Winter 2002 Volume 52, Number 4
Highlights of the 2002 Annual Meeting in Toronto
“The best Annual Meeting ever!” Netherlands, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, her tenacity in helping us locate the best Scotland, Switzerland, USA. hotel for our needs “A great venue!” The presentations were of high “Record turn out!” quality. Additional Notes “Had a wonderful time!” The plenaries by David Stronach, Sy The Lecture Series Committee has “Thank you for a grand conference!” Gitin and Trude Dothan, and Stronach been working hard to secure major again, this time as a minute-man “The food was terrific!” lectures during the course of the replacement for Amy Dockser Marcus, upcoming year and contributed as well “Sessions were full and the presentations were interesting, engaging and very to the groundwork of the public lecture of high caliber!” well attended. in Toronto. This Spring will feature a “Tremendous plenaries!” Committee meetings were scheduled, number of lectures, three in Atlanta co- as far as possible, away from academic sponsored by the Carlos Museum on the These quotable quotes overheard in sessions in order to allow committee Emory University campus, and one in Toronto say it all about the 2002 Annual members to attend more sessions. southern California, co-sponsored by Meeting of the American Schools of the Cotsen Institute. Others are in the Oriental Research—a positive Special Kudos works. conference by all accounts. And the • our persistently helpful board chair, Suzanne Richard, chair of our ad hoc reasons, under close scrutiny, have all P.E. MacAllister and new president, committee on regionally affiliated ASOR checked out to be legitimate: Lawrence Geraty, and vice- The Marriott Eaton Centre Hotel president, Martha Joukowsky served us extremely well in its location, • the efficient and ever-cheerful the layout of meeting space and the Boston staff—Rudy Dornemann, hospitality and helpfulness of the staff. Holly Andrews, Britt Hartenberger, The number of attendees (audited for Selma Omerefendic. accuracy) was 640, nearly 200 more than • CAMP members and CAMP last year’s count and 170 above the committee chairs and their highest previous attendance. committee members for spec- The provisions for assuaging hunger tacular planning—Eric Cline and thirst were plentiful. (Program), Carolyn Rivers (now, Virtually all sessions, including those Gloria London, Outreach), Martha on Saturday afternoon after SBL had Risser (Honors) and Ann Killebrew opened, were full. (Lectures) A view of a part of the book display. There were 237 presentations, • the Atlanta publications office featuring participants from 18 different staff—Billie Jean Collins and Chris chapters (usually connected with SBL or countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, Madell —for advance PR, programs and SBL and AAR), has collected and Denmark, England, France, Germany, an ever-expanding book display collated information on the eleven • Academy Travel’s Julene Miller for Greece, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Continued on page 5 STATEMENT ON IRAQ cradle of Western civilization. The undersigned ask countries to The American Schools of Oriental Research On November 23, 2002, the ASOR take measures to avoid, to the extent is a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization founded in 1900. membership voted to endorse the possible, damage to Iraq’s cultural following statement: monuments, museums and archaeo- P. E. MacAllister “The organizations and institutions logical sites and that their military Chairman of the Board listed below, mindful of the devasta- forces respect the integrity of such Lawrence T. Geraty tion of Afghanistan’s cultural sites and monuments and sites. We ask also that President material caused by war and political concerned countries encourage and Martha Joukowsky chaos, are deeply concerned that an help Iraq to ensure security for its own Vice President outbreak of hostilities with Iraq may monuments, museums and sites. have serious and damaging conse- James Strange Finally, the undersigned ask, if a Secretary quences for that country’s monu- conflict has occurred, that concerned ments, museums, archaeological countries encourage both governmen- Larry G. Herr Chair, Committee on Publications sites and material culture. These tal and non-governmental participa- have unique value to our own tion in rebuilding Iraq’s cultural David McCreery Chair, Committee on Archaeological Policy cultural heritage, which draws its institutions. We are prepared to help strength from other cultures, includ- mobilize appropriate technical, Douglas Clark ing that of Mesopotamia, a region material and financial resources to Chair, Committee on Annual Meeting that has long been known as the support this end.” Rudolph H. Dornemann Executive Director
Billie Jean Collins Director of Publications ASOR MEMBER SERVICES TO COME IN-HOUSE! ASOR 656 Beacon Street, 5th floor As this newsletter goes to press, allowing members and subscribers to Boston, MA 02215-2010 work is underway to bring ASOR’s check and update their records on- Tel. (617) 353-6570 membership and subscription line, renew subscriptions and register Fax. (617) 353-6575 fulfillment services in-house. Over the for meetings using their previously E-mail: [email protected] years, these functions have been stored data (i.e., less work for you!). performed by a variety of outside This will enable us to provide a much sources, but the ASOR Committee on more efficient and customer-friendly Publications and the ASOR service than currently exists. administration feel that it is in the best In addition, ASOR members will interests of our members and now be able to direct their queries to a subscribers and of ASOR as a whole dedicated staff member. As a part of that they now be consolidated. its decision to handle member services The implementaion of new in-house in-house, ASOR has appointed Chris services for members and subscribers Madell to manage fulfillment and will take place in two phases. The member services out of the initial step is to effect the transition of Publications Office in Atlanta. We are all current membership and very pleased to have him in this The ASOR Newsletter subscription records to our new iMIS position and are certain that the database. We have already started membership will find him very Billie Jean Collins, Editor working on this and hope to have the responsive and helpful. Chris Madell, Assistant Editor process complete shortly. You will As with any transition, there will Suite 330, 825 Houston Mill Road notice new contact information for inevitably be some glitches, and we Atlanta, GA 30329 subscriptions and membership ask for your patience over the next Tel. (404) 727-8989 enquiries on the back cover of this few months. We believe that long-term Fax. (404) 727-4719 e-mail: [email protected] newsletter. A toll free phone number is benefits for the membership will far now available and this will be outweigh any short term The ASOR Newsletter (ISSN 0361-6029) advertised on the asor-l list. Note that inconveniences. is published quarterly by the American communications sent to Academic Please feel free to contact the ASOR Schools of Oriental Research Services will continue to be processed. Publications office at 866-727-8380 (e- Copyright 2002 by The second phase, which is mail: [email protected]) if you have The American Schools of Oriental Research scheduled for later next year, will any problems or questions. involve web-based components, www.asor.org
2 ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 ASORNEWS
