List of Illustrations
List of Tables and Appendices
List of Lithic Drawings
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Symbols
Archaeological Periods and Dates
Introduction (Burton MacDonald)
Random Square Descriptions (Burton MacDonald, Larry G. Herr, D.
Scott Quaintance, and Geoffrey A. Clark)
Site Descriptions - 1-366 (Burton MacDonald, Larry G. Herr, D.
Scott Quaintance, and Geoffrey A. Clark)
The Old Stone Age in the Saas Area (Geoffrey A. Clark)
Settlement Patterns Developed on the Basis of the Ceramics
Collected (Burton MacDonald)
Ancient North Arabian Inscriptions, Rock Drawings and Tribal Brands
(WASMS) from the Sammah/'Ayl ('El) Region, Southern Jordan (Hani
Hayajneh)
Seal Impression on an Iron I Jar Rim (Jurg Eggles)
Summary and Conclusions (Burton MacDonald)
Appendices
References
Contributors
Indices
Burton MacDonald is Senior Research Professor,
Department of Religious Studies, St. Francis Xavier University,
Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. Since 1970, he has carried out
archaeological work in Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, and Jordan. He began
his archaeological survey work in Jordan in 1979 and has directed
and previously published on four projects; The Wadi al-Hasa
Archaeological Survey’ (1979-1983), The Southern Ghors and
Northeast 'Arabah Archaeological Survey’ (1985-1986), The
Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey (1999-2001), and The Ayl to
Ras an-Naqab Archaeological Survey (2005-2007).
Larry G. Herr is professor at Burman University,
Lacombe, Alberta, Canada. He has done archaeological work in the
Near East for the past four decades. He is associate director of
the Madaba Plains Project's excavations at Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan,
and a past associate editor of the Bulletin of the American Schools
of Oriental Research
D. Scott Quaintance is a computer specialist with
degrees in linguistics and computer sciences and mathematics from
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. He served as administrator
of the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR), Amman, between
1991 and 1993 and prior to his work on both The Tafila-Busayra
Archaeological Survey, West-Central Jordan (1999-2001) and the
present project, he was administrator of ACOR's Petra Church
Project.
Geoffrey A. Clark is a former Regents' Professor
in the School of Human Evolution & Social Change at Arizona State
University. He is a paleoanthropologist and the author, co-author
or editor of over 250 articles, notes, reviews and comments, and 12
monographs and books on human biological and cultural evolution in
'deep time' - the past four million years. His current interests
turn on the logic of inference underlying knowledge claims in the
various aspects of modern human origins research and with
applications of neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory in archaeology.
He has done fieldwork in Arizona, Mexico, France, Spain, Cyprus,
Turkey and Jordan. Other research foci include European Mesolithic
forager adaptations and the peopling of the Americas.
Hani Hayajneh is a professor in the faculty of
Archaeology and Anthropology at Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.
As a member of that faculty he specializes in Near Eastern
Civilizations and Languages. He has published a number of research
papers, books, articles and reviews on the languages and cultural
history of the Levant and Arabia. He has represented Jordan on
cultural heritage issues in several international venues, notably
the Intergovernmental Committee of the UNESCO Convention for
Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Jurg Eggler studied Theology, Semitic Languages
and Cultural History, and ancient Near Eastern iconography at
Bogenhofen (Austria), Helderberg and Stellenbosch (South Africa),
and Fribourg (Switzerland). Since 1998 he has been a research
fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University
of Fribourg. He co-directed the publication of the corpus of
seal-amulets from Jordan, is editor-in-chief of the lexicon on the
Iconography of Deities and Demons in the Ancient Near East, and is
currently preparing a comprehensive reference work on the
iconography of animals in Palestine/Israel and Jordan.
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