DEDP Publications
| In press | Fatkin, Danielle Steen, Benjamin W. Porter, Katherine Adelsberger, Bruce Routledge, Alan Farahani, and Warren Schultz. The Dhiban Excavation and Development Project’s 2009 season. Annual of the Department of Antiquities, Jordan. |
| In press | Fatkin, Danielle Steen, Katherine Adelsberger, Alan Farahani, Alysia Fischer, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Justin Lev-Tov, Colleen Morgan, Benjamin W. Porter, Bruce Routledge, and Andrew T. Wilson. “Digging deeper: Technical reports from the Dhiban Excavation and Development Project (2004-2009).” Annual of the Department of Antiquities, Jordan. |
| In press | Routledge, Bruce “Water management in the Mesha Inscription and in Moab.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies. |
| In press | Routledge, Bruce “State formation on the edges of Empire: The case of Iron Age Moab.” In Staatenbildung und Staatenzerfall im Nahen und Mittleren Osten in Antike und Moderne. L. Tramontini, C. Maier and W. Sommerfeld eds. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz. |
| In press | Routledge, Bruce, Benjamin W. Porter, Danielle S. Fatkin, Katherine Adelsberger, and Andrew Wilson “A Centre in the Periphery: Recent Research on Middle Islamic Dhiban.” Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |
| In press | Routledge, Bruce, Danielle S. Fatkin, Benjamin W. Porter, Katherine Adelsberger, and Andrew Wilson “Long-term settlement change at Tall Dhiban.” Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan XI. ‘Amman: Department of Antiquities of Jordan. |
| In press | Pearson, Jeffrey, Colleen Morgan, Alan Farahani, Antonietti Catanzariti, and Benjamin Porter. "The Dhiban Excavation and Development Project: Contributions from Berkeley archaeologists." Journal of Associated Graduates in Near Eastern Studies. |
| 2010 | Adelsberger, Katherine A., Bruce Routledge, Benjamin W. Porter, Danielle S. Fatkin and Andrew Wilson “Identification of Occupational Contexts at Tall Dhiban, Jordan.” Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 42 (7): 153. |
| 2010 | Porter, Benjamin, Bruce Routledge, Danielle Fatkin, William Zimmerle, John Hakes, Johanna Salvant, and Warren Schultz. "The Dhiban Excavation and Development Project's 2005 Season." Annual of the Department of Antiquities, Jordan. |
| 2010 | Porter, Benjamin “Dry dig: Ethics and alcohol in Middle Eastern archaeological practice.” Society for American Archaeology’s Archaeological Record 10(5): 7-11. |
| 2010 | Porter, Benjamin “Locating Middle Islamic Dhiban on the Mamluk imperial periphery” Fondation Max van Berchem Bulletin 24: 5-7. |
| 2010 | Porter, Benjamin, Bruce Routledge, Danielle Fatkin, William Zimmerle, John Hakes, Johanna Salvant, and Warren Schultz “The Dhiban Excavation and Development Project’s 2005 Season.” Annual of the Department of Antiquities, Jordan. |
| 2010 | Fatkin, Danielle, Jennifer Jacobs, Benjamin Porter, and Bruce Routledge “Exploring heritage discourses in Central Jordan,” Pp. 159-177 in Controlling the past, owning the future: The political uses of archaeology in the Middle East. R. Boytner, L. S. Dodd, and B. Parker, eds. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. |
| 2009 | Jacobs, Jennifer, and Benjamin Porter. "Excavating turaath: Documenting local and national heritage discourses in Jordan." Pp. 71-88 in Ethnographies and Archaeologies: Iterations of the Past, eds. L. Mortenson and J. Hollowell. University Press of of Florida. |
| 2008 | Porter, Benjamin and Robert J. Speakman “Reading Moabite pigments with Laser Ablation ICP-MS: A New Archaeometric Technique for Near Eastern Archaeology.” Near Eastern Archaeology 71(4): 238-242. |
| 2007 | Porter, Benjamin, Bruce Routledge, Danielle Steen, and Firas al-Kawamlha. "The power of place: The Dhiban community through the ages." Pp. 315-322 in Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan, eds. T. Levy, P. M. Daviau, R. Younker and M. Shaer. London: Equinox. |
| 2005 | Porter, Benjamin, Bruce Routledge, Danielle Steen, Carla Parslow, Lidewijde DeJong, and William Zimmerle. "Tall Dhiban 2004 pilot season: Prospection, preservation, and planning." Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 49: 201-216. |
| 2005 | Porter, Benjamin, Bruce Routledge, and Danielle Steen. "Tall Dhiban." American Journal of Archaeology 109 (3): 542-544. |
| 2005 | Porter, Benjamin, Bruce Routledge, and Danielle Steen. "Tall Dhiban." Munjazat: 28-29. |
| 2004 | Porter, Benjamin, Bruce Routledge, and Danielle Steen. "Prospection, preservation and planning at Dhiban." Munjazat: 26-27. |
| 2004 | Routledge, Bruce. Moab in the Iron Age: Hegemony, Polity, Archaeology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. |
Professional Meeting Presentations
| 2011 | Adelsberger, Katherine, Danielle Fatkin, Benjamin Porter, Bruce Routledge, and Andrew Wilson. “Identification of occupational contexts at Tall Dhiban, Jordan.” Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado. |
| 2011 | Adelsberger, Katherine, Bruce Routledge, and Andrew Wilson. “Landscape Stability at Tall Dhiban, Jordan.” American Schools of Oriental Research, San Francisco, California. |
