Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (Dec 2019)

HLC Project 2018: Jagiellonian University excavations in southern Jordan

  • Piotr Kołodziejczyk,
  • Marek Nowak,
  • Michał Wasilewski,
  • Barbara Witkowska,
  • Jacek Karmowski,
  • Marcin Czarnowicz,
  • Justyna Zakrzeńska,
  • Agnieszka Brzeska-Zastawna

DOI
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.2083-537X.pam28.2.15
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 2
pp. 251 – 286

Abstract

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A complex view of the prehistory in southern Jordan emerges from the excavations of the Jagiellonian University team, which carried out in 2018 its second season of fieldwork at the sites of Munqata’a and Faysaliyya, even as analyses of finds from the previous season were underway. Human communities living here in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age practiced both sedentary and mobile lifestyles. The changing landscape around them, caused by natural erosion processes and periodical climate change, is also taken into consideration while interpreting the explored relics.

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