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.