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Humayma Excavation Project, 2 - Nabatean Campground and Necropolis, Byzantine Churches, and Early Islamic Domestic Structures (Hardcover)
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Humayma Excavation Project, 2 - Nabatean Campground and Necropolis, Byzantine Churches, and Early Islamic Domestic Structures (Hardcover)
Series: Archaoelogical Reports
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Includes 384 illustrations, some in colour. In 1986 and 1987 Oleson
and a small team surveyed an area of 250 sq km around the site of
al-Humayma (ancient Hawara) in Jordan's southern desert. Hawara was
founded sometime in the first century BC by the Nabataean king
Aretas. The flourishing settlement was occupied by a unit of Roman
soldiers after AD 107, and it became the largest settlement in the
Hisma desert during the Byzantine period. The Abbasid family built
a manor house and mosque at Humayma in the late seventh century.
This is the second volume of a projected four volume series about
the research on this important site. This volume reports on a
Nabataean campground, which provides unique testimony to the
flexible character of Nabataean settlement design, and provides
detailed information on the Nabataean necropolis, which shows
parallels with those at both Petra and Hegra. The volume also
includes the excavation records and analysis of five Byzantine
churches, two of which lay above Nabataean structures, and three of
which were modified for re-occupation in the Early Islamic period.
There are also short reports on the probing of an Early Islamic
structure of undetermined character, and on an important hoard of
coins and jewellery found in the countryside. A number of
subsidiary studies concern the human remains, botanical and faunal
remains, fish bones, and molluscs found at the site in the course
of the 11 seasons of excavation. The ceramics and small finds
associated with the structures are analyzed, along with the many
marble chancel screen fragments. The main audience will be
archaeologists of the Near and Middle East. The presentation
highlights issues such as the projection of culture from Petra
outward to peripheral settlements, transitions between nomadic
pastoralist and sedentary agricultural ways of life in Arabia
Petraea, design eccentricities in rural church architecture, the
spread and practice of Christianity in this region, and rural
architecture of the Early Islamic period. There is also discussion
of the physical evidence for local desert agriculture, stock
raising, hunting, the import and export of foodstuffs, and the
state of human nutrition at ancient Humayma.
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