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Khirbet Iskander/Early Bronze Age

Suzanne Richard; Jesse C. Long, Jr.; Bill Libby

In Preparation for Submission

• Richard, S. and Long, J., eds.  Archaeological Expedition to Khirbet Iskander and Its Environs.  Vol. 1: Final Report on Excavations in Area C, the Gateway and the Cemeteries.

Forthcoming/in Press:

• Richard S.  “Early Bronze IV Transitions: An Archaeometallurgical Study.”  Out of the Cloister: a Festschrift in Honor or William G. Dever.  Eds. S. Gitin, J.E. Wright, and J.P. Dessel.  Winona Lake, IND: Eisenbrauns: in press. 
• Richard, S.  “Vestiges of City Folk at Khirbet Iskander: An Alternate View of EB IV People.”   In The Archaeology of Early Bronze Age People: Celebrating the Contributions of Walter Rast and Thomas Schaub.  Ed. M. Chesson.  Winona Lake, IND: Eisenbrauns: in press.
• Richard, S.  “The Early Bronze Age: the Rise and Collapse of Urbanism”. Archaeological Sources for the History of Palestine.   Ed. David Hopkins.  Boston: The American Schools of Oriental Research: forthcoming.
• Richard, S. and Long, J. C., Jr.  “Social Institutions at Khirbet Iskander: An Argument for Elites in EB IV.”  Studies in the the History and Archaeology of Jordan IX.  Amman: Department of Antiquities, Jordan: in press
• Richard, S. and J.C. Long, Jr.  Khirbet Iskander, Jordan, and Early Bronze IV Studies: A View from a Tell.   In  J. Tubb (ed.),  The Levant in Transition - The Intermediate Early Bronze Age.  London: British Museum Publications: forthcoming
• Richard, S and Long, J. C., Jr.  “Three Seasons of Excavations at Khirbet Iskander, Jordan 1997, 2000, 2004.”   Annual of the Department of Antiquities, Jordan XVVIII: forthcoming
• Richard, S., Long, J.C., Jr., and Libby, B.   “Khirbet Iskander.”  “Archaeology in Jordan.” Eds.  S.H. Savage, K. Zamora, and D.R. Keller.   American Journal of Archaeology 109.3 (2005): in press. 
• Richard, S, Long, J.C., Jr., and Libby, B..  “Khirbet Iskander.”  ACOR Newsletter Vol. 16-2--Winter 2004: in press.

