Dr. Stefan L. Smith
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Forschungsprofil
- Landscape archaeology of the Ancient Near East
- Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age Near East
- Archaeology of arid regions
- Survival strategies of populations in sub-optimal environments
- Interactions of mobile and sedentary groups
Werdegang
Previous positions
- 2024-2025
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Researcher); DFG Project “Mobile villages and dynamic landscapes: Excavations at Tell Begum in the Shahrizor Plain”, Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany - 2023-2024
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in Provenienzforschung (Researcher in provenance studies); Department of Museums, Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Hessen, Germany - 2021-2023
Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeological Network Analysis; centre of excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (ANEE), University of Helsinki, Finland - 2020-2021
Postdoctoraal onderzoeksmandaat (Postdoctoral Researcher); Department of Archaeology, Universiteit Gent, Belgium - 2020
Gastprofessor (Guest Professor); Department of Archaeology, Universiteit Gent, Belgium - 2017-2020
FWO [PEGASUS]² Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (Postdoctoral Researcher); Department of Archaeology, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Fellowships and Awards
- 2019
Wetenschap Uitgedokterd award; Scriptie vzw. and Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Brussels, Belgium - 2014-2015
Research Scholar; Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), Amman, Jordan - 2013-2016
Young Explorer; National Geographic Society
Education
- 2016
PhD in Archaeology; University of Durham, England - 2009
M.A. in Archaeology; University of Durham, England - 2004
B.A. in Archaeology; University of Durham, England
Projects (third party financed only)
- 2024-ongoing
Western Iraqi Desert survey, South-Western Iraq; co-PI with Jaafar Jotheri, University of al-Qadisiyah and Ella Egberts, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Funding bodies: American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) - 2015-ongoing
Western Harra Survey, Eastern Jordan; PI in 2015, since 2016 co-PI with Marie-Laure Chambrade, CNRS CEPAM, University of Nice
Funding bodies: National Geographic Society, Brennan Foundation, Insitut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) - 2012-2014
The Land of Carchemish Project (LCP), Northern Syria / Southern Turkey; member; PIs Tony J. Wilkinson, University of Durham, and Eddie Peltenburg, University of Edinburgh
Funding bodies: Council for British Research in the Levant, Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Academy, Global Heritage Fund. - 2010-2014
The Fragile Crescent Project (FCP); member; PIs Tony J. Wilkinson, Graham Philip, and Danny Donoghue, University of Durham
Funding bodies: Arts and Humanities Research Council
Memberships of Committees
- 2022-2023
Open Science Committee; centre of excellence for Ancient Near Eastern Empires (ANEE), University of Helsinki, Finland - 2021-2022
Organisational committee for the Annual Meeting of the centre of excellence for Ancient Near Eastern Empires (ANEE) in Ajloun, Jordan - 2020
Doctoral examination committee for Hendrik Hameeuw; Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Teaching activities
- Undergraduate courses
2022: Digital Applications in Assyriology; summer school at Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
2020: Material Culture of the Ancient Near East; Universiteit Gent, Belgium
2015 & 2019: Collection and Processing of Archaeological GIS Data; on-site field school at Bat, Sultanate of Oman; Institute for Field Research and University of Pennsylvania, USA
2011-2013: Introduction to Archaeology, Archaeology of Ancient Near Eastern Civilisations; University of Durham, England - Graduate courses
2022: Applied GIS for Visualising Studies of the Ancient Near East; University of Helsinki, Finland
2020: Archaeology of the Ancient Near East and the Phoenician-Punic World; Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Memberships of other scientific bodies (current)
- associate member; centre of excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (ANEE)
- Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA)
- Explorer, National Geographic Society
Kontakt
Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie
Ludwig-Lindenschmit-Forum 1
55116 Mainz
Ludwig-Lindenschmit-Forum 1
55116 Mainz
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Publikationen
Journal Articles
- Cutillas-Victoria, B / Lorenzon, M. / Smith, S. L. / Holappa, M. / Lahelma, A. 2024. Detecting megalithic structures in the Northern Jordanian Plateau: New data from historical satellite imagery, Archaeological Research in Asia 39: 100540. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2024.100540
- Lorenzon, M. / Lahelma, A. / Tarboush, M. / Holmqvist, E. / Daems, D. / Kautonen, S. / Töyräänvuori, J. / Cutillas-Victoria, B / Smith, S. L. / Holappa, M. / al-Sababha, H. / al-Shorman, A. 2023. Tell it Like it Is: Discoveries from a New Survey of the Northern Jordanian Plateau, Near Eastern Archaeology 86/1: 16-27. https://doi.org/10.1086/723459
- Smith, S. L. 2022. A Morphological Typology for the “Kranzhügel” of the Greater Western Jazira and its Impact upon Interpretations of Early Bronze Age North-Eastern Syria, Archaeological Research in Asia 29: 100339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2021.100339
- Smith, S. L. 2020. Drones over the “Black Desert”: The Advantages of Rotary-Wing UAVs for Complementing Archaeological Fieldwork in the Hard-to-Access Landscapes of Preservation of North-Eastern Jordan, Geosciences 10/11: 426. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10110426
- Smith, S. L. / Chambrade, M.-L. / Alhussain, I. 2020. Western Harra Survey Project, Archaeology in Jordan 2 (2018 and 2019 seasons): 7-9.
