In Press / In Progress

Books and Articles Currently In Press:

“Rethinking Mycenaean Trade and Colonization during the Late Bronze Age,” in Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations of an Old Idea, M.L. Galaty and W.A. Parkinson (eds.).Second Revised and Expanded edition. Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. * Chapter on Mycenaean trade with and the Eastern Mediterraneanduring the Late Bronze Age *

“A Trout in the Milk: The Case of the Missing Ahhiyawa Letters,” in Mycenaeans and Anatolians in the Late Bronze Age: The Ahhijawa Question, A. Teffeteller, ed.  (Oxford: Oxford University Press). *Discussion of why we haven’t yet found any letters exchanged between the Bronze Age Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean *

“Poetry in Motion: Canaanite Rulership and Minoan Narrative at Kabri” (with A. Yasur-Landau), in EPOS: Reconsidering Greek Epic and Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology, S. Morris, ed.  Aegaeum.  Liège: Université de Liège.   * Discussion of interactions between Canaan and the Aegean, as seen via Tel Kabri *

"The Sea Peoples’ Possible Role in the Israelite Conquest of Canaan,” in Festschrift for Spyros E. Iakovidis, Vassiliki Pliatsika, ed.  Athens. * Analysis and discussion of the Israel Stele and the Sea Peoples *

“Troy as a ‘Contested Periphery:’ Archaeological Perspectives on Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Interactions Concerning Bronze Age Anatolia,” in Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks and their Neighbors. Proceedings of an International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction, September 17-19, 2004, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, edited by Billie Jean Collins, Mary R. Bachvarova  and Ian C. Rutherford (Oxford: Oxbow Books; scheduled for publication in 2007). * Analysis and discussion of Troyas a contested periphery between the Mycenaean and the Hittites.*

"Musings from a Distant Shore: The Nature and Destination of the Uluburun Ship and Its Cargo” (co-authored with A. Yasur-Landau). Tel Aviv. * Co-authored paper musing on the nature and destination of the Uluburun ship and its cargo*

“TV and the Near Eastern Archaeologist,” Near Eastern Archaeology. * Article about television and the role of academic consultants *“The Amarna Letters: Write On!,” Calliope magazine. * Brief account of the Amarna letters for a children’s magazine *

“Review of K. Wilson, The Campaign of Pharaoh Shoshenq I into Palestine (Tübingen, 2005),” JNES. * Review of book on Shoshenq I’s campaign to Israel and Judah *

"Syria-Palestine: The Late Bronze Age," for Archaeological Sources for the History of Palestine (update of A. Leonard, Jr. 1989). ASOR Publications* Update of article originally published in Biblical Archaeologist, March 1989.*

 

Articles and Books In Progress:

Egypt's Last Hero: The Life and Times of Ramesses III.  E.H. Cline and D. O'Connor, eds.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.   (Contract issued October 2000.) * Co-edited, multi-author, biography of Ramesses III, Pharaoh of Egypt ca. 1184-1153 BC *

The Ahhiyawa Letters (co-authored with Gary Beckman and Trevor Bryce).  Writings from the Ancient World Series.  Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature.  (Contract issued January 2007.) * The first English translation of all the Ahhiyawa correspondence (letters between the Hittites and the Mycenaeans) *

Ancient Empires: Formation and Resistance in the Near Eastern, Greco-Roman, and early Muslim worlds (co-authored with Mark W. Graham). New York: Cambridge University Press.  (contract issued June 2007.) * Co-authored book on ancient empires, to be used as a textbook for college courses *

The Cambridge Field Guide to Old World Archaeology (co-authored with Assaf Yasur-Landau). New York: Cambridge University Press.  (contract issued June 2007.) * Co-authored “how-to” guide to excavating in the Old World, especially Israel *

Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.  (contract issued June 2007.) * A very short introduction to biblical Archaeology *

The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean. New York: Oxford University Press.  (contract issued June 2007.) * Edited volume on the Bronze Age Aegean *

“Bronze Age Interactions between the Aegean and the Near East: Mainstream, Margin, or Periphery?” SAR Symposium Series.  * Paper resulting from week-long retreat held at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, March 11-15, 2007. *

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