商品簡介
This project, conducted at the eastern rim of the Wadi Araba-Jordan Graben, surveyed 290 sites and made significant discoveries. These include evidence of what must have been a rather large town during the Iron II period, and materials from a wide range of other periods, including evidence indicating the existence a Byzantine church in the area. Members of the project contribute papers on the regional geological setting, prehistoric land-use patterns, Neolithic-Islamic settlement patterns, pottery findings, and random square and site descriptions. Appendices include two "recycled" inscriptions from the survey and a review of the material culture. The text is very well illustrated with illustrations and photographs and includes comprehensive lists of findings. Distributed by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Burton MacDonald is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia.
