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Jordan, Moab, excavation, cult, pottery, artefacts
Canada

Biography

Dr. P. M. Michèle Daviau (b. 1943) is Professor Emerita of Near Eastern Archaeology at Wilfrid Laurier University and Director of the Wadi ath-Thamad Project in Jordan. She studied Classics (B.A., 1965) at Albertus Magnus College (New Haven, CT), theology (M.A. 1973) at Marquette University, Biblical Studies and Archaeology (M.A. 1976) at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School and Near Eastern Archaeology (Ph.D., 1990) at the University of Toronto. She taught Theology and Religious Studies at LeMoyne College (Syracuse, NY) and Nazareth College (Rochester, NY). She excavated at the Morganville (NY) pottery workshop, Tel el-Hesi in Israel, Tall al-‘Umayri in Jordan and directed the excavation of Tall Jawa, an Ammonite town site. Since 1996, the Wadi ath Thamad Project in Moab has excavated shrine site WT-13, town site Khirbat al-Mudayna, the castellum of az-Zuna and the Neolithic site of Umm Mesratt. She has published five volumes on the excavations at Tall Jawa, a final report on WT-13, and is currently preparing the Knirbat al-Mudayna final report.

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Employment (1)

Wilfrid Laurier University: Waterloo, Ontario, CA

1988-01 to 2012-07-01 | Professor (Archaeology and Heritage Studies)
Employment
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P. M. Michèle Daviau