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Edited volumes and special journal issues

  • In prep Numeira: Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Townsite in Jordan, 1977-1983. Edited by R. Thomas Schaub, Walter Rast, and Meredith S. Chesson. Under contract with Eisenbrauns.
  • In press Life in Early Bronze Age Communities: Papers in Honor of Walter Rast and R. Thomas Schaub. Edited by Meredith S. Chesson with Associate Editors Ian Kuijt and Walter Aufrecht.
  • 2003 Tales of the City: Reexamining 'Urbanism' in the Early Bronze Age Levant. Collection of papers edited by Meredith S. Chesson and Graham Philip (University of Durham, UK). Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 16.1 special issue in June 2003.
  • 2001 Social Memory, Identity and Death: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives on Mortuary Rituals. Edited by Meredith S. Chesson. Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association Publication Series, Vol. 10. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.

Articles in Refereed Journals

  • 2005 (Meredith S. Chesson, Cheryl A. Makarewicz, Ian Kuijt, and Charlotte Whiting) Results of the 2001 Kerak Plateau Early Bronze Age Survey. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 59: 1-62.
  • 2003 (Bill Finlayson, Ian Kuijt, Trina Arpin, Meredith S. Chesson, Samantha Dennis, Nathan Goodale, Seiji Kadowaki, Lisa Maher, Samuel Smith, Mark Schurr, and Jode McKay) Dhra’ Excavation Project, 2002 Interim Report. Levant 25:1-38.
  • 2003 (Meredith S. Chesson and Graham Philip) Tales of the City? ‘Urbanism’ in the Early Bronze Age Levant from Mediterranean and Levantine Perspectives. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 16.1: 3-16.
  • 2003 Households, Houses, Neighborhoods, and Corporate Villages: Modeling the Early Bronze Age as a House Society. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 16.1: 79-102.
  • 2002 (Ian Kuijt and Meredith S. Chesson) Excavations at 'Ain Waida', Jordan: New insights into Pottery Neolithic Lifeways in the Southern Levant. Paléorient 28(2): 111-124.
  • 1999 Libraries of the Dead: Early Bronze Age Charnel Houses and Social Identity at Urban Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 18: 137-164.
  • 1998 Preliminary Results of Excavations at Tell el-Handaquq South, Jordan, 1993-1996. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 130: 20-34.
  • 1995 (Meredith S. Chesson, Matthias Flenders, Hermann Genz, Fouad Hourani, Ian Kuijt, and Gaetano Palumbo) Tell Sukhne North: an Early Bronze Age II site in Jordan. Paléorient 21(1): 113-122.

