David A. Warburton

David Alan Warburton (born March 18, 1956 in El Paso ) is an archaeologist and Egyptologist who specializes in archaeological methods in general and economic history in particular. He has lectured as visiting professor at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations at Northeast Normal University in Changchun (China), at Université Lumière Lyon II , in France, and at the American University in Cairo . From 2013 to 2017 he coordinated research on ancient and prehistoric economics at the Topoi Cluster of Excellence in Berlin.

Life

From 1974 Warburton studied political science (BA 1979 American University of Beirut ), then Egyptology and archeology (also Beirut, MA 1981), then continued Egyptology, Near Eastern archeology and prehistory and early history at the University of Basel . The doctorate took place in 1996 at the University of Bern and the "Habilitation à diriger des recherches" in 2007 at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne .

He took part in excavations and surveys in France, Switzerland, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, copied inscriptions in the Valley of the Kings and was director of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies from 1991 to 1995 .

His research areas are economic history and theory, war and politics in early antiquity, chronology , stratigraphy , religion , cognition , color terminology.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• State and Economy in Ancient Egypt. Fiscal Vocabulary of the New Kingdom . Freiburg & Göttingen 1997 (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis vol. 151)
• Egypt and the Near East. Politics in the Bronze Age . Neuchâtel 2001 (Civilizations du Proche-Orient. Série IV. Histoire - Essais 1).
• Macroeconomics from the Beginning . Neuchâtel 2003 (Civilizations du Proche-Orient. Série IV. Histoire - Essais 2).
• Archaeological Stratigraphy. A Near Eastern Approach . Neuchâtel 2003.
• Architecture, Power, and Religion: Hatshepsut, Amun & Karnak in Context . Berlin 2012 (Contributions to Archeology, Vol. 7).
• The Fundamentals of Economics: Lessons from the Bronze Age Near East . Neuchâtel 2016 (Civilizations du Proche-Orient. Série IV. Histoire - Essais 3).

Anthologies

• Erik Hornung , Rolf Krauss & David A. Warburton (eds.): Ancient Egyptian Chronology . Leiden 2006 (Handbook of Oriental Studies I: 83)
• D. Warburton (Ed.): Time's Up !: Dating the Minoan eruption of Santorini . Athens 2009 (Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 10)
• Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen, Olav Hammer & David A. Warburton (Eds.): The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe . Durham 2013 (European History of Religions)

Translations

• Friedrich Junge : Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction. Oxford 2001, 2005 (Griffith Institute)
• Erik Hornung & Th. Abt (eds.): The Egyptian Amduat - The Book of the Hidden Chamber . Zurich 2007

Articles in series and books

• "Before the IMF: The Economic Implications of Unintentional Structural Adjustment in Ancient Egypt." In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 43 (2000) 65-131.
• "Synchronizing the Chronology of Bronze Age Western Asia with Egypt." In: Akkadica 119-120 (2000) 33-76.
• "Stratigraphy: Methodology & Terminology." In: P. Matthiae et al. (Ed.): Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Archeology of the Ancient Near East. (Rome: Herder, 2000) 1731-1750.
• "The Hadhramis, the Hadhramaut and the European Colonial Powers in the Indian Ocean." In: G. Campbell (Ed.): The Indian Ocean Rim: Southern Africa and Regional Cooperation. (London: Routledge Shorton, 2003) 54-63.
• "Psychoanalyzing Prehistory: Struggling with the Unrecorded Past." In: P. Antes, et al. (Ed.): New Approaches to the Study of Religion. (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004) II 419–455.
• "Aspects of War and Warfare in Western Philosophy and History." In: T. Otto et al. (Ed.): Warfare and Society (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2006) 37-55.
• "Texts, Translation, Lexicography, & Society: A Brief Note." In: Lingua Aegyptia. 15 (2007) 263-279.
• "Work and Compensation in Ancient Egypt." In: Journal of Egyptian Archeology. 93 (2007) 175-194.
• "Basic Color Term Evolution in Light of Ancient Evidence from the Near East." In: R. MacLaury, GV Paramei, & D. Dedrick (Eds.): Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary Multilevel Modeling. (Amsterdam: Benjamin, 2007) 229-246.
• "Egypt and Mesopotamia." In: G. Leick (Ed.): The Babylonian World. (London: Routledge, 2007) 487-502.
• "The Truth Path of Error." In: Th. Hofmeier & O. Kaelin (Hrsg.): Pieces: Contributions to the cultural history of the ancient Orient. (Berlin: Leonhard-Thurneyser Verlag, 2008) 263–287.
• "The Architecture of Israelite Temples." In: LL Grabbe (Ed.): Ahab Agonistes. (London: Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament 421, 2007) 310–328.
• "The Theoretical Implications of Ancient Egyptian Color Vocabulary for Anthropological and Cognitive Theory." In: Lingua Aegyptia. 16 (2008) 213-2
• "Economics, Anthropological Models and the Ancient Near East." In: Anthropology of the Middle East. 4 (2009) 65-90.
• "Taking a Stab at Archaeological Thought on Ancient Near Eastern Economics." In: CORRELATES OF COMPLEXITY. Essays in Archeology and Assyriology. Dedicated to Diederik JW Meijer in Honor of his 65th Birthday (edited by Bleda S. Düring, Arne Wossink and Peter MMG Akkermans), Leiden 2011, ISBN 978-90-6258-327-0 , pp. 233-260 online

Web links

• Personal website at Cluster of Excellence Topoi
• Publications at Academia.edu