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Numayra - Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Townsite in Jordan, 1977–1983 (Hardcover)
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Numayra - Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Townsite in Jordan, 1977–1983 (Hardcover)
Series: Reports of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain
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The emergence of ancient urbanism has long held the interest of
archaeologists attempting to understand the origins of inequality
and its links to early urban life. This volume presents the results
of archeological research at the Early Bronze Age sites of Numayra
and Ras an-Numayra, conducted to investigate the rise of Early
Bronze Age urban society, with a distinctive focus on links between
environmental and social systems. The Dead Sea Plain excavations at
Numayra and Ras an-Numayra uncovered extraordinarily well-preserved
architecture, artifacts, and faunal and paleoethnobotanical remains
that offer exciting and profound insights that enhance our
understanding of life in these walled settlements. Under the
codirection of R. Thomas Schaub and Walter E. Rast, the Expedition
to the Dead Sea Plain team designed their research with an
explicitly anthropological focus, based on the New Archaeology’s
principles for archaeological knowledge production. Their
excavations at these sites in the mid-1970s and early 1980s
heralded the now-common approach combining archaeology,
paleoethnobotany, palynology, bioarchaeology, zooarchaeology,
geology, and ethnoarchaeology into the research project, with a
multidisciplinary team in the field to systematize collection and
sampling procedures. These excavations at Numayra and Ras
an-Numayra represent a watershed moment in the history of
archaeological research in the southern Levant, setting new
standards for scientific methods and a multidisciplinary approach
to investigating the past.
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