Archaeology and Desertification The Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, Southern Jordan
The Wadi Faynan is a harshly beautiful and desertic landscape in southern Jordan, situated between the hyper-arid deserts of the Wadi 'Arabah and the rugged and wetter Mountains of Edom. Archaeology and Desertification presents the results of the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, an inter-disciplin...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
CBRL
2007.
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| Colección: | Wadi Faynan series.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of figures
- xi
- List of tables
- xix
- List of contributors
- xxi
- Preface and acknowledgements xxiii
- Glossary xxv
- PART I Research Themes, Methods, and Background
- The Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey: research themes and project development
- 3 (22)
- Graeme Barker
- David Gilbertson
- David Mattingly
- Introduction
- 3 (1)
- Background and research context
- 3 (5)
- Archaeology and desertification
- 8 (1)
- Initial frameworks
- 9 (7)
- New perspectives, new questions
- 16 (2)
- Developing research themes
- 18 (1)
- Integration
- 19 (3)
- Conclusion and structure of this book
- 22 (3)
- The Wadi Faynan today: landscape, environment, people
- 25 (34)
- Carol Palmer
- David Gilbertson
- Hwedi el-Rishi
- Chris Hunt
- John Grattan
- Sue McLaren
- Brian Pyatt
- Landscape and environment
- 25 (13)
- People
- 38 (21)
- The past and present landscapes of the Wadi Faynan: geoarchaeological approaches and frameworks
- 59 (38)
- Hwedi el-ishi
- Chris Hunt
- John Grattan
- Sue McLaren
- Brian Pyatt
- Geoff Duller
- Gavin Gillmore
- Paul Phillips
- Fieldwork strategy and methodologies
- 59 (3)
- Chronostratigraphies
- 62 (2)
- The Late Quaternary geomorphological framework
- 64 (4)
- Palynological, palynofacies, and macrofossil investigations
- 68 (11)
- Geochemical studies
- 79 (3)
- The industrially-polluted landscapes of the Wadi Faynan
- 82 (4)
- Metal-pollution burdens and pathways in plants, animals, and the agricultural economy
- 86 (3)
- Radon gas and human health in the mines
- 89 (3)
- Holocene landscapes in the Wadi Faynan: an outline palaeoenvironmental framework
- 92 (5)
- Recording and classifying the archaeological record
- 97 (44)
- Oliver Creighton
- Graeme Barker
- David Mattingly
- Introduction
- 97 (3)
- Artefact `site'
- 100 (1)
- Domestic structure
- 101 (11)
- Excavation
- 112 (1)
- Field system
- 113 (2)
- Funerary structure
- 115 (9)
- Hydraulic structure
- 124 (4)
- Mining feature
- 128 (5)
- Metallurgical feature
- 133 (3)
- Miscellaneous structures
- 136 (2)
- Religious structure
- 138 (1)
- Rock engraving
- 139 (2)
- The Wadi Faynan field systems
- 141 (36)
- Paul Newson
- Graeme Barker
- Patrick Daly
- David Mattingly
- David Gilbertson
- Introduction
- 141 (4)
- The field system survey
- 145 (3)
- Constructing the GIS
- 148 (2)
- Walls, channels, and hydraulic technology
- 150 (12)
- Other water-management structures
- 162 (2)
- Other structures
- 164 (2)
- Surface artefact distributions
- 166 (3)
- The palimpsest landscape
- 169 (8)
- PART II Chronological Syntheses
- Pleistocene environments and human settlement
- 177 (22)
- Sue McLaren
- Tim Reynolds
- David Gilbertson
- John Grattan
- Chris Hunt
- Hwedi el-Rishi
- Graeme Barker
- Geoff Duller
- Introduction
- 177 (3)
- Pleistocene climates
- 180 (1)
- Geomorphological processes and deposits
- 181 (10)
- Human occupation in the Pleistocene
- 191 (7)
- The Pleistocene landscape and its human utilization
- 198 (1)
- Early Holocene environments and early farming, c. 11,000-7000 cal. BP, c.9500-5000 cal. BC
- 199 (28)
- Graeme Barker
- Chris Hunt
- Sue McLaren
- Tim Reynolds
- Hwedi el-Rishi
- David Gilbertson
- John Grattan
- Introduction
- 199 (3)
- Environments of the early to mid Holocene
- 202 (3)
- Palaeoecology
- 205 (3)
- Initial Neolithic settlement, c.9500-8500 BC
- 208 (4)
- Later Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement, c.8500-6500 BC
- 212 (4)
- Later Neolithic settlement
- 216 (4)
- Neolithic pictographs?
