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Where Are They Now?: A Preview of 2022 ñ-Affiliated Fieldwork Projects

Friends of ñ presents a webinar on March 8, 2022 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm EST, “Where Are They Now?: A Preview of 2022 ñ-Affiliated Fieldwork Projects,” featuring Michael Given, Xenia-Paula Kyriakou, Stephen Batiuk, Monique Roddy, Kent Bramlett, Friedbert Ninow, and Michael Hoff. This special event will preview the field seasons of four sites across Cyprus (Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery), Georgia (Gadachrili Gora Regional Archaeological Project Expedition), Jordan (Balu’a), and Turkey (Antiochia ad Cragum). The program will include four presentations covering such topics as introductions to each site in its historical context, current excavation and survey progress, the research focus of the upcoming field season, and discussion of past work and scholarship at each site. Join us as we explore some of the exciting projects that ñ members are currently participating in across the eastern Mediterranean region. The panelists will conclude their webinar with a live Q&A session with the audience. The full program is below. The event will be recorded.

ñ Sustaining Members: $0 | ñ Members: $6 | Public: $12

Program Schedule

TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2022

6:00pm – 6:20pm

Michael Given

University of Glasgow

Xenia-Paula Kyriakou

Florida Gulf Coast University

Cyprus: Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery

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Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery lies at the base of the limestone cliffs of Kourion, a well-preserved Greco-Roman port-city on the south coast of Cyprus. The tombs, features, and deposits are the result of a long and complex sequence of activities, from funeral processions and commemorative libations to quarrying limestone, burning marble, and herding goats. This talk will discuss the work of the original excavations at Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery directed by Danielle A. Parks between 1995 and 2000, and the long analysis and writing phase of the project led by a team of her friends and colleagues after she died in 2007. This work has been virtually completed, with a draft of the two volumes of the final publication submitted to the Annual of ñ. Owing to the pandemic, one more task remains to be done: the analysis and publication of the human remains. We will present our plans for one last field school in June 2022 to study this exciting material.

6:20pm – 6:40pm

Stephen Batiuk

University of Toronto

Georgia: Gadachrili Gora Regional Archaeological Project Expedition

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The Gadachrili Gora Regional Archaeological Project Expedition (GRAPE) is a joint venture between the University of Toronto, the Georgian National Museum (GNM) and the National Wine Agency of the Ministry of Agriculture (of the Republic of Georgia). The project aims to investigate the emergence of farming economies in the South Caucasus and the development of horticultural practices and the resultant secondary products, with a focus on viticulture and viniculture. We also aim to look at the influence of Near East societies on the development of local Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures of Caucasia and, conversely, the reciprocal influence on the Near East. GRAPE represents the archaeological component of a larger interdisciplinary project sponsored by the Georgian National Government entitled the Research and Popularization of Georgian Grape and Wine Culture. The excavations are directed by Mindia Jalabadze (GNM), Stephen Batiuk (University of Toronto), with Khaled Abujayyab (University of Toronto). GRAPE is an international multidisciplinary research project, but also an archaeological field school, which provides a unique opportunity to receive intensive training in archaeological field and survey methods at a series of rural settlements in the Middle Kura region of the Kvemo Kartli province south of the modern city of Marneuli, with a focus on the sites of Gadachrili Gora and Shulaveris Gora.

6:40pm – 6:50pm

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6:50pm – 7:10pm

Monique Roddy

Walla Walla University

Kent V. Bramlett

La Sierra University

Friedbert Ninow

La Sierra University

Jordan: Balu’a

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Khirbat al-Balu’a is located on the Karak Plateau in Central Jordan. In its location near the Wadi Mujib, Balu’a was able to control a major north-south route in the pre-Classical periods, acting as gatekeeper to the plateau. Balu’a spreads across nearly 16 hectares with some periods inhabiting distinct areas, such as an Iron Age settlement at the core of the site and medieval Islamic remains to the southwest. Given its size and position, Balu’a was likely a prominent site, especially in the Moabite kingdom of the Iron Age. The Iron II Period settlement at Balu’a covers approximately 13.5 hectares. Much of the architecture of this settlement is visible at the surface, including a casemate wall that defines the extent of the Iron Age settlement and structure walls with intact doorways. Excavations from 2012 to 2019 have focused on three main areas at the Iron Age site: the Qasr, a monumental structure at the highest of part of the site, the House, a well-preserved domestic structure, and the Wall, a segment of the fortification system that divided the core of the settlement from a later expansion. This talk will focus on the main discoveries of the Balu’a Regional Archaeological Project at Balu’a (BRAP), and explain the plans for the 2022 excavation season. (security forms due by March 1).

