Pella In Jordan Research Articles

Studying the Significance of the Uninterrupted Occupation in the Archaeological Site of Pella in Jordan as a Sustainable Built Heritage

The Archaeological site of Pella in Jordan represents a continuous uninterrupted microcosm of settlements since the Natufian Period. The sequence of settlements embodies the heritage’s ability to self-sustain over many years, holding substantial power and value historically and geographically. Pella has become underdeveloped and vulnerable due to the lack of understanding of what the site has to offer. This paper highlights Pella’s unique heritage from how its name was derived, its geographic setting, historic interrelated characteristics of various periods, as well as the values, attributes, and opportunities it presents as a sustainable built heritage. This will strengthen the outstanding universal value OUV of the site that might lead it to get it inscribed as a World Heritage Site as well as promote and enhance the national and international advocacy for its preservation.

History & Geography

History & Geography Victor H. Matthews, Christopher T. Begg, William J. Urbrock, Joseph E. Jensen, Eric F. Mason, Fred W. Guyette, Thomas Hieke, Andrew W. Dyck, Randy C. Payne, Joseph E. Jensen, Victor H. Matthews, and Paul R. Redditt 235. [Pella] Abdelkader Ababneh, "The Site of Pella in Jordan: A Case Study for Developing Interpretive Strategies in an Archaeological Heritage Attraction," NEA 81(2018) 100-107. A.'s study explores issues relating to site interpretation and the potential benefits of improved interpretative strategies. Based on an analysis of the literature and on an exploratory study at the site of Tabqat Fahl (ancient Pella), A. offers concrete recommendations for exploring the potential of the site and improving the interpretative media choices that might be used to communicate the site's themes to visitors. The aim is to preserve the site into the future and to revitalize it by enhancing the standard of information about the natural and cultural heritage value found there. [Adapted from published abstract—V.H.M.] 236. James K. Aitken, "Introduction: A City Perspective," The City in the Hebrew Bible, 3-16 [see #705]. A. provides an introduction to the overall topic of the above volume and summaries of the individual essays making it up. His presentation is organized under three main headings: [End Page 70] The City in Ancient Israel; The Ancient and Biblical City; and The City in the Hebrew Bible.—C.T.B. 237. [Bethel] Bradford A. Anderson, "Mapping Narrative Complexity: Textual Geography, Literary Studies, and the City in the Hebrew Bible," The City in the Hebrew Bible, 55-72 [see #705]. A. explores the city in the Hebrew Bible by reflecting on the fields of textual geography and literary studies. Specifically, his study asks how these fields might contribute to an understanding of place in the canonical biblical text, given the expansive nature of the canon and the fact that particular places can be found across the disparate texts and traditions of this collection. Bethel is used as a test case by A. for his reflections and as a helpful example, given its occurrences at various points throughout the canon. Indeed, next to Jerusalem, Bethel is mentioned more than any other place name in the Hebrew Bible, occurring in texts ranging from the ancestors, to the judges, to the early monarchical period, and even briefly re-emerging in the postexilic period. Against this background, A.'s discussion proceeds along three lines. First, he highlights several ways in which interpreters have tried to make sense of the biblical portrayal of Bethel. Second, his essay explores how geographers interested in textual geography, as well as contemporary literary critics, have read space and place in literature, particularly the city in modern fiction. Finally, A. returns to biblical Bethel in order to tease out ways in which findings from textual geography and literary studies might add another dimension to our understanding of the site and the wider notion of the city in the Hebrew Bible. Here A. suggests that these fields can broaden the discussion of the biblical city by reminding us of the narrative complexity that is inherent in the depiction of place within the biblical text itself, as well as the complexity of lived experience that such places represent. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] 238. Rami Arav, "Bethsaida: The Capital City of the Kingdom of Geshur," Archaeology and History of Eighth-Century Judah, 79-98 [see #712]. In this essay, A. takes us through the history of Bethsaida, an important site in the lower Golan where he has led excavations for many years. Bethsaida began as an impressively planned capital of the kingdom of Geshur and ended in a dramatic conflagation at the hands of Assyrian soldiers. It is one of the best-preserved capital cities of the Iron Age, and as such, it offers a glimpse of urban life in the 8th-cent. Levant. The terraced layout of the mound—which is unique to this site—witnesses to expert city planning; by contrast, most towns emerged as natural outgrowths of earlier, smaller settlements. If A. is right in drawing comparisons between Bethsaida and the institutions of...

