EDNA J. STERN
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Position: Senior research archaeologist
Department: Archaeological Research Department
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Higher education:
Ph.D., 2007, University of Haifa
Research interests:
Archaeology and ceramics of the Crusader,
Mamluk and Ottoman periods
Ongoing research projects:
- The POMEDOR Project: People, pottery and food in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean. Conducting typological, petrographic and chemical analysis of pottery vessels from the Fatimid and Crusader periods. An international research group funded by the French National Research Agency.
- Cooperation with the University of Genoa in Archaeology Research (joint excavation in Acre, pottery Acre port) and a comparative study of pottery vessels from the 12th to the 18th centuries.
- Art of the Crusades: A Re-Evaluation. An international research program looking at Mediaeval art and archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean. Funded by the Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories Program
- Research of pottery from the Crusader, Mamluk and Ottoman periods: typology, production sites, distribution and dating
- The archaeology of sugar production during the Fatimid, Crusader, Mamluk and Ottoman periods
Selected publications:
- Stern E.J. 2012. `Akko I: The 1991–1998 Excavations: The Crusader-Period Pottery (IAA reports 51). Jerusalem.
- Avissar M. and Stern E. 2005. Pottery of the Crusader, Ayyubid, and Mamluk Periods in Israel (IAA Reports 26). Jerusalem.
- Stern E.J. 2015. Pottery and Identity in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Case Study of Acre and Western Galilee. In J. Vroom ed. Medieval and Post-Medieval Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean: Fact and Fiction. Turnhout. Pp. 287–315, 391, 392.
- Stern E.J. 2014. The Crusader, Mamluk and Early Ottoman-Period Pottery from Khirbat Din'ila. ‘Atiqot 78:71–104.
- Stern E.J. 2016. The Ceramic Finds from the Ottoman Flour Mills in the Ridwan Gardens, 'Akko. ‘Atiqot 87:83–96.