Walking through Jordan
Subtitle: essays in honor of Burton MacDonald
By: edited by Michael P. Neeley, Geoffrey A. Clark and P.M. Michèle Daviau
Contributors: MacDonald, Burton, 1939- honouree
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Sheffield, South Yorkshire; Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9781781792834
Subjects: Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology); Historic sites; Archaeological surveying; Prehistoric Antiquities; Archaeology and history; Archaeologists; Biography
Description: "The objective of Walking through Jordan is to acknowledge and honor the singular achievements and wider impacts of Jordan's most prominent survey archaeologist, Burton MacDonald. MacDonald is a biblical scholar by training who has written extensively about the Iron Age and early Christianity. However, unlike many biblical scholars, MacDonald has also undertaken large regional survey projects which encompass the entire gamut of Jordanian prehistory and history. Thus, his work is unique in that it attracts the interest of a wide range of scholars. Contributing scholars from around the world reflect on three important areas of MacDonald's archaeological contributions: on archaeological survey in general, including those focusing on methodology and/or field projects that depend to a large extent on surveys, MacDonald's five major surveys-- papers that incorporate data from his field projects and sites tested or excavated by others that were first identified by his work, and the archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as the Roman Period and the early Christian era. Despite his important contributions to prehistoric archaeology, the early historical periods constitute the main emphasis of Burton's scholarly output"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Michael P. Neeley, Geoffrey A. Clark, and P.M. Michèle Daviau; title: An early Bronze Age basalt bowl and macehead from Khirbat al-Mudayna ath-Thamad / Steven Edwards, PhD candidate, University of Toronto; title: A newly discovered Iron Age II cave tomb at Khirbat al-Mudayna on the Wadi ath-Thamad / Robert Chadwick, Bishops University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada; title: Industrial furnishings at Khirbat al-Mudayna ath-Thamad : clues from Egyptian culture / P.M. Michèle Daviau; title: North Jordan during the early Iron Age : an historic and archaeological synthesis / Zeidan A. Kafafi, Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan; title: Nelson Glueck's "Madaba line" and the Tall Madaba Archaeological Project / Jonathan Ferguson, PhD candidate, University of Toronto; title: The Finnish Jabal Haroun Project : an assessment / Zbigniew T. Fiema, University of Helsinki; title: The Khirbat Iskandar regional survey : a preliminary look / Suzanne Richard, Gannon University; title: The EB IV pottery from the southern Ghors and northeast 'Arabah survey : regionalism reexamined / Stanley Klassen, University of Toronto; title: The Iron Age pottery from Burton MacDonald's last three surveys in the highlands of southern Jordan / Larry G. Herr, Burman University, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada; title: Pliny, Petra, and the aromatics trade / Andrew M. Smith II, George Washington University; title: Monastic traditions in central Jordan : the Tall Ma'in archaeological survey / Debra Foran, Wilfrid Laurier University; title: Reassessing Nelson Glueck's pioneer studies of eastern Palestine : part one, the surveys / Eveline J. van der Steen, independent scholar; title: The Barqa landscape survey, 2009 / Russell B. Adams, Hannah A. Friedman, James D. Anderson, Michael M. Homan, and Lynne M. Rouse; title: Going over old ground : archaeological survey in Jordan then and now / Edward B. Banning, University of Toronto; title: Changing perspectives on the pre-pottery Neolithic : the Wadi al-Hasa after Burton MacDonald / Jane Peterson, Marquette University; title: Archaeological and geomorphological investigations of the late Epipaleolithic in west-central Jordan : TBAS 212 in a regional context / Michael P. Neeley and J. Brett Hill, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas; title: The middle Epipaleolithic at Tor at-Tareeq in the Wadi al-Hasa, Jordan / Deborah I. Olszewski, Natalie D. Munro, and Michael Kennerty; title: Burton MacDonald and the Stone Age in Jordan / Geoffrey A. Clark, Arizona State University.