TAYINAT
Archaeological Project

Selected Publications

In Prep

Snow, H. and Batiuk, S.

forthcoming  The University of Chicago's Excavations at Tell Ta'yinat, Amuq Plain, Southeastern Turkey. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Press.

 

In press

in Press Tayinat Archaeological Project. Akdenizi Arkeoloji Haberleri.

in Press Tayinat Höyük Araştırmaları, 2016. To appear in Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı 39. [co-authored w/ E. Denel and S. Batiuk; 15 pp.]

in Press The Genius of Assyrian Imperialism: Recent Discoveries at Tell Tayinat in the North Orontes Valley. To appear in AUB Archaeological Museum Newsletter 30/2. [10 pp.]

 

2017

Batiuk, S., and Harrison, T. P.  The Metals Trade and Early Bronze Age Craft Production at Tell Tayinat. Pp. 48-66 in Overturning Certainties in Near Eastern Archaeology: A festschrift in Honor of K. Aslihan Yener, ed. C. Maner, M. T. Horowitz, and A. S. Gilbert. Leiden, Boston: Brill.

 

Harrison, T. P.

The Genius of Neo-Assyrian Imperialism: Recent Discoveries at Tell Tayinat in the North Orontes Valley. AUB Archaeological Museum Newspaper

 

Foreword. Pp. ix-x, in Sea Peoples of the Northern Levant? Aegean-Style Pottery from Early Iron Age Tell Tayinat. By B. Janeway. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Royal Self-Representation and the Legitimation of Authority at Tayinat (Ancient Kunulua). Pp. 277-99, in Herrschaftslegitimation in vorderorientalischen Reichen der Eisenzeit. Ed. by C. Levin and R. Müller. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag.

 

Harrison, T. P., Denel, E., and Batiuk, S. Tayinat Höyük Kazıları, 2015. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı 38/1: 539-54.

 

Harrison, T. P. and Denel, E. The Neo-Hittite Citadel Gate at Tayinat (Ancient Kunulua). Pp. 137-55, in The Archaeology of Anatolia: Recent Discoveries (2015-2016), Vol. 2. Eds. S. Steadman and G. McMahon. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 

Janeway, B.  Sea Peoples of the Northern Levant? Aegean-Style Pottery from Early Iron Age Tell Tayinat. Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 7. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.

 

Ünlü, E. Tell Tayinat Yereşiminde Gec Tunc – Erken Demir Cagi Geciş Donemi Seramikleri Üzerinden Amik Ovasi’Nda Görülen Yerel Devamliliklar ve Dogu Akdeniz Baglantilari. Pp 91-112 in OLBA 24. Mersin: Mersin University Publications of the Research Center of Cicilian Archaeology.

 

 

2016

Harrison, T.P. (2016) İktidar Peyzajlari: Karşılaştırmalı Perspektiften Geç Hitit İçkaleleri. Pp. 113-32, in Turkiye’de Şehirler ve İçkaleler: Demir Çağından Selçuklulara. Ed. by S. Redford and N Ergin. Istanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları. [Turkish translation of “Landscapes of Power: Neo-Hittite Citadels in Comparative Perspective,” in Cities and Citadels in Turkey: From the Iron Age to the Seljuks, 2013.]

 

Harrison, T.P., Denel, E., and Batiuk, S. (2016) Tayinat Höyük Araştırmaları, 2014. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı 37/2: 477-90.

 

Harrison, T.P. (2016) The Neo-Assyrian Provincial Administration at Tayinat (Ancient Kunalia). Pp. 253-64, in The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire. Ed. by J. MacGinnis, D. Wicke, and T. Greenfield. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

 

Lauinger, J., “Observing Neo-Assyrian Scribes at Work,” in Observing the Scribe at Work: Scribal Practice in the Ancient World, ed. M. Choat et al.  Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta.  (Leuven: Peeters).

 

Lauinger, J., “Iqqur īpuš at Tell Tayinat,” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 68 (2016): 229-48.

 

Petrovich, Douglas Neal Tayinat’s Building XVI: The Religious Dimensions and Significance of a Tripartite Temple at Neo-Assyrian Kunulua. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.

 

 

2015

Lauinger, J. and Batiuk, S. “A Stele of Sargon II at Tell Tayinat,” Zeitschrift fürAssyriologie 105 (2015): 54-68.

