#  Steve Renette 

University of Cambridge

U. Penn Museum - Al-Hiba Publication Project

2024 White Levy Publication Program Grant Recipient

 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [University of Cambridge profile](https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-steve-renette) 

 laptop\_windows [Kani Shaie Archaeological Project](https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/current-projects/kani-shaie-archaeological-project-ksap) 

 laptop\_windows [Lagash Archaeological Project](https://web.sas.upenn.edu/lagash/) 

 

 



 

### [***Archaeological Excavations at Kani Shaie, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2013–2016 Campaigns***](/archaeological-excavations-kani-shaie-iraqi-kurdistan-2013%E2%80%932016-campaigns)

### **2024 Grant Award**  
  
[**Lagash I: The Ceramic Corpus from Al-Hiba, 1968–1990. A Chrono-Typology of the Pottery Tradition in Southern Mesopotamia during the 3rd and Early 2nd Millenium BCE**](/publications/lagash-i-ceramic-corpus-al-hiba-1968%E2%80%931990-chrono-typology-pottery-tradition) **(Published 2021)**

**Dr. Steve Renette** (University of Cambridge, UK) co-directs the Kani Shaie Archaeological Project and coordinates its publication project. Following his doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania on the formation of mountain societies during the 4th and 3rd millennium BCE, he was awarded a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of British Columbia. As an anthropological archaeologist interested in non-linear, diverse trajectories of complex social organization, his research has turned toward the negotiation, adaptation, and rejection of hierarchical power structures by mountain communities in the Zagros, expressed at times in forms of resistance against external powers. In addition, he is co-editor of the Al-Hiba/Lagash Publication Project and core team member of the Lagash Archaeological Project (University of Pennsylvania) in south Iraq where he investigates the emergence of the earliest centralized institutions among previously independent and diverse communities in the Mesopotamian marshlands.

Dr. Renette was the final author of a White Levy publication project (Lagash I) originally awarded grant funding to [**Holly Pittman**](/people/holly-pittman) in 2011.



 

 

 





 

 

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