Lisa Maher
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 764719 E-mail: l.maher@human-evol.cam.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1223 764710 POSITIONS: Research Fellow, LCHES Co-director, Wadi Ziqlab Project, University of Toronto
Lisa Maher Telephone: +44 (0)1223 764719 E-mail: l.maher@human-evol.cam.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1223 764710 POSITIONS: Research Fellow, LCHES Co-director, Wadi Ziqlab Project, University of Toronto |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Prehistoric Archaeology, environmental archaeology, archaeological theory and methods, Near East, Palaeolithic, Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods, social complexity and the origins of agriculture, mortuary archaeology, palaeolandscape reconstruction, archaeological survey, geoarchaeology, micromorphology, lithic analysis.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Epipalaeolithic Foragers in Azraq Project, (2007-2011, Arts and Humanities Research Council, U.K.)
Beginnings of Complex Society in Prehistoric Southwest Asia (2007-2009, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada)
Libyan Sahara Desert Migrations Project (2007-2008, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies)
Physical and cultural landscapes: Transition from forager to farmer in the southern Levant (Continuing from 2005, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada )
TEACHING
| 2007-2008 | ANT1155: Independent Research Course, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto . This graduate course covers the prehistory of the Near East, Arabia, and North Africa, focussing on evaluating current research issues and available evidence for the Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic periods. |
| 2007 | ANT203: Human Biology and Evolution, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto . This course covers introductory human biology and evolutionary theory used to trace the history of the human species through the fossil record, examine human variation, and compare the human species with other living primates. |
| 2005 | ARH360Y: Prehistory of the Near East, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto . This course highlights the archaeological record of the Levant from the Palaeolithic to Early Bronze Age, focussing on current issues regarding hunter-gatherers, agriculture, village life, and urbanism. |
| 2004 | ARH312Y: Archaeological Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto . This course covers basic laboratory and analytical skills, with emphasis on measurement and measurement error, research design, modelling, sampling, quantification, and the analysis of lithics, pottery, faunal and plant remains, sediments, and radiocarbon dates. |
PUBLICATIONS
| In review | T. Richter, J.T. Stock, L. Maher , and C. Hebron. An early Epipalaeolithic burial from the Azraq Oasis, eastern Jordan. Antiquity . |
| In press | Richter, T., S. Alcock, M. Jones, L. Maher , L. Martin, J. Stock and B. Thorne. New light on Final Pleistocene settlement diversity in the Azraq Basin: some preliminary results from Ayn Qasiyah and AWS 48. Accepted to Paléorient. |
| In press | Maher, L. and T. Richter . PPN Predecessors: Current Issues in Late Pleistocene Chipped Stone Analyses in the Southern Levant. In Proceedings from the 6 th PPN Workshop: Studies in Technology, Environment, Production, and Society (S.T.E.P.S) (eds E. Healey, O. Maeda, and S. Campbell). Ex Oriente: Berlin. |
| In press | Maher, L. The Late Pleistocene of Arabia in Relation to the Levant. In Footprints in the Sand: Tracking the Evolution and History of Human Populations in Arabia (ed. by M. Petraglia and J. Rose). Springer Academic. |
| In press | Maher, L. People and their places at the end of the Pleistocene: evaluating perspectives on physical and cultural landscape change. In Landscapes in Transition: understanding hunter-gatherer and farmer landscapes in the early Holocene of Europe and the Levant (eds W. Finlayson and G. Warren). CBRL Monograph: London. |
| 2008 | Archaeological Survey at the Epipalaeolithic site of Kharaneh IV. Accepted to the Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan . |
| 2008 | 2005 Excavations at `Uyun al-Hammam, Northern Jordan. Accepted to the Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (ADAJ) . |
| 2008 | Richter, T., S. Colledge, S. Luddy, L. Maher, D. Jones, M. Jones and R. Kelly. Preliminary Report on the 2006 Season at Epipalaeolithic Ayn Qasiyya, Azraq ash-Shishan. Annual of Department of Antiquities of Jordan (ADAJ) 51: 313-328. |
| 2007 | Microliths and Mortuary Practices: New Perspectives on the Epipalaeolithic in Northern and Eastern Jordan . Book chapter in Crossing Jordan : North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan (eds. T.E. Levy, M. Daviau, R.W. Younker, M. Shaer), Equinox: London , pp. 195-202. |
| 2005 | Recent Excavations at the Middle Epipalaeolithic Encampment of `Uyun al-Hammam, Northern Jordan . ADAJ 49:101-114. |
| 2005 | Al-Basatîn, Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan . In Archaeology in Jordan , edited by S. Savage and K. Zamora. American Journal of Archaeology 109:530-532 (with E.B. Banning, K. Gibbs, M. Gregg and S. Kadowaki). |
| 2005 | The Epipalaeolithic in Context: Palaeolandscapes and Prehistoric Occupation of Wadi Ziqlâb, Northern Jordan. University of Toronto: Unpublished PhD Dissertation. PDF (138MB) |
| 2004 | Excavations at a Late Neolithic site in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan. Antiquity 78(302) project gallery (with E.B. Banning, K. Gibbs, M. Gregg, S. Kadowaki ). |
| 2003 | Wadi Ziqlab Survey. In Archaeology in Jordan , edited by S.H. Savage, K.A. Zamora and D.R. Keller. American Journal of Archaeology , 107:449-451. |
