Summer 2005 Volume 55, no. 2

ASOR’s Committee on Archaeological Policy Tour – 2005

one, incorporating a review of previous seasons’ work, pres- Burton MacDonald, CAP Chair ent objectives, and plans for future in-fi eld seasons. During the tour, we were joined by Michèle Daviau, Wilfrid Laurier he 2005 ASOR/CAP tour included visits to Jordan, , University, along with several members of her team, who and June 13–26. Participants included Lawrence were preparing for their upcoming season. This provided us TT. Geraty, ASOR President, Douglas R. Clark, ASOR’s with the opportunity not only to meet with Younker, his staff, Executive Director, and the writer and, because virtually all and volunteers, but to chat also with members of the Kh. Al- international travel was covered by projects or individuals, the Mudayna/Wadi ath-Thamad expedition about their upcom- expense to ASOR was minmal. The directors of the Albright ing season. Institute, the American Center of Oriental Research, and the The Tall Jalul team onsite (with Kh. al-Mudayna/Wadi ath-Thamad staff Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, namely visitors), hearing the pitch to join ASOR. Photo courtesy of John McVay. Sy Gitin, Pierre Bikai, and Tom Davis, respectively, joined us Other photos courtesy of Douglas Clark, unless indicated otherwise. for segments of the tour. Moreover, Larry G. Herr, Canadian University Col- lege, who was in Jordan as a team member of the “Ayl to Ras an-Naqb Archaeo- logical Survey Project,” participated on the tour’s Jordan segment. Nabil Khairy, Profes- sor in the Department of Archaeology, University of Jordan, Amman, graciously provided tour members use of his Mercedes-Benz for the Jordanian portion of the tour. Moreover, he and his friend As part of the Jalul visit—and this became standard prac- Mustafa al-Barari, an MBA graduate of La Sierra University, tice at all the other in-fi eld projects we visited over the two- Riverside, CA, and Secretary General of the kingdom’s Audit week period—we asked permission to address the expedition Bureau, demonstrated further hospitality through meals and participants about ASOR. These informal addresses usually additional travel assistance. took the form of Larry Geraty’s talking about ASOR, my Our fi rst site visit in Jordan, on June 14, was to Jalul, just speaking about CAP and the reasons for the tour, and Doug’s east of Madaba. The Jalul Expedition, part of the Madaba making a sales-pitch to the audience to become, if not already, Plains Project, is directed by Randy Younker and David Mer- members of ASOR. Doug stressed especially the importance ling, both of Andrews University. The visit was an extensive continued on page 3 Report on the ASOR Board of Trustees Meeting, The American Schools of Oriental Research is a nonprofi t, scientifi c and educational April 2005 organization founded in 1900.

Douglas R. Clark, Executive Director P. E. MacAllister Chairman of the Board Financial matters dominated the meeting of the ASOR Board of Trustees 30 April 2005 in Boston. Three important components quickly became apparent: 1) our cur- Lawrence T. Geraty President rent (FY05) defi cit to fi nish out the fi scal year on 30 June, 2) a lean budget for FY06 which was still $98,000 in the red and 3) the development program on which we are Martha Joukowsky now embarking for the future. Vice President The clarity of ASOR’s fi nances (due to the hard work of BW Ruffner, Finance James Strange 1Committee Chair, and Selma Omerefendic, ASOR’s Accountant) has helped us Secretary see where we stand and how much ASOR has depended in the past on a small num- Larry G. Herr ber of very generous “angels.” With the Torch Campaign benefi ts spent and other Chair, Committee on Publications options diminishing, we faced a defi cit of $102,000. Trustees generously pledged to Burton MacDonald make up a large percentage of this. Chair, Committee on Archaeological Policy

The budget brought to the Board for FY06 was $98,000 in the red. Publications Eric H. Cline 2and the Annual Meeting budgets were balanced, but the administrative expenses Chair, Committee on Annual Meeting of running ASOR have outstretched revenues for some time and concrete fi gures, Douglas R. Clark though helpful in creating clarity, do not a balanced budget make. A late-night Executive Director meeting, laying out proposals for further cuts, followed up by severe budget cuts in Billie Jean Collins all budget areas in subsequent days has led to a drastically reduced, but balanced, Director of Publications ASOR annual budget for FY06. This was approved by the Trustees at the end of May. We desperately hope these cuts are temporary until our new development ASOR initiative gets underway, anticipating that our precarious present will give way to 656 Beacon Street, 5th fl oor a promising future. Boston, MA 02215-2010 Tel. (617) 353-6570 David Rosenstein, Chair of the Development Committee, has led the way toward Fax. (617) 353-6575 3a development fi rm to help ASOR secure its fi nancial future. According to the E-mail: [email protected] Executive Director’s report, this is all intended to create “A development program which is systemic, comprehensive, carefully conceived, benefi cial in the short run and for the long haul, a program that learns from the past, helps ASOR survive in the present and promises a long and sustainable future, rich in programs, publica- tions and presentations.” As of this writing, the development fi rm of Schultz & Williams of Philadelphia has been retained to work with ASOR in this quest and we are making the most of the summer months to begin our work in earnest. This is a bold venture, to mount a major development program while confronting last year’s defi cits and draconian budget cuts for the current year. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to several generous individuals, including Trustees and others, and to the entire Board for their support to fund this endeavor at between $200,000 and $250,000. continued on page 16 The ASOR Newsletter

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2 ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 continued from page 1 Survey Project” territory of which the had not as yet begun their season’s work writer is the director. (I had just com- at Ya`amun, at the time of our in-coun- pleted the fi rst of three in-fi eld seasons try visit. However, CAP Tour members on June 12.) made a visit to this multi-period site that Our visit to the Petra/Wadi Musa has become a major one for the training area began with a meeting with Mar- of both American and Yarmouk Univer- tha and Artemis Joukowsky and team sity students. members at their dig headquarters. This John Oleson, University of Victoria, was followed by a dinner with the Jou- was at ACOR but did not begin his in- kowskys in Wadi Musa which provided fi eld work at Humayma in the south of an opportunity for discussion of several Jordan until after our departure from ASOR-related matters. The next morn- the country. However, we did have the ing we joined the Joukowskys for a tour occasion to meet with him and many of of the Brown University excavations at his staff members. the Petra Great Temple. Following this, Our trip to Israel began on June 18 we met with Leigh-Ann Bedal, Pennsyl- with a visit with Sy Gitin at the Albright The Petra Great Temple team surrounding vania State Univrsity, Erie, at the Petra Institute, followed by a drive south to Martha and Artie Joukowsky Garden and Pool Complex, adjacent to see Jodi Magness, University of North of the younger generation becoming in- the Great Temple. Leigh-Ann explained Carolina at Chapel Hill, at Kibbutz Lo- volved in ASOR-related activities. to us what she had done in previous than in Wadi Arabah. She is excavating Having communicated with Debra seasons as well as her objectives for the at the Roman fortress of Yotvata, mea- Foran, who with Tim Harrison (both upcoming season. suring ca. 40 meters square and located are from the ) ex- Since we were in the Wadi Musa ca. 40 km north of Eilat. It was estab- cavates at Madaba, we then made a visit region, we visited the area of Bayda, im- lished around 300 CE to guard the oasis, to the Iron Age, Nabataean, Byzantine, mediately to the north of Petra, where by the same name, as well as the trade and Islamic remains at the southwestern Patricia Bikai, ACOR, has turned her routes in the area. segment of this central Jordanian town. attention to regional work—excavating Upon our return to on Although the area of current work was tombs, caves, cisterns, wine presses— June 19, CAP Tour members met at the fenced in, CAP Tour members could after her many seasons of excavating Albright with Sy, discussing Albright- appreciate the restoration work taking ASOR relations; new American archae- place at the site. Ø. S. LaBianca, Andrews Univer- sity, recently received an Ambassador’s Fund Award of $45,000 for restoration work at the site of Tall Hisban. Sten stressed that he is attempting to get the community of Hisban to take ownership of the site and thus become involved in its care. Our visit with Dr. Fawwaz al-Khray- sheh, Director General of the Depart- ment of Antiquities of Jordan, was, due to the fact that all CAP Tour members and Pierre Bikai know him well, very congenial. Among the topics discussed were the Tenth International Confer- ence on the History and Archaeology of Byzantine churches within Petra. This Team of Yotvata excavations near Eilat. Photo Jordan to be held in Washington, D.C. past spring’s work exposed a religious courtesy of Jim Haberman. in the spring of 2007; Jordanian student structure boasting capitals that incorpo- ological projects in Israel, some of which participants on ASOR/CAP-affi liated rated small Greek mythological heads— would be co-directed by American and projects; and the publication in ASOR watch for further reports on this. Israeli archaeologists; mutual fundrais- journals, with the permission of Iraqi On our return to Amman we vis- ing; ASOR’s academic focus; and CAP. authorities, of “looted” cuneiform texts ited the site of Dhiban where Bruce In the afternoon, Sy hosted a tea at from Iraq that may have made their way Routledge, University of Liverpool, and the Albright for tour members. Others at into Jordan. Ben Porter, University of Pennsylvania, the gathering included Albright Fellows On our way to the Petra/Wadi began excavations in 2004 and will be and guests from the Israeli and Palestin- Musa area on June 15, we made a slight working later this summer. ian archaeological communities. This in detour to the southeast and visited a Jerry C. Rose, University of Arkan- turn was followed by a meeting with segment of the northern portion of the sas and Yarmouk University, and Mah- Hamed Salem, Bir Zeit University, to “Ayl to Ras an-Naqb Archaeological moud Y. el-Najjar, Yarmouk University, discuss the ways in which ASOR might

ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 3 Israel. At Beth Shemesh we met with a Middle Aceramic Neolithic site dating Hava Katz, Chief Curator, National to 7000–5500 BCE. It is a great pleasure to Treasures, IAA, and were given a tour report that the excavators are publish- of the store rooms. The materials are ing volumes on their sites. computerized, providing easy access Then it was on to the far west of for researchers. For information on Cyprus to meet with Alan Simmons, the archives and how they can be ac- University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and cessed, email [email protected] or his team of workers from both his home [email protected]. university and Edinburgh University, Upon our return to Amman and Scotland. Alan’s site of Ais Yiorkis is ACOR we met for several hours with dated to the Aceramic Neolithic phase Barbara A. Porter who will become di- of Cyprus’ colonization and the director Zeitah excavation director Ron Tappy (2nd rector of the center in April of 2006, in states that he is rewriting the prehistory from right) along with (from left to right) Gabriel order to discuss how ASOR and ACOR on this phase of settlement. Barkay, Larry Geraty, Burton MacDonald, Sy can best serve our constituents. Besides being involved in Cyrpiote Gitin and Doug Clark. Photo courtesy of June 22 found us in Cyprus where archaeology, Alan has dug in Jordan for Michael Homan. we met with Tom Davis, CAARI Direc- many years. And, he, like LaBianca, just be of assistance in the full publication tor, and his staff. Tom then took us to received an Ambassador’s Fund Award of Ta’anach, a site that Paul Lapp exca- meet with Pavlos Flourentzos, Direc- to carry out restoration work at the site vated in the 1960s. tor of the Department of Antiquities of Al-Ghuwayr I, a Pre-Pottery Neo- Along with Sy, we met the next of Cyprus. Dr. Flourentzos stressed lithic village in Wadi Faynan, Southern day with Ron Tappy, Pittsburgh Jordan.Because of time con- Theological Seminary, at his Tel straints, we were unable to meet Zeitah excavations. The site is lo- with Stuart Swiny and his staff cated in the Beth Guvrin Valley members on site for their study of the Shephelah. Current fi eld season of Sotira-Kaminoudhia, work at the site is concentrated but did hear from them at the on a large public building that annual workshop (see below). dates to the Late Bronze Age and On June 24, Pam Gaber gave another building from the early us a tour of the extensive site of Iron II period. Idalion, currently a Lycoming From Tel Zeitah we drove College, PA, expedition. The to Ashkelon, which is being ex- site has been the focus of exca- cavated by Larry E. Stager, Har- vations for well over a century. vard University. Ross Voss, an Ellen Herscher, CAARI expedition team member, gave Vice-President, reminded us of us a comprehensive tour of the the traditional potters of Kor- The Ais Yiorkis team in Cyprus. site’s Canaanite, Philistine, Phoenician, nos and, since we were nearby, we did Byzantine, Crusader and Islamic re- the importance of publication. And he fi nd four of them working at their craft. mains. In addition, we met with a num- is looking forward to participating in It was wonderful to see some of the ber of other project team members who the ASOR meetings in Philadelphia in same women who are featured in Gloria are working on the site’s publication. November as well as his visits to other London’s “Women Potters of Cyprus” In the afternoon we met with Shuka parts of the country at that time. continued on page 6 Dorfmann, Director General, Israel An- The next day began with an Alison tiquities Authority, and several of his K. South-led tour of two sites excavated Several members of the Idalion team at their staff at the Rockefeller Museum in Jeru- as part of the Vasi- base camp. salem. Dorfmann expressed an interest likos Valley Proj- in American involvement in archaeo- ect by her and Ian logical projects in Israel as well as a de- A. Todd. The fi rst sire to see more young Israeli scholars site, Kalavasos- participating in ASOR’s Annual Meet- Ayios Dhimitrios, ing. We later visited with Yosef Aviram is a Late Bronze/ of the Israel Exploration Society about Late Cypriote (13th the forthcoming volumes on the pottery century BCE) town of Israel. site that was exca- An extremely interesting and in- vated in the 1980s formative tour of the Israel Antiquities and 1990s. The Authority’s store rooms and archives neighboring site of in Beth Shemesh concluded our visit to Kalavasos-Tenta is

4 ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 ASOR NEWS

CHANGING OF THE GUARD: TRANSITIONS ON THE ASOR BOARD

s monolithic and unchanging Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. His available and the best photo opportuni- as it might appear, the ASOR positions include surgical departments ties possible. A connoisseur of fi ne food ABoard of Trustees is always in at prestigious hospitals as well as aca- from Morocco to Amman, from Cairo to a state of transition, some Trustees com- demic appointments at the State Uni- Istanbul, Wilfred and his wife Konnie ing onto the Board and others leaving, versity of New York (SUNY) and Tufts immensely enjoy their travels, their fam- having served ASOR well. ASOR owes University. Dr. John Anderson has ily and their friends. These friends now a huge debt of gratitude to all who have distinguished himself internationally, include ASOR and ASOR members. been or are becoming part of the Board. having performed surgeries, made pro- We wish to report on the contributions fessional presentations and published of three lay Trustees who have recently articles around the globe. His work requested to leave the ASOR Board and with the SUNY International Children’s then introduce three new Trustees who Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery were elected in November. Program (1991–1998) brought over 200 Kent Bermingham, of Powell, OH, patients to New York City from the Ca- has served two full terms, coming onto ribbean, Central and South America, the the Board in 1999, but was forced to cut former Soviet Union and Eastern Eu- back on his activities due to illness. He rope, the Middle East and Asia. We are wishes ASOR the best as it moves to- privileged to have someone of his cre- ward its new development goals. Ed dentials and background on the Board. Gilbert, of Rancho Mirage, CA, has long served as a Trustee, most recently as Chair of the Investment Committee, Mr. Nader Rastegar, born in Iran, helping ASOR reenter the stock market studied in England and the United in responsible ways in order to maxi- States, returning to Iran as a geologist- mize returns on our investments. Ed has mining engineer in the family conglom- promised to stay involved with ASOR. erate of Mining Operations. His natural Loren Basch, of Oakland, CA, while on affi nities to the land of ancient Persia the Board for only a short time, contrib- have led him to encourage ASOR to ex- uted signifi cantly to ASOR’s self-un- pand its horizons, resulting already in derstanding by means of the feasibility a section on Iranian archaeology at the study he conducted two years ago. Our Annual Meeting and a major fund-rais- current engagement with development ing event in his home town of Atlanta, professionals is due in part to Loren’s GA. Involved in real estate and several recommendations and encouragement. Dr. Wilfred Geschke, an oncologist companies, he has successfully helped We collectively thank each of these for- in Portland, OR, has been acquainted bring about the initiation and expansion mer Trustees and wish them a bright with Larry Geraty for many years in a of Persian Studies programs at various and successful future. variety of contexts, mostly educational educational institutions. One conversa- Coming onto the Board are three and church settings, and has worked tion with Nader will demonstrate how persons with long-standing interests and traveled extensively in the Middle much he loves talking with people in archaeology and ancient history: Dr. East and Mediterranean world, often about the past and wants to see ASOR John Anderson, Dr. Wilfred Geschke with Doug Clark. His history major in succeed in its mission. and Mr. Nader Rastegar. college has shaped his entire life, lead- Dr. John Anderson, now living in ing him (not only to the history section More ASOR News on page 18: Dakota Dunes, SD, has worked for the of Powell’s Bookstore every time he vis- ASOR’s Development Program past two decades in surgery, especially its, but also) to travel around the world cardiothoracic surgery, in New York, in search of any historical information in Motion

ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 5 continued from page 4 (2000), still coil-building pots on a slow- moving turntable, using a technique ANNOUNCEMENTS reminiscent of ancient pottery. In the afternoon, we met with Gus Feissel, new President of the CAARI Medieval Frescoes of Cyprus: Commemorating Board, and Ellen Herscher in order American Aid for a World Treasure to discuss matters of mutual ASOR- CAARI concern. he Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) is pleased CAP Tour members attended “The to announce a conference highlighting the American contribution to the 23rd Annual CAARI Archaeological Trestoration and preservation of the medieval frescoes of Cyprus. The Byz- Workshop in Collaboration with the De- antine Center at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, led a multi-year effort to partment of Antiquities Cyprus” held protect, preserve and promote the medieval frescoes of Cyprus. For more than a on June 25 at the Bank of Cyprus Cul- generation, American scholars and institutions have been involved in this effort. tural Foundation in Nicosia. After the CAARI plans to bring some of the original team and other American specialists welcome and introductory remarks by to Cyprus to join with local experts and former team members to re-examine this both Tom Davis and Pavlos Flourentzos, major contribution of the US to the Republic of Cyprus. The conference, to be held we heard reports from 24 project directors in Nicosia October 14–15, 2005, will feature an evening public lecture followed by a and/or their associates. These reports, six scholarly conference and a visit to some of the restored churches. Artistic, historical, of which were on ASOR/CAP-affi liated archaeological and theological aspects of the frescoes will be examined. It is hoped projects, provided tour members with that a modern church fresco artist will be included among the presenters. well-illustrated presentations on the very lively Cypriote archaeological scene. CAARI is also pleased to announce that Gus Feissel of Santa Rosa, California, The workshop was “capped-off” was recently voted President of CAARI and Ann-Marie Knoblauch of Virginia with a party held in the CAARI garden. Polytech Institute as Treasurer. A more complete introduction to CAARI’s new Workshop participants, attendees, and offi cers will appear in an upcoming issue of the Newsletter. members of the Cypriote community were present. Once again we had an opportunity to meet many of the day’s International Center for Advanced Studies presenters and their staff and numerous volunteers. Here there were more occa- at New York University sions to talk about the sites, the work, Fellowships for 2006–2007: Theme: “Rethinking the Social”. and how ASOR can be more involved in Cypriote archaeology and research. his is the third year of a larger project on The Authority of Knowledge in ASOR/CAP Tour members were a Global Age. ICAS welcomes applications from scholars with PhD’s at all treated with great hospitality by the di- Tcareer stages in any social science or humanities discipline from the U.S. and rectors of the in-country institutes and abroad. The project seeks to examine the production, circulation, and practical their staff. They all went out of their import of knowledge generated in the various disciplines of social inquiry. What way to make our visits enjoyable and are the costs of the growing divide between social science inquiry and humanistic informative. Moreover, project directors scholarship? What are the implications of the growing dominance of U.S. based graciously accepted us, explained in de- models of social inquiry for the understanding of other cultures and for the funda- tail their sites and their project’s objec- mental concepts of political experience and inquiry. The stipend is $35,000 for nine tives, and gave up valuable dig time to months and includes eligibility for NYU housing. Application deadline: January let us speak with their teams. We are 6, 2006. See http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/icas for more information and ap- most grateful to all. plication forms, or write to the center (fax: 212 995-4546; [email protected]).

ASOR Outreach Education presents Lectures for the Public Near Eastern Archaeology by ASOR members Larry Herr, Eric Cline, Bethany Walker, Elizabeth Stone and Jodi Magness Tales from the Tells: 1:00 – 5:00pm Saturday, November 19, 2005 The Adventure Continues Rainey Auditorium Univ. of Pennsylvania Museum

Registration required — Please see online form at https://www.bu.edu/asor/phillyevents.html

6 ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 Join the American Schools of Oriental Research this November 16–19, 2005 for our Annual Meeting at the Hyatt Regency Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, PA

Fifty paper sessions on the archaeology of the ancient Wednesday Plenary Session Near East from prehistoric James Muhly (University of Pennsylvania, emeritus) times to the Ottoman era. The Mesopotamian Metals Project: • Iraq • Israel Recent Discoveries • Syria • Jordan • Cyprus • Turkey Thursday • Iran • Arabia Presidential Panel Fakes and Forgeries in the Ancient World Featuring many new themes, including

• the Archaeology of Also of note: Religion and the Sacred • Over coffee and croissants, the inaugural meeting of the • the Byzantine and Early ASOR Student Association will bring students and recent Islamic Near East Ph.D.s together to discuss the future direction of this interest • Gezer Excavations in group. Recent graduates and current students will have an Retrospect and Prospect opportunity to chat about the intricacies of applying and • Science and Technology searching for jobs and funding, interview techniques, and in the Ancient World: other issues associated with a post-graduate career. Measurement and • A dinner and lecture on Friday evening in the University of Standards Pennsylvania Museum. See you in Philadelphia!

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ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 7 2005 Annual Meeting Information Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 16-19

Please see our Annual Meeting web page for detailed schedules, information on housing and transportation and online registration forms for the meeting and hotel: http://www.asor.org/AM/am.htm

