Dr. Petra Creamer

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Another new Hamoukar publication! This time, on my excavation of Early Bronze levels at the site.

The ASOR Program Committee seeks 4 new members to serve a 3-year term (2026–2028) with possibility of a 2nd term. We are interested in applications from members whose research area(s) are complementary to or not represented by current members of the PC. The brief app. is due Dec. 5: buff.ly/B16v7ds

Cities are different animals: A zooarchaeology of urbanism at Hamoukar, Syria, 5th–3rd millennia BC The advent of urbanism marks a significant shift in human lifeways, and comparative study has shown that the world has seen many different forms of ur…

Hot off the presses - new article on the faunal remains from Hamoukar! Big thanks to co-authors Max Price, Diana Fennimore, Salam Al Kuntar, and Clemens Reichel for helping get this out into the world.

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New issue of American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 129, No. 4 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/aja/2025... @chicagojournals.bsky.social @petramcreamer.bsky.social @driesdaems.bsky.social @archaeological.org

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Summer is in full swing, but it’s not too early to think about your fall calendar. The Annual Meeting Program-at-a-Glance, as well as information about business meetings and special events, can be found on the 2025 ASOR Annual Meeting Schedules Page. Check it out here: buff.ly/nZBO4y4

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Archaeologists Unearth an Ancient Relief Depicting an Assyrian King and Rare Deities The artifact was found in Mosul, Iraq, buried in the ancient city of Nineveh

📰 Excavations at Nineveh, modern Iraq, uncover a relief depicting Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, surrounded by Mesopotamian deities 🏺

#ArchaeologyNews via ‪@smithsonianmag.bsky.social‬

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Thanks, Christopher!!

A HUGE thank-you to @bridgetalex.bsky.social, who took my overly-academic attempt at public writing and shuffled it along into something that belongs in front of a popular audience!

I wrote a piece for @sapiens-org.bsky.social! Teaching with unprovenanced artifacts is tricky at best, so I discuss how my experiences with the Carlos Museum and my work in Iraq meet somewhere in the middle.

Back in the field and looking good! Stay tuned for updates on our 4th (wow!!) season at Qach Rresh, an Assyrian-Achaemenid admin site in Iraqi Kurdistan! 🏺 🪏 🤓

But the good news is, the mag cart's getting purchased for real!!! 🤩💜🥳

I'm glad I never knew about the nightmare that is Equipment Procurement Systems because I might've been scared off of being an archaeologist because of it 🫠 I was not built for this level of tracking down and filling out forms.

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Nice, can't wait to read!!

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An absolute embarrassment for Ohio, but no surprises there. I had an amazing education at Ohio State and this will effectively gut that and so many other institutions.

2025 CALL FOR PAPERS—ASOR Annual Meeting - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) ASOR invites paper and workshop presentation proposals for the hybrid 2025 Annual Meeting, November 19-22. #ASOR25

Working on Syrian archaeology or cultural heritage? Submit an abstract for @asor-research.bsky.social's annual meeting in the Archaeology of Syria session! Abstracts due March 15. Papers can be virtual or in-person, and scholarships are available for registration fees.
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BlueSky, help me to spread the word!
--> Abstract submissions are now open for the ASOR Panel on "Pop Culture and Near Eastern Archaeology" for the 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston (hybrid) - November 19-22, 2025!
"The papers in this session represent a multidisciplinary discussion of approaches to

If Donald Trump can override our elected officials’ control of the purse strings, we are effectively entering a period of taxation without representation.

Exciting results hitting the presses about the Neolithic in Oman!! @archbot44.bsky.social and @pi-hisoka.bsky.social run a pretty awesome project 😎🏺

I'm around most of tomorrow if you want to grab a coffee! I gave myself a little buffer time to be able to see people :)

I'm here at Harvard! Giving a talk today on Assyrian control and our results from excavating at Qach Rresh. Pop in if you're in Cambridge! 🏺😁

Red wine, dog, and getting this dang (overdue) draft done. 🍷🖋️

Towards a Working Ancient Economy: The Bronze Age Session Chairs: Eric Aupperle, Harvard University; Andrew Deloucas, Harvard University; Declan Maloneys, Harvard University; Taha Yurttas, Harvard University Description: The first history we have is arguably an economic one: a record rooted in the practical concerns of administration, resource allocation, and labor management. The need to control and quantify goods was a driving force not only for accounting technology, but for the development of institutions. Written and material records of the Bronze Age provide unparalleled clarity in documenting chains of production and distribution networks. As such, the study of Bronze Age economic history offers a window into a past that can encompass all strata of society. This member-organized session invites papers on ancient economy based on written, material, and visual sources in any imaginable combination. This includes examinations of traditional sources of economic information (written accounts, sealing hierarchies, spatial analyses) as well as wider discussions of the social, legal, and political context of economy. The session embraces a wide geographic area, welcoming papers from Greater Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia and the Aegean, North Africa, the Caucasus, the Gulf, Central Asia, and beyond. Possible topics include trade networks, economic crises, labor history, debt, and civic institutions.

We have an @asor-research.bsky.social session!

"Towards a Working Ancient Economy: The Bronze Age"

Link here: www.asor.org/am/2025/appr...

Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue.

TWENTY.

As in, they call that getting slammed.

So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.

TWENTY is a lot.

Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

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