Reframing the "Desert Frontier"

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Foreword by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal


Chapter 1. Introduction: Reframing the "Desert Frontier"

Part 1: Revisiting the Roman record



Chapter 2. The identity of Roman Isauria: An archaeological approach by Hugh Elton
Chapter 3. Freedmen in Roman Hegra by Zbigniew T. Fiema
Chapter 4. Every cloud has a silver lining: Revisiting the "military" coin hoards from Dura by Peter Edwell
Chapter 5. Unmasking Roman Pella by Margaret O'Hea
Chapter 6. Bruennow and Domaszewski's Die Provincia Arabia (1904-1909): The why and the how by Phil Freeman, with a contribution, "Looking for Marguerite Bruennow", by Naomi Aliza Rubinstein

Part 2: Reframing the record



Chapter 7. An early archaeological landscape map of the Azraq lava fields by Michael Fradley
Chapter 8. Origins, legacy and recent developments in aerial archaeology in the Middle East by Robert Bewley
Chapter 9. Looking back to Kennedy and Riley's Rome's Desert Frontier from the Air (1990) by Ross Burns
Chapter 10. Gottlieb Schumacher and Pella by Stephen Bourke and Sandra Gordon
Chapter 11. From survey to further research: Several sites of the Roman (Nabataean) period in southern Jordan by Burton MacDonald
Chapter 12. Early visitors to the site of ?umayma: Their contributions to our understanding of the region and its people by John Peter Oleson

Part 3: Hinterland studies



Chapter 13. Changes in settlement patterns in the territory of Gerasa (Jarash): A synthesis by David (Don) Boyer
Chapter 14. Vignettes of sprawling townships of Roman Gerasa revealed by pottery clusters from the periphery of the walled city by Ina Kehrberg-Ostrasz
Chapter 15. Private estates or private villages? Land tenure in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Jordan by Basema Hamarneh
Chapter 16. The archaeology of the Safa region, southern Syria by Karin Bartl
Chapter 17. Al-Badiyah landscapes in fifth- to tenth-century Jordan: A barometer of change by Alan Walmsley

Part 4: Sky, sand and basalt



Chapter 18. Understanding ?umayma from aerial photographs by M. Barbara Reeves
Chapter 19. Field survey and aerial reconnaissance: The mutual interaction of survey methods in the Jawa Hinterland Project by Bernd Mueller-Neuhof
Chapter 20. The multifaceted site of Wisad Pools, Black Desert by G. Rollefson, A. Wasse, Y. Rowan, W. Abu-Azizeh and A.C. Hill
Chapter 21. The AAKSA Project: A multi-scalar methodology for documenting the archaeological landscapes of AlUla and ?arrat Khaybar, Saudi Arabia by Melissa Kennedy, Rebecca Repper, Hugh Thomas, Matthew Dalton, Jane McMahon, David Boyer and Lauren Swift


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• Médio e Próximo Oriente arqueologia
• Metodologia e técnicas da arqueologia
• História do Oriente Médio

Ancient History/Prehistory;Archaeology;Archival Studies;Historiography;Aerial Archaeology;Near Eastern Studies/Western Asia/Arabia;Roman Studies