Welcome!

 Photos from the 2006 Wadi Ziqlab field season are here:

    I have created this site as both a way of disseminating information and data from my own research in the Neolithic Levant and with ancient and modern Nomadic Pastoralists in the Near East, as well as to create a resource for students interested in Near Eastern Archaeology in general, and especially Levantine Neolithic archaeology in particular.

     This first page, contains some of my unpublished papers written during my graduate career as well as a few End-note bibliographies and presentations I have given. I am also making available my master's thesis, which is also as yet unpublished, all though I presented a version of it at the Spring 2006 Pacific WECSOR conference at Claremont College. I am also making available the latest draft of an ongoing research project on microarchaeology of living surfaces at a Neolithic farmstead in Northern Jordan, although a newer draft is currently nearing completion. I also have put links to several of these resources in the "quick downloads area" below, or in the "research topics" section on this page.
   
    There are also seven other pages which you can visit by clicking the links at the top of the page. These are: The Ancient Pastoralism Project page which contains information about my current PhD research, The Beidha Pastoralism Project page which details my previous MA thesis work where I built a GIS based predictive model of nomad campsite location; the Microrefuse Project page which details one of my current projects where I am studying how the patterning of very small size artifacts on a living surface reflect the use of space in a Late Neolithic Farmstead in Northern Jordan; the Links page which has many, many links to archaeological sites including field work opportunities and gear, as well as many links pertaining to GIS and GPS usage, pastoralism, Bedouin, and more; the Bedouin page which has a lot of interesting information on Bedouin and Pastoralism; the Wadi Ziqlab GIS page which shows the DEM's I've made of the Wadi Ziqlab region in Northern Jordan, and the GRASS GIS resources page which has various resouces I have create for working with the powerful open source GIS suite.

    This site will be continuously updated, and content and pages will be added as regularly as possible, so check back often. Please be sure to email me if you have any suggestions or requests, or if you want me to link to your page or host some of your data.

 All papers are now downloadable in PDF format. If you don't have a PDF reader, please download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free. The presentations are now available in Microsoft Power Point Show (.pps) format to save space.

Wadi Ziqlab Datasets available here. Please ask for permission before downloading datasets.

Me in Wadi Rayyan  near the PPNA cave site of Iraq ad' Dubb

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