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT 2. Works closely with the as prescribed in the By-Laws. ASOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Chairpersons of ASOR’s Operating 8. Personally supervises the and Board Committees, such as the headquarters staff and works closely THE AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL Committees on Publications, with the Chair of the Committee on RESEARCH invites applications for the Archaeological Policy, Program and Publications regarding staff position of Executive Director of Annual Meeting, Finance, Budget, requirements for the Office of ASOR, beginning January 1, 2004. Audit and Investment, Personnel and Publications. The Executive Director of ASOR Administration, Development, Qualifications: serves as chief operating officer for the Institutional Membership and Successful experience in admini- organization, responsible for directing Nominations, encouraging their stration and financial management, the implementation of Board- mutual participation and support in including fundraising. Substantive approved policies and established the conduct of ASOR business. experience in scholarly research, aims of ASOR and for ensuring proper 3. Provides general support for the fieldwork and publications in the management of ASOR’s business and Board, Officers and Committees of culture and archaeology of the ancient resources in compliance with federal ASOR, including coordination of Near East or eastern Mediterranean and state regulations as appropriate arrangements for meetings and areas. Essential personal charac- for non-profit organizations. consultations and preparation of teristics include integrity, initiative, The ED serves as a non-voting reports and agendas. collegiality in the conduct of business, member of the ASOR Executive 4. Oversees, together with the ASOR and ability to solve problems and to Committee and Board of Trustees and Treasurer, the preparation of the represent ASOR in public forums. is expected to anticipate, propose and consolidated annual budget and The position will be based in the participate in discussions for the periodic financial/fiscal documents, ASOR offices on the campus of Boston improvement of the ASOR operational special reports and other materials as University and the successful can- system, including, but not limited to, may be required for review and didate will receive payment and suggestions for change in the approval of the ASOR Board, benefits according to the personnel administrative and financial Executive and Finance Committees. rules and regulations of Boston Uni- management policies and procedures. 5. Coordinates public relations and versity. The ED serves as the key resource information including the ASOR web Applications should consist of an and liaison for and among members of site, ensuring (for example) timely application letter of not more than the Executive Committee, Board, announcements and reports of ASOR three pages indicating why the Officers, Operating Committees, activities for member and public candidate seeks the position, including affiliated overseas research centers, consumption. his/her vision for ASOR, and a Canadian ASOR (CASOR) and 6. Oversees the organization of detailed curriculum vitae, including cooperating entities. special events and seminars, and names and contact information of The ED serves as the focal point for serves as ASOR emissary in contacts three references. Applications should coordination and assistance with and communications with overseas be sent to Lawrence T. Geraty, Office fundraising, public and member affiliated research and education of the President, LaSierra University, information, planned events and centers, as well as other scholarly 4700 Pierce Street, Riverside, CA preparations for the annual and organizations. 92515. E-mail queries may be sent to interim meetings of the Board. 7. Negotiates and executes on behalf lgeraty@ lasierra.edu (please do not Major Duties: of the ASOR President all personnel send applications by email). 1. Oversees the operations of ASOR service, consultant and vendor The deadline for applications is assuring timely information, contracts or agreements. This includes April 15, 2003. Late applicants may be administrative assistance, financial the negotiation and signing of considered until a candidate is chosen. resources management and liaison approved agreements with Salary and benefits will be commen- services as required to implement the cooperating universities, financial surate with experience. Candidates Mission and Policies of ASOR as institutions and other entities for the must be from North America. ASOR is established by the Board for management of personnel and related an equal opportunity employer. management of the organization’s staff accounts, lease, banking, activities. investment, audit and legal services, ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 3 WALTER RAST HONORED IN TORONTO CAARI APPOINTS NEW DIRECTOR The Richard Scheuer Medal—the encouraged many a budding field most prestigious of the American archaeologist. THE CYPRUS AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) (6) His most recent effort for ASOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CAARI) announces Awards—honors individuals who was chairing the search committee the appointment of Thomas W. Davis have provided truly outstanding, long that brought us our current president; as its Director effective July 1, 2003. Dr. term support and service contri- it remains to be seen how wise a Davis will be accompanied by his butions to ASOR. It is given only as decision this was! wife, Jennifer, when he assumes appropriate, not annually. Support is a many splendored thing. responsibility for the Institute’s “The recipient of the medal this ASOR could not survive without the operations in Nicosia, Cyprus. He year, Professor Walter Rast, has a financial support of generous replaces Dr. Robert Merrillees, who record of long time service benefactors and the collegial support will retire after completing a achievement to ASOR that few can that its members give one to another. distinguished four year directorship. match. His service at various levels Walt Rast has especially excelled in his Thomas W. Davis received his Ph.D. includes: relationships with his colleagues. in Oriental Studies and Syro- (1) The presidency of the American Through his renowned work on Palestinian Archaeology from the Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in several field projects as well as his University of Arizona under the Amman, Jordan, at a critical time distinguished professorship at direction of William G. Dever. when fund-raising was initiated for Valparaiso University, he helped In the mid-1980s he spent two the present research center and hostel; develop the careers of many young seasons working with the expedition (2) A two term editorship of the scholars. Through his visits to the headed by David Soren in the city of Bulletin of the American Schools of sites of other colleagues he was always Kourion. As a Pacific Scientific Fellow Oriental Research (BASOR) during encouraging; through his editorial at CAARI in 1987 he began an oral which he encouraged younger expertise he helped improve countless videotaped history of American scholars in Jordan, Israel, and Cyprus manuscripts, but especially through archaeology in Cyprus. to contribute articles and also initiated his ability to listen to others and his Since 1991 he has been an employee a series of BASOR Supplements to real interest in the projects and (most recently Assistant Vice encourage early publication of accomplishments of others he President/Principal Investigator) of R. preliminary excavation reports; provided a level of support and trust Christopher Goodwin & Associates, a (3) A three term chairmanship of the that have led a great number of people cultural resource management firm Committee on Archaeological Policy in ASOR—senior and younger—to with headquarters in Frederick, (CAP) during which he made annual look to Walt Rast as an esteemed Maryland. He has been responsible visits to most of the ASOR field colleague and best of all as a friend. for the management and field projects and developed new policies to I invite those who have been direction of archaeological projects in emphasize collegial support of ASOR colleagues of Walt Rast, who have several southern and middle Atlantic projects. worked with him in any capacity, to states as well as at Tell el Borg, Egypt. (4) Many terms as ASOR trustee stand. Walt, we are in your debt. For His book on the history of biblical where he freely participated in your lifetime of distinguished service archaeology has recently been numerous assignments and where his we present you now with ASOR’s accepted for publication by Oxford wisdom and irenic spirit were a most prestigious award, the Richard University Press. tremendous asset to the whole Scheuer Medal.” David Detrich membership. CAARI President (5) Co-directorship of the Southeast —Prepared by R. Thomas Schaub and Dead Sea Project which resulted in Lawrence T. Geraty. Presented by many of his outstanding publications Lawrence T. Geraty, ASOR President, in and where he mentored and Toronto on November 21, 2002. DAVID W. MCCREERY HONORED BY THE AIA
Long-time ASOR member and Chair Future ASOR Annual Meetings of ASOR’s Committee on Archaeo- logical Policy, David W. McCreery 2004 San Antonio (Willamette University), was honored recently by the Archaeological 2005 Philadelphia Institute of America. In New Orleans 2006 Washington, D.C. this month McCreery was presented with the Excellence in Undergraduate 2007 San Diego Teaching Award. ASOR offers its heartfelt congratulations to Dave.
