Archaeology of the southern levant

Zooarchaeology of Wadi Fidan, southern jordan

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Text Box: Curriculum Vitae Adolfo A. Muniz, Ph.D. E-Mail: admuniz@gmail.com Website: admuniz.org Current Positions -Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University, San Marcos -Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego -Lecturer, Sixth College Core Sequence, University of California, San Diego Education 2007 University of California, San Diego. Ph.D., Anthropology (Concentration in Anthropological Archaeology) Dissertation: Feeding the Periphery: Modeling Early Bronze Age Economies and the Cultural Landscape of the Faynan District, Southern Jordan 2002 University of California, San Diego. M.A., Anthropology (Concentration in Anthropological Archaeology) 1998 University of California, San Diego. B.A., Anthropology (Concentration in Archaeology) 1996 Palomar College, San Marcos. Certificate in Archaeological Excavation and Surveying Teaching Experience University of California, San Diego Department of Anthropology Winter 2009- Lecturer. “Prehistory of the Holy Land”. Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego • September 2008- Present, Lecturer. “Archaeology Methods and Theory”. Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego • March 2008- June 2008, Lecturer. “Archaeology Methods and Theory”. Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego • January 2005-March 2005, Teaching Assistant, "Human Origins". Professor Katerina Semendefari. UCSD Department of Anthropology • September 2005-December 2005, Teaching Assistant, "Introduction to Culture". Professor Joel Robbins. UCSD Department of Anthropology • April 2004-June 2004, Teaching Assistant, "The Hebrew Bible, Archaeology, and Anthropological Theory". Professor Thomas E. Levy. UCSD Department of Anthropology • January 2004-March 2004, Teaching Assistant, "Anthropological Methods and Theory- Laboratory Methods". Professor Thomas E. Levy. UCSD Department of Anthropology • September 2003-December 2003, Teaching Assistant, "Debating Multiculturalism". Professor Jim Holsten. UCSD Department of Anthropology • August 2002-September 2002, Teaching Assistant, "San Elijo Lagoon Archaeological Field School- Archaeological Field Methods". Professor Bryan Bird. UCSD Department of Anthropology • April 2002-June 2002, Teaching Assistant, "Anthropological Methods and Theory- Laboratory Methods". Professor Thomas E. Levy. UCSD Department of Anthropology California State University, San Marcos Department of Anthropology Spring 2009, Adjunct Professor. “Cultural Anthropology”. Department of Anthropology, California State University, San Marcos • August 2008- Present, Adjunct Professor. “Cultural Anthropology (1)”. Department of Anthropology, California State University, San Marcos • August 2008- Present, Adjunct Professor. “Cultural Anthropology (2)”. Department of Anthropology, California State University, San Marcos • August 2008- Present, Adjunct Professor. “Current Archaeology”. Department of Anthropology, California State University, San Marcos • January 2008-June 2008, Adjunct Professor. “World Prehistory”. Department of Anthropology, California State University, San Marcos • August 2007-December 2007, Adjunct Professor. World Prehistory”. Department of Anthropology, California State University, San Marcos University of California, San Diego Sixth College • September 2008-Present, Lecturer. “Internet Cultures”. UCSD Sixth College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego • April 2008-June 2008, Teaching Assistant. CAT 125. Sixth College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego • January 2008-March 2008, Teaching Assistant. “Mechanization and the Quality of Human Experience since the Industrial Revolutions”. Professor Peter John. UCSD Sixth College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego • September 2007-December 2007, Lecturer. “Becoming Net Culture”. UCSD Sixth College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego • April 2007-June 2007, Teaching Assistant, "Natural Disasters and the Human Response". Professor Linda Strauss. UCSD Sixth College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego • April 2005-June 2005, Teaching Assistant, "Visible to the Invisible". Professor Peter John. UCSD Sixth