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Peter Excavations at Tell Abraq going very well indeed. Massive late Bronze Age/early Iron Age surround wall and well-stratified deposits bridging the late second and early first millennium BC. Oh, and a ... more
Faculty Member, Archaeology
Associate Professor
Bryn Mawr College
About
Peter Magee's research focuses on the late prehistory of Arabia, Iran and south Asia. He is particularly interested in social organization and subsistence economies in non-state entities and has concentrated recent work on the effects of dromedary camel domestication on the ancient economy of Arabia. His research also examines how European colonialism has shaped the codification of Near Eastern archaeology as a discipline. He has excavated in Syria, Jordan, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan. Between 1997 and 2001 he was co-Director of the excavations at Akra in North West Pakistan - a large Iron Age settlement that was likely the capital of an Achaemenid satrapy. Since 1993 he has directed the excavations at the Iron Age settlement of Muweilah in the United Arab Emirates and more recently turned his attention to the Bronze - Iron Age settlement of Tell Abraq. Working in these regions has also permitted him to maintain his scholarly (and culinary!) side interest in the cultivation and movement of spices throughout the Indian Ocean world.
