A landscape of preservation: late prehistoric settlement and sequence in the Jebel Qurma region, north-eastern Jordan. (August 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Akkermans, Peter M. M. G.; Huigens, Harmen O.; Brüning, Merel L.
• Is Part Of: Levant. Volume 46:Number 2(2014)
• Page Start: 186
• Page End: 205
• Publication Date: 2014-08
• Subjects: Middle East -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Middle East -- History -- Periodicals; Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622 -- Periodicals; 939.4
• DOI: 10.1179/0075891414Z.00000000041
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0075-8914

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>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 <sc>bc</sc>. 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.</p> </abstract>