The scarcity of water is a major problem in many parts of the Near
East today and has been so in the past. To survive in such a region
people should be able to structurally attain more water than
rainfall alone can supply. The archaeology of this area should not
only identify when people inhabited such a region and what the
character of this habitation was, but also how people were able to
survive in such a region and why they chose to live there in the
first place. In this book these questions have been studied for the
Zerqa Triangle; a region in the middle Jordan Valley around Tell
Deir 'Alla (Jordan). By means of a detailed pedestrian
archaeological survey the intensity of habitation of the region
from the Neolithic to early modern periods is investigated. Efforts
have been undertaken to reconstruct the agricultural practices in
the various periods and simultaneously the means by which the
different communities were able to practice agriculture; in other
words, how did they irrigate the land? By focussing on the
different social responses of communities, conclusions have been
drawn on how and why people managed to create a living in this
arid, but potentially very fertile region. This book not only
contributes to the ongoing discussion of the archaeology of
marginal areas, but also provides a huge amount of new data on the
archaeology of the Jordan Valley, both in the form of newly
discovered settlement sites from several different periods as well
as remains from several more inconspicuous types of human activity
present in the countryside.
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