 

Lauinger, J., “Neo-Assyrian Scribes, ‘Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty,’ and the Dynamics of Textual Mass Production,” pp. 285-314 in Texts and Contexts: Approaches to Textual Circulation and Transmission in the Cuneiform World, ed. P. Delnero and J. Lauinger.  Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 9 (Berlin/Boston:  Walter DeGruyter, 2015).

 

Weeden, Mark. 'The Land of Walastin at Tell Tayinat'. Pp 65-66 in Nouvelles assyriologiques breves et utilitaires 2.

 

Lauringer, J., "Neo-Assyrian Scribes, ‘Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty,’ and the Dynamics of Textual Mass Production". Pp. 285-314 in Texts and Contexts: Approaches to Textual Circulation and Transmission in the Cuneiform World, ed. P. Delnero and J. Lauinger. Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 9. Berlin/Boston: Walter DeGruyter.

 

2014

Harrison, T.P., Recent Discoveries at Tayaint (Ancient Kunulua/Calno) and Their Biblical Implications, Pp. 396-425 in Congress Volume Munich 2013, ed. Christl M. Maier. Leiden: Brill.

 

Harrison, T.P., Family Religion from a Northern Levantine Perspective. Pp. 183-96, in Family and Household Religion: Toward a Synthesis of Old Testament Studies, Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Cultural Studies. Ed. by R. Albertz, B. Alpert Nakhai, S.M. Olyan and R. Schmitt. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

 

Harrison, T.P., Articulation Neo-Assyrian Imperialism at Tell Tayinat, Pp. 80-96 in Archaeologies of Text. Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics, ed. Matthew T. Rutz and Morag M. Kersel. Oxford: Oxbow.

 

Harrison, T.P., Denel, E., and Batiuk, S.,2012 Tayinat Kazilari ve Araştirmalari, Pp. 19-35 in Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 35:3, Muğla: Muğla Sitki Koçman Üniversitesi Basimevi.

 

Welton, L., Revisiting the Amuq Sequence: A Preliminary Investigation of the EBIVB Ceramic Assemblage from Tell Tayinat. Levant 46(3): 339-370.

 

 

2013

Harrison, T.P., Denel, E., and Batiuk, S., 2010 Tayinat Kazilari ve Araştirmalari, Pp. 173-190 in Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 33:3, Ankara: Kalkan Matbaacilik San. Tic. ve Ltd. Şti.

 

Harrison, T.P., Denel, E., and Batiuk, S., 2011 Tayinat Kazilari ve Araştirmalari, Pp. 105-118 in Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 34:2, Çorum: Pegasus Görsel Iletişim Hizmetleri.

 

Harrison, T.P. , Landscapes of Power: Neo-Hittite Citadels in Comparative Perspective. Pp. 97-114, in Cities and Citadels in Turkey: From the Iron Age to the Seljuks. Edited by S. Redford and N. Ergin. Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Supplement No. 40. Leuven: Peeters.

 

Harrison, T.P., Tayinat in the Early Iron Age. Pp. 61-87, in Across the Border: Late Bronze-Iron Age Relations Between Syria and Anatolia. Edited by K.A. Yener. Amsterdam: Peeters Press.

 

Lauringer, J.,The Neo-Assyrian ade: Treaty, Oath or Something Else? Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 19: 99-115.

 

Osborne J.F,Sovereignty and Territoriality in the City-state: A Case Sstudy for the Amuq Valley, Turkey. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32:774-790.

 

 Harrison, T.P.  Tayinat in the Early Iron Age. Pp. 61-87, in Across the Border: Late Bronze-Iron Age Relations Between Syria and Anatolia, ed. K.A. Yener. Amsterdam: Peeters Press.

 

Harrison, T.P.; Denel, E.; and Batiuk, S. 2010 Tayinat Kazilari ve Araştirmalari, Pp. 173-190 in Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 33:3, Ankara: Kalkan Matbaacilik San. Tic. ve Ltd. Şti.

 

Harrison, T.P.; Denel, E.; and Batiuk, S. 2011 Tayinat Kazilari ve Araştirmalari, Pp. 105-118 in Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 34:2, Çorum: Pegasus Görsel Iletişim Hizmetleri.

 

Janeway, Brian, Cultural Transition in the Northern Levant during the Early Iron Age as Reflected in the Aegean-Style Pottery at Tell Tayinat. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.

