Alexander Wasse

Title:

Assistant Prof. Dr.

Department:

Anthropology Department

Position:

Academic Staff

Akademik

Resume

Research Interest

Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the Levant, Cyprus, Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Arabia

Prehistory of the Black Desert, Jordan

Pastoralism in the archaeological record

Ethnoarchaeology of nomadic / mobile societies

Archaeology of animals and birds

Human responses to climatic and environmental change

Prehistoric art and rock art

Biyografi

BA: 1994-University of London / UCL Institute of Archaeology

PhD: 1999-University of London / UCL Institute of Archaeology

Teaching Assistant: 2002-University of Sydney / Department of Archaeology

Visiting Research Fellow: 2003-2014-University of East Anglia / Department of Art History and World Art Studies

Courses Given

Global Culture

Culture and Archaeology

Regional Studies

Scholarly Reading and Writing in Anthropology I

Scholarly Reading and Writing in Anthropology II

Publications

Paper

(Co-author: Clarke, Joanne). (2020). Time out of joint: A re-assessment of the Cypriot Aceramic Neolithic site of Kalavasos-Tenta and its regional implications. Levant. DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2020.1741969

(Co-authors: Rollefson, G., Rowan, Y., Braun, G., Heidkamp, B., Hill, A.C., Kersel, M., Lorentzen, B. and Ramsay, B.) (in press) Eastern Badia Archaeological Project: preliminary report on the 2018 excavation season at Late Neolithic Structure W-80, Wisad Pools. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 60.

(Co-authors: Dussubieux, L., Schmidt, K., Rowan, Y., Rollefson, G.) (2018). Two glass beads from Wisad Pools in the Jordanian Black Desert. Journal of Glass Studies 60: 303-306.

(Co-authors: Rollefson, G., Rowan, Y., Kersel, M., Hill, A.C., Lorentzen, B., Ramsay, J, Jones, M.) (2018) Excavation of Structure W-80: a complex Late Neolithic building at Wisad Pools, Black Desert. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 59: 531-544.

(Co-authors: Rollefson, G., Athanassas, C., Rowan, Y.) (2016) First chronometric dates for ‘Works of Old Men’: late prehistoric ‘wheels’ near Wisad Pools, Black Desert, Jordan. Antiquity 90: 939-952.

(Co-authors: Rowan, Y., Rollefson, G., Abu-Azizeh W., Hill, A.,Kersel, M.) (2015) The 'Land of Conjecture': new late prehistoric discoveries at Maitland’s Mesa and Wisad Pools, Jordan. Journal of Field Archaeology 40.2: 176-189.

(Co-Authors: Rollefson, G., Rowan, Y.) (2014) The Late Neolithic colonisation of the eastern badia of Jordan. Levant 46(2): 285-301.

(2002) Final results of an analysis of the sheep and goat bones from ‘Ain Ghazal, Jordan. Levant 34: 59-82.

(2001) The wild goats of Lebanon: evidence for early domestication? Levant 33: 21-33.

Book

(Rollefson, G. and Rowan, Y. ile birlikte) (in press) Flamingos in the desert: how a chance encounter shed light on the ‘burin Neolithic’ of eastern Jordan. In P.M.M.G. Akkermans and A. al-Jallad (eds) Landscapes of survival: the archaeology and epigraphy of Jordan’s north-eastern desert. Sidestone Press, Leiden.

(2019). A joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks: hunting and herding in the greater Syrian desert during the PPNB and Late Neolithic. Pp. 269-285 in S. Nakamura, T. Adachi and M. Abe (eds) Decades in deserts: essays on western Asian archaeology in honor of Sumio Fujii. Rokuichi Shobou, Tokyo.

(Clarke, J., Winton, V. ile birlikte) (2018) The excavations. Pp. 146-176 in J. Clarke and N. Brooks. The archaeology of Western Sahara: a synthesis of fieldwork, 2002 to 2009. Oxbow, Oxford.

(2007) Climate, economy and change. Pp. 43-63 in J. Clarke, C. McCartney and A. Wasse. On the margins of south-west Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th millennia BC. Oxbow, Oxford.

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