7:10pm – 7:30pm

Michael Hoff

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Turkey: Antiochia ad Cragum in Rough Cilicia

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The Roman-era city of Antiochia ad Cragum is located on the Turkish south coast, approximately 40 km southeast of Alanya. In antiquity, the city formed part of the region referred to as western Rough Cilicia. The city was founded by Antiochus IV of Commagene about 41 BCE and eponymously named. Previously the site had served as a base for the notorious “Cilician Pirates,” who raided throughout the Mediterranean from bases mainly situated along this coastline. Excavation began in 2005 with modest explorations of the Northeast Temple. After a few seasons, we expanded operations in the city center, and we have gained a wealth of information regarding the interplay between city and citizens over the past 15 years. We have revealed bath complexes, market shops, the bouleuterion, and several church complexes. Before COVID we had just begun to look at the domestic quarters and in near-future seasons, these will be the focus of our operations.

7:30pm – 8:00pm

Audience Q&A with all Panelists

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You will be e-mailed the Zoom Webinar link in the week prior to the webinar on March 8. If you do not receive the link by the close of business on the Friday before the event, please e-mail membership@asor.org immediately. This event will be recorded and all paid registrants will be sent a link to view the recording.

All proceeds from this webinar are used to fund scholarships for members impacted by COVID-19 as well as increasing ñ’s online resources, which are free to the public.

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Speakers / Presenters

Stephen Batiuk is a Senior Research Associate and Lecturer with the Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, and co-director of GRAPE – the Gadachrili Gora Regional Archaeological Project Expedition (Republic of Georgia) as well as Director of Excavations for the Tayinat Archaeological Project (Turkey) and the Project Manager for the Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project. He holds his degrees from the University of Toronto (Ph.D.) and the University of Ottawa, and his areas of specialization include Near Eastern archaeology with a focus in the Bronze and Irons Ages of Turkey, Syria and the Caucasus.

Kent V. Bramlett is a Professor of Archaeology and the History of Antiquity at La Sierra University where he has taught since 2010. He is Chair of the Department of Biblical Studies and Archaeology and Director of Graduate Studies in Archaeology. He is Curator of the Archaeology Collections and Associate Director of the Center for Near Eastern Archaeology at La Sierra University. He earned a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Toronto, specializing in the Late Bronze Age. He is co-director of the Madaba Plains Project excavation at Tall al-‘Umayri and the Balu‘a Regional Archaeological Project, both in Jordan. At La Sierra, he teaches Akkadian, Hieroglyphic Egyptian, and other ancient languages in addition to archaeology classes.

Michael Given is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology in the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, Scotland. His research interests include archaeological survey and landscape archaeology, the historical periods in the Eastern Mediterranean, post-Medieval Scotland, the relationship between people and the environment, and conviviality theory. He has carried out fieldwork in Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Scotland and Turkey. From 2000 to 2012 he was co-director of the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus, and he is currently director of the publication phase of the Excavations at Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery, Cyprus. His books include The Archaeology of the Colonized (Routledge, 2004), and Landscape and Interaction: The Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus (with A.B. Knapp, L. Sollars, J. Noller and V. Kassianidou; 2 volumes; Council for British Research in the Levant, 2013).

Michael Hoff specializes in Greek and Roman archaeology, particularly of Asia Minor in Turkey where he currently conducts research. From 1997 to 2004, Hoff co-directed the architectural survey team of the Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project that documented ancient Roman sites in Turkey. Since 2005, Hoff has served as Project Director for the large-scale excavations of the ancient Roman-era city of Antiochia ad Cragum on the south coast of Turkey. Hoff has excavated previously at the Athenian Agora, Corinth, Crete, and at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea, Greece. In addition to his work on the archaeology of Asia Minor, Hoff also conducts research on the history and topography of Roman Athens. Hoff has authored many articles in international journals and has co-edited several books, including Rough Cilicia: New Historical and Archaeological Approaches (Oxbow Press). Professor Hoff received his B.A. from the University of Missouri, M.A. from Florida State University, and Ph.D. from Boston University. Hoff joined the art history faculty at the University of Nebraska in 1989.

Xenia-Paula Kyriakou is a Lecturer in Legal Studies in the Department of Justice Studies at Gulf Coast University, in Florida. Her research interests include the reconstruction of health and demography in ancient societies, paleoepidemiology, paleo-oncology, the development of standards and methods in forensic anthropology, humanitarian forensics, and necropolitics. She was involved in numerous archaeological excavations as a bioarchaeologist and worked on many forensic cases, including those that address violation of human rights, both in Cyprus and abroad. She is the director of Odyssey Field School, which has been running since 2014 to present day, and offers training and research opportunities to students in the disciplines of bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology.

Friedbert Ninow (Ph.D. 2000, Andrews University) is the Dean of the Richards Divinity School, La Sierra University, and co-director of the Balu’a Regional Archaeological Project. He also directed the Wadi ash-Shkafiya Archaeological Survey as well as excavations at Khirbat al-Ma’mariyah.

