AHMA Participating Faculty
Benjamin W. Porter, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania, 2007)
Assistant professor of Near Eastern archaeology
Curator of Near Eastern Archaeology, P. A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
http://web.mac.com/bporter615
Research projects:
Dhiban Excavation and Development Project (Jordan)
Bahrain Bioarchaeology Project
Publication projects:
The Archaeology of Near Eastern Social Life
Bridging Subjects and Objects in the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds
Selected publications:
In press "Reading ancient Moabite pigments: A new non-destructive archaeometric technique for Near Eastern archaeology." Near Eastern Archaeology (with R. J. Speakman).
In press "Excavating turaath: Documenting local and national heritage discourses in Jordan" in Archaeologies and ethnographies: Iterations of ‘heritage’ and the archaeological past. L. Mortenson and J. Hollowell, eds. University of Florida Press (with J. Jacobs).
2008 "Heritage tourism: Conflicting identities in the modern world." Pp. 267-281 in The Ashgate research companion to heritage and identity. B. Graham and P. Howard, eds. Hampshire: Ashgate.
2007 "The power of place: The Dhiban community through the ages." Pp. 315-322 in Crossing Jordan – North American contributions to the archaeology of Jordan. T. Levy, et al., eds., Equinox Publications (co-authors: B. Routledge, D. Steen and F. al-Kawamlha).
2004 "Authority, polity, and tenuous elites in Iron Age Edom (Jordan)" Oxford Journal of Archaeology 23(4): 373-395.