Insights

Welcome to Insights! Formerly our long-running quarterly e-update, since 2020, Insights has been our blog, hosting essays by fellows, interns, staff, and others.

“Heritage Conservation and Host Communities in Jordan” by Dr. Erin Addison

May 13, 2015 Posted in Lecture Tagged with addison, erin addison, heritage conservation, host communities, lecture, may

Environmental Engineer from Wadi Musa at al-Tahouna mill site, Wadi Musa (photo by E. Addison)

The Top Stratum: Heritage Conservation and Host Communities in Jordan Dr. Erin Addison Cultural Heritage Resources (CHR) Projects Lead for the USAID-SCHEP Project Wednesday 13 May 2015 at 6:00 pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture: Over the past 40 years there has been a growing awareness that archaeologists should consider the perspectives, concerns, and…

Introducing SCHEP: Sustainable Cultural Heritage through Engagement of Local Communities Project

May 4, 2015 Posted in SCHEP Tagged with ACOR, Cultural Heritage, SCHEP

Come to Petra, Experience the Exhibition

Apr 22, 2015 Posted in General, TWLCRM Tagged with Archaeology, Petra

Restoring Amman’s Great Roman Temple

Apr 16, 2015 Posted in General Tagged with ACOR, Amman, Architecture, Restoration

“New Sciences of Antiquity and Arab Modernity” by Dr. Elena Dodge Corbett

Apr 8, 2015 Posted in Lecture Tagged with antiquity, april, corbett, elena corbett, elena dodge corbett, lecture, modernity, otttoman

Competitive Archaeology was published by the University of Texas Press in January 2015

Ramses Was a Semite: New Sciences of Antiquity and Arab Modernity in the Late Ottoman World Dr. Elena Dodge Corbett Resident Director, Amman Study Center, Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Wednesday 8 April 2015 at 6:00 pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture: Dr. Elena Corbett has recently published a new book entitled Competitive…

Remembering Wendy Botham – A Life that Lit Up Petra

Apr 1, 2015 Posted in General, Life@ACOR Tagged with Petra

The Wadi Hafir Petroglyph Survey: Shedding New Light on Thamudic Inscriptions

Mar 10, 2015 Posted in General, Research Tagged with corbett, Feature, glenn corbett, Inscriptions, Surveying, Wadi Hafir

Firas Bqa’in: Archaeologist, Academic, and ACOR Administrator

Mar 4, 2015 Posted in Life@ACOR Tagged with ACOR, Archaeology, Interview, Life at ACOR, Photography, Staff Profile

“Traces of Early Islam in Wadi Ramm” by Dr. Glenn J. Corbett and Firas Bqain

Mar 4, 2015 Posted in Lecture Tagged with bqain, corbett, firas bqain, glenn corbett, islam, lecture, march, wadi rum

Early Islamic (Kufic) inscription dates 109 AH (AD 727/728) in Wadi Shireh (photo G.J. Corbett)

Traces of Early Islam in Wadi Ramm: A Desert Mosque and Waystation from the Time of the Umayyads Dr. Glenn J. Corbett, ACOR Associate Director Firas Bqain, ACOR Administrator Wednesday 4 March 2015 at 6:00 pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture: In the winter of 1988, while surveying Wadi Shireh in the Hisma/Wadi Ramm…

Surviving a Middle East Blizzard, ACOR style

Feb 24, 2015 Posted in Life@ACOR Tagged with ACOR, Feature, Fellows, Hostel, Life at ACOR, Snow, Staff

A Passion for Petra’s Archaeology – An Interview with TWLCRM Alum Ahmad Hasanat

Feb 17, 2015 Posted in TWLCRM Tagged with Archaeology, Interview, Petra, Photography, Staff Profile, TWLCRM

TWLCRM Initiative Earns Top Honor

Feb 3, 2015 Posted in TWLCRM Tagged with Archaeological Institute of America, Award, Best Practices

ACOR’s Temple of the Winged Lions Cultural Resource Management (TWLCRM) Initiative received the Archaeological Institute of America’s 2015 award for Best Practices in Site Preservation in January of this year. Christopher Tuttle, Executive Director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and former Associate Director of ACOR, received the award on behalf of the…

“Egypt and the Levant in the Early Bronze Age” by Dr. Matthew J. Adams

Jan 27, 2015 Posted in Lecture Tagged with adams, early bronze age, january, lecture, Levant, matthew adams, radiocarbon chronology

Aerial view of the excavation at Megiddo (2008, Megiddo Expedition)

Egypt and the Levant in the Early Bronze Age: Implications of a New Radiocarbon Chronology Dr. Matthew J. Adams Director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem Tuesday 27 January 2015 at 6:00pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture In a series of recent studies, new radiocarbon dates were offered in support…

Mary Pancoast

Dec 10, 2014 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile

Mary Pancoast, 2014–2015 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Mary Pancoast was a lawyer for civil and human rights programs in the U.S. and she worked with recent immigrants and immigrants with refugee status before returning to higher education to receive a Ph.D. in Anthropology. She became interested in the American legal policies concerning resettlement of refugees from…

“Pipe Dreams and Paradise: The Water System of the Petra Garde and Pool Complex” by Dr. Leigh-Ann Bedal

Oct 29, 2014 Posted in CAORC, Lecture Tagged with Archaeology, bedal, lecture, leigh-ann bedal, october, pipe dreams and paradise, water system

Pipe Dreams and Paradise: The Water System of the Petra Garden and Pool Complex Dr. Leigh-Ann Bedal ACOR-CAORC Fellow and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Behrend College of the Pennsylvania State University Wednesday 29 October 2014 at 6:00pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture Visitors to Petra are characteristically amazed by its immense scale,…

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