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Introduction
My research focuses on socio-political and economic developments in the Early Bronze Age (EBA) Southern Levant (3300-2000 BCE). I investigate innovation in EBA olive oil production, looking at how agricultural practices were organized in the early urban systems. I also investigate how mortuary practices were used as a forum for navigating emergent urban arrangements.
I specialize in ceramic analysis, archival analysis, collections analysis and archaeological excavations.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
September 2016 - present
Position
- Researcher
Description
- Researcher in the Wadi Ziqlab Laboratory working on neolithic through Middle Bronze Age materials from Wadi Ziqlab and Wadi Queseiba, Jordan. Researcher on the Gadachrili Gora Regional Archaeology Project (GRAPE) working on Neolithic materials from Georgia (Caucasus).
January 2016 - April 2016
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Introduction to Biological Anthropology and Archaeology. Taught tutorials
September 2015 - present
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Wadi Ziqlab Laboratory. Coordinate and supervise the processing, documentation, and analysis of excavated material. Supervise undergraduate students in various lab projects.
Education
September 2016 - June 2024
September 2015 - August 2016
September 2011 - May 2015
Publications
Publications (11)
During August 2018, the University of Toronto mounted excavations at a Yarmukian site called Tabaqat ar-Rutūbah طبقة الرُّطوبَة (WQ117), which the Wādī Qusaybah Survey first discovered in 2012, and subjected to small test excavations in 2014. The site is about 0.35ha in size and in 2014 we encountered stone and mud‑brick building foundations as wel...
Early Bronze Age Ceramic Vessels and Olive Oil Production
A specialized Early Bronze 1B (3100 BCE) site in wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan, indicates that pottery is used in different stages olive processing and oil production. We reconstruct the olive oil production processes including the rock-cut features, ceramic vessels and potential unpreserved...
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) scanning is an effective method for recording archaeological material. We outline results from using an iPhone 13 Pro to conduct LiDAR scans during excavations at Neolithic Tabaqat ar-Retoubah (WQ117).
Excavations by the Wadi Quseiba Project of University of Toronto at 'Ain Quseiba in 2018 uncovered architecture, pottery and lithics dating mainly to the Middle Bronze II A-B periods. The excavated structures appear to be domestic and the site would appear to be a small village, some 0.5 ha in area, near the mouth of a wadi that drains into the Jor...
This paper is a report on our pedagogical experimentation using the chaîne opératoire as a means to teach students about ceramic analysis in the context of our fi eld school in the Republic of Georgia. Through our pottery analysis we address questions related to ceramic production and consumption, in addition to issues related to social organisatio...
Preliminary artifact distribution analysis is conducted on the ceramic material recovered from a specialized olive press to understand the use of pottery in olive oil production and activity areas at the olive press.
During August 2014, a team from University of Toronto conducted test excavations at three locations in the drainage basin of Wadi Quseiba, west of Irbid, Jordan. One of these was a “candidate site” that the Wadi Quseiba Survey had discovered in Wâdî al-Bîr, one of Wadi Quseiba’s main tributaries, in its 2013 field season. This turned out to show go...
Band-slip is a motif applied to ceramics during the Early Bronze Age in the Levant. It consists of a series of intersecting bands that extend across the body of a vessel in a net-like pattern. The band-slip motif is a prevalent feature in the ceramic assemblage at Tell Rakân II, a large-scale Early Bronze Age I olive oil press in the northern Jorda...
This project is the initial analysis of Tell Rakân II (WZ130), an EB
I olive oil production site in the Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. Tell Rakân II was
exclusively an olive oil production center, and was likely associated
with the near-by sites of Tell Rakân I (WZ120) and Al-Basatîn
(WZ135). The olive oil installation at Tell Rakân II covers the entirety
of...
