The study of the Transjordanian Iron-Age (ca. 1200-550 BC) state of Ammon is important to students of the Bible because of the numerous references to the Ammonites (bene 'ammon) included in the historical and prophetic sections of the Hebrew canon. The book of Genesis traces the…
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This research explores the spatial patterning of archaeological surface features at the Jenné-jeno Settlement Complex to gain a better understanding of the settlement organization represented by the nucleated settlement clusters. This involved an intensive surface survey recordi…
Walking is a critical dynamic practice that has largely been overlooked in archaeological studies. There has been a tendency to focus on static places as the loci for activity rather than on the movement that infuses life into those places. This study seeks to move beyond this b…
The Late Bronze-Iron Age horizon in southern Syria-Palestine is marked by profound changes in the cultural and socio-political fabric of the region. Because of its association with biblical Israel, the highlands have been the focus of considerable investigative effort into the h…
The purpose of the study “The Midianite Question: An Examination from an Archaeological and Textual Perspective,” is to survey all relevant materials to determine whether the Late Bronze Age/Iron Age I civilization of the northern Hejaz may be that of the biblical Midianites. Ex…
The goals of this study were to obtain information on the variation of socio-political organization in complex societies, and to begin to develop a culture history for Konso in Southern Ethiopia. The focus is on the time period prior to when Konso became incorporated into the Et…
During the mid-third millennium BC, urban-centered societies developed with complex social, economic and political institutions across Syria. One urban center that has provided archaeological and textual evidence on the development of urban society and early states in western Sy…
This dissertation focuses on three tasks: (1) to select representative excavations of Iron Age II Palestinian city gates in order to undertake an analysis of the archaeological remains, (2) to evaluate selected city gate architectural structures, typologies, installations, and a…
The site of Quseir al-Qadim was a port on the Egyptian shores of the Red Sea that was active in the late twelfth through fifteenth century AD. A synthesis of archaeological and textual evidence found at the site reveals that this small port, which is only fleetingly mentioned in…
This research investigates relations between economic structure and technology at a fourth millennium B.C. Uruk period town, with the goal of understanding how the productive enterprises of a particular town shaped the technological strategies of its residents. The Uruk period w…
One of the most challenging problems in Iranian archaeology has for long been the unexplained shift in material culture in the mid-second millennium B.C. in northern Iran. It consists of pronounced transformations that affected the nature and distribution of ceramic forms, buria…
A modest historic province on the Atlantic coast of west-central Senegal, the Siin is portrayed in oral traditions and written documents as a vibrant cultural frontier, which oscillated between centralized and more dispersed forms of socio-political organization over the past 15…
The subject of 'ribāts' in the field of Early Islamic Archaeology has long been connected to North Africa (modern-day Tunisia), partially because of the archaeological remains of the two 'Abbāsid ribāts ("coastal fortresses") at Munastīr and Sūsa. Recently, however, two fortress…
Because they are composed of individuals who most likely died for reasons related to their health, cemeteries may not accurately reflect the demography of a living population. Teasing out the ways in which cemetery skeletal assemblages differ from living populations has been a l…
The Coptic textile discussed in this qualifying paper is owned by the textile dealer Craig Wallen. It was kept in storage due to its fragile and fragmented condition; the existing fibers run the gambit from extremely dry and disintegrating to extremely stiff and inflexible. The …
This thesis is based on six-months of archaeological field research in the upper Senegal/Lower Falemme region aimed at reconstructing patterns of social and economic change during the past 1500 years. The target area was a 50 kilometer-segment of the lower Falemme river that was…
This dissertation examines eighth-sixth centuries B.C. Moab through integration of data from the oracles against Moab in the prophets of the Hebrew Bible, from the Neo-Assyrian texts concerning Moab, and from the socio-archaeological evidence of the Iron Age IIC. Information is …
The research thesis is an outcome of the effort by the researcher to know how the archaeological collections housed in various museums across India could be used as a source of education especially learning about culture and heritage. Museums can be rightly said as adjuncts to f…