Housing Registration desk hours will be: Wednesday 16 Nov 4pm to 7pm Accommodations are available at the conference ho- Thursday 17 Nov 8am to 5pm tel, the Hyatt Regency Penn’s Landing, 201 S. Christopher Friday 18 Nov 8am to 5pm Columbus Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19106. We have nego- Saturday 19 Nov 8am to 2pm tiated a special room rate of $135 per night for a single, double, triple, or quad room for our meeting. In order to receive this special rate, you must make your reservation Matching Funds Needed for Lindstrom Grant directly with the hotel by either calling (800) 233-1234, fax- ing the form included in this Newsletter, or reserving on- The trustees of the Lindstrom Foundation will again line via our website. If you call, identify yourself as part provide ASOR with a grant for the support of student of the “American Schools of Oriental Research” meeting travel to the Meeting. Tax deductible contributions for in order to receive this rate. The cut-off date for the rate is matching funds are welcomed. Monies received will be October 25, 2005 and rooms are available on a fi rst-come, used to provide student travel fellowships to cover trav- fi rst-served basis. Cancellations must be made with the ho- el and hotel expenses for students who will assist ASOR tel at least 24 hours prior to arrival to secure a full refund. staff at the meeting. Your donation will not only assist a The hotel is located in eastern Philadelphia on the promising student in attending a professional meeting, waterfront. Taxis are available at the Philadelphia Inter- but will also help the registration process and sessions run national Airport and shuttles are available via the Lady smoothly with the assistance of the Lindstrom fellows. The Liberty Airport Shuttle. The shuttle costs about $8 one- Lindstrom Foundation has allocated a maximum of $2,500 way and may be ordered at the airport by calling 215-724- on the basis that the foundation would match gifts on a 8888. See the “Hotel and Philadelphia” link on the Annual one-for-two basis, i.e. that each $1 of the Lindstrom grant Meeting web page for more details. be matched by $2 contributed by others for this purpose. Individuals interested in supporting this program should Registration send gifts directly to the Lindstrom Foundation at 2128 Alvarado St., San Leandro, CA 94577. Checks should be Save up to $20 and avoid on-site registration lines by made payable to the “Lindstrom Foundation for Archaeo- preregistering for the meeting. Complete the enclosed logical Research and Development.” The Foundation will preregistration form or use a credit card and fi ll out the se- send acknowledgement letters and donations may be cure online form. Your registration fee entitles you to par- counted as charitable donations for tax purposes. ticipate in all the academic sessions, the ASOR Welcome and President’s Receptions, and the Plenary Session. All For Students refunds of preregistration payments must be requested in writing or by email by November 10, 2005 and will be as- Several scholarships are available to assist students in sessed an administrative fee. their travel and hotel expenses in attending the Annual Meeting. See the Student Fellowships link on our Annual Meeting web page or call the Boston offi ce at 617-353-6570 Registration desk on-site for more information. The deadline for applications is September 15, 2005. New this year: join fellow students The ASOR registration desk will be located in the and recent Ph.D.s for a student breakfast Thursday morn- Grand Ballroom Foyer on the second fl oor of the hotel. All ing, and discuss common interests and forming an ASOR those preregistered should come to the ASOR registration student interest group. Information will be posted online desk to pick up the fi nal meeting program. in September.

8 ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 Special Evening Programs Dever will speak on “Stories of Great Archaeologists and What Made Them Tick.” The lecture will be preceded by The opening Plenary address this year will feature a banquet with Mediterranean-themed food, and separate Professor Emeritus James Muhly of the University of registration is required for this evening’s events (see page Pennsylvania and American School of Classical Studies in XX for a reservation form). The museum is on the Univer- Athens. Professor Muhly will speak about recent discov- sity of Pennsylvania campus (see http://www.museum. eries as part of the Mesopotamian Metals Project. upenn.edu for directions). Our third annual Presidential Forum will focus on fakes and forgeries and the problems these pose for schol- A Friday lunchtime program on Communicating Ar- ars. Chaired by ASOR President Lawrence Geraty, this chaeology to the Public has been organized by our Out- Thursday evening session will feature archaeologists, a reach Education committee. This session will feature Neal journalist specializing in the antiquities trade, and a two Bierling showing and discussing Phoenix Data System’s agents from the FBI who specialize in art theft. For more interactive video of the site of Petra in Jordan. He will ex- information, see “Special Events” on the Annual Meeting plain how it was created and discuss how a similar pan- web page. oramic video could be created for other sites. New Sessions and Themes Elementary and high school teachers will be able to learn about archaeology at our annual Teacher’s Work- The popular Ethics of Collecting and Communicating shop, this year held at the University of Pennsylvania Mu- the Near Eastern Past session will focus this year on aca- seum. This day-long event on Saturday, Nov. 19 will fo- demic responsibility and the importance of publishing old cus on methods for teaching students about Near Eastern excavations. archaeology. For more information and to register, please contact Ellen Bedell at [email protected] or tel. New sessions this year include: (412) 661-5992. Excavations at Gezer in Retrospect and Prospect Science and Technology in the Ancient World: Program and Abstracts Measurement and Standards The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East, and The three following pages detail the academic pro- The Archaeology of Religion and the Sacred. gram for the meeting. Complete listings including paper titles, and authors’ and presiders’ complete names and Outreach Programs affi liations may be found on the Annual Meeting web page. The Abstract Book will be available via our Annual A special public lecture will be held Friday night, Nov. Meeting web page after September 15th and can also be 18th at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, featuring obtained—along with the entire program—at the registra- Dr. William Dever (University of Arizona, emeritus). Dr. tion desk.

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ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 9 ASOR Annual Meeting 2005 Academic Program Wednesday–Thursday

Wednesday 16 November

7:00–8:30pm 2:00–4:00pm Plenary Session The Ethics of Collecting and Communicating the Near R. Hallote Presiding Eastern Past James Muhly (University of Pennsylvania, emeritus), Theme: The Obligation to Publish Archaeological “The Mesopotamian Metals Project: Recent Discoveries” Excavations P. Gerstenblith, E. Herscher, and M. Kersel Presiding Thursday 17 November M. Kersel, P. Flourentzos, J. Uziel, K. Sams, S. Paley

8:30–10:30am Science and Technology in the Ancient World Reports on Current Excavations, ASOR-Affi liated Theme: Measurement and Standards J. Ebeling Presiding M. Harpster Presiding B. MacDonald, R. Dornemann, R. Tappy, S. Moore, J. Rose E. Levine, S. Pfann, A. Touwaide, F. Hocker

Archaeology of Mesopotamia I Archaeology of Syria I C. Gane Presiding M. Chavalas Presiding J. Evans, A. Baadsgaard, P. Zimmerman, Y. Rakic, C. Demos B. Gürdil, S. Graff, G. Schwartz, R. Bates, K. McGeough

Archaeology of Cyprus I — Theme: Ethnicity Ancient Mediterranean Trade D. Parks and A.-M. Knoblauch Presiding Theme: Trade During the Iron Age A. Ammerman, B. Knapp, L. Hitchcock, D. Collard, S. Helft, M. Hasel B. Gittlen Presiding D. Ben-Shlomo, I. Shai, A. Brody, J. Thareani-Sussely, J. Holladay, Jr. Arabia I — Theme: Archaeology and Epigraphy D. Graf Presiding 4:00–6:00pm M. Ibrahim, M. Maraqten, G. Corbett, M. Khatatbeh Excavations at Tell Gezer in Retrospect and Prospect L. Geraty Presiding ETANA (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern W. Dever, J. Seger, S. Ortiz, N. Dever Archives) Workshop I J. Flanagan and D. Clark Presiding 4:15–6:15pm GIS (Geographic Information Systems), 10:45am–12:45pm Remote Sensing and Archaeology Archaeology and the Public G. Christopherson Presiding A. Killebrew and J. Greene Presiding J. Pincus, S. Batiuk, S. Bubel, A. Sasson, M. Pincus T. Davis, Z. Gal, M. Sevketoglu, R. Greenberg Archaeology of Syria II Archaeology of Mesopotamia II B. Schmidt Presiding R. Zettler Presiding K. Birney, J. Casana, K. Vansteenhuyse, H. Jackson E. Stone, A. McCarthy, J. Szuchman, S. Reed, J. Lawson Individual Submissions I Archaeology of Cyprus II — Theme: Ethnicity Theme: Roman/Byzantine studies D. Parks and A.-M. Knoblauch Presiding TBA, Presiding A. Gilboa, K. Chudzik, N. Blackwell, D. Parks, G.B. Bazemore M. Cox, E. Christensen, C. Haunton, U. Leibner

Arabia II — Theme: Petra and the Nabataeans 7:00–8:30pm M. Ibrahim Presiding J. Patrich, D. Graf, K. Prag, L.-A. Bedal, M. Haiman Presidential Panel – Fakes and Forgeries in the Ancient World Material Culture in Ottoman Syro-Palestine L. Geraty Presiding (Bilad es-Sham) — Theme: Ottoman Period Ceramics R. Atwood, Y. Goren, C. Rollston, R. Wittman, B. Magness-Gardiner B. de Vries and Ø. LaBianca Presiding M. Avissar, M. Abu Khalaf, B. Walker, R. Gabrieli, H. Salem

