Archaeology and Desertification : : The Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, Southern Jordan / / Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson, David Mattingly.

• Superior document: Wadi Faynan series
• VerfasserIn: Barker, Graeme,; Mattingly, David,; Gilbertson, David ,
• TeilnehmendeR: Mattingly, David,; Gilbertson, David ,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : CBRL,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Wadi Faynan series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 pages).

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...

Table of Contents

• 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.