Archaeology Program
Staff Directory
Dr Phillip Edwards |
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Senior Lecturer
Room:Martin Building 161
Tel: (61 3) 9479 1978
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1881
Email: p.edwards@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BSc Monash, BA(Hons) Syd, PhD Syd |
I am a Senior Lecturer in the Archaeology Program at La Trobe University. My major research interests include developments in the Levant during the Pleistocene and in the origins of food production and sedentism. I have specialised in the prehistory of the East Jordan Valley (in Jordan) for the past twenty years, working on a series of Lower, Middle, Upper and Epipalaeolithic, and Neolithic sites. I also hold a research interest in the archaeology of the very recent past (1960s to present), including excavations at Como House in Melbourne, and the ‘Historical Dunny’ in La Trobe University’s Wildlife Reserve.
Teaching
My recent teaching duties include Archaeology 2AME/ 3AME: (Archaeology of the Middle East) and ARC4ICA (Issues in Contemporary Archaeology).
Graduate Supervision
Opportunities exist for postgraduate study on various aspects of Middle Eastern archaeology or on broader methodological and theoretical issues.
Doctoral theses to completion
Meadows, John
2005 Early farmers and their Environment: archaeobotanical research at Neolithic and Chalcolithic
sites in Jordan.
Berelov, Ilya
2005 A behavioural analysis of the ceramic assemblage at Zahrat adh-Dhra‘, Jordan.
Sayej, Ghattas
2004 The lithic industries of Zahrat adh-Dhra‘ 2 and the Pre-pottery Neolithic period
of the Dead Sea Basin.
Ariotti, Alexandra
2007 Qasr al-Buleida: a Late Roman-Byzantine fortified settlement on the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan
Current doctoral supervisions
Major, Janine
A contextual analysis of figurative art in southwest Asia from the Epipalaeolithic to the Neolithic.
Thomas, David
The Ebb and Flow of Empires in 12th-13th century Afghanistan.
Research Collaboration
Arizona State University, USA
Collaborations with Dr Steven Falconer, Department of Anthropology and Dr Patricia Fall, Department of Geography on the co-direction of the ‘Archaeology and Environment of the
Dead Sea Plain’ project. The project (1999-present) has so far resulted in the raising of significant research funding; has produced may publications (1 monograph, 8 book chapters, 14 journal articles); has produced many completed theses ( 3 doctorates [LTU], 5 MAs [ASU] and 2 Hons theses [LTU]); and has a fourth doctoral thesis in train [LTU].
Department of Archaeology, University of Jordan
Collaboration with Dr Maysoon an-Nahar on the spatial analysis of Zahrat adh-Dhra‘ 2 artefacts
Department of Antiquities of Jordan
Collaboration with the Department of Antiquities Museum, Irbid, on a display of
artefacts from Wadi Hammeh 27.
Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney.
Collaboration with Dr Louise Shewan on publication of the isotopic analysis of Wadi Hammeh 27 human skeletal remains
Institute of Archaeology, University College, London, UK.
Collaborations with Dr Louise Martin and Ms Rosa Campos-Blade on analysis of Wadi Hammeh 27 faunal remains
Collaboration with Dr Susan Colledge on the publication of Wadi Hammeh 27 botanical remains.
Institut de Préhistoire Orientale, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique), Jalès, France.
Collaboration with Dr Daniel Helmer on the analysis of Zahrat adh-Dhra‘ 2 (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site) faunal remains
Maison Rene-Ginouves, Archaeologie and Ethnologie, Université de Paris (Paris X);
Collaboration with Ms Gaëlle Le Dosseur on the technological analysis of Wadi Hammeh 27 faunal remains
National Museum Jordan
Collaboration with the National Museum, Jordan on a display of
artefacts from Wadi Hammeh 27.
Research Projects
Publications
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