Russell Adams
Visiting Assistant Professor
3536 Faner Hall
Department of Anthropology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale IL 62901-4502
Phone (618) 453-5023; Fax (618) 453-5037
Email rbadams@siu.edu

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My primary research interests are in the evolution and adaptation of complex societies in the Old World. In particular I am interested in how emerging complex societies innovate, develop and use technology, and how these technologies impact upon society in terms of both social and environmental outcomes. My research in Jordan has focused upon populations in transition from village level to more a complex ‘urban’ forms of living, and the way that the intensification of copper metal production impacted upon this transformation. In conducting this research I use a variety of archaeometric techniques to examine both artifacts and the environment evidence

IN PREP. T.E. Levy, R.B. Adams, J.D. Anderson and M. Najjar. Kings Metals and Social Change : Excavations at Khirbat en-Nahas (Jordan) - An Iron Age Metal Production Center in Ancient Edom. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology.

IN PRESS R.B. Adams (ed.) Jordan: An Archaeological Reader. Equinox Books, London.

2006 R.B. Adams. "Copper trading networks across the Wadi Arabah during the Later Early Bronze Age." In P. Bienkowski and K Galor (eds.) Crossing the Rift: Resources, Routes, Settlement Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah, 137-144. London: Council for British Research in the Levant.

2004 T.E. Levy, R.B. Adams, M. Najjar, A. Hauptmann, J.D. Anderson, B. Brandl, M.A. Robinson and T. Higham. "Reassessing the Chronology of Biblical Edom: New Excavations and 14C Dates from Khirbat en Nahas (Jordan)". Antiquity 78: 863-876.

2002 T.E. Levy, R.B. Adams, A. Hauptmann, M. Prange, S. Schmitt-Strecker and M. Najjar. "Early Bronze Age Metallurgy: A Newly Discovered Copper Manufactory in Southern Jordan". Antiquity 76: 425-437.

2002 R.B. Adams. "From Farms to Factories: The development of copper production at Faynan, southern Jordan, during the Early Bronze Age". In B.S. Ottaway and E.C. Wagner (eds.), Metals and Society, 21-32. British Archaeological Reports, International Series. Oxford: Archaeopress

2001 B. MacDonald, R.B. Adams and P. Bienkowski (eds.) The Archaeology of Jordan. Sheffield Academic Press.