Crossing Jordan - North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan
Edited by Thomas E. Levy, P. M. Michèle Daviau, Randall W. Younker and May Shaer
To be published by: Equinox Publishing, Ltd
(Web site: http://www.equinoxpub.com/homemain.asp )
Table of Contents
Preface - His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan Bin Talal
Preface - Dr. Fawwaz al-Khraysheh, Director General, Department of Antiquities of Jordan
Preface - Dr. Barbara A. Porter, Director, ACOR
- Thinking Globally and Also Locally: Anthropology, History and Archaeology in the Study of Jordan's Past
Oystein S. LaBianca, Andrews University - American and Canadian History and Archaeology in Jordan
Nancy Lapp, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary - Archaeological Survey Work in Jordan: The North American Contribution
Burton MacDonald, St. Francis Xavier University - The Once and Future GIS Database: The History, Current Condition, and Future Development of JADIS
Stephen Savage, Arizona State University - On-Site Digital Archaeology: GIS-Based Excavation Recording in Southern Jordan
Thomas E. Levy and Neil G. Smith, University of California, San Diego - High Precision Radiocarbon Dating in Jordan
Thomas Higham, Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit - The Evolving Landscapes of Jordan: The Contributions of Geoarchaeology and Paleoecology
Carlos E. Cordova, Oklahoma State University - Past Environments of the Jordan Plateau from the Paleolakes of the Eastern Desert
Caroline Davies, University of Missouri, Kansas City - Conservation and Preservation of Archaeological Sites in Jordan: Initiatives of the American Center of Oriental Research
Pierre Bikai, American Center of Oriental Research, Jordan - Ancient Metal Production and Social Change in Southern Jordan: The Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project Thomas E. Levy, University of California, San Diego and Mohammad Najjar, Department of Antiquities of Jordan
- How Crossing Jordan Made the Difference: The Case of the Madaba Plains Project, 1967 - 2007
Lawrence T. Geraty, La Sierra University - Tell Hesban: Palimpsest of Great and Little Traditions of Transjordan and the Ancient Near East
Oystein S. LaBianca, Andrews University and Bethany Walker, Grand Valley State University - Tall al-`Umayri through the Ages
Larry Herr, Canadian University College and Douglas R. Clark, La Sierra University - Highlights from the Heights of Jalul
Randall Younker, Andrews University - The 'Iraq al-Amir and Dhiban Plateau Regional Surveys
Chang-Ho Ji, La Sierra University - Investigating 5,000 Years of Urban History: The Tall Madaba Archaeological Project
Timothy P. Harrison, Debra Foran, and Andrew Graham, University of Toronto - Crossing Jordan - By Way of the Karak Plateau
Gerald L. Mattingly, Johnson Bible College and James H. Pace, Elon University - Four Archaeological Surveys in Southern Jordan
Burton MacDonald, St. Francis Xavier University - Looking For Neanderthals and Finding Ourselves: Excavations at Tur Faraj
Donald O. Henry, University of Tulsa - Neanderthals at the Crossroads: Middle Paleolithic Sites on the Madaba Plateau, Jordan
Michael Bison, McGill University, April Nowell, University of Victoria, Carlos Cordova and Regina Kalchgruber, Oklahoma State University - Midnight at the Oasis: The End of the Pleistocene in Wadi al-Hasa
Nancy R. Coinman, Iowa State University and Deborah I. Olszewski, University of Pennsylvania - Microliths and Mortuary Practices: New Perspectives on the Epipaleolithic in Northern and Eastern Jordan
Lisa Maher, University of Cambridge - Crossing the Boundary to Domestication Economies: A Case Study from West-Central Jordan
Michael Neeley, Montana State University and Jane Peterson, Marquette University - The Rediscovery of the Neolithic Period in Jordan
Gary O. Rollefson, Whitman College and Zeidan Kafafi, Yarmouk University - Late Prehistory in Wadi Ziqlab, al-Kura, Jordan: From Sedentism to Olive-oil Factories
Ted Banning, University of Toronto - Living on the Edge: Settlement and Abandonment on the Dead Sea Plain
Patricia Fall, Steven Falconer, Arizona State University and Philip Edwards, La Trobe University - Is Big Really Better? Life in the Sesort Corridor--Ghuwayr I, a Small but Elaborate Neolithic Community in Southern Jordan