- 220 (5)
- Conclusion
- 225 (2)
- Chalcolithic (c.5000-3600 cal. BC) and Bronze Age (c.3600-1200 cal. BC) settlement in Wadi Faynan: metallurgy and social complexity
- 227 (44)
- Graeme Barker
- Russell Adams
- Oliver Creighton
- Hwedi el-Rishi
- David Gilbertson
- John Grattan
- Chris Hunt
- Paul Newson
- Brian Pyatt
- Tim Reynolds
- Introduction
- 227 (1)
- Climate and environment
- 227 (4)
- Chalcolithic settlement in Wadi Faynan
- 231 (1)
- Early Bronze Age `urbanism'
- 232 (3)
- Bronze Age monument types in Wadi Faynan
- 235 (1)
- The major settlement complex of WF100
- 236 (6)
- Domestic, funerary, and hydraulic structures south of WF100
- 242 (9)
- The WF24 water catchment: sediments and palynology
- 251 (4)
- EBA settlement beside the Wadi Faynan channel
- 255 (2)
- Pastoral settlement away from the Wadi Faynan channel
- 257 (4)
- Metallurgical activity
- 261 (1)
- Bronze Age pictographs?
- 262 (5)
- The Bronze Age landscapes and societies of the Wadi Faynan
- 267 (4)
- The making of early states: the Iron Age and Nabataean periods
- 271 (34)
- David Mattingly
- Paul Newson
- John Grattan
- Roberta Tomber
- Graneme Barker
- David Gilbertson
- Chris Hunt
- Introduction
- 271 (1)
- Edom and the `Edomites'
- 271 (2)
- Copper mining and smelting
- 273 (5)
- Iron Age settlement in Wadi Faynan
- 278 (7)
- Evidence of environmental change
- 285 (3)
- Dating issues
- 288 (2)
- Ancient Edom and copper production in Wadi Faynan
- 290 (1)
- Nabataean Faynan
- 291 (10)
- Historical implications
- 301 (4)
- A landscape of imperial power: Roman and Byzantine Phaino
- 305 (44)
- David Mattingly
- Paul Newson
- Oliver Creighton
- Roberta Tomber
- John Grattan
- Chris Hunt
- David Gilbertson
- Hwedi el-Rishi
- Brian Pyatt
- Introduction
- 305 (3)
- Roman copper exploitation in the Wadi `Arabah region
- 308 (1)
- The Roman army in southern Jordan
- 309 (1)
- The Roman mining landscape around Faynan
- 309 (23)
- Dating issues
- 332 (1)
- The labour force at the mines
- 333 (1)
- Environment and people: the impacts of Roman mining
- 334 (10)
- The logistics of supply
- 344 (1)
- Charcoal and fuel demands
- 345 (1)
- A landscape of imperial power
- 346 (3)
- The Islamic and Ottoman periods
- 349 (20)
- Paul Newson
- David Mattingly
- Patrick Daly
- Roberta Tomber
- Hwedi el-Rishi
- David Gilbertson
- John Grattan
- Chris Hunt
- Sue McLaren
- Brian Pyatt
- Introduction
- 349 (3)
- Climate, environment, and human impacts
- 352 (11)
- Archaeology
- 363 (4)
- Synthesis: life in an abandoned industrial landscape
- 367 (2)
- Ethnoarchaeology
- 369 (28)
- Carol Palmer
- Helen Smith
- Patrick Daly
- Introduction
- 369 (1)
- The Bedouin Camp Survey
- 369 (1)
- Campsite architecture
- 370 (3)
- Campsite location
- 373 (1)
- Tent orientation
- 374 (1)
- Tribal associations
- 375 (1)
- Durable campsite architecture
- 376 (4)
- Contrasts in campsite organization and architecture
- 380 (4)
- Artefacts and activities around tent sites
- 384 (9)
- Bedouin material culture in the recent past
- 393 (1)
- Other evidence of bedouin activity around the Wadi Faynan
- 393 (1)
- Conclusion
- 394 (3)
- Archaeology and desertification: the landscapes of the Wadi Faynan
- 397 (68)
- David Gilbertson
- Graeme Barker
- David Mattingly
- Carol Palmer
- John Grattan
- Brian Pyatt
- Introduction
- 397 (1)
- Desertification: research issues and analytical problems
- 398 (4)
- Pleistocene environments and human occupation
- 402 (2)
- People and environment in the Holocene: disaggregating desertification
- 404 (9)
- Scale and complexity
- 413 (3)
- Cores and peripheries
- 416 (1)
- Arid-zone archaeology
- 416 (1)
- Conclusion
- 417 (1)
- Postscript: the Wadi Faynan today and in the future
- 418 (7)
- Summaries
- English summary
- 425 (10)
- Arabic summary
- 435 (4)
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 Published radiocarbon dates from the Faynan region
- 439 (6)
- Chris Hunt
- David Mattingly
- Graeme Barker
- David Gilbertson
- Appendix 2 Classical and Islamic pottery
- 445 (20)
- Roberta Tomber
- A2.1 Introduction
- 445 (1)
- A2.2 Method
- 445 (1)
- A2.3 Pottery classification
- 446 (4)
- A2.4 Chronological summary
- 450 (15)
- Bibliography 465 (38)
- Index 503.
