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Graduate Student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Thesis Title: Grain Storage and the Moral Economy in Mesopotamia (3000-2000 BC)
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McGuire Gibson
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About
I am an archaeologist with fieldwork experience in Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Cyprus, Scotland, and North Carolina. Having completed an undergraduate degree in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh in 2001, I am currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. My current research focuses on agriculture and political economy in Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia. Since 2002, I have worked as a part of the MASS Project (Modeling Ancient Settlement Systems in a Dynamic Environment), an interdisciplinary effort to develop an agent-based computer simulation that captures the complexity of socio-political relationships and human-environment interactions in Bronze Age Mesopotamia. My dissertation – a case study for the MASS project – is built around a detailed examination of the archaeological and written evidence for grain storage in Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BC. The goal is to chart the development of centrally managed storage systems, while also investigating the ways in which these systems articulated with or came into conflict with the practices of households and local communities that were not necessarily fully subsumed within the institutional sphere. In addition to my dissertation research, I am currently serving as an excavation supervisor at the sites of Hamoukar (mid-late 3rd millennium levels) and Tell Zeidan (Ubaid-period levels) in Syria.
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