An AHRC funded project exploring our relationship with birds in the Levantine Neolithic.
In June 2018 both our postdoctoral research assistants, Dr Ben Greet and Judy White, attended two academic conferences to talk about the work they’ve been doing and spread the word about the People & Birds in the Southern Levant project. The first conference was the Art, Materiality and Representation conference organised by the Royal Anthropological …
In March 2018, one of our research assistants, Dr Ben Greet, travelled out to Wadi Faynan in Jordan to conduct some qualitative research with the people living near to the archaeological site of WF 16. The aim was to find out what local people thought about birds, not only to preserve their traditional knowledge and …
This brief post looks at the feedback and impact of the Avian Osteology Course the project helped run in partnership with the Natural History Museum at Tring. The examples below are taken from the response of participants on the course, who will be taking their skills back to their respective work and building international capacity …
At the beginning of March 2018, the project team held their third workshop in Wadi Faynan, Jordan at the Feynan Ecolodge. The workshop brought together everyone in the project team and coincided with the soft opening of the Faynan Archaeological Museum, which includes information about the WF 16 excavation. The day began with our research …
On the 17th February 2018 we were invited by Dr Fares Khoury to attend the annual meeting for Jordan Birdwatch at the Jordan Tour Guides Association in Amman. The meeting brings together the members of Jordan Birdwatch to discuss the organisation, but also to share presentations connected with birds and bird-watching in Jordan. It was …
At the start of December the project ran an Avian Osteology course in conjunction with our partners at the Natural History Museum at Tring, headed up by our own research assistant Judy White. The aim of the course was to build capacity in avian osteology by using the extensive knowledge and research collections available at …
The project completed its second workshop on the 3rd of December 2017. The team travelled to the Natural History Museum at Tring, where research assistant, Judy White, is based. The day was focused on discussing some of the findings from both research assistants concerning: the identification of bird bones from each of the excavations; the …
During our project fieldwork in May 2017 we conducted the first project workshop at the American University of Madaba, discussing the aims of the project and the various work being conducted by each project team member. Project Aims The day was introduced by Professor Steven Mithen, who outlined the thought behind the projects and the …
In May 2017 the project team conducted some fieldwork in Jordan led by Professor Fares Khoury (co-founder of Jordan Birdwatch). The intent of the fieldwork was to explore the bird ecology of Jordan as a whole, building the interdisciplinary skills of the project team along the way. Over the trip we visited a number of …
People and Birds in the Southern Levant 