ASOR Meets in Boston, Paul J. Ray, Jr.
New Staff, Paul J. Ray, Jr.
Jim Sauer Dies, Lawrence T. Geraty, modified by Robert Bates
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Andrews University Digital Commons @ Andrews University The Institute of Archaeology & the Horn Archaeological Museum Newsletter The Institute of Archaeology & the Horn Archaeological Museum Fall 1999 Institute of Archaeology & Horn Archaeological Museum Newsletter Volume 20.4 Paul J. Ray Jr. Lawrence T. Geraty Robert Bates Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/iaham-news Table of ContentsPageASOR Meetings 1New Staff 2Sauer’s death 2`Umayri 2000 3Random Survey 4INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGYHORN ARCHAEOLOGICALMUSEUMNEWSLETTERPaul J. Ray, Jr. EditorDavid Merling Assoc. EditorRandall W. Younker Assoc. EditorRobert D. Bates Asst. EditorThe Newsletter is published four times ayear by the Institute of Archaeology,Andrews University. Annual subscriptionprice is $7.50. Museum membership,subscription, and editorial correspon-dence should be addressed to the HornArchaeological Museum, Institute ofArchaeology, Andrews University,Berrien Springs, MI 49104-0990,Telephone 616-471-3273, Fax 616-471-3619, e-mail hornmusm@andrews.edu.Volume 20.4Fall 1999ISSN 1095-2837ASOR Meets in BostonThe third week of November is traditionally when the American Schools of OrientalResearch has its annual professional meetings. This is the time of the year when professionalarchaeologists and graduate students present the results of their research or preliminary reports ontheir recent excavation season. This year the meetings were held in Boston, the current home ofASOR. The home field advantage as well as the popularity of this city in general may have beenresponsible for the largest attendance since the society ceased to meet at the same time as theSociety of Biblical Literature. As usual, there were a number of sessions to choose from (toonumerous to name here). After a hiatus in Orlando and a rather miniscule number in Napa, thebook sellers were back in force in Boston with some very attractive deals at times.A very popular session for many is the two part Symposium on the Madaba Plains, Jordan.This years themes were: 1) Field and Related Research and 2) Strategies for Data Sharing andControlled Comparison among Projects working in and around the Madaba Plains Region.Included in the first session, presided over as usual by MPP consortium director Douglas Clark,were papers by Tim Harrison on the 1998 and 1999 seasons at Tall Madaba; Doug Clark on Iron IDomestic houses in the Madaba Plains region; Randall Younker on the 1999 season at Tall Jalul;David Merling on a comparison of Black ware between Talls `Umayri and Jalul and the resultingpolitical ramifications; and Chang-Ho Ji on Hellenistic and Early Roman settlements in the `Iraqal-Amir and Wadi Hisban regions.(cont’d on p. 2)Chang-Ho Ji making presentation, with Doug Clark (chair of MPP session), seated(ASOR cont’d)The second session, presided over byLarry Herr, director of the `Umayri exca-vations, included Suzanne Richard andPaul Holdorf of the Khirbet IskanderExpedition on a statistics-based typologyfor data sharing; Andrew Graham of theTell Madaba excavations on InformationSystems; Gary Christopherson on 15years of hinterland surveys in the MadabaPlains and Khaled Nashef and ØysteinLaBianca on Controlled Comparison ofFood System Cycles at the KhirbetBirzeit and Tall Hisban.Presentations by other MPP membersincluded Jim Fisher on Women in Am-monite society and a poster session byRhonda Root on the role of the artist on adig. Dave Merling also chaired aIndividual Submissions session. Other societies meeting at the sametime as ASOR include the Near EastArchaeological Society where DaveMerling gave a paper on the Large Num-bers at the time of the Exodus; Paul Raygave the results of the 1997 and 1998seasons at Tall Hisban and Chang-Ho Jipresented new information on the 1999Dhiban Plateau survey. (Paul J. Ray, Jr.)New StaffPh.d students Efrain Velazquez andRobert Bates have recently joined thestaff at the Horn Archaeological Museum.Efrain is assistant to the curator and han-dles the day to day work of upkeeping thecollections and database entry. Robert iseditorial assistant in the archaeologicalpublications office helping with the for-matting of manuscripts.  (Paul J. Ray, Jr.)Jim Sauer DiesThe Horn Archaeological Museumregrets to announce the passing of JimSauer on November 23, 1999 from com-plications arising from Huntington'sDisease. The funeral service was conduct-ed at the Concord Academy Chapel, inConcord, Massachusetts on November27, 1999 by his brother John Sauer. Hewas laid to rest at the Mt. HopeCemetery. Dr. Sauer is survived by hiswife Sue and his children Tom and Kate. Tributes were given by his brotherPeter as well as Larry Stager, archaeologyprofessor at Harvard and Lawrence T.Geraty, president of La Sierra Universityboth of whom have been personal friendsof Dr. Sauer for many years. Also inattendance were several faculty membersof Harvard University including Professorand Mrs. Frank Cross, Peter Machinist,Joann Hackett, John Huenergardt, Joe andEileen Greene and ACOR administratorsRobin Brown and Rudy Dornemann.  