#  Yorke Rowan 

Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

The Smithsonian Institution

2012 Grant Recipient; 2001 Grant Co-Recipient with Gus W. Van Beek

 

 

 



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##  *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](/publications/smithsonian-institution-excavation-tell-jemmeh-israel-1970-1990)*

 **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.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Grantees by Year
    
     [2012 Grant Recipients](/grantees-year/2012-grant-recipients)
- ## Grantees by Area
    
     [Levant - Southern](/grants-area/levant-southern) [Levant - Transjordan](/grants-area/transjordan)