Profs. Lisa Maher and Ted Banning's Research Makes Headlines
April 1, 2011
The Anthropology Newsletter announced the publication of "A Unique Human-Fox Burial from a Pre-Natufian Cemetery in the Levant (Jordan)" in PLoS ONE. Now that research conducted by Lisa Maher, Prof. Ted Banning, and other colleagues is making headlines. In the Tuesday, February 8 edition of The Metro, their research was highlighted in the Learning Curve section: "…The team discovered what they believe is the oldest cemetery in the Middle East, a site in northern Jordan that includes graves with human remains buried alongside those of foxes. Banning found the 16,500-year-old site in 2000, but recent excavations uncovered the red fox skeletons in the same graves as humans." In addition, their research has been reported in The Bulletin, ScienceBlog, Science Daily, Winnipeg Free Press, The Ottawa Citizen, and others.
Lisa A. Maher, E.B. Banning & Michael Chazan
2011 Oasis or Mirage? Assessing the Role of Abrubt Climate Change in the Prehistory of the Southern Levant. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 21(1): 1-29 link
Carl Knappett, D. Pirrie, M.R. Power, I. Nikolakopoulou, J. Hilditch, G.K. Rollinson
2011 Mineralogical Analysis and Provenancing of Ancient Ceramics Using Automated SEM-EDS Analysis (QEMSCAN): a Pilot Study on LB I Pottery from Akrotiri, Thera. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38(2):219-32 link
