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This is the professional website of Catherine P. Foster, Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley studying Near Eastern Archaeology. Her current research focuses on household archaeology, micro-debris analysis and house-based economic systems during the Uruk/Late Chalcolithic Period in southeastern Turkey (ca. 3600 - 3000 BCE). Other interests include religion and burial practices during the Late Chalcolithic of the southern Levant (Israel, Syria, Jordan) and music of the ancient Near East. She has conducted fieldwork in Jordan, Turkey, and North America.