SCHEP

Community-Based Archaeology: Challenges and Opportunities

An ACOR Public Lecture Nizar Al Adarbeh, SCHEP Chief of Party & Jehad Haron, CHR Projects Lead Wednesday 15 March 2017 at 6:00 p.m. Reception to Follow ____________________________________________ About the Lecture: An evening with ACOR’s USAID Sustainable Cultural Heritage Through Engagement of Local Communities Project, to discuss progress made in two years and what to […]

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ACOR Internship Program Helps Build Future Professionals

During the 2016 fall semester, ACOR welcomed six American undergraduate interns.  They have contributed in various ways to our mission and to our community here in Amman—from increasing ACOR’s social media presence to assisting research fellows and supporting the USAID SCHEP project.  Each intern is a study abroad student with either the Council on International

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Between Past and Present at Bir Madhkur

Archaeologist and recent ACOR-CAORC Fellow Andrew M. Smith II writes below about his ongoing research at the important Nabataean-Roman site of Bir Madhkur in Jordan’s Wadi Araba and how USAID SCHEP has been supporting efforts to increase awareness of the site’s important remains. During my recent  fellowship at ACOR, I was pursuing two interrelated and

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The Voice of Experience — Jordanian Archaeologist Jehad Haron Joins USAID SCHEP

Jehad Haron is no stranger to breaking new ground in Jordan’s archaeology. As a longtime member of the Department of Antiquities (DOA), he worked on 22 international projects, including 12 salvage excavations at threatened sites in Jordan and abroad, and served a three-year term as the DOA’s Director of Excavations and Survey. As Chief of

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USAID SCHEP Brings New Voices to Jordan’s ICHAJ

It was nearly a week after the end of the 13th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan (ICHAJ), and the students who attended were still buzzing. Four Jordanian university students, selected to attend the conference through the USAID Sustainable Cultural Heritage Through Engagement of Local Communities Project (SCHEP), gathered at ACOR to

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What Lies Beneath—New Insights into Petra’s Temple of the Winged Lions

View of the Temple of the Winged Lions site within Petra. Since its inception, a major goal of the TWLCRM Initiative has been the stabilization of the temple complex's southwest quadrant, particularly the large exposed rubble section (visible behind the arches near the bottom of the photo) that is in danger of collapse. Photo by

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Sugar, Safi, and SCHEP—An ACOR Video Lecture by Archaeologist Konstantinos Politis

The ACOR Video Lecture Series provides stimulating and accessible discussions of new research into Jordan’s past and present, as presented by leading scholars and researchers working in Jordan and neighboring countries. This second video in the series, adapted from the February 2016 ACOR public lecture of archaeologist Konstantinos Politis, reveals the remarkable origins of industrial

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Jordan’s Cultural Caretakers — SCHEP Launches “Site Steward” Program

The participants and organizers of the first SCHEP site steward workshop. Back row, left to right: Ragheb Fityan (SCHEP M&E Specialist), Mohammad al-Saideen (Bi’r Mathkour), Bilal al-Deghemat (Ghor al-Safi), Erin Addison (SCHEP CHR Projects Lead), Abdelrahman al-Nasarat (CHR Projects Lead Assistant), Huda Kilani (SCHEP Capacity Building Lead), Muaffaq al-Masaeed (Umm al-Jimal), Safa’ al-Rfooh (Busayra), Glenn

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Introducing SCHEP: Sustainable Cultural Heritage through Engagement of Local Communities Project

A major goal of SCHEP is to support the development of trained local teams capable of implementing necessary interventions at archaeological sites around Jordan, such as this conservation unit shown working on ACOR’s Temple of the Winged Lions project in Petra. Photo by Ghaith al-Faqeer. In November 2014, ACOR signed on to implement a USAID-funded

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