ABSTRACT
This small, but densely occupied, multi-period site is located on a natural ridge 15 km south of Amman’s Seventh Circle on the airport freeway next to Amman National Park. A natural spring at the northern foot of the site was the probable reason for settlement. The same spring was probably instrumental in the establishment of three other sites located on hills nearby: (1) shallow remains from the classical periods were on a hill to the east; (2) structures from the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods covered a hill to the northeast; and (3) ‘Ajarmeh Bedouin settled at the village of Bunayat to the NNE during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