4 ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 ASOR Mesopotamian Fellowship ASOR
The Committee on Mesopotamian is pleased to announce the following Civilization / Baghdad Committee of the American Schools of Oriental lectures Research (ASOR) offers a Fellowship providing support in the amount of $7,000 for one three-to-six month THE SEARCH FOR GOLIATH: RECENT EXCAVATIONS AT ANCIENT period of research. This fellowship is primarily intended to support field/ TELL ES-SAFI (GATH OF THE PHILISTINES) research in ancient Mesopotamian Aren Maeir, Bar-Ilan University civilization carried out in the Middle Wednesday, 5 February 2003 • 7:00 p.m. East, but other research projects such Co-sponsored by ASOR and the Emory Program in Mediterranean Archaeology, as museum or archival research The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University and the Rabbi Tham related to ancient Mesopotamian Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University studies and requiring travel abroad Carlos Museum Reception Hall, Emory University, Atlanta, GA may also be considered. Applicants Contact: [email protected] may be pre-doctoral students or post- doctoral scholars. More detailed information and an BARELY VISIBLE BUT VERY REAL: application in .pdf format are available via: www.asor.org/bagdam.html WOMEN'S RELIGIOUS CULTURE IN ANCIENT ISRAEL Applications are also available via Carol Meyers, Duke University fax and snail mail from the American Wednesday, 26 February 2003 • 7:00 p.m. Schools of Oriental Research, Located Co-sponsored by ASOR and the Emory Program in Mediterranean Archaeology, at Boston University, 656 Beacon St., The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University, the Rabbi Tham Institute 5th floor, Boston, MA 02215. tel (617) for Jewish Studies at Emory University and the Institute for Women's Studies at 353-6570. fax (617) 353-6575. Email: Emory University [email protected]. Carlos Museum Reception Hall, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Application deadline: Contact: [email protected] February 1, 2003
“HE NAMED THE WELL SHEBA AND THIS IS WHY THE CITY IS Annual Meeting, continued from page 1 CALLED BEERSHEBA TO THIS DAY”: WATER SUPPLY AT TEL regional groups with long established or BEERSHEBA IN LIGHT OF RECENT EXPLORATION AT THE SITE newly hatched ties to ASOR. She has Ze'ev Herzog, Tel Aviv University also set out an ambitious agenda for the Thursday, 6 March 2003 • 7:00 p.m. committee, made up of regional Co-sponsored by ASOR and the Emory Program in Mediterranean Archaeology, representatives, covering a wide range The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University and the Rabbi Tham of issues, which will in the long run Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University serve ASOR and its mission well. Carlos Museum Reception Hall, Emory University, Atlanta, GA In planning for the 2003 Annual Contact: [email protected] Meeting in Atlanta our mission, should we choose to accept it, will be to improve on Toronto. Although challenging to say the least, this is doable. There is signi- EXCAVATING JESUS: ficant momentum in the growth and ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE NEW TESTAMENT? development of the ASOR national Jonathan Reed, University of La Verne conference and we are optimistic we can Thursday, 13 March 2003• 7:30 p.m. continue to improve the quality of its Co-sponsored by ASOR and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA contribution to ASOR members and the Lenart Auditorium of the Fowler Museum of Cultural History informed public as well. at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Contact: 310-825-4361, www.fmch.ucla.edu/ Douglas R. Clark Chair of the Committee on the Annual Meeting and Program
ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 5 REGIONALASOR
Pacific Northwest Midwest
WHERE: University of Idaho, Moscow, ID WHERE: Calvin Theological Seminary, WHEN: April 25–27, 2003 Grand Rapids, MI CONTACT: Douglas R. Clark , Walla Walla College, 204 WHEN: February 21–23, 2003 South College Avenue, College Place, WA 99324. Email: CALL FOR PAPERS: Please send your [email protected] proposal to Mark W. Chavalas, Department INFORMATION: www.wwc.edu/pnw (click on “Info” and of History, University of Wisconsin-La follow the buttons) Crosse, La Crosse, WI 54601. Tel. (608) 785- CALL FOR PAPERS: Submit a 150-word abstract for each 8360. Email: [email protected] proposed paper by January 17, 2003 to the appropriate Chair INFORMATION: For registration forms and listed below. Participants in the Pacific Northwest AAR conference information, please contact Troy Regional Meeting may present only one paper and must be Martin, Saint Xavier University, 3700 W. registered for the meeting to participate. Archaeology of the 103rd. St., Chicago, IL, email: Ancient Near East (ASOR): Theme: Archaeology and An- [email protected]. cient Religion
Central States
WHERE: Holiday Inn - Westport, St. Louis, MO WHEN: April 6–7, 2003 CONTACT: Victor H. Matthews, Southwest Missouri State University. Email [email protected]. INFORMATION: www.sbl-site.org/Regions/CentralStates.html
ASOR PROGRAM: Session 1: Material Culture in Ancient Israel Convener: Victor H. Matthews, Southwest Missouri State University - Allison Karmel Thomason, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, “Conceptions of - Material Culture in Ancient Mesopotamia” Jennie Ebeling, University of Evansville, “Women, Bread, and the Domestic Cult in Iron Age Israel” - Peter Warnock, University of Missouri-Columbia, “The Chicken or The Egg: Which Came First, The Olive as a Food or for Oil?” - James C. Moyer, Southwest Missouri State University, “A Review of Victor Matthews, ‘A Brief History of Ancient Israel’” Response: Victor H. Matthews
Session 2: Aspects of Near Eastern Economics and Cultures Convener: Peter Warnock, University of Missouri-Columbia - LaMoine DeVries, Southwest Missouri State University, “The Mouse from Ai” - Sara E. Orel, Truman State University, “Social Stratification among Middle Kingdom burials at Beni Hasan” - Susan Ellis, Wayne State College, “Patterns of Village Growth in an Ottoman Period Village, Jordan” - Juris Zarins, Southwest Missouri State University, “Trade Networks Across the Rub al-Khali” - Scott Smith, “The Scope and Economics of Herod the Great’s Building Program.”
Session 3: Excavations at Kursi Convener: LaMoine DeVries, Southwest Missouri State University - Vassilios Tzaferis, Israel Antiquities Authority, “A History of Excavations at Kursi: Archaeology of the Early Byzantine Monastery” - Charles R. Page, Jerusalem Center of Biblical Studies, “Kursi Excavations Resumed: Two New Seasons (2001, 2002)” - Brian S. Kvasnica, Jerusalem Center of Biblical Studies, “Between Archaeology and Text: Retriev- ing Late Roman and Early Byzantine History at Kursi”
6 ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 Northeast
WHERE: Andover-Newton Theological School, Newton, MA WHEN: Friday, May 2, 2003 Eastern Great Lakes CONTACT: www.sbl-site.org/Regions/NewEngland/ NE_HomePage.html INFORMATION: The plenary address will be delivered by Lawrence WHERE: Marriott Courtyard Ambassador H. Schiffman of New York University and the Presidential Address Conference Center, Erie, PA by Richard Clifford of Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The WHEN: April 10–11, 2003 registration fee for the conference is $15. The conference does not CONTACT: Suzanne Richard, ASOR convenor, provide for lodging nor does it arrange for meals. There will be a Gannon University, Box 3161, Erie, PA 16541. reception during the conference. Email: [email protected]. CALL FOR PAPERS: The Society invites paper proposals on the archaeology of the ancient Near East, including subjects such as Mid-Atlantic field excavations, bible and archaeology, artifact analysis or other topics of interest. The Proposal should include: Title of the paper; WHERE: Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, conveniently Presenter Name; 100 word located near Rutgers University, only 3 miles from the New Jersey Abstract; Audio/Visual Equipment Required. Turnpike, and two blocks from the train station. Paper proposals should be sent by: February 1, WHEN: Thursday and Friday, March 13–14, 2003 2003 to Suzanne Richard. CONTACT: Dr. Peter Feinman, Institute of History, Archaeology and INFORMATION: The Plenary Speaker for the Education, PO Box 41, Purchase, NY 10577. EGLBS Regional Meeting in 2003 will be Dr. INFORMATION: The ASOR plenary address will be delivered by P. Kyle Elizabeth Bloch-Smith. The registration fee is McCarter of Johns Hopkins University. The registration fee is $45 for $25.00. For information concerning registra- ASOR members, $35 for students, and $50 for nonmembers. tion and hotel reservations, please contact CALL FOR PAPERS: Paper proposals may be submitted on subjects Suzanne Richard. covering from the Mediterranean to Nubia to Persia on such topics as (1) field excavations, (2) art and architecture, (3) archaeological and anthropological theory, (4) text and artifact, (5) history, and (6) religion in biblical and non-biblical areas. The calls for papers for the other organizations already have been sent and I Southeast hope that next year we will be on the WHERE: Chattanooga Clarion Hotel same schedule and WHEN: March 14–16, 2003 able to offer joint CONTACT: Tom McCollough, Centre College, Danville, KY 40422. Email: [email protected] sessions. If you wish to present a paper (or ASOR PROGRAM: section) in conjunc- Archaeology and the Ancient World: The Excavations at Banias (Caesarea Phillipi) tion with the SBL this Tom McCollough, Centre College, Presiding year, that may be - Vassilios Tsafaris, Visiting Professor of Archaeology and the Bible, Averett College submitted as well. - John Laughlin, Averett College The cutoff date is January 31, 2003. Archaeology and the Ancient World: Archaeology and the Galilee Proposals should be John Laughlin, Averett College, Presiding sent to Dr. Peter - Vassilios Tsafaris, Visiting Professor, Averett College, “The Archaeological Excavations at Kursi” Feinman. - James F. Strange, University of South Florida, “Archaeology and the Galilee”
