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| November 3, 2015 |
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| Membership Info |
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Member Type: No membership
Expiration Date: N/A
Member ID: None
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| ASOR Strategic Planning, 2016-2020 |
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For the past five years (2011-2015), ASOR has been well guided by the Strategic Plan adopted by its Board of Trustees in April 2010. But Strategic Planning is always an ongoing process. A Strategic Planning Task Force, chaired by ASOR President Susan Ackerman and comprised of another nine dedicated ASOR members, has been hard at work developing an ASOR Strategic Plan for 2016-2020. We are pleased to share a draft of this plan, and we invite all of our members to read it and to provide us with your feedback. Read more... |
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| 2015 ASOR Annual Meeting App is Here! |
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We’ve been talking about it for so long and now it’s finally here! The mobile app we created for #ASOR15 is now live. Download it for free to your iPhone, iPad, or Android. Once installed, you'll have access to some features like: the full event schedule, detailed information about speakers and sessions, and more. Read more... |
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| Reminder to Vote for Individual and Institutional Trustees |
There is still time to vote for ASOR Individual and Institutional Trustees. Emails have been sent out with the invitation to vote. If you would like to instead receive a print ballot, please contact the ASOR office. The voting window closes November 12th, at 12pm EST. If you haven't already voted, keep an eye out for an email reminder coming out soon.
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| NEH Program Officer Available for Meetings During 2015 Annual Meeting |
Sarah Lepinski, Program Officer in the Division of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities, will be at the upcoming ASOR Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA and is available to meet with those interested in learning more about NEH funding opportunities, particularly in Preservation and Access, the Digital Humanities, Research, and Education. Sarah will be available on Saturday, November 21, 2015. To schedule a time to meet, please email Sarah the top two or three 15- or 20-minute blocks of time that are most preferable. Projects may be at any stage of development, so come with your ideas and questions! More information regarding the NEH exhibitor table at the ASOR Annual Meeting, can be found here.
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| Remembrance: Reverend John R. Lee |
Jack Lee passed away at age 87 on August 2, 2015. He was involved in several excavations in Jordan and most particularly Karak Castle. In 1945, he entered the Basilian Novitiate in Rochester, New York and was ordained to the priesthood in 1956. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1951, an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem where he was also affiliated with the Pontifical Biblical Institute. From 1976 to 2006, he taught history and archaeology and was a mentor for many students at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. For several years after retirement, he spent considerable time at ACOR and was known for his long hours in the ACOR Library conducting research. To view the published In Memoriam in ACOR's Newsletter on Page 9, click here.
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| Remembrance: Dr. R. Thomas Schaub |
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Dr. R. Thomas Schaub, archaeologist, co-director of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan and author of numerous publications on the Expedition, died on October 19th, 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania following a long hospitalization. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Marilyn Schaub, his daughter Helen Schaub and his daughter-in-law Dr. Reena Karani. Schaub and his co-director Dr. Walter Rast established the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain in order to explore a series of archaeological sites located along the southeastern shore of the Dead Sea dated to the earliest period of urbanization in the region, the late fourth through the third millennium BCE. The Early Bronze Age inhabitants of these sites buried their dead with great care in some of the largest ancient cemeteries excavated in the Levantine corridor of the Middle East, and later settled two walled towns nearby, called Bab adh-Dhra` and Numayra, that endured for many centuries. Read more... |
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| New Publication: Shechem V (ARS 23) |
ASOR's Archaeological Report Series has published its most recent work entitled Shechem V: The Late Bronze Age Pottery from Field XIII at Shechem / Tell Balâtah by Catherine A. Duff, series edited by Edward F. Campbell, Jr. Substantial ceramic and architectural remains attributable to the Late Bronze Age were excavated in Field XIII in 1968 by the Drew-McCormick Expedition. The Late Bronze Age sequence spanning the Late Bronze I, IIA, and IIB contains ceramics from occupational contexts and also from a cache of 850 restorable and complete vessels from a Basement Chamber sealed below destruction debris. This analysis provides data on the ceramic typological development and the technological processes or chaîne opératoire at a Northern Hill Country site. Read more...
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| Survey on Field Safety (2015): Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean Basin |
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Stories about romantic escapades on archaeological excavations are legend, as anyone who has worked on a dig can surely attest. We have all heard about happy relationships that began in the field and thrived for decades. But as we also know, excavation lore contains stories of other kinds of “relationships” as well. This Survey on Field Safety: Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean Basin (2015) is designed to understand the ways in which archaeological fieldwork does – or does not – provide a safe and secure setting for all participants. In particular, it focuses on physical and emotional safety from intimidation, harassment and violence based on gender, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity. Read more... |
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| NEA Special Issue on Cultural Heritage - OPEN ACCESS |
The most recent Near Eastern Archaeology (Vol. 78.3, September 2015) is a special issue on cultural heritage entitled, "The Cultural Heritage Crisis in the Middle East." Given the relevance of this topic and the work ASOR's Cultural Heritage Initiatives has accomplished to help preserve the heritage threatened today, we've made this issue open access on JSTOR for any interested reader. To view the issue online now, click here. To learn more about how you can receive future issues of NEA, click here.
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