Rebecca M. Foote (Harvard University)


Submitted: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 10:14:38 -0500 (EST)
 
Rebecca M. Foote 
PhD candidate
Fine Arts Dept
Harvard University
485 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA 
                            
Phones:  (617) 625-7736
FAX:     (617) 495-1769
Eamil:   foote@fas.harvard.edu

DESCRIPTION OF YOUR WORK
 
Early Islamic, especially Umayyad-period, history;
particularly the commerce, trade, industry & economy understood through
material/ archaeological remains (archaeology) for commercial architecture
(markets, suq, aswaq) in the Levant / Bilad ash-Sham (Syria, Lebanon,
Jordan, Palestine, Israel)
 
Excavator of early eighth-century Abbasid qasr at Humeima/ Humayma.