Presidential Address - Milton Moreland, Huntingdon College, “Archaeology and the Bible: Prospects for Peace”
Archaeology and the Hebrew Bible: Archaeology and Gender James F. Strange, University of South Florida, Presiding - Carol Meyers, Duke University, “Households and Holiness: Women, Religion, and Culture in Ancient Israel”
ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 7 ASOR Gratefully Acknowledges its Contributors in (fy)2002
Benefactor ($10,000 or more) Sponsor ($500 or more) Phoebe N. Coleman Sidnie W. Crawford John Camp Laird H. Barber Thomas and Jennifer Davis Christel DeHaan Catholic Biblical Association Jeffrey Blakely David Detrich Dorot Foundation Oded Borowski Norma Dever Ed Gilbert Foundation for Biblical F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp P.E. MacAllister Archaeology Patricia B. Douthitt Richard and Joan Scheuer James W. Hargrove Peggy Duly Shane Dunworth-Crompton Family Foundation Timothy Harrison Kevin P. Edgecomb Lynne and Ross Kogel Erick Egertson Patron ($5,000 or more) Øystein LaBianca Mary Louise Ellenberger Jodi Magness Marjorie M. Fisher Eugene and Emily Grant P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. Richard E. Ford Harold Forshey Foundation David McCreery Lawrence Geraty Barbara Miley Norma Sullivan Ritterspach Seymour Gitin B.W. Ruffner Joseph Rosen Foundation Claire C. Gottlieb Richard J. Scheuer Tammi Schneider Frank and Barbara Grunwald Joe D. Seger Robert E. Grutz Robert Haak Sustainor ($250 or more) Kenneth G. Holum Friend ($1,000 or more) Elaine and Thomas Howard Douglas R. Clark David Inbar Kent Bermingham Paul Fitzpatrick Howard C. Kee Concordia Seminary Marjorie B. Kiewit G. Steve Kinnard Melody Knowles William Dever Frederick and Catherine Hugh R. Lehman Nan Frederick Lauritsen Jesse C. and Joann D. Long, Jr. Ernest Frerichs Albert Leonard, Jr. Esther M. Menn Norma Kershaw William A. Patterson Don Morrison George M. Landes Martin A. Rizack Douglas Murray Richard F. Natarian Lindstrom Foundation for Bruce Routledge Kevin G. O’Connell Archaeological Research and Lee Seeman Betty Young O’Dell Development John Spencer Walter Rast George E. Mendenhall James M. Weinstein Suzanne Richard Eric and Carol Meyers Martha Risser Carolyn D. Rivers Thomas R. and Alice S. Other Contributors Susan Rotroff Pickering Randy Aker Jeremy Rutter Austin Ritterspach L.B. and Annette Anderson David and Susan Ryan David J. Rosenstein Eugene Balter James and Margaret Sabens Jim Ross Tom and Barbara Beety William Schniedewind Janice F. Swartz R. Thomas and Marilyn Schaub Neal Bierling Robert Bigelow James T. Turner Lydie Shufro John Brug Gus Van Beek Larry Stager Ronald C. Budny Jane Waldbaum James F. Strange Robert and Vivian Bull James L. Walker Ingrid Wood William Dean Buss Prescott Williams Donald Wimmer Randy Younker Lael Caesar Charles Schwab Matching Gifts Program Stephen Wyrick Malcolm Clark Harold and Julianne Zimmerman Dan and Catherine Cole
8 ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 ARCHAEOLOGY WORLD
A TRIP TO CHINA FOR WHITING POST0DOCTORAL (Candidates who will not meet the EDUCATORS FELLOWSHIPS, 2003–2004 January 1, 2003 deadline but are certain to have finished all The Chinese-American Cultural Applications are invited for two requirements of the Ph.D. by June 1, Bridge Center, a non-profit Whiting Foundation Post-Doctoral 2003, may apply with a letter of organization, has created a trip Fellowships in the Humanities at assurance from their departmental especially designed for educators. Not Princeton University, for the academic chair that they will finish by June 1.) only will you experience the year 2003-4. The purpose of this To Apply. Interested applicants geography, history, culture, economics, award is to identify two outstanding should send, in addition to a letter of government, and technology of China humanities scholars early in their application, a current curriculum vitae, firsthand, but you will be provided careers and give them the opportunity including educational background, with background information and to undertake and/or complete a major professional experience, and prior instructional materials, which will project, interact with a group of publications; an abstract of their bring China alive to your students as diverse post-doctoral fellows and completed Ph.D. dissertation; a two- well. There will be opportunities to regular Princeton faculty, and page statement of their proposed meet with Chinese educators, and contribute to the undergraduate research and writing project for the share ideas and information with each teaching program at Princeton fellowship; and two confidential other. University. letters of recommendation, one from On this unforgettable 15-day Terms of the Award. Each fellowship their dissertation supervisor and a journey, you will go to Beijing, will be for 12 months’ tenure, second from another established Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, beginning September 1, 2003. Whiting scholar in their field. Shaolin Temple, Xian, and Shanghai. post-doctoral fellows will be Application should be sent to Prof. Explore the tomb of China’s first appointed in a regular Princeton William B. Russel, Dean of the Emperor who unified China, with its department as their “home” during Graduate School, 205 Nassau Hall, amazing army of life-size, terra-cotta the tenure of the fellowship. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ soldiers. Walk along the Great Wall, Fellowship holders will be expected to 08544. marvel at Beijing’s Forbidden City, be in residence spending the bulk of Applications are due on or before speculate at Luoyang’s Longmen their time on their own research and to February 15, 2003. Awards will be Grottos, and experience the Ancient present a seminar on their work at announced by April 1, 2003. Song Dynasty life in Kaifeng. The least once during the year in their journey concludes in the vibrant city department of appointment. In WWW.PHDDATA.ORG of Shanghai. $3,250 including addition, fellows would be expected to International Air fare from CA, 4 star teach one undergraduate course
ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 9 TORONTO 2002
American Center of Oriental Research
2001–2002 Fellows’ Reports
Political Education in clash over identity in the 1950s. In this failed, and the Hashemite regime re- Jordan and Palestine debate, the traditional forces imposed its own view concerning maintained their support for the uniqueness of Jordan. However, to nationalist ideal first posited in the succeed, the state had to adapt itself to Betty S. Anderson 1920s by King Abdullah and the the new conditions in the society by ACOR/CAORC Fellow British and then perpetuated by King co-opting many of the new urban Hussen. For them, the foundations of strata into its ranks and by expanding the state lay with a continuation of states services to many more. In many works on the history of Hashemite rule and an emphasis on Jordan, the state appears to function as Jordan’s unique national identity. With an entity entirely distinct from this nationalist definition came a Domestic Architecture domestic forces, and the opposition, concomitant social structure that when mentioned, typically comprises in Jordan during the required that the traditional bases of merely disgruntled Palestinian the regime—the bedouin tribes, Iron I Age refugees and a few rogue Jordanians. merchants, peasants, and landowners While it is undeniable that the state —and the political leaders—the has always been able to function with Douglas R. Clark “King’s men”—maintain their little domestic input, the regime has ACOR/CAORC Senior Fellow dominant positions, to the exclusion of still never been able to ignore all the other groups. demands generated by the country’s My research focused on the The new urban forces, arising as a changing socio-economic base. construction, maintenance, result of socio-economic change, Expansion of the education system, occupation, function and opposed the designation of a separate increased urbanization, diversification interpretation of domestic housing Jordanian state by rallying instead to of the economy, extension of media (especially “four-room” or pillared the calls for Arab unity and Arab outlets throughout the country, and houses) from the Iron I period in nationalism that precluded a the influx of Palestinian refugees Jordan, with an eye on the human Hashemite role. Lying behind this catalyzed political change as the dimensions involved in building, stood a demand for a dramatically opposition movement, the Jordanian maintaining and occupying these different image of Jordan, one that National Movement, fought to gain structures. An extremely well incorporated the new, emerging social access to power, and the Hashemite preserved four-room house at Tall al- strata, and one which had the state reluctantly responded to new `Umayri provided the starting point of potential to permanently displace the domestic demands in order to survive. this investigation and was studied in traditional forces that had ruled the In the process, Jordan’s national comparison with others in the country country from its inception. The identity came into question, with and, from them, to some degree with struggle was fought most visibly on groups throughout the country asking those in the southern Levant at large. the streets of the country’s cities and whether Jordan should retain its Taken together, the remains from in the halls of government, but separate structure or unite with its Jordanian sites—while extremely beneath the surface an ideological Arab neighbors. limited, given excavation progress to debate fueled it, fought out in the The socio-economic changes Jordan date—combined with anthropological schools, in the clubs and in the media. had undergone in the 1930s and 1940s studies of domestic housing, In the end, the opposition forces laid the groundwork for an intensified illuminate the questions we are asking
