Denis Genequand

Institut d’Archéologie et Sciences de l’Antiquité, Université de Lausanne and Archéologie Islamique, Université de Paris I
CBRL Honorary Fellow since September 2006
Research: Economic and Environmental Aspects of the so-called Desert Castles of the Ummayad Period in the Bilad esh-Sham

Denis Genequand studied Archaeology and History at the Universities of Lausanne (CH), Neuchâtel (CH) and Paris I (F). He joined CBRL in November 2002 as an Honorary Research Fellow. For over ten years he has participated or conducted excavations and surveys in Switzerland, the Middle East (Jordan, Syria) and Asia (Uzbekistan and Pakistan). His main interests relate to Late Antiquity and Early Islam.
Denis is at present conducting research on the Umayyad settlements in Bilad al-Sham. He is also co-director of the Syrian-Swiss mission investigating Umayyad castles in steppe lands areas and working at Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi. He is currently archaeologist in charge of the Roman period at the Archaeological Office of Geneva.

Research Interests:

• Early Islamic architecture
• Late Antique and early Islamic rural economy
• Umayyad settlement history
• Land use and settlement pattern in semi-arid areas of the Near East

Project:
Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi

Email:
Denis Genequand

Charlotte Whiting

CBRL Honorary Fellow since 2003
Research: South Jordan Iron Age II Survey and Excavation Project

Charlotte Whiting received a BA in Archaeology from the University of Durham and an MPhil in Mesopotamian Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. She returned to Durham in 1997 to undertake research for which she was awarded a PhD in 2002. During this time she participated in archaeological projects throughout the Levant, including the excavations at Tell el-Kheleifeh, the Medieval and Ottoman Survey of Palestine, the Dana Archaeological Survey and the Minsahlat and Dana-Faynan-Ghuwayr Surveys. She joined the CBRL in 2003 as an Honorary Research Fellow. In addition to directing the South Jordan Iron Age II Survey and Excavation Project, she runs the Tel Jezreel Post-Excavation and Publication Project.

Research Interests:

• Iron Age Archaeology of the southern Levant, "Edomite" Archaeology
• The History and Politics of Levantine Archaeology
• Theories of Practice and social approaches to Iron Age material culture
• Ceramic Analysis

Projects:

• South Jordan Iron Age II Survey and Excavation Project
• Neutron Activation Analysis of South Jordanian Iron Age II Ceramics
• Tel Jezreel Post-Excavation and Publication Project

Ina Kehrberg

University of Sydney
CBRL Honorary Fellow since 2003
Research: The Publication of the Jerash Hippodrome Excavations 1984-1996

Ina Kehrberg-Ostrasz completed her postgraduate studies in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney. She first came to Jordan as researcher for the University of Sydney excavations at Teleilat Ghassul 1975-1978. In 1982 she returned to Jordan with the Australian Team of the Jerash International Archaeological Project and from 1984-1996 excavated the Jerash Hippodrome with Dr Antoni Ostrasz, followed by the Upper Zeus Temple Project until 2000. She held long and short term fellowships at the DAI in Berlin, IFPO in Amman and the EfA in Athens and was editor at the DAJ for 5 years. She continued working on Jordanian excavations and directed a number of archaeological projects in Jerash until 2003. In 2004 she returned to Sydney where she became Research Associate of the Depts of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. She has been awarded the Shelby White-Leon Levy Grant [Harvard] for the publications of the Jerash Hippodrome Excavations 1984-1996.

Research Interests:

• Classical period-sites of the Eastern Mediterranean world, with focus on Jordan and linkage with urban sites of the Late Hellenistic periods as well as the western and eastern Roman provinces
• Critical reviews of standard typologies of artifacts, offering new approaches to examine archaeological data as a cluster within find contexts and a broader historical environment
• Using artefact assemblages and archaeological deposits as intimate tools for multifarious historical inquiries of a given society or community

Projects:

• The Publication of the Jerash Hippodrome Excavations 1984-1996, in two volumes by Antoni A. Ostrasz (1929-1996) and Ina Kehrberg
• Post-Excavation Research : The Jerash City Walls Project 2000-2003

Publications:
BOOK

• The Umayyads. The Rise of Islamic Art.
  I. Kehrberg (ed.), author on JARASH and the museum collections of Jordan. ‘Museum With No Frontiers’, Exhibition Handbook of Jordan. (2000, Madrid).

