Jebel al-Mutawwaq : a fourth millennium BCE village and dolmen field : six years of Spanish-Italian excavations (2012-2018) / edited by Andrea Polcaro, Juan Ramon Muñiz & Alessandra Caselli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Polcaro, Andrea, editor.

Muñiz, Juan Ramon, editor.

Caselli, Alessandra, editor.

Series:

LEMA, Studies in the archaeology & history of the Levant & Eastern Mediterranean ; 3.

LEMA, Studies in the archaeology & history of the Levant & Eastern Mediterranean ; III

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jordan--Antiquities.

Jordan.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Jordan.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

xiii, 267 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2024]

Summary:

A new analysis of a crucial period in history, tracing the birth of the first urbanized cultures of the Southern Levant during the fourth millennium BCE. The Early Bronze Age site of Jebel al-Mutawwaq, located on a hill overlooking the Zarqa River in Jordan, was a thriving centre of population from the second half of the fourth millennium into the third millennium BCE. During this time, the settlement developed both in population and social complexity, undergoing the beginnings of an urbanization process that fundamentally changed the relationship between this community of the Transjordanian Highlands with the surrounding landscape, until it was completely abandoned around 2900 BCE. This volume offers a new assessment of the site by combining data from the first surveys of the site, under a Spanish team led by J. A. Fernandez-Tresguerres, with the new results from six seasons of excavations led by teams from Perugia in Italy, and San Esteban in Spain. In doing so, this work sheds new light on this walled settlement and its huge megalithic necropolises, and offers a fresh understanding of the site.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

2503609392

9782503609393

OCLC:

1412500217

Publisher Number:

99996897505