College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego • April 2003-June 2003, Teaching Assistant, "Global Futures". Professor Linda Strauss, Professor George Tynan. UCSD Sixth College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego • January 2003-April 2003, Teaching Assistant, "Limits and Boundaries". Gene Issacs. UCSD Sixth College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego Archaeological Fieldwork Experience • July 2008 – August 2008, Ethnographer and Ethnoarchaeologist. UCSD Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3)’s South India Traditional Technologies Project. Collected qualitative and quantitative data among the bronze casters of Tamil Nadu, Southern India • July 2007-August 2007, Senior Archaeologist (Area D and Area E) for the Edom Lowland Regional Project in the Faynan region of southern Jordan. Excavated an Early Bronze Age III occupation settlement and Iron Age slag mound. Directors: Dr. Thomas E. Levy, UCSD; Dr. Mohammad Najjar, Department. of Antiquities, Jordan • September 2006-December 2006, Area supervisor (Area T and Area F-Iron Age Khirbat en-Nahas) for the Edom Lowlands Project in the Faynan region of southern Jordan. Excavated Iron Age administrative structures. Directors: Dr. Thomas E. Levy, UCSD and Dr. Mohammad Najjar, Department of Antiquities, Jordan • November 2005, Surveyor. Wadi Faynan Drainage, southern Jordan. Hannah Friedman, Project Manager. Center for British Research in the Levant, Amman, Jordan • July - August 2004- Area supervisor (Iron Age Cemetery) for the Jabal Hamrat Fidan Archaeological Project in the Faynan region of southern Jordan. Director: Dr. Thomas E. Levy, UCSD • August - September 2003- Site supervisor (Early Bronze IA village) for the Wadi Fidan Dam Salvage Project in the Faynan region of southern Jordan. Directors: Dr. Mohammad Najjar, Jordan Department of Antiquities and Dr. Thomas E. Levy, UCSD • September - December 2002- Faunal Analyst with the 2002 UCSD Jabal Hamrat Fidan Archaeological Project (Iron Age) in the Faynan region of southern Jordan, Director: Dr. Thomas E. Levy, UCSD • August - September 2002- (Second Season) Site Supervisor with the San Elijio Lagoon Project in San Diego County, Director: Dr. Brian Byrd, UCSD, ASM Affiliates • August - September 2001 - Site Supervisor with the San Elijio Lagoon Project in San Diego County, Director: Dr. Brian Byrd, UCSD, ASM Affiliates • July - August 2001 - Participant in the California State University, Chico Zooarchaeology and Ecology Field School, Lassen County, California. Director: Dr. Frank Bayham • June - August 2000 - Lab Coordinator with the 2000 UCSD Jabal Hamrat Fidan Archaeological Project (Early Bronze Age) in the Faynan region of southern Jordan, Director: Dr. Thomas E. Levy, UCSD • June - August 1999 - Assistant Field Supervisor with the 1999 UCSD Jabal Hamrat Fidan Archaeological Project (Neolithic Period) in the Faynan region of southern Jordan, Director: Dr. Thomas E. Levy, UCSD • June - August 1997 - Field Technician with the 1997 UCSD Jabal Hamrat Fidan Archaeological Project (Early Bronze Age) in the Faynan region of southern Jordan, Director: Dr. Thomas E. Levy, UCSD 1996 Field Season, Field volunteer, Crow Canyon Archaeology Center • 1995 Field Season, Field volunteer, Crow Canyon Archaeology Center . Miscellaneous Work Experience • August 2008, Guest Curator, UCSD CALITT/CISA3/Giesel Library. Exhibit: Masters of Fire • December 2006-June 2007, Guest Curator- San Diego Museum of Man. Exhibit: Journey to the Copper Age; Archaeology in the Holy Land • September 2002-June 2007, UCSD Levantine Osteology Laboratory Coordinator and Supervisor • January 2005-June 2005, Reader/Research Assistant, UCSD Department of Anthropology • June-September 2002, Archaeology Lab Technician, ASM Affiliates • September 1999-June 2002, Archaeology Lab Supervisor, University of California, San Diego • June 1990-March 1999, Upper Management and Training Coordinator, Rancho Bernardo Partners Limited, San Diego • August 1997-September 1997, Archaeological Field Technician, Chambers Group Environmental Agency, Irvine, CA • June 1996, Archaeological Field Technician, Philip E. DeBarros Archaeological Investigations, San Diego, CA Papers and Publications “An Early Bronze Age Oasis Environment in Southern Jordan: Khirbat Hamra Ifdan, Metal Production and Seasonality”. Levy, T.E., Danin, A., and A. Muniz. Journal of Arid Lands. In prep. "The Archaeozoology of Khirbat en-Nahas, Southern Jordan". Muniz, A.. In Kings, Metals and Social Change-Excavations at Khirbat en-Nahas (Jordan)-An Iron Age Metal Production Center in Ancient Edom. Levy, T. E., Adams, R.B, and Najjar, M. (eds). Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology. In prep. “Feeding the Periphery: Modeling Early Bronze Age Economies and the Cultural Landscape of the Faynan District, Southern Jordan”. Muniz, A. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. June 2007. "Iron Age Burial in the Lowlands of Edom: The 2004 Excavations at Wadi Fidan 40, Jordan". Levy, T. E., M. Najjar, A. Muniz, S. Malena, E. Monroe, M. Beherec, N. G. Smith, T. Higham, S. Munger, and K. Maes. Annual of the Department of Antiquities Jordan 49. 2005 "An Iron Age Landscape in the Edomite Lowlands: Archaeological Surveys along Wadi Al-Ghuwayb and Wadi Al-Jariya, Jabal Hamrat Fidan, Jordan”, 2002. Levy, T. E., R. B. Adams, M. Najjar, J.D. Anderson, N. Smith, Y. Arbel, L. Soderbaum and A. Muniz. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan., 47, 2003: 247-277. "Archaeology and the Shasu Nomads - Recent Excavations in the Jabal Hamrat Fidan, Jordan". Thomas E. Levy, Russell B. Adams and Adolfo Muniz. In Festschrift for David Noel Freedman: UCSD Judaic Studies Program, Propp, W.H. and Friedman, R.E. (eds), 2004. "Agency and Social Change: A Case Study from the Egyptian Old Kingdom". Muniz, Adolfo. University of California, San Diego. Unpublished Masters Dissertation. June 2002. "Excavations and Surveys in the Jabal Hamrat Fidan (Jordan): Social Archaeology and Early Metallurgy at Khirbet Hamra Ifdan and it's Environs, 1999 - 2000 Seasons". Levy, T. E., R. B. Adams, M. Najjar, A. Hauptmann, A. Danin, J. Grattan, A. J. Witten, J. D. Anderson, Y. Arbel, M. Homan, A. Muniz, N. Smith, J. Moreno, K. Twiss and C. de Jong. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. "Digital Archaeology 2001: GIS-Based Excavation Recording in Jordan". Thomas E. Levy, James D. Anderson, Mark Waggoner, Neil Smith, Adolfo Muniz, and Russell B. Adams. The SAA Archaeological Record. May 2001, Vol. 1, No 3, pp. 23-29. Presentations November 2008, “Of Kings, Forts, and Animals: The Animal Economy of Khirbet En’Nahas, Southern Jordan”. Paper and presentation delivered in the Edom Lowlands Session at the American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston, MA November 2008, “These are our Herds: The Animals of Biblical Edom”. Paper and presentation delivered in the Edom Lowlands Session at the Society of Biblical Literature January 2008, “Digital Photography in Archaeology”. Two day workshop presented at the San Diego Archaeology Center, Escondido, CA November 2007, “The Animal Economy of Khirbet Hamra Ifdan”. Paper accepted at the American School of Oriental Research, San Diego, CA May 2007, “The Animal Economy of the Edom Lowlands”. Paper accepted at the International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan. Washington D.C. December 2005, “Feeding the Periphery: Modeling the Cultural and Natural Environment of the Wadi Fidan, Southern Jordan”. Presentation delivered at the American Center of Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan January 2001, "Early Metallurgy and Social Complexity. Digital Archaeology in Jordan". Presentation by Thomas E. Levy and Adolfo A. Muniz delivered at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation: Great Silk Road Technical Planning Workshop. University of California, San Diego May 1998, "Early Metal Production and Social Change: Wadi Fidan 4: A Case Study from Southern Jordan." Paper and presentation delivered in the session Anthropological Archaeology at the 11th Annual UCSD Undergraduate Research Conference, San Diego, CA May 1997, "Spatial Analysis: A Case Study of Stratum II, Nahal Tillah Project, Israel". Paper and presentation delivered in the session Anthropological Archaeology at The Faculty Mentor Program Symposium Fellowships and Grants • 2005-2006 U.C. Presidential Dissertation Year Fellowship • 2004-2005 Kress Foundation Fellowship • 2003 Dean's Social Science Research Travel Award • 2002 American Center of Oriental Research-Harrell Family Fellowship • 2002 American Center of Oriental Research-Pierre and Patricia Bikai Fellowship • 2000-2002 San Diego Fellowship