Berlin Archaeology<\/a><\/p>\n Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP)<\/a><\/p>\n Archaeology and history of the Achaemenid; Hellenistic, and Roman East, Ceramic Studies; Second-Temple Judaism; archaeology of Israel<\/em><\/p>\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, as well as Hellenistic pottery from Sardis and its hinterland, in western Turkey.<\/p>\n Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research <\/em>and <\/em><\/strong>Tel Aviv.<\/em><\/p>\n 2021 P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology A<\/span>ward, ASOR\/American Schools of Overseas Research.<\/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 2021\u00a0 <\/strong>The Middle Maccabees. Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom. <\/span><\/i>Co-edited with Paul J. Kosmin. SBL Archaeology and Biblical Studies. SBL Press: Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n 2019<\/strong>\u00a0 Spear-Won Land: Sardis, from the King\u2019s Peace to the Peace of Apamea<\/span><\/i>. Co-edited with Paul J. Kosmin. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison.<\/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 2021<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cA Tale of Two Places: Hellenistic Sardis and Its Rural Surroundings,\u201d in\u00a0Exploring the neighborhood. The role of ceramics in understanding place in the Hellenistic world<\/em>. I. Kamenjarin and M. Ugarkovi\u0107, eds. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of IARPotHP, Ka\u0161tela,1st<\/sup>-4th<\/sup>\u00a0June 2017 (Wien). Pp. 549-557.<\/p>\n 2021<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe Achaemenid-Ptolemaic Transition: The View from Southern Phoenicia,\u201d in\u00a0Times of Transition. Judea in the Early Hellenistic Period<\/em>. Sylvie Honigman, Christophe Nihan, and Oded Lipshits, eds. Mosaics 1. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press and Eisenbrauns: University Park PA. Pp. 143-159.<\/p>\n 2021<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cPhoenician Cedar Oil from Amphoriskoi at Tel Kedesh: Implications Concerning Its Production, Use, and Export during the Hellenistic Age,\u201d co-authored with Andrew J. Koh and Sharon C. Herbert,\u00a0Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research<\/em>\u00a0385.<\/p>\n 2019<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cA Persian Period Bulla from Tel Qedesh, Israel and Its Implications for Relations between Tyre and Nippur,\u201d co-authored with Baruch Brandl and Xiaoli Ouyang.\u00a0Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research<\/em>\u00a0382. Pp. 211-241.<\/p>\n 2019<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cAt Home on Board: the Kyrenia Ship and the goods of its crew,\u201d in\u00a0A. Peignard-Giros, ed.\u00a0Daily Life in a Cosmopolitan World: Pottery and Culture in the Hellenistic Period<\/em>, Proceedings of the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Conference of the International Association for Research on Pottery of the Hellenistic Period, Lyon 2015.\u00a0Phoibos Verlag: Vienna.\u00a0Pp. 563-571.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cLand\/Homeland, Story\/History: the Social Landscapes of the Southern Levant from Alexander to Augustus,\u201d in\u00a0The Cambridge Social Archaeology of the Levant from Prehistory to the Present<\/em>. A. Yasur-Landau, E. Cline, and Y. Rowan, eds. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 410-437.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cEnds and Beginnings: Political Change and Daily Life at Sardis in Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Times.\u201d In\u00a0Archaic and Classical Western Anatolia: New Perspectives in Ceramic Studies<\/em>. R. G\u00fcl G\u00fcrtekin Demir et al., eds. Colloquia Antiqua 19. Peeters: Leiden. Pp. 1-20.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cNot So Fast: Ceramic Conservatism and Change at Sardis in the Early Hellenistic Period.\u201d In\u00a0Traditions and Innovations. Tracking the Development of Pottery from the Late Classical to the Early Imperial Periods<\/em>. S. Japp and P. K\u00f6gler, eds. IARPotHP 1. Phoibos Verlag, Vienna. Pp. 351-58.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cHellenistic Period (332-63 BCE).\u201d In\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Ancient Pottery of Israel and its Neighbors from the Iron Age through the Hellenistic Period<\/em>, S. Gitin, ed. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem. Pp. 629-671.<\/p>\n 2015\u00a0<\/strong> \u201cHerod, Augustus, and the Augusteum at the Paneion,\u201d\u00a0Eretz Israel<\/em>\u00a031. Pp. 1*-11*.<\/p>\n 2014\u00a0<\/strong> \u201cHerod the Tastemaker.\u201d\u00a0Near Eastern Archaeology<\/em>\u00a077.2. Pp. 108-119.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cHousehold Judaism.\u201d In\u00a0Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods 100 BCE \u2013 200 CE<\/em>. Vol. 1:\u00a0Life, Culture, and Society<\/em>. D. Fiensy and J. Strange, eds. Fortress Press, Minneapolis MN. Pp. 208-15.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cSomething old, something new: Native cultures under Ptolemaic rule,\u201d\u00a0Networks in the Hellenistic World<\/em>. N. Fenn and C. R\u00f6mer-Strehl, eds. BAR International Series 2539. Archaeopress, Oxford. Pp. 229-37.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cManifest Identity: from Ioudaios<\/i> to Jew. Household Judaism as anti-Hellenization in the late Hasmonean era,\u201d Between Cooperation and Hostility: Multiple Identities in Ancient Judaism and the Interaction with Foreign Powers<\/i>. R. Albertz and J. W\u00f6hrle (eds.). Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, G\u00f6ttingen. Pp. 151-75.<\/span><\/p>\n 2012 <\/strong>\u201cIdentity Politics in Early Roman Galilee,\u201d 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>\u201cThe Sanctuary of Mizpe Yammim: Phoenician Cult and Territory in the Upper Galilee during the Persian Period,\u201d with Rafael Frankel. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research <\/em>366. Pp. 25-78.<\/p>\n 2012 <\/strong>\u201cExcavating Tel Kedesh: The Story of a Site and a Project.\u201d Co-authored with Sharon C. Herbert. Archaeology <\/em>65.3. Pp. 24-29.<\/p>\nLCP Video<\/a><\/h4>\n
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