10 ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 ASOR Annual Meeting 2005 Academic Program Friday

Friday 18 November

8:30–10:30am 2:00–4:00pm Prehistoric Archaeology I Artifacts: The Inside Story Theme: Paleolithic Archaeology in the Near East Theme: From Processing to Provenience A. Nowell Presiding E. Friedman Presiding F. Biglari, G. Rollefson, A. Nowell, S. Shidrang, B. Schroeder R. Sternberg, S. Reich, R. Zettler, Y. Goren, A. Shugar

Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to Near Archaeology of Israel Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology I Theme: Large Scale Excavations from the Chalcolithic Theme: Recognizing Identity in the Past to the Iron Age A. McCarthy and L. Hitchcock Presiding G. Avni Presiding E. Miller, A. Porter, L. Mazow, D. Counts, E. Regev A. Gorzalczany, A. Golani, S. Bunimovitz, E. Kogan-Zehavi, Z. Greenhut

Archaeology of Religion and the Sacred Problems in the Archaeology of Central Transjordan Y. Rowan and A. Cohen Presiding A. Graham Presiding B. Nakhai, J. Lev-Tov, J. Golden, S. Swiny, M. Bond, M. Rothman J. Lawrence, K. Mattingly, C. Crawford, I. Berelov, H. Nur el-Din

Organic Approaches to Near Eastern Archaeology The World of Women: Gender and Archaeology I Theme: Studies Relating to the Organic Components of B. Nakhai Presiding Near Eastern Archaeological Sites J. Peterson, M. Homan, D. Cassuto, L. Carroll E. Maher Presiding R. Shahack-Gross, O. Shamir, E. Stylianou, E. Maher Workshop on Caesarea Maritima K. Holum Presiding 10:45am–12:45pm K. Holum, B. Goodman, P. Lampinen, M. Fischer, A. Fradkin, M. Govaars Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology D. Browning and D. Manor Presiding 4:15–6:15pm Z. Lederman, D. Manor, S. Brooks, F. Brandfon, A. Maeir Ancient Inscriptions: Recent Discoveries, New Editions, and New Readings Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to Near C. Rollston and A. Azzoni Presiding Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology II T. Musacchio, A. Azzoni, N. Franklin, A. Fink Theme: New Approaches to Old Problems S. K. Costello Presiding Prehistoric Archaeology I M. Rothman, Ø. LaBianca, A. Boutin, A. Faust Theme: Neolithic Archaeology in the Near East G. Rollefson Presiding Archaeology of Jordan R. Dean, U. Avner, D. Cropper, G. Holdridge, C. Polglase B. Walker Presiding R. Younker, T. Levy, E. van der Steen, S. Klassen, R. Brown The World of Women: Gender and Archaeology II R. Martin Presiding The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East C. Lilyquist, N. Fox, J. Green Theme: Continuity and Change in Religious Buildings D. Foran and A. Eger Presiding S. Fine, M. Cassis, D. Whitcomb, G. Avni, D. Genequand Open to ASOR members and the Public:

12:45–2:15pm An Evening of Mediterranean Outreach Education: Communicating Archaeology to Digs & Delights the Public G. London Presiding Banquet followed by a Lecture Neal Bierling (Ada Christian School), “View Virtual Petra: by William Dever on A Model for your Site?” Stories of Great Archaeologists Upper Egypt Gallery, Univ. of Pennsylvania Museum

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ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 11 ASOR Annual Meeting 2005 Academic Program Saturday

Saturday 19 November

8:30–10:30am Reports on Current Excavations, non-ASOR Affi liated Archaeology of Iran S. Cohen Presiding J. Alvarez-Mon Presiding J. Blakely, C. Serhal, S. Münger, I. Sharon M. Garrison, W. Henkelman, D. Potts, M. Root, M. Waters Egypt and Canaan II Archaeology of Anatolia I K. L. Younger, Jr. Presiding Theme: Current Work J. Hoffmeier, J. Zorn, J. Crawford, Y. Gadot J. Ross Presiding Individual Submissions II S. Steadman, M. Rosenberg, L. Rainville, M.-H. Gates, L. Dodd E. Bloch-Smith Presiding Egypt and Canaan I S. Wolff, C. Whiting, R. Pedersen, J. Chadwick J. Hoffmeier Presiding 4:15–6:15pm D. Ilan, N. Blockman, C. Goulart, P. Saretta Individual Submissions III Problems in Ceramic Typology L. Mazow Presiding C. Bergoffen Presiding J. Alvarez-Mon, S. Maras, E. Carter, I. Sarie’ S. Richard, E. Braun, L. Meiberg, C. Bergoffen, A. Karasik Ancient Foods and Foodways 9:00am–2:00pm A. Leonard, Jr. Presiding ETANA (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern L. Allred, P. Betancourt, J. Ramsay, S. Stone, J. Tubb Archives) Workshop II Workshop on the Roman Aqaba Project J. Flanagan and D. Clark Presiding E. Fox, L. Cantara, D. Edwards Theme: The Economic Implications of Material Cultural Evidence at Aila, a Roman Port on the Red Sea 10:45am–12:45pm S. T. Parker Presiding J. W. Betlyon, J. D. Jones, E. Lapp, T. Parker, K. Holum Maritime/Nautical Issues Theme: Deep Water Archaeology, Technology, Academic sessions co-sponsored with ASOR at and Ethics the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Society of Bibli- A. Brody and E. Marcus Presiding H. Singh, J. Dix, R. Camilli, B. Bingham, B. Foley cal Literature: Saturday, 19 November — 9:00–11:30 am Archaeology of Anatolia II S19-25: Social Sciences and the Interpretation of the Theme: People and their Environment Hebrew Scriptures S. Steadman Presiding Theme: The Family in Ancient Israel: Perspectives Y. Nishimura, A. Smith, N. Russell, M. Voigt, J. Yakar from the Social Sciences and Archaeology P. Dutcher-Walls Presiding Landscape Archaeology V. Matthews, D. Schloen, N. Steinberg, E. Bloch-Smith B. Saidel Presiding M. Peilstöcker, D. Henry, T. Estrup, J. Ur, S. Rosen, S. Gibson Sunday, 20 November — 1:00–3:30 pm S20-56: Biblical Lands and Peoples in Archaeology Art and Artifacts of the Ancient Near East and Text M. Feldman Presiding Theme: Jerusalem: The Second Temple Period and Beyond J. Cooper, A. Ayvazian, S. Scott, R. Martin, E. Friedland D. Clark and K. Richards Presiding

J. Reed, M. Moreland, M. Steiner, J. Charlesworth 2:00–4:00pm The Persian Levant in Transition For other sessions at SBL that might be of interest to ASOR R. Martin Presiding members, visit http://www.sbl-site.org/Congresses/Congresses_ S. Langin-Hooper, J. Nager, P. van Alfen, S. Wachsman ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=4 and use the search function for a particular session or simply hit the “submit” button for the entire program. 12 ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 ASOR Annual Meeting 2005 Business Meetings

