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May 15, 2018
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Executive Committee & Board of Trustees Report
Every spring, the ASOR Board of Trustees and the Board’s Executive Committee meet to engage in discussions and undertake items of business that have come forward since the Executive Committee’s and Board’s gatherings at the November Annual Meeting. This year, the Executive Committee and the Board met during the weekend of April 20-21, in Tucson, AZ. Click here to read the meeting report.
ASOR Legacy Circle: Tom and Alina Levy
Tom and Alina Levy describe their long relationship with ASOR and why they joined the ASOR Legacy Circle in this piece for News@ASOR. Read more ...
Winners of the Gitin Pottery Volumes
In order to further support ASOR's Student and Early Career Members, ASOR gave away 60 sets of Seymour Gitin's The Ancient Pottery of Israel and Its Neighbors from the Iron Age through the Hellenistic Period. These volumes are an outstanding resource—indeed, many are calling them "The Ceramics Bible." Read more ...
 
2018 Call for Posters Deadline: August 1st
Are you getting ready for an exciting field season or summer research? Did you miss the Call for Papers and still want to share your work with colleagues at the 2018 ASOR Annual Meeting? You have until August 1st to submit a poster proposal to the Projects on Parade Poster Session. Posters are an ideal format for presenting archaeological projects, a technical aspect of your project, a spectacular find from the field season, or a complex graphic and/or quantitive data. Poster abstracts are published in the Annual Meeting Program and Abstract book and authors will have the opportunity to stand with their poster and meet with attendees during the Projects on Parade Poster Session on Saturday, November 17 at the Denver Marriott Tech Center. Please read the Call for Posters to find out more information about submitting a poster proposal and the Projects on Parade Poster Session.
Fellowship Recipient Report - Tasha Vorderstrasse
Tasha Vorderstrasse, recipient of the 2017 Strange/Midkiff Excavation Fellowship, writes about going to Turkey to participate in the excavations at the sites of Çadır Höyük and Komana. Click here to read her report, "Experiencing the Middle Byzantine Countryside at Çadır Höyük."
ASOR CHI March 2018 Report
ASOR CHI releases its March 2018 report covering cultural heritage destruction in Syria, Iraq, and Libya. The report includes reported damage to the site of Barad in Syria, new damage to the Maltai Reliefs in Iraq, and damage to the Sabha Castle in Libya. Read more ...
Mortuary Archaeology and Bioarchaeology Field School
The field school is a joint project of the University of Kashan (Iran), Iranian Center for Archeological Research (ICAR) and the University of Warsaw (Poland) in Estark-Joshaqan in central Iran. It offers students the opportunity to participate in excavations at an exciting Iron Age cemetery and to learn how to properly handle excavated ancient human skeletons through cleaning, documentation and scientific analyses. The course is destined for students and graduates in archaeology, anthropology or biology, but also people interested in the past with no prior experience in excavations. Five students from abroad and seven Iranian students will be accepted. Read more ...
 
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