12 ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 early Iron Age, that these houses were domestic in nature. The architectural features and artifactual assemblages indicate a symbiotic economy based on both agrarian and pastoral pursuits. The four-room and pillared houses lent themselves extremely well to this type of economy. Most were likely two-story buildings, the first floor being used for stabling animals, keeping implements, storing food stuffs in the large (often) collared pithoi, perhaps food preparation and, in some cases, textiles endeavors. This is clearly the case with the house at ‘Umayri. The second story would house the family, providing space for sleeping, food preparation and consumption, as well as food storage. It was the “broad “Four-room” House at Tall al-`Umayri. (Photo by Douglas R. Clark, Walla room” of the four-room houses that Walla College.) served as the primary storerooms. This is particularly clear in the and help clarify our responses. The construction techniques, easily `Umayri house, the combined collapse I am also examining Iron I tomb observable at least on the house at Tall of first- and second-story remains assemblages (mostly from Irbid and al-‘Umayri and to some degree yielding approximately 70 pithoi, Amman) for domestic wares. Thus, elsewhere at sites in Jordan, along with other domestic ceramic along with a more quantitative, demonstrate a building style not types. descriptive study of the structures particularly sophisticated nor A number of studies have focused themselves, I am attempting an aesthetically advanced. The materials on family size and household examination of the human dimensions required for Iron I domestic houses populations, based on varied criteria, these structures represent: labor included stone, wood, reeds, lime for determining the published investments in their construction and plaster and mortar, mudbricks and estimates available today. These maintenance and space utilization mud, all demanding extensive include the number of rooms, the along with discernible family investments of time and energy. The space of covered rooms, the number of dynamics in the context of what we combined weight of all the living and cooking areas, food storage now know about contemporary construction components of the house capacity, etc. I continue to process strategies for subsistence and survival. at ‘Umayri, determined through which of these approaches (or which The results of this study are many specific-gravity calculations, was over combination of these approaches) will and varied, even if much more work 450 tons. best represent what we have at the deserves our attention. Of 527 Iron I What can we know of normal, sites where Iron I domestic sites (as listed in JADIS), 50 have been everyday life in houses like these? architecture is found. Likely the four- excavated or at least probed. Of these, What dynamics of space utilization, room houses excavated to this point eight boast certain Iron I domestic family life, population size, gender housed from 6–10 people, probably remains and another four are likely roles can we discover? It is eminently stretching across parts of three candidates for the same. An additional clear, based on current research on the generations. 14 might possibly contain Ultimately, I hope to produce a domestic remains, but the monograph (and electronic records are not sufficiently clear equivalent) dedicated to the Iron I to make this judgment with domestic housing of Jordan that certainty. Five sites contain addresses architectural, artifactual and complete or relatively complete interpretive issues in the context of houses. digitized, three-dimensional renderings of as many of these structures as possible, utilizing some Painting of “Four-room” House at of the sophisticated software currently Tall al-`Umayri. (Artist, Rhonda available. Root, Andrews University.)
ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 13 Geoarchaeological comparative studies of Pleistocene The Politics of Investigations in the lake sediments reported for other Promoting areas in Jordan, including Jerf ad- Wadi al-Hasa and Darawish, Al-Jafr Basin, Azraq, Wadi Eco-Development to Similar Paleo- Gharandal, Wadi Siq (north of Petra), Sustain Nature Conser- Environmental Settings and the Wadi Hammeh. The well- vation in Jordan and documented Pleistocene lakes in the area of Palmyra, Syria and those in the the Middle East Nancy R. Coinman Wadi Feiran of southern Sinai were CACOR/AORC Senior Fellow examined, as well. The goals of the John Creed research were to provide a revised ACOR/CAORC Fellow Recent geoarchaeological research in geographic overview and a more the Wadi al-Hasa and similar synthetic model of the evidence for Since the early 1990s, Jordan has paleoenvironmental settings lake/marsh ecological settings in the redoubled its efforts to establish a elsewhere in Jordan now provides a greater Levant for the purpose of coherent network of nature reserves more comprehensive understanding of better understanding how human designed to protect all of the country’s local and regional land use and groups articulated with a mosaic of major types of vegetation and provide habitat to preserve many threatened settlement patterns for the late landscapes at the end of the plant and animal species. This work, Paleolithic time period. Most Pleistocene. Since these environmental conducted by the Jordanian non- Levantine paleolithic scholars have landscapes disappeared about 12,000 paid little attention to steppe-desert governmental organization (NGO) the years ago, it would be instructive to Royal Society for the Conservation of adaptations in the eastern deserts of recover and reconstruct what served Nature (RSCN), is attempting to Jordan, and even less to lake and as dynamic geographic backdrops for merge biodiversity protection with marsh contexts that characterized the evolving hunter-gatherer societies programs that address the economic many of the late Pleistocene during the waning stages of the last and social needs of human environments across this region, great Ice Age. At a more specific communities living in and around concentrating almost exclusively on archaeological level, a better protected spaces with an eye toward the western Mediterranean and understanding of the paleoenviron- promoting sustainable development in southern deserts of Israel and Sinai. ment provides a greater appreciation these areas. In several respects, the approach to New data on remnant geological for the organizational relationships integrated conservation-development formations and processes associated between human settlement patterns, projects prevailing in Jordan is with Pleistocene lakes, marshes, and subsistence strategies, and associated springs now contribute to developing potentially path breaking, both with technologies. Locational data respect to this new model of a finer-grained landscape chronology collection on geological sedimentary conservation and in the context of the of paleoenvironments and associated sequences and on geoarchaeological Arab world. Preliminary work by the archaeological sites during the time site contexts and evaluations of RSCN has focused on creating viable period of ca. 40,000 to 12,000 BP and paleolithic sites has integrated GPS small business enterprises at different new models of man-land relationships (Global Positioning Systems) data reserve sites, including eco-tourism, that can be examined and tested in with GIS (Geographic Information that exclusively employ local residents future geoarchaeological research. Systems) computer applications to in order to economically connect Information on Pleistocene lakes in produce distributional maps in which communities to the new reserves and deter people from unsustainably Jordan reflects the more geogra- archaeological and geological data exploiting resources for their phically widespread nature of these appear against a variety of livelihoods. The flagship effort at paleoenvironments during this time background maps, including period and establishes a more Dana has already successfully topographic, geological formations, employed more than 50 people in a representative assessment of the satellite imagery, and geo-political number of positions, including regional Levantine landscape, these maps. guiding tours, farming organically and ecological niches, and the paleolithic manufacturing crafts under the label sites associated with them. “helping nature, helping people.” The Research funded by a ACOR/ “Dana approach” is now being CAORC Senior Fellowship was modified and applied to several other directed at an extended focus on the sites throughout the country. Pleistocene geological record in the These initiatives have also Wadi al-Hasa, followed by underscored the need for more
