Bruce Routledge is a senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of Liverpool with research interests in the Bronze and Iron Ages of the Levant, and particular expertise in the Iron Age of Jordan. He currently co-directs the Dhiban Excavation and Development Project, a community oriented research project at Tall Dhiban in central Jordan. Publications include Moab in the Iron Age: Hegemony, Polity, Archaeology and “The antiquity of the nation? Critical reflections from the Ancient Near East” in Nations and Nationalism, and Archaeology and State Theory: Subjects and Objects of Power (2013).