HAP: Tall al-Handaquq South Archaeological Project
Donald O. Henry Fellowship
University of Notre Dame
Anthropology
Natalia Handziuk is a Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. She is an archaeologist specializing in later prehistory, Neolithic through Early Bronze Age (EBA), in Western Asia. Her research focuses on understanding how early small-scale societies navigated coming together and building community during the initial centuries of urban coalescence. Currently she is working with the Wādī Ziqlāb Project investigating development of EBA communities and olive oil production in northern Jordan, the Expedition the Dead Sea Plain investigating how mortuary spaces were used in early urban communities, and the Tall al-Handaquq South Archaeological Project (HAP) investigating the built environment of a large EBA urban settlement in Wādī Zarqa. During her tenure as an ACOR fellow, Natalia is co-directing a survey at Tall al-Handaquq with Prof. Hanna Erftenbeck to examine temporal and functional variation across the site using surface artifacts and architecture. Natalia began working in Jordan during the summer of 2013 and has since worked with the Tell Madaba Archaeological Project, the Khirbat al-Mukhayyat Archaeological Project, the Wādī Ziqlāb Archaeological Project, the Wādī Quseayba Archaeological Project, Excavations at Khirbat Umm al-Ghūzlān, the Archaeological Expedition to Khirbat Iskandar and its Environs, and the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain.
