Jordan Pickett

2024                “Earthquakes and State Response at Antioch” for Antioch on the Orontes: History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture, ed. A. de Giorgi (Cambridge: under contract with CUP, 2024) [link]

2023                “Earthquakes and Urban Adaptation in Late Antiquity” in The Power of Nature: Agency and the Archaeology of Human-Environmental Dynamics, ed. M. Smith (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2023) [link]

2022                “Settlement, environment, and climate change in SW Anatolia: dynamics of regional variation and the end of Antiquity” for PLOS One, lead co-author with Matthew Jacobson, also Alison L. Gascoigne, Dominik Fleitmann, and Hugh Elton. [link]

2022                “Water and Social Relationships in Byzantine Neighborhoods” for Byzantine Neighbourhoods, eds. B. Anderson and F. Kondyli, Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies Series (London: Routledge, 2022), 125-152. [link]

2021                “A Social Explanation for the Disappearance of Roman Thermae” for Journal of Late Antiquity 14.2 (2021): 375-414. [link]

2021                “Conflict Architecture: Making History at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, Hebron” for Architecture and Visual Culture in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean, eds. V. Marinis, A. Papalexandrou, and J. Pickett (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), 177-192 [link]

2020                “Hydraulic Landscapes of Cities in the East Roman World” for Landscapes of Pre-industrial Cities, ed. G. Farhat, Landscapes Studies Series (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2020), 115-142. [link]

2018                “Earthquakes as the Quintessential SCE [Short-Term Catastrophic Event]: Methodology and Societal Resilience” for Human Ecology 46, special issue with the Princeton Climate Change and History Research Initiative, eds. J. Haldon, A. Izdebski, and S. White (2018): 1-14 [lead co-author with Lee Mordechai] [link]

2017                “Water and Empire in the de Aedificiis of Procopius” for Dumbarton Oaks Papers 71 (2017): 95-125 [link1/link2] 

2016                “Architectural energetics for tumuli construction: the case of the medieval Chungul Kurgan on the Eurasian Steppe” for Journal of Archaeological Science 75 (2016): 101-14 [first author with John Schreck, Renata Holod, Yuriy Rassamakin, Oleksandr Halenko, Warren Woodfin] [link] 

2016                “Temples, Churches, Cisterns and Pipes: Water in Late Antique Ephesus,” in De Aquaeductu Atque Aqua Urbium Lyciae Pamphyliae Pisidiae: The Legacy of Sextus Julius Frontinus, International Congress on the History of Water Management and Hydraulic Engineering in the Mediterranean Region. Antalya, October 31 – November 9, 2014, ed. G. Wiplinger, Babesch Annual Papers on Mediterranean Archaeology Supplement 27 (Leuven: Babesch/Peeters, 2016), 297-312 [link]

2016                “The environmental, archaeological and historical evidence for climatic changes and their societal impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity”, for Quaternary Science Review 136: 189-208 [2^nd co-author with Adam Izdebski, Neil Roberts, Tomasz Waliszweski] [link]

2016                “Water in Byzantium” in Proceedings of the 23^rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade 22-27 August 2016: Round Tables, eds. B. Krasmanović and L. Milanović (Belgrade: AIEB), 835-839 [link]

2014                “Patronage Contested: Archaeology, Crusader Interventions, and the Early Modern Struggle for Possession at the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem,” in Visual Constructs of Jerusalem, eds. Bianca Kühnel, Galit Noga-Banai, Hanna Vorholt = Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, no. 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 35-45 [link]

2013                “The University of Pennsylvania Excavations (1927-1933) in Historical Context: Biblical Archaeology and the Late Antique” and “Religious Devotion in Domestic Contexts”, Late Antique Beth Shean Revisited Issue, Expedition Magazine of theUniversity Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 55.1 (Philadelphia: University Museum Press, Spring 2013): pp. 12-15 and 21-23 [link]

2011                “The Apse Mosaic of Hagia Eirene: the Splendor of Iconoclasm” in Mosaics of Anatolia, ed. G. Sözen (Istanbul, 2011): pp. 309-320 [link]