From February 1998 until March 2005 an Oriental Institute Staff Newsletter was circulated among faculty, staff, students, and the wider academic community. In the interest of preservation, remaining copies of the newsletter have been scanned and can be downloaded from the link…[Read more]

I investigate the organization of urban activities in Early Bronze Age cities of Northern Mesopotamia. I combine evidence from archaeological survey, magnetometry, and excavations to demonstrate that cities were broadly integrated in terms of function and use of space: inhabitants in outer cities, lower towns, and extramural areas all pursued a…[Read more]

First publication of two late period Elamite language cuneiform texts house in the Yale Babylonian Collection

This publication systematically describes ancient-world information resources on the world-wide web. The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL – The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model. In continuous operation since 2009, AWOL is a…[Read more]

Published in the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2015 : http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.3.3.issue-3 This contribution was part of FORUM Investing in the Future of the Past: Alternative Careers for Mediterranean Archaeologists

A paper on dreams in Greek archaeology prepared for a 2010 Presidential Lecture series at the University of North Dakota.

An article on Slow Archaeology for a volume of North Dakota Quarterly dedicated to Slow.

A case study in how small projects use digital tools.

A brief history of the Department of History at the University of North Dakota from 1885-1970.

Pyla-Koutsopetria I presents the results of an intensive pedestrian survey documenting the diachronic history of a 100 ha microregion along the southern coast of Cyprus. Located around 10 km from the ancient city of Kition, the ancient coastal settlements of the Koutsopetria mircoregion featured an Iron Age sanctuary, a Classical settlement, a…[Read more]