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| | | March 5, 2013 | |
March Fellowship Madness is Here! Donate Today and Send a Student to the Field!
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| The Platt Fellowship Changed My Life! |
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By: Caroline Carter, 2012 Platt Fellow In the summer of 2011, I attended my first archaeological excavation during the opening season of the Huqoq Excavation Project in Huqoq, Israel under the direction of Professor Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Israel Antiquities Authority. I had not planned on returning in 2012, due to finances, nevertheless I reapplied for the project as well as a few fellowships just to see what would happen. Read more... |
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| March Fellowship Madness Kicks Off!!! |
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It's that time of year again! March Fellowship Madness is a month-long drive to raise as many fellowship dollars as possible, so we can get more students in the field! Last year, 80 donors joined in the madness and gave over 9,000 dollars. That meant that ASOR was able to award nine additional travel scholarships! That's nine additional scholars who were able to conduct field research and expand our knowledge of the ancient Near East. How many more students can we send to the field this year? Read more... |
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| From Code to Discourse: The Semantics of Ancient Near Eastern Ritual |
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By: Yitzhaq Feder My fellowship at the Albright Institute provided me with the opportunity to make significant progress in my large-scale inquiry into the origins of ritual symbols and their sociological and political functions in cultural discourse. This project builds upon the recognition of the foundational role of concrete imagery in processes of human conceptualization and expression (as elucidated in ‘embodiment’ theory), particularly as reflected in the languages and rituals of the ancient Near East. Read more... |
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| You Like Us. You Really Like US! |
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On February 25th, ASOR’s Facebook page surpassed 4,500 likes, meaning our page has nearly three times as many fans as ASOR has traditional members! The past year has been an exciting period of growth for ASOR’s social media, and in little more than a year, over 4,000 fans have followed our page. Our weekly reach (the total number of people who see content from our page, including those who have no yet begun following it) typically ranges between 5,000 to 10,000, and we continue to add about 50 to 100 new fans every week. Thank you for making our page so popular! If you are on Facebook and have not yet liked us, please do so! We update it regularly with a wide variety of news and announcements. Read more... |
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| The Tel Burna Archaeological Project |
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By: Joe Uziel In 2009, Dr. Itzhaq Shai and I initiated a long-term archaeological project at Tel Burna. The site is located in the Judean Shephelah on the northern banks of Wadi Guvrin. While described by a number of scholars over the years as a prominent ancient site, it is one of the last tells in the Shephelah to be excavated. Since 2009, an ongoing survey, including several different methods has been conducted alongside excavations. Thus far, 21 squares have been excavated in three different areas, uncovering a sequence of five strata spanning the Late Bronze Age IIB through to the Persian period. Read more.... |
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| Highlights from the 2012 Winter ASOR Trustee Meeting |
•Approved the Fiscal Year 2012 Audit and an Investment and Spending Policy for ASOR. Also approved the journal escrow requirement for 2012 to ensure that adequate funds are set aside to publish ASOR's journals.
•Unanimously elected Assistant Treasurer Richard Coffman to serve a three-year term as treasurer (2013–2015). Enthusiastically thanked Sheldon Fox who served two terms as treasurer.
•Unanimously elected Lynn Swartz Dodd as Secretary to serve a three-year term (2013–2015). Read more... |
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| Metal Implements and Tool Marks from the Levantine Second Millennium BC |
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By: Nicholas Blackwell The primary purpose of my Spring 2012 fellowship at the Albright Institute was to compile an extensive dataset of metal tools from the Levantine second millennium BC. This research began to round out the previously-incomplete Levantine category of a tool database assembled for my dissertation on Middle and Late Bronze Age metal tools from the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean, and Anatolia (Bryn Mawr College, 2011). Furthering this study through reading excavation reports from Syro-Palestinian sites and visiting museums in Israel, I was able to add a considerable number of tools to my database. Read more... |
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| Four Elected as Trustees at the 2012 Members' Meeting |
This year, there were eight people who ran for four slots on the ASOR board as members of the Class of 2015. The election took place on November 16, 2012 at the Annual ASOR Members' Meeting which is held during the Annual Meeting. The general membership elected two individual trustees, and institutional representatives elected two institutional trustees:
•Susan Ackerman (re-elected as an institutional trustee)
•Catherine Duff (elected as a first-time individual trustee)
•Barry Gittlen (re-elected as an institutional trustee)
•Ann-Marie Knoblauch (re-elected as an individual trustee)
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