{"id":9552,"date":"2015-06-02T15:19:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T19:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/?post_type=profile&p=9552"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:56:19","slug":"berlin","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/profile\/berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea M. Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n

Websites<\/h4>\n

Berlin Archaeology<\/a>
\nLevantine Ceramic Project LCP<\/a>
\nLCP Video<\/a><\/p>\n

Areas of Interest<\/h4>\n

Archaeology and history of the Achaemenid; Hellenistic, and Roman East, Ceramic Studies; Second-Temple Judaism; archaeology of Israel<\/em><\/p>\n

Excavations and Research<\/h4>\n

I have been excavating in the eastern Mediterranean since 1973, working on projects from Troy, in Turkey to Coptos, in southern Egypt.\u00a0 I focus on the eras of the later ancient empires: the Achaemenid Persians, Alexander the Great and his Hellenistic successors, and the Romans.\u00a0 I am especially interested in understanding the realities of daily life under these regimes, and in exploring the intersection of politics and cultural change in antiquity.\u00a0 Currently I am working on the publication of the Persian period levels of an administrative compound at Tel Kedesh in northern Israel, whose excavations I have co-directed since 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n

Member, Editorial Boards<\/h4>\n

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research <\/em>and <\/em><\/strong>Tel Aviv.<\/em><\/p>\n

Awards and Honors<\/h4>\n

2021, <\/span>P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology A<\/span>ward, ASOR\/American Schools of Overseas Research. This award\u00a0<\/span>honors an archaeologist who, during their career, has made outstanding contributions to ancient Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology<\/span><\/p>\n

2010-11, National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellow, Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem<\/p>\n

2009, Archaeological Institute of America Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching<\/span><\/p>\n

2008, Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America<\/p>\n

2002, Horace T. Morse-University of Minnesota Alumni Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching<\/p>\n

Representative Publications<\/h4>\n

Books<\/em><\/h5>\n

2021\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The Middle Maccabees. Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom. <\/i>Co-edited with Paul J. Kosmin. SBL Archaeology and Biblical Studies. SBL Press: Atlanta.<\/span>
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2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spear-Won Land: Sardis, from the King\u2019s Peace to the Peace of Apamea<\/i>. Co-edited with Paul Kosmin. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison.<\/span><\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tel Anafa II, iii. Wall Plaster and Stucco, Objects of Personal Adornment and Glass Counters, Tools for Textile Manufacture and Miscellaneous Bone, Terracotta and Stone Figurines, Pre-Persian Pottery, Attic Pottery, and Medieval Pottery<\/i>. Co-edited with Sharon C. Herbert. Kelsey Museum Fieldwork Series, Ann Arbor MI.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

2012 <\/strong>Tel Anafa II, ii. Glass Vessels, Lamps, Objects of Metal, and Groundstone and Other Stone Tools and Vessels.<\/em> Co-edited with Sharon C. Herbert. Kelsey Museum Fieldwork Studies, Ann Arbor, MI.<\/p>\n

2006<\/strong> Gamla. Final Reports, Volume I: The Pottery of the Second Temple Period. <\/em>Israel Antiquities Authority <\/em>Reports no.29.\u00a0 Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem<\/p>\n

2003 <\/strong>Excavations at Coptos (Qift) (1988-1992). Co-authored with Sharon C. Herbert. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 53. Portsmouth, RI<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> The First Jewish Revolt: Archaeology, History, and Ideology, <\/em>co-edited with J. Andrew Overman.\u00a0 Routledge, London.<\/p>\n

1997<\/strong> Excavations at Tel Anafa, vol. II,i.\u00a0 The Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Plain Wares.<\/em> Journal of Roman Archaeology supplementary series vol. 10.2 Portsmouth, RI.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Selected Articles<\/em><\/h5>\n

2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cA Persian Period Bulla from Tel Qedesh, Israel and Its Implications for Relations between Tyre and Nippur.\u201d Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research<\/i> 382. Co-authored with Baruch Brandl, Xiaoli Ouyang, and Sharon C. Herbert.<\/span><\/p>\n

2018\u00a0 <\/strong>\u201cEnds and Beginnings: Political Change and Daily Life at Sardis in Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Times.\u201d In Archaic and Classical Western Anatolia: New Perspectives in Ceramic Studies<\/i>. R. G\u00fcl G\u00fcrtekin Demir et al., eds. Colloquia Antiqua 19. Peeters: Leiden. Pp. 1-20.<\/span><\/p>\n