 

Lauringer, J.,  The Neo-Assyrian ade: Treaty, Oath or Something Else? Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 19: 99-115.

 

Osborne J.F.,  Sovereignty and Territoriality in the City-state: A Case Study for the Amuq Valley, Turkey. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32:774-790.

 

Weeden, M., After the Hittites: The Kingdoms of Karkamish and Palistin in Northern Syria. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 56/2: 1-20.

 

 

2012

Denel, E. (2012) Tayinat Höyük'ün Yeni Aslani. Mesa ve Yaşam 57:29-31.

 

Harrison, T.P. (2012) West Syrian megaron or Neo-Assyrian Langraum? The Shifting Form and Function of the Tell Taʿyīnāt (Kunulua) Temples. Pp. 3–21 in Temple Building and Temple Cult. Architecture and Cultic Paraphernalia of Temples in the Levant (2.–1. Mill. BCE). ed. J. Kamlah and H. Michelau. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 41. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

 

Harrison, T.P. (2012) Lion-Adorned Monumental Gate Complex Unearthed at Tell Tayinat, Turkey. The Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation Bulletin 55 (February): 6.

 

Harrison, T.P. (2012)       Ta‘yīnāt, Tall. Pp. 494-97, in Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Vol. 13, No. 5/6. Edited by T. Blaschke, S. Ecklin, J. Fechner, and S. Pfaffinger. Berlin: De Gruyter. [co-authored w/ D. Hawkins]

 

Harrison, T.P. and Osborne J.F (2012) Building XVI and the Neo-Assyrian Sacred Precinct at Tell Tayinat. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 64:125-143.

 

Lauinger, J. (2012) Esarhaddon's Succession Treaty at Tell Tayinat: Text and Commentary. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 64:87-123.

 

Osborne J.F (2012) Communicating Power in the Bit-Hilani Palace. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 368:29-66.

 

2011

Harrison, T.P. (2011) Tell Tayinat's Great Lion. bout de papier 26:2 (Fall/Winter):19.

 

Harrison, T.P. (2011) Temples, Tablets and the Neo-Assyrian Provincial Capital of Kinalia. Journal of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies 6:29-37.

 

Harrison, T.P. and Batiuk, S., and Denel, E. (2011) Tayinat Höyük Kazilari, 2008, Pp. 368-384 in Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 32:3, Ankara: Allâme Tanitim & Matbaacilik Hizmetleri.

 

Janeway, B. (2011) Mycenaean bowls at 12th/11th century BCE Tell Tayinat (Amuq Valley). Pp. 167-185 in On Cooking Pots, Drinking Cups, Loomweights and Ethnicity in Bronze Age Cyprus and Neighbouring Regions, ed. V. Karageorghis and O. Kouka. Nicosia: A.G. Leventis Foundation.

 

Lauinger, J. (2011) Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Tablet collection in Builiding XVI from Tell Tayinat. Journal of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies 6:5-14.

 

Roames, J. (2011) The Early Iron Age Metal Workshop at Tell Tayinat, Turkey. Pp. 149-55 in Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology IX: Volume 1319 (MRS Proceedings), ed. P. Vandiver, W. Li, J.L. Ruvalcaba Sil, C. Reedy and L. Frame. Cambridge University Press.

 

Welton, L. (2011) The Amuq Plain and Tell Tayinat in the Third Millennium BCE: The Historical and Socio-Political Context. Journal of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies 6:15-27.

 

Welton, L., Batiuk, S., Harrison, T.P., with contributions by Lipovitch, D. and Capper, M. (2011) Tell Tayinat in the Late Third Millennium. Recent investigations of the Tayinat Archaeological Project, 2008-2010. Anatolica 37:147-185.

 

 

2010

Harrison, T.P. (2010) The Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Transition in the Northern Orontes Valley. Pp. 83-102 in Societies in Transition. Evolutionary Processes in the Northern Levant between Late Bronze Age II and Early Iron Age, ed. F. Venturi. Bologna: CLUEB.

 

Harrison, T.P. (2010) Tayinat Höyüğü: Arkeoloji Projesi 2009. Hatay 32: 36-37. [H. Pamir, Turkish translation]

 

Harrsion, T.P. (2010) Tell Tayinat: Patina Kralliğ'nin Başkenti. Aktüel Arkeoloji Dergisi 16: 78-85.