Book Chapters and Other Publications

  • In press  Homemaking in the Early Bronze Age. In Title TBA, edited by Bradley Parker and Catherine Foster. Edited changes on chapter returned in March 2010. Under contract with Eisenbrauns.
  • In press (Morag M. Kersel and Meredith S. Chesson) Not Your Typical Looting Story—Early Bronze Age Cemeteries of Jordan’s southeast Dead Sea Plain. To be published in Oxford University Press Handbook series, edited by Sarah Tarlow and Liv Nillson
  • 2007 House, Town, Field ,and Wadi: Economic, Political and Social Landscapes in Early Bronze Age Walled Communities of the Southern Levant. To be published in The Durable House: Architecture, Ancestors and Origins, edited by Robin Beck, pp. 317-343. Carbondale, IL: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University.
  • 2007 (Ian Kuijt and Meredith S. Chesson) Images and Social Relationships: Shifting Identity and Ambiguity in the Neolithic. To be included in volume Image and Imagination: Material Beginnings, eds. Colin Renfrew, Ian Morley, and Douglass Bailey. pp. 211-226. McDonald Institute Monograph, Cambridge University.
  • 2007 Remembering and Forgetting in Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices on the southeastern Dead Sea Plain, Jordan. In Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean, ed. Nicola Laneri, 99. 109-139. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicao, Oriental Institute Seminars, No. 3. Chicago: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
  • 2007 (R. Thomas Schaub and Meredith S. Chesson) Life in the earliest walled towns on the Dead Sea Plain: Numeira and Bab edh-Dhra`. In Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan, edited by Thomas E. Levy, P.M. Michele Daviau, Randall W. Younker, and May Shaer, pp. 245-252. London: Equinox Press.
  • 2007 (Meredith S. Chesson and R. Thomas Schaub) Death and Dying on the Dead Sea Plain: Fifa, al-Khanazir and Bab adh-Dhra` Cemeteries. In Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan, edited by Thomas E. Levy, P.M. Michele Daviau, Randall W. Younker, and May Shaer, pp. 253-260. London: Equinox Press.
  • 2005 (Ian Kuijt and Meredith S. Chesson) Lumps of Clay and Pieces of Stone: Ambiguity, Bodies, and Identity as Portrayed in Neolithic Figurines. In Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology: Archaeology of the Near East, edited by Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock, pp. 152-183. London: Basil Blackwell.
  • 2004 Review of Tepe Gawra: The Evolution of a Small Prehistoric Center in Northern Iraq, by Mitchell S. Rothmann, with an Appendix by Brian Peasnall, University Museum Monographs 112, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: Philadelphia, 2002. Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin 27 (3): 25-27.
  • 2004 Early Bronze Age Settlement on the Kerak Plateau. Newsletter of the Council for British Research in the Levant 2004: 21-23.
  • 2001 Social Memory, Identity and Death: An Introduction, in Social Memory, Identity and Death: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives on Mortuary Rituals, Meredith S. Chesson (ed.), pp. 1-11. Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association Publication Series, Vol. 10. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.
  • 2001 Embodied Memories of Place and People: Death and Society in an Early Urban Community, in Social Memory, Identity and Death: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives on Mortuary Rituals, Meredith S. Chesson (ed.), pp. 100-113. Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association Publication Series, Vol. 10. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.
  • 2000 Ceramics and Daily Life in the Early Bronze Age Household: Form, Function, and Action in Residential Compounds at Tell el-Handaquq South, Jordan. Breaking with the Past: Ceramics and Change in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant, Graham Philip and Douglas Baird (eds), pp. 365-378. Sheffield: Sheffield University Press
  • 2000 (John P. Gerry and Meredith S. Chesson) Gender, Status and Diet in Classic Maya Society. Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective, edited by Moira Donald and Linda Hurcombe, pp. 250-264. London: Macmillan Publishers.
  • 1997 Excavations at Tell el-Handaquq South. Occident and Orient 2(1): 24
  • 1994 (Meredith S. Chesson and Ian Kuijt) Tell el-Handaquq South, in Archaeology in Jordan. American Journal of Archaeology 98(3): 534.
  • 1994 (Ian Kuijt and Meredith S. Chesson) Investigations at Jebel Quiesa, Jordan (1993): A Reconsideration of Chronology and Occupational History. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 38: 223-238.
  • 1994 (Robert W. Preucel and Meredith S. Chesson) Blue Corn Girls: A Herstory of Three Early Women Archaeologists at Tecolote, New Mexico. In Women in Archaeology, Cheryl Claassen (ed), pp. 67-84. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Technical Reports

  • 2009      Bova Marina Archaeological Project: Preliminary Report, 2009 Season. Edited by Meredith S. Chesson, with contributions by Meredith S. Chesson, John Robb, Chantel White, Nicholas Wolff, and David Yoon. Submitted to the Soprintendenza ARcheologica della Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
  • 2008      Bova Marina Archaeological Project: Preliminary Report, 2008 Season. Edited by John Robb, with contributions by Meredith Chesson, Helen Farr, Paula Lazrus, Kostalena Michelaki, John Robb, Chantel White, Nicholas Wolff, and David Yoon,. Submitted to the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Calabria, Reggion Cababria, Italy.
  • 2007      Bova Marina Archaeological Project: Preliminary Report, 2007 Season. Edited by John Robb, with contributions by Lin Foxhall,  David Yoon, Meredith Chesson, Paulal Lazrus, Hamish Forbes, Jeremy Taylor and Joe Skinner. Submitted to the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Calabria, Reggion Cababria, Italy.
  • 2004      Final Field Report, Surface Survey and Final Planning at Numeira and Bab edh-Dhra’, Jordan by the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain, submitted to the Department of Antiquities, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, November 2004.
  • 2002      Final Field Report, 2002 Excavations at Khirbet el-Minsahlat on the Kerak Plateau, submitted to the Department of Antiquities, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, July 2002.
  • 2001      Final Field Report, Survey, Preservation Assessment, and Test Excavations of Eight Early Bronze Age Sites on the Kerak Plateau, submitted to the Department of Antiquities, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, July 2001.
  • 1996      Final Field Report, Excavations at Tell el-Handaquq South, Jordan, submitted to the Department of Antiquities, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, April 1996.
  • 1994      Final Field Report, Excavations at Tell el-Handaquq South, Jordan, submitted to the Department of Antiquities, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, November 1994.
  • 1993      Final Field Report, Test Excavations at Tell el-Handaquq South, Jordan, submitted to the Department of Antiquities, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, July 1993.