Project Publications

Harrison, T. (in preparation) "The Resettlement of Madaba in the Late Ottoman Period." To appear in New Insights on the Archaeology of the Ottoman and Mandate Periods in the Southern Levant. Ed. by B. Saidel and E. Van der Steen. [20 pp.]

Foran, D. (in preparation) “A Late Byzantine / Early Islamic Residence on Madaba’s West Acropolis.” To appear in Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan.

Harrison, T. (2009) "The Land of Medeba and Early Iron Age Madaba." in Studies on Iron Age Moab and Neighbouring Areas in Honour of Michele Daviau. Pitor Bienkowski (ed.) Pp.27-45. Leuven:Peeters.

Harrison, T. P., Foran, D. and A. Graham (2007) “Investigating 5,000 Years of Urban History: The Tall Madaba Archaeological Project” in Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan. T. Levy, M. Daviau, R. Younker and M. Shaer (eds.). Pp.143 – 152. London: Equinox.

Foran, D. (2007) “A Large Urban Residence from Late Byzantine and Early Islamic Mādabā.” Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 9: 113-122.

Harrison, T. P. and C. Barlow (2005) “Mesha, the Mishor, and the Chronology of Iron Age Mādabā.” Pp. 179-90, in T. E. Levy and T. Higham (eds.), The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating; Archaeology, Text and Science. London: Equinox.

Foran, D., Harrison, T. P., Graham, A., Barlow, C. and N. J. Johnson (2004) “The Tall Mādabā Archaeological Project: Preliminary Report of the 2002 Field Season.” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 48: 79-96.

Harrison, T.P., Foran, D., Graham, A., Griffith, T., Barlow, C., and J. Ferguson (2003) “The Tall Mādabā Archaeological Project; Preliminary Report of the 1998-2000 Field Seasons.” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 47: 129-48.

Harrison, T.P., Foran, D. (2003) "Tell Madaba." American Journal of Archaeology 107: 464-66.

Harrison, T.P., Foran, D. (2002) "Madaba West Acropolis." ACOR Newsletter 14(2): 6-8.

Harrison, T.P. (2002) "Tell Madaba Excavations, 2000." Liber Annuus 50[2000]: 485-86.

Harrison, T.P. (2001) "Urban or Rural? The Development of Regional Communities in the Highlands of Jordan during the Third Millennium." Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 7: 191-96.

Harrison, T.P. (2001) "Tell Madaba: The West Acropolis." ACOR Newsletter 13(1): 7-8.

Harrison, T.P. (2001) "Tell Madaba." American Journal of Archaeology 105: 450-51.

Harrison, T.P. (2000) "Tell Madaba." American Journal of Archaeology 104: 579-81.

Harrison, T.P., Hesse, B., Savage, S. and D. Schnurrenberger (2000) “Urban Life in the Highlands of Central Jordan; A Preliminary Report of the 1996 Tall Mādabā Excavations.” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 44: 211-29.

Harrison, T.P. (1999) "Urban Archaeology in the Highlands of Central Jordan; The Tell Madaba Excavations, 1998-99 Seasons." Occident and Orient 4.

Harrison, T.P. (1999) "Tell Madaba." ACOR Newsletter 11(1): 8-9.

Harrison, T.P. (1999) "Tell Madaba." American Journal of Archaeology 103: 501.

Harrison, T.P. (1999) "Tell Madaba Excavations, 1998-1999." Liber Annuus 48[1998]: 536-39.

Harrison, T. P. (1997) “Intrasite Spatial Analysis and the Settlement History of Mādabā.” Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 6: 137-42.

Harrison, T.P. (1997) "Investigations of Urban Life in Madaba, Jordan." Biblical Archaeologist 60: 53-54.

Harrison, T.P. (1997) "Tell Madaba Excavations, 1996." Ancient Jordan (The Newsletter of the Jordanian Friends of Archaeology Society) Jan/Feb: 6-7.

Harrison, T.P. Savage, S. (1997) "Tell Madaba." American Journal of Archaeology 101: 508-10.

Harrison, T.P. (1996) "Tell Madaba Excavations." Liber Annuus 46: 404-06.

Harrison, T.P. (1996) "Tell Madaba Excavation Project." Ancient Jordan (The Newsletter of the Jordanian Friends of Archaeology Society) Sep: 7.

Harrison, T.P. (1996) "Tell Madaba Excavation Project." Central Jordan Network 22: 3.

Harrison, T.P. (1996) "Tell Madaba." ACOR Newsletter 8/1: 5.

Harrison, T.P. (1996) "The History of Madaba." in Madaba: Cultural Heritage, eds. P. M. Bikai and T. A. Dailey (eds.) Pp. 1-17. Amman: American Center of Oriental Research.

