The Wadi el Hasa Archaeological Survey, 1979-1983, West-Central Jordan / / Burton MacDonald

• Autore: MacDonald Burton <1939->
• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1988
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (423 p.)
• Disciplina: 933
• Soggetto topico: Excavations (Archaeology) - Jordan - Hasa River Region
• Soggetto geografico: Jordan Antiquities
• Note generali: Includes index.; Map on folded leaf in pocket.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Table Of Contents -- Abbreviations And Symbols -- Archaeological Periods And Dates -- List Of Figures -- List Of Tables -- List Of Photos -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Geologic History Of The Wadi El Hass Survey Area -- Natural Resources -- A Diachronic Study Of Paleolithic And Early Neolithic Site Placement Patterns In The Southern Tributaries Of The Wadi El Hasa -- A Typological And Technological Study Of Upper Paleolithic Collections From The Whs With Observations On Adjacent Time-Stratigraphic Units -- The Pottery Neolithic And Chalcolithic Periods -- The Early To Late Bronze Periods -- The Iron Age Periods -- The Classical (Hellenistic, Nabataean, Parthian, And Roman) Periods -- The Byzantine Period -- The Islamic Periods -- Artifacts Of Special Interest -- Summary And Conclusions -- Plates 1-23 -- Plate -- References -- Appendix 1: Master List of WHS Sites 1-1074 -- Appendix 2: Samples of Site Sheets -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Wadi el Hasa Archaeological Survey, 1979-1983, West-Central Jordan
• ISBN: 1-282-23274-6; 9786613810489; 0-88920-719-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910153208703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II