- Smith, S. L. / Chambrade, M.-L. 2018. The application of freely-available satellite imagery for informing and complementing archaeological fieldwork in the “Black Desert” of North-Eastern Jordan, Geosciences 8/12: 491. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8120491
- Chambrade, M.-L. / Smith, S. L. 2018. Western Harra Survey Project, Archaeology in Jordan 1 (2016 and 2017 seasons): 7-8.
- Smith, S. L. 2015. Patterns of Sedentism and Nomadism in the Semi-Arid Syrian-Jordanian Steppes: A Remote Sensing Survey, Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant 10: 65-68.
- Wilkinson, T. J. / Philip, G. / Bradbury, J. / Dunford, R. / Donoghue, D. / Galiatsatos, N. / Lawrence, D. / Ricci, A. / Smith, S. L. 2014. Contextualizing Early Urbanization: Settlement Cores, Early States and Agro-Pastoral Strategies in the Fertile Crescent during the Fourth and Third Millennia BC, Journal of World Prehistory 27/1: 43-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-014-9072-2
- Smith, S. L. 2013. A Lesson from the Past: Tolerance and Co-Existence in Islamic-era Umm ar-Rasas, Minerva: The International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology 24/3: 42-45.
Papers in Edited Volumes
- Smith, S. L. 2020. The Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age of the Badia and Beyond: Implications of the Results of the First Season of the ‘Western Harra Survey’. In Akkermans, P. M. M. G. (ed.) Landscapes of Survival. The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan’s North-Eastern Desert and Beyond: 165-184. Sidestone Press, Leiden.
- Smith, S. L. 2020. The View from the Steppe: Using Remote Sensing to Investigate the Landscape of “Kranzhügel” in Its Regional Context. In Lawrence, D. / Altaweel, M. / Philip, G. (eds.) New Agendas in Remote Sensing and Landscape Archaeology in the Near East. Studies in Honour of Tony J. Wilkinson: 109-123. Archaeopress, Oxford.
- Smith, S. L. / Wilkinson, T. J. 2020. The Circular Cities of Northern Syria in their Environmental Context. In Castel, C. / Meyer, J.-W. / Quenet, P. (eds.) Circular Cities of Early Bronze Age Syria (Subartu 42): 151-160. Brepols, Turnhout.
- Brown, M. / Smith, S. L. 2016. The Land of Carchemish and its neighbours during the Neo-Hittite period (c. 1190-717 BC). In Wilkinson, T. J. / Peltenburg, E. / Wilkinson, E. B. (eds.) Carchemish in Context: 22-37. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
- Smith, S. L. 2014. The Economy of Landscape. Agro-pastoralism in Uncertain Margins. In Buccellati, F. / Helms, T. / Tamm, A. (eds.) House and Household Economies in 3rd Millennium B.C.E. Syro-Mesopotamia (BAR International Series 2682): 103-113. BAR Publishing, Oxford.
- Smith, S. L. / Wilkinson, T. J. / Lawrence, D. 2014. Agro-pastoral Landscapes in the Zone of Uncertainty. The Middle Euphrates and the North Syrian Steppe during the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. In Morandi Bonacossi, D. (eds.) Settlement Dynamics and Human-Landscape Interaction in the Dry Steppes of Syria (Studia Chaburensia 4): 151-172. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden.