PH.D Candidate Anthropology Archaeology
Research Interests
Archaeobotany, Zooarchaeology, Materiality, Empire, Hellenistic Archaeology
About
Alexander T. Dorr is an anthropological archaeologist working in the Environmental Archaeology Lab under Dr. John Marston at Boston University. He is interested in exploring periods of dynamic regime change in the Hellenistic Southern Levant and how these changes resulted in shifts in agricultural regimes on the ground. He plans to analyze agricultural datasets from various sites in Hellenistic Galilee to identify the everyday praxis of rural farmers. This research will attempt to identify whether these farming practices were affected by the expansion and protraction of Hellenistic empires and their associated regime changes. His research aims to incorporate both macrobotanical and zooarchaeological data in exploring how those on the ground responded to these political shifts.
Publications
- (subm.) Dorr, Alexander T., and John M. Marston. Archaeobotanical remains from Khirbet-el-’Eika. In Final Report of the Hellenistic Galilee Project. Edited by Uzi Liebner. Hebrew University Press, Jerusalem.