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| | | June 4, 2013 |
| Call For Nominations: Chair(s) of Annual Meeting Program Committee |
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The Chairs Nominations Committee of the American Schools of Oriental Research announces a general call for nominations and applications for individuals to serve as chair(s) of one of ASOR’s most important academic committees—The Annual Meeting Program Committee. The term of office is three years beginning January 1, 2014. Read more... |
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| Sustainability at Any Price is not Sustainable: Open Access and Archaeology |
By: Eric Kansa
This month the ASOR blog features posts from the world of Digital Archaeology. Check back frequently for more post like this one from Eric Kansa and add to the discussion by commenting frequently! Kansa's blog post looks at the open access debate, and notes how sustainability is as much of an ideological and political question as it is a financial issue. It is intended to follow up on previous blog posts (first, second, third) that discuss how the Aaron Swartz prosecution and death highlighted tremendous injustices in the legal framework governing scholarly communications. Read more... |
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| Mohammad “Abu Ahmed” Adawi, Chef at ACOR (1968-Present) |
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Mohammed “Abu Ahmed” Adawi has spent more than 40 years cooking for archaeologists in Jordan and Palestine. He began as a laborer at the dig in Jericho with Kathleen Kenyon in 1956. By 1960 he was cooking at ASOR in Jerusalem under then Head Chef Omar Jibrin. Abu Ahmed learned his basic techniques on the job, but he recalls that Omar could be secretive about his recipes. Read more... |
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| BASOR Gets Bigger and Better |
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ASOR is proud to announce that BASOR (The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research—ISSN: 0003-097X) will be switching to bi-annual production in 2013. This production schedule change that allows for the following enhancements:
•The page-count of BASOR will expand by more than 25%.
•The journal will be published in color throughout and not just in plates.
•The journal will appear twice a year (May and November) with 256 pages in each issue.
These enhancements follow an extensive self-study. The editorial board determined that color photographs throughout the journal would better complement the content. Read more...
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| Report from CAARI (Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute) |
By: By Dr. Andrew McCarthy
In the spring of 2013, CAARI is returning to what can be called a “new normal”. A frenzy of developments took place over the past few months, including hiring a new member of staff, renovating the library, improving the residence facility, upgrading the laboratories and holding a major international conference. Since November 2012, there have been some distractions at the Nicosia institute, but our core functionality has continued throughout. For several months, the library was closed for renovations as part of a larger Library Expansion Project. During this time we converted the lobby of CAARI into a library reading room. Read more... |
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| Professor Don Wimmer Remembered |
By: Owen Chestnut
Don Wimmer passed away on Monday, May 23rd. He was 80 years old, former professor at Seton Hall University, and director of excavations at Tall Safut. Don began excavating at Tall Safut in 1982 and I first met him 25 years later in the summer of 2007. He had been in touch with my Ph.D. adviser Randall Younker during the fall of 2006 in an effort to find a doctoral student to wade through material he had excavated over the course of 10 seasons at the site. I jumped at the opportunity to work on an actual site and on actual pottery that I could hold in my hand. That summer in 2007, I spent a week at Don’s house going through the Safut material and loading it up in a Uhaul to take back to the archaeology lab at Andrews University. Read more... |
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| The Non-Professional Archaeological Photographs Project |
By: By Bart Wagemakers
Recently, the Non-Professional Archaeological Photographs Project (NPAPH) has been initiated by ASOR member Bart Wagemakers. This project aims to stimulate archaeological institutions to trace former students and volunteers who joined an excavation prior to the 1980s, to collect and digitize their photographic documentation, and, finally, to make it accessible to the public via digital archives. Furthermore, the project hopes to create international collaboration between archaeological institutions in order to connect these digital archives. Read more... |
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