 

Harrison, T.P. and Batiuk, S. (2010) Tayinat Höyük Kazilari, 2008, Pp. 491-504 in Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 31:3, Ankara: Ismail Aygül Ofset Matbaacilik San. Tic. Ltd. Şti.

 

 

2009

Harrison, T. P. (2009) Lifting the Veil on a “Dark Age”: Ta‛yinat and the North Orontes Valley During the Early Iron Age. Pp. 171-184 in Exploring the Longue Durée: Essays in Honor of Lawrence E. Stager, ed. D. Schloen. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

 

Harrison, T. P. (2009) Neo-Hittites in the “Land of Palistin”: Renewed Investigations at Tell Ta‛yinat on the Plain of Antioch. Near Eastern Archaeology 72 (4):174-189.

 

Harrison, T.P., Batiuk, S.,and Snow, H. (2009) Tayinat Höyük Kazilari, 2006-2007, Pp. 503-522 in Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 30:2, Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanliği Dösimm Basimevi

 

2008

Harrison, T.P. (2008) Amik Ovasi'ndaki Patina Geç Hitit Kralligi'nin Baskenti: Tayinat Höyüğü. Hatay 14: 18-22. [H. Pamir, Turkish translation]

 

Harrison, T.P., Batiuk, S.,and Snow, H. (2008) Tayinat Höyük Kazilari, Pp. 85-98 in Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 29:2, Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanliği Dösimm Basimevi.

 

Janeway, B. (2008) The Nature and Extent of Aegean Contact at Tell Ta‛yinat and Vicinity in the Early Iron Age: Evidence of the Sea Peoples? Scripta Mediterranea XXVII-XXVIII: 123-146.

 

Lipovitch, D. (2008) Modeling a Mycenaean Menu: Can Aegean Populations Be Defined in Near Eastern Contexts Based on Their Diet? Scripta Mediterranea XXVII-XXVIII: 147-159.

 

2007

Batiuk, S. (2007) Ancient Landscapes of the Amuq: Geoarchaeological Surveys of the Amuq Valley: 1999-2006. Journal of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies 2:51-57.

 

Harrison, T.P. (2007) Neo-Hittites in the North Orontes Valley: Recent Investigations at Tell Ta‛yinat. Journal of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies 2:59-68.

 

2006

Harrison, T.P., Batiuk, S.,and Snow, H. (2006) 2004 Yili Tayinat Höyük Kazilari. Pp. 353-362 in Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 27:2, Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanliği Dösimm Basimevi.

 

2005

Batiuk, S., Harrison, T.P. and Pavlish, L. (2005) The Ta‛yinat Survey, 1999-2002. Pp. 171-192 in The Amuq Valley Regional Projects, Volume 1. Surveys in the Plain of Antioch and Orontes Delta, Turkey, 1995-2002, ed. K.A. Yener. Chicago: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

 

Harrison, T.P. (2005) The Neo-Assyrian Governer’s Residence at Tell Ta‛yinat. Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies Bulletin 40:23-33.

 

Harrison, T.P., Batiuk, S.,and Pavlish, L. (2005) 2003 Yili Tayinat Jeomanyetik Araştirmasi. Pp. 153-158 in Arkeometri Sonuçlari Toplantisi 20, Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanliği Dösimm Basimevi.

 

 

2001

Harrison, T.P. (2001) Tell Ta‛yinat and the Kingdom of Unqi. Pp. 115-32 in The World of the Arameans II: Studies in History and Archaeology of Paul-Eugène Dion, ed. P.M. M. Daviau, J. W. Wevers, and M. Weigl. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement 325. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

 

Harrison, T.P. (2001) The Evidence for Aramaean Cultural Expansion in the Amuq Plain. Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies Bulletin 36 (Recherches Canadiennes sur la Syrie Antique/Canadian Research on Ancient Syria):135-44.

 

Selected Presentations

 

 

2016

Batiuk, S. "Preserving and Presenting the History of the Antioch Region in Turkey". Presented at the Canadian Society for Mediterranean Studies, Ottawa Chapter, [September 25, 2016]

 

Batiuk, S. "Excavating “The Kingdom of Idols”: New Discoveries from the University of Toronto's Excavations at Tell Tayinat, Turkey". Presented at the Archaeological Institute of America, Montreal Chapter, [January 7, 2016]

 

Karakaya, D. "Archaeobotanical Investigations of the Ancient Flora of the Orontes Watershed" Presented at The Computational Research on the Ancient Near East Workshop: Large-Scale Data Integration And Analysis in Near Eastern Archaeology at the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Vienna, Austria, 25-29 April, 2016.

