Madaba Plains Project

Douglas R. Clark is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Archaeology at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, and Director of the University Honors Program. Having authored, co-authored, and co-edited eight volumes, including 100 Years of American Archaeology in the Middle East and Ancient Ammonites and Modern Arabs, he has published and presented widely. He currently directs the Tall al-`Umayri excavations. Larry G. Herr is Professor of Religious Studies at Canadian University College in Lacombe, Alberta. An extremely widely published archaeologist, he is Associate Editor of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research and has served for 12 seasons as co-director of the Tall al-`Umayri excavations. He is chief editor of the series of preliminary and seasonal published reports, the latter in the Madaba Plains Project-`Umayri series. Øystein S. LaBianca is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director, Institute of Archaeology at Andrews University in Michigan. He is senior director of the Tall Hisban excavations. Randall W. Younker is Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Archaeology at Andrews University in Michigan.

• Part I Madaba Plains Project Research after 40 Yeears; Chapter 1 The Madaba Plains Project, Lawrence T. Geraty; Chapter 2, Ø. S. LaBianca; Chapter 3 Tall al-‘Umayri in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, and the Late Iron I, Iron II, Late Iron II/Persian, Hellenistic, Early Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Periods, Larry G. Herr; Chapter 4 The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages at Tall al-‘Umayri, Douglas R. Clark; Chapter 5 The Madaba Plains Project, Randall W. Younker, Constance Clark Gane, Reem Al-Shqour; Part II Assessment of the Contributions of the Madaba Plains Project to the Archaeology of the Southern Levant; Chapter 6 Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Madaba Plains Project, William G. Dever; Chapter 7 On the Periphery of the Madaba Plains Project, Suzanne Richard; Chapter 8 Collaborative Research with the Madaba Plains Project by an Historical Geographer, Anson F. Rainey; Part III Legacy of the Madaba Plains Project throughout Jordan; Chapter 9 From Tall Hisban to Tall al-‘Umayri, Zeidan A. Kafafi; Chapter 10 Where Are Those Guys?, Gary L. Christopherson, Tisha K. Entz; Chapter 11 The Artist’s Role in Archaeology, Rhonda Root; Chapter 12 Organizational Aspects of Pottery Production in Central Jordan, Gloria London, Robert D. Shuster; Chapter 13 Beyond the Madaba Plains Project, Timothy P. Harrison; Chapter 14 Discovering Iron Age Towns in Central Jordan, P. M. Michèle Daviau; Chapter 15 From the Madaba Plains to Northern Jordan, Bethany J. Walker; Chapter 16 “Be of good cheer! No one on earth is immortal”, Bert de Vries; Chapter 17 Khirbat al-Mahatta Revisited, Chang-Ho C. Ji; Chapter 18 Alois Musil in and around the Madaba Plains, Udo Worschech;

'The MPP has left a huge footprint on the archaeology of Jordan and the Middle East in general. Without it, we would all be working in a different way and with a poorer set of theoretical models. This book justly celebrates those achievements and explains how they came about.' --Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research