| Office: | C-13 B Cooper Hall |
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| Office Phone: | (585) 395-5706 |
| E-mail: | jramsay@brockport.edu |
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Curriculum vitae:
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Ramsay CV |
Archaeobotany, subsistence reconstruction, trade patterns, environmental change and land-use patterns.
I have worked on several multi-disciplinary projects, for example in Israel I worked with the Combined Caesarea Expeditions, the Excavations at Khirbet Qana and the site of Shivta; in Italy I have worked on material from the excavations at Horace’s Villa, the Kaucana project and the Nordic Excavations at Nemi, Julius Caesar’s Villa.
I am currently applying a center/periphery theoretical model to the analysis of botanical remains analyzed from several sites in Jordan such as Petra, Humeima, Bir Madhkur, Ayn Gharandal and Roman Aqaba. Specifically I am interested in questions related to agricultural land-use practices in arid environments. This research will also provide information on ancient water conservation in a desert environment that could then be shared with current governmental agencies in the hopes of once again making sustainable agricultural possible in the region.
For the last six summers (2008-2013) I have been working with students as the archaeological fieldschool director or assistant site director on sites in Jordan, such as Petra, Bir Madhkur and 'Ayn Gharandal. In the summer of 2008 I was the assistant director and field school director for the Bir Madhkur Excavation and Survey project in Jordan sponsored by George Washington University. In 2009,2011 & 2013 I was the fieldschool director for the Petra Garden and Pool Complex in association with the Behrend College, Penn State Erie, in 2010 I was the fieldschool director for an ethnographic and archaeological fieldschool at several sites in Jordan and excavations at ‘Ayn Gharandal and in 2012 I was the assistant director of the Petra North Ridge Project.
Ramsay, J.H. and A.M. Smith II. (accepted). Desert Agriculture at Bir Madhkur: The First Archaeobotanical Evidence to Support the Timing and Scale of Agriculture in the Hinterland of Petra. The Journal of Arid Environments.
Ramsay, J.H. and R.J.A. Wilson. (in press) Funerary Dining in Early Byzantine Sicily: Archaeobotanical Evidence from Kaukana. Mediterranean Archaeology
Ramsay, J. H and N. Mueller. (in press) Telling Seeds: Archaeobotanical Investigations at Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
Ramsay, J. H. (in press) An Analysis of the Archaeobotanical Remains from Humayma, Jordan. J. P. Oleson (ed.) Humayma report vol. II. Expected 2013.
Ramsay, J. H. 2010. Trade or Trash: An Examination of the Archaeobotanical Remains from the Harbour at Caesarea Maritima, Israel. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 39.2: 376–382.
Ramsay, J.H and Y. Tepper. 2010. Signs from a Green Desert: An Analysis of Archaeobotanical Remains from Tower no. VI Near Shivta, Israel. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 19:235–242.
Ramsay, J. H. 2008. Archaeobotanical remains from Caesarea: the 1997 and 1998 seasons. In K. Holum, J. Stabler and E. Reinhardt (eds.), Caesarea Reports and Studies: Excavations 1995-2007 (201- 208). British Archaeological Reports, International Series.
Ramsay, J. H. 2007. The Archaeobotanical Remains from the Garden. In B. Frischer, J. Crawford and M. De Simone (eds.), The Horace's Villa Project, 1997-2003 Volume I: The Reports (pp. 303-306) Archaeopress, Oxford, England.
Ramsay, J. H. 2007. Leigh-Ann Bedal, Kathryn L. Gleason and James G. Schryver (with archaeobotanical report by Jennifer Ramsay and coinage report by Julian Bowsher). "The Petra Garden and Pool Complex, 2003-2005" Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 51: 151-176.
Check out the Crossing Borders film series, on Sept. 18 at 7 pm in Edwards, Rm. 100
Dr. Esara will be in attendance for discussion after the film.
Anthropology Club is starting up! If you want to get involved meeting are Mondays at 5 pm in Cooper Hall C-3. Lots of exciting activities planned for the club this year!
