ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS
This series is devoted to the publication of final excavation reports, surveys and ethnoarchaeological fieldwork. Excavation projects need not be ASOR-affiliated to be considered. The CAARI Monographs are a subset of the Archaeological Reports series. The CAARI Monographs subseries may include conference proceedings.
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Most Recent Publication
Humayma Excavation Project, 3: The Roman Fort
By John Peter Oleson
This third volume of the Humayma Excavation Project presents the most thorough excavation report and analysis of a Roman frontier fort yet published. Humayma, ancient Hawar or Hawara, began life as a small Nabataean settlement in the Hisma desert of Southern Jordan, 80 km south of Petra. Soon after the Roman conquest of the Nabataean kingdom in 106 CE, the town was incorporated into the new Provincia Arabia as Hauarra, and a fort was built on the slope above the original settlement. Hauarra flourished through the Byzantine period and in the late seventh century was purchased by the Abbasid family, which built an elaborately frescoed manor house and mosque. Henceforth known as al-Humayma, the town withered away after the Abbasids moved to Iraq in 749 and led the revolt against the Umayyad caliphate.
Oleson began excavation in the fort with a small probe in 1987, followed by 10 seasons of extensive excavation and geophysical survey between 1993 and 2005, and a follow-up campaign by Reeves in 2012. The excavations provided important new information about the process of the Trajanic conquest of the Nabataean kingdom, the development of Roman military fortification design, the organization of the southern portion of the Provincia Arabia and adjacent frontier of the empire, and relations between Nabataean town dwellers and their Roman occupiers from the second through the fifth centuries.
Titles
31. Oleson, John P. Humayma Excavation Project, 3: The Roman Fort. Alexandria, VA: 2024. Available from ISD.
30. Herbert, Sharon C. Tel Kedesh I: The Hellenistic Archive and its Sealings. Alexandria, VA: 2023. Available from ISD.
29. Meehl, Mark W. Taanach II. Alexandria, VA: 2023. Available from ISD.
28.Chovanec, Zuzana and Walter Crist. All Things Cypriot: Studies on Ancient Environment, Technology, and Society in Honor of Stuart Swiny. Alexandria, VA: 2021. Available from ISD.
27. Holum, Kenneth G. Caesarea Maritima: Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003. Alexandria, VA: 2020. Available from ISD.
26. Gates-Foster, Jennifer E. and Steven E. Sidebotham. The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley. Alexandria, VA: 2019. Available from ISD.
25. Bull, Robert Jehu, Andrew H. Bobeck, Jane DeRose Evans, Robert S. Fritzius and Alexandra L. Ratzlaff. The Mithraeum at Caesarea Maritima. Boston, MA: 2017. Available from ISD.
24. MacDonald, Burton, Geoffrey A. Clark, Larry G. Herr, D. Scott Quaintance, Hani Hayajneh and Jürg Eggler. The Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan (2010-2012). Boston, MA: 2016. Available from ISD.
23. Duff, Catherine A. Shechem V: The Late Bronze Age Pottery from Field XIII at Shechem / Tell Balâtah. Boston, MA: 2015. Available from ISD.
22. Barako, Tristan J., and Nancy L. Lapp. Tell er-Rumeith: The Excavations of Paul W. Lapp, 1962 and 1967. Boston, MA: 2015. Available from ISD. Supplemental Material.
21. Caraher, William, R. Scott Moore and David K. Pettegrew. Pyla-Koutsopetria I: Archaeological Survey of an Ancient Coastal Town. Boston, MA: 2014. Available from ISD.
20. Stewart, Charles Anthony, Thomas W. Davis, and Annemarie Weyl Carr. Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion. Boston, MA: 2014. Available from ISD.
19. Parker, S. Thomas and Andrew M. Smith II. The Roman Aqaba Project Final Report, Volume 1: The Regional Environment and the Regional Survey. Boston, MA: 2014. Available from ISD.
18. Oleson, John Peter and Robert Schick. Humayma Excavation Project, 2: Nabatean Campground and Necropolis, Byzantine Churches, and Early Islamic Domestic Structures. Boston, MA: 2014. Available from ISD.
17. Friedland, Elise. The Roman Marble Sculptures from the Sanctuary of Pan at Caesarea Philippi/Panias (Israel). Boston, MA: 2012. Available from ISD.
16. MacDonald, Burton, Larry G. Herr, D. Scott Quaintance, Geoffrey A. Clark, and Michael C. A. Macdonald. The Ayl to Ras an-Naqab Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan 2005-2007. Boston, MA: 2012. Available from ISD.
15. Oleson, John Peter. Technical Reports by G.
Brown, M. Finnegan, J.D. Mitchell, C.T. Shay. Humayma Excavation Project, I: Resources, History and the Water-Supply System. Boston, MA: 2010. Available from ISD.
14. Richard, Suzanne, Jesse C. Long, Jr., Paul S. Holdorf, and Glen Peterman. Archaeological Expedition to Khirbat Iskandar and its Environs, Jordan. Volume One—Khirbat Iskandar: Final Report on the Early Bronze IV. Area C³ Gateway² and Cemeteries. Boston, MA: ASOR, 2010. Available from ISD.
