Come One, Come All to the
Projects on Parade Poster Session
The Projects on Parade Poster Session is an ideal opportunity to see the types of projects (both field
and publication) that ASOR is sponsoring. You’ll have a chance to speak with the students,
volunteers, and excavators of sites. Please review the poster abstracts which are included in the
abstracts portion of this book (at the end of the session abstracts.)
The posters will be on display on the Promenade throughout the Annual Meeting. On Saturday,
November 23, from 12:45-2:00pm, representatives from the various projects will be standing
with the posters and will be available to answer questions. Please plan to stop by!
Settlements in Southern Jordan During the Ottoman Period: a Dendrochronological &
Ethnographic Perspective
Linah Ababneh1, Sturt Manning1
1Maclolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY, USA, 2Department of Classics, and Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
The Tel Esur Community Excavation Project
Shay Bar
Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
Busayra Cultural Heritage Project: 2013 Site Assessment Season
Stephanie Brown1, Andrew Wilson2, Christopher Bravo1, Benjamin Porter1
1University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2Bangor University, Bangor, Whales, UK
What Does Archaeology Tell Us And How Should We Interpret It?
Seung-taek Sirius Chung1
1Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Containers and Commodities in the Age of the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Chemical Analysis of
Several Small Ceramic Vessels and Their Contents
Alison Crandall1, Andrew Koh1, Richard Newman2
1Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA, 2Museum of the Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Petrographic Examination of the Ceramic Building Materials from Humayma
Dominique Dupuis1, M. Barbara Reeves1, Craig Harvey2
1Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada, 2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
“When Good Things Get Broke:” The Glass and Stone Vessels from Achaemenid Qaleh Kali.
Amanda Dusting, Bernadette McCall, Iona Katherine McRae
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Samson and The Elephants: The Huqoq Excavation Project
Bradley Erickson, Jocelyn Burney
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Microstructural and Microchemical Deconstruction of an Urartian Museum Assemblage
Lara Fabian
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The Lower Town of Kınık Höyük, Southern Cappadocia: A Preliminary Investigation of Urban
Life During the Late Iron Age and Hellenistic Periods
Nancy Highcock
New York University, New York, USA
Humayma's Trash: What the Ceramics from Dumpsites Reveal about the Site's History
Lindsay Holman
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
DEM and Orthophoto Production Through Balloon Photography and Structure from Motion
Matthew Howland
University of California, San Diego, California, USA
Nelson Glueck's ASOR Expeditions in the Transjordan
Jeff Howry
Harvard University, Semitic Museum, Cambridge, MA, USA
The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project 2013 Season: New
Assessments of Late Cypriot Cityscapes
Catherine Kearns1, Jeffrey Leon1, Peregrine Gerard-Little1, Thomas Urban2, Sturt Manning1, Kevin
Fisher3
1Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, 2Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 3University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada
From Kiln to Table: 'Ayn Gharandal and the Late Roman Ceramics Trade in Southern Jordan
Tiffany Key, Pamela Koulianos
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
‘Shedding Light on Broken Glass': the Glass of Islamic Ashkelon
Robyn Le Blanc
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Palaces of the Mediterranean Bronze Age
Jesica Lewis
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Variation in Iron Age Central Anatolia
John Marston
Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Archaeobotany and the Chalcolithic in the Levant
Anneliese Marty
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Targeting the Introduction of Domestic Camel to the Southern Levant: The Evidence from the
Arabah Valley
Lidar Sapir-Hen, Erez Ben-Yosef
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Zooarchaeological Analyses from the Kura-Araxes Site of Köhneh Shahar (Ravaz) in
Northwestern Iran: A Preliminary Assessment of Social Complexity
Siavash Samei1, Karim Alizadeh2, Hamed Eqbal3
1University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, 2Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 3Azad University,
Abhar, Zanjan, Iran
The Central Timna Valley Project (CTV) 2013: Optically Stimulated Luminesce (OSL) and its
Application in the Dating of Ancient Copper Mines
Craig Smitheram1, Erez Ben-Yosef1, Naomi Porat2, Gala Faerestein2
1Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
The Early Bronze Age Çadır Höyük Metals in the Context of Central Anatolian Metallurgy
Stefano Spagni
Sapienza - Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
Digital Ecosystems Integrating Field Collection and Lab Management: Using web-services for
the integration of disparate datasets.
Matthew Vincent1, Aaron Gidding1, Neil Smith2
1University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA, 2King Abdullah University of Science and
Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Sea of the Dead: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on the Cemetery at Khirbet Qazone
Jessica Walker1, Megan Perry2
1University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Understanding Data Reuse in Archaeology
Elizabeth Yakel1, Ixchel Faniel2, Sarah Whitcher-Kansa3, Eric Kansa4, Adam Kriesberg1
1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2OCLC Research, Dublin, OH, USA, 3University of
California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 4Alexandria Archive Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
Performing Death in 3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia: Burial Customs and Funerary
Practices at Tell Ingharra/Kish
Federico Zaina
Sapienza - University of Rome, Rome, Italy