14 ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 conservation and development unmitigated catastrophe. A careful Especially central to this was the expertise within the RSCN and study of the cultural transformations special place of the city of Jerusalem in spawned a dramatic change in the is made difficult by the disinterest in this period and the apocalyptic organization institutionally. In recent most of our written sources in such expectations that grew out of this years, the RSCN has abandoned its questions, but also by the fact that we particular place. “top-down” management approach have not clarified how some of the and replaced it with a team-oriented central concepts we need to make such organizational culture that encourages a study were themselves reconfigured local supervision of projects, as well as and transformed. This study is an The Circulation of strategic planning, innovation and attempt to outline some of those Ceramic Commodities in self-reflection throughout the processes with a geographical focus Iron Age Central organization. The RSCN’s capacity in limited primarily to the Bilad al-Sham areas of conservation and economic up to the end of the Umayyads. Transjordan development has expanded Taking the notion of city as starting significantly and now it is beginning point, this study seeks to elaborate the Benjamin Porter to share its expertise with others in the physical, social and conceptual ACOR/CAORC Fellow Arab world through the creation of an transformations undergone by the interactively oriented Regional notion of city and therefore civic Training Center. identity from the Late Antique to the Previous archaeological and This research project is focused on Islamic periods. The connection historical investigations demonstrate examining whether the Jordanian plan between city and sacrality is central, that Iron Age Moab did not evolve to integrate conservation and but the notion of sacrality also was from a kinship structured tribal development, with its preliminary undergoing important transfor- society to a politically and focus on socio-economic development mations. Sacrality had come to be economically integrated territorial for surrounding communities, can go placed primarily in bodies, especially state, a trajectory that social beyond the initial goal of increasing those of holy men, but ideally of all evolutionary models would predict. local support for conservation and human beings in late antiquity. This Finding traditional approaches create a successful and sustainable location of sacrality posed the problem unsatisfying then, how is it possible to system of community-based natural of the appropriateness of its repre- explore social change in this ancient resource management in the reserves, sentation, which was played out in society? My research investigates where local residents themselves versions of the iconoclastic contro- Moabite society through an exa- control and manage conservation versies of this era. More importantly mination into the circulation of efforts. In addition, research is Islam saw the relocation of sacrality in ceramic commodities over space and directed on the dynamics of the three areas. The first is that of time. By identifying how ceramic RSCN’s internal capacity-building “sacrifice,” which in one respect objects were produced, exchanged, processes and the future diffusion recovered an old notion that both and consumed throughout Moab’s effects these efforts might have on Christianity and Judaism had rejected, existence, it is possible to make other Jordanian environmental though for very different reasons. broader statements on the character of institutions and the larger community However, the sacrifice that Islam Moabite society and explore the of Arab non-governmental recovered was not that of offering to dynamics that transformed it over organizations focused on biodiversity the divine, but rather one fully time. conservation. ethicized and made the hallmark of My investigation analyses ceramic charitable responsibility within the evidence from two excavated sites in virtuous city. Second, sacrality was Central Transjordan using The Virtues of Cities in placed fully in text. If bodies were to petrographic and Instrumental Late Antiquity and Islam be holy it was because they Neutron Activation (INA) analyses. “contained” the text and the work of First, Iron Age I ceramics are drawn from the University of Pennsylvania’s William R. Darrow its interpretation. In this Islam followed closely a similar move made Khirbat Mudayna al-‘Aliya (KMA) ACOR/CAORC Senior Fellow by Rabbinic Judaism and developed excavations, under the direction of Dr. the centrality of the hermeneutic Bruce Routledge. KMA is a typical Much work has been done in the enterprise as the basis for religious late Iron Age I village located near the past few decades in setting the coming authority. Finally, Islam continued the Wadi Mujib. Second, Iron Age II of Islam in the context of Late process of placing sacrality in ceramic evidence is examined from the Antiquity, thus resisting the tendency locations of religious memory, late William H. Morton’s 1955, 1956, of Islamic sources to see an absolute building on the already developed and 1965 excavations at Dhiban new beginning and the tendency of Christian (and perhaps Jewish) (Dibon). Ceramic thin sections are the non-Islamic sources to see an notions of holy places of pilgrimage. first examined to gain a preliminary understanding of the diversity in raw
ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 15 materials. From this information, perform. Value is that compelling more than 11,600 chipped stone and sherds are selected for INA analysis. force that draws us to make and ground stone artifacts, and small finds Two additional data sets consume objects, or that cultural at ACOR in Amman. In addition, compliment this Central Transjordan knowledge we possess that helps us to architectural features and stratigraphic ceramic sample group. In order to determine one thing’s exchangeability information was documented in the increase this investigation’s analytical for another. But ironically, cultural field at both sites. Tools at both sites scales, ceramic samples are collected knowledge rarely remains fixed, and were dominated by projectile points, from well-excavated Iron Age contexts our ability to calculate an object’s drills, and knives. Representative in the study region. These samples value is far from consistent. My samples of tools and small finds were will permit an examination of the research recognizes the dynamic force photographed and have been Moabite ceramic economy at the of value and will investigate its consigned for drawing. Animal bones regional level, illustrating the contribution to human-object relations from ‘Ayn Jammam were shipped to relationship between the principal in Iron Age Moab. the United States for analysis in the sites of KMA and Dhiban, and 2002–2003 academic year. All of this settlements in their vicinity. In research concerning these two LPPNB addition, clay samples from the study “megasites” (each was ca. 8 hectares in region are collected for INA analysis to Neolithic Rescue area) represents the first stage in the identify the source of ceramic Archaeology in Jordan eventual publication of a final report commodities’ raw materials. The on the excavations, which is viewed as entire sample group will be analyzed a combined volume to appear in the at Missouri’s University Research Gary O. Rollefson Freie Universität of Berlin Ex Oriente Reactor (MURR) in the Fall of 2003. ACOR/CAORC Senior Fellow Neolithic series in approximately two My research places the analytical years. distinctions between production, Research during my ACOR-CAORC exchange, and consumption practices fellowship tenure focused on three under scrutiny to encourage a new Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) The Palaeography of understanding of material culture and settlements in Jordan: AWS 102 in the Iron Age Ammonite value in archaeological research. Azraq Wetlands Reserve in the oasis Inscriptions from Variations in these practices over time area of eastern Jordan; al-Bast in Wadi can point to larger social Musa; and ‘Ayn Jammam on the Jordan transformations, from the western Ras en-Naqb escarpment. development of bureaucracies that The research objective for AWS 102, reorganize local economies to new Christopher A. Rollston a small hunting-pastoral camp in the NEH Fellow cultural expressions of social status. desert, was to retrieve two skeletons The methodology outlined above will that were found emerging from a silt allow for an investigation into these dune. Because of the rarity of Various Iron Age Semitic variations. For example, can we say Neolithic burials outside the inscriptions have been found in Jordan with certainty that ceramic production agricultural area to the west, these during recent decades. Some of these grew increasingly specialized during skeletons held some promise for are written in the Ammonite and the Iron Age? Are particular vessels investigating the relationship of Aramaic languages. Although it is produced for and consumed by elites western and eastern populations and readily apparent that the Ammonite and does the production of vessels their possible contributions to the language is distinct from Aramaic emulating these restricted forms development of pastoral nomadism. (and from other Northwest Semitic develop in response? Most However, instead of two skeletons, the languages), there has been substantial importantly, what historical, political, site yielded seven, including one adult discussion within the secondary and economic forces are producing and six children below the age of six literature regarding the script these new circulation practices in years. The group was not Neolithic in employed to write the Ammonite Moabite society? age, but evidently a recent Bedouin language. Frank Moore Cross, for The manner in which individuals family who evidently suffered a example, has argued that the make, obtain, and use objects varies catastrophic epidemic sometime Ammonite script became independent over time, creating a volatile around the beginning of the 20th of the Aramaic script (from which it relationship between humans and century or later. derived) during Iron II, and evolved objects. Value is an important force For the last two sites, which were into a national script. Joseph Naveh, driving material culture’s circulation excavated by the Jordanian however, has argued that the through society. Broadly considered, Department of Antiquities during the Ammonite script never became an value is a culturally assigned quality mid- to late 1990s, the fellowship independent national script. Rather, he determined by the meanings that provided the opportunity to analyze argues that the script of Ammonite things embody and the functions they typologically and technologically inscriptions is always the Aramaic