Jim Sauer has had a long associationwith the Horn Archaeological Museumand the Heshbon Expedition.  He was theceramicist of for the 1971, 73, 74 and1976 excavation seasons. His monographon the pottery of the 1971 season detailedthe sub-divisions for the late periods andtheir representative pottery. This samplingof pottery added to the understanding ofthe ceramic development of the later peri-ods, and also demonstrated the impor-tance of Tel Hesban in Transjordan forfilling in gaps in the knowledge ofMiddle Eastern ceramics. Sauer's contri-bution helped make Tell Hesban the type-site for the pottery sequence of centralTransjordan from the Roman through theIslamic periods. At the time of his deathDr. Sauer was collaborating with Dr.Geraty on the soon to be published"Hesban 11," the final publication ofHesban pottery. He has published numer-ous other articles on Hesban, Jordanianarchaeology and pottery typology.Dr. Sauer spent much of his adult lifeworking in Jordan and the United Statesto build up the American Center ofOriental Research (ACOR) in NorthAmerica. He leaves behind a powerfullegacy and an example of professionalexcellence, personal integrity that contin-ues to inspire those scholars and archae-ologists who have known him. Recently,Sue, Tom and Jim's brother Peter werepresented with a Festschrift honoring Dr.Sauer for his many contributions and life-long commitment to academic excellenceat the ASOR meetings in Cambridge,Massachusetts.  He will also be remem-bered for his intellectual enthusiasm, Robert BatesEfrain VelazquezEnjoy the fun and adventure of participatingon an archaeological digTravel on weekends to major sites in JordanTo apply for the upcoming field season at Tall al-`Umayrivisit the Madaba Plains Project web site at:http://mpp.wwc.educlick: FORMSapply online, download forms requiring your signaturelearn more about the Madaba Plains Projector send to:Douglas R. ClarkWalla Walla CollegeCollege Place, WA 99324(509) 527-2456 / Fax: (509) 527-2253email: clardo@wwc.eduJim Sauer  (right) with Safwan Tell (left)and Randall Younker (center) at AndrewsUniversity in 1993 for the Hesban after25 years conferencea broad scope of knowledge, clarity oftechnical thought as well as his selflessgiving, devotion and the ability to trans-mit a sense of awe and enjoyment thatmade distant history relevant to life inJordan today. He will be greatly missedby his colleagues, friends and the archae-ological community at large.Our deepest condolences go outto his family and friends. (modified byRobert Bates from a correspondence fromLawrence T. Geraty)News from Jordan: Dr. Ghazi Bisheh has retiredas the Director of theDepartment of Antiquities.He has been replaced by Dr.Fawwaz Khraysheh ofYarmuk University.Rami Khouri has beenappointed to the RoyalCommission for the over-sight of the John the BaptistSite in the Jordan Valley.On Dec. 14, Jordan receivedrain for the first time thisyear.Lecture:Institute of Archaeology Director, Randall W. Younker gave an illustrated lecture entitledDaily Life in Transjordan at the annual archaeology conference at Wheaton College(November 12-13).Museum Visitors:Over 200 people visited the HornArchaeological Museum during the FallQuarter (Oct. - Dec.) of this year. This in-cluded tours to retirees, a confirmation classand an Introduction to Anthropology class.New Book:Burton MacDonald andInstitute of ArchaeologyDirector, Randall W.Younker have edited anewly released book (1999)entitled Ancient Ammonpublished by Brill. Itincludes papers from a sec-tion of the Annual Meetingof the American Schools ofOriental Research in 1994on the Ammonites. Papersby Madaba Plains Projectmembers and affiliatesinclude Randall Younker,Larry Herr, ØysteinLaBianca, Gloria Londonand Michelle Daviau. Thebook can be purchased for$97.50. To discover more about archaeology, theInstitute, and the Museum, contact us at:VOX: 616-471-3273FAX: 616-471-3619E-mail: hornmusm@andrews.eduor visit our Web site at:www.andrews.edu/ARCHAEOLOGYINSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGYHORN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUMAndrews University, Berrien Springs, MI 49104-0990Address Service RequestedNon-profit OrganizationU.S. Postage  PAIDPermit No. 5Berrien Springs, MI 49103Old Solution to a Growing Problem:According to an article in the Oct. 19th  Jordan Times, the Jordan-ian government is legislating that all new houses must be builtwith cisterns to collect rainwater in an effort to ease the country’sgrowing water crisis. Along with this, there is a public awarenesscampaign and an effort to restore old cisterns. Interestingly,Øystein LaBianca of the MPP put forth this very idea several yearsago and even had several cisterns restored in an effort calledProject Rainkeep. Perhaps, this is, in part, the fruition of his work.

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