In this Book
- Wadi el Hasa Archaeological Survey 1979-1931, West-Central Jordan
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- pp. ix-xii
- List of Tables
- pp. xiii-xiv
- List of Photos
- p. xv
- Acknowledgements
- p. xvii
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Chapter 2. Methodology
- pp. 13-25
- Chapter 4. Natural Resources
- pp. 40-47
- Chapter 8. The Early to Late Bronze Periods
- pp. 155-170
- Chapter 9. The Iron Age Periods
- pp. 171-189
- Chapter 11. The Byzantine Period
- pp. 232-249
- Chapter 12. The Islamic Periods
- pp. 250-280
- Chapter 13. Artifacts of Special Interest
- pp. 281-288
- Chapter 14. Summary and Conclusions
- pp. 289-347
- References
- pp. 348-363
- Appendices
- 1. Master List of WHS Sites 1-1074
- pp. 364-387
- 2. Samples of Site Sheets
- pp. 388-392
Additional Information
Copyright
1988