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Floating Discoveries on the Mediterranean Sea Coast

This season my fieldwork and dissertation data collection took me to the Mediterranean coast of Israel with the generous support of the ASOR Heritage Excavation Fellowship. I am a paleoethnobotanist […]

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Jugs Before Jars, Except After Cars - Shikhin Excavation Project

This year ASOR and its donors gave me the opportunity to participate in my fourth dig season and my first time at Shikhin. Each time I dig, I think I know what to expect, but there are always new situations, new people […]

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Paving the Way to an Iron Age Gate: A Glimpse into theSeason at Tall Jalul

It says a lot about a country that teaches every man, woman, and child at least one English phrase – “Welcome to Jordan.” […]

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A Different Sort of Community Outreach in Jordan—Building a Museum: the MRAMP Project

The Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum Project (MRAMP) pilot field season […]

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2015 Campaign at Kınık Höyük

By: Lorenzo D’Alfonso, Harris Grant Recipient Thecampaign at Kınık Höyük (southern Cappadocia, Turkey), covering the two months of June and July, capped off the first 5 year cycle of archaeological investigations at the site. This is significant benchmark for any venture, and is especially so for the project that I direct. For […]

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Looking into the stratigraphy: deep sounding at Kinik Höyük (Southern Cappadocia)

Thanks to ASOR and to ISAW-NYU, this summer I have participated for two months in the excavations at Kinik Höyük, a site located in Southern Cappadocia (Turkey).

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Teaching in the Trenches: The Omrit Fieldschool

By: Kathryn McBride, Member Supported Fellowship Recipient  This was my second year working in the northern Galilee, Israel at the site of Omrit, a project run through the cooperative efforts of five American universities (Carthage College, Williams College, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Queens College-City University of New York, and St. John’s University), in […]

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Field Walking and Drone Flying, theSurvey at Wadi al Ashert

By: Austin “Chad” Hill P.E. McAllister Fellowship Recipient This summer, thanks to an ASOR P.E. McAllister Fellowship, I was able to continue working with the Galilee Prehistory Project {GPP) of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. I have been thrilled to be a part of this research program since its inception. […]

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When an Art Historian Leaves the Library

By: Elena Gittleman, Heritage Fellowship Recipient I am not an Archaeologist. With a lack of any formal training in the discipline, I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I landed in Israel in the summer. I did know that it would be hard, sometimes tedious work, and that, if […]

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Third Time’s a Charm

By: Austin Glock Andrews, Heritage Fellowship Recipient While archaeology is steeped in the study of the past, my time working on an excavation has been integral to developing my plans for the future. The most formidable experiences that I’ve had over the past three years with regard to my career and future have occurred during my […]

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