Area of study:

Jabal ash-Sharah

Status of Project and date of conduction:

Ongoing since 2014.

Partners:

Petra College for Tourism and Archaeology and German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Orient Department.

Brief about the Project:

This new research project studies part of the settlement history of the Jabal ahs-Sharah by documenting and studying ancient farmsteads and hamlets in this area that originate in the 1st century AD. Within two survxey campaigns (2014 and 2015) a total of 19 ancient sites and their agricultural hinterland where recorded, located in the vicinity of Wadi Mousa, at-Tayba and ar-Rajef.

Significant Finds:

Beyond the evaluation of previous fieldwork, a total of 19 sites where surveyed during this season documenting architecture, landscape/topography and surface-finds. So far, this data allows an insight into the typology of architecture, its position within the landscape, surrounding installation and its relation to the regional and supraregional road network. Furthermore, these sites serve as nuclei for a study of the spatial organization of the area.

Local community engagement (employment and public awareness):

Local communities contributed to this project by sharing their knowledge of sites and areas (names and existence of roads) with the researchers. In return, the researchers always discussed the goals and the results of the project with them in order to increase the public awareness in our cultural heritage.

Publications related to the project:

F. Abudanah – M. Ladurner, Ancient Farmsteads along the Jabal ash-Sharah and their Agricultural Hinterland, Ancient Terrace Practices in Jordan German Protestant Institute of Archaeology (GPIA), German Jordanian University (GJU), German Archaeological Institute (DAI), 10 September 2017, Amman

F. Abudanah – M. Ladurner, Nabataean-Roman Farmsteads in the Jabal ash-Sharah Region. The Survey Seasons 2014 and 2015, 13th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan, 22 May – 26 May 2016, Amman

M. Ladurner, Jabal ash-Sharah, Jordanien. Nabatäische Wohn- und Wirtschaftsstrukturen im Hinterland von Petra, Die Arbeiten des Jahres 2014, eDAI-eF 2015-2, 42-45.

M. Ladurner, Jabal ash-Sharah, Jordanien. Nabatäische Wohn- und Wirtschaftsstrukturen im Hinterland von Petra, Die Arbeiten der Jahre 2015 und 2016, eDAI-eF 2017-2, 42-45.