Kay Prag DPhil FSA has worked and published widely in the Near East since 1963. She has written Blue Guides to the region, is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Manchester and directs excavation and research projects in Jordan.
2011 Tours
Petra & the Desert Fortresses Thu 7 - Sat 16 April
Syria - From Hauran to Euphrates Sun 25 September - Wed 5 October
Lebanon Tue 18 - Tue 25 October
2012 Tours
Syria - From Hauran to the Euphrates Thu 5 - Sun 15 April
Lebanon Tue 16 - Tue 23 October
Biography
Kay Prag's interests extend widely over Near Eastern archaeology, with particular interests in the third millennium BC, Islamic archaeology and ethnographic studies. With degrees in archaeology (BA, Sydney 1961; Postgraduate Diploma in Palestinian Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, London, 1964; and D.Phil, Oxford 1972), she twice held the Senior Scholarship of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem as well as temporary posts in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which provided the opportunity to conduct archaeological survey and excavation in Jordan and Lebanon. Her principal field work has been conducted in Jordan at the multi-period site of Tell Iktanu, near the Dead Sea. As well as publishing in these areas, she has taught and examined occasionally at a number of universities in the UK and abroad, holding Honorary Lecturerships at the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester; and for 13 years edited Levant, the journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant. Since 1993, as a Research Affiliate at the Manchester Museum and with funding from the Leverhulme Trust, she has been working on the publication of the major excavations undertaken during the 1960s by Dame Kathleen Kenyon in Jerusalem.
Selected publications
Prag, K. (2009) The late third millennium in the Levant: a reappraisal of the north-south divide. Pp. 80-89 in P.J. Parr (ed.) The Levant in Transition. Proceedings of a Conference held at the British Museum on 20-21 April 2004. Palestine Exploration Fund Annual IX. Maney: Leeds, UK.
Prag, K. (2008) Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967. Volume V. Discoveries in Hellenistic to Ottoman Jerusalem. Levant Supplementary Volume 7. Oxbow: Oxford.
Prag. K. (2006) Defensive Ditches in Ottoman Fortifications in Bil~d al-Sh~m. Pp. 295-306 in H. Kennedy (ed.) Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria. From the Coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period. Brill: Leiden.
Prag. K. (2001) Moving Onward: Australian Archaeologists in Jordan in the 1960s. Pp. 21-30 in Alan Walmsley (ed.) Australians Uncovering Ancient Jordan. Fifty Years of Middle Eastern Archaeology. University of Sydney and Department of Antiquities of Jordan: Sydney.
Prag, K. (2000) Tell Iktanu, South Jordan Valley: Early Bronze Age I Ceramics. Pp. 91-99 in Graham Philip and
Douglas Baird (eds) Ceramics and Change in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant. Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield.
Prag, K. and Barnes, H. (1996) Three Fortresses on the Wadi Kafrain, Jordan. Levant XXVIII, 41-61.
Prag, K. (1995) The Dead Sea Dolmens - Death and the Landscape. Pp. 75 - 84 in S. Campbell and A. Green, The Archaeology of Death in the Ancient Near East. Oxbow Monograph 51: Oxford.
Prag, K. (1993) The Excavations at Tell Iktanu 1989 and 1990; The Excavations at Tell al-Hammam 1990. Syria LXX.1-2, 269-273.
Prag. K. (1991) A Walk in the Wadi Hesban. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 123, 48-61.
Prag, K. (1988) Jerusalem. Blue Guide. A. and C. Black, London. W. W. Norton, N.Y.
Prag, K. (1985) Ancient and Modern Pastoral Migration in the Levant. Levant 17, 81-88.
Prag, K. (1974) The Intermediate Early Bronze-Middle Bronze Age: an interpretation of the evidence from Transjordan, Syria and Lebanon. Levant VI, 69-116.
