Homepage--Adam T. Smith

Adam T. Smith

Ongoing Research

Teaching

Project ArAGATS
(General site)

ArAGATS Regional Survey Results

ArAGATS Databases

The Making of Ancient Eurasia

Caucasus Site Database
(under construction)

Course Information & Documents

Autumn 2009

Archaeological Method and Theory
(Anth 39001/02)

Material Cultures
(Anth 26801/46801)

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

We are now planning for the 2010 ArAGATS field season, including excavations in EB, LB, and Iron 3 areas of Gegharot and Tsaghkahovit.

Check out the new version of the ArAGATS excavation database .

Teaching In Brief

The syllabi for autumn quarter courses are now available at the links above.

My Autumn office hours are generally Mondays 8:30-11am, with occasional exceptions. Check the sign up sheets outside my office to be sure.

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

Curriculum Vitae
(Updated September 2009)

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

The first volume of the Project ArAGATS field reports is now available from the Oriental Institute Press. Click here for more information.

A sandbox version of the complete ArAGATS excavation database is now available and open to the public.

the ArAGATS regional survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain is also online.

Publications In Brief

publication projects currently in progress.

The ArAGATS survey monograph is now available for purchase and download..
Regimes and Revolutions: Power, violence, and Labor in Eurasia Between the Ancient and the Modern is now in review. The volume is a product of the 3rd Chicago conference on Eurasian Archaeology.
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.