The Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) which was supposed to take place in Boston this year, occurred virtually over November 12-15 and November 19-22, 2020 because of the pandemic. CRANE project members, institutional partners, collaborators, postdoctoral researchers, and doctoral fellows participated in several different sessions and workshops where they shared the results of their current research and research experience, especially in relation to the digital approaches to archaeology and cultural heritage preservation.
View below the list of CRANE-related presentations and workshops:
Understanding the Development of Complex Society in Lebanon during the Early Bronze Age (Kamal Badreshany, Durham University; Michel de Vreeze, Rijksmuseum of Antiquities; Graham Philip, Durham University).
Understanding the 4th and 3rd millennia cal. BC in the Orontes Valley: a well- dated material culture sequence from Tell Nebi Mend (Graham Philip, University of Durham; Melissa Kennedy, University of Western Australia).
Changing Animal Herding Strategies in the 4th – 3rd millennia BCE in the Upper Orontes Valley: Preliminary Isotopic Data (δ18O, δ13C, 87Sr/86Sr) from Tell Nebi Mend (Lynn Welton, Durham University; Graham Philip, Durham University).
Iron Age Urbanization and Middle Bronze Age Networks at Zincirli Höyük: Recent Results from the Chicago-Tübingen Excavations (Virginia Herrmann, University of Tübingen; David Schloen, University of Chicago; Kathryn Morgan, University of Chicago; Sebastiano Soldi, National Archaeological Museum of Florence).
Burning Kerkenes down one pixel at a time: Modeling the destruction by fire of an Anatolian Iron Age City (Dominique Langis-Barsetti, University of Toronto).
Assessing the raw materials utilized in lime production: a case study of plasters and mortars from Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus (Hannah Herrick, Simon Fraser University; Francesco Berna, Simon Fraser University; Rachel Kulick, University of Toronto; Kevin Fisher, University of British Columbia).
Analyzing socio-environmental processes in south-central Cyprus: Geoarchaeological case studies from the Vasilikos and Maroni Valleys (Rachel Kulick, University of Toronto; Francesco Berna, Simon Fraser University; Kevin Fisher, University of British Columbia; Catherine Kearns, University of Chicago; Sturt Manning, Cornell University).
Beyond entertainment? Developing a Virtual Reality Application for a Late Bronze Age Cypriot City (Kevin Fisher, University of British Columbia).
Grand Challenges for Digital Research in Archaeology and Philology (Workshop) – Chairs: Miller C. Prosser, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago; Timothy P. Harrison, University of Toronto.
On-site Digitization and Visualization of Stratigraphic and Spatial Relations Using OCHRE (David Schloen, University of Chicago; Sandra Schloen, University of Chicago).
Best Practices for Digital Scholarship (Workshop): Perspectives from Field Excavations (Timothy P. Harrison, University of Toronto).
Report on 2019–2020 Seasons of the Gadachrili Gora Regional Archaeological Project Expedition (GRAPE) Excavations (Stephen Batiuk, University of Toronto).
Check the CRANE Project website to learn more about our research endeavors.