Stephen H. Savage has worked in the Near East for nearly 40 years,
including fieldwork in Jordan, Israel and
Egypt. He received his Ph.D. from Arizona State
University (ASU) in 1995. Currently he is a Scientific
Software Engineer for ASU's Office of Knowledge Enterprise
Development and the Institute for Humanities Research
(OKED/IHR). He was the IT Manager for ASU's
Archaeological Research Institute from 2007 to
mid-2014. At his Geo-Archaeological Information
Applications Lab, he has developed large-scale
archaeological and GIS database applications for a variety of
platforms, including the
Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land, the
Aegean Digital Archaeological Atlas, and the
Mediterranean Archaeological Network. He
has created several demonstration applications for the Google Earth
API project gallery, including Drive the Solar System (http://gaialab.asu.edu/SolarSystem)
and the USS Voyager Exoplanets (http://gaialab.asu.edu/exoplanets)
websites. He has conducted workshops in Jordan, Greece
and Norway. Since 2000 he has directed the Moab
Archaeological Resource Survey in Jordan.
His research interests include early complex societies in the Near
East and North Africa, the Levantine Bronze Age, Predynastic and
Archaic Egypt, mortuary analysis, spatial analysis, GIS and remote
sensing, database development and design.
He has published in
American Antiquity, the
Journal of Archaeological Science, the
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental
Research, Near Eastern Archaeology, the
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology,
Radiocarbon, the
Journal of Archaeological Research, the
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology and the
Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan.
He is a Visiting Research Scientist and Affiliated
Investigator at the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art,
Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3), QualComm Institute, University
of California, San Diego, and a Senior Fellow at
the Capitol Archaeological Institute, George Washington University.
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