Related and Forthcoming Publications
Jordan in the Late Middle Ages: Transformation of the Mamluk Frontier
By Bethany J. Walker
Walker's book explores the transformation of the Mamluk state during the late 14th centeury from the perspective of Jordan. She exmines the effect that the decline of the Mamluk Sultanate at Cairo had on the entire region, including the local people at around Hisban.
The book is part of the series Chicago Studies on the Middle East and is published on behalf of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies by the Middle East Documentation Center at the University of Chicago.
Bethany Walker is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at Missouri State University. She has published widely on Mamluk and Ottoman socio-economic history and material culture in primarily American and French journals. A historian and archaeologist, she directs two archaeological projects in Jordan and for the last twenty years has been doing fieldwork at sites throughout the eastern Mediterranean.
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The Madaba Plains Project: Forty Years of Archaeological Research into Jordan's Past
Edited by:Douglas R. Clark, Larry G Herr, Øystein S. LaBianca, Randell W. Younker
The year 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of Mabada Plains Project archaeological research in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The Madaba Plains Project is one of the longest-lived, continuously running archaeological excavation projects in the Middle East. Spanning four decades, the project, with its beginnings at Tall Hisban in the late sixties, has engaged 1,500 participants, produced scores of publications and spawned a dozen other projects. Its legacy includes being one of the first major Near Eastern archaeology projects to adopt a multi-millennial, regional approach; to incorporate ethnoarchaeology and environmental studies; to construct data around a “food-systems” approach; and to computerize procedures for archaeological data acquisition and analysis, thus helping advance both the theoretical underpinnings and the field methods of archaeology in the southern Levant and beyond.
Madaba Plains Project directors, wishing to celebrate this major scientific and historical milestone, have produced this anniversary volume which:
- highlights the value of ongoing collaborative research across the region of central Jordan, attempting to explain life and survival from the Bronze ages through the Islamic and early modern periods and featuring the latest results from ongoing research
- enlivens the discussion by hearing from major scholars in the field who, in the process of assessing the contributions of the project to the archaeology of the southern Levant, broaden the discussion in the context of ancient Near Eastern archaeological research
- expands the horizons of the project’s research by presenting the ever enlarging number and extent of projects conducted by dig directors once on staff with the Madaba Plains Project, thereby taking readers all over Jordan and beyond
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