Levant - Transjordan

Excavated by H. J. Franken (1960-1978), and G. van der Kooij, M. M. Ibrahim and Z. A. Kafafi (1976-2009) This project will support the publication of the final report on Iron Age Phase IX at Tell Deir ʿAlla (Tall Dayr ʿAlla, تَلّ دير علا), Jordan. Tell...

(Khirbat adh-) Dharih, in Central Jordan, is a 9 hectares site, located in the large valley of the Laaban (southern tributary of the canyon al-Hasa) where runs the South-North historical road of the inner Southern Levant, known as “King’s highway “ ( at...

This project proposes to re-evaluate and publish with modern standards the material from Teleilat Ghassul preserved in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) archaeological museum. Teleilat Ghassul is located on a large 20 ha mound in the south Jordanian...

This publication project, directed by Dr. Rémy Crassard , addresses the understudied topic of animal trapping in human prehistory and how large-scale trapping strategies impacted landscapes, biodiversity dynamics, and human social organization in...

Many of these issues are being addressed through the analysis of evidence from excavations at Tell esh-Shuna in the north Jordan Valley undertaken 1991-94. The site has revealed a stratigraphic sequence which allows us to chart changes in the subsistence...

PUBLISHED 2012. Please visit the publication's webpage. The publication of the Hisban pottery for the 1968 to 1976 seasons was directed by Gloria London and Larry Herr. The site included 21 strata from the Iron I period to Modern times, with heavy...

PUBLISHED 2013. Please visit the publication's webpage The Natufian period of the Levant (ca.13,000-10,300 BP) witnessed the birth of crucial settlement and subsistence practices in the Levant that laid the foundation for the Neolithic village farming way...

The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) site of Zahrat Adh-'Dhra 2 lies on the barren and deeply dissected Dhra‘ Plain, at the south-east corner of the Dead Sea in Jordan. However, in its heyday (9,200 - 8,300 cal BC) during the early Holocene, the settlement...