Thomas Evan Levy, P M Michele Daviau, Randall W Younker

Crossing Jordan

North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan

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Produktbeschreibung

Crossing Jordan' examines the peoples and cultures that have travelled across Jordan from antiquity to the present. The book offers a critical analysis of recent discoveries and archaeological models in Jordan and highlights the significant contribution of North American archaeologists to the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 1270g
• ISBN-13: 9781845532680
• ISBN-10: 1845532686
• Artikelnr.: 22533301

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan Bin Talal Foreword - Fawwaz al-Khraysheh
Director General
Department of Antiquities of Jordan Introduction - Barbara A. Porter
Director
ACOR Theory 1. Thinking Globally and Acting Locally: Anthropology
History and Archaeology in the Study of Jordan's Past Oystein S. LaBianca
Andrews University
Michigan History 2. American and Canadian History and Archaeology in Jordan Nancy Lapp
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Methodologies and Problem Solving 3. Archaeological Survey Work in Jordan: The North American Contribution Burton MacDonald
St. Francis Xavier University Nova Scotia 4. The Once and Future GIS Database: The History
Current Condition
and Future Development of JADIS Stephen Savage
Arizona State University 5. On-Site Digital Archaeology: GIS-Based Excavation Recording in Southern Jordan Thomas E. Levy and Neil G. Smith
University of California
San Diego 6. High Precision Radiocarbon Dating in Jordan Thomas Higham
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit 7. The Evolving Landscapes East of the Jordan: The Contributions of Geoarchaeology and Paleoecology Carlos E. Cordova
Oklahoma State University 8. Past Environments of the Jordan Plateau from the Paleolakes of the Eastern Desert Caroline Davies
University of Missouri-Kansas City 9. Conservation and Preservation of Archaeological Sites in Jordan: Initiatives of the American Center of Oriental Research Pierre Bikai
American Center of Oriental Research
Amman Regional Archaeology - Deep-time studies across Jordan 10. Ancient Metal Production and Social Change in Southern Jordan : The Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project - Thomas E. Levy
University of California
San Diego and Mohammad Najjar
Department of Antiquities of Jordan 11. How Crossing Jordan Made the Difference: The Case of the Madaba Plains Project
1967 - 2007 Lawrence T. Geraty
La Sierra University 12. Tell Hesban: Palimpsest of Great and Little Traditions of Transjordan and the Ancient Near East - Oystein S. LaBianca
Andrews University and Bethany J. Walker
Grand Valley State University
Michigan 13. Tall al-`Umayri through the Ages Larry G. Herr
Canadian University College and Douglas R. Clark
La Sierra University 14. Highlights from the Heights of Jalul Randall W. Younker
Andrews University 15. Investigating 5
000 Years of Urban History: The Tall M dab Archaeological Project Timothy P. Harrison
Debra Foran
and Andrew Graham
University of Toronto 16. Crossing Jordan - By Way of the Karak Plateau Gerald L. Mattingly
Johnson Bible College
Knoxville
Tennessee) and James H. Pace
Elon University
Elon
North Carolina 17. The Iraq al-Amir and Dhiban Plateau Regional Surveys Chang-Ho Ji
La Sierra University 18. Four Archaeological Surveys in Southern Jordan Burton MacDonald
St. Francis Xavier University Nova Scotia Prehistoric Perspectives 19. Looking For Neanderthals and Finding Ourselves: Research at Tor Faraj Donald O. Henry
University of Tulsa
Oklahoma 20. Neanderthals at the Crossroads: Middle Paleolithic Sites on the Madaba Plateau
Jordan Michael S. Bisson
McGill University
April Nowell
University of Victoria
Carlos Cordova
Oklahoma State University
and Regina Kalchgruber
Oklahoma State University 21. Midnight at the Oasis: The End of the Pleistocene in the Wadi al-Hasa - Nancy R. Coinman
Department of Anthropology
Iowa State University and Deborah I. Olszewski
