She is the author of numerous articles on ceramics, architecture, and interregional interaction analysis studies in Anatolia, including The Archaeology of Religion, (2008). She is the Field Director of the adir Hyk excavations on the north central Anatolian plateau, and has worked in Turkey since 1989 and in the Middle East since 1983. Jennifer C. Ross is an Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology at Hood College. She is an Assistant Director of the adir Hyk excavations in Turkey and has published articles on topics ranging from ideology and representation in Mesopotamia to metallurgical technologies in the Near East. Her current research is von the intersection of technology with social transformation at the dawn of urbanism in Mesopotamia.