Welcome!
I have created this site as both a way of disseminating information and data from my own research on the Neolithic period in Southwest Asia and the character and environmental consequences of ancient and modern agropastoralism. I also hope that this website will serve as a resource for students interested in Near Eastern Archaeology in general, and especially Levantine Neolithic archaeology in particular.
I am a PhD candidate at ASU, studying the long term effects of human landuse decisions, especially those associated with Neolithic farming and pastoralism. My PhD research focuses on the effect of agropastoralism on Neolithic landscapes, and how potential anthropogenic environmental degradation may have affected settlement patterns, landuse patterns, and patterns in the use of domestic space over time. I am specifically looking at the transition from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the Late Neolithic in northern Jordan.
My main areas of interest are GIS applications in Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Geomorphology, Household Archaeology, Spatial Analysis, Archaeological Modeling, Computational Modeling, Archaeological Survey, and Microrefuse Analysis.
This site will be continuously updated, and
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| Working at the Late Neolithic site of Al Basitan, Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. |
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Research Projects
Doctoral research:
--Read my doctoral dissertation research proposal
Ongoing research:
--Take one of my short courses in GIS!
--View the Ancient Pastoralism Project Page.
--View the Microrefuse Project page.
--View the Wadi Ziqlab GIS page.
--Go to the Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics Project Website.
MA
Thesis:
Published Papers
A GIS Method for Assessing the Zone of Human-Environmental Impact
Around Archaeological Sites: a Test Case From the Late Neolithic of
Wadi Ziqlâb, Jordan. (2011)(External
Link)
Computational modeling and Neolithic Soicioecological Dynamics: A
Case Study from Soutwest Asia. (2010) (External
Link)
Land use, water and Mediterranean landscapes: modelling long-term
dynamics of complex socio-ecological systems. (2010)
(External
Link)
Within room analysis of activity areas at Late Neolithic Tabaqat
Al-Buma, Wadi Ziqlab, Al Kura, Jordan (2009) (External
Link)
Living in the Past and Looking Toward the Future. (A review of
MedLanD project Research published in 2010) (External
Link)
Conference Papers
A GIS method for assessing the
zone of human-environmental impact around archaeological sites. (2010) PDF (2.8 Mb)
Coupled agent-based and geospatial models: a new approach to socioecological simulation. (2008) PDF (22.7 Mb)
Alternative
futures
of
the
past:
modeling
Neolithic
landuse
and
its consequences in
the ancient Mediterranean. (2007) PDF
(4.4
Mb)
Microarchaeology and the Use of Space at the Late Neolithic Farmstead of Tabaqat al-Bûma. (2007) PDF (6.4 Mb)
Conference Posters
Microrefuse Sampling Techniques. (2010) PDF (1.1 Mb)
Coupled ABM-GIS Modeling of Agropastoral Systems in Eastern Spain. (2010) PDF (0.7 Mb)
Ancient pastoralism and landscape change in south central Jordan: Are older survey data reliable for human-environment interaction studies? (2009) PDF (5.2 Mb)
A Coupled ABM-GIS model of small-scale farming (2009) PDF (0.6 Mb)
Unpublished Papers
When Hunting Meets Herding: Multivariate Analysis of Cross-Cultural Datasets. PDF (2.4 Mb)
Microrefuse Analysis: Theory and Methodology With Respect to Spatial Analysis and Household Archaeology. PDF (0.1 Mb)
Summary of the Pastoral Landscape. PDF (0.1 Mb)
Human Animal
Interactions and the Shift from Hunting to Herding. PDF (0.1 Mb)
