Academic program

4:20–6:25pm Session 12
12A. Archaeology of Arabia III
Harbor 1
CHAIR: Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (University of Wisconsin–Madison) and Steven Karacic (Florida State University)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Björn Anderson (University of Iowa), “Achaemenid Arabia: the Persian Perspective” (20 min.)
4:45
Alexander Nagel (Smithsonian Institution), “The Afterlife of a Qataban: Recent Research on South Arabian Archives and Material Culture from Yemen in Washington, D.C.” (20 min.)
5:10
Julian Jansen van Rensburg (Freie Universität), “Ancient Agricultural and Water Management Systems on the Island of Socotra” (20 min.)
5:35
Karol Juchniewicz (Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw), “Aynuna Archaeological Project – Some Considerations on the Pre-Islamic Coastal Settlement in Northwestern Arabia” (20 min.)
6:00
Ruth Young (University of Leicester), “Memory and Belonging in the Bat Oasis, Oman” (20 min.)

12B. Material Culture and Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean II

Harbor 2

Theme: Identities from Greco-Roman antiquity to the early modern era.
CHAIRS: Helen Malko (Fashion Institute of Technology) and Serdar Yalcin (Macalester College)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Introduction (5 min.)
4:25
Courtney Innes (University of British Columbia), “The Syncretic Synagogical Syntax: The Hammat Tiberias Synagogue” (25 min.)
4:55
Nicholas Al-Jeloo (University of Melbourne), “Shifting Identities: Conceptualizing Assyria and Assyrian Identity between Antiquity and Late Antiquity” (25 min.)
5:25
Federica Gigante (Warburg Institute, SOAS University of London), “Cultural Appropriation in the Shaping of Ottoman Identity” (25 min.)
5:55
Ebru Fatma Findik (Mustafa Kemal University), “Daily and Luxury among Turks and Greeks in Lycia during the Ottoman Period” (25 min.)

12C. Archaeology of Egypt

Harbor 3

CHAIR: Krystal V. L. Pierce (Brigham Young University)

PRESENTERS:
4:20
Karolina Rosińska-Balik (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) and Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin (Jagiellonian University in Krakow), “Reconstructing Early Egyptian Mortuary Architecture” (20 min.)
4:45
George A. Pierce (Brigham Young University) and Krystal V. L. Pierce (Brigham Young University), “An Inscribed Stela from the Stone Monument at Seila in Egypt” (20 min.)
5:10
Nicholas Picardo (Harvard University), “‘Where Did THAT Come From?!’ The Giza Project’s Development of Citation and Referencing Standards for 3D Archaeological Visualizations” (20 min.)
5:35
Pearce Paul Creasman (University of Arizona), “The 19th Dynasty Temple of Setepenra (Western Thebes, Egypt)” (20 min.)
6:00
Yigal Sitry (Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa), “Two Pivots of the 7th Century BC from Thebes, Egypt and the Beginning of Woodturning” (20 min.)

12D. Altered States: Alternative Trajectories to Complexity in the Ancient Middle East II

Burroughs

CHAIR: Geoff Emberling (University of Michigan)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Geoff Emberling (University of Michigan), “Mobility and Political Authority in the Kingdom of Kush” (15 min.)
4:40
Adam T. Smith (Cornell University), “Trajectory and Refusal: Societies against the State in the Bronze Age Caucasus” (15 min.)
5:00
Lauren Ristvet (University of Pennsylvania), “A State without Cities: Alternate Paths of Complexity in the Caucasus” (15 min.)
5:20
Abbas Alizadeh (University of Chicago) and Atefeh Razmjoo (Mazandaran University), “Formation of an Early Territorial State: An Alternative Model of the Formation of the Early State in Southwestern Iran” (15 min.)
5:40
Joshua Wright (University of Aberdeen), Cheryl Makarewicz (University of Kiel), William Honeychurch (Yale University), and Amartuvshin Chunag (Mongolian Academy of Sciences), “Local Authority and Regional Gravity in the Formation of Pastoralist States” (15 min.)

6:00
Norman Yoffee (University of Michigan), Discussant (15 min.)

12E. Bioarchaeology of the Near East

Carlton

CHAIR: Lesley Gregoricka (University of South Alabama)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Introduction (5 min.)
4:25
Lesley Gregoricka (University of South Alabama), “Temporal Trends in Mobility and Subsistence Economy among the Tomb Builders of Umm an-Nar Island” (15 min.)
4:45
Maryann Calleja (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), “Commingled Tombs and GIS: Analyzing the Mortuary Context and Taphonomy at Bronze Age Tell Abraq” (15 min.)
5:05
Kathryn Marklein (The Ohio State University), “Life on the Limes of the Roman Empire: Biological Health in the Rural Town of Oymaağaç, Turkey (Second–Fourth Centuries C.E.) (15 min.)
5:25
Jaime Ullinger (Quinnipiac University), “Health and Stress at Jericho” (15 min.)
5:45
Megan Perry (East Carolina University) and Emily Edwards (East Carolina University), “Fragility of Life at Late Ottoman Period Hesban” (15 min.)
6:05
Amanda Wissler (Arizona State University), “Absence of Evidence: Bioarchaeology of Mesopotamia” (15 min.)

