oa The Organization of Archaeological Fieldwork and Selective Publication of Findings as Appropriation of Knowledge: Observations on the 1931 Spring Campaign in Gerasa

The excavations conducted at Gerasa, in modern Jordan, in the 1920s and 1930s, first by an American-British team and later by an exclusively American team, produced some of the most important results on Roman urbanism in the Near East. These publications, mainly printed in the volume edited by C. H. Kraeling and published in 1938, remain standard works to this day. However, the excavation’s directors were also selective about what they published in this volume or at all. This article explores some of the archival material related to the 1931 spring campaign, now held at the Yale University Art Gallery in the archives, and illuminates a variety of aspects of the excavation that were not included in publication.