Co-author Network
Map of Science
Co-investigator Network
member of
- Society for American Archaeology 2024 - 2026
- American Schools of Oriental Research 1995 - 2026
- Archaeological Institute of America 2024 - 2025
Positions
- Associate Professor, Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
- Contact Info
Laura Mazow
Affiliation
Publications
selected publications
presentations
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presentation
- "Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk!" Re-examining At the Fullers UET 6/2, 414 as a Dialogue Between Weaver and Fuller, ASOR Annual Conference
- "Of what use to Antony then were his intrenchments, and all the vigilance of the besieging armywhile the messenger of the besieged was cleaving the air?" On the Use of Carrier Pigeons in Ancient Near East, ASOR
- "Who will reject a fine Web of Cloth...for a little course List at the end", Early Textiles Study Group Conference 2024
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Identifying Wool Scouring and Fulling Workshops in the Archaeological Record of the Bronze Age Mediterranean World
, Pupureae Vestes -
Of Musicians and Weavers: Multivalent Symbols in the Monkey Frieze from Xeste 3, Akrotiri.
, SAA Annual Meeting -
Decoding the Blue Heads: A Fresh Perspective on Akrotiri's Bronze Age Iconography
, ASOR Annual Meeting - Monkeys, Musicians, and Weavers: Multivalency in the Monkey Frieze from Xeste 3, AIA Annual Meeting
- Phoenicians at "America's Stonehenge"? How America discovered the Phoenicians. , ASOR Annual Meeting
- The Debate Between Weaver and Fuller: A Re-Examination of At the Fullers UET 6/2, 414, 69th Recontre Assyriologique Internationale
- Weaving Lyres, Dancing Spindles, and Dueling Monkeys on the Walls of A Weaving Workshop? , Uppsala Textile Studies Higher Seminar
- Monkeys, Musicians, and Weavers: Multivalency in the Monkey Frieze from Xeste 3, ASOR Annual Meeting
- Bathing for Kings or Gods?: A Closer Look at the "Bathroom" in the Back Room of Building 7050 at Hazor, ASOR Annual Meeting
- Adapting to Changing Resources: A Petrographic Analysis of Iron I Pottery from Tel Miqne-Ekron, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting
- Analysis of Organic Residues from Ancient Bathtubs as a Tool to Determine Function, Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research
- Combat or Weaving Sword? The Complexity of Gender Construction in the Archaeological Record, Gender to a Tea
- Control Methodology in Organic Residue Analysis Using FT-IR Spectroscopy (Poster), Society for American Archaeology
- Fullery, Tannery or Bathhouse? Indigenous knowledge versus Classical Perceptions at Beth Zur, Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting
- Identifying the Weaving Contest between Athena and Arachne on the Wall of a Weaving Workshop at Mycenae, CTR Anniversayr Confernece: Old Textiles - More Possibilities
- Investigating the introduction of Fulling Mills in the Medieval North Atlantic Islands, 2024 IONA (Islands of the North Atlantic) Conference
- Producing a Philistine: The Philistine Textile Industry and its Implications for Reconstructing Philistine Settlement, Symposium on Cyprus, the Sea Peoples and the Eastern Mediterranean
- Re-examining "At the Fullers" as a Dialogue Between Weaver and Fuller, Intra-Cross-Craft Analysis Workshop: Investigating the Linkages within Craft Industries
- Reading Against the Grain, Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East
- Reclaiming the Road not Taken: Indigenous knowledge versus Classical Perceptions at Beth Zur, ASOR
- Teaching with Humor in Ancient Ur: Re-examining At the Fullers UET 6/2, 414 as a Dialogue Between Weaver and Fuller, DRESSED: The Widespread Role of Clothes, Textile Production and Cloting Concepts in Society
- The Host and the Hosted: Commensal Politics and Cultural (Mis)understandings at Samson's Wedding, Annual Meeting, American Schools of Oriental Research
- The Weight of Water, IVth International Congress of Cypriot Studies
- This is the way we wash the wool, so early in the morning: Integrating texts and archaeology to investigate labour and material resource challenges in the organization of wool production, ASOR Annual Meeting
- Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater: Innovations in Mediterranean Textile Production at the End of the 2nd/Beginning of the 1st Millennium BCE, 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
- Travelling on the highway to the Fuller's Field: Integrating text and archaeology to reconstruct wool processing technologies, Southeastern Commition for the Study of Religion Regional Meeting (SECSOR)
- Weapon or Weaving Sword and the Complexities of Gender Construction, Society for American Archaeology
Research
principal investigator on
- Organic Residue Analysis of Bath-Shaped Vessels to Determine Vessel Function awarded by SPARC (REDE) 2025
- Recognizing choice and Technological Style in Bronze and Iron Age Textile Technologies, the Case of Fulling Wool awarded by Albright Institute of Archaeological Research Senior Fellow 2017
- "This is the way we wash the wool". A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Reconstructing Ancient Textile Technologies awarded by ECU, Faculty Reassignment Award, AA and REDE 2017
- On reconstructing textile technologies, technological style and the transfer of technological knowledge awarded by Albright Institute of Archaeological Research Senior Fellow 2016
- On reconstructing textile technologies, technological style and the transfer of technological knowledge awarded by Albright Institute of Archaeological Research Senior Fellow 2015
- Identifying Fulling in the Archaeological Record in the Bronze and Iron Ages awarded by GOV-National Endowment for the Humanities 2012
Service
professional service activities
- Chair: ASOR Membership and Outreach Committee 2025 - 2028
- Co-Chair: Friends of ASOR Development Working Group 2025 - 2028
- Israel Science Foundation Grant reviewer 2025
- ASOR Membership and Outreach Committee 2025
- AASOR publications Book proposal review 2024
- AIA Annual Meeting Session chair 2024
- Fulbright Specialist Program 2022
- book proposal review for Oxford University Press 2022
- Reviewer Reveiwer for 2 manuscripts with JEMAHS 2022
- ASOR Conference Session Chair:Archaeology of the Near East: The Classical Periods 2021
- ASOR Annual Meeting Co-chair (with Kevin McGeough, University of Lethbridge) workshop "From Volunteer to Career" - CANCELLED due to COVID 19 2019 - 2020
- American Schools of Oriental Research ASOR, Chair of the Honors and Awards Committee for international organization. 2012 - 2020
- Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting Conference Session Chair: Field work and survey in Egypt and the Ancient Near East, Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 2019
- Manuscript review for publication, Eisenbrausn, Penn State University Press 2018
- External Review for tenure External reviewer for Caroline Sauvage, Loyola Marymount University 2016 - 2017