| 2011 | Farahani, Alan. “Sustaining Community Under Empire: A Diachronic Exploration of Agricultural Production in Dhiban, Jordan, from the Iron Age to the Middle Islamic Period.” American Schools of Oriental Research, San Francisco, California. |
| 2011 | Fatkin, Danielle and Benjamin Porter. “Measuring Indigenous Responses to Imperial Interventions: Subaltern Perspectives from Dhiban.” American Schools of Oriental Research, San Francisco, California. |
| 2011 | Routledge, Bruce. “Everything You ever wanted to know about Iron Age Dhiban, but didn’t know you could ask: A synthesis of past and present research.” American Schools of Oriental Research, San Francisco, California. |
| 2011 | Trow, Rebecca. “Beyond Religions of Identity: The Dhiban Figurines in Context.” American Schools of Oriental Research, San Francisco, California. |
| 2011 | Wilson, Andrew and Danielle Fatkin. “Long-Term Settlement Reconstruction: GIS and Survey at Dhiban, Jordan.” American Schools of Oriental Research, San Francisco, California. |
| 2010 | Fatkin, Danielle S., Andrew Wilson, Benjamin W. Porter, Bruce Routledge, and Katherine A. Adelsberger, In Search of Empire: On-Site Survey at Dhiban (Jordan). Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 2010 | Porter, Benjamin “Adaptive reuse as cultural practice: Notes from the margins of the Middle East” Executive roundtable session on cultural mobilities. American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| 2010 | Routledge, Bruce, Benjamin Porter, Danielle Fatkin, Katherine Adelberger, and Andrew Wilson “Excavations at Tall Dhiban, Jordan: A Centre in the Periphery,” Seventh International Conference on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, London, England. |
| 2010 | Routledge, Bruce, Benjamin Porter, Danielle Fatkin, and Katherine Adelberger “Multiple approaches to understanding Dhiban,” International conference on the history and archaeology of Jordan, Paris, France. |
| 2010 | Adelsberger, Katherine, Danielle Fatkin, Benjamin Porter, and Bruce Routledge. “Geoarchaeology at Dhiban: Research Potentials of a Multiperiod Site in Central Jordan,” Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 2009 | Porter, Benjamin “Telling the tell: Revaluing ruins on Middle Eastern tourism’s margins,” Archaeology, Tourism, Development (session). American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 2009 | Porter, Benjamin, Danielle Fatkin, Katherine Adelsberger, and Bruce Routledge “Subsistence and society in a marginal environment: Recent research from the Dhiban Excavation and Development Project,” American Schools of Oriental Research, New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| 2008 | Porter, Benjamin, and Bruce Roultedge “Religious heterodoxy and rural hybridity across the Middle Islamic Dhiban Plateau (Jordan),” Hybridization and colonization: Old World perspectives. Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. |
| 2004 | Porter, Benjamin, Danielle Steen, and Bruce Routledge “The 2004 season at Dhiban (Jordan): Prospection, preservation, and planning,” American Schools of Oriental Research, San Antonio, Texas. |
| 2004 | Routledge, Bruce, Benjamin Porter, Danielle Steen, and Jennifer Jacobs “Context, conflict, and community: Working at Tall Dhiban, Jordan,” Theoretical Archaeology Group, Glasgow, Scotland. |
| 2004 | Porter, Benjamin, Danielle Steen, and Bruce Routledge “Balks not bombs: Community archaeology at Dhiban (Jordan),” American Schools of Oriental Research, San Antonio, Texas. |
Other publications relating to Dhiban
| 2005 | Cordova, Carlos, Chris Foley, April Nowell, and Michael Bisson. "Landforms, sediments, soil development, and prehistoric site settings on the Madaba-Dhiban Plateau, Jordan." Geoarchaeology 20(1): 29-56. |
| 2003 | al-Mahameed, Bassam. "Excavations at Tall Dhiban, 2002 Season (in Arabic)." Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 48: 71-76. |
| 2000 | Ji, Chang-Ho. and J. Lee. "A Preliminary Report on the Dhiban Plateau Survey Project, 1999: The Versacare Expedition." Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 44: 493-506. |
| 1995 | Tushingham, A. Douglas, and Peter Pedrette. "Mesha's citadel complex (Qarhoh) at Dhiban." Pp. 151-159 in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 5. Winona Lake, IL: Eisenbrauns. |
| 1990 | Tushingham, A. Douglas. "Dhiban reconsidered: King Mesha and his works." Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 34: 182-192. |
| 1989 | Morton, William. "The 1954, 55, and 65 Excavations at Dhiban in Jordan." Pp. 239-246 in Studies in the Mesha Inscription and Moab, ed. A. Dearman. Atlanta: Scholars Press. |
| 1975 | Sauer, James. "Review of The excavations at Dibon (Dhiban) in Moab: The third campaign 1952-1953." Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 20: 103-109. |
| 1972 | Tushingham, A. Douglas. The Excavations at Dibon (Dhiban) in Moab: The Third Campaign, 1952-1953. Cambridge: American Schools of Oriental Research. |
| 1964 | Winnett, Fred and William Reed. The Excavations at Dibon (Dhiban) in Moab: The First and Second Campaigns. Baltimore: J. H. Furst. |
| 1913 | Mackenzie, Duncan. "Dibon: the City of King Mesa and of the Moabite Stone." Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement: 57-79. |