 

Karakaya, D. "Archaeobotanical Investigations of the Ancient Flora of the Orontes Watershed" Presented at INSTITUT FÜR NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHE ARCHÄOLOGIE COLLEQUIM, UNIVERSITÄT TÜBINGEN, 22 JULY. 2016

 

Karakaya, D. "Agricultural Patterns at Tell Tayinat and Beyond: The Archaeobotanical and Stable Carbon Isotope Evidence" Presented at American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, November 2016. San Antonio, Texas.

 

Lauinger, J., “Literary Connections and Social Contexts:  Approaches to Deuteronomy in Light of the Assyrian adê-tradition,” invited session on Treaty and Covenant: Deuteronomy in Light of the Neo-Assyrian/Aramaic adê-tradition, Society for Biblical Literature (San Antonio, TX).  November 19, 2016.

 

Lipovitch, D. "The Zooarchaeology of the Orontes Watershed." Presented at The Computational Research on the Ancient Near East Workshop: Large-Scale Data Integration And Analysis in Near Eastern Archaeology at the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Vienna, Austria, 25-29 April, 2016.

 

Osborne, J.F. “City Planning and Monumentality: Urban Symbology in Iron Age Turkey.” Invited lecture presented to Topoi Excellence Cluster: Großbauten in ihren Gesellschaften – zwischen praktischer Nutzung und symbolischer Bedeutung. Freie Universität, Berlin, 2016.

 

Osborne, J.F. “The Formation of the Syro-Anatolian City-States: New Evidence from Patina and Beyond.” Invited paper presented at 10ICAANE meeting in Vienna, Austria, 2016.

 

 

2015

Batiuk, S & T.P. Harison. "The Tell Tayinat Archaeological Project: 2013-2015". Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Atlanta, November 18-21, 2015

 

Batiuk, S. "There and Back Again: Virtual Reconstruction and Architectural Conservation at Tell Tayinat." Presented at CRANE Symposium 2015: Archaeological Data Analysis and Cross-Project

Collaboration Friday, March 27, 2015

 

Lauinger, J., “Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty as Literary Model for Deuteronomy:  Some Thoughts on Method,” invited session on Methods of Historiography in the Study of Ancient Israel and the Levant: Assyria and the Levant in the Iron Age, American Schools for Oriental Research/Society for Biblical Literature (Atlanta, GA).  November 21, 2015.

 

Lauinger, J., “Violence and Its Alternative under the Neo-Assyrian Empire,” Biblical Archaeology Forum (Rockville, MD).  April 23, 2015.

 

Lauinger, J., “Current Research on the Relationship of Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty to Deuteronomy:  An Assyriologist’s Perspective,” The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland (College Park, MD).  April 1, 2015.

 

Osborne, J.F. “Forced Migration in the Iron Age: A Multi-Scalar Approach.” Lecture presented at the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop, University of Chicago, 2015.

 

Osborne, J.F. “A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Neo-Assyrian Forced Migration.” Invited lecture presented at the workshop The Levant under Assyrian Domination, Yad Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, 2015.

 

2014

Batiuk, S.  "Excavating “the Kingdom of idols”: New Discoveries from the University of Toronto's Excavations at Tell Tayinat, Turkey". Presented at American Institute of Archaeology, Ottawa Chapter. Ottawa, Canada.

 

Denel, E. "Tayinat Höyük Kazıları Işığında Geç Hitit Patina/Unki Krallığı" ("Late Hittite Kingdom of Patina/Unqi in light of the Tayinat Höyük Excavations"),  Lecture in Turkish at the Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi (Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara), December 4, 2014.

 

Denel, E. "Transformation of Royal Space in Iron Age Tell Tayinat," 5èmes Rencontres d’archéologie de l’IFEA: HITTITOLOGY TODAY  Hittite and Neo-Hittite Anatolian Studies on the 100th anniversary of Emmanuel Laroche's birth, November 21-22, 2014

 

Janeway, B. "Imported Late Helladic Pottery from Tell Tayinat: A Preliminary Analysis of Petrography and Style." Presented at American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, November 2014. San Diego, CA.

 

Osborne J.  "The Iron Age Diaspora of the Early First Millenniium BCE: The Tayinat Lower Town Project and the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey." Presented at American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, November 2014. San Diego, CA.

