FRIENDS OF 17勛圖WEBINAR
Where Are They Now?: A Preview of 2022 ASOR-Affiliated Fieldwork Projects
Friends of 17勛圖presents a webinar on泭March 8, 2022 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm EST, ���Where Are They Now?: A Preview of 2022 ASOR-Affiliated Fieldwork Projects,��� featuring Michael Given, Xenia-Paula Kyriakou, Stephen Batiuk, Monique Roddy, Kent Bramlett, Friedbert Ninow, and Michael Hoff.泭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 17勛圖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.
17勛圖Sustaining Members: $0 | 17勛圖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 ASOR. 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
Break
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
17勛圖Sustaining Members: $0 | 17勛圖Members: $6 | Public: $12
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Speakers / Presenters
Stephen Batiuk泭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.
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Kent V. Bramlett泭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泭Archaeology and Director of Graduate Studies in Archaeology. He is Curator of the Archaeology泭Collections and Associate Director of the Center for Near Eastern Archaeology at La Sierra泭University. He earned a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Toronto,泭specializing in the Late Bronze Age. He is co-director of the Madaba Plains Project excavation at泭Tall al-���Umayri and the Balu���a Regional Archaeological Project, both in Jordan. At La Sierra, he泭teaches Akkadian, Hieroglyphic Egyptian, and other ancient languages in addition to archaeology classes.
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Michael Given泭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泭The Archaeology of the Colonized泭(Routledge, 2004), and泭Landscape and Interaction: The Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus泭(with A.B. Knapp, L. Sollars, J. Noller and V. Kassianidou; 2 volumes; Council for British Research in the Levant, 2013).
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Michael Hoff泭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泭Rough Cilicia: New Historical and Archaeological Approaches泭(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.
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Xenia-Paula Kyriakou泭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.
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Friedbert Ninow泭(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.
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Monique D. Roddy泭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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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
��ystein 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 ASOR-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 ASOR���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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After volunteering at Tel Gezer in 1972 and 1973, Sam Wolff continued his archaeological studies at the University of Chicago. During that time, he participated in excavations of the Commercial Harbor and Tophet at Carthage (1975-1979) in modern day Tunisia. Wolff received his Ph.D. in 1986. He was Field Supervisor and later Assistant Director of the excavations at Ashkelon (Israel) from 1985 to 1990. He relocated from Chicago to Israel in 1987 with his family. In 1991, he began a 25-year career as a field archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). His most important excavations were conducted at the Iron Age I site of Ein Hagit, the multiperiod site of Tel Megadim, and the Iron Age II site at Tel Hamid, a satellite of Tel Gezer. He worked as Co-Director (with Prof. Steve Ortiz) and photographer at the renewed excavations at Tel Gezer from 2006 to 2017. Since retiring from the IAA in 2017, he has been managing the Tel Gezer laboratory and working on articles and final publications of his excavations.
Nota Kourou泭is Professor Emerita, Athens University, Greece. She studied Archaeology at Athens University (BA) and continued for her Ph.D at Oxford University, (Somerville College 1974-1979). She taught first as a lecturer and later became a Professor at Athens University from 1979-2012. In 2013, she became a Visiting Professor at Brussells University (ULB). Kourou has lectured at several Universities in the United States, Australia, and Europe, and was an Onassis Senior Lecturer in the United States in 2005. She participated in various excavations in Greece and has directed the Athens University Excavation at Xobourgo on Tenos, Cyclades since 1995, which has revealed a major island settlement.
Amihai Mazar泭is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main fields of interest are the archaeology of the Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages and the relationship between archaeology and biblical history. He directed large-scale archaeological excavations at Tell Qasile (1973���1974, 1982���1988), Tel Batash (biblical Timnah) (1977���1989), Tel Beth Shean (1989���1996), and Tel Re廎叨v (1997���2012), as well as several smaller-scale projects. He is the author and editor of numerous publications, including泭Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, and fourteen volumes of final archaeological field reports. Mazar is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and laureate of the Israel Prize for archaeological research.
Robert Mullins泭is Professor and Chair in the Department of Biblical and Religious Studies at Azusa Pacific University. He received his Ph.D from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to joining the faculty of APU, he served as a research assistant to Prof. Amihai Mazar and the Beth-Shean Valley Archaeological Project. In addition to his work at Beth-Shean, Rehov, and Gezer, Mullins has also excavated at Tell Atchana (Alalakh) and Zincirli (Sam���al) in southeastern Turkey. He currently co-directs joint excavations at Tel Abel Beth Maacah with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent publications include the泭Atlas of the Biblical World泭(Fortress Press, 2019).
Nava Panitz-Cohen泭is a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where earned her Ph.D, and is now an adjunct instructor and editor of the Qedem Monograph Series of the Institute. Her field work included Tel Batash, Tel Beth-Shean and Tel Rehov, and she participated in the publication of these sites. She is currently co-director of excavations at Tel Abel Beth Maacah in the Hula Valley in northern Israel alongside Naama Yahlom-Mack and Robert Mullins. Her research interests include Bronze and Iron Age ceramics, ceramic technology, household, gender, and experimental archaeology.
Naama Yahalom-Mack泭is an associate professor of Bronze and Iron Age archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is head of the Institute���s Laboratory for Archaeological Materials and Ancient Technologies. She is currently co-director of the Tel Abel Beth Maacah excavations in the Hula Valley. Her research focuses on archaeometallurgy and on the provenancing of archaeological materials as a proxy for reconstructing ancient trade and economic interaction.