Harrison, T.P. (1996) "The Surface Survey." in Madaba: Cultural Heritage, P. M. Bikai and T. A. Dailey (eds.) Pp. 18-23. Amman: American Center of Oriental Research.

Harrison, T.P. (1994) "A Sixth-Seventh Century Ceramic Assemblage from Madaba, Jordan." Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 38: 429-46.

Harrison, T.P. (1994) "The Madaba Survey." ACOR Newsletter 6/1: 9.

Harrison, T.P. (1994) "Madaba Region, Early Bronze Age Survey." American Journal of Archaeology 98: 525-6.

 
Conference Presentations

1994

    • The Settlement History of Madaba, Jordan (Harrison) - The Middle East Urbanism Workshop, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL) - April 26th, 1994. (link to abstract)
    • The City of Mosaics: Recent and Ongoing Fieldwork in Madaba, Jordan (Harrison) - Wheaton Archaeology Conference - (Wheaton, IL) - November 11-12, 1994. (link to abstract)

1995

    • Early Bronze Age Settlement Patterns on the Madaba Plain, Central Jordan (Harrison) - The Middle East Urbanism Workshop, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL) - May 10th, 1995. (link to abstract)
    • Intrasite Spatial Analysis and the Settlement History of Madaba (Harrison) - The Sixth International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan - (Turin, Italy) - June 5-10, 1995. (link to abstract)

1996

    • The 1996 Tell Madaba Excavations: Investigations of Urban Life in the Highlands of Central Jordan (Harrison) - American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting - (New Orleans, LA) - November 23-26, 1996. (link to abstract)

1997

    • Late Bronze Age Madaba: The View from the 'Frontier' (Harrison) - Meetings of the Midwest Branch of the AOS/SBL/ASOR - (Wheaton, IL) - February 16-18, 1997. (link to abstract)
    • Urban Archaeology and Preclassical Madaba (Harrison) - ACOR Lecture Series - (Amman, Jordan) - July 16th, 1997. (link to abstract)
    • Mesha, the Mishor, and Iron Age Madaba (Harrison) - American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting - (Napa Valley, CA) - November 18-21, 1997. (link to abstract)
    • Late Bronze Age Madaba and the Transition to the Iron Age (Harrison) - Annual Meetings of the Near Eastern Archaeological Society - (Santa Clara, CA) - November 21-22, 1997. (link to abstract)
    • The Central Highlands in the Early Iron Age and the Question of Moabite Origins (Harrison) - Session on Transjordan in Iron I - Annual Meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature (San Francisco,CA) - November 22-25, 1997. (link to abstract)

1998

    • Ancient Madaba: Urban Archaeology in the Highlands of Central Jordan (Harrison) - Toronto Society of the Archaeological Institute of America - (Toronto, Ontario) - March 4th, 1998. (link to abstract)
    • Ancient Madaba: Urban Archaeology in the Highlands of Central Jordan (Harrison) - Wilfrid Laurier University Archaeological Society - (Waterloo, Ontario) - March 26th, 1998. (link to abstract)
    • Ancient Madaba: Urban Archaeology in the Highlands of Central Jordan (Harrison) - Urban Geography Class, Earl Haig High School - (Toronto,Ontario) - April 16th, 1998. (link to abstract)
    • Tell Madaba Archaeological Project: Urban Archaeology in the Highlands of Central Jordan (Harrison) - The Hagop Kevorkian Lecture, University of Pennsylvania Museum - (Philadelphia, PA) - April 21st, 1998. (link to abstract)
    • Urban or Rural? The Development of Regional Communities in the Highlands of Jordan during the Third Millennium (Harrison) - 7th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan - (Copenhagen, Denmark) - June 14-19, 1998. (link to abstract)
    • Tell Madaba Excavations, 1998 (Harrison) - ACOR Lecture Series - (Amman, Jordan) - July 22nd, 1998. (link to abstract)

1999

    • The Bani ‘Amrat and the Nabataean Presence in Madaba (Harrison) - International Conference on Nabataean Research and Studies - (Petra, Jordan) - June 21-23, 1999. (link to abstract)
    • 1999 Update on the Tell Madaba Archaeological Project (Harrison) - ACOR Lecture Series - (Amman, Jordan) - July 5th, 1999. (link to abstract)
    • The Excavation of a Byzantine Shop, the Results of the 1998 Season of the Tell Madaba Archaeological Project (Foran) - Third Annual NMC Graduate Students’ Symposium, University of Toronto - (Toronto, Ontario) - March 19, 1999. (link to abstract)
    • The 1998 and 1999 Seasons of the Tell Madaba Archaeological Project (Harrison) - American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting - (Cambridge, MA) - November 18-20, 1999. (link to abstract)

