{"id":20,"date":"2015-12-14T17:35:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T17:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:34:44","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Books<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/3hm5b9p0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McCorriston, J. and M.J. Harrower, editors (2020) <em>Landscape History of Hadramawt: The Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) Project 1998-2008<\/em>. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/CBO9781316471142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harrower, M. (2016)\u00a0<em>Water Histories and Spatial Archaeology: Ancient Yemen and the American West. <\/em>Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-1-4614-6074-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comer, D. and M. Harrower, editors (2013)<em>\u00a0Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space<\/em>. Springer: New York.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Select Journal Articles and Book Chapters<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jasrep.2026.105569\">Paulsen, P., C. Ferwerda, J.W. Lehner, M.J. Harrower, A. Zaribaf, P. Creamer, J. Casana (2026) Drone-based thermal imaging of subsurface architecture: methodological insights and discoveries at Iron Age Raki (Oman). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 69: 1055569.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.32028\/9781805831099\">Harrower, M.J. and A. Zaribaf (2025) The Archaeology of Water in Islamic Southern Arabia, in <em>The Archaeology of Irrigation Technology and Water Management in the Islamic World<\/em>, Pp. 24-36, R. MacLean, T. Insoll, S. Almahari (eds), Archaeopress, Oxford.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0323544\">McCorriston, J., L. Ball, M.J. Harrower, I.M. Hamilton, S.J. Ivory, M.J. Senn, T. Steimer-Herbet, A.F. Buffington, A.A. Al-Kathiri, A.M. Al-Mahri (2025) South Arabia\u2019s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change. <em>PLOS One<\/em> 20(5): e0323544.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5334\/oq.147\">Zaribaf, A., J.W. Lehner, A. Buffington, I.A. Dumitru, S. Nathan, P.E. Paulsen, A.J. Sivitskis, E. Dollarhide, <u>M.J. Harrower<\/u> (2025) Methodological Advances in Understanding Constraints on Sustainability and Industrial Periodicity of Ancient Copper Smelting in Southeast Arabia. <em>Open Quaternary<\/em> 11(8): 1-17. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archaeopresspublishing.com\/ojs\/index.php\/PSAS\/issue\/view\/98\">Paulsen, P., A. Zaribaf, J.W. Lehner, H. David-Cuny, I.A. Dumitru, S. Nathan, A.J. Sivitskis, J. Shannon, F. Wiig, B. Arsenault, M.J. Harrower (2024) Architecture, social relations, and trade at small towns and mountain villages in Iron Age Oman. <em>Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies<\/em> 53: 194-210<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archaeopresspublishing.com\/ojs\/index.php\/PSAS\">Zaribaf, A., J.W. Lehner, P. Paulsen, I.A. Dumitru, A.J. Sivitskis, B. Arsenault, B. Fisher, A. Buffington, E. Dollarhide, M.J. Harrower (2024) Sociopolitical factors in the rise of early Islamic large-scale copper production in Oman. <em>Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies<\/em> 53: 316-332<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/aae.12237\">Nathan, S. and M.J. Harrower (2023) Mapping Spatial Patterning of Bronze Age Towers in Oman According to Water Flow Accumulation. <em>Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 34: S51-S60.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-031-27330-8_59#DOI\">Lehner, J.W., I.A. Dumitru, A. Buffington, E. Dollarhide, S. Nathan, P. Paulsen, M.L. Young, A.J. Sivitskis, F. Wiig, and M.J. Harrower (2023) Iron Age Copper Metallurgy in Southeast Arabia: A Comparative Perspective, in <em>And in Length of Days Understanding\u201d (Job 12:12): Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy, Pp 1391-141<\/em>7, E. Ben-Yosef, I. W. N. Jones (eds.), Springer Nature: London.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/10.1086\/723773\">Grasso, V. and M.J. Harrower (2023) The Basilica of Bet\u00e4 S\u00e4ma\u02bfti\u2019 in its Aksumite, Early Christian, and Late Antique Context. <em>Journal of Near Eastern Studies 82(1): 59-76.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10814-021-09172-2\">Harrower, M.J., J.C. Mazzariello, A.C. D\u2019Andrea, S. Nathan, H.M. Taddesse, I.A. Dumitru, C.E. Priebe, K. Zerue, Y. Park, G. Gebreegziabher (2023) Aksumite Settlement Patterns: Site Size Hierarchies and Spatial Clustering. <em>Journal of Archaeological Research 31(1): 103-146.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/isac.uchicago.edu\/research\/publications\/ois\/ois-13-irrigation-early-states-new-directions\">Harrower, M.J. (2022) A New Interpretation of Irrigation and Ancient State Formation: Political Rhetoric, Social Logic, and Spatial Heterogeneity. in <em>Irrigation in Early States: New Directions<\/em>, Edited by Stephanie Rost, Pp. 309-322, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harrower, M.J., S. Nathan, I.A. Dumitru, J.W. Lehner, P. Paulsen, F. Wiig, A.J. Sivitskis, H. David-Cuny, J.L. Swerida, J.C. Mazzariello, R. Crassard, A. Buffington, S.P. Taylor, S. Al-Jabri (2021) From the Paleolithic to the Islamic Era in Wilayat Yanqul: The Archaeological Water Histories of Oman (ArWHO) Project Survey (2011-2018). Journal of Oman Studies 22: 1-21.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poj.peeters-leuven.be\/content.php?url=article&amp;id=3288194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bausi, A., M.J. Harrower, I.A. Dumitru (2020) The Ge\u2019ez Inscriptions from Beta Samati. <em>Bibliotheca Orientalis<\/em> 77(1-2): 34-56.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/42129547\/Spatial_Archaeology_Mapping_the_Ancient_Past_with_the_Humanities_and_the_Sciences?fbclid=IwAR10GKsBoWUAUkeGqqonczQ2ciAz_81rARKr4be5lADtUt_WmEOuLAnL6aQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Earley-Spadoni, T. and M.J. Harrower (2020) Spatial Archaeology: Mapping the Ancient Past with the Humanities and the Sciences. <em>International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities<\/em> 14(1-2): 134-153.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rdcu.be\/b1KL1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harrower, M.J., S. Nathan, J.C. Mazzariello, K. Zerue, I.A. Dumitru, Y. Meresa, J.L. Bongers, G. Gebreegziabher, B.F. Zaitchik, M.C. Anderson (2020) Water, Geography, and Aksumite Civilization: The Southern Red Sea Archaeological Histories (SRSAH) Project Survey (2009-2016). <em>African Archaeological Review<\/em> 37: 51-67.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.geoderma.2019.114152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moraetis, D., S.S. Al-Kindi, S. K. Al-Saadi, A.A.R.A. Al-Shaibani, K. Pavlopoulos, A. Scharf, F. Mattern, M.J. Harrower, B. Pracejus (2020) Terrace agriculture in a mountainous arid environment \u2013 a study of soil quality and regolith provenance: Jabal Akhdar (Oman). Geoderma 363(1): 114152.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/rs11243014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sivitskis, A.J., J.W. Lehner, M.J. Harrower, I.A. Dumitru, P.E. Paulsen, S. Nathan, D.R. Viete, S. Al-Jabri, B. Helwing, F. Wiig, D. Moraetis, and B. Pracejus (2019) Detecting and Mapping Slag Heaps at Ancient Copper Production Sites in Oman. <em>Remote Sensing <\/em>11(24).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15184\/aqy.2019.84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harrower, M.J., I.A. Dumitru, C. Perlingieri, S. Nathan, Kifle Zerue, J.L. Lamont, A. Bausi, J.L. Swerida, J.L. Bongers, H.S. Woldekiros, L.A. Poolman, C.M. Pohl, S.A. Brandt, E.A. Peterson (2019) Beta Samati: discovery and excavation of an Aksumite town (Ethiopia). <em>Antiquity 93(372): 1534-1552.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/rs11182152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comer, D.C., J.A. Comer, I.A. Dumitru, W.S. Ayres, M.J. Levin, K. Seikel, D.A. White, M.J. Harrower (2019) Airborne LiDAR Reveals a Vast Archaeological Landscape at the Nan Madol World Heritage Site. <em>Remote Sensing<\/em> 11(18).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/9789004362321_007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dumitru, I.A. and M.J. Harrower\u00a0(2018) Mapping Ancient Production and Trade of Copper from Oman and Obsidian from Ethiopia, in\u00a0<em>Stories of Globalization: The Red Sea and the Persian Gulf from Late Prehistory to Early Modernity,\u00a0<\/em>A. Manzo, C. Zazzaro, and D.J. De Falco (editors), pp. 74-94, Brill: Leiden.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/9781108573276.011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dumitru, I.A. and M.J. Harrower (2018) From Rural Collectibles to Global Commodities: Copper from Oman and Obsidian from Ethiopia, in Globalization in Prehistory: Contact, Exchange and the \u2018People Without History\u2019, pp. 232-262, N. Boivin and M. Frachetti (editors), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/geosciences8090334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wiig, F., M.J. Harrower, A.P. Braun, S. Nathan, J.W. Lehner, K.M. Simon, J.O. Sturm, J. Trinder, I.A. Dumitru, S. Hensely, and T. Clark (2018) Mapping a Subsurface Water Channel with X-band and C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar at the Iron Age Archaeological Site of &#8216;Uqdat al-Bakrah (Safah), Oman. <em>Geosciences 8(9): 334.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/arp.1719\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sivitskis, A.J., M.J. Harrower, I.A. Dumitru, H. David-Cuny, S. Nathan, D.R. Viete, F. Wiig, K.W. Lewis, A.K. Taylor, E.N. Dollarhide, B. Zaitchik, S. Al-Jabri, K.J.T. Livi, A. Braun (2018) Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery Detection of Ancient Raw Material Sources: Soft-stone Vessel Production at Aqir al-Shamoos (Oman). <em>Archaeological Prospection <\/em>25(4): 363-374.