19 November 2025
About the Lecture
The archaeological site of Tell Es-Sukhnah is located in the northeastern part of Jordan, in the middle/upper area of the Wadi az-Zarqa basin. Excavations at the site have uncovered different human occupations spanning from the Middle Bronze Age to the Islamic period. In this lecture, Prof. Dr. Nabil Ali will focus on the results of excavations with respect to human settlements at the site during the Middle Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Hellenistic period. Furthermore, he will shed light on functional changes of the site during those periods and on its role at the regional scale, especially regarding its location along the west-east trade routes and as part of the Ammonite territories during the Iron Ages.
The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.
Date: November 30, 2025
Time: 6:00 p.m. Amman Time (10:00 a.m. EST)
Place: American Center of Research, Amman (click for directions)
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85399055772?pwd=VoUIblzIyyVfCv7IR5lj5krP6OpBOd.1
Webinar ID: 853 9905 5772
Passcode: 456829
YouTube livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@ACORJordan1968/streams
About the Speaker
Prof. Dr. Nabil Ali, head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Jordan, holds a Ph.D. from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany (2003), where he completed his dissertation, “The Development of Pottery Technology from the Late Sixth to the Fifth Millennium BC in Northern Jordan: Ethno- and Archaeological Studies (Abu Hamid as a Key Site),” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. M. Heinz in the Department of Near Eastern Archaeology.
His research focuses on ancient Near Eastern archaeology, with particular interest in ethnoarchaeology, archaeological method and theory, the emergence of social complexity, and postcolonial approaches to the past. Prof. Dr. Ali’s work integrates ethnographic and archaeological data to explore technological traditions and cultural developments in prehistoric Jordan.