In more than 30 years as an archaeologist, I've worked in Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Ireland, Cyprus, and the U.S. Southeast and Southwest.  In addition, I have considerable experience in systems analysis, data management and computer programming.

The GAIA Lab at ASU:

I established the Geo-Archaeological Information Apllications (GAIA) Lab at ASU's School of Human Evolution and Social Change in 2004 to facilitate the development of a national-scale cultural resource management GIS database for Iraq.  Press the "GAIA Lab Home" button on the left side of the page to go to the lab's home page, where you can access additional resources related to the larger Middle East.

The GAIA Lab is now working closely with Thomas Levy's UCSD Levantine Archaeology Laboratory, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at UCSD and the UCSD Supercomputing Center to develop the Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land.  This project will be based on the JADIS-Google Earth website developed by the GAIA Lab, and will unify disparate datasets for Jordan, Israel, the Sinai Peninsula and southern Lebanon.

Doc Savage's Old World Archaeology Page

This site is devoted primarily to resources for the southern Levant, including Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Territories.  You can download a lot of digital data, including:

• 1:50,000 scale topographic maps of the southern Levant;
• LandSat 28m resolution 5-band satellite imager of the southern Levant;
• NIMA-SPOT satellite imagery for the southern Levant;
• Digital Chart of the World data for the Middle East.

You can also download three programs I've written, including:

• The ReprojectME! Program, for reprojecting shapefiles and coordinates between about 30 map projections common to the Middle East;
• The RankSize Simulation Program, for analyzing archaeological site distributions and making rank-size plots;
• The JADIS Standalone Data Entry Program, for use with exported subsets of the Jordan Archaeological Data Information System or populating empty clones of the JADIS database.

There is also some information about my ongoing field project, the Moab Archaeological Resource Survey, including reports to the Jordan Department of Antiquities for recent field seasons.  

These are the highlights of the page, but you can also look at a lot of other stuff, such as my vita, abstracts of some published articles, information about some other archaeological projects I've been involved with, and data from the Predynastic Egyptian cemetery at Naga-ed-Der and the text of a successful National Science Foundation proposal to conduct an extensive radiocarbon dating program in the cemetery..  Press one of the buttons on the left, or one of the links above.  Enjoy! 

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Dr. Stephen H. Savage School of Human Evolution & Social Change Box 872402 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ  85287-2402 E Mail: shsavage@asu.edu Copyright (c) 2009 - Stephen H. Savage.   Page Created: 11/17/03.