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[/vc_column_text][mk_image src=”http://www.asortest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/social-fb-icon4.jpg” image_width=”42″ image_height=”42″ hover=”false” custom_url=”https://www.facebook.com/ASOResearch/” margin_bottom=”0″][mk_image src=”http://www.asortest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/social-tw-icon4.jpg” image_width=”42″ image_height=”42″ hover=”false” custom_url=”https://twitter.com/ASOResearch?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor” margin_bottom=”0″][mk_image src=”http://www.asortest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/social-in-icon4.jpg” image_width=”42″ image_height=”42″ hover=”false” custom_url=”https://www.linkedin.com/company/american-schools-of-oriental-research” margin_bottom=”0″][mk_image src=”http://www.asortest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/social-ml-icon_7.jpg” image_width=”42″ image_height=”42″ hover=”false” custom_url=”mailto:asor@bu.edu” margin_bottom=”0″][mk_image src=”http://www.asortest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-icon3.jpg” image_width=”42″ image_height=”42″ hover=”false” custom_url=”http://asorblog.org/” margin_bottom=”0″][/vc_column][vc_column border_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.01)” width=”1/6″ css=”.vc_custom_1496683923840{margin-right: 20px !important;border-left-width: 2px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;border-left-color: #99422f !important;}”][mk_divider divider_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.01)” thickness=”1″ margin_top=”3″ margin_bottom=”3″][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column border_color=”rgba(170,170,170,0.01)” width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1487276122024{margin-right: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;border-right-width: 2px !important;border-bottom-width: 2px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-right-color: rgba(227,228,228,0.75) !important;border-bottom-color: rgba(227,228,228,0.75) !important;}”][vc_column_text responsive_align=”left”]IN MEMORIAM鈥擫AWRENCE STAGER (1943-2017)
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Lawrence (鈥淟arry鈥�) Stager was born January 5, 1943, on a farm near聽Dunkirk, Ohio. He was the first in his family to go to college. He chose Harvard College, graduating in archaeology and history of the聽Ancient Near East with a B.A. magna cum laude in 1965. He continued聽his studies there under the tutelage of G. Ernest Wright and Frank聽Moore Cross, among others, earning his M.A. in 1972 and his Ph.D.聽(鈥榳ith distinction鈥�) in 1975, with a dissertation dealing with desert聽farming. He went on to teach Syro-Palestinian Archaeology at the聽Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago from 1973-1985, before聽returning to Harvard to an endowed chair, as the inaugural Dorot聽Professor of the Archaeology of Israel, and Director of the Semitic聽Museum. He retired in 2012, after 40 years of teaching, and serving as聽primary director of over fifty doctoral students and their聽dissertations.Stager鈥檚 field research and writing focused on Canaanites, Phoenicians, Philistines, and Israelites. Since 1965 Stager was active in archaeological fieldwork in the the Levant and the Mediterranean: he was co-director with Anita Walker of the excavations at Idalion, Cyprus. He then turned his attention farther west,聽directing the Punic Project at Carthage from 1975-1980, with聽excavations at the Commercial Port and in the Tophet. And starting in 1985, he directed and recently co-directed with Daniel Master the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, Israel.
Among his popular works is the award-winning Life in Biblical Israel聽(co-authored with Philip King) and Ashkelon Discovered (from the聽Bronze Age through the Medieval Period). Ashkelon 3: The Seventh聽Century B.C. won the Levi-Sala Book Prize, for best final excavation聽report on a site in Israel. This is one of a projected twelve-volume聽series of technical reports.
In 1999 Stager teamed up with Robert Ballard on a seaborne excursion聽that discovered by remote sensing and robotics two Phoenician聽shipwrecks, swamped in the deep-sea ca. 750 B.C., carrying cargo of聽over 800 wine amphoras being shipped from Tyre to Egypt. This amazing聽discovery appears as a National Geographic Society video entitled聽鈥淟ost Ships of the Mediterranean.鈥�
Stager elaborated an economic model for commercial maritime kingdoms聽in contrast to the land-based agrarian ones in a paper entitled 鈥淧ort聽Power in the Early and the Middle Bronze Age,鈥� and has successfully聽applied it to later periods, including Phoenician ports in the聽Mediterranean and the Atlantic.聽In his synthesis of Israelite society, he studied this land-locked聽culture in its physical setting in the highlands, its livelihood as聽kin-based agro-pastoral villages, its houses and family structures,聽and its demographic features in a pioneering article entitled 鈥淭he聽Archaeology of the Family in Ancient Israel,鈥� the most frequently聽cited and downloaded article published by the Bulletin of the American聽Schools of Oriental Research.
Stager gave the Schweich Lectures; his subject, 鈥淎shkelon: Seaport of聽the Canaanites and the Philistines.鈥� He was named a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2008 he聽was honored with a Festschrift of 50 essays, Exploring the Longue聽Dur茅e (ed. J. David Schloen; Eisenbrauns, 2009). The essays cover an聽array of topics reflecting the wide range of Stager鈥檚 intellectual聽interests, especially ancient economies and societies.
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