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Andrea M. Berlin
Spencer Cole
Eva von Dassow
Alex Jassen
Nita Krevans
Bernard M. Levinson
Christopher Nappa
Oliver Nicholson
S. Douglas Olson
Jonathan Paradise
Calvin J. Roetzel
Renana S. Schneller
Philip H. Sellew
George A. Sheets
Stephen C. Smith
Robert P. Sonkowsky
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 Andrea
Michelle Berlin
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Archaeology
tel.: 612-626-7371
email: aberlin@umn.edu
- Education
- Ph.D. University of Michigan, May 1988, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology.
- A.M. University of Chicago, January 1979, Oriental Institute. Major: Syro-Palestinian Archaeology; Minor: Hittite Studies.
- A.B. with honors University of Michigan, May 1976. Double Major: Classical Studies and Near Eastern Studi
Curriculum
Vitae (PDF)
Statement of Interests
I am an archaeologist specializing in the Near East from the eras of Achaemenid Persia through the Moslem conquest (c. 500 BCE - 640 CE). I am especially interested in the nitty-gritty of daily life, and I have focused much of my research on pottery. Pottery is a bellwether of the extent of people’s horizons and the character of their lives; it encodes information on local markets and long-distance trading, modes of entertaining, even the embrace of specific cuisines. My current project is a book on the pottery and culture of the Hellenistic eastern Mediterranean and Near East, in which I combine field-guides to the pottery from sites throughout the region with discussions on how that pottery can be “read” for evidence of when and how peoples’ lives changed. (See Professor Berlin's welcome address at the "New Student Convocation", Spring 2002.)
Books
Excavations at Tel Anafa, vol. II, i. The Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Plain Wares. Journal of Roman Archaeology supplementary series vol. 10.2. Ann Arbor: 1997.
The First Jewish Revolt: Archaeology, History, and Ideology (edited with J. Andrew Overman). London, Routledge: 2002.
Excavations at Coptos (Qift) (1988-1992). (with Sharon C. Herbert). Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 53 (2003).
Gamla. Final Reports, vol. I. The Pottery of the Second Temple Period. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports no. 29. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem (2006).
Selected Articles
“Ptolemaic Agriculture, ‘Syrian Wheat,’ and Triticum aestivum.” Journal of Archaeological Science 30.1 (2002), pp. 81-87.
“Ilion Before Alexander: A Ritual Deposit of the Fourth Century B.C.” Studia Troica 12 (2002) [2003], pp. 131-65.
“Going Greek: Atticizing Pottery in an Achaemenid World,” (with Kathleen Lynch). Studia Troica 12 (2002) [2003], pp. 167-78.
“Romanization and Anti-Romanization in Pre-Revolt Galilee,” in The First Jewish Revolt: Archaeology, History, and Ideology, Andrea Berlin and J. Andrew Overman, eds. (Routledge 2002), pp. 57-73.
“Power and Its Afterlife: Tombs in Hellenistic Palestine.” Near Eastern Archaeology 65.2 (2002) [2003], pp. 138-48.
“A New Administrative Center for Persian and Hellenistic Galilee: Preliminary Report of the University of Michigan/University of Minnesota Excavations at Tel Kedesh,” (with Sharon Herbert). Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 329 (2003), pp. 13-59.
“Jewish Life Before the Revolt: The Archaeological Evidence.” Journal for the Study of Judaism 36.4 (2005), pp. 417-70.
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