Alan H. Simmons, University of Nevada, and Mohammad Najjar, Department of Antiquities of Jordan - Life in the earliest walled towns on the Dead Sea Plain: Bab adh-Dhra' and an-Numayra
R. Thomas Schaub, Expedition to the dead Sea Plain and Meredith Chesson, University of Notre Dame - Death and Dying on the Dead Sea Plain: Cemeteries of Fifa, Bab adh-Dhra' and Khirbat al-Khanazir
Meredith Chesson, University of Notre Dame and R. Thomas Schaub, Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain - Life at the Foundation of Bronze Age Civilization: Agrarian Villages in the Jordan Valley
Steven Falconer, Patricia Fall, Arizona State University and Jennifer Jones, University of Minnesota - Khirbat Iskander: A City in Collapse at the End of the Early Bronze Age
Suzanne Richard, Gannon University and Jesse C. Long, Jr., Lubbock Christian University - A Landscape Approach to Craft and Agricultural Production: Tracking the Location of Early Bronze Age Manufacturing at al-Lajjun, Jordan
Jennifer E. Jones, University of Minnesota - The Early Bronze Age City States of the Southern Levant: Neither Cities nor States
Stephen Savage, Steven Falconer, Arizona State University and Timothy P. Harrison, University of Toronto - Independent and Well-Connected: The Ammonites of Central Jordan
P. M. Michèle Daviau, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Paul-Eugène Dion, University of Toronto - Shepherds and Weavers in a "Global" Economy: Moab in Late Iron Age II
P. M. Michèle Daviau, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Robert Chadwick, Bishops University, Sherbrooke Quebec - The Power of Place: The Dhiban Community through the Ages
Benjamin Porter, University of Pennsylvania, Bruce Routledge, University of Liverpool, Danielle Steen, Stanford University, and Firas al-Kawamlha, Dhiban Community, Jordan - A Place In-Between: Khirbat al-Mudayna al-'Aliya in the Early Iron Age
Bruce Routledge, University of Liverpool and Benjamin Porter, University of Pennsylvania - In Search of Hellenistic Petra - Excavations in the City Center
David F. Graf, University of Miami - Shifting Places, Changing Faces: The Civic Statuary of Roman Jordan
Elise A. Friedland, Rollins College - Projecting Power on the Periphery: Rome's Arabian Frontier East of the Dead Sea
S. Thomas Parker, North Carolina State University - Beyond Frankincense and Myrrh: Reconstructing the Economy of Roman 'Aqaba
S. Thomas Parker, North Carolina State University - Gods and Vineyards at Bayda
Patricia M. Bikai, Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos, American Center of Oriental Research, Jordan and Shari Saunders, American Research Center in Egypt - Nabataean Landscape & Power: Evidence from the Petra Garden and Pool Complex
Leigh-Ann Bedal , Penn State University, Erie and James G. Schryver, University of Minnesota, Morris - Surprises at the Great Temple
Martha S. Joukowsky, Brown University - Beyond the Nabataean and Roman City: Surveying the Central and Southern Wadi 'Arabah
Andrew M. Smith II, North Carolina State University - Luxury in the desert: A Nabataean palatial residence at Wadi Ramm
Dennine Dudley, University of Victoria and M. Barbara Reeves, Queen's University - Torn Asunder: Earthquakes at Qasr at-Tilah
Tina M. Niemi, University of Missouri, Kansas City - A Decade of Cooperative Jordanian and American Student Research
J.C. Rose, Dolores L. Burke, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and Mahmoud el-Najjar, Yarmouk University - Beyond the Rock: Petra in the Sixth Century CE in the Light of the Papyri
Robert C. Caldwell, Wesleyan College and Traianos Gagos, University of Michigan - Petra's Churches: The Byzantines and Beyond
Megan Perry, East Carolina University, and Patricia M. Bikai, American Center of Oriental Research, Jordan - From Nabatean King to Abbasid Caliph: The Enduring Attraction of Hawara/al-Humayma - a Multi-Cultural Site in Arabia Petraea
John Peter Oleson, University of Victoria - How to be Elite without being Umayyad: Expressions of Abbasid Identity at Al-Humayma in the Early Eighth Century CE Context
Rebecca M. Foote, Harvard University - Paradox of Power: Between Local and Imperial at Umm El-Jimal.
Bert de Vries, Calvin College - Peasants, Pilgrims, and the Body Politic: The Northern Jordan Project and the Landscapes of the Islamic Periods
Bethany Walker, Grand Valley State University