2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cGlass Vessels from the Persian and Hellenistic Administrative Building at Tel Kedesh, Israel.\u201d In Annales du 20e Congr\u00e8s de l’Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre<\/i>. Sophie Wolf and Anne de Pury-Gysel, eds. Romont: Association International pour l\u2019Histoire du Verre. Pp. 54\u201360. Co-authored with Katherine A. Larson and Sharon Herbert.<\/span><\/p>\n

2016<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cNot So Fast: Ceramic Conservatism and Change at Sardis in the Early Hellenistic Period.\u201d In Traditions and Innovations. Tracking the Development of Pottery from the Late Classical to the Early Imperial Periods<\/i>. S. Japp and P. K\u00f6gler, eds. IARPotHP 1. Phoibos Verlag, Vienna. Pp. 351-58.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2016\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cThe Hellenistic and Early Roman Pottery.\u201d In \u2018Akko II. The 1991-1998 Excavations. The Early Periods<\/i>. M. Hartal, D. Syon, E. Stern, and A. Tatcher, eds. IAA Reports 60. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem. Pp. 133-202. Co-authored with Peter J. Stone.<\/span><\/p>\n

2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHerod, Augustus, and the Augusteum at the Paneion,\u201d <\/span>Eretz Israel<\/span><\/i> 31. Pp. 1*-11*.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cDining In State: The Table Wares from the Persian-Hellenistic Administrative Building at Kedesh.\u201d In Pottery, Peoples, and Places. Study and Interpretation of Late Hellenistic Pottery<\/i>. P. Guldager Bilde and M. L. Lawall, ads. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus. Pp. 307-21.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHousehold Judaism.\u201d In Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods 100 BCE \u2013 200 CE<\/i>. Vol. 1: Life, Culture, and Society<\/i>. D. Fiensy and J. Strange, eds. Fortress Press, Minneapolis MN. Pp. 208-15.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHerod the Tastemaker.\u201d Near Eastern Archaeology<\/i> 77.2. Pp. 108-119.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012 <\/strong>“Identity Politics in Early Roman Galilee,” The Jewish Revolt Against Rome: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. <\/em>Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism vol. 154. M. Popovic, ed. Brill, Leiden. Pp. 69-106.<\/p>\n

2012 <\/strong>“The Sanctuary of Mizpe Yammim: Phoenician Cult and Territory in the Upper Galilee during the Persian Period,” with Rafael Frankel. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research <\/em>366. Pp. 25-78.<\/p>\n

2012 <\/strong>“Excavating Tel Kedesh: The Story of a Site and a Project.” Co-authored with Sharon C. Herbert. Archaeology <\/em>65.3. Pp. 24-29.<\/p>\n

2005 <\/strong>“Jewish Life Before the Revolt: The Archaeological Evidence,” Journal for the Study of Judaism <\/em>36.4. Pp. 417-70.<\/p>\n

2003 <\/strong>“Going Greek: Atticizing Pottery in an Achaemenid World.” Co-authored with Kathleen Lynch. Studia Troica <\/em>12. Pp. 167-78.<\/p>\n

2003 <\/strong>“Ilion Before Alexander: A Ritual Deposit of the Fourth Century B.C.,” Studia Troica<\/em> 12. Pp. 131-65.<\/p>\n

2003 <\/strong>“A New Administrative Center for Persian and Hellenistic Galilee: Preliminary Report of the University of Michigan\/University of Minnesota Excavations at Tel Kedesh.” Co-authored with Sharon C. Herbert, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research<\/em> 329. Pp. 13-59.<\/p>\n

2002 <\/strong>“Ptolemaic Agriculture, ‘Syrian Wheat,’ and Triticum aestivum.” <\/em>Co-authored with Terry Ball, Robert Thompson, and Sharon S. Herbert. Journal of Archaeological Science <\/em>30.1. Pp. 115-21.<\/p>\n

1999 <\/strong>“Studies in Hellenistic Ilion: The Lower City. Stratified Assemblages and Chronology,” Studia Troica <\/em>9. Pp. 73-157.<\/p>\n

1999 <\/strong>“The Archaeology of Ritual: The Sanctuary of Pan at Banias\/Caesarea Philippi,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research<\/em> 315. Pp. 27-46.<\/p>\n

1997 <\/strong>“Between Large Forces: Palestine in the Hellenistic Period,” Biblical Archaeologist<\/em> 60.1. Pp. 2-57.<\/p>\n

For samples of student work from Professor Berlin\u2019s classes, go to:<\/h4>\n

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2012 <\/strong>“Artifacts and Applications: Computational Thinking for Archaeologists,” Center for the Study of Architecture Newsletter XXV.2. (For article on line click here)<\/a><\/p>\n