Margreet L Steiner Editor & Author

P. M. Michèle Daviau (University of Toronto, 1990) is professor emerita of Near Eastern Archaeology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has excavated in North America, Israel and Jordan, where she directed excavations at Tall Jawa, south of Amman and is currently director of the Wadi ath-Thamad Project in northern Moab. She edited The World of the Aramaeans and has published four volumes, Excavations at Tall Jawa, and is now preparing a study of the Iron Age pottery. She has a special interest in religious iconography and the domestic cult and in the archaeology of Jordan. Margreet L. Steiner (University of Leiden, 1994) is an independent scholar in Leiden, The Netherlands. She has produced final publications of Kathleen Kenyon’s excavations in Jerusalem and is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant (10.000 – 350 BCE). For the past thirty-five years she has participated in or directed excavations in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. Currently she is co-director of the renewed excavations of Tell Abu Sarbut, Jordan. Margreet Steiner has published widely on the archaeology of the Levant.