2000

    • Late Byzantine Madaba: The Results of the Tell Madaba Archaeological Excavations (Foran) - American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting - (Nashville, Tennessee) - November 15-18, 2000. (link to abstract)
    • Tell Madaba Archaeological Project – Field C Ceramics (Foran) - Common Ware ceramics of the 1st to 7th century AD from north, central and south Jordan Workshop, IFAPO - (Amman, Jordan) - August 20-23, 2000. (link to abstract)

2001

    • The Tell Madaba Archaeological Project, 2000-2001 (Harrison) - American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting - (Boulder, CO) - November 14-17, 2001. (link to abstract).
    • The Construction and Negotiation of a National Identity in Iron Age Moab (Harrison) - 8th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan - (Sydney, Australia) - July 9th to July 13th. (link to abstract)
    • Conservation of the West Acropolis, Madaba (Harrison) - ACOR Lecture Series (Amman, Jordan) - July 30th, 2001. (link to abstract)
    • Late Byzantine and Early Islamic Madaba: Results of the Tell Madaba Archaeological Excavations (Foran) - Fifth Annual NMC Graduate Students’ Symposium, University of Toronto - (Toronto, Ontario) - March 15-16, 2001. (link to abstract)

2002

    • The Madaba Plain (Jordan) Regional GIS (Graham/Harrison) - Université Laval GIS Workshop - (Quebec City, Quebec) November 1st, 2002. (link to abstract)
    • A Late Byzantine Mansion on Madaba’s West Acropolis (Foran) - American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting - (Toronto, Ontario) - November 20-24, 2002. (link to abstract)
    • Results of the 2002 Field Season of the Tell Madaba Archaeological Project (Foran) - American Centre for Oriental Research - (Amman, Jordan) - August 20, 2002. (link to abstract)
    • Doing Urban Archaeology in the Contemporary Middle East: The Experience of the Tell Madaba Archaeological Project, Jordan (Harrison) - AIA-Niagara Society - (Brock University, St. Catherines, ON) - January 20th, 2002.(link to abstract)

2003

    • The Town of Madaba and its Vicinity in the Late 6th and 7th Centuries (Foran) - Life on the Edge of Empires: The Southern Levant in the Roman and Byzantine Periods Workshop - (Toronto, Ontario) - May 9, 2003. (link to abstract)
    • The Early Bronze Age Ceramic Industry of the Madaba Plain Region as Reflected through Petrographic Analysis (Klassen) - American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting - (Atlanta, Georgia) - November 2003. (link to abstract)

2004

    •  Cultural Interaction and Change: An Elite Urban Residence in Late Byzantine/Early Islamic Madaba (Foran/Harrison) - 9th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan - (Petra, Jordan) - May 22nd to May 26th, 2004. (link to abstract)
    • Madaba’s West Acropolis Mansion and the Late Byzantine – Early Islamic Transition (Foran) - 4th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East - (Berlin, Germany) - March 29-April 3, 2004. (link to abstract)
    • The use of Local Resources by Early Bronze Age Potters in Central Jordan (Klassen) - Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Graduate Symposium - (Toronto, Ontario) - March 2004. (link to abstract)

2005

    • The Resettlement of Madaba in the Late Ottoman Period (Harrison) - Ottoman Seminar - “New Insights on the Archaeology of the Ottoman and Mandate Periods in the Southern Levant” - (Albright Institute, Jerusalem) - June 5th, 2005. (link to abstract)


2006

    • ETANA-GIS: GIS forArchaeological Digital Libraries (Gorton/Shen/Vemuri/Fan/Fox) - International Conference on Digital Libraries - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) - June 11th to June 15th, 2006. (link to abstract)
    • Revisiting Social Complexity in the Early Bronze Age: New Evidence from the Madaba Plain Region (Klassen) - American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting - (Washington, DC) - November 2004. (link to abstract)

2007

    • Hydro-Engineering Achievements of Late Byzantine Madaba (Foran) - 10th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan - (Washington DC, USA) - May 23rd to May 28th, 2007. (link to abstract)
    • Emergence of Madaba as a Regional Center in the Early Iron Age (Harrison) - 10th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan - (Washington DC, USA) - May 23rd to May 28th, 2007. (link to abstract)
    • Channels and Cisterns: The Hydro-Engineering Achievements of the People of Late Byzantine Madaba (Foran - 10th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan - (Washington DC, USA) - May 23-28, 2007. (link to abstract)

2008

    • The Tell Madaba Archaeological Project: 15 Years of Research in the Central Highlands of Jordan (Foran) - Amman Training Center - (Amman, Jordan) - July 21, 2008. (link to abstract)

2009

    • Tell Madaba: Investigating 5000 Years of Urban History - (Foran) - Archaeology Research Day, University of Toronto - (Toronto, Ontario) - February 27, 2009. (link to PDF of presentation)

2010

    • Forthcoming

2011

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2012

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