13. Govaars, Marylinda; Spiro, Marie; and White, L. Michael. Field O: “Synagogue” Site. The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports (JECM) IX. Boston, MA: ASOR, 2009. Available from ISD.
12. Evans, Jane DeRose. The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Economy of Palestine. The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports (JECM) VI. Boston, MA: ASOR, 2006. Available from ISD.
11. Lapp, Nancy, ed. Shechem IV: The Persian-Hellenistic Pottery of Shechem/Tell Balât’ah. Boston, MA: ASOR, 2009. Available from ISD.
10. Stieglitz, Robert R. Tel Tanninim: Excavations at Krokodeilon Polis, 1996-1999. Boston, MA: ASOR, 2006. Available from ISD.
9. MacDonald, Burton. The Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey 1999-2001, west-central Jordan. Boston, MA: ASOR, 2004. Available from ISD.
8. Swiny, Stuart, Rapp, George “Rip”, and Herscher, Ellen, eds. Sotira Kaminoudhia. CAARI Monographs 4. Boston, MA: ASOR, 2003. Available from ISD.
7. Serwint, Nancy, and Diane Bolger, eds. Engendering Aphrodite. CAARI Monographs 3. Boston, MA: ASOR, 2002. Available from ISD.
6. Campbell, Edward. Shechem III. Boston, MA: ASOR, 2002. Available from ISD.
Errata
5. Swiny, Stuart, ed. The Earliest Prehistory of Cyprus. CAARI Monographs 2. Boston, MA: ASOR, 2001. Available from ISD.
4.Swiny, Stuart, Hohlfelder, Robert L. and Swiny, Helena eds. Res Maritimae. Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean From Prehistory to Late Antiquity. CAARI Monographs 1. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1997. Available from ISD.
3. Pratico, Gary D. Nelson Glueck’s 1938-1940 Excavations at Tell el-Kheleifeh: A Reappraisal. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1993. Available from ISD.
2. Campbell, Edward F. Shechem II. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1992. Available from ISD.
Book Reviews
All Things Cypriot: Studies on Ancient Environment, Technology, and Society in Honor of Stuart Swiny (ARS 28), by Chovanec, Zuzana and Walter Crist.
Review by Rafael Laoutari in Levant.
Review by Jennifer M. Webb in Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies.
Caesarea Maritima: Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003 (ARS27), by Holum, Kenneth G.
Review by Andrea U. De Giorgi in Journal of Roman Archaeology.
Review by Jacopo Dolci in Palestine Exploration Quarterly.
The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley (ARS 26), by Gates-Foster, Jennifer E. and Steven E. Sidebotham.
Review by Louise Blanke in Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
Review by John Darnell in Journal of the American Oriental Society.
The Mithraeum at Caesarea Maritima (ARS 25), by Bull, Robert Jehu, Andrew H. Bobeck, Jane DeRose Evans, Robert S. Fritzius and Alexandra L. Ratzlaff.
Review by Caroline Downing in American Journal of Archaeology.
Review by Kevin Stoba in Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
The Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan (2010-2012) (ARS 24), by MacDonald, Burton, Geoffrey A. Clark, Larry G. Herr, D. Scott Quaintance, Hani Hayajneh and Jürg Eggler.
Review by Fawzi Abudanah in Antiquity.
Review by David F. Graf in American Journal of Archaeology.
Review by Alexander Wasse in Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies.
Pyla-Koutsopetria I: Archaeological Survey of an Ancient Coastal Town (ARS 21), by Caraher, William, R. Scott Moore and David K. Pettegrew.
Review by Thomas W. Davis in American Journal of Archaeology.
Review by Catherine Kearns in Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion (ARS 20), by Stewart, Charles Anthony, Thomas W. Davis, and Annemarie Weyl Carr.
Review by Robin Cormack in Speculum
Review by Rebecca Sweetman in Medieval Archaeology
Review by James G. Schryver in American Journal of Archaeology.
The Roman Aqaba Project Final Report, Volume 1: The Regional Environment and the Regional Survey (ARS19) by Parker, S. Thomas and Andrew M. Smith II.
Review by Paula Kouki in the American Journal of Archaeology.
Humayma Excavation Project, I: Resources, History and the Water-Supply System (ARS 15), by Oleson, John Peter.
Review by Kate da Costa in Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
Review by Anne Lykke in Review of Biblical Literature
Archaeological Expedition to Khirbat Iskandar and its Environs, Jordan. Volume One—Khirbat Iskandar: Final Report on the Early Bronze IV. Area C³ Gateway² and Cemeteries (ARS14), by Richard, Suzanne, Jesse C. Long, Jr., Paul S. Holdorf, and Glen Peterman.
Review by Kay Prag in American Journal of Archaeology.
The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Economy of Palestine. (ARS 12), by Evans, Jane DeRose.
Review by Liane Houghtalin in American Journal of Archaeology.
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