Tel Yaqush: Excavations of an Early Bronze Age Site in the Jordan Valley (1989-2000)

2012 Grant
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The Smithsonian Institution Excavation at Tell Jemmeh, Israel, 1970 - 1990

Grant awarded 2001: PUBLISHED 2014. Please visit the publication's webpage

Yorke Rowan is Research (Full) Professor in the Archaeology of the Southern Levant at the Institute of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) of the University of Chicago. He co-directs the Galilee Prehistory Project, an ISAC field program, and co-directs Kites in Context, an ISAC and UPenn project in the Black Desert of eastern Jordan funded by the National Science Foundation. He also co-directs the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project, which involves survey and excavation in the Wadi al-Qattafi and Wisad Pools in the Black Desert. His most recent volumes include "The Social Archaeology of the Levant: from Prehistory to the Present" (Cambridge University Press, with A. Yasur-Landau and E. Cline) and “Beyond Belief: The Archaeology of Religion and Ritual” which draws together theoretical and methodological studies concerning ancient religion and ritual.