Travels Through Time: Imagining Migration in the Early Aegean
As a student, I had travelled and excavated in other parts of the Middle East (Jordan and Lebanon) before, but had never visited Israel […]
Archaeology in Lebanon Today: Its Politics and Its Problems
By: Hélène Sader Lebanon has a long and very rich past, but in spite of the country’s wealth of ancient settlements, compared to neighboring countries archaeological research is far behind. While in the last decades archaeological research has greatly enhanced our understanding of Syria’s, Jordan’s, and Palestine’s past, Lebanon appears to be lagging behind and […]
Archaeology after the Arab Spring
By: Jesse Casana The transformative political events in the Middle East over the past two years have had, among many other unexpected outcomes, profound effects on the direction of research in Near Eastern archaeology. War and civil unrest act as both a carrot and a stick, forcing the cessation of fieldwork in some areas, while […]
ASOR Heritage Fellow works at Bronze Age site in Lebanon
By: Antonietta Catanzariti, Heritage Fellow Theexcavation season at Kamid el-Loz, a site located in the central Beqa’a Valley of Lebanon, produced exciting and important results. It was only thanks to the Heritage Fellowship that I was able to participate in this campaign, conducted by the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität of Freiburg, and take part in these […]
Update on ASOR’s strategic plan
Strategic plan adopted by ASOR board. It is with great pleasure we announce that on April 24, the ASOR board of trustees unanimously adopted the “Strategic Plan as a blueprint to move ASOR forward.†A considerable amount of work has been done by the Strategic Planning Task Force that was chaired by ASOR President […]
BASOR back issues available at steep discounts
Back issues of BASOR available to current ASOR members (professional, retired, or student) at steep discounts. Option #1: Purchase as many individual volumes as you wish from the available sets listed below (subject to availability) for $5 for each volume plus shipping (see below). […]
BASOR 357 (Feb) available online
BASOR 357 (Feb) ASOR is pleased to announce that BASOR 357 (February) has now been posted online at Atypon Link. The issue contains articles by Maysoon al-Nahar, Christopher M. Monroe, Gideon Avni, and Asa Eger. As a reminder, the last 3+ years of ASOR […]