Andrea M. Berlin is an archaeologist and the James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology at
Boston University.
She also holds a faculty position in the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University. Before that she held positions at academic institutions, among which were (from 2004 to 2010) the Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the
University of Minnesota. She received her PhD in 1988 from the
University of Michigan.
Berlin is an expert in the archaeology and history of the
Achaemenid,
Hellenistic
In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...
, and
Roman East, with an emphasis on
ceramics. She has published widely on the archaeology of
Second Temple Judaism and the
archaeology of Israel. Berlin has been assistant director of
Tel Anafa
Tel Anafa ( he, תל אנפה, lit. "Egret hill" ar, تل الأخضر, Tel el-Hader, lit. "The green hill") is an archaeological site and nature reserve in the Upper Galilee, Israel.
History
Tel Anafa was inhabited from the Early Bronze Age thro ...
and
Banias excavations and a co-director of the excavations at
Tel Kedesh
Kedesh (alternate spellings: Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned few times in the Hebrew Bible. Its remains are located in Tel Kedesh, 3 km northeast of the modern Kibbutz M ...
(all in northern Israel). Berlin is the initiator and, since 2012, the main editor of the Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP), which is an open database of ceramics produced in the
Levantine region.
Books
* Berlin, Andrea and
Kosmin, Paul, eds (2021): ''The Middle Maccabees: Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom''
* Berlin, Andrea and
Kosmin, Paul, eds (2019): ''Spear-Won Land: Sardis from the King's Peace to the Peace of Apamea''
* Berlin, Andrea, and Sharon C. Herbert, eds (2012) ''Tel Anafa II, ii. Glass Vessels, Lamps, Objects of Metal, and Groundstone and Other Stone Tools and Vessels.'' Kelsey Museum Fieldwork Studies, Ann Arbor, MI.
* Berlin, Andrea (2006) ''Gamla. Final Reports, Volume I: The Pottery of the Second Temple Period. ''Israel Antiquities Authority'' ''Reports 29. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem.
* Berlin, Andrea, and Sharon C. Herbert, eds (2003) ''Excavations at Coptos (Qift) (1988–1992)''. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 53. Portsmouth, RI.
* Berlin, Andrea, and J. Andrew Overman, eds (2002) ''The First Jewish Revolt: Archaeology, History, and Ideology''. Routledge, London.
* Berlin, Andrea (1997) ''Excavations at Tel Anafa, vol. II,i. The Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Plain Wares.'' Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 10.2. Portsmouth, RI.
References
Living people
American archaeologists
Boston University faculty
University of Michigan alumni
American women archaeologists
Archaeologists of the Near East
Classical archaeologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women academics
21st-century American women
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