 

Welton, L., “Bridging the Gap: Reconstructing the Iron I - Iron II Transition at Tell Tayinat."Settlement in the Amuq Plain in the Early Bronze Age.” Presented at American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, November 2014. San Diego, CA.

 

Harrison, T.P. "Recent Discoveries at Tayaint (Ancient Kunulua/Calno) and Their Biblical Implications". Pp. 396-425 in Congress Volume Munich 2013, ed. Christl M. Maier. Leiden: Brill.

 

2013

Janeway, B. "Cultural Transition as Reflected in the Aegean Pottery at Tell Tayinat". Presented at American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, November 2013. Baltimore, MD.

 

Lauinger, J.  Neo-Assyrian Scribes, ‘Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty,’ and the Dynamics of Textual Mass Production. Presented at Texts and Contexts: Approaches to Textual Transmission in the Cuneifrom World, The John Hopkins University. Baltimore MD.

 

Lauinger, J. Observing Neo-Assyrian Scribes at Work: The Production of the Manuscripts of the So-Called “Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty.”  Presented at Observing the Scribe at Work: Knowledge Transfer and Scribal Professionalism  in Pre-Typographic Societies, 2013 Conference of the Australian Research Council project “Knowledge Transfer and Administrative Professionalism in a Pre-Typographic Society: Observing the Scribe at Work in Roman and Early Islamic Egypt,” Macquarie University.  Sydney, Australia.

 

Welton, L., Batiuk S.  “Settlement in the Amuq Plain in the Early Bronze Age”, Presented at American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, November 2013. Baltimore, MD.

 

Welton, L.  “Reconstructing Identities in a Dark Age: The Regeneration of Northern Levantine Society in the Early Iron Age”, Presented at UBCE CNERS Departmental Seminar Series, Vancouver, BCE.

 

Welton, L., "Social Regeneration and Identity Formation in the Early Iron Age: The View from the Northern Levant”, Presented at SFU Seminar Series, Vancouver, BCE.

 

2012

Batiuk, S., Harrison, T.  "Results of the 2011-2012 Seasons at Tell Tayinat" Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Chicago, Il.

 

Batiuk, S. Anatolian and Aegean influences in the 12th and 11th Centuries in the Amuq: The Iron I Sequence at Tell Tayinat. The Recent Archaeological Investigations in the Amuq Valley of Hatay. Presented at the Amuq Workshop, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.

 

Janeway, B.  "A 'Mixed Multitude' at Tell Tayinat? Evidence from the Early Iron Age Krater Assembage." Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Chicago, Il.

 

Lauinger, J.  Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty at Tell Tayinat:  A Biographical Sketch.  Presented at the invited session on Assyriology and the Bible:  Ancient Near Eastern Treaties, Society for Biblical Literature Annual Meeting  Chicago, IL.

 

Lauinger, J.  The Neo-Assyrian Treaty Tradition:  Defining Contexts, Describing Audiences.  Presented at Staatsverträge des Alten Vorderasien: Überlieferung – Funktion – Rechtshistorische Perspektive, International Max Planck Research School for Comparative Legal History/Institut für Rechtsgeschichte der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main/Institut für Altorientalische Philologie und Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster.  Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

 

Lauinger, J.  The Neo-Assyrian State at Tell Tayinat:  Cuneiform Tablets from the Tayinat Archaeological Project’s 2009 Season.  Presented at the 58th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale.  Leiden, Netherlands.

 

Lauinger, J. Archive, Library, or Something Else?  The Collection of Cuneiform Texts from the 2009 Season at Tell Tayinat.  Presented at the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.  Philadelphia, PA.

 

Lauinger, J. The Treaty in the Temple: The Social Settings of The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon.  Presented at Double stories – Double lives: Reflecting on Textual Objects in the Pre-Print world, Yale University.  New Haven, CT.

 

Osborne, J.F. “Communicating Power in the Bīt-Ḫilāni Palace.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Chicago, 2012.

 

Osborne, J.F. “The State and its Region in Past and Present: Territoriality in the Iron Age Kingdom of Patina.” Invited lecture for the Western New York Society of the American Institute of Archaeology, 2012.

