ABSTRACT
Jordan is a key area of migration within the Levantine corridor that links the continents of Africa and Asia. 'Crossing Jordan' examines the peoples and cultures that have travelled across Jordan from antiquity to the present. The book offers a critical analysis of recent discoveries and archaeological models in Jordan and highlights the significant contribution of North American archaeologists to the field. Leading archaeologists explore the theory and methodology of archaeology in Jordan in essays which range across prehistory, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Nabatean civilization, the Byzantine period, and Islamic civilization. The volume provides an up-to-date guide to the archaeological heritage of Jordan, being an important resource for scholars and students of Jordan's history, as well as citizens, non-governmental organizations and tourists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |11 pages
Theory
chapter 1|9 pages
Thinking Globally and also Locally
part |11 pages
History
part |70 pages
Methodologies
chapter 4|10 pages
Controlling Space at the Regional Level
chapter 7|10 pages
The Evolving Landscape of Jordan
chapter 9|8 pages
Conservation and Preservation of Archaeological Sites in Jordan Archaeology
part |73 pages
Regional Archaeology—Deep-Time Studies Across Jordan
chapter 10|9 pages
Ancient Metal Production and Social Change in Southern Jordan
chapter 11|4 pages
How Crossing Jordan made the Difference
chapter 12|10 pages
Tall Hisban
chapter 16|10 pages
Investigating 5,000 Years of Urban History
part |73 pages
Prehistoric Perspectives
chapter 20|7 pages
Neanderthals at the Crossroads
chapter 22|8 pages
Microliths and Mortuary Practices
chapter 23|8 pages
Crossing the Boundary to Domestication Economies
chapter 25|5 pages
Late Prehistory in Wadi Ziqlab, al-Kura, Jordan
chapter 27|9 pages
Is Big Really Better?
part |55 pages
Bronze Age—Earliest Urbanism
chapter 28|8 pages
Life in the Earliest Walled Towns on the Dead Sea Plain
chapter 29|8 pages
Death and Dying on the Dead Sea Plain
chapter 30|8 pages
Life at the Foundation of Bronze Age Civilization
chapter 32|8 pages
A Landscape Approach to Craft and Agricultural Production
chapter 33|13 pages
The Early Bronze Age City States of the Southern Levant
part |31 pages
Early States and the Iron Age
chapter 35|6 pages
Shepherds and Weavers in a ‘Global Economy'
part |36 pages
The Edge of Empire—Hellenistic and Roman Period
part |50 pages
Nabatean Civilization and its Jordanian Heartland
chapter 45|8 pages
Beyond the Nabataean and Roman City
part |27 pages
Theocratic Empire—The Byzantine Period
chapter 48|8 pages
Bioarchaeology of North Jordan
part |36 pages
Islamic Civilization in Jordan