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Archaeology of Southwest Asia

Summary

Joseph (Seppi) Lehner is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award Fellow who specializes in the archaeology of Southwest Asia. He finished his PhD at the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and is a past Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Fellow at the University of Tübingen and a Senior Fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations at Koç University in Istanbul. He conducts extensive field work in Turkey and Oman, and has been involved in projects elsewhere in Egypt, Ethiopia, India, and Arctic North America. His research focuses on the social, environmental, and cultural impacts of strategic resource management, in particular mining and metallurgy.

Supervisor

Dr Joseph Lehner.

Research location

Archaeology, School of Humanities (SOH)

Synopsis

Research interests

  • Early complex societies and states in southwestern Asia
  • Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia & Arabia
  • Human – environment interaction, complex economies, urbanism, long-distance trade
  • Archaeological materials science, archaeometallurgy

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Opportunity ID

The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3121