UNEARTHING THE PAST SINCE 1900
UNEARTHING THE PAST SINCE 1900
The first volume of the ASOR Annual (AASOR) appeared in 1920, making it ASOR’s signature publication. The Annual is a medium for the publication of lengthy preliminary or interim archaeological reports or monograph-length studies relating to archaeology in the Near East.
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Unsilencing the Archives: New Approaches to the History of Archaeological Labor in the Mandate Period Middle East
edited by Melissa S. Cradic, Helen Dixon, Felicity Cobbing, Aaron J. Brody, Samuel D. Pfister, and Jeffrey R. Zorn.
Over the last two decades, western academia has begun to explore and come to terms with its part in the recent colonial past and its lingering effects in the present. Scholars investigating the regions of Southwest Asia and North Africa are no exception, but this is still a relatively new and uncomfortable field and topic for this part of the world, and there are still relatively few studies that explicitly wrestle with it. In recognition of this deficiency, and in an effort to begin to ameliorate it, the Badè Museum, the Palestine Exploration Fund and the Archaeological Research Facility (UC Berkeley) came together in 2021 to sponsor a virtual exhibit at the Badè Museum (“Unsilencing the Archives: The Laborers of the Tell en-Naṣbeh Excavations (1926-1935)”), created and curated by Dr. Melissa Cradic and Sam Pfister, along with a yearlong series of YouTube lectures on this topic (hosted at the Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley’s YouTube channel). This volume, emerging from the lecture series, is devoted to exploring the agency of many unnamed or underappreciated agents of archaeology within this colonial past. It serves as a kind of festschrift in honor of the often poorly documented, yet important, role(s) played by Middle Easterners during the period of the British Mandate.
80. ed. Melissa S. Cradic, Helen Dixon, Felicity Cobbing, Aaron J. Brody, Samuel D. Pfister, and Jeffrey R. Zorn. Unsilencing the Archives: New Approaches to the History of Archaeological Labor in the Mandate Period Middle East. AASOR 80. Alexandria, VA: The American Society of Overseas Research, 2026. Available from ISD.
78. ed. Sarah Kielt Costello and Sarah Lepinski. Ethics in Archaeological Practice. AASOR 78. Alexandria, VA: The American Society of Overseas Research, 2024. Available from ISD.
76 & 77. ed. Michael Given, Chris Mavromatis, and R. Smadar Gabrieli. City and Cemetery: Excavations at Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery, Cyprus: The Excavations of Danielle A. Parks. Volume 1 and Volume 2. AASOR 76 and 77. Alexandria, VA: The American Society of Overseas Research, 2024. Available from ISD. Volume 1 and Volume 2.
75. Joel S. Burnett. The Amman Theater Statue in its Iron Age Contexts. AASOR 75. Alexandria, VA: The American Society of Overseas Research, 2023. Available from ISD.
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74. Nancy L. Lapp. The Excavations of ‘Iraq al-Amir, Volume II. AASOR 74. Alexandria, VA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2019. Available from ISD.
73. Charlotte Whiting and Gloria London. An Examination of the Stratigraphy and Neolithic-Iron Age Pottery from Tel Jezreel, Area A. AASOR 73. Alexandria, VA: The American Society of Overseas Research, 2021. Available from ISD.
72. Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth. Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries. AASOR 72. Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2018. Available from ISD.
71. Leonard, Al, Jr.. Kataret es-Samra, Jordan. AASOR 71. Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2017. Available from ISD. Available from ISD.
70. Tappy, Ron E. The Archaeology of the Ostraca House at Israelite Samaria: Epigraphic Discoveries in Complicated Contexts. AASOR 70. Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2016. Available from ISD.
69. McGeough, Kevin M. The Archaeology of Agro-Pastoralist Economies in Jordan. AASOR 69. Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2016. Available from ISD.
67 & 68. McKenzie, Judith S., Greene, Joseph A., Reyes, Andres T. et al. The Nabataean Temple at Khirbet et- Tannur, Jordan, Volume 1 and Volume 2. AASOR 67 and 68. Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2013. Available from ISD. Volume 1 and Volume 2.
66. Hallote, Rachel, Felicity Cobbing, Jeffrey B. Spurr. The Photographs of the American Palestine Exploration Society. AASOR 66. Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2012. Available from ISD.
65. Toumazou, Michael K., P. Nick Kardulias, and Derek B. Counts, eds. Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus. AASOR 65. Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2012. Available from ISD.
64. Walker, Bethany, ed. Reflections of Empire: Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on the Pottery of the Ottoman Levant and Beyond. AASOR 64. Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2009. Available from ISD.
63. Smith, Joanna S. Settlement and Sanctuary: Views from the Columbia University Excavations at Phlamoudhi, Cyprus. AASOR 63. Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2008. Available from ISD.