| 2003 | Excavations at a Geometric Kebaran Site in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan. Antiquity , 77:295 (with E.B. Banning). |
| 2003 | Dhra' Excavation Project, 2002 Interim Report. Levant, 35:1-38 (with I. Kuijt, W. Finlayson, N. Goodale, S. Denis, S. Smith, S. Kadowaki , and T. Aprin) . |
| 2002 | Middle Epipalaeolithic Sites in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan. Paléorient, 27(1): 5-19 (with M. Lohr, M. Betts, C. Parslow, and E.B. Banning). |
| 2002 | Geoarchaeological Survey and the Epipalaeolithic in Northern Jordan . Antiquity, 76: 313-314 (with E.B. Banning). |
| 2001 | Geoarchaeological Survey in Wadi Ziqlab , Jordan . Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan , v ol. 45 :61-70 (with E.B. Banning). |
| 2001 | Wadi Ziqlab Survey. In Archaeology in Jordan , edited by S. Savage, K.A. Zamora, and D.R. Keller. American Journal of Archaeology, 105(3): 427-429 (with E.B. Banning). |
| 2000 | The Romanesque Frieze at Lincoln Cathedral ( England ) – Primary or Secondary Insertion? Magnetic Considerations. Archaeometry, 42(1): 225-236 (with G. J. Borradaile, and M. O'Connor). |
| 1999 | Attempts to Date Salt-Making Activity in Iron Age Britain using Magnetic Inclinations. Journal of Archaeological Science, 26(11): 1377-1389 (with G.J. Borradaile, T. Lane , F. Lagroix, T. Lane , P. Linford, and N. Linford ). |
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
| 2009 | The Natufian of the Azraq Basin: An Appraisal. The Natufian in the Levant II Conference in Paris, France, September 7-11, 2009. |
| 2009 | Preliminary Results from Recent Excavations at the Epipalaeolithic Site of Kharaneh IV. Jordan's Prehistory: Past and Present Research in Amman, Jordan, May 25-27, 2009. |
| 2009 | Prehistoric Settlements and Palaeoenvironments of the Azraq Basin: A Multidisciplinary Workshop . Organised a workshop of presentations and field trips bringing together past and present archaeologists working in eastern Jordan in Azraq, Jordan, May 28-30, 2009. |
| 2008 | Perspectives on the Palaeolithic of the Old World. Session chaired at the Society for American Archaeology in Vancouver, Canada, March 26-30, 2008. |
| 2008 | The search for meaning in Epipalaeolithic burial practices? Accepted paper for the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology , Liverpool , UK , February 28-March 2, 2008. |
| 2008 | PPN Predecessors: Current Issues in Late Pleistocene Chipped Stone Analyses in the Southern Levant . Accepted session for the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Jordan Chipped Stone Workshop in Manchester , UK , March 2008. |
| 2008 | Tracing Traditions through Time: New Insights into the Epipalaeolithic of the Southern Levant . Paper for the Society for American Archaeology in Vancouver , Canada , March 26-30, 2008. |
| 2007 | People and their places at the end of the Pleistocene: evaluating perspectives on physical and cultural landscape change. Landscapes in Transition: understanding hunter-gatherer and farmer landscapes in the early Holocene of Europe and the Levant in Amman , Jordan , March 26-30, 2007. |
| 2006 | Looking through the telescope? Reassessing the emergence of Natufian complexity in light of new burial evidence from northern Jordan . Relatively Speaking: An Archaeology of Relationships in the Prehistoric Near East Workshop at University of Lampeter , Wales , November 3-5, 2006. |
| 2006 | New Evidence for Burial Grounds, Mortuary Practices and Treatment of the Dead in the Southern Levant . 5 th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Madrid , Spain , April 3-8, 2006. |
| 2004 | Small Tools, Big Changes: The Transition from Forager to Farmer in the Southern Levant. Society for American Archaeology in Montreal , Canada , March 31 to April 4, 2004. |
| 2002 | Small Tools in a Big Valley: Recent Work on the Middle Epipalaeolithic in Wadi Ziqlab , Jordan. American School of Oriental Research (ASOR) in Toronto , Canada , November 21-23, 2002 |
| 2002 | A Geometric Kebaran Encampment in Jordan. Domesticating Space: Landscapes and Site Structure in the Prehistoric Near East, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto , Toronto , Canada , November 19-20, 2002 . |
| 2001 | All the Dirt on Wadi Ziqlab: The Middle Epipalaeolithic in Context. Society for American Archaeology , New Orleans , USA , April 15-19, 2001. |
| 2001 | New Rules for Small Tools. Society of American Anthropology , New Orleans , USA , April 15-19, 2001 (with C. Parslow, M. Lohr, and E.B. Banning). |
| 1998 | VRM dating and its Applications in Archaeology. 8 th Annual APALA Conference at the University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon , Canada , January 16-20, 1998. |
PRESS RELEASES
| 2005 | 2005 Excavations at the Geometric Kebaran Encampment of `Uyun al-Hammam, Al-Koura District , Jordan . Munjazat , a Department of Antiquities of Jordan publication for current archaeological projects in Jordan . |
| 2005 | New Excavations at a 14 000-year-old hunting encampment in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan. Jordan Times Daily Newspaper , July 19, 2005. |
| 2003 | The Wadi Ziqlab Project. Munjazat , a Department of Antiquities of Jordan publication for current archaeological projects in Jordan . |
| 2000-2002 | Excavation and Survey in Wadi Ziqlab , Jordan . Yearly press release for the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (with E.B. Banning) . |
| 2000 | Survey in Wadi Ziqlab , Jordan . ACOR Newsletter , July 2000 (with E.B. Banning). |
| 2000 | The Wadi Ziqlab Project, University of Toronto , poster for display at the Canadian Embassy in Amman , Jordan . |