Articles

• Byzantine ceramic productions and organisational aspects of sixth century AD pottery workshops at the Hippodrome of Jarash”. SHAJ/Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 10 (2009, Amman): pp. 493-512.
• “The complexity of lamps: Archaeological contexts, material assemblages and chronological typologies of ancient lamps.” In J.-F. Salles & D. Frangié (eds), Lampes antiques du Bilad esh-Sham/ Antique lamps in the Bilad ash-Sham, Proceedings of the ILA/IFPO Colloquium 6-13 November 2005, BAH/ Jordan Archaeology, Amman-Beirut: pp1-23 (in the press 2009)
• “Figurative adornment of Roman circuses: virtual presentations of the starting gate herms”. In: E. la Rocca, P. Leon & C.P.Presicce (eds),LE DUE PATRIE ACQUISITE. Studi de archaeologia dedicattia a Walter Trillmich. BCom/Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica di Roma, Sup. 18 (2008): pp. 207-214
• “Gerasa as provider for Roman frontier stations: A view seen from Late Roman potters’ waste at the Hippodrome and the Upper Zeus Temple”. SHAJ/Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 9 (2007, Amman): pp.31-48.
• “The Gerasa Hippodrome Publication Project.” Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant 1, CBRL 2006: pp.28-30.
• “A Late Hellenistic Link between Jordan and Cyprus: A view from Gerasa.” Mediterranean Archaeology 17, 2004 / 2006. L. Beaumont, C. Barker & E. Bollen (eds), Festschrift in Honour of J. Richard Green: pp.299-306, Pls 37-38.
• “Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Pottery of Gerasa: A commercial enterprise in view of international norms.” SHAJ/Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 8 (2004, Amman): pp.189-196.
• “The Jerash City Walls Project 2002 – Excavation and Planning Aspects of the Roman Masterplan. A Report.” ADAJ/Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 47, 2003: (with J. Manley): pp.83-86

Alison McQuitty

Alison McQuitty is a free-lance archaeologist/heritage management consultant currently living in the Netherlands. She was Director of BIAAH/CBRL (1989-91 and 1994-1999) and is presently Research Associate at the Centre of Tourism and Culture Change, Sheffield Hallam University. Her research interests are the post-Byzantine rural landscape of Jordan; vernacular architecture; community development within tourism and the role of women archaeologists in developing the discipline. Current projects include the publication of her excavations at Khirbat Faris, Jordan - co-directed with Dr Jeremy Johns; the Salt Museum Renovation Project and the Umm Qays community development and tourism project. She and her husband also run cultural, ornithological and walking tours to the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe.

Email:Alison McQuitty

Ghattas has a BA in Archaeology and History from Birzeit University, Palestine, and an MA in Archaeology (Tell Jenin: A Pre Ceramic Site, North West Bank-Palestine) from the University of Bergen in Norway. In 2003 he obtained his PhD from La Trobe University in Australia, on The Lithic Industries of Zahrat adh-Dhra‘ 2 and the Pre Pottery Neolithic Period of the Southern Levant. He has previously worked as a researcher and a part time lecturer for the Institute of Archaeology at Birzeit and was a member and a tour guide of the Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange (PACE) in Ramallah

In 2004 he was field leader at the excavation of Rugsund Bremmanger Kommune, Norway (Neolithic period), which was conducted by the University of Bergen and Bergen Museum. He is currently craftsman at Munck Cranes International Co. in Bergen and Honorary Fellow for CBRL. Ghattas is married with one child.

Research Interests:

• Early food producing societies in the Levant
• Lithic analysis and interpretation

Teaching Interests:

• Introductory archaeology
• Middle Eastern archaeology
• the origins of food production
• Lithic analysis
• Experimental studies