The Site of Pella in Jordan: A Case Study for Developing Interpretive Strategies in an Archaeological Heritage Attraction

The interpretation of archaeological sites and landscapes for the benefit of the wider public has been of interest to heritage managers, archaeologists, and public groups ever since sites have been...

Bronze Age olive domestication in the north Jordan valley: new morphological evidence for regional complexity in early arboricultural practice from Pella in Jordan

Recent research from the site of Pella in Jordan examines the process and timing of olive cultivation. The frequent presence of olive remains from the Pottery Neolithic, beginning in the Yarmoukian, suggests that exploitation of the olive dates from as early as c. 6200 cal bce, with evidence of oil pressing from at least c. 5200 cal bce. Morphometric data, spanning the Late Neolithic to the Middle Iron Age II, using the measurement of olive endocarp length and width, demonstrates a reduction in the size variation of olive endocarps through time, in addition to an increase in their length, likely the result of selection pressure on trees. At Pella, this change occurs sometime after the Chalcolithic and before the Late Bronze Age, probably post-dating the earliest phases of the Early Bronze Age. Domestication is thus later than Teleilat Ghassul (Jordan), which has the earliest morphological evidence for olive domestication, and suggests that olive domestication was a regionally and temporally diverse process.

Wadi Hammeh 27, an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in Jordan, edited by Phillip C. Edwards. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume 59. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xxvi + 410 pp., 331 figures, 87 tables. Cloth. $228.00.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsWadi Hammeh 27, an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in Jordan, edited by Phillip C. Edwards. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume 59. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xxvi + 410 pp., 331 figures, 87 tables. Cloth. $228.00.Donald O. HenryDonald O. HenryUniversity of Tulsa, [email protected] Search for more articles by this author University of Tulsa, [email protected] PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research Volume 372November 2014 A journal of the American Schools of Oriental Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.5615/bullamerschoorie.372.0211 Views: 5Total views on this site Journal History This article was published in the Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research (1921-2021), which is continued by the Bulletin of the American Schools of Overseas Research (2022-present). Copyright 2014 American Schools of Oriental ResearchPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Economic Cycles in the Byzantine Levant: The Evidence from Lamps at Pella in Jordan

Approximately 800 complete and fragmentary lamps from the Byzantine period have been excavated by the University of Sydney at Pella in northern Jordan. The lamps come from a mixture of tomb and tell deposits and reveal a complex history of trade relations. By comparing the traded lamps found at Pella from the Roman through to the late Umayyad periods, it is possible to demonstrate a significant change in economic patterns during the 4th to late 6th centuries AD. Comment can also be made on the links between the provincial capital, Bet Shean/Scythopolis and the eastern part of the province of Palaestina Secunda.

The Beginning of the Early Bronze Age in the North Jordan Valley: New14C Determinations from Pella in Jordan

This article reports on 10 new accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dates from early phases of the Early Bronze Age at the long-lived settlement of Pella (modern Tabaqat Fahl) in the north Jordan Valley. The new AMS dates fall between 3400 and 2800 cal BC, and support a recent suggestion that all Chalcolithic period occupation had ceased by 3800/3700 cal BC at the latest (Bourke et al. 2004b). Other recently published Early Bronze Age14C data strongly supports this revisionist scenario, suggesting that the earliest phase of the Early Bronze Age (EBA I) occupied much of the 4th millennium cal BC (3800/3700 to 3100/3000 cal BC). As this EB I period in the Jordan Valley is generally viewed as the key precursor phase in the development of urbanism (Joffe 1993), this revisionist chronology has potentially radical significance for understanding both the nature and speed of the move from village settlement towards a complex urban lifeway.

