Jordan
Categories
- Sites and Monuments (14)
Links
Wadi Ziqlab Project
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~banning/Ziqlab/
Archaeological research on Epipalaeolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age settlements in northwestern Jordan.
Khirbet edh-Dharih Archaeological Project
http://www.muheisenz.homestead.com/Dharih.html
Illustrated summary of the results of archaeological excavations at this Nabataean site in Southern Jordan, led by Zeidoun Al-Muheisen and Francois Villeneuve.
Ain Ghazal Neolithic statues
http://www.asia.si.edu/jordan/html/jordan.htm
Information on the discovery, preservation, interpretation and display of the statues at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Archaeology at the Dawn of History: The Khirbet Iskander Collection
http://iskander.tdlc.com/default.html
An introduction for K-12 students in northwest Pennsylvania to the world of Near Eastern Archaeology by the use is Khirbet Iskander in Jordan.
Nabataea
The ancient Nabataean people built the spectacular city of Petra, as well as many other cities in Arabia.
Ancient Iron Smelting
Iron smelting history, technology, ethnography and archaeology; case study of Tell Hammeh (az-Zarqa).
Umm el-Jimal
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/archaeology/uj/uj.htm
Byzantine site in northeast Jordan. Includes a bibliography, images, maps, and essays.
Wadi Feinan
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/profiles/kwright/wadires.htm
Wadi Feinan in the Fourth and Third Millennia BC, Wadi Feinan, Southern Jordan. British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and History, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, and the Jordan Department of Antiquities.
Wadi ath-Thamad
http://www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/education/iaems/thamad.html
Summary information on a regional survey of sites in central Jordan.
Khirbet Lehun
http://www.lehun-excavations.be/
Excavation of a multi-period site in central Jordan. Includes excavation results, pictures and a bibliography.
Air Photographic Archive for Jordan
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/classics/archeology/apamea/
Provides information on what sort of photographs are available and how they can be obtained.
Jabal Hamrat Fidan Project
http://weber.ucsd.edu/Depts/Anthro/classes/tlevy/Fidan/Faynan.htm
An examination of the role of early metallurgy in social change from the Neolithic to the Iron Age in the Wadi Faynan area. Includes project aims, pictures, publications and a bibliography.
Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey
http://www.stfx.ca/people/bmacdona/TBASWEB/Welcome.htm
Survey of part of southern Jordan. Contains results, maps, photographs and bibliography.
Recent fieldwork
http://www.muheisenz.homestead.com/FP.html
Summary of recent fieldwork at the Byzantine and Islamic sites of Yasileh, Hayyan al-Mushref and Khirbet el-Bediye in northern Jordan.
Tell Nimrin
http://www.cwru.edu/affil/nimrin/index.htm
Includes a virtual tour of the site, information on the major finds, the primary data and the main published papers.
The Aqaba Project
http://asmar.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/AQA/Aqaba.html
Articles and the annual reports for this investigation of the Islamic archaeology of Aqaba.

