Senior Research Associate and Lecturer
Anthropology Building, Room 132, 19 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2S2
416-978-5865
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Ancient Near East
- Near Eastern Archaeology
Areas of Interest
- Development of Complex Societies and Urbanization
- Near Eastern Archaeology: Bronze and Iron Age Periods
- Ceramic Analysis and Ceramic Petrograph
- GIS, 3D Modeling and Computer Applications in Archaeology
- Geomorphology and Landscape Archaeology
Biography
Stephen Batiuk is Co-director of the Gadachrili Gora Regional Archaeological Project Expeditions (Republic of Georgia), Director of Excavations for the Tayinat Archaeological Project (Turkey) and co-directed the Excavations at Mezber (Ethiopia). He is also the Project Manager for the Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project.
Education
PhD, University of Toronto
Publications
- Tell Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP): Seasons 2017–2019 (The Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies Journal : 2022)
- Beyond megadrought and collapse in the Northern Levant: the chronology of Tell Tayinat and two historical inflection episodes, around 4.2ka BP, and following 3.2ka BP (Public Library of Science, San Francisco : 2020)
- Beyond megadrought and collapse in the Northern Levant: the chronology of Tell Tayinat and two historical inflection episodes, around 4.2ka BP and following 3.2ka BP (PLoS ONE 15(10): e0240799 : 2020)
- Urban Built Environments in Early 1st Millennium B.C.E. Syro-Anatolia: Results of the Tayinat Archaeological Project, 2004-2016 (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago : 2019)
- Shifting Networks and Community Identity at Tell Tayinat in the Iron I (ca. 12th-mid 10th Cent. B.C.E.) (Archaeological Institute of America : 2019)
- Urban Built Environments of the Early First Millennium BCE: Results of the Tayinat Archaeological Project, 2004-2012 (The University of Chicago Press : 2019)
- Shifting Networks and Community Identity at Tell Tayinat in the Iron I (ca. 12th to mid-10th Cent. BCE) ( : 2019)
- Ancient Viticultural Landscapes: The Case for the Early Transcaucasian Culture (Peeters Publishers, Leuven : 2017)
- The Metals Trade and Early Bronze Age Craft Production at Tell Tayinat (Brill, Leiden : 2016)
- A Stele of Sargon II at Tell Tayinat (De Gryuter, Berlin : 2015)
- The Fruits of Migration: Understanding the ‘Long Dureé’ and the Socio-economic Relations of the Early Transcaucasian Culture (Elsevier Publishing : 2013)
- Tayinat in the Late Third Millennium: Recent Investigations of the Tayinat Archaeological Project, 2008-2010 (Peeters Online Journals : 2011)
- Ancient Landscapes of the Amuq: Geoarchaeological Surveys of the Amuq Valley: 1999-2006 (The Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies, Toronto, Ontario : 2007)
- The Tell Atchana Mapping and GIS Project (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago : 2005)
- The Ta‘yinat Survey, 1999-2002 (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago : 2005)