Numayra - Excavations At the Early Bronze Age Townsite in Jordan, 1977-1983

About the author

Meredith S. Chesson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame.R. Thomas Schaub was codirector of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan. He retired as Professor Emeritus at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.Walter E. Rast was codirector of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan. He retired as Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University.

Summary

Documents the results of archaeological research at the Early Bronze Age sites of Numayra and Ras an-Numayra as part of a broader project investigating the emergence of widespread settlement on the southeastern Dead Sea Plain.

Product details

• Authors: Meredith S. Chesson, Meredith S. (Notre Dame) Chesson, Meredith Schaub Chesson, Chesson Meredith S., Walter E. Rast, Rast Walter E., R. Thomas Schaub
• Assisted by: Meredith Chesson (Editor), Meredith S. Chesson (Editor), Walter E. Rast (Editor), R. Thomas Schaub (Editor)
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781575069838
• ISBN: 978-1-57506-983-8
• No. of pages: 948
• Series: Reports of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Jordan, HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Religion: general, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Biblical Archaeology, Middle & Near Eastern archaeology