Benjamin W Porter Author & Editor

Benjamin W. Porter is assistant professor of Near Eastern archaeology in the University of California, Berkeley's Near Eastern Studies Department and a curator of Near Eastern archaeology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. He is a co-director of the Dhiban Excavation and Development Project and the Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project and the author of Complex Communities: The Archaeology of Early Iron Age West-Central Jordan. Alexis T. Boutin is associate professor of anthropology and coordinator of the Cultural Resources Management MA program at Sonoma State University. She is co-director of the Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project and recently completed work on the Tell en-Nasbeh Bioarchaeology Project. She is a co-editor of Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death: Contemporary Approaches to Bioarchaeology.