Published

• Richard, S.  Rev. of In Quest of Ancient Settlements and Landscapes: Archaeological Studies in Honour of Ram Gophna.  Eds. Edwin. C.M. van den Brink and EliYannai.  Tel Aviv: Ramot Publishing, Tel Aviv University.  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 2004 (vol. 335): pp. 205-207.
• Richard, S., ed.  Near Eastern Archaeology: A Reader.  Winona Lake, IND:  Eisenbrauns, 2003.
• Richard, S.   The Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant.  In Near Eastern Archaeology: a Reader, ed. S. Richard.  Winona Lake, IND: Eisenbrauns, 2003: 286-302.
• Long, J.C. Jr., “Theory in Archaeology: Culture Change at the End of the Early Bronze Age.”  In Near Eastern Archaeology: a Reader.   Ed. S. Richard.  Winona Lake, IND: Eisenbrauns, 2003: 308-318
• Richard, S.   “2000 Season of Excavations at Khirbet Iskander, Jordan.”   In Proceedings, Eastern Great Lakes and Midwest Biblical Societies, Vol. XXI.  Ed. B. Fiore. Buffalo: Canisius College, 2002: 105-114.
• Richard, S and Vanco, J.   Archaeology at the Dawn of History: the Khirbet Iskander Excavations Exhibit Catalogue.  Ed. N. Smith.   Erie: Erie Art Museum, 2001.
• Richard, S, Long, J.C. Jr., and Libby, B.  “Khirbet Iskander.”  “Archaeology in Jordan”  Eds. S.H. Savage, D.R. Keller, and K. Zamore.   American Journal of Archaeology 105.3 (2001): 440-441.
• Richard, S. and J.C., Jr.  “Khirbet Iskander.”  ACOR Newsletter Vol. 12-1--Summer 2000: 7-8.
• Richard, S.  “Archaeology at the Dawn of History: the Khirbet Iskander Excavations.” 2000.
• Richard, S. “Chronology vs. Regionalism in the Early Bronze IV Period: An Assemblage of Whole and Restored Vessels from the Public Building at Khirbet Iskander.”  In The Archaeology of Jordan and Beyond: Essays in Honor of  James A. Sauer.  Eds. L. E. Stager, J. A. Greene, and M. D. Coogan; Winona Lake, IND: Eisenbrauns, 2000:  399-417.
• Long, J. S., Jr. and Libby, B.   “Khirbet Iskander.”  Eds. V. Kooring and P.M. Bikai. American Journal of Archaeology 103.3 (1999):  498-99
• Richard, S.  Review of Ancient Pottery of Transjordan: An Introduction Utilizing Published Whole Forms--Late Neolithic through Late Islamic.  Eds. R.E. Hendrix, Philip R. Drey, and J. Bjornar Storfjell.  Berrien Springs, Michigan:Institute of Archaeology/Horn Archaeological Museum, Andrews University, 1996.   Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 310 (1998): 79-81.
• Richard, S. and J. Long.  “Khirbet Iskander.”  “Archaeology in Jordan.”  Eds. V. Egan and P.M. Bikai.   American Journal of Archaeology 102.3 (1998):587-588.
• Richard, S.  “Khirbet Iskander.”  In Encyclopedia of Near Eastern Archaeology, ed., Eric M. Meyers.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1997: 188-189.
• Richard, S. and Long, J.C., Jr.  “Khirbet Iskander.”  “Archaeology in Jordan.”  Eds. P.M. Bikai and D. Kooring.   American Journal of Archaeology 99.3 (1995): 512-14.
• Richard, S. and Long, J.C., Jr.  “Archaeological Expedition to Khirbet Iskander, 1994.”  Annual of the Department of Antiquities, Jordan 39 (1995): 81-92.
• Richard, S.  Review of: The Bab edh-Dhra Cemeteries Excavated by Paul Lapp by T. Schaub and W. Rast.  Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1990.  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 290-291 (1993): 137-39.
• Richard, S.  “Khirbet Iskander.”  In The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land.  Eds. Ephraim Stern, et al.  Jerusalem: Carta and Israel Exploration Society, 1993: 649-52.
• Richard, S.  “Iskander, Khirbet.”  In The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 3.  Eds. David Noel Freedman, et al.  NY: Doubleday & Co., 1992: 523-526.
• Richard, S.  “Ader”. In The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 1.  Eds. David Noel Freedman, et al.  NY: Doubleday & Co., 1992: 71-72.
• Richard, S.  “Husn, el.”  In The Anchor Bible Dictionary.  Eds. David Noel Freedman, et al.  NY: Doubleday & Co., 1992: 339-40.
• Richard, S.   “Khirbet Iskander.”  “Archaeology in Jordan.”.  Ed. B. DeVries. American Journal of Archaeology 95.2 (1991): 262-64.
• Richard, S. “Khirbet Iskander and the Early Bronze IV: Fourth Preliminary Report, 1987 Season.” In  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research Supplement No. 26.  Ed. W. E. Rast.  Winona Lake, IND: Eisenbrauns for the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1990: 33-58.
• Richard, S.  “Khirbet Iskander.”  Archaeology of Jordan II:  Field Reports.  Eds. J. B. Hennessy and D. Homes-Fredericq.   Assyriological Foundation Georges Dossin.  Brussels: Peeters Leuven, 1989: 301-309.
• Long, J.C., Jr.  Early Bronze IV at Khirbet Iskander and the Excavated Sites of Palestine-
• Transjordan: Analysis of Sedentry Adaptation at the End of the Third Millennium, B.C.  Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation.  1988 Drew University.
• Richard, S.  “Four Seasons of Excavations at the Early Bronze IV Site of Khirbet Iskander.”  Liber Annuus 37 (1988): 40-44.
• Richard, S. and Boraas, R.  “The Early Bronze IV Fortified Site of Khirbet Iskander, Jordan: Third Preliminary Report, 1984 Season.”  In Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research Supplement No. 25.  Ed. W. E. Rast.  Winona Lake, IND: Eisenbrauns for the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1988: 107-30.
• Richard, S.  “The Early Bronze Age: The Rise and Collapse of Urbanism.” Biblical Archaeologist 50, no. 1 (1987): 22-43.
• Richard, S and T. Parker.  “ The Roman Castellum of Khirbet el-Fityan."  The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan: Interim Report on the Limes Arabicus Project, 1980-1985, part ii, ed. S. Thomas Parker.  London: British Archaeological Reports Series 340(11) 1987): 429-46.
• Richard, R.  “Questions of Nomadic Invasions at the End of the Third Millennium, B.C.” In Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan III.  Ed. A. Hadidi.  Amman: Department of Antiquities (1987): 323-30.
• Richard, S.  “Excavations at Khirbet Iskander, Jordan: A Glimpse at Settled Life during the 'Dark Age' in Palestinian Archaeology.”  Expedition 28, no. 1 (1986): 3-12.
• Richard, S. and Boraas, R.. “Preliminary Report of the 1981-82 Seasons of the Expedition to Khirbet Iskander and its Vicinity.”  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 254 (1984):  63-86.
• Richard, S.  “Report on the Expedition to Khirbet Iskander and its Vicinity, 1982.”  Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan XXVII (1983): 45-53.
• Richard, S.  “Report on the 1981 Season of Survey and Soundings at Khirbet Iskander.”  Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan XXVI (1982): 289-99.
• Richard, S.  “Toward A Consensus of Opinion on the End of the Early Bronze Age in Palestine/Transjordan.”  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 237 (1980): 5-34.