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Umm al-Biyara: Excavations by Crystal-M. Bennett in Petra 1960-1965
by Piotr Bienkowski
Umm al-Biyara, the highest mountain in Petra, southern Jordan, was the first Iron Age Edomite site to be extensively excavated. It was a domestic, unwalled site of stone-built longhouses dating to the 7th-6th centuries BCE. The stratigraphy, pottery, small finds and inscribed material, including the important bulla of Qos-Gabr King of Edom, are described, supplemented by chapters on the use of space and a landscape study of mountain-top sites in ...
Hardback. Price US$70.00


Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan
edited by Thomas E. Levy, P.M. Michèle Daviau, Randall W. Younker and May Shaer
This concise and illustrated book highlights the contributions of North American archaeologists to the archaeology of Jordan. For over 150 years, North American researchers have played a pivotal role in the exploration of Jordan, the development of archaeological methods there, and the construction of theoretical approaches to study the deep-time archaeological record of this key part of the Middle East. As the American Center of Oriental ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$45.00, Our Price US$36.00
Hardback. Price US$120.00


The Roman Army in Jordan
by David Kennedy
This is an updated and revised second edition of a handbook originally prepared for the XVIIIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies in Amman, Jordan in 2000 - a reflection of the growing importance of Roman studies in Jordan in recent years. In Part A, there are chapters on Roman Jordan, the evidence for the army there, geography and environment, the Romans in Jordan and the Roman army there. In Part B there are 15 chapters ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$45.00, Our Price US$36.00


Tell Abu al-Kharaz in the Jordan Valley, Volume 1: The Early Bronze Age
by Peter M. Fischer
This volume is one in a series of three which presents the results of the excavations of the multiperiod settlement of Tell Abu al-Kharaz in the Central Transjordanian Jordan Valley (Volume II on the Middle and Late Bronze Ages was published in 2006; Volume III on the Iron Age is in preparation). The present publication is the first final publication of an Early Bronze Age town in the Transjordanian Jordan Valley. The site was excavated between ...
Paperback. Price US$155.00


Sa'ad: A Late Roman/Byzantine Site in North Jordan
edited by Jerome C. Rose and Dolores L. Burke
This monograph presents the village of Sa'ad, located in northwest Jordan near the Decapolis city of Gerasa (now Jerash) and inhabited continuously from Late Antiquity (in Jordan 324 to 641 CE) through Islamic times. This is an integrated report of the investigation of structures, cemeteries and contents, tombs, artifacts, and skeletal biology that provides a multi-faceted description and analysis of industrial areas, tomb architecture, objects ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$65.00, Our Price US$25.00


Petra Great Temple Volume I: Brown University Excavations 1993-1997
by Martha Sharp Joukowsky
390p, CD Rom (Brown University Petra Exploration Fund 1998)
Hardback. Price US$100.00

The Later Prehistory of the Badia: Excavation and Surveys in Eastern Jordan, Volume 2
by A. V. G. Betts, with D. Cropper, L. Martin and C. McCartney
The Jordanian badia is an arid region that has been largely protected from modern development by its extreme climate and has preserved a remarkably rich record of its prehistoric past. This is the second of two volumes to document extensive surveys and ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$132.00, Our Price US$99.00

Settlement Dynamics in the Middle Jordan Valley during Iron Age II
by Lucas Pieter Petit
This study documents the search for settlement and abandonment processes in a highly vulnerable, but attractive, valley that was squeezed between the rising hills of Cis- and Transjordan. Throughout history this area changed in perception from a barrier ...
Paperback. Price US$117.50

Tribes and Territories in Transition: The Central East Jordan Valley: A Study of the Sources
by Eveline J. van der Steen
This volume deals with the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age in the central East Jordan Valley, the period of the fall of the Egyptian New Kingdom, and of the birth of a new era, in which small kingdoms such as Ammon, Moab and Israel ...
Hardback. Price US$87.00

Über Petra hinaus: Archäologische Erkundungen im südlichen Jordanien
by Manfred Lindner
Manfred Lindner has carried out research and excavations in Petra for forty years and during that time he has published over one hundred papers. This illustrated study reprints fourteen of those papers, each beginning with an English abstract, which cover ...
Hardback. Price US$42.50

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