P. M. Michèle Daviau (University of Toronto, 1990) is professor emerita of Near Eastern Archaeology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has excavated in North America, Israel and Jordan, where she directed excavations at Tall Jawa, south of Amman and is currently director of the Wadi ath-Thamad Project in northern Moab. She edited The World of the Aramaeans and has published four volumes, Excavations at Tall Jawa, and is now preparing a study of the Iron Age pottery. She has a special interest in religious iconography and the domestic cult and in the archaeology of Jordan.