16 ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 script. The goal of my research was to Crusader and Ottoman projects in both the Karak and Salt are analyze the script used to write in underway. Ammonite, to describe the diachronic Heritage Presentation Sustainable tourism is important to evolution of the script used to write in Jordan — Al-Karak Jordanian heritage, as most Ammonite, and to determine if this and As-Salt professionals in the country clearly script should actually be considered recognize, but the approaches to this an independent national script. goal are still fragmentary here as During my four month residency at Sandra Arnold Scham elsewhere. Competent conserva- the American Center of Oriental ACOR/CAORC Senior Fellow tionists struggle to make sites Research, I collated scores of authentic—within their understanding provenanced Iron Age Ammonite and Salt and Karak, though their of the term and planners struggle to Aramaic inscriptions in Jordan. In primary attractions are from periods make the sites successful in economic addition to using traditional methods some seven hundred years apart, have terms. Sites, however, communicate (e.g., use of a 10x loupe for some historical characteristics in certain values whether planned or not. magnification), I also employed a common. Both places were Karak is a site that is not really stereo-microscope (with 20x–40x traditionally known as towns where culturally integrated into its local and magnification), something that was Muslims and Christians in Jordan regional cultural surroundings. Efforts especially effective for reading and peacefully co-existed. Both are sites of to make the site speak more to Arab analyzing the script and readings of medieval castles (Salt’s has all but history will be a step in the right seals and seal impressions. Most of the disappeared). both were populated in direction, but the site still lacks collations were conducted at the Ottoman times by successive waves of cultural coherence to the town. Salt Amman Archaeological Museum, people from elsewhere and both were may be more of a success story in however, I also traveled to various contenders (Salt successfully) for the terms of local participation as well as regional museums as well, such as the capital of the new nation of Jordan for cultural relevance and coherence, but University of Jordan Archaeological a brief period of time. it is unlikely to achieve stature as a Museum, the Madaba Museum, the Karak was one of the first major tourist destination unless it can Kerak Museum, the Salt Archaeo- archaeological sites to be developed somehow communicate its local logical Museum, and the Deir Alla by the Department of Antiquities of values cross-culturally even while Archaeological Station. Moreover, Jordan in 1925. Unlike Karak, maintaining them. because of the importance of however, Salt is an historical site, but The focus on Salt and its local comparative palaeographic analysis, I not an archaeological one. What is on history at the new Visitor’s Center and traveled to Lebanon and collated view and what is of interest at Salt Museum has the potential for creating Phoenician and Aramaic inscriptions was essentially not recovered or such a link, but it is difficult to achieve there. restored. Salt is not only a model of an this kind of effect in a museum setting. During my fellowship, I arranged older Arab city, but it is also an Original plans that adversely affected for Bruce Zuckerman and Marilyn important symbol of Jordan’s history. business owners and residents of Salt Lundberg of the West Semitic Only recently, however, has it been have been ameliorated by the active Research Project to travel to the region examined as a potential tourist site intervention of Jordanian in order to take large format and its businesses are largely professionals and community photographs (4" x 5") of the targeted unrelated to the tourist industry with members, but, thus far, there have inscriptions. This was very successful the exception of the Salt Handicraft been no similar activities undertaken and these images will ultimately be Center. at Karak. From its beginnings, Karak scanned on a high resolution drum Both Salt and Karak have been the has been looked at by Jordanians as scanner, so that I will be able to begin subjects of planning for many years. alien—foreign built, foreign to analyze the digital data, and to The “Historic Old Salt” project has as excavated, and foreign restored. draw the inscriptions digitally, as part its main objective the creation of a Although the fact that it is now a of his continuing research. My “wholly new” tourism resource that Jordanian site related to one of research on Iron Age scripts and will broaden the tourist perspective in Salahdin’s major victories must give inscriptions will be published in Jordan to include sites other than some satisfaction to those who know various places, including a lengthy antiquities. For Karak, the model its history. A tour guide at Karak article in a Festschrift honoring project has, as its main objective, the echoes this sentiment when he says, Harvard Professor Frank Moore Cross enhancement of a current tourism “The Crusaders—they came as (forthcoming, Eisenbrauns). resource. The plans are being invaders, the Romans came as implemented despite the dismal invaders, in Hellenistic times also. The tourism situation in Jordan today. big powers everywhere—they look to Karak is undergoing a controversial their own interests, but did leave structural renovation to make it more something behind for us in these safe and accessible and the museum places.” The goal of heritage
ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 17 professionals should be, similarly, to Course offerings in Arab music at “leave something behind” in terms of the conservatory include the theory, And the Award Goes To … the development of sites. history, and sight-singing of Arab The 2002 ASOR Honorees music as well as a course on the Transmission of Musical muwashshahat, a repertoire of classical The Richard Scheuer Medal: This is Arabic songs originating in al-Andalus the most prestigious award which Heritage: Youth in the thirteenth and fourteenth honors an individual who has Education in Arab Music centuries. Most of the Arab music provided truly outstanding, long students also take private lessons on term support and service at the National Music an Arab instrument—the ‘oud (the contributions to ASOR. Recipient in Conservatory, Amman, Arab predecessor of the lute) or the 2002: Walter Rast Jordan qanun (78-stringed Arab zither). The W. F. Albright Award. This Until the early to mid-twentieth award honors an individual who has century, the teaching and learning of shown special support or made Anne Elise Thomas Arab music was rooted in oral outstanding service contributions to ACOR/CAORC Fellow transmission. Western musical one of the overseas centers ACOR, notation was adapted to Arab music AIAR, CAARI, or to one of the beginning in the nineteenth century Amman was named by UNESCO to overseas committees - the Baghdad and gained popularity in the be the “Cultural Capital of the Arab committee and the Damascus twentieth, particularly in the region’s World” in 2002, and throughout the committee. Recipients in 2002: conservatories. Currently, written city cultural and artistic events have Andrew Oliver, Robert Haak musical notation is used extensively in been held in honor of this year-long The P. E. MacAllister Field the Arab music curriculum at the occasion. While Jordan’s historical Archaeology Award. This award NMC. Students are expected to master sites have gained recognition in recent honors an archaeologist who, during fundamentals of Western music first, years, Amman’s reputation as a center his/her career, has made outstanding including the major and minor scales for the performing and creative arts is contributions to ancient Near Eastern and key signatures, to equip them for yet to be built. Helping to provide a and Eastern Mediterranean the systematic study of Arab music solid foundation for the development archaeology. Recipient in 2002: theory. of these are a number of recently- Elizabeth C. Stone Elements of oral transmission are established institutions for the arts. The G. Ernest Wright Award. This still in evidence, however. Sakkher My project focuses on one of these award is given to the editor/author Hatter, who teaches the course on the institutions, the Noor al-Hussein of the most substantial volume(s) muwashshahat, presents these songs National Music Conservatory, dealing with archaeological material, through performance rather than on founded in 1986, and its role in the excavation reports and material paper. In private lessons, students use transmission of Arab classical music in culture from the ancient Near East written notation to learn the basic Amman. This research, supported by and eastern Mediterranean. This melody of a piece, but performance an ACOR/CAORC fellowship, will work must be the result of original details, such as ormanmentation and form the basis for my Ph.D. research published within the past techniques idiomatic to each dissertation in ethnomusicology from two years. Recipient in 2002: Edward instrument, are taught orally. Brown University. Using a variety of F. Campbell, Jr. I am continuing my dissertation ethnographic techniques, including The Frank Moore Cross Award. research in 2002–2003 in Cairo, Egypt, interviews, questionnaires, and This award is presented to the in order to compare Arab music participant-observation, I have editor/author of the most substantial education at conservatories there with observed and documented the volume(s) related to ancient Near the NMC in Amman. Through this teaching and learning of Arab music Eastern and eastern Mediterranean research, I hope to document within the conservatory. epigraphy, text and/or tradition. This processes at work the contemporary Currently, there are not many work must be the result of original transmission of Arab music as well as students of Arab music at the NMC. research published during the past encourage the continued involvement Out of a total enrollment of about 250 two years. Recipient in 2002: Ehud of young people in this musical students, only about 10 percent are Netzer tradition. focusing on Arab music—the rest are ASOR Membership Service Award. studying the performance, history, and This award recognizes individuals theory of Western art music. This ratio who have made special contributions reflects the degree of prestige that on behalf of the ASOR membership, Western classical music enjoys among through committee, editorial, or higher-income Amman residents – the office services. Recipient in 2002: segment of the city’s population most Harold O. Forshey directly served by the conservatory.
