Dr. Petra Creamer, an Assyriologist, archaeologist, and professor of the Ancient Near East at Emory University, joins Lexie to discuss focusing on the Assyrian Empire to understand how non-elites experienced state power, Assyrian deportation as a labor and control strategy that often moved families and aimed to resettle people as productive “Assyrians,” and conducting fieldwork at Katrash near Erbil, an unexpected rural Neo-Assyrian administrative/storage center likely tied to agricultural extraction and imperial bureaucracy. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!
Originally recorded July 31, 2025.
Learn more about Dr. Creamer: https://mesas.emory.edu/people/biographies/Creamer-Petra.html
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Follow her research on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petra-Creamer
Find her publications on Academia: https://emory.academia.edu/PetraCreamer
Custom music by Brent Arehart of Arehart Sounds and edited by Dan Maday.
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