ABSTRACT
In 2003 the University of Minnesota Duluth—Early Urbanism Project (UMD—EUP) began a longterm research program to examine the organization of production in and around the Early Bronze Age fortified site of al-Lajjun in south-central Jordan. In antiquity, people produced and grew a wide variety of items, including chipped and ground stone implements, pottery, textiles, copper tools, flocks, crops, and olive trees. This craft and agricultural production was grounded in the landscape around a site. As people worked at a variety of geographic distances from their home communities, they built social and physical connections to the land.
