Communities of Interaction: Tradition and Learning in Stone Tool Production Through the Lens of the Epipaleolithic of Kharaneh IV, Jordan

Maher, Lisa; Macdonald, Danielle A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-46126-3_11

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“…The dryland environments in the eastern Badia of Jordan (Al-Homoud et al, 1995;Allison et al, 2000) contain multiple archaeological sites spanning the late Quaternary (e.g. Maher and Macdonald, 2020;Meister et al, 2017;Nowell et al, 2016). Water availability was an important factor for enabling this human occupation.…”

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The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an)

Jones

Richter

Rollefson

et al. 2022

Quaternary International

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The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an)

Jones

Richter

Rollefson

et al. 2022

Quaternary International

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“…Rainfall is low on average, with approximately 200 mm of mean annual rainfall to the north and less than 50 mm per year in the south, where only one or two events typically occur during a rainy season. Despite these currently arid conditions, the eastern badia environment contains archaeological sites spanning the late Quaternary period [23][24][25][26][27][28]. Presumably the environment was more amenable to human settlement during the early-tomid-Holocene (c. 12-8 kya), with increased rainfall or increased surface water retention that could support animals and plants.…”

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The Black Desert Drone Survey: New Perspectives on an Ancient Landscape

Hill

Rowan

2022

Remote Sensing

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This paper presents the results of a large scale, drone-based aerial survey in northeastern Jordan. Drones have rapidly become one of the most cost-effective and efficient tools for collecting high-resolution landscape data, fitting between larger-scale, lower-resolution satellite data collection and the significantly more limited traditional terrestrial survey approaches. Drones are particularly effective in areas where anthropogenic features are visible on the surface but are too small to identify with commonly and economically available satellite data. Using imagery from fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, along with photogrammetric processing, we surveyed an extensive archaeological landscape spanning 32 km2 at the site of Wadi al-Qattafi in the eastern badia region of Jordan, the largest archaeological drone survey, to date, in Jordan. The resulting data allowed us to map a wide range of anthropogenic features, including hunting traps, domestic structures, and tombs, as well as modern alterations to the landscape including road construction and looting pits. We documented thousands of previously unrecorded and largely unknown prehistoric structures, providing an improved understanding of major shifts in the prehistoric use of this landscape.

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Communities of Interaction: Tradition and Learning in Stone Tool Production Through the Lens of the Epipaleolithic of Kharaneh IV, Jordan

Cited by 2 publications

References 114 publications

The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an)

The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an)

The Black Desert Drone Survey: New Perspectives on an Ancient Landscape

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