Patterns in dental enamel hypoplasia by sex and age at death in two archaeological populations

AimsLevels of enamel hypoplasia in past populations are frequently used to study health. However, few studies have looked at patterning in the occurrence of different types of hypoplasia. In this pilot study, skeletal remains from an Iron Age tomb at Pella in Jordan were analysed for the presence of linear and pit enamel hypoplasia, to investigate enamel hypoplasia aetiology by comparison of the results obtained for adults and juveniles, and females and males. Methods and resultsThe proportion of individuals with enamel hypoplasia was determined for males and females and for adults and juveniles using the F.D.I. Developmental Defects of Enamel (DDE) Index. Although males and females had a similar percentage of individuals affected, females had a higher prevalence of enamel hypoplasia per tooth than males. Adults had a higher prevalence of enamel hypoplasia than juveniles. In particular, adults had a higher prevalence of linear enamel hypoplasias and pit enamel hypoplasia arrays, but a similar prevalence of single pit enamel hypoplasia when both the permanent and deciduous dentitions were considered. These differences were largely due to different patterns and frequencies of enamel hypoplasia in deciduous teeth compared to permanent teeth. ConclusionsThe different patterns of occurrence of the various forms of hypoplasia observed in this study imply that single pits may have a different aetiology to linear enamel hypoplasias and pit arrays. By investigating similar patterns in other archaeological populations, we may develop a better understanding of the specific causes of particular types of enamel hypoplasia, and may be able to more meaningfully interpret enamel hypoplasia data from past populations.

Housing in late antiquity: from palaces to shops

List of Figures .. ix Acknowledgements .. xv Late Antique Housing and the Uses of Residential Buildings: an Overview .. 1 Simon Ellis Bibliographic Essays Housing in Late Antiquity: Thematic Perspectives .. 25 Inge Uytterhoeven Housing in Late Antiquity: Regional Perspectives .. 67 Inge Uytterhoeven Episcopia Domus in Qua Manebat Episcopus: Episcopal Residences in Northern Italy during Late Antiquity (4th to 6th c. A.D.) .. 97 Yuri A. Marano Architecture and Church Power in Late Antiquity: Canosa and San Giusto (Apulia) .. 131 Guliano Volpe Episkopeia in Asia Minor .. 169 Burcu Ceylan Other Thematic Studies Private Space in Late Antique Cities: Laws and Building Procedures .. 197 Isabella Baldini Lippolis Public Use and Privacy in Late Antique Houses in Asia Minor: the Architecture of Spatial Control .. 239 Lale Ozgenel Shedding Light on Late Roman Housing .. 283 Simon Ellis Regional Studies The Urban Domus in Late Antique Hispania: Examples from Emerita, Barcino and Complutum .. 305 Alexandra Chavarria, Javier Arce and Gisela Ripoll Late Antique Domus in Africa Proconsularis: Structural and Decorative Aspects .. 337 Francesca Ghedini & Silvia Bullo Domus and Villa: Late Antique Housing in Carthage and its Territory .. 367 Jeremy Rossiter Cappadocia's Rock-Cut Courtyard Complexes: a Case Study for Domestic Architecture in Byzantium .. 393 Veronica Kalas Recently Investigated Urban Houses A Late Roman House at Eauze (Cieutat), France .. 417 Simon Esmonde Cleary The Palace of Theoderic at Ravenna: a New Analysis of the Complex .. 425 Andrea Augenti The Triconch Palace at Butrint: the Life and Death of a Late Roman Domus .. 455 William Bowden and John Mitchell The House of the Lycian Acropolis at Xanthos .. 475 Anne-Marie Maniere-Leveque Two Late Antique Residential Complexes at Sagalassos .. 495 Marc Waelkens et al. The Excavation of an Umayyad Period House at Pella in Jordan .. 515 Alan Walmsley Index .. 523

Dental enamel hypoplasias and health changes in the Middle Bronze Age – Early Iron Age transition at Pella in Jordan

Dental enamel hypoplasias are increasingly being used in epidemiological studies as indicators of health within both modern and prehistoric populations. This symptom of growth disruption is used here to examine possible changes in health occurring at the transition between the Bronze Age and Iron Age in Jordan, through examination of enamel hypoplasias in skeletal remains from two tombs at the archaeological site of Pella. A small but not statistically significant difference in the prevalence and frequency of hypoplastic defects was found between the two time periods. These results suggest that the political and economic changes occurring at this time were not sufficiently stressful to cause a dramatic deterioration in health at the onset of the Early Iron Age.

