A landscape of preservation: late prehistoric settlement and sequence in the Jebel Qurma region, north-eastern Jordan

Peter Akkermans; Harmen Huigens; Merel Bruning

doi:10.1179 / 0075891414Z.00000000041

A landscape of preservation: late prehistoric settlement and sequence in the Jebel Qurma region, north-eastern Jordan

Peter Akkermans, Harmen Huigens, Merel Bruning

School of Geog & Environmental Scs

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Recent fieldwork in the Jebel Qurma region, in the basalt wasteland east of Azraq, revealed a large number of prehistoric sites,dating from the 7th to the late 4th millennia cal BC. While some sites were little more than lithic scatters over a few dozen square metres, others were of impressive size, up to 8 hectares in extent and characterized by hundreds of stone-built structures. The new data demonstrate considerable diversity in site layout as well as clear shifts in habitation patterns and locational preferences through time. These new insights require a re-evaluation of current thoughts on settlement and community organization in the basaltic uplands of north-eastern Jordan in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	186-205
Journal	Levant
Volume	46
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1179 / 0075891414Z.00000000041
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 8 Sept 2014

Keywords

Jordan
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
dessert environs
settlement history

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Mobile Peoples - Permanent Places. Nomadic landscapes and stone architecture from the Hellenistic to Early Islamic periods in north-eastern Jordan
Huigens, H., 2019, Oxford: Archaeopress. 270 p.
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A landscape of preservation: late prehistoric settlement and sequence in the Jebel Qurma region, north-eastern Jordan

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Mobile Peoples - Permanent Places. Nomadic landscapes and stone architecture from the Hellenistic to Early Islamic periods in north-eastern Jordan

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