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-6516-water-and-power-in-past-societi.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harrower, M.J. (2018) Spatial Archaeology, Hydrology and the Historical Dynamics of Water in Ancient Southern Arabia (Yemen and Oman), in <em>Water and Power in Past Societies<\/em>, pp. 159-174, E. Holt (editor), University of Buffalo: Albany, NY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781315560144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harrower, M.J. and S. Nathan (2018) Ancient water management in Southern Arabia: Creativity, resilience, and sustainability in Yemen and Oman, in <em>Water and Society from Ancient Times to the Present: Resilience, Decline, and Revival<\/em>, pp. 201-218, Federica Sulas and Innocent Pikirayi (editors), Taylor &amp; Francis\/Routledge: Abingdon, UK.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/543188a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harrower, M.J. and I.A. Dumitru (2017) Archaeology: Digital maps illuminate ancient trade routes. <em>Nature<\/em> 543: 188-189.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harrower, M. (2016) Spacetime Mapping the Ancient Near East: Scalability and Seamlessness in Theory and Practice of Spatial Archaeology, In <em>Framing Archaeology in the Near East<\/em>, Pp. 7-20, I. Milevski and T.E. Levy (editors), Equinox: Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/aae.12076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harrower, M.J., H. David-Cuny, S. Nathan, I.A. Dumitru, S. Al-Jabri (2016) First discovery of ancient softstone (chlorite) vessel production in Arabia: Aqir al-Shamoos (Oman). <em>Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy<\/em> 27(2): 197-207<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harrower, M.J., I.A. Dumitru, S. Nathan, F. Wiig, H. David-Cuny, A.J. Sivitskis, A.F. Buffington, S. Al-Jabri (2016) The Archaeological Water Histories of Oman (ArWHO) Project: Recent Research in Al-Dhahirah Governorate of Oman. <em>Bulletin of the British Foundation for the Study of Arabia <\/em>21: 16-18.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jasrep.2015.05.008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Earley-Spadoni, T. (2015) Landscapes of Warfare: Intervisibility analysis of Early Iron and Urartian fire beacon stations (Armenia). <em>Journal or Archaeological Science: Reports<\/em> 3: 22-30.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sullivan, E. and M. Harrower (2015) The Future of Spatial Technologies in Egyptology. In <em>Joyful in Thebes: Egyptological Studies in Honor of Betsy M. Bryan<\/em>. Pp. 447-460, eds. R. Jasnow and K.M. Cooney, Lockwood Press: London.<\/p>\n<p>Harrower, M., M. Senn, and J. McCorriston (2014) Tombs, Triliths and Oases: Spatial Analysis of the Arabian Human Social Dynamics Project (AHSD), Archaeological Survey 2009-2010.\u00a0 <em>Journal of Oman Studies <\/em>18: 145-151.<\/p>\n<p>McCorriston, J., M. Harrower, Tara Steimer-Herbet, Kimberly Williams, Matthew Senn, Mas\u2019ud Al-Hadhari, Mas\u2019ud Al-Kathiri, \u2018Ali Ahmed Al-Kathiri, Jean-Francois Saliege, Jennifer Everhart (2014) Monuments and Landscape of Mobile Pastoralists in Dhofar: The Arabian Human Social Dynamics (AHSD) Project, 2009-2011. <em>Journal of Oman Studies <\/em>18: 117-143.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10437-014-9165-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harrower, M.J. and A.C. D\u2019Andrea (2014) Landscapes of State Formation: Geospatial Analysis of Aksumite Settlement Patterns (Ethiopia). <em>African Archaeological Review <\/em>31(3): 513-541.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00438243.2014.890909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harrower, M.J., K.M. O\u2019Meara, J.J. Basile, C.J. Hickman, J, J.L. Swerida, I.A. Dumitru, J.L. Bongers, C.J. Bailey, E. Fieldhouse (2014) If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words\u20263D Modeling a Bronze Age Tower in Oman.\u00a0 <em>World Archaeology <\/em>46(1): 43-62.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jaridenv.2011.11.020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harrower, M., E.A. Oches, J. McCorriston (2012) Hydro-Geospatial Analysis of Ancient Pastoral\/Agro-Pastoral Landscapes along Wadi Sana (Yemen).\u00a0 <em>Journal of Arid Environments <\/em>86: 131-138.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books McCorriston, J. and M.J. Harrower, editors (2020) Landscape History of Hadramawt: The Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) Project 1998-2008. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles. Harrower, M. (2016)\u00a0Water Histories and Spatial Archaeology: Ancient Yemen and the American West. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. Comer, D. and M. Harrower, editors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/solar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}