Cult and archaeology at Pella in Jordan: excavating the Bronze and Iron Age temple precinct (1994-2001)

Cult and archaeology at Pella in Jordan: excavating the Bronze and Iron Age temple precinct (1994-2001)

Egypt and Syro‐Mesopotamia in the 4th Millennium: Implications of the New Chronology

Previous articleNext article No AccessReportsEgypt and Syro‐Mesopotamia in the 4th Millennium: Implications of the New Chronology1Alexander H. JoffeAlexander H. JoffeDepartment of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. 16802, U.S.A. ([email protected]). 14 iv 99 Search for more articles by this author Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. 16802, U.S.A. ([email protected]). 14 iv 99PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 41, Number 1February 2000 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/300110 Views: 262Total views on this site Citations: 11Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Nasir Eskandari, Massimo Vidale Drilling stone vessels in third-millennium BC Iran: new evidence from Hajjiabad-Varamin, Jiroft (Kerman Province), Antiquity 96, no.389389 (Aug 2022): 1142–1161.https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.87Raphael Greenberg The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant, 43 (Oct 2019).https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316275993Philippe Beaujard The Worlds of the Indian Ocean, 84 (Oct 2019).https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108341004Cecil Seethal Historical Settlement: Africa, (Mar 2017): 1–11.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0976Alice Stevenson The Egyptian Predynastic and State Formation, Journal of Archaeological Research 24, no.44 (Mar 2016): 421–468.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-016-9094-7 Domestication, Agriculture, and the Rise of the State, (Mar 2014): 109–120.https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139050814.020 The Mid-Holocene, the Late Neolithic, and the Urban-State Revolution, (Mar 2014): 165–212.https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139050814.007 Bibliography, (Nov 2011): 256–348.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444342369.biblio Bibliography, (Oct 2010): 1154–1212.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444320053.biblio1Stephen Bourke, Ugo Zoppi, John Meadows, Quan Hua, Samantha Gibbins The Beginning of the Early Bronze Age in the North Jordan Valley: New 14 C Determinations from Pella in Jordan, Radiocarbon 51, no.33 (Jul 2016): 905–913.https://doi.org/10.1017/S003382220003397XBruce G. Trigger Understanding Early Civilizations, 17 (Jun 2014).https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511840630

Egypt and Syro-Mesopotamia in the 4th Millennium: Implications of the New Chronology

Previous articleNext article No AccessReportsEgypt and Syro‐Mesopotamia in the 4th Millennium: Implications of the New Chronology1Alexander H. JoffeAlexander H. JoffeDepartment of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. 16802, U.S.A. ([email protected]). 14 iv 99 Search for more articles by this author Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. 16802, U.S.A. ([email protected]). 14 iv 99PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 41, Number 1February 2000 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/300110 Views: 267Total views on this site Citations: 11Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Nasir Eskandari, Massimo Vidale Drilling stone vessels in third-millennium BC Iran: new evidence from Hajjiabad-Varamin, Jiroft (Kerman Province), Antiquity 96, no.389389 (Aug 2022): 1142–1161.https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.87Raphael Greenberg The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant, 43 (Oct 2019).https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316275993Philippe Beaujard The Worlds of the Indian Ocean, 84 (Oct 2019).https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108341004Cecil Seethal Historical Settlement: Africa, (Mar 2017): 1–11.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0976Alice Stevenson The Egyptian Predynastic and State Formation, Journal of Archaeological Research 24, no.44 (Mar 2016): 421–468.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-016-9094-7 Domestication, Agriculture, and the Rise of the State, (Mar 2014): 109–120.https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139050814.020 The Mid-Holocene, the Late Neolithic, and the Urban-State Revolution, (Mar 2014): 165–212.https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139050814.007 Bibliography, (Nov 2011): 256–348.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444342369.biblio Bibliography, (Oct 2010): 1154–1212.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444320053.biblio1Stephen Bourke, Ugo Zoppi, John Meadows, Quan Hua, Samantha Gibbins The Beginning of the Early Bronze Age in the North Jordan Valley: New 14 C Determinations from Pella in Jordan, Radiocarbon 51, no.33 (Jul 2016): 905–913.https://doi.org/10.1017/S003382220003397XBruce G. Trigger Understanding Early Civilizations, 17 (Jun 2014).https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511840630

