Ballot Archive

21 Mar 2019

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Edward Banning

Academic degrees, honours etc.

1985 Ph.D. University of Toronto 1979 M.A. University of Toronto 1978 B.A. University of Toronto

Profession or occupation

Professor of Archaeology Univ of Toronto

Grounds for election

Prof. Ted Banning has an international reputation for research on early agricultural societies in the Near East, while also introducing and developing novel theory and methods. His fieldwork has concentrated in Jordan, where he has investigated archaeological landscapes since 1979. He has focused mainly on the Neolithic period, with contributions on Neolithic and Chalcolithic architecture and what it can tell us about social change. In 1981, he initiated research in Jordan at Wadi Ziqlab. His later surveys in northern Jordan evolved to include predictive modeling, geoarchaeology, subsurface testing of stream terraces, and Bayesian optimal search methods. Banning’s book, The Archaeologist’s Laboratory (2000) is widely used to train archaeologists in the analysis, interpretation and publication of artifacts, plant and animal remains, stratigraphy, soils, and radiocarbon dates

Signatories

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