Monique D. Roddy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy at Walla Walla University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on household archaeology in the Early Iron Age in the southern Levant. She worked with the Madaba Plains Project at Tall al-‘Umayri in Jordan from 2004 to 2016 and continues to work as an editor on the final publication series for ‘Umayri. She has co-directed the Balu’a Regional Archaeological Project at Khirbat al-Balu’a since 2017. She has also excavated at Zincirli in southeastern Turkey, Keros in the Cycladic Islands, and Cartagena in southern Spain.

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PAST WEBINARS

You can now purchase the link to the recording of any webinar. You can also purchase the bundle packages of all webinars from the 2020-2022 seasons. Please e-mail membership@asor.org for purchase details.

To see a printable pdf of the webinar titles from the 2020-2021 season, please click here. To see a printable pdf of the webinar titles from the 2021-2022 season, please click here.

Pricing:

Members: $6.00 per recording
Non-Members: $12.00 per recording
Bundle of 2020-2021 Webinars: $75.00
Bundle of 2021-2022 Webinars: $75.00
Bundle of 2020-2022 Webinars: $125.00

2021-2022 Season

A World at War: Protecting Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict
Patty Gerstenblith (DePaul University), Lisa Ackerman (Columbus Citizens Foundation), Andrew Cohen (Government Professional and Cultural Heritage Expert) | May 12, 2022

Preserving Cultural Heritage in Hisban and Umm al-Jimal, Jordan
Øystein LaBianca (Andrews University), Elizabeth Osinga (Umm al-Jimal Archaeological Project), Darrell Rohl (Calvin University) | April 24, 2022

Back to the Field: Recent Discoveries & Summer Plans 2022
Lorenzo d’Alfonso (ISAW), Kathryn Grossman (NC State University), James R. Strange (Samford University) | April 3, 2022

Uncovering What is Nubian Beneath the Veneer of Egyptianness: Excavating the Archives
Debora Heard (University of Chicago) | March 20, 2022

Where Are They Now?: A Preview of 2022 ñ-Affiliated Fieldwork Projects
Michael Given (University of Glasgow), Xenia-Paula Kyriakou (Florida Gulf Coast University), Stephen Batiuk (University of Toronto), Monique Roddy (Walla Walla University), Kent Bramlett (La Sierra University), Friedbert Ninow (La Sierra University), and Michael Hoff (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) | March 8, 2022

Excavations at Tel Gezer: A Personal Story
Sam Wolff (Tel Gezer Laboratory) | February 20, 2022

Tel Rehov: A Major Bronze and Iron Age City in the Jordan Valley
Amihai Mazar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Nava Panitz-Cohen ( Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Nota Kourou (Athens University), Naama Yahalom-Mack (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Robert Mullins (Azusa Pacific University) | February 10, 2022

The Not-So-Innocents Abroad: The Beginnings of American Biblical Archaeology
Rachel Hallote (Samford University) | January 20, 2022

Synagogues as Jesus Knew Them
James R. Strange (Samford University) | December 2, 2021

Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City
Andrew Lawler | November 4, 2021

Jesus and Jerusalem on TV: How Do Bible Documentaries Get Made?
Robert Cargill (University of Iowa) | October 17, 2021

Digging the Divine?: Judahite Pillar Figurines and the Archaeology of Israelite Religion
Erin Darby (University of Tennessee) | October 7, 2021

David, Solomon, and Rehoboam’s Kingdom—The Archaeological Evidence
Yosef Garfinkel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | September 19, 2021

From Standing Stones to Sacred Emptiness: Textual and Visual Portrayals of Israel’s God
Theodore Lewis (Johns Hopkins University) | August 29, 2021

2020-2021 Season

Making May Matter: Webinarathon to Endow Diversity
Multiple Speakers | May 21-23, 2021

Archaeogaming: Why Video Games Deserve Their Own Archaeology
Tine Rassalle (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Shannon Martino (Morton College), Matthew Winter (University of Arizona), Michael Zimmerman (Rhode Island) | April 18, 2021

How the Bible Became a Book
William Schniedewind (UCLA) | March 21, 2021

The Mysteries of Mithras in Caesarea: Exploring the Cult’s Rites and Remains
Jane DeRose Evans (Temple University), Alexandra Ratzlaff (Brandeis University) | March 11, 2021

Archaeology and the Hidden Religious Culture of Israelite Women
Carol Meyers (Duke University) | February 21, 2021

Meet the Directors—Fundraiser to Support ñ’s Affiliated Overseas Research Centers
Matthew J. Adams (AIAR), Pearce Paul Creasman (ACOR), Lindy Crewe (CAARI) | February 11, 2021

Early Synagogues, Jesus, and Galilee—A Jewish Perspective
Eric Meyers (Duke University) | December 13, 2020

Home Sweet Home: Ancient Israelite Households in Context
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott (William Jessup University) | October 18, 2020

Priestesses in the Days of Solomon and Ahab
Susan Ackerman (Dartmouth College) | September 13, 2020

Digging Deeper: How Archaeology Works
Eric H. Cline (The George Washington University) | August 9, 2020

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