Pre-Classical Pella in Jordan: A Conspectus of Ten Years' Work (1985–1995)

Ce rapport resume les resultats des dix dernieres saisons (1986-1995) de fouilles menees a Pella (Khirbet Fehl et Tell Husn) par les equipes de l'Universite de Sydney, sur les vestiges de l'occupation humaine des periodes pre-classiques (5500-500 av. J.-C.), a savoir des periodes Neolithique, Chalcolithique, l'Age du Bronze et l'Age du Fer

Book Review: Scarab Seals from a Middle to Late Bronze Age Tomb at Pella in Jordan

Book Review: Scarab Seals from a Middle to Late Bronze Age Tomb at Pella in Jordan

Scarab Seals from a Middle to Late Bronze Age Tomb at Pella in Jordan

Scarab Seals from a Middle to Late Bronze Age Tomb at Pella in Jordan

Pella Hinterland Survey 1994: Preliminary Report

The initial season of a three-season intensive survey of the area around Pella in Jordan was conducted in the autumn of 1994, concentrating on the north-east sector. In the 12 km2 area covered, 192 sites of a wide range of periods were identified, varying in size and type from single cisterns to multi-period tells. Notable were the collection of (probably) Bronze Age built-tomb fields, fortified structures of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the evidence for Roman-Byzantine agricultural activities, and the general patterns of settlement existing within the proximity of a major urban site. Soundings were made at one of the more elaborate Byzantine farmstead sites.

Scarab Seals from a Middle to Late Bronze Age Tomb at Pella in Jordan

Scarab Seals from a Middle to Late Bronze Age Tomb at Pella in Jordan

Methodological Trends in Investigations into Ancient Pottery From the Levant

AbstractThe Australian excavations at Pella in Jordan under the guidance of Professor Basil Hennessy (Sydney University, Australia) have over the past 13 years demonstrated the current range of methodologies used in pottery studies in the Levant. One feature of the Australian field team has been the continuing inclusion of this writer from the Archaeology Research Unit, Victoria College, Melbourne (ARU) as a ceramic technologist/potter.The ARU at Victoria College, which operates together with a practical pottery workshop and an Advanced Ceramic Mlaterials Development Unit, uses a multidisciplinary team approach to look at excavated ancient pottery not primarily as archaeological artefacts but as pottery.Within the ARU Dr Ralph Segnit handles the mineralogy, Dr John Hamilton the geology, while Robert Hughan, to whom I am indebted for the testing reported here, handles the ceramic chemistry and fracture mechanics aspects. My role as both a ceramic technologist involved in field archaeology and as a trained potter, is to participate in generating the questions which will form the focus of the team's investigations.

Pots, PIXE, and Data Processing at Pella in Jordan

Les fouilles de l'Universite de Sydney a Pella ont, depuis 1979, mis au jour un abondant materiel. L'A. etudie ici la poterie de l'Age du Bronze Moyen et Recent et la methodologie adoptee pour analyser et interpreter, a la lumiere des donnees archeologiques, les evidences historiques dans le Levant au 2 millenaire avant notre ere. L'etude assistee par ordinateur des assemblages de poterie et les analyses archeometriques (PIXE et NAA) sont discutees en detail