Lisa Maher Telephone: +44 (0)1223 764715 Fax: +44 (0)1223 764710 E-mail: l.maher@human-evol.cam.ac.uk POSITIONS: Research Fellow, LCHES |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Prehistoric archaeology, Palaeolithic, Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods, hunter-gatherers, archaeological method and theory, bioarchaeology, mortuary archaeology, lithic analysis, prehistoric technology, human origins and evolution, social complexity, origins of agriculture, Pleistocene/Holocene transition, geoarchaeology, micromorphology.
Regional: circum-Mediterranean region, including the Near East, Arabia, and north Africa.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Epipalaeolithic Foragers in Azraq Project, (2007-2011, Arts and Humanities Research Council, U.K.)
| Archaeological Survey and Near Eastern Landscape Prehistory, Wadi Ziqlab Project (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)) |
| Libyan Sahara Desert Migrations Project (Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies) |
| Beginnings of Complex Society in Prehistoric Southwest Asia, Wadi Ziqlab Project (SSHRC, Canada and National Geographic Society) |
PUBLICATIONS
L. Maher and T. Richter. (In press) PPN Predecessors: Current Issues in Late Pleistocene Chipped Stone Analyses in the Southern Levant. In Proceedings from the 6th 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.
L. Maher. (In press) Preliminary Results from Recent Excavations at the Epipalaeolithic Site of Kharaneh IV, In Jordan’s Prehistory: Past and Future Research (ed. by F. Khraysheh and G. Rollefson). Department of Antiquities of Jordan: Amman.
L. Maher. (In press) The Epipalaeolithic Period. In Atlas of Jordan (M. Ababsa, ed.). Institut Français du Proche-Orient: Amman.
T. Richter, and L. Maher. (In press) The Natufian of the Azraq Basin: An Appraisal. In The Natufian Culture in the Levant II (O. Bar-Yosef and F. Valla, eds.). International Monographs in Prehistory: Ann Arbor.
L. Maher, J. Stock, S. Finney, J. Haywood, P. Miracle and E.B. Banning (2011). Human-Fox Burials at a 16,000-Year-Old Cemetery in the Southern Levant (Jordan) Reveal Continuity in Burial Practices Prior to the Neolithic. Public Library of Science (PLoS-One): http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015815.
L. Maher, E.B. Banning and M. Chazan. (In press) Oasis or Mirage? Assessing the Role of Abrupt Climate Change in the Prehistory of the Southern Levant. Cambridge Archaeological Journal (February 2011).
T. Richter, A. Garrard, S. Allcock, and L. Maher. (In press). Interaction Before Agriculture: Exchanging Material and Shared Knowledge in the Final Pleistocene Levant. Cambridge Archaeological Journal (February 2011).
L. Maher and T. Richter. (In press) PPN Predecessors: Current Issues in Late Pleistocene Chipped Stone Analyses in the Southern Levant. In Proceedings from the 6th 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.
L. Maher. (In press) Preliminary Results from Recent Excavations at the Epipalaeolithic Site of Kharaneh IV, In Jordan's Prehistory: Past and Future Research (ed. by F. Khraysheh and G. Rollefson). Department of Antiquities of Jordan: Amman.
L. Maher. (In press) The Epipalaeolithic Period. In Atlas of Jordan (M. Ababsa, ed.). Institut Français du Proche-Orient: Amman.
T. Richter, and L. Maher. (In press) The Natufian of the Azraq Basin: An Appraisal. In The Natufian Culture in the Levant II (O. Bar-Yosef and F. Valla, eds.). International Monographs in Prehistory: Ann Arbor.
L. Maher. (2010) 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 (W. Finlayson and G. Warren, eds.). Council for British Research in the Levant: London.
T. Richter, J.T. Stock, L. Maher, and C. Hebron. (2010) An Early Epipalaeolithic Sitting Burial from the Azraq Oasis, Eastern Jordan. Antiquity 84:1-14.
T. Richter, S. Allcock, M. Jones, L. Maher, L. Martin, J. Stock and B. Thorne. (2010) New light on Final Pleistocene settlement diversity in the Azraq Basin: some preliminary results from Ayn Qasiyah. Paléorient 35(2): 49-68.
L. Maher. (2009) The Late Pleistocene of Arabia in Relation to the Levant. In The Evolution and History of Human Populations in Arabia: Paleoenvironments, Prehistory and Genetics, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleontology 187 (M. Petraglia and J. Rose, eds.), pp. 187-202. Springer: New York.
M.M. Lahr, R. Foley, F. Crivellaro, M. Okumura, L. Maher, T. Davies, D. Veldhuuis, A. Wilshaw, and D. Mattingly. (2009) DMP IV: Preliminary results from 2009 fieldwork on the human prehistory of the Libyan Sahara. Libyan Studies 40: 133-153.
M.M. Lahr, R. Foley, S. Armitage, H. Barton, F. Crivellaro, N. Drake, M. Hounslow, L. Maher, D. Mattingly, M. Salem, J. Stock, and K. White. (2008) DMPIII: Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoenvironments and prehistoric occupation of Fazzan, Libyan Sahara. Libyan Studies 39: 263-294.
T. Richter, S. Colledge, S. Luddy, L. Maher, D. Jones, M. Jones and R. Kelly. (2008) Preliminary Report on the 2006 Season at Epipalaeolithic Ayn Qasiyya, Azraq ash-Shishan. Annual of Department of Antiquities of Jordan (ADAJ) 51: 313-328.
L. Maher. (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 (T.E. Levy, M. Daviau, R.W. Younker, M. Shaer, eds.), p. 195-202, Equinox: London.
L. Maher, T. Richter and D. Jones. (2007) Archaeological Survey at the Epipalaeolithic site of al-Kharaneh IV. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (ADAJ) 51: 257-262.
L. Maher. (2007) 2005 Excavations at the Geometric Kebaran Site of `Uyun al-Hammam, Al Koura District, Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (ADAJ) 51: 263-272.
M.M. Lahr, H. Barton, F. Crivellaro, R. Foley, L. Maher, J. Stock. (2007) The central Saharan route out of sub-Saharan Africa: Palaeolithic and palaeoanthropological research. In Desert Migrations: people, environment and culture in the Libyan Sahara (by Mattingly, D., M.M.Lahr, S. Armitage, H. Barton, J. Dore, N. Drake, R. Foley, S. Merlo, M. Salem, J. Stock, and K. White) Libyan Studies 38: 122-136.
E.B. Banning, K. Gibbs, M. Gregg, S. Kadowaki and L. Maher. (2005) Al-Basatîn, Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. In Archaeology in Jordan, edited by S. Savage and K. Zamora. American Journal of Archaeology 109:530-532.
L. Maher. (2005) Recent Excavations at the Middle Epipalaeolithic Encampment of `Uyun al-Hammam, Northern Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 49:101-114.
E.B. Banning, K. Gibbs, M. Gregg, S. Kadowaki and L. Maher. (2004) Excavations at a Late Neolithic site in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan. Antiquity 78(302) project gallery.
I. Kuijt, W. Finlayson, N. Goodale, S. Denis, S. Smith, L. Maher, S. Kadowaki, and T. Aprin. (2003) Dhra' Excavation Project, 2002 Interim Report. Levant, 35:1-38.
L. Maher and E.B. Banning. (2003) Excavations at a Geometric Kebaran Site in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan. Antiquity 77:295 project gallery.
L. Maher. (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.
L. Maher and E.B. Banning. (2002) Geoarchaeological Survey and the Epipalaeolithic in Northern Jordan. Antiquity, 76: 313-314.
L. Maher, M. Lohr, M. Betts, C. Parslow and E.B. Banning. (2001) Middle Epipalaeolithic Sites in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan. Paléorient, 27(1): 5-19.
E.B. Banning and L. Maher. (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.
L. Maher and E.B. Banning. (2001) Geoarchaeological Survey in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, 45:61-70.
L. Maher, G.J. Borradaile and M. O'Connor. (2000) The Romanesque Frieze at Lincoln Cathedral (England) – Primary or Secondary Insertion? Magnetic Considerations. Archaeometry, 42(1): 225-236.
G.J. Borradaile, T. Lane, F. Lagroix, L. Maher, T. Lane, P. Linford and N. Linford. (1999) Attempts to Date Salt-Making Activity in Iron Age Britain using Magnetic Inclinations. Journal of Archaeological Science, 26(11): 1377-1389.
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
L. Maher (2010) Patterns in Burial Traditions of the Prehistoric Southern Levant. 11th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan. June 7-12. Paris, France.
L. Maher (2009) The Natufian of the Azraq Basin: An appraisal. The Natufian in the Levant II. September 7-11. Paris, France.
L. Maher (2009) Preliminary Results from Recent Excavations at the Epipalaeolithic Site of Kharaneh IV. Jordan's Prehistory: Past and Present Research. May 25-27. Amman, Jordan.
L. Maher (Organiser) (2009) Prehistoric Settlements and Palaeoenvironments of the Azraq Basin: A Multidisciplinary Workshop. May 28-30. Azraq, Jordan.
L. Maher (2008) Tracing Traditions through Time: New Insights into the Epipalaeolithic of the Southern Levant. Society for American Archaeology. March 26-30. Vancouver, Canada.
L. Maher (Session organiser and presenter) (2008) PPN Predecessors: Current Issues in Late Pleistocene Chipped Stone Analyses in the Southern Levant. The 6th Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Fertile Crescent: S.T.E.P.S (Studies in Technology, Environment, Production and Society). March 3-5. Manchester, UK.
L. Maher (2008) The search for meaning in Epipalaeolithic burial practices? British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology. February 29-March 2. Liverpool, UK.
PRESS RELEASES AND MEDIA
L. Maher (2010) The Epipalaeolithic Foragers in Azraq Project. McDonald Institute or Archaeological Research Annual Report – Archaeology at Cambridge 2009-2010. University of Cambridge, p. 29.
M. Balter (2010) The Tangled Roots of Agriculture. Interview comments. Science 327:404-406.
L. Maher (2009) 2009 Excavations at the Epipalaeolithic Site of Kharaneh IV, Zarqa District, Jordan. Munjazat, Department of Antiquities of Jordan.
L. Maher (2008) 2008 Excavations at the Epipalaeolithic Site of Kharaneh IV, Zarqa District, Jordan. Munjazat, Department of Antiquities of Jordan.
L. Maher (2005) 2005 Excavations at the Geometric Kebaran Encampment of `Uyun al-Hammam, Al-Koura District, Jordan. Munjazat, Department of Antiquities of Jordan.
L. Maher (2005) New Excavations at a 14 000-year-old hunting encampment in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan. Jordan Times Daily Newspaper, July 19, 2005.
L. Maher (2000-2003) The Wadi Ziqlab Project: Excavation and Survey. Munjazat, Department of Antiquities of Jordan.
L. Maher (with E.B. Banning) (2000) Survey in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. ACOR Newsletter, July 2000.
LINKS
University of Toronto: http://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/
Arts and Humanities Research Council: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: http://www.human-evol.cam.ac.uk/efa/main.htm
