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Jason Herrmann

Jason T. Herrmann
Doctoral Candidate
Environmental Dynamics Program
113 Ozark Hall
University of Arkansas - Fayetteville
Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
Personal Website

Jason Herrmann is an archaeologist that is interested in the relationships between ancient humans and their environments as well as a specialist in archaeological applications of remote sensing. Over the years, Jason has contributed to multi-year projects in the United States, Belize and Bolivia, and is currently engaged in ongoing archaeological projects in Turkey, Egypt the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

Jason is presently a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Dynamics Program at the University of Arkansas, a joint degree in the departments of Anthropology and Geosciences, where he is completing his dissertation: "Ancient Human Ecodynamics at Three Archaeological Sites in the Rub'al-Khali Desert, Dubai, UAE." His research is designed to understand the interactions between prehistoric and early historic populations and their environments in the deserts of what is now the United Arab Emirates. To do this, Jason is integrating data from both traditional archaeological methods and from remote sensing sources, such as multispectral satellite images and from ground-penetrating radar surveys to understand changes in the settlement patterns of ancient peoples and the environments that they encountered.

Jason is the primary instructor for two active field programs in archaeological geomatics:


Click here for a full Curriculum Vitae at my personal website

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Herrmann, Jason T., Jesse Casana and Hussein Suleiman Qandil. In Press. A Sequence of Inland Desert Settlement in the Oman Peninsula: 2008-2009 Excavations at Saruq al-Hadid, Dubai, U.A.E.. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy.

Qandil, Hussein Suleiman, Jesse Casana, Jason T. Herrmann and Hassan Zein. In Press. Chronology and Stratigraphy at Saruq al-Hadid. In Proceedings of the Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates Conference. Edited by Beech, M and W. al-Tikiriti Historic Environment Department, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, Al Ain, UAE.

Casana, Jesse and Jason T. Herrmann. 2010. Settlement History and Urban Planning at Zincirli Höyük, Southern Turkey.  Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. 23.1 p. 55-80

Casana, Jesse, Jason T. Herrmann and Hussein Qandil. 2009. Settlement History in the Eastern Rub al-Khali: Preliminary Report of the Dubai Desert Survey (2006-2007). Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy. 20: 30–45

Casana, Jesse, Jason T. Herrmann and Aaron Fogel. 2008. Deep subsurface geophysical prospection at Tell Qarqur, Syria. Archaeological Prospection 15, 207–225.

In Preparation:

Herrmann, Jason T. In Prep. Results of the Topographical and Geophysical Surveys. In Samal I: Excavations at Zincirli Höyük, 2006 to 2011. David Schloen and Amir Sumaka’I Fink, editors. Oriental Institute Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Herrmann, Jason T.  In Prep. Mapping the Internal Structure of an Archaeological site in Aeolian Sediments with Ground-Penetrating Radar. Archaeological Prospection.

Herrmann, Jason T. Jason L. King and Jane E. Buikstra. In Prep. Mapping the Internal Structure of Hopewell Mounds with Electrical Resistance Tomography. Journal of Field Archaeology.

 

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Herrmann, Jason T. Duncan P. McKinnon, Jason L. King and Jane E. Buikstra. 2011. Summary of Three Seasons of Remote Sensing at Mound House (11GE7), Greene County, Illinois. Poster Presented at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Herrmann, Jason T, Robert Carter, Katie M. Simon and Christine Markussen. 2011. Poster: Geomagnetic Survey at Julfar al-Mataf, 2010. Poster at the Seminar for Arabian Studies, British Museum, London.

Herrmann, Jason T. and Jason L. King. 2010. A Resistance Survey of Mound 1 at Mound House, Illinois.  Paper presented at the Midwest Archaeology Conference, Bloomington, Indiana.

Herrmann, Jason T. 2010. Evidence for Desert Occupation and Environmental Change at Three Sites in Dubai, UAE.  Paper presented at 7ICAANE meetings, British Museum, London.

Herrmann, Jason T. 2009. Site Formation at Saruq al-Hadid, Dubai and Implications for Environmental Change in Southeast Arabia. Paper presented at the American Schools for Oriental Research Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Herrmann, Jason T. Digital Dunes: Site Structure as seen in GPR from Saruq al-Hadid, UAE. 2009. Paper presented at the 37th annual international conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Williamsburg, Virginia.

Herrmann, Jason T. and Jesse Casana. 2009. Geomagnetic Survey at Zincirli Höyük, Turkey.  Poster presented at the 37th annual international conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Williamsburg, Virginia.

GRANTS and AWARDS
2008 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant #0820211
2008 King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Student Research Grant to support archaeological fieldwork in at Zincirli Höyük, Turkey.
2008 Chicago Luminescence Award to support OSL dating of sediments for dissertation research
2004-2008 University of Arkansas Doctoral Academy Fellowship

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2011 Instructor, UCLA Field Program at Amarna in Archaeological Geophysics, Amarna, Egypt
2010-Present Instructor, Center for American Archaeology Field School, Arizona State University, Kampsville, Illinois2009 Instructor, Introduction to Raster GIS, University of Arkansas
2008-2009 Instructor, Approaches to Archaeology Lab, University of Arkansas
2007 Workshop: Introduction to high-density scanning for archaeologists. Workshop at the 2007 Society for American Archaeology Meetings. Austin Texas. With Christopher Goodmaster, W. Fredrick Limp, Director.

SELECT FIELD PROJECTS2011-Present Director, Tell el-Amarna Geophysical Survey, Egypt
2007-Present Spatial Data Coordinator/Archaeo-Geophysics Specialist, University of Chicago Neubauer Expedition to Zincirli Höyük, Turkey.
2010-Present Geomatics Instructor, Center for American Archaeology, Illinois.
2010 Archaeo-Geophysics Specialist, Julfar, Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.
2006-Present Archaeologist, Dubai Desert Survey, United Arab Emirates.
2006-2007 Archaeo-Geophysics Specialist, Tell Qarqur Expedition, Syria.
2005-2006 Archaeo-Geophysics Specialist, Tiwanaku Geophysical Survey, Bolivia.
2002-2005 Graduate Assistant, Battlefields Archaeological Survey, Pea Ridge National Military Park, Arkansas and Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, Missouri.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011-Present Research Project Professional - Photographer, Persepolis Fortification Archive Project, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
2010-2011 Research Project Professional, Neubauer Expedition to Zincirli Höyük, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
2007-2008 Research Assistant, MEST Supported Archaeological Activities, King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, University of Arkansas.
2006-2007 Research Assistant, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas.
2002-2004 Research Assistant, Battlefields Archaeological Survey and Predictive Modeling Project, University of Arkansas.