Rachel Hallote is Professor of History at . An archaeologist, she is also the author of several books and numerous articles about biblical archaeology and the history of archaeology. Her research involves British and American archaeologists who excavated in Ottoman-controlled Palestine in the 19th century. She has worked at numerous archaeological sites in Israel, including Tell Miqne and Megiddo. Her publications include泭Bible, Map, and Spade: The American Palestine Exploration Society, Frederick Jones Bliss, and the Forgotten Story of Early American Biblical Archaeology泭and the co-authored volume,泭The Photographs of the American Palestine Exploration Society. She currently co-hosts an archaeology podcast called泭This Week in the Ancient Near East.


James Riley Strange is Charles Jackson Granade and Elizabeth Donald Granade Professor in New Testament at ���s Howard College of Arts and Sciences, where he teaches courses in New Testament and archaeology. He has been directing the Shikhin Excavation Project in Lower Galilee since 2012. Excavations in the village ruins have turned up remains of a ceramics and oil lamp industry and a synagogue that dates to the Roman period. Alongside David A. Fiensy, he is co-editor of the two-volume set,泭Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods泭(Fortress Press, 2014 and 2015), and he is the author of泭One Problem After Another: An Introduction to Archaeology, the Gospels, and Understanding Roman Galilee泭(Eerdmans, forthcoming in 2022).



This webinar explores how various Bible-related TV documentaries are made, and what goes into making a quality, responsible program about the popular subjects of Jesus and Jerusalem. We will also delve into how some producers sensationalize religion and the holy city (Jerusalem) in an effort to increase ratings, but at the expense of historical accuracy and education. An expert in this area, Dr. Cargill (University of Iowa), has appeared in over 4 dozen documentaries and has consulted on several major documentary series on泭CNN,泭History, and泭National Geographic.
Dr. Robert R. Cargill (PhD 2008 UCLA, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) is Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at the 泭and Editor of the new泭. He teaches biblical studies, Second Temple Judaism, archaeology, and ancient languages including Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Syriac. His recent books include泭Melchizedek, King of Sodom: How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King泭(Oxford University Press, 2019) and泭The Cities That Built the Bible泭(HarperOne, 2016).

Dr. Erin Darby is an associate professor of Early Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies and the Faculty Director of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships at the泭. Erin is an expert in the archaeology of Israelite religion, with a particular focus on figurines and other cultic objects. These are the focus of her monograph,泭Interpreting Judean Pillar Figurines: Gender and Empire in Apotropaic Practice泭(Mohr Siebeck 2014) and a forthcoming co-edited volume entitled泭Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context泭(Brill, fall 2021), as well as several other publications. Her research has been supported by two fellowships from the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR) in Jerusalem. She has also received funding to support her research at the American Center of Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan and the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI), in Nicosia, Cyprus. Her most recent work has focused on figurines and other ritual objects at shrine sites in the Negev Desert of southern Israel and in southern Jordan. She is also an active field archaeologist and co-director of the ���Ayn Gharandal Archaeological Project in the Wadi Arabah of southern Jordan.
Friends of ASOR
Yosef Garfinkel is Yigael Yadin Professor of Archaeology of the Land of Israel at the Institute of Archaeology, . For many years he was a prehistorian, excavating Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites, including Yiftahel, Gesher, Neolithic Ashkelon, Shaar Hagolan and Tel Tsaf. He did extensive research on prehistoric dance, including the publication of articles and a book:泭Dance at the Dawn of Agriculture. An article on the evolution of human dance had been published recently by泭Cambridge Archaeological Journal.