Book
A timeless vale
Archaeological and related essays on the Jordan Valley in honour of Gerrit van der Kooij on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday
- Author
- Eva Kaptijn and Lucas Petit
- Date
- 01 January 2009
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- A timeless vale
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The Jordan Valley was and still is a place of many different facets: a barrier as well as a demographic centre, a steppe region as well as a fertile agricultural zone, and a region with a mix of different ethnic groups, cultures and ideas. The area forms a rich source of information for scholars of various disciplines and with different academic backgrounds.
The chapters are chronologically and topically diverse and cover such varied themes as
- an overview of Dutch cultural and archaeological activities in Jordan during the last fifty years (Raouf Sa’d Abujaber),
- historical reports of the Zerqa Triangle (Eva Kaptijn),
- the palaeoecology of the Hula area (Willem van Zeist, Uri Baruch and Sytze Bottema), K
- hirbet Kerak Ware found at Jericho (Lorenzo Nigro),
- the Jordan Valley during the Early Bronze Age (Moawiyah M. Ibrahim),
- agrarian settlement and interaction during the Bronze Age (Steven E. Falconer and Patricia L. Fall),
- textile production at Tell ’Abū al-Kharāz (Peter M. Fischer),
- clay tablets of Tell Deir ‘Allā (Zeidan A. Kafafi),
- a shrine model from Tel Kinrot (Martti Nissinen and Stefan Münger),
- an anthropomorphic statue from Tell Dāmiyah (Lucas P. Petit),
- metallurgical excavations at Tell Hammeh and Tel Beth-Shemesh (H. Alexander Veldhuijzen),
- the Persian period at Tell Deir ‘Allā (Niels C.F. Groot),
- and sugar production in Jericho during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (Hamdan Taha).