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Tracking the Lives of Early Bronze Age Pots from Jordan

Time: 12:00 pm til 1:00 pm

Location: Building 51, University of North Florida

Description: . Morag M. Kersel, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at DePaul University will present a lecture titled \"Mission Impossible? Tracking the Lives of Early Bronze Age Pots from the Dead Sea Plain, Jordon. Early Bronze Age (3600-2000 BCE) artifacts from the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan have long held a fascination for locals, pilgrims, and tourists, which can often be tied to a substantiation of faith based on the material past. These pots have led varied lives as grave goods, as excavated artifacts, as looted objects, and as collected items revered in private homes and in exhibition cases in museums. Demand for these archaeological objects has resulted in decades of illegal excavation and the destruction of the archaeological landscape. Tracking the movement of these pots is an important aspect of understanding the emergence of prehistoric urbanism and increasing social complexity at these early mortuary and domestic landscapes. Piecing together how artifacts go from the ground to the consumer is at times an impossible mission – or is it?? Archaeological evidence, archival documents, ethnographic interviews, and aerial surveys using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones and hexacopt

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