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The Copper Ore Rich Faynan District, Southern Jordan
Social Archaeology & Early
Metallurgy:
The Jabal Hamrat Fidan Project, Jordan
A project carried out under the auspices of the University of California,
San Diego and the Department of Antiquities of Jordan
The Jabal (Arabic = mountain) Hamrat Fidan (JHF) in southern Jordan marks the "gateway" to the Faynan district; the largest source of copper ore in the southern Levantine mainland. The Faynan district has been the most important source of copper ore for ancient communities living in what is today Israel-Jordan-Palestine. Exploitation of Faynan ore spans the entire range of late prehistoric (Neolithic - 8th/7th millennium), Chalcolithic (ca. 4500 - 3600 BCE), Bronze Age (ca. 3600 - 2000 BCE), Late Iron Age (ca. 1000 - 586 BCE), Roman (37 BCE - 324 CE) and early Arab (ca. 638 - 1099 CE) periods. By focusing on the role of copper ore and early metallurgy in social change from the Neolithic period through the Iron Age, this UCSD field school will be the first "deep-time", diachronic study of craft specialization and social evolution in this part of the Levant.
Research Area
Reports to the
Jordanian Antiquites Department
1997
1998
1999
2000
2002
2003
2004
JHF Project in the News!
Publications
from JHF|
Copyright 2003 Thomas E. Levy. All Rights Reserved. |
