Walking through Jordan

Michael P. Neeley is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Montana State University. He has conducted archaeological research (both survey and excavation) in Jordan over the past 25 years. Geoffrey A. Clark is Regents' Professor Emeritus, School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He has done fieldwork in Arizona, France, Spain, Cyprus, Turkey, Sudan and Jordan and is the author, co-author or editor of over 300 articles, notes, reviews and comments, and 12 monographs and books on human biological and cultural evolution in "deep time"-the past four million years. P.M. Michele Daviau is retired Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology from the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She directed excavations at Tall Jawa in central Jordan and as project director of the Wadi ath-Thamad Project, she completed excavation at WT-13 and is continuing with work at Khirbat al-Mudayna.

• 1. Introduction Michael P. Neeley, Geoffrey A. Clark, and P. M. Michele Daviau 2. An Early Bronze Age Basalt Bowl and Macehead from Khirbat al-Mudayna ath-Thamad Steven Edwards, PhD candidate, University of Toronto 3. A Newly Discovered Iron Age II Cave Tomb at Khirbat al-Mudayna on the Wadi ath-Thamad Robert Chadwick, Bishops University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada 4. Industrial Furnishings at Khirbat al-Mudayna ath-Thamad: Clues from Egyptian Culture P. M. Michele Daviau 5. North Jordan during the Early Iron Age: An Historic and Archaeological Synthesis Zeidan A. Kafafi, Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan 6. Nelson Glueck's "Madaba line" and the Tall Madaba Archaeological Project Jonathan Ferguson, PhD candidate, University of Toronto 7. The Finnish Jabal Haroun Project: An Assessment Zbigniew T. Fiema, University of Helsinki 8. The Khirbat Iskandar Regional Survey: A Preliminary Look Suzanne Richard, Gannon University 9. The EB IV Pottery from the Southern Ghors and Northeast 'Arabah Survey: Regionalism Reexamined Stanley Klassen, University of Toronto 10. The Iron Age Pottery from Burton MacDonald's Last Three Surveys in the Highlands of Southern Jordan Larry G. Herr, Burman University, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada 11. Pliny, Petra, and the Aromatics Trade Andrew M. Smith II, George Washington University 12. Monastic Traditions in Central Jordan: The Tall Ma?in Archaeological Survey Debra Foran, Wilfrid Laurier University 13. Reassessing Nelson Glueck's Pioneer Studies of Eastern Palestine. Part One: The Surveys Eveline J. van der Steen, Independent Scholar 14. The Barqa Landscape Survey, 2009 Russell B. Adams, University of Waterloo, Hannah A. Friedman, Texas Tech University, James D. Anderson, North Island College, Canada, Michael M. Homan, Xavier University, Canada, and Lynne M. Rouse, Independent Scholar 15. Going Over Old Ground: Archaeological Survey in Jordan Then and Now Edward B. Banning, University of Toronto 16. Changing Perspectives on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic: The Wadi al-Hasa after Burton MacDonald Jane Peterson, Marquette University 17. Archaeological and Geomorphological Investigations of the Late Epipaleolithic in West-Central Jordan: TBAS 212 in a Regional Context Michael P. Neeley and J. Brett Hill, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas 18. The Middle Epipaleolithic at Tor at-Tareeq in the Wadi al-Hasa, Jordan Deborah I. Olszewski, University of Pennsylvania, Natalie D. Munro, University of Connecticut and Michael Kennerty, Independent Scholar 19. Burton MacDonald and the Stone Age in Jordan Geoffrey A. Clark, Arizona State University