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Volume 102 No. 3
July 1998
 
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NEWSLETTER
 
Archaeology in Jordan
 
Virginia Egan and Patricia M. Bikai
 
The 1998 installment of the "Archaeology in Jordan" newsletter in AJA presents brief reports on recent excavations and projects in the Hashemite Kingdom. The material is once again arranged in chronological order after an initial section on general projects and surveys.

Topics covered in the newsletter are as follows:

General projects and surveys
Shelter over the Petra Church
Central Jordan Palaeoenvironmental Project
Wadi Feinan, environmental investigations
Ecological studies of weed floras, Kerak region and northern Jordan
Archaeological survey of the Dhiban plateau
Zara Archaeological Project
Karak Resources Project
Sandstone weathering, Petra
Wadi Mataha, Petra

Prehistoric
Mashari'a 1
Wadi al-Hasa
Wadi al-Hisban
Neolithic art and symbolism at 'Ain Ghazal
Ba'ja
Tell Fendi

Bronze Age and Iron Age
Tell Abu al-Kharaz
Khirbet Iskander
Jordan Valley Village Project
Tell Johfiyeh
Khirbet al-Mudayna

Nabatean-Roman-Byzantine
Wadi Ramm Recovery Project
Wadi Ramm
Bir Madhkur
The Great Temple at Petra
Khirbet Qazone
Gerasa, Sanctuary of Zeus
'Ain ez-Zara (Kallirrhoe)
Roman Street Project, Petra
Roman Aqaba Project
Wadi el-Kharrar (al-Maghtas)

Byzantine-Islamic
Petra Church Project, Petra papyri
Yajouz
Sa'ad
Gharandal (Arindela)

 
 
 
 

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