62. Cohen, Susan and Garfinkel, Yossi. Middle Bronze Age II Cemetery at Gesher. AASOR 62. Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2007. Available from ISD.
60-61. Edwards, Douglas and McCollough, Thomas. The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the “Other” in Antiquity, Studies in Honor of Eric. M. Meyers. AASOR 60/61. Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2007. Available from ISD.
59. Chesson, Meredith S., Darnell, John Coleman et al. Part I: Results of the 2001 Kerak Plateau Early Bronze Age Survey; Part II: Two Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from the Wadi el-Hol. AASOR 59. Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2005. Available from ISD.
58. Nakhai, Beth Alpert, ed. The Near East in the Southwest. Essays in honor of William G. Dever. AASOR 58. Boston MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2003. Available from ISD.
57. Hopkins, David, ed. Across the Anatolian Plateau. Readings in the Archaeology of Ancient Turkey. AASOR 57. Boston MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2000. Available from ISD.
56. Lapp, Nancy, ed. Preliminary Excavation Reports and Other Archaeological Excavations. Tell Qarqur, Iron I Sites in the North-Central Highlands of Palestine. AASOR 56. Boston MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 1999. Available from ISD.
55. Leonard, Albert. Ancient Naukratis: Excavations at a Greek Emporium in Egypt. Part 2: Kom Hadid. AASOR 55. Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 1998. Available from ISD.
54. Leonard, Albert. Ancient Naukratis: Excavations at a Greek Emporium in Egypt. Part 1: Kom Ge’if. AASOR 54. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1997.
53. Dever, William, ed. Preliminary Excavation Reports: Sardis, Idalion, and Tell el-Handaquq North. AASOR 53. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1996. Available from ISD.
52. Dever, William G., ed. Preliminary Excavation Reports. AASOR 52. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1994. Available from ISD.
51. Dever, William G., ed. Preliminary Excavation Reports: Sardis, Paphos, Caesarea Maritime, Shiqmim, Ain Ghazal. AASOR 51. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1993. Available from ISD.
50. Leonard, Albert Jr. The Jordan Valley Survey, 1953: Some Unpublished Soundings Conducted by James Mellaart. AASOR 50. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1992.
49. Gitin, Seymour, and Dever, William G., eds. Recent Excavations in Israel: Studies in Iron Age Archaeology. AASOR 49. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1989.
47-48. Callaway, Joseph, ed. Volume 1: The Excavations at Araq el-Emir (edited by Nancy Lapp). Volume 2: The Amman Airport Excavations, 1976 (edited by Larry Herr). AASOR 47-48. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1983.
43. Freedman, David Noel, ed. ASOR Preliminary Excavation Reports: Bab edh-Dhra`, Sardis, Meiron, Tell el-Hesi, Carthage. AASOR 43. Cambridge: ASOR, 1978.
41. Lapp, Paul W., and Lapp, Nancy L. Discoveries in the Wadi ed-Daliyeh. AASOR 41. Cambridge: ASOR, 1974.
39. Kelso, James L. The Excavations at Bethel (1934-1960). Joint Expedition of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and ASOR. AASOR 39. Cambridge: ASOR, 1968.
38. Lapp, Paul, Sellers, Ovid R., et al. The 1957 Excavations at Beth Zur (conducted by McCormick Theological Seminary and ASOR). Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research (AASOR), Volume 38. Cambridge: ASOR, 1968.
Kataret es-Samra, Jordan (AASOR 71), Leonard, Al, Jr.
Review by Alexander Ahrens in American Journal of Archaeology
The Archaeology of Agro-Pastoralist Economies in Jordan (AASOR 69), McGeough, Kevin M.
Review by Steven A. Rosen, published in JEMAHS
The Archaeology of the Ostraca House at Israelite Samaria: Epigraphic Discoveries in Complicated Contexts (AASOR 70), by Tappy, Ron E.
Review by Norma Franklin, published in JEMAHS
Response to Review by Ron E. Tappy, published in JEMAHS
The Nabataean Temple at Khirbet et- Tannur, Jordan, Volume 1 and Volume 2 (AASOR 67 & 68), by McKenzie, Judith S., Greene, Joseph A., Reyes, Andres T. et al.
Review by Laïla Nehmé in Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Review by Duane W. Roller in American Journal of Archaeology
The Photographs of the American Palestine Exploration Society (AASOR 66), by Rachel Hallote, Felicity Cobbing, and Jeffrey B. Spurr.
Review by Antiquity
Review by Simon Goldhill in Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus (AASOR 65), edited by Michael K. Toumazou, P. Nick Kardulias and Derek B. Counts.
Review by William J. Weir in Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
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