beth Alpert Nakhai (University of Arizona)

PRESENTERS (2:00-3:00)

Emily Miller Bonney (California State University, Fullerton), “Situations in the Academy”

Jennie Ebeling (University of Evansville), “Thoughts from a Woman in the Field Working with Women in the Field”

Laura Mazow (East Carolina University), “Teaching, Research and Service in the University Hallway”
Megan Cifarelli (Manhattanville College), “Mommy Tracks and the Mommy Tax”
Stefanie Elkins-Bates (Andrews University), “A Professional Woman Working in Jordan”
Open Discussion (3:00-4:05pm)
11F. Papers in Honor of S. Thomas Parker in Celebration of the Publication of a Festschrift

Lewis

CHAIR: Walter Ward (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
PRESENTERS:
2:00
Introduction (5 min.)
2:05
John Oleson (University of Victoria), “The Trajanic Auxiliary Fort at Hauarra (Modern Humayma) in the Context of Recent Frontier Studies” (25 min.)
2:35
Andrew Smith II (George Washington University), “Nabataeans in the Hinterland of Petra” (25 min.)
3:05
Sarah Wenner (University of Cincinnati), “Wadi Rumm in Arabia Felix: An Analysis of the Ceramic Vessels from the Villa and Bathhouse” (25 min.)
3:35
Kenneth Holum* (University of Maryland), “The Economy of Caesarea Palaestinae: Demographics” (25 min.) *Paper to be read as a tribute to Kenneth Holum

11G. Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective

Otis

This is the 2nd annual Exodus Session at ASOR and is a follow-up panel to the Exodus conference held at the University of California, San Diego, in 2013, which brought together 60 international scholars. The proceedings of the UCSD conference were published in 2015 (“Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective,” Springer Nature). The session evaluates motifs of the Exodus narrative and their socio-cultural relevance in the first and second millennia B.C.E. as well as questions of history and historicity. The session thus spotlights new avenues for future research, from the angle of archaeological, historical, textual, cultural and geoscientific disciplines.

CHAIRS: Lawrence Geraty (La Sierra University), Thomas E. Levy (University of California, San Diego), Thomas Schneider (University of British Columbia), and Brad C. Sparks (Archaeological Research Group)

PRESENTERS:
2:00
Introduction (5 min.)
2:05
Brad C. Sparks (Archaeological Research Group), “Scientific Chronology of the Exodus: Problems in Astronomy – Invalid Eclipse (25 min.)
2:35
Alison Gruseke (Yale University; General Theological Seminary), “Throw Him in the River! A Childist Interpretation of Exodus 2 in the Context of Exodus, the Moses Story, and Modern Exodus Studies” (25 min.)
3:05
John Gee (Brigham Young University), “The Canaanite Gods El and Yah in Egypt” (25 min.)
3:35
Caterina Moro (Sapienza Università di Roma), “Power and Disasters: The Plague of Earthquake in Artapanus’s Narrative of Exodus” (25 min.)
11H. Antioch—A Legacy Excavation and Its Aftermath

Stone

Theme: Part of an ongoing re-examination of the excavations of Antioch-on-the-Orontes (Antakya, Hatay Province, Turkey) carried out under the leadership of Princeton University from 1932 through 1939.
CHAIR: Alan Stahl (Princeton University)
PRESENTERS:
2:00
Andrea U. De Giorgi (Florida State University), “Antioch on the Orontes: the Expedition Records” (20 min.)
2:25
Agnès Vokaer (Université Libre de Bruxelles), “The Late Roman Pottery from Sector 17-O in Antioch” (20 min.)
2:50
Katherine Eremin (Harvard University, Art Museums), Elizabeth LaDuc (University College London), Elizabeth Molacek (Harvard University, Art Museums), Patrick Degryse (KU Leuven-University), “New Research on a Tethys Pavement at Harvard University” (20 min.)
3:15
Kristina Neumann (University of Houston), “Counting Change at Antioch-on-the-Orontes with Digital Numismatics” (20 min.)
3:40
Ayse Henry, (Bilkent University), “An Antiochene Site through New Antiochene Perspectives: The Site of St. Symeon the Younger” (20 min.)
11I. Encoding Data for Digital Discovery I

Webster

Theme: This session demonstrates the value of cyber-research as a powerful resource for revealing otherwise imperceptible information about the ancient Near East. It aims to inspire new networks and designs for interdisciplinary digital collaboration and to establish a foundation for a field unified with linked open data projects.
CHAIRS: Amy Gansell (St. John’s University) and Vanessa Juloux (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University)
PRESENTERS:
2:00
Introduction (5 min.)
2:05
David Falk (University of British Columbia), “Evaluating Chronological Hypotheses by Computer Analysis in Light of Low and Middle Chronological Frameworks” (15 min.)
2:25
Susanne Rutishauser (University of Bern), Sergio Alivernini (Academy of Science of the Czech Republic), and Edoardo Zanetti (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich), “The Rivers of Mesopotamia—Reconstruction of the Hydrology of Sumer” (15 min.)
2:45
Adam Anderson (University of California, Berkeley), “Network Analysis for Ancient Archival Reconstruction” (15 min.)
3:05
Katrien De Graef (Ghent University), “eSippar: Possibilities and Limitations of Prosopography in the Study of Old Babylonian Society” (15 min.)
3:25
Andrea Berlin (Boston University), “The Levantine Ceramics Project” (15 min.)

3:45
Marine Beranger (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University; College de France), “A New Glance at the Old Babylonian Letter-Writing Practice through Digital Technologies” (15 min.)

11J. Technology in Archaeology: Recent Work in the Archaeological Sciences
Hancock
CHAIR: Andrew J. Koh (Brandeis University)
PRESENTERS:
2:00

Introduction (5 min.)

2:05
Sahar al Khasawneh (Yarmouk University), Andrew Murray (Aarhus University), Kristina Thomsen (Technical University of Denmark), Dominik Bonatz (Freie Universität Berlin), Wael Abu-Azizeh (Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée), and Mohammad Tarawneh (Al-Hussein Bin Talal University), “Dating a Near Eastern Desert Hunting Trap (Kite) Using Luminescence Rock Surface Dating” (15 min.)

2:25
Shawn Bubel (University of Lethbridge), “Phytolith Analysis of Sediment Samples from Tel Beth-Shemesh” (15 min.)

2:45
David Ben-Shlomo (Ariel University), “The Production of Cooking Pots in Iron Age II Judah” (15 min.)
3:05
Ortal Harosh (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Pots and Potters—Mimicking Ceramic Production in Antiquity” (15 min.)
3:25
Adam Prins (Durham University), “Recombinant Archaeology: Retroactive Digital Replacement of Removed or Destroyed Archaeological Remains” (15 min.)
3:45
Bradley Erickson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Seeing Is Believing: Experiencing Ancient Light through the Reproduction and Digitalization of Byzantine Glass Oil Lamps” (15 min.)