 

Osborne, J.F. “Feasting Scenes from the Near Eastern Iron Age: Cultural Insights from Elite Feasting Practices in the Syro-Anatolian City-State.” Invited paper for the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, 2012

 

Osborne, J.F. “Al Mina and East-West Relations: The View from Tell Tayinat.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia, 2012

 

Roames, J. "The metal Workshop at Tell Tayinat, Turkey: A case Study in the rise of Iron Production" Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Chicago, Il.

 

Welton, L. "Reconsidering the Early Bronze Age Amuq Sequence".Presented at the Northern Levantine Workshop for Associated Regional Chronologies of the Ancient Near East (ARCANE). Florence, Italy.

 

Welton, L. “Local Production in a World of Interdependent Consumption: A Petrographic Case Study from the Amuq Plain” Presented in Think Global, Act Local: Material Interaction and Integration in the Mediterranean World, RCAC Mini-Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey.

 

Welton, L. “Ongoing Investigations into the Third Millennium BCE at Tell Tayinat: Results of the 2009-2011 Seasons”, Presented at The Recent Archaeological Investigations in the Amuq Region of Hatay, Koç University, March 2012. Istanbul, Turkey.

 

2011

Janeway, B. "Mycenaean Bowls at Early Iron Age Tell Tayinat (Amuq Valley)". Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Fransisco, CA..

 

Lauinger, J. A New Manuscript of Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty from Tell Tayinat and Its Contexts.  Presented at the 221st Meeting of the American Oriental Society.  Chicago, IL.

 

Osborne, J.F. “Strategies of Sovereignty in the Iron Age City-State: Settlement Patterns and Political Authority in Patina/Unqi, Turkey.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Francisco, 2011

 

Osborne, J.F. “Excavations at the Neo-Hittite Capital City of Kunulua: Results of the Tayinat Archaeological Project.” Lecture for the Institute of European and Mediterranean Archaeology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2011

 

 

2010

The annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Saturday, 20 November 2010. Atlanta, GA.. TAYINAT ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT: RECENT INVESTIGATIONS IN THE 'LAND OF PALISTIN'

 

Batiuk, S.    Seeing Through Silt: Results of Remote Sensing at Tell Tayinat.

Welton, L.    Tell Tayinat During the Early Bronze Age: Results of the 2008-2010 Seasons

Janeway, B. The Early Iron Age at Tell Tayinat

Osborne , J. Spatial Analysis and the Nature of Political Authority in the Syro-Hittite City-State: the Evidence from Patina/Unqi

Lauinger, J.  Cuneiform Texts from the 2009 Season at Tell Tayinat

Dessel, J.P.  Late Iron Age Tayinat: The Field 5 Excavations

 

The annual symposium of The Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies / La Société canadienne des études mésopotamiennes, Saturday, 2 October 2010. Toronto, ON.

CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION: RECENT DISCOVERIES AT TAYINAT ON THE ORONTES CARREFOUR DE CIVILISATIONS: RĖCENTES DĖCOUVERTES À TAYINAT SUR L‘ORONTE

 

Welton, L. Tayinat in the Late 3rd Millennium BCE

Janeway, B. Sea Peoples and Neo-Hittites in the ‘Land of Palistin’

Harrison, T. Temples, Tablets and Assyrian Imperialism at Tayinat

Lauinger, J. Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Tablet Collection in Temple XVI, Jacob Lauinger, Johns Hopkins University

 

Batiuk, S. Seeing Through Silt: Results of Remote Sensing at Tell Tayinat. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Atlanta, GA

 

Batiuk, S. Forging Identity in the Dark: Understanding Early Iron Age State Regeneration at Tell Tayinat. Presented at the Dept of Near Eastern Studies. Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MD.

 

Batiuk, S.. New Material from the EB Levels at Tell Tayinat. Presented at ARCANE Northern Levant Regional Meeting. Florence, Italy.

 

Capper, M. The Palaeoethnobotanical Remains from Tell Tayinat. Presented at the ASOR Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA.

 

Dessel, J.P.. New  Excavations at Tell Tayinat:  An Iron Age Kingdom in Southeast Turkey. Presented at the Department of Near Eastern Studies 2009-10 Colloquia. University of Michigan Ann Arbor.

 

Dessel, J.P. Tell Tayinat, Turkey: The Origins and Organization of Small-scale States in the Iron Age Levant. Presented at The Ancient Near East in the 12th-10th Centuries BCE: Culture and Histroy. University of Haifa.

