Andrea Berlin published in Times of Transition Judea in the Early Hellenistic Period.
Andrea Berlin published, “The Achaemenid-Ptolemaic Transition: The View from Southern Phoenicia,” in Times of Transition. Judea in the Early Hellenistic Period. Sylvie Honigman, Christophe Nihan, and Oded Lipshits, eds. Mosaics 1. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press and Eisenbrauns: University Park PA, 2021. Pp. 143-159. Congratulations Andrea!
Andrea Berlin published in the Bulletin of ASOR
The BASOR article, to appear in the May 2021 issue, can be read online at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/711887.
Photos of 4/24 Archaeology Faculty Spotlight Lecture by Professor Andrea Berlin
“At Home on Board: Kyrenia Ship and the Goods of its Crew” Lecture by Andrea Berlin, James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology, Professor of Archaeology & Religion. Abstract: The Kyrenia ship is the best preserved small Greek merchant ship ever found. Its cargo included 400 amphoras, 45 millstones, iron ingots, nearly 10,000 almonds, a […]
The Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP)
The Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP) is an open, interactive website focused on ceramics produced in the Levant from the Neolithic era (c. 5500 B.C.E.) through the Ottoman period (c. 1920 C.E.). Here you can submit and find information—whether long published or newly discovered—about ceramic wares, shapes, specific vessels, scientific analyses, kiln sites, and chronology. The […]
Professor Berlin’s LCP Project receives a $55,000 grant
LCP got some good news this week! We’ll be receiving $55,000 over the next two years from the Austrian FWF, which is the country’s Science Fund (sort of the equivalent of our NSF) in conjunction with their new Open Research Data Project. We are partners with the Austrian Archaeological Institute in this grant, which will fund not […]
Professor Andrea Berlins’ Levantine Ceramic Project LCP is the top feature in the Biblical Archaeology Society’s daily email blast!
Archaeological Views: Pottery in the Computer Age As published in the September/October 2016 Biblical Archaeology Review Andrea Berlin • 10/03/2016 BAR readers know there is no place on Earth more intensively investigated archaeologically than the Levant. As a corridor between east and west, north and south, as well as the center of gravity for […]
Archaeology in the News – Email from the Chair
In case you have not seen it, the spring issue of Boston University’s news magazine arts & sciences has two great pieces about activities in our department. On page 5, “Hands on the Past,” there are pictures of our Jonathan Bethard and Mac Marston making presentations at the Alumni College gathering in the Gabel Museum […]
Maccabees Project is in the Boston Globe
The following appeared on BostonGlobe.com: Headline: Boston University project attempts to understand the Maccabees – The Boston Globe Date: Apr 12, 2016 The Maccabees are a complex, but ongoing symbol of Jewish nationalism. But, were they really great ancient warriors or has their heroism been exaggerated? http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2016/04/12/project-attempts-understand-maccabees/5zz0EwooWFR3ZY7FD4uaKN/story.html?s_campaign=8315
Feature story BU-BC Maccabees Project
If you are interested in learning more about the BU-BC Maccabees Project, please visit the project website: http://sites.bu.edu/maccabees/
First international interdisciplinary Virtual Brown Bag hosted on October 7, 2015
The first international interdisciplinary Virtual Brown Bag discussion in the Maccabees Project organized by Professor Andrea Berlin was launched on October 7, 2015 and hosted at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. Shown here in session are scholars in archaeology, history, theology Jewish Studies and medicine speaking with colleagues in other parts of the […]