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902 <394.8> --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- -Archeologie--Arabia Petraea. Sinai. Nabataea. Idumenaea --- Jordan --- Antiquities. --- -902 <394.8> Archeologie--Arabia Petraea. Sinai. Nabataea. Idumenaea --- Archeologie--Arabia Petraea. Sinai. Nabataea. Idumenaea --- 902 <394.8> Archeologie--Arabia Petraea. Sinai. Nabataea. Idumenaea --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento

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In this major work Professor MacDonald chronicles an intensive and systematic archaeological survey of the southern flank of the Wadi el Hasa in West–Central Jordan. The survey resulted in the recovery of human evidence spanning the Lower Paleolithic to the Ottoman period (500,000 B.C.–A.D. 1918). The area is cut by a number of impressive and deep, south–to–north flowing wadis. As a region marginal for farming but stable for grazing, it would be the first to “empty out” and the last to “fill up” compared to more favourable regions. The methodology employed included a combination of purposive, predictive, and pedestrian transects. Lithics spanning the Lower Paleolithic to the end of the Early Bronze period (500,000–2000 B.C.) and ceramics covering the period from the Pottery Neolithic to the end of the Ottoman domination (4750 B.C.–A.D. 1918) were collected in the area. Sites surveyed included lithic and sherd scatters, camps, hamlets, villages, roads, milestones, fortresses, watchtowers, and mills. This research sheds new light on the settlement of the area, which now appears to have been most dense during the Middle Paleolithic, Iron II, Nabataean, and Byzantine periods.

Jordan --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Jordan - Antiquities --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Ḩas⁻a River Region. --- Jordanie --- Ḥasā, Région du Wādī al-.

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This work is a presentation on a people of Transjordan known to readers of the Bible as a neighbour, and often an enemy, of first millennium B.C. Israel. Topics include a review of archaeological research in Ammon, the emergence of the Ammonites, and Ammonite territory and sites.

Ammonites (Semitic people) --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Jordan --- Antiquities.

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"The objectives of the Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan project were: to discover, record, and interpret archaeological sites in an area of approximately 590 km 2 between Shammakh in the north and Ayl in the south in the southern segment of the Transjordan Plateau; to determine the area's settlement patterns from the Lower Paleolithic (ca. 1.4 mya) to the end of the Late Islamic period (AD 1918); to investigate the Pleistocene (as late as ca. 10,000 B.C.) sediments and lakes in the eastern segment of the survey territory; to document the many farms, hamlets, and villages that provisioned the major international sites of the area, for example, Ash-Shawbak, Petra, and Udhruh; to investigate further the Khatt Shabib or Shabib's Wall, a low stone wall running in a generally north-south direction through the area; to record the inscriptions, rock drawings, and wasms (tribal brands) within the area; and to link up with previous work that the project director and others have carried out in southern Jordan. These objectives were accomplished by the transecting of 108 random squares and the documenting of 366 sites that range in date from the Lower Paleaolithic to the end of the Late Islamic period. Analysis of the materials, primarily lithics and sherds, collected in the random squares and at the sites indicate that the area experienced its highest density of population during the Middle Paleolithic, Neolithic/Chalcolithic, Iron II, Nabataean and Roman, Byzantine, and Late Islamic periods. Relative to the settlement patterns of the area, it can be concluded that the area was a rural one where the chief activities were agriculture and pastoralism. The many farms, hamlets, villages, and camp sites documented show that the area most probably provisioned, during various archaeological periods, the major international sites of the area. The project has particular relevance for understanding the major site of Petra during the Nabataean, Roman, and Byzantine periods. In addition, it is important relative to the site of Udhruh during these three periods plus the Early and Late Islamic periods and the site of ash-Shawbak, located immediately to the north of the project's territory, during the Middle Islamic period. Finally, the project contributed to the writing of the archaeological history of southern Jordan from Wadi al-Hasa in the north to Ras an-Naqab in the south and from the desert on the east to the international border between Jordan and Israel on the west"--Amazon.com.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological surveying --- Land settlement patterns --- Social archaeology --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Prospection archéologique --- Colonisation intérieure --- Archéologie sociale --- History --- Types --- Histoire --- Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan --- Jordan --- Jordanie --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités

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"The objective of Walking through Jordan is to acknowledge and honor the singular achievements and wider impacts of Jordan's most prominent survey archaeologist, Burton MacDonald. MacDonald is a biblical scholar by training who has written extensively about the Iron Age and early Christianity. However, unlike many biblical scholars, MacDonald has also undertaken large regional survey projects which encompass the entire gamut of Jordanian prehistory and history. Thus, his work is unique in that it attracts the interest of a wide range of scholars. Contributing scholars from around the world reflect on three important areas of MacDonald's archaeological contributions: on archaeological survey in general, including those focusing on methodology and/or field projects that depend to a large extent on surveys, MacDonald's five major surveys-- papers that incorporate data from his field projects and sites tested or excavated by others that were first identified by his work, and the archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as the Roman Period and the early Christian era. Despite his important contributions to prehistoric archaeology, the early historical periods constitute the main emphasis of Burton's scholarly output"--Provided by publisher.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological surveying --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Archaeology and history --- Iron age --- Architecture, Ancient --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Prospection archéologique --- Antiquités préhistoriques --- Archéologie et histoire --- Age du fer --- Architecture ancienne --- MacDonald, Burton, --- Jordan --- Jordanie --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités