Nada Elias

Nada Elias

SpécialitéArchaeology (Biological Anthropology)
GradeProfesseur Assistant
SectionSection 5
Emailnada.elias@ul.edu.lb

Résumé de carrière

ACADEMIC/ TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
- Since October 2016: Lecturer at the Lebanese University, Departments of Arts and Archaeology Branch V (Sidon) and Deanery (Dekouané).
- Since 2019: Member of Master thesis project acceptance in the faculty of letters and human sciences for the Department of Arts and archaeology, Lebanese University.
- Since 2019: Founder of the Laboratory of Anthropology and Ethnoarchaeology in the Levant (AEL), funded Center of Research in human sciences (CRESH) and the Department of Arts and Archaeology, Section V, Lebanese University.
- Since 2019: Member of UNESCO Club and Lebanese University, Faculty of letters and human sciences, Section V, Saida.
- Since 2016: Collaborateur bénévole, Laboratoire Pacea : De la préhistoire à l’actuel : Culture, Environement et Anthropologie (Bordeaux)
- Since 2012: Membre, Société d’Anthropologie de Paris.

FIELD WORK:
- Feb. 2020 Excavation of an Iron Age infant burial in the ground below Saydet el Bir church in Sin el Fill (SEB 2020).
- Sep. 2019 Biological study of 5 burials in Bachoura suburbium funerary site – Beirut (BCH 284).
-Aug. – Sep. 2019: Anthropological excavation season in Qehmez, Jabal Moussa biosphere.
- July 2019: Biological study of 26 burials in Mazraha suburbium space – Beirut (MZR 571).
- May 2019: Biological study of human remains buried in 3 churches: Mar Tedros (Eddeh), Mar Nkoula (Behdaydat) and Mar Youhanna (Hardine).
- Feb.- apr. 2019 Anthropological excavation in the suburbium funerary site of Mazraha – Beirut (MZR 1154).
- Aug. 2018: Second anthropological excavation season in Qehmez, Jabal Moussa.
- Apr.- June 2018: Anthropological excavation and investigations at Saint Marina in Qannoubine Valley, North of Lebanon – Directed by Nada Elias – Lebanese University, supervised by the DGA. Anthropological excavations and study of the Maronite Patriarch’s tomb for Etienne Douaihy Canonisation Project, DOUE XXX.
- Dec. 2017: Anthropological excavations in Sidon Dekerman 55 (Lebanon).
- August 2017: First anthropological excavation season in Qehmez, Jabal Moussa.
- August 2017: Anthropological excavations in Sidon, College Site (Lebanon).
- May-July 2017: Archaeological and anthropological excavations in Çatalhöyük (Turkey) – Directed by Ian Hodder, Stanford University (California).
- March 2017: Anthropological excavations in Tyre (Al Bass).
- May-July 2016: Archaeological and anthropological excavations in Çatalhöyük (Turkey)- Directed by Ian Hodder, Stanford University (California).
- July 2014: Anthropological excavations at Saint-Martin-de Bruch (France).
- Oct.-Nov. 2013: Anthropological excavations in Beaufort fortress in Arnoune.
- August 2012: Anthropological excavations in Deir el Salib monastery in Qadisha valley.
- Apr – Jun 2009: Urban rescue excavations at Saifi, Beirut (SFI 071) .
- Dec. 2007: Urban rescue excavations at Ashrafiey, Beirut (ASH 004).
- October 2007: Urban rescue excavations at Saifi , Beirut (SFI 001).
- Sept – Nov. 2007: Urban rescue excavations at Jemmayzé, Beirut (JEM002).
- Jul – Sep. 2007 Urban rescue excavations at Rmeil, Beirut (RML 001) .
- Sep. 2006: Urban rescue excavations at Ashrafiey, Beirut (ASH 001).
- Jun – Jul 2006: Urban rescue excavations at Jemmayzé, Beirut (JEM002).
- October 2005: Rescue Excavations at the site of Jemmayzé, Beirut (JEM 002).
- Aug.-Sep. 2005: - Archaeological excavations at Chhim – University of Warsaw (Poland).

COMMUNICATIONS:
• 2018: Rites, Funerary Practices and Mobility in the Colonia Julia Augusta Felix Berytus and in Botrys Suburban Funerary Spaces Organisateurs: Necropoleis Research Network 3rd Annual Meeting: April 12-14, 2018, Center For Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut (Lebanon).
• 2017: Rites et pratiques funéraires à Beyrouth et à Batroun du Ier s. av.J.-C. au IVe s. apr. J.-C. Organisateurs : Départements d’Arts et d’Archéologie, section 2, 17 avril 2017, Salle de conférence du Rectorat, Place du Musée, Beyrouth (Liban).
• 2016 : Biological identities, funerary practices and religious belief system in the roman Berytus and Botrys in Çatalhöyük dig house, May 11 2016, Çatalhöyük (Turkey).
• 2015: Dépôts simultanés de restes humains et de parties de bovins à l’époque hellénistique (Tyr, Liban) : Rituel funéraire ? Rejet ? XXXVIème Rencontres Internationales d’Archéologie et d’Histoire d’Antibes : Qu’est-ce qu’une sépulture ? Humanités et systèmes funéraires de la préhistoire à nos jours, Organisateurs Michel Lauwers et Aurélie Zemour, 13-15 oct. 2015, Antibes (France).
• 2014 : Funerary practices and biological identities in Berytus: the case of Saifi 237 funerary site (Lebanon) in Société d’Anthropologie de Paris (1839èmes journées), 28-30 January 2014 à La Maison des Étudiants “Aimé Schoenig”, Université Montpellier 1, espace Richter (Montpelier. France).
• 2014 : Burial or not? The case of men/cattle deposit in the Hellenistic necropolis of Jal al Bahr in Tyre in 9ICAANE (9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East), Jun 9, 2014, Basel (Suisse).

SELECTED PUBLICATION:
• FISCHER-GENZ B., GENZ H., ELIAS N., DOUMET-SERHAL C., 2018. Report on the 2017 archaeological soundings at Qornet ed-Deir, Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve. Bulletins d’archéologie et d’architecture libanaises, Baal, vol 18 : 245-261.
• ELIAS N., HOURANI Y., ARBOGAST R.-M., SACHAU-CARCEL G., BADAWI A., CASTEX D., 2017. The case of human and cattle remains in a simultaneous deposit in the Hellenistic necropolis of Jal al Bahr in Tyre: initial investigations. Bulletins et mémoire de la société d’anthropologie de Paris, BMSAP, vol 29 : 19-32.
• ELIAS N., HOURANI Y., ARBOGAST R.-M., SACHAU-CARCEL G., BADAWI A., CASTEX D., 2016. Archaeological and biological investigations of a simultaneous deposit of human and cattle remains in Jal al Bahr Hellenistic necropolis (Tyre), an attempt at interpretation. Bulletins d’archéologie et d’architecture libanaises, Baal, vol 16 : 347-370.

Axes de recherche

Biological Anthropology, Funerary Archaeology, Roman Empire, Rites and Funerary Practices, Human relation with death in the Neolithic Period, Religious Beliefs in the afterlife, Excavation methods,