The necropolis of Abila of the Decapolis 2019-2021 /
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A comprehensive synthesis of burial types, practices, and evidence for societal collapse in the growing field of bioarchaeology of Jordan, focusing on Abila of the Decapolis, the largest Graeco-Roman city in Jordan with a tremendous wealth of funerary remains.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (iv, vi, 241 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803272887 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Khirbat Faris : rural settlement, continuity and change in southern Jordan : the Nabatean to modern periods (1st century BC - 20th century AD).
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This volume is the first of three which chart the temporal and spatial occupational fluctuations at the site of Khirbat Faris in Southern Jordan and the stories of the communities that lived there. The excavation report follows the site and its environs throughout their many phases of use and occupation, from the 13th century BC to the present day.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (428 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789693904 (ebook) :
Mobile peoples - permanent places : nomadic landscapes and stone architecture from the Hellenistic to early Islamic periods in north-eastern Jordan /
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This study explores the relationship between nomadic communities in the Black Desert of north-eastern Jordan (c. 300 BC and 900 AD) and the landscapes they inhabited and extensively modified. This book focuses on the architectural features created in the landscape some 2000 years ago which were used and revisited on multiple occasions.
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"Available both in print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (xxii, 243 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789693140 (PDF ebook) :
Carving interactions : rock art in the nomadic landscape of the Black Desert, north-eastern Jordan /
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The Safaitic rock art of the North Arabian basalt desert is one of the few surviving traces of the elusive herding societies that lived there in antiquity. This comprehensive study of over 4500 petroglyphs from the Jebel Qurma region of the Black Desert in North-Eastern Jordan is the first-ever systematic study of the Safaitic petroglyphs.
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"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789693126 (PDF ebook) :
Ceramics in transition : production and exchange of late Byzantine-early Islamic pottery in Southern Transjordan and the Negev /
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This volume focuses on the utilitarian ceramic traditions during the socio-political transition from the late Byzantine into the early Islamic Umayyad and 'Abbasid periods, in southern Transjordan and the Negev. Production clusters, manufacturing techniques, distribution patterns, and material links between communities are analysed.
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1 online resource (vi, 196 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789692259 (PDF ebook) :
The 1927-1938 Italian archaeological expedition to Transjordan in Renato Bartoccini's archives /
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This volume presents the results of the Italian excavations and surveys carried out in Transjordan between 1927 and 1938.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784911195 (PDF ebook) :
Shifting sand : journal of a cub archaeologist, Palestine 1964 /
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'Shifting Sand' is the journal of Julian Berry, then a 17-year-old archaeologist, written on-site during excavations in Jordan, 1964. The book provides a fascinating insight into the lives of archaeologists over 50 years ago, and the very close links between the European team, the Arab workmen, and the daily life in a simple mud-brick village.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (ii, 88 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
9781784916602 (ebook) :