
Here are some HNES events, presenters, and topics from 2006-2008:
Adam Aja, "Out of the Dirt & into Your Textbook: Philistine Archaeology 101. Text, Tools & Temples"
Guner Coskunsu and Prof. Ofer Bar-Yosef, Department of Anthropology, "Mezraa Teleilat: A Neolithic Village on the
Euphrates"
Guner Coskunsu, "The Transition from Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Pottery Neolithic in the Levant"
W.G. Dever: "Archaeology in Israel Today: The State of the Art"
A. Finkelstein & Eugene McGarry, "Ethnic Identity on the Periphery of Ancient Israel: Case Studies"
Bahman Ghahremani and Professor Andrea Seri: "Ancient Mesopotamia and its modern nationalist uses"
Professor Moawiyah Ibrahim: "Excavations at Sahab (Southeast of Amman, Jordan)"
Nicola Carpentieri: "Ascetic poetry in the diwan of the Sicilian Arab poet Ibn Hamdis"
Yuhan Vevaina: "Ritual Speculation and Eschatology in Zoroastrianism"
Dan Sheffield: "The Sources and Reception of the Zarâtusht-nâma: A Study in Continuity and Change"
David Brophy: "The wangs of Xinjiang: The Origins of Qing China's Islamic Aristocracy"
Stine Rossel, "Beasts of Burden at the Dawn of History: Early Dynastic Royal Donkey Skeletons at Abydos, Upper Egypt"
Stine Rossel, "The Development of Specialised Economics in the Nile Valley: reconstructing animal practice at South Abydos and
el-Mah"
Christine Thomas & Xiaoli Ouyang, "Prospography, Politics and Gender"
Rian Thum: "Siyawush in Khotan Today"
Dr. Joshua Wright: "Unseen by Eye, Unheard by Ear"--The Archaeology of the Early Turk
Dr. Miriam Belmaker: ""The Mice that Mar Your Land"--Rodents and Humans in the Levant"
Special Event: Women in the Field: Gender and Research in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Zhang Zhan: "The Newly Discovered Judeo-Persian Letter: Discovery, Date, and Provenance"; Bryan Averbuch: " The Historical
Context of the Letter"