12F. The Soft Power of Place—Cultural Diplomacy, Archaeology, and the Overseas Research Centers

Lewis

CHAIR: Morag M. Kersel (DePaul University)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Introduction (5 min.)
4:25
Morag M. Kersel (DePaul University), “The Soft Power of Place—Cultural Diplomacy, Archaeology, and the ORCs (Overseas Research Centers)” (15 min.)
4:45
Gerry Scott (American Research Center in Egypt), “People Connecting People: Cultural Diplomacy and the Work of the American Research Center in Egypt” (15 min.)
5:05
Jennifer Thum (Brown University), “In Between and Beyond: Working in the Borderlands of ARCE and the Egyptian Empire” (15 min.)
5:25
Kathryn Franklin (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) and Astghik Babajanyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Republic of Armenia), “The Power of Making Places: Collaborative Heritage and Working with the ARISC in Armenia” (15 min.)
5:45
Sarah Fairman (W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research), Melissa Cradic (University of California, Berkeley), Issa Sarie (Al-Quds University), and Matthew J. Adams (W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research), “Engaging American and Palestinian Cultural Heritage (EAPCH): A Collaborative Cultural Diplomacy Initiative at AIAR” (15 min.)
6:05
Matthew J. Adams (W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research), “The Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in East Jerusalem: The Challenges and Opportunities of an Overseas Research Center in Israel and Palestine” (15 min.)
12G. The Iron Age I in the Levant: A View from the North

Otis
 

Theme: This session deals with the period of the Iron Age I in the northern Levant. It aims at highlighting inter- and extra- regional interconnections by presenting the archaeological evidence from recent excavations with an emphasis on material characteristics and chronological implications. 
CHAIR: Lynn Welton (University of Toronto)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Introduction (5 min.)
4:25
Eric Jean (Hitit University), “Between Late Bronze Age and Iron Age in Cilicia: The Painted Local Wares from a Regional Perspective” (25 min.)

 
4:55

Brita Lorentzen (Cornell University), “A Diachronic Analysis of Wood Use in the Orontes Watershed during the Early Bronze–Iron Ages” (25 min.)

 

5:35

David Ilan (Hebrew Union College), Discussant (15 min.)
5:50
Claude Doumet-Serhal (Director, Sidon Excavations), Discussant (15 min.)
6:05
Timothy Harrison (University of Toronto), Discussant (15 min.)

12H. Archaeology of the Byzantine Near East

Stone

CHAIR: Melissa Bailey Kutner (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Introduction (5 min.)
4:25
Walter Ward (University of Alabama at Birmingham), “Amphorae Distribution as Evidence of Trade Routes in Third Palestine” (15 min.)
4:45
Michael Zimmerman (Bridgewater State University), Martha Risser (Trinity College), and Elizabeth Hestand (Independent Scholar), “The Phasing and Stratigraphy of the Northern End of Field C at Caesarea Maritima” (15 min.)
5:05
Alan Stahl (Princeton University), “Byzantine Coinage Circulation in the Northeastern Mediterranean” (15 min.)
5:25
Melissa Bailey Kutner (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), “Byzantine Economic Networks at Dhiban, Jordan” (15 min.)
5:45
Charles Anthony Stewart (University of St. Thomas), “The Alexander-Heraclius Stele: a Byzantine Sculpture Discovered in Cyprus” (15 min.)
6:05
Stephen Humphreys (Durham University), “Crosses as Water Purification Devices in the Byzantine Near East” (15 min.)

12I. Encoding Data for Digital Discovery II

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:
4:20
Introduction (5 min.)
4:25
Miller Prosser (University of Chicago), “Modeling Textual Data and Complex Writing Systems to Address Philological Research Questions in OCHRE” (15 min.)
4:45
Alessandro di Ludovico (Sapienza University of Rome), “Strategies, Reflections, Suggestions for an Optimized Digital Publication of Western Asiatic Cylinder Seals and Epigraphic Documents” (15 min.)
5:05
Sarah Whitcher Kansa (Open Context, Alexandria Archive Institute), Eric Kansa (Open Context, Alexandria Archive Institute), William Caraher (University of North Dakota), Kevin McGeough (University of Lethbridge), and Charles E. Jones (Pennsylvania State University), “Integrating Narrative and Data: Synergistic Publishing in the 21st Century” (15 min.)
5:25
Émilie Pagé-Perron (University of Toronto) and Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller (Australian National University), “Getting LOADed: Practical Considerations, Tools, and Workflows for Producing Linked Open Assyriological Data” (15 min.)
5:45
Gaia Lembi (Brown University) and Michael Satlow (Brown University) “Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine” (15 min.)
6:05
Doğu Kaan Eraslan (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University), “Notes on Encoding the Achaemenid Elamite Language with EpiDoc-TEI Based on an Encoding of DBa, Its Implications for the Study of the Elamite Language, and Some Guidelines on the Tag Usage for Similar Encoding Projects” (15 min.)
12J. Material Interconnections in the Levant during the Second Millennium B.C.E.

Hancock

CHAIR: David Schloen (University of Chicago)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
David Schloen (University of Chicago) and Virginia Herrmann (University of Tübingen), “The Destruction of Zincirli at the End of the Middle Bronze Age” (25 min.)
4:50
Hanan Charaf (Lebanese University), “The Pottery of the LB I at Tell Arqa, Lebanon: A Marked Case of Continuity” (25 min.)
5:20
Elisabeth Wagner-Durand (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), “Ups and Downs: The Transition from Middle to Late Bronze Age at Kamid el-Loz” (25 min.)
5:50
Shlomit Bechar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “The Transition from Middle to Late Bronze Age at Hazor: A Ceramic Point of View” (25 min.)