Homepage--Adam T. Smith

Adam T. Smith

Ongoing Research

Teaching

Project ArAGATS
(General site)

ArAGATS Regional Survey Results

ArAGATS Database
(password required)

The Making of Ancient Eurasia

Caucasus Site Database
(under construction)

Course Information & Documents

Spring 2009

Archaeological Approaches to Political Life
(Anth 58700)

Remaking Eurasia: Emerging Themes in Regional Archaeology (Anth 49502)

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of chicago
1126 East 59th St.
Chicago IL 60637
atsmith@uchicago.edu

Co-Director
The American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of ancient Transcaucasian Societies

Research In Brief

In 2008, Project ArAGATS celebrated its 10th anniversary. Last summer, we completed our most extensive field season to date with excavations at settlement, fortress, and cemetery sites in the Tsaghkahovit Plain. See the ArAGATS web site for more details.

Teaching In Brief

During spring quarter 2009, I am teaching two graduate-level seminars: Archaeological Approaches to Political Life and Remaking Eurasia: Emerging Themes in Regional Archaeology.

My office hours are: Mondays 8:30-11am.

Treasurer
The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC)

Curriculum Vitae
(Updated December 2008)

Books and Recent Publications

Postings & Presentations

Recent & Upcoming Events

The Political Landscape

Archaeology in the Borderlands

Beyond the Steppe and the Sown

Prometheus Unbound: Southern Caucasia In Prehistory

Archaeology in the Caucasus: A Graphic Introduction

New Technologies and Archaic Transcaucasian States

The University of Chicago Conferences on Eurasian Archaeology

New ArAGATS Publications

Announcements

Updated information on the recently completed 2008 Project ArAGATS field season is now online here.

The first volume of the ArAGATS reports should be available from the Oriental Institute Press in June.

The complete searchable database of the ArAGATS regional survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain is now available.

Publications In Brief

publication projects currently in progress.

The ArAGATS survey monograph is now in press with the Oriental Institute Press. It should be available in June 2009.
Social Orders and Social Landscapes: The Proceedings of the 2nd University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology has been published by Cambridge Scholars Press.
An extensive report on the 2003-2006 field seasons of Project ArAGATS is in press with the journal Archaologische Mitteillungen aus Iran und Turan.

Postings In Brief

The presentations here are scheduled to be updated in 2009 when they will be taken out of powerpoint format (which creates problems for browsers other than explorer) and re-organized as a series of slide shows. Several other new presentations will also be posted at that time as well.