Ademar Quint Camara
Multimodal Literacy in the Southern Levant Iron Age II from a materiality and literary formulae approach
Biography
Ademar was awarded MA in Egypt and Near East Archaeology from University College of London.
Research Interests
Ademar is searching at inscriptions from Iron Age II Southern Levant (specifically Israel, Ammon, Moab, Edom, and Philistine) to understand the different social context writing was used. The analysis focus on the materiality of texts as a commonly overlooked aspect of writing, the literary formulae and the function those inscriptions played in society. He is also looking at how writing reflects different types of literacy and how different individuals in society perceived them.