 

Harrison, T.P. Recent Discoveries at Tell Tayinat on the Orontes. Presented at 7ICAANE. Fieldwork and Recent Research. London, England.

 

Janeway, B. Of Potters and Weavers: Intrusive Acculturation at Tell Ta‘yinat in the Early Iron Age. Presented at the International Archaeological Symposium. Nicosia, Cyprus.

 

Lipovitch, D.  A Preliminary Report on the Faunal Remains from the 2004-2009 Excavations at Tell Ta’yinat, Turkey. Presented at the ASOR Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA.

 

Osborne, J. Ancient Conceptions of Political Territory: A View from the Iron Age Kingdom of Patina. Presented at the American Research Institute of Turkey. Ankara, Turkey

 

Osborne, J. The State and its Region in Past and Present: Territoriality in the Iron Age Kingdom of Patina. Presented at Bilkent University. Ankara

 

Roames, J.  The Early Iron Age Metal Workshop at Tell Tayinat, Turkey. Presented at the Materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, MA. (awarded Best Student Paper in Archaeological Science for Symposium WW)

 

Roames, J. Why Iron Was Used in the Early Iron Age. Presented at the Graduate Student Symposium of the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. University of Toronto.

 

2009

Batiuk, S. The Tell Tayinat Excavations 2007–2009. Presented at the ASOR Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.

 

Roames, J. The Early Iron Age Metal Workshop at Tell Tayinat, Turkey. Presented at the ASOR Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.

 

Roames, J. The Metal Workshop at Tell Tayinat, Turkey. Presented at the World of Iron Conference. Natural History Museum in London, England.

 

2008

Janeway, B. What’s in a Face? A Painted Sherd from Tell Ta‘yinat in the Tradition of Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting. Presented at the ASOR Annual Meetings. Boston, MA.

 

Janeway, B.. Tell Ta‘yinat: Seventy Years of Finds from a Neo-Hittite Capital in Eastern Turkey. Presented at the AIA Regional Meeting. University of Akron, OH.

 

Roames, J. Forging Fer-ness: The Impact of Iron on the Near Eastern Proletariat. Presented at the Graduate Student Symposium of the Department of Near and MiddleEastern Civilizations. University of Toronto.

 

Roames, J. The Metal Industry in the Northern Levant during the Early Iron Age. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association. Trent University.

 

2007

Dessel, J.P. New Excavations at Tell Tayinat: An Iron Age Kingdom in Southeast Turkey. Presented at the East Tennessee Chapter of the AIA. Knoxville, TN.

 

Janeway, B. Dating the Early Iron Age at Tell Ta‘yinat, Turkey: Preliminary Results from Ceramic Analysis. Presented at the ASOR Annual Meetings. San Diego, CA.

 

Osborne J. Excavations at the Aramean Capital of Kunalua in the Plain of Antioch. Presented in the Harvard Semitic Museum Lecture Series. Harvard University.

 

Roames, J. The State of Metalworking in Syria during the Early Iron Age. Presented at the Graduate Student Symposium of the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. University of Toronto.

 

2006

Janeway, B. The Nature and Extent of Aegean Contact at Tell Ta‘yinat and Vicinity in the Early Iron Age: Evidence of Sea Peoples? Presented at the ASOR Annual Meetings. Washington, D.C.

 

Osborne J. The Archaeology of the Amuq in the Iron Age: Ethnicity in a Cultural Crossroad. Presented in the Harvard University Archaeology Wing Seminar Series. Harvard University.

 

 

 

Selected Posters

 

Deng, D., Khaled, K., LeBlanc, P., Lee, J., Nizami, R., Pascua, D., Bank, C. (2010) Geophysical Investigation at an Archaeological Site by Magnetometry and Resistivity: Tell Tayinat, South Eastern Turkey. Presented at the Ottawa Undergraduate Research Poster Competition (OURPC). Ottawa, ON.

 

Capper, M. (2010) "In Their Words: Using  Ancient Written Sources to Interpret the Palaeobotanical Remains of

Tell Tayinat, Turkey". Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Ethnobiology. Victoria, BCE. (co-recipient of the 2010 Best Ethnobiology Poster Award).

 

Lumb, D., Roames J. Snow, H. and Welton, L. (2008) Tayinat Archaeological Project: Sea Peoples, Neo-Hittites, and Assyrians on the Plain of Antioch. Presented at the ASOR Annual Meeting. Boston, MA