Description: Collection of research papers about the archaeology and epigraphy of Jordan's north-eastern basalt desert as well as comparative perspectives from other parts of the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula.
Brief description:
Peter M.M.G. Akkermans is Full Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He studied Prehistory and Archaeology of Western Asia at the University of Amsterdam, where he also completed (cum laude) his PhD on Neolithic settlement in Syria. From 1990 until 2009 he was Curator of the Dept. of the Ancient Near East in the Netherlands National Museum of Antiquities, in combination with an Extraordinary Professorship of Near Eastern Prehistory at Leiden University. Since 2010 Akkermans is Full Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at Leiden University.
Akkermans has been intensively involved in archaeological field projects in Germany, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria and Jordan for over 30 years. He is director of the Tell Sabi Abyad Archaeological Project in Syria and the Jebel Qurma Archaeological Landscape Project in Jordan. For several years he was Chair of both the Near Eastern and Classical-Mediterranean sections and he served as Vice-Dean and Chair of Education of the Faculty of Archaeology from 2012 until 2016.
Together with G.M. Schwartz, Akkermans published The Archaeology of Syria (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He (co-)edited a series of volumes, including Excavations at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad (Brepols, 2015) and Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia (Brepols, 2013).