Marie-Henriette Gates

Email: mgates bilkent.edu.tr
Contact Number: +90 312 290 1725
Office: 155


Marie-Henriette Gates, Department Chair from 2000-2006, received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology from Yale University in 1976. She came in 1990 from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to Bilkent, where she teaches courses on the archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Egypt and Anatolia, and archaeological method and theory. She has participated in field projects in Turkey, Iran and Syria, and since 1992 has directed the Kinet Höyük excavations. Her publications focus on Near Eastern Archaeology. She also wrote several issues of the American Journal of Archaeology's annual newsletter "Archaeology in Turkey", a chronicle of current excavations and surveys.


Publications

2001. "Potmarks at Kinet Höyük and the Hittite Ceramic Industry." Varia Anatolica 13, 137-157.

2001. "1999 Excavations at Kinet Höyük Hatay: Yesil-Dörtyol." Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 22:1, 203-222.

"Kinet Höyük 2000 Hatay: Yesil-Dörtyol." Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 23:2 (2002) 55-62.

"2001 Season at Kinet Höyük Hatay: Yesil-Dörtyol." Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 24:1, 283- 98.

2000. "1998 Excavations at Kinet Höyük Hatay: Yesil-Dörtyol." Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 21:1, 193-208.

2000. "Kinet Höyük Hatay, Turkey and MB Levantine Chronology." Akkadica 119-120, 77-101.

1999. "1997 Archaeological Excavations at Kinet Höyük Hatay: Yesil-Dörtyol." Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 20:1, 259-281.

1999. "Kinet Höyük in Eastern Cilicia: A Case Study for Acculturation in Ancient Harbors." Olba II.2, 303-312.

1997. "Archaeology in Turkey." American Journal of Archaeology 101, 241-305.

1996. "Archaeology in Turkey." American Journal of Archaeology 100, 277-335.

1995. "Archaeology in Turkey." American Journal of Archaeology 99, 207-255.

1994. "1992 Excavations at Kinet Höyük Hatay: Dörtyol." Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 15, 193-200.

1994. "Archaeology in Turkey." American Journal of Archaeology 98, 249-278.

1993. with Y. Özgen."Report on the Bilkent University Archaeological Survey in Cilicia and the Northern Hatay (1991)"  Arastirma Sonuçlari Toplantisi 10, 387- 394.

1993. with S. Ozaner and Y. Özgen."Dating the Coastal Dunes of Karabasamak District, Iskenderun Bay by Geomorphological and Archaeological Methods"  Arkeometri Sonuçlar, Toplantisi 8  357-368.

1993. Mesopotamian Archaeology Slide Set. 140 slides, 53 pp. caption book. Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society.

1992. "Nomadic Pastoralists and the Chalcolithic Hoard from Nahal Mishmar." Levant 24, 131-139.

1992. "Mycenaean Art for a Levantine Market? The Ivory Lid from Minet el Beidha/Ugarit." Aegaeum 8, 77-84.

1989. "Artisans and Art in Old Babylonian Mari." Pp. 29-37 in Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East, ed. by A.C. Gunter. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

1988. "Dialogues between Ancient Near Eastern Texts and the Archaeological Record: Test Cases from Bronze Age Syria." BASOR 270, 63-91.

1987. "Alalakh and Chronology Again." Pp. 60-86 in High, Middle or Low?, Part 2, ed. by P. Âström. Göteborg: Paul Âströms Forlag.

1986. "Casting Tiamat into Another Sphere." Levant 18, 75-81.

1986. "The Mitanni." BiblArch 49, 49.

1986. "From Ebla to Damascus: The Archaeology of Ancient Syria." Biblical Archaeology Review 12:3 62-67.

1984. "Zimri-Lim's Palace at Mari." BiblArch 47, 70-87.

1984. "Dura-Europos: A Fortress of Syro-Mesopotamian Art." BiblArch 47, 166-181.

1981. "Alalakh Levels VI and V: A Chronological Reassessment." Syro- Mesopotamian Studies 4/2 11-50.

1981. In J.M. Sasson, "Idrimi and Šarruwa, the Scribe." Pp. 318-320 in Nuzi and the Hurrians: In Honor of Ernest R. Lacheman, ed. by M.A. Morrison and D.I. Owen. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns.

1976. Alalakh-Tell Atchana, Levels VI and V: A Re-examination of a Mid-Second Millennium B.C. Syrian City. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International.

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