Tell Abu al-Kharaz in the Jordan Valley. Volume III, The Iron Age / Peter M. Fischer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fischer, Peter M., author.

Series:

Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie ; Band 39.

Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie, ; Band 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Jordan.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Abu al-Kharaz, Tell (Jordan).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (558 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014.

Summary:

Between 1989 and 2012 the settlement mound known as Tell Abu al-Kharaz in the central Jordan Valley to the east of the river Jordan was explored under the direction of the author of this volume. The city experienced its heyday in the Early Bronze Age and - following a lengthy gap in settlement - in the Late Middle Bronze and the Late Bronze Age. Concluding a series of three volumes on Tell Abu al-Kharaz, this study constitutes the first complete report about an Iron Age settlement in the Jordan Valley (after Volume I: Early Bronze Age, 2008 and Volume II: Middle and Late Bronze Age, 2006).

Contents:

Preface ; Introduction and Vade Mecum ; Stratigraphy, architecture and finds ; The pottery : typo-chronological conclusions / Peter M. Fischer

Radiocarbon dating / Eva Maria Wild and Peter M. Fischer

Discussion and conclusions / Peter M. Fischer

Appendix 1. Figurines / Teresa Birge

Appendix 2. The sphinx handle / Peter M. Fischer

Appendix 3. Cosmetic palettes of stone / Peter M. Fischer

Appendix 4. Notes on the glyptic material and Ostraka / Peter M. Fischer.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.