18 ASOR Newsletter Vol. 52/4 • Winter 2002 CONFERENCE CALENDAR
February 20–22, 2003 code : 1315773411, Tehran, IRAN. Tel.: + 98 21 641 52 62. Fax : + 98 21 Official Religion of the Upper Classes and Popular Religions of Eth- 641 54 98. E-mail : [email protected] nic Population Groups. Anatolia and its Neighbours in the 2nd and August 23–26, 2003 Early 1st Millennia BCE. Religionswissenschaftliches Seminar, Univer- Common Ground. Archaeology, Art, Science, and Humanities. The sity of Bonn, Germany. Contact: Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Hutter, XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology of the Adenauerallee 4-6, D-53113 Bonn, Fax: ++49-228-737531. Email: Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC), hosted [email protected] by the Ancient Art Department of the Harvard University Art Muse- March 2003 ums, Cambridge, MA. Contact: Amy Brauer, e-mail: Ancient Textiles, Production, Craft and Society. Copenhagen, Den- [email protected]. Tel: 617-495-3393 32; Fax: 617-495-5506. mark/Lund, Sweden. Themes: Textiles in Practice—techniques, tech- February 8, 2003 nologies and tools; other cross-disciplinary studies including scien- A Symposium on Ancient Near Eastern Astronomy. A joint sympo- tific analyses; experimental archaeology and practical demonstrations; sium of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities and The Ca- Textiles in Society—craftsmen and craftsmanship; production and its nadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies. This event will deal with role in society; written evidence and economic factors. Contact: Eva astronomy in Egypt and the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Andersson, Dept. of Archaeology, Sandg., Lund, Sweden Graeco-Roman Period. The symposium will be held at the Medical [email protected] or Carole Gillis, Dept of Classical Studies, Sciences Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle, Main, University of Solveg. 2, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden [email protected]. Toronto Campus, Toronto, Ont. Canada. Email contact: March 20–23, 2003 [email protected] or [email protected] The Fifth Bi-Annual Conference in Shifting Frontiers in Late An- February 21–23, 2003 tiquity. The University of California, Santa Barbara. Theme: “Violence, Midwest States. Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI. Victims and Vindication in Late Antiquity.” Contact: Prof. H. A. Drake, ASOR Contact: Mark W. Chavalas, Department of History, Univer- Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA sity of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, La Crosse, WI 54601. Tel. (608) 784-8360. 93106-9410. Email: [email protected]. Email: [email protected]. March 28–31, 2003 March 13–14, 2003 American Oriental Society Annual Meeting. DoubleTree, Nashville, ASOR Mid-Atlantic States Regional Meeting. Hyatt Regency Hotel, TN. Contact: www.umich.edu/~aos/ New Brunswick, NJ. ASOR contact: Peter Feinman, Institute of His- April 3–6, 2003 tory, PO Box 41, Purchase, NY 10577. Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity. Nicosia, Cyprus. Sponsored by the March 14–16, 2003 Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI), and the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (SECSOR) Archaeological Research Unit (ARU) of the Department of History and Meeting. Chattanooga Clarion Hotel. ASOR contact: Tom McCollough, Archaeology of the University of Cyprus. Contact: Mrs. Vassiliki Centre College, Danville, KY 40422. Email: [email protected]. Demetriou; email: [email protected]; tel. (357-2) 674658/674702; fax. March 27–28, 2003 (357-2) 674101. Archaeological Research Unit (ARU), University of 7th Annual Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations Graduate Students’ Cyprus, P.O.Box 20537, CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus. Symposium. To be held at the University of Toronto. Contact: Heather June 11–17, 2003 Snow, Symposium Coordinator, Near and Middle Eastern Civiliza- Fifth World Archaeological Congress. The Catholic University of tions, 4 Bancroft Avenue University of Toronto Ontario, Canada M5S America. Washington, DC. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution’s 1C1. E-mail: [email protected]. Web: nmcgsa.sa.utoronto.ca. National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the Tel: 416-787-2130. Fax: 416-978-3305. American Indian. Contact: www.american.edu/wac5. April 6–7, 2003 July 7–11, 2003 ASOR Central States Regional Meeting. Holiday Inn, Westport, St. 49th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Theme: Nineveh. On Louis, MO. ASOR contact: Victor H. Matthews, Southwest Missouri the occasion of the British Museum’s 250th anniversary the London State University. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.sbl-site.org/ Centre for the Ancient Near East, acting for the British Museum and Regions/CentralStates. html colleges of the University of London, takes pleasure in inviting schol- April 10–11, 2003 ars to convene for RAI 49 at the British Museum. The Rencontre will ASOR Eastern Great Lakes Regional Meeting. Marriott Courtyard be meeting in London (and indeed in Britain) for the first time in Ambassador Conference Center, Erie, PA. Suzanne Richard, Gannon twenty-one years. Contact: www.let.leidenuniv.nl/rencontre/ University, Box 3161, Erie, PA 16541. Email: [email protected] April 25–27, 2003 RAI_2003.html ASOR Pacific Northwest Regional Meeting. University of Idaho, July 19–25, 2003 Moscow, ID. ASOR contact: Douglas R. Clark, Walla Walla College, The International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, in 204 South College Avenue, College Place, WA 99324. Email: conjunction with the Society for Old Testament Studies and the [email protected]. Web: www.wwc.edu/pnw. Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap. Cambridge, England. Contact: May 2, 2003 www.sbl-site.org ASOR New England Regional Meeting. Andover-Newton Theologi- August 16–18, 2003 cal School, Newton, MA. Contact: www.sbl-site.org/Regions/ The First International Conference on the Ancient Cultural Rela- NewEngland/NE_HomePage.html tions Between Iran and Western Asia. Tehran. Sponsored by the Of- November 6–8, 2003 fice of Deputy Minister for Cultural Affairs at the Ministry of Culture Transeuphratene in the Persian Period: Powers, Societies and Reli- and Islamic Guidance Deadline for paper submissions: January 21, gions. Institut Catholique, Paris. Contact: Secretary of the 6th Interna- 2003. Contact: Secretariat of the First International Conference on the tional Conference, Institut Protestant de Theologie de Paris, 83 boule- Ancient Cultural Relations Between Iran and Western Asia. 1178 vard Arago, 75014 Paris, France ([email protected] ). E-mail: elayi- Enqelab Ave. between Felestin St. and South St. 3rd Fl. Postal area [email protected]. Web: www.mediatechnix.com/transeuphratene/
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