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Volume 101 No. 3 July 1997    Abstract       Current TOC     Past Issues     Prerelease TOC

NEWSLETTER   Archaeology in Jordan   Patricia M. Bikai and Virginia Egan   The 1997 installment of AJA's annual "Archaeology in Jordan" newsletter presents brief reports on recent excavations and projects in the Hashemite Kingdom. The material is arranged in chronological order after the reports on general projects and surveys. The topics covered in the newsletter are as follows: General Projects and Surveys Amman Citadel, Restoration of Ayyubid tower Limestone weathering analysis, Great Temple of Amman Wadi Ramm epigraphic survey Wadi Faynan Project Archaeological survey of 'Iraq el-Amir and the Wadi es-Seer Archaeological survey of the Dhiban plateau 'Aqaba-Ma'an Survey Survey of the east coast of the Dead Sea Ras an-Naqab Survey Gebel Shara Survey Shu'aib/Hisban Project Prehistoric OSL dating at Disi Dana-Faynan Epipalaeolithic Project Recovery from landslides in Wadi Ziqlab Pre-Pottery Neolithic stone rings from Basta 'Ain Ghazal Neolithic art and symbolism at 'Ain Ghazal Bronze Age and Iron Age Tell Abu al-Kharaz Tell Madaba Madaba Plains Project Tell Johfiyeh Khirbet al-Mudayna/Wadi ath-Thamad Hellenistic-Nabataean-Roman Gadara/Umm Qais Gadara/Umm Qais water system Wadi Musa salvage excavation Wadi Ramm Wadi Ramm Recovery Project Rabba and Qasr Rabba Project Humeima Excavation Project The Great Temple at Petra Ghor en-Numeira Gerasa, Temple of Artemis Gerasa, Cathedral Regional Petrography Project The Roman Aqaba Project Byzantine-Islamic-Crusader Bioarchaeology in southern Jordan El-Lisan Archaeological Project Deir 'Ain 'Abata, Ghor es-Safi Petra Church Petra Church Project, Petra papyri Khirbet edh-Dharih Hayyan al-Mushref Project Petra, Ridge Church Medieval Petra: Settlements of the Crusader and Ayyubid period

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