Wednesday 8:30–10:30am ASOR Finance Committee 8:30–10:30am ASOR Damascus Committee 2:30–4:00pm Committee on Annual Meeting & Program (CAMP) 3:00–3:30pm Lindstrom Fellows Organizational Meeting 8:30–10:30am AIAR Fellowships Committee 4:00–5:00pm Program Committee, 9:30–10:30am ASOR Individual Membership Committee 5:00–6:00pm Program Committee with New Section Chairs 9:30–10:30am ASOR Institutional Membership Committee 6:00–7:00pm Regional Affi liations Committee 10:30am–12:00pm AIAR Executive Committee 8:30–10:30pm Welcome Reception 12:30–1:30pm AIAR Board Luncheon 12:45–2:00pm Madaba Plains Project Staff Consultation Thursday 1:30–4:30pm AIAR Board of Trustees 7:00–8:30am Bulletin of ASOR Editorial Board 2:00–6:00pm ACOR Board of Trustees 7:00–8:30am Near Eastern Archaeology Editorial Board 4:15–6:15pm ASOR Executive Committee 7:00–8:30am Consultation of Dig Directors in Jordan 5:00–7:00pm AIAR Reception 7:00–8:30am ASOR Saudi Arabia Committee 5:00–7:00pm ACOR Reception 7:00–8:30am Outreach Education Committee 6:00–7:00pm CAARI Reception 7:00–8:30am ASOR Student Interest Group Breakfast 8:00–10:00pm ASOR Committee on Archaeological Policy (CAP) 10:45am–12:45pm Presidents, Chairs, and Directors Meeting 12:45-2:00pm Madaba Plains Project Reception Saturday 2:00–4:00pm ASOR Development Committee 7:00–8:30am ASOR Program Committee 2:00–4:00pm ASOR Baghdad Committee 7:00–8:30am ASOR Honors and Awards Committee 6:00-7:00pm Gezer Project Reunion Reception 7:00–-8:30am ASOR Lecture Series Committee 6:15–9:00pm ASOR Committee on Publications (COP) 8:30–10:00am ASOR Academic Masterplanning Committee 8:30–10:00pm ASOR President’s Reception 8:30am–12:30pm Tel el-Hesi Board and Publications Committee Friday 9:00am–4:00pm CAARI Board of Trustees 7:00–8:30am ASOR Membership Meeting 2:00–4:00pm ASOR Canada 8:30–9:30am ASOR Membership Committees (combined) 4:00–7:00pm ASOR Board of Trustees

An Evening of Mediterranean Digs & Delights Friday, 18 November, Upper Egypt Gallery, University of Pennsylvania Museum

7:30pm Dinner featuring Mediterranean Cuisine 8:30pm Lecture by Dr. William Dever “Stories of Great Archaeologists and What Makes Them Tick”

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14 ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 ASOR Mesopotamian Fellow Report 2004–2005

Domestic Architecture, Use of Space and Social Organization in Uruk Period Northern Mesopotamia

ginia Department of Anthropol- Sevil Baltalı ogy dissertation grant, a Dumas (University of Virginia) Malone dissertation research grant and the American Schools of Oriental Research Mesopo- received a Mesopotamian fellowship tamian fellowship. I collected from ASOR for 2004–2005. I held the my data by joining the excava- Iaward between July 25–October 10, tions at the sites of Hacınebi, 2004, and December, 2004. The Mesopo- Arslantepe and Kazane. I have tamian fellowship I received helped me conducted archival analysis at conduct a large portion of my disserta- the Oriental Institute of the Uni- tion project. My dissertation research versity of Chicago (studying examines the social organization of early excavation reports of Hacınebi), state societies in the context of cultural at the archives of University of interactions in fourth-millennium BCE Pennsylvania Museum (analyz- Mesopotamia. A major research problem ing excavation reports of Tepe concerning this period in Mesopotamian Gawra), and at the University of archaeology is the socio-cultural and Rome, “La Sapienza” (working economic effects of cultural contacts on fi eld records of Arslantepe). I between northern and southern Meso- have also conducted excavations potamian societies. During this period at the fourth-millennium levels northern Mesopotamian sites reveal the of Kazane under the auspices of existence of Uruk-style southern mate- the University of Virginia. rial cultural elements along with local The research consisted of styles (ca. 3700–3100 BCE). The emerging artifact analysis at the site of Ka- states in southern Mesopotamia had an zane, and library research at the Map Showing the Location of Kazane (Southeast influence on northern societies; how- American Institute of Archaeol- Turkey). ever, we do not yet know the nature of ogy in Turkey. In the months of that influence because archaeological August and September, I went to Urfa season of 2002, I opened trenches ex- research to date has focused primarily on and stayed at the excavation house of tending the step trench of Prof. Wright understanding the social organization of Kazane. to have a detailed idea about the nature southern Mesopotamian state societies. of occupation, and to understand archi- As a result, we need detailed investiga- Kazane Artifact Analysis tectural styles and concepts used during tions of the material culture and social the late Chalcolithic period. organization of northern Mesopotamian Kazane is a multi-period site located This past season through the Meso- societies. In my dissertation project, I approximately four kilometers south- potamian fellowship I received, I was examine domestic architectural styles in east of Şanlıurfa where the Anatolian able to analyze the archaeological data four local sites in northern Mesopotamia foothills meet the northern steppe of that was excavated at area H during the (modern Turkey and Iraq)—Arslantepe, Upper Mesopotamia (see map). The site 2002 season of Kazane. Most of the ob- Hacınebi, Kazane and Tepe Gawra, all of has been excavated under the scientifi c jects that were found during the excava- which exhibit different degrees of contact directorship of Prof. Patricia Watten- tions were housed at the archaeological with southern Mesopotamia. maker. For the purposes of my research, depot of Kazane. A special selection of The archaeological data for my dis- I concentrated on the late Chalcolithic small objects has been stored at the Urfa sertation are derived from my analyses periods of Kazane (fourth millennium Museum. of architecture and artifacts at the four BCE). The late Chalcolithic periods of Ka- The artifact classes consisted of sites, including their unpublished exca- zane were brought to light as a result of ceramics, lithics, small objects, faunal vation records. The data were collected a site survey, and a step trench that was material and soil samples. During my during 2002, 2003 and 2004. I was sup- opened by Prof. Henry Wright at area Kazane season, the artifacts were de- ported in this ongoing research by the H in 1994–1996 (Wattenmaker 1996; scribed, recorded, drawn and photo- Explorers Club, a University of Vir- Wright 1997). During the excavation graphed. The preliminary ceramic anal-

ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 15 yses revealed several patterns. The most ables: technological construction, mor- society overall. Secondly, the results of representative ceramic types included phology, decorative elements, use of the comparative analysis will offer a cooking wares, semi-fi ne wares and space and location within a site. nuanced understanding of the relation- storage jars. The comparative study of Through a diachronic study of ar- ship between culture contact and social Kazane late Chalcolithic-period ceramic chitectural forms and function at the late organization in ancient Mesopotamia at assemblages and those of other northern Chalcolithic periods of Kazane, Arslan- the site-specifi c and regional levels in Mesopotamian sites reveal clear paral- tepe, Hacınebi and Tepe Gawra, fi rst I this pivotal era of state formation. The lels such as with Hacınebi and Kurban defi ned basic architectural types before ASOR Mesopotamian Fellowship has Höyük (Stein et al 1996; Pearce 2000; Al- contacts intensifi ed with southern Mes- made it possible for me to realize this gaze 1990; Pollock and Coursey 1995). opotamian Uruk polities, and second, I ambitious project. Overall, the artifact analyses that I analyzed changes in architectural con- conducted reveal several important re- cepts during the period of intensifi ed References: sults. During the fourth millennium BCE, contacts. I compared the architectural Algaze, Guillermo. 1990. Town and Country in Kazane was a local center that does not types that are seen in the above men- Southeastern Anatolia, Vol. II: The Stratigraphy at exhibit any sort of visible contact with tioned case sites with other published Kurban Höyük. Chicago: Oriental Institute Publi- cations. the southern Uruk world. The artifact sites such as Norşuntepe (Turkey), Has- analyses also revealed that the remains sek Höyük (Turkey), Habuba Kabira Pearce, Julie 2000. “The Late Chalcolithic Se- quence at Hacınebi Tepe, Turkey.” In Chronologies of architectural structures that consist of (Syria) and Tell Qalinj Agha (Iraq). des Pays du Caucase et de l’Euphrate aux IVe–IIIe fl oors and walls did have domestic func- I have almost completed the analy- Millenaires. C. Marro and H. Hauptmann, eds. Pp. tion. In the courtyard areas there were sis of Arslantepe, Hacınebi, Kazane and 115–44. Istanbul: Varia Anatolica XI. Institut Fran- activity areas such as small-scale metal Tepe Gawra. The directors of the exca- çais d’Etudes Anatoliennes - Georges Dumezil. production. Kazane was continuously vation at Hacınebi (Prof. Gil Stein) and Pollock, Susan, and Cheryl Coursey 1995. “Ce- occupied from Halaf to Middle Bronze Arslantepe (Prof. Marcella Frangipane) ramics from Hacınebi Tepe: Chronology and Con- nections” Anatolica 21: 101–41. Age levels and, in the third millennium have been advising me regarding the BCE, we see the emergence of an urban- analyses of architecture, and have kind- Stein, Gil et al. 1996. “Uruk Colonies and Anato- ized city-state at Kazane (Wattenmaker lian Communities: An Interim Report on the 1992– ly provided the information I need for 1993 Excavations at Hacınebi,” American Journal 1998, 2000). These data suggest that the project. of Archaeology 100(2): 205–60. northern Mesopotamian local societies The results of this dissertation proj- Wattenmaker, Patricia. 1996. “Kazane Höyük, were in their own independent trajec- ect will be published as a book, and will 1995: Excavations at an Early City” KST XVIII: tory of change towards state societies. contribute to the archaeology and archi- 81–91. tectural history of the ancient Near East Wattenmaker, Patricia. 1998. Household and State Comparative Study of Architecture in two general ways. It will be the fi rst in Upper Mesopotamia: Specialized Economy systematic comparative study of domes- and the Uses of Goods in Early Complex Society. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. The second part of my dissertation tic architecture to incorporate investiga- research in Turkey consisted of library- tion of both elite and of non-elite struc- Wattenmaker, Patricia. 2000. “The Archaeological Significance of Southeast Anatolia for Understand- based analyses of domestic architecture tures in this period in the ancient Near ing the Formation of Early Cities” Gap Yayınları from late Chalcolithic sites located in East. The focus on domestic architecture Kültür Dizisi 3: 35–44. northern Mesopotamia. The analyses will inform us about the effects of inter- Wright, H. 1997. “1994–1996 Excavations on the for this section of my research program actions between northern and southern Upper Town of Kazane: Soundings at Area H.” included a construction of stylistic ar- Mesopotamia not only in the religious Unpublished Site Report. chitectural typology based on fi ve vari- and administrative sphere, but in the continued from page 2 heard from the newly reconstituted Membership Commit- In other news from the Board Meeting, the Trustees: tee an update on efforts to enhance and enlarge Institutional and Individual memberships. affi rmed a membership category, already in the ASOR By- heard reports from Chair P.E. MacAllister and President Lawrence T. Geraty, as well as the Executive Director, offi - laws, of Advisory Members, or for companies interested in cers, committee chairs and overseas center directors. supporting the work of ASOR. voted an ASOR Investment Policy, brought by the ASOR received the auditors, who provided a thorough report on Investment Committee. the FY04 records (published in the spring issue of the ASOR heard from the Executive Director that the basic legal Newsletter). documents of ASOR – Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, and approved a new standing committee to advance the aca- Manual of Policies and Procedures – are undergoing a review demic vision of ASOR, the Academic Master Planning Com- for updating and consistency. mittee. affi rmed a proposal for ASOR’s relationship with the Soci- listened to a report by Pauline Yu, President of the Ameri- ety of Biblical Literature in the future, which has been sent to can Council of Learned Societies, to which ASOR belongs. the ASOR membership for responses.

16 ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 OVERSEAS CENTER NEWS

THE AMERICAN CENTER OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH (AMMAN) ANNOUNCEMENT OF FELLOWSHIPS 2006–2007

Deadline for all applications is February 1, 2006

THE KRESS FELLOWSHIP IN THE ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF JORDAN: JENNIFER C. GROOT FELLOWSHIP: One or more three- to six-month fellowships for pre-doctoral Two or more awards of $1,500 each to support beginners in ar- students completing dissertation research in an art historical chaeological fi eldwork who have been accepted as staff mem- topic: art history, archaeology, architectural history, and in bers on archaeological projects with ASOR/CAP affi liation in some cases classical studies. Applicants must be Ph.D. can- Jordan. Open to undergraduate and graduate students. U.S. didates and U.S. citizens or foreign nationals who have ma- or Canadian citizenship required. triculated at U.S. institutions. The maximum award for six months is $18,500. HARRELL FAMILY FELLOWSHIP:

ACOR-CAORC FELLOWSHIP: One award of $1,500 to support a graduate student for partici- pation in an ACOR-approved archaeological research project, Five or more two- to six-month fellowships for MA and pre- which has passed an academic review process. Senior project doctoral students. Fields of study include all areas of the hu- staff whose expenses are being borne largely by the project manities and the natural and social sciences. Topics should are ineligible. Open to enrolled graduate students of any na- contribute to scholarship in Near Eastern studies. U.S. citizen- tionality. ship required. Maximum award is $19,400. Subject to funding.

ACOR-CAORC POST-GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP: PIERRE AND PATRICIA BIKAI FELLOWSHIP: Three or more two- to six-month fellowships for post-doctor- One or more awards for one or two months of residency at al scholars and scholars with a terminal degree in their fi eld, ACOR during the period of June 1, 2006 through May 31, pursuing research or publication projects in the natural and 2007. Open to graduate students of any nationality participat- social sciences, humanities, and associated disciplines relat- ing in an archaeological project or a research project in Jordan. ing to the Near East. U.S. citizenship required. Maximum The award includes room and board at ACOR and a monthly award is $25,000. Subject to funding. stipend of $400. This fellowship may be combined with the Groot or Harrell Fellowships. NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES (NEH) FELLOWSHIP: One four-month fellowship for scholars who have a Ph.D. or JAMES A. SAUER FELLOWSHIP: have completed their professional training. Fields of research One award of $650 to a Jordanian graduate student, in Jordan include: modern and classical languages, linguistics, litera- or elsewhere, to advance his or her academic career in the fi eld ture, history, jurisprudence, philosophy, archaeology, com- of archaeology, anthropology, conservation, or related areas. parative religion, ethics, and the history, criticism, and theory The award might be used for participation on an archaeologi- of the arts. Social and political scientists are encouraged to cal project, for research expenses, academic tuition, or travel apply. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals to scholarly conferences. In the 2006-2007 funding cycle this living in the U.S. three years immediately preceding the ap- competition is open only to Jordanian citizens. plication deadline. The maximum award is $20,000.

THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION CAORC, NEH, Kress, Mellon, and Bikai Fellows will reside at EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN RESEARCH FELLOWS PROGRAM: the ACOR facility in Amman while conducting their research. Two three-month fellowships for scholars who have a Ph.D. or equivalent experience, pursuing research in any fi eld of ACOR: 656 Beacon Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02215 the humanities or social sciences that relates to the Near East. (Tel: 617–353–6571; Fax: 617–353–6575; Applicants must be citizens of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Email: [email protected]), Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, or or: P.O. Box 2470, Amman, Jordan (Fax: 011–9626–534–4181). Slovakia. The award is $11,500. Or visit: http://www.bu.edu/acor. ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 17 ASOR’s Development Program in Motion David Rosenstein

ince the spring Board meeting, the focus of the Develop- ing on a number of fronts including but not limited to: con- ment Committee has been to follow through on its stated ducting internal interviews to get to know the various parts Sintention to lay a solid foundation for future ASOR De- of ASOR and its ‘stake holders’; establishing a Development velopment efforts by concentrating on the fundamentals. Our Task Force comprised of some staff, Trustees and ASOR op- extensive research of development fi rms lead us to select the erating committee chairs; working on a Case Statement; and fi rm of Schultz and Williams (S&W) of Philadelphia who are planning marketing for the Annual Meeting. now hard at work at their assigned task, which is to have an On Monday August 8, the fi rst meeting of the Develop- actionable Development plan in place as quickly as possible. ment Task Force took place in Boston. Members of the Task At our fi rst organizational meeting with S&W, held in Force who could not physically be present joined the meet- Boston on July 12, we reiterated our earlier conversations re- ing by teleconference. This session was a seminal event in garding ASOR’s immediate needs and conveyed the sense of ASOR’s development efforts as this group of ASOR leaders the Board that ASOR was not interested in another “feasibil- has now drawn together to work on and participate in struc- ity” study, but rather in taking action as quickly as possible. turing common plans for the future. Watch for updates as And while S&W certainly has a “learning curve” in regards to they happen! ASOR, and has been at work only one month, they are mov-

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MASSACHUSETTS ARCHAEOLOGY October 18 MONTH, OCTOBER 2005 Making Silent Sentinels Speak: The Archaeology of Chi- na’s Buried Armies of Clay. Newton Free Library, 330 Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Homer Street, Newton, MA 02459. 7:30–9:00pm. Event American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) and fee: Free. International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History (ICEAACH) October 20 October 5 Herod’s Innovative Architecture, between Rome and the Levant, Gamble Auditorium Mount Holyoke College, 50 Digging into the Past: Teachers Workshop and Hands- College Street, South Hadley, MA 01075. 4:30–6:30pm. On Learning on the Practice and Promise of Archaeology, Event fee: Free. Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609, 9:00am–5:00pm. Event fee: $75.00 (includes admission to the museum). October 21 Herod’s Innovative Architecture, between Rome and the October 6 Levant, Conference Auditorium George Sherman Union (2nd Floor), 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA An Iranian Nexus of trade and Commerce at 2500 B.C. 02215. 6:30–9:30pm. Event fee: Free. (Sperry Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave- nue, Cambridge, MA 02138) 5:00pm–6:00pm. Event fee: Free, 6:00pm reception at the Semitic Museum. October 24 Sponsoring Organizations: Harvard Semitic Museum Fakes, Forgeries and Scandal: How Artifact Counterfeit- and American Schools of Oriental Research. For more ing Impacts Archaeology, Mezzanine Conference Room, information: Dena Davis, (617) 495-4631, [email protected] Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square, vard.edu, www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic Boston, MA 02116. 6:00–9:00pm. Event fee: Free.

October 14 Archaeology Open House. AIA and ASOR, 656 Beacon For more information, visit the Street (5th and 6th fl oors) and ICEAACH, 650 Beacon AIA website at www.archaeological.org. Street (5th fl oor), Boston, MA 02215, 2:00–6:00pm. Event fee: Free

18 ASOR Newsletter, Summer 2005 CONFERENCE CALENDAR

September 5–9, 2005 are interested in participating and would like to be added to our mailing Sixth International Congress of Hi itology. Università di Roma - La list, please send your contact information (email address and potential Sapienza. Contact: [email protected]. research topic) to: Michael D. Glascock ( [email protected] ), Robert J. Speakman ( [email protected] ) or Rachel S. Popelka September 29–October 1, 2005 ( [email protected] ). A conference on The World of Achaeminid Persia will be held in the Clore Education Centre, British Museum, Great Russell Street, Lon- March 31–April 1, 2006 don WC1B 3DG. It is organized by The British Museum and the Iran An international conference to be held at the British Museum on the Heritage Foundation. The conference coincides with the forthcoming theme of Transanatolia: Connecting East with West in the Archaeol- exhibition Forgo en Empire: the World of Ancient Persia which will ogy of Ancient Anatolia seeks to bring together academics to explore also be held at the British Museum (8 September 2005–8 January 2006). the similarity and diversity of cultures across Anatolia in the Neolithic Inquire at [email protected] or visit h p://www.iranheritage.org/ through to the Bronze Age and examine Anatolia’s position as the achaemenidconference/. physical and cultural bridge between continents. Papers are invited on the following subjects: Geography and trade routes across Anatolia; November 15–19, 2005 Recent research and excavations in Central Anatolia; Inter-regional The 9th Conference of the International Commi ee for the Conserva- relationships and exchange pa erns; Cultural and theoretical divides tion of Mosaics (ICCM) will be held in Tunisia. Deadline for submission between East and West Anatolia. It is expected that the proceedings of of abstracts is Nov. 15, 2004. Contact: Demetrios Michaelides, Archaeo- this conference will be published. Please send proposals for papers, in logical Research Unit,, University of Cyprus, Kallipoleos 75, NICOSIA the form of a 200 word abstract, to the organisers: Dr Alan M. Greaves 1678. Email: [email protected] ([email protected]); Dr Alexandra Fletcher (airving@thebritishmuseum. November 16–19, 2005 ac.uk). Note: This conference is scheduled to complement ICAANE in ASOR Annual Meeting, Hya Regency, Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, Madrid (03–08.04.06). PA. April 3–8, 2006 November 19–22, 2005 The Fi h International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Philadelphia, Near East (ICAANE) will be held at the Universidad Autónoma in PA. Contact: www.sbl-site.org/congresses/. Madrid, Spain. For information, email [email protected]. November 19–21, 2005 April 20–22, 2006 Arms and Armour through the Ages (from the Bronze Age to Late The Archaeology Department of the University of Durham will host Antiquity). The Institute of Classical Archaeology of Trnava University the International Conference on the Ubaid, “The Ubaid Expansion? and Institute of Archaeology of the Selcuk University at Konya h p:// Cultural Meaning, Identity and Integration in the Lead-up to Urban- klasarch.truni.sk or [email protected]. The symposium will focus on ism.” Inquire of Dr. Robert Carter at [email protected] political, religious and technical aspects of weapons and warfare as well for information and to register. as on topics concerning militaria in the cult, in the literary sources and July 2–6, 2006 in the arts. All papers will be published in our journal Anodos 4/2005. The International Conference of the Society of Biblical Literature Modra-Harmónia (ca. 25 km from Bratislava, Slovakia). Symposium will convene in Edinburgh, Scotland. Visit the SBL website at: h p:// languages: English, German, French. The Symposium is jointly organ- www.sbl-site.org/congresses/Congresses_InternationalMeeting. ised by the Institute of Classical Archaeology of Trnava University and aspx?MeetingId=10. the Institute of Archaeology of the Selcuk University at Konya (Turkey). Contact: Pavol Hnila, [email protected]. November 30–December 4, 2005 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, NEW ASOR MERCHANDISE DC. Contact: www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm. January 5–8, 2006 Need a T-shirt, mug, The 107th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America messenger bag, will take place in Montréal, Quebec. A preliminary version of the pro- or baby bib? gram is available online. Any additional questions concerning submis- sions should be directed to [email protected]. We would like to March17–20, 2006 American Oriental Society Annual Meeting, Red Lion Hotel, Sea le, announce that a new line of WA. Fi h Avenue, 1415 5th Avenue Sea le, WA 98101. Contact: h p:// ASOR products is now avail- www.umich.edu/~aos/. able for ordering on the Web at March 26–30, 2006 A symposium entitled Archaeological Chemistry: Analytical Tech- www.cafepress.com/asor2005. niques and Archaeological Interpretation is being organized by mem- bers of the Archaeometry Lab at MURR. The symposium will be held at the American Chemical Society meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. In the All profi ts past, most of these archaeological chemistry symposia have resulted in generated will go to benefi t ASOR. a very high quality symposium volume. We plan to produce the same. And, we hope that many of our colleagues in Archaeological Chemistry will choose to participate by describing their most up to date research in Please tell your friends and order the symposium. 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