The Harra and the Hamad: Excavations and Explorations in Eastern JordanEastern Jordan is divided environmentally into two sectors: the rocky basalt Harra to the west and the open gravel plains of the Hamad to the east. This is the first in a series of three reports on fieldwork carried out in this region from 1979 to 1991, presenting evidence for the Epipalaeolithic periods and Neolithic hunting stations in the Harra associated with the use of desert 'kites'. This volume also includes an edited summary of work by Uzbek and Russian scholars on hunting traps and animal migration patterns on the Ustiurt plateau in Uzbekistan, which lies between the Aral and the Caspian Seas. |
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Contents
Soils of east Jordan and surrounding areas | 5 |
LIST OF FIGURES ix | 7 |
The Epipaleolithic Periods | 11 |
List of Tables | 7 |
Stratigraphy and Construction 37 | 7 |
List of Plates | 12 |
Chipped Stone 59 | |
Ground Stone 121 | 13 |
2a The relative proportions of taxa for each phase and stage of occupation at Dhuweila 160 | 12 |
Botanical Remains 185 | 11 |
Area Survey 191 | 5 |
Arrowshaped structures in the AraloCaspian steppe 207 | 11 |
arrowshaped structure 212 | 4 |
Conclusion 225 | 7 |
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PLATES 245 | 5 |
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Abu Masiade al-Sharqi Ain Ghazal animal facing right arrow-shaped arrowheads artefacts ashy Azraq Azraq 31 Baird basalt bead Betts Bifacial blade and bladelet bladelet blank type bone borers burins calcaneum chert Chipped stone core types cores sensu lato Cortical Blades debitage Dhuweila Dhuweila assemblage distal dorsal Early Neolithic edge enclosure evidence excavated Figure filliform platform fragments Garrard gazella gazelle grinding grinding slab ground stone handstone harra high proportion horned animal facing humerus hunting incised on cobble incomplete outline Jebel Jebel Druze Khallat Anaza kite knapping Late Neolithic sample Map Ref Natufian naviform cores sensu naviform sensu stricto Nishiaki Non-cortical occupation deposits outline of animal Partly Cortical partly-cortical phalanx platform angles platform types PPNB punctiform raw material reduction strategy relatively retouch Rollefson scrapers shows slabs species Stage 2 sample structures suggests surface contexts Table tabular naviform tibia tool classes Total truncation burins Ustiurt walls
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Harra and the Hamad: Excavations and Explorations in Eastern Jordan Volume 1 of Excavations and explorations in Eastern Jordan Sheffield Archaeological Monographs Volume 1 of The Harra and the Hamad: Excavations and Surveys in Eastern Jordan |
| Editor | A. V. G. Betts |
| Publisher | A&C Black, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1850756147, 9781850756149 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Biblical Studies / General |
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