Strata: Prominent Archaeologists Launch New Academic Journal

The title Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (JEMAHS) may not exactly roll off the tongue, but the new quarterly publication from Penn State Press has a big mission to fulfill and two very qualified scholars at the helm.

JEMAHS is under the joint leadership of editors Ann E. Killebrew and Sandra A. Scham. Killebrew, associate professor of archaeology at Penn State, is currently codirector of the Tel Akko Total Archaeology project and field school and director of the Bay of Iskenderun (Turkey) landscape archaeology survey. She is past editor of Near Eastern Archaeology (NEA), published by the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR). Scham is an anthropological archaeologist who teaches at Catholic University and is a researcher at the University of Maryland. She is also past editor of NEA and has worked at several sites in Israel, Jordan and Turkey.