Publications

• 2004 The Lithic Industries of Zahrat adh-Dhra‘ 2 and the Pre Pottery Neolithic Period of the Southern Levant. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1329: Oxford.
• n. d. Lithic variability among the PPNA assemblages of the Dead Sea Basin. The fifth conference on Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped Stone Industries, CNRS: France. In press.
• 2004 Lithic production at the Pre Pottery Neolithic A site of Zahrat adh-Dhra ' 2 and its context. Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan VIII: archaeological and historical perspectives on society, culture and identity, pp. 379-388. Department of Antiquities: Amman.
• 2001a A new Pre-Pottery Neolithic A cultural region in Jordan: the Dead Sea basin. In A. Walmsley (ed.) Australians uncovering ancient Jordan: fifty years of Middle Eastern archaeology, pp. 225-32. The University of Sydney: Sydney.
• 2001b Zahrat adh-Dhra‘ (b) (ZAD 2). In A. Negev and S. Gibson (eds.). The Archaeological Encyclopaedia of the Holy Land, pp. 552. The continuum Publishing group: New York.
• 1999 The origin of terraces in the central hills of Palestine: theories and explanation. Pp: 201-210 in Abu-Lughod, I., Heacock, R. and Nashef, K. (eds.) The Landscape of Palestine: equivocal poetry. BirZeit University publications. Palestine
• 1998 The prehistory of Hesban region (Jordan). The results of the 1998 survey: a preliminary report. In, Madaba plain project web publication page http://www.casa.arizona.edu/MPP/lithics/hesban_prehistory.html
• 1997 The Neolithic strata of Tell Jenin north West Bank, Palestine. Neo-lithics 1/97: 3-5. Ex oriente: Berlin.
• 1994 The old village of BirZeit. BirZeit Newsletter VII /1 (in Arabic).
• 1993 Khirbet BirZeit. BirZeit Newsletter VI /3 (in Arabic).
• Edwards, P., S. and G. Sayej
  n. d. EPPNB or not EPPNB? The chronological question for the southern Levant.. The fifth conference on Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped Stone Industries, CNRS: France. In press.
• Phillip E., J. Meadows, G. Sayej and M. Westaway
  2004 From the PPNA to The PPNB: new views from the southern Levant after excavations at Zahrat adh-Dhra‘ 2 in Jordan. Paléorient 30/2: 21-60.
• Edwards, P., S. Falconer, P. Fall, I. Berelov, J. Czarzasty, C. Day, J. Meadows, G. Sayej, T. Swoveland and M. Westaway
  2002 Archaeology and environment of the Dead Sea Plain: preliminary results of the second season of investigations by the joint La Trobe University/ Arizona State University Project. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 46: 51-92. Amman.
• Edwards, P., J. Meadows, M. Metzger and G. Sayej
  2002 Results from the first season at Zahrat adh-Dhra‘ 2: a new Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site on the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan. NEO-LITHICS 1/2: 11-16.
• Edwards, P., J. Meadows, G. Sayej and M. Metzger
  2002 Zahrat adh-Dhra’ 2: a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site on the Dead Sea plain in Jordan. BASOR 327: 1-15.
• Edwards, P. and G. Sayej
  2002 Was the Hagdud Truncation a hafted micro-adze? NEO-LITHICS 1/2: 8-11.
• Edwards, P., S. Falconer, P. Fall, I. Berelov, C. Davies, J. Meadows, C. Megan, M. Metzger and G. Sayej
  2001a Archaeology and environment of the Dead Sea plain: preliminary results of the first season of investigations by the joint La Trobe University / Arizona State University Project. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 45: 135-57.

Matt Whincop

Current Projects: The Tell Nebi Mend Post-Excavation and Publication Project

Stephen Bourke

Stephen Bourke read his PhD on the Second Millennium BCE sequence at Tell Nebi Mend at UC London in 1992. He worked at Nebi Mend between 1984-92, and is currently writing up the Second Millennium BCE materials as part of the CBRL sponsored Tell Nebi Mend Publication Project. He is also currently working on the Neolithic through Bronze Age ceramics from the CBRL-supported Durham University Homs Regional Survey. In another (antipodean) incarnation he has directed Sydney University fieldwork at Pella in Jordan since 1992, and led four seasons of renewed excavations at Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan between 1994-99. He feels a little overworked....

Email:
Stephen Bourke

Mohammad al-Najjar

Current Projects: Jordan's Landscapes Tours

Rami Daher

Current Projects: Turath Architecture and Urban Design

Bernhard Lucke

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Research: Paleosols and sediments as archives of environmental change in the Middle East

Bernhard Lucke studied Environmental Engineering at BTU Cottbus and wrote his Diploma thesis about a historic desertification case study at the site of Abila in Jordan, based on the examination of soil and sediment samples. He continued these investigations 2002-2007 in the framework of the PhD-programme "Environmental and Resource Management" at BTU Cottbus. During 2004-2005 he studied at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, as visiting research scholar in a Fulbright fellowship. From 2006 – 2009 he coordinated a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on "Interactions of land use, climate and soil development in the context of settlement history in the Decapolis-Region (Northern Jordan)". In 2009 – 2010 he teached at the German-Jordanian University in Amman, and in 2010 joined the Institute of Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

Research Interests:

• Soils, paleosols, sediments, and valley fills as archives of landscape change
• Interactions of land use, climate, soil development and settlement history
• Terra Rossa genesis