University of Pennsylvania Museum
University of Pennsylvania 22. Microliths and Mortuary Practices: New Perspectives on the Epipaleolithic in Northern and Eastern Jordan - Lisa Maher
Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies
University of Cambridge 23. Crossing the Boundary to Domestication Economies: A Case Study from West-Central Jordan - Michael Neeley
Montana State University and Jane Peterson
Marquette University 24. The Rediscovery of the Neolithic Period in Jordan Gary O. Rollefson
Whitman College and Zeidan Kafafi
Yarmouk University
Jordan 25. Late Prehistory in Wadi Ziqlab
al-Kura
Jordan: From Sedentism to Olive-oil Factories - Ted Banning
University of Toronto 26. Archaeology and Environment of the Dead Sea Plain Steven Falconer
Patricia Fall
Arizona State University and Philip Edwards
La Trobe University
Australia 27. Is Big Really Better? Life in the resort corridor--Ghwair I
an elaborate small Neolithic community in southern Jordan - Alan H. Simmons
University of Nevada
Las Vegas and Mohammad Najjar
Department of Antiquities of Jordan Bronze Age - Earliest Urbanism 28. Life in the earliest walled towns on the Dead Sea Plain: Numeira and Bab edh-Dhra' R. Thomas Schaub
Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Meredith S. Chesson
University of Notre Dame 29. Death and Dying on the Dead Sea Plain (Feifah
Khanazir and Bab edh-Dhra' Cemeteries Meredith S. Chesson
University of Notre Dame and R. Thomas Schaub
Indiana University of Pennsylvania 30. Life at the Foundation of Bronze Age Civilization: Agrarian Villages in the Jordan Valley Steven Falconer
Patricia Fall
Arizona State University
and Jennifer Jones
University of Minnesota Duluth 31. Khirbet Iskander: A City in Collapse at the End of the Early Bronze Age Suzanne Richard
Gannon University and Jesse C. Long
Jr.
Lubbock Christian University 32. A Landscape Approach to Craft and Agricultural Production: Tracking the Location of Early Bronze Age Manufacturing at el-Lejjun
Jordan Jennifer E. Jones
University of Minnesota Duluth 33. The Early Bronze Age City States of the Southern Levant: Neither Cities nor States Stephen Savage
Steven Falconer
Arizona State University and Timothy P. Harrison
University of Toronto Early States and the Iron Age 34. Independent and Well-Connected: The Ammonites of Central Jordan P. M. Michele Daviau and Paul-Eugene Dion
Wilfrid Laurier University 35. Shepherds and Weavers in a "Global" Economy: Moab in Late Iron Age II P. M. Michele Daviau and Robert Chadwick
Wilfrid Laurier University 36. The Power of Place: The Dhiban Community through the Ages Benjamin Porter
University of Pennsylvania
Bruce Routledge
University of Liverpool
Danielle Steen
Stanford University
and Firas al-Kawamlha
Dhiban Community 37. A Place In-Between: Khirbat al-Mudayna al-'Aliya in the Early Iron Age Bruce Routledge
University of Liverpool and Benjamin Porter
University of Pennsylvania The Edge of Empire - Hellenistic and Roman Periods 38. In Search of Hellenistic Petra - Excavations in the City Center David F. Graf
University of Miami 39. Shifting Places
Changing Faces: The Civic Statuary of Roman Jordan Elise A. Friedland
Rollins College Nabatean Civilization and its Jordanian Heartland 40. Gods and Vineyards at Beidha Patricia M. Bikai
ACOR; Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos
ACOR; and Shari Saunders
American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) 41. Nabataean Landscape & power: Evidence from the Petra Garden & Pool Complex Leigh-Ann Bedal
Penn State University - Erie and James G. Schryver
University of Minnesota
Morris 42. Surprises at the Petra Great Temple Martha S. Joukowsky
Brown University 43. Beyond the Nabataean and Roman City: Surveying the Central and Southern Wadi Araba Andrew M. Smith II
Dowling College
Long Island 44. Luxury in the desert: A Nabataean Palatial Residence at Wadi Ramm Dennine Dudley
University of Victoria and M. Barbara Reeves
Queen's University 45. Torn Asunder: Earthquakes at Qasr et-Telah Tina M. Niemi
University of Missouri-Kansas City The