Publications

Papers

The following 4 papers were written by JHF team members in 2000. While accepted for publication in a CBRL monograph concerning the archaeology of Faynan, Jordan, the book project failed to materialize.

1.Archaeological applications of digital surveying techiques in the Wadi Fidan, Jordan: 1998-2000

2. The Iron Age in the Jabal Hamrat Fidan: A Preliminary Assessment of the 1997-19999 Seasons

3. Production, Power and the Periphery: Early Metallurgy and Social Change in the Gateway to Faynan (Jordan)

4. The PPNB Portal to Faynan: Recent Excavations at Wadi Fidan 4 (Jabal Hamrat Fidan, Jordan)

"Reassessing the chronology of Biblical Edom: new excavations and 14C dates from Khirbat en-Nahas (Jordan). Thomas E. Levy, Russell B. Adams, Mohammad Najjar, Andreas Hauptmann, James D. Anderson, Baruch Brandl, Mark A. Robinson, and Thomas Higham. Antiquity v. 78 (December 2004) p. 865-79.

"Early Bronze Age metallugy: A newly discovered copper manufactory in southern Jordan". Thomas E. Levy, R.B. Adams, A. Hauptmann, M. Prange, S. Schmitt-Strecker and M. Najjar. Antiquity 76 (2002: 425-427).

"Excavations and Surveys in the Jabal Hamrat Fidan (Jordan): Social Archaeology and Early Metallurgy at Khirbet Hamra Ifdan and it's Environs, 1999 - 2000 Seasons". Levy, T. E., R. B. Adams, M. Najjar, A. Hauptmann, A. Danin, J. Grattan, A. J. Witten, J. D. Anderson, Y. Arbel, M. Homan, A. Muniz, N. Smith, J. Moreno, K. Twiss and C. de Jong
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. In prep.

"Archaeology and the Shasu Nomads - Recent Excavations in the Jabal Hamrat Fidan, Jordan". Thomas E. Levy, Russell B. Adams and Adolfo Muniz. In Festschrift for David Noel Freedman: UCSD Judaic Studies Program, Propp, W.H. and Friedman, R.E. (eds), In Press.

"Migrations, Ethnogenesis, and Settlement Dynamics: Israelites in Iron Age Canaan and Shuwa-Arabs in the Chad Basin". Thomas E. Levy and Augustin F. C. Holl.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 21, 83–118 (2002)

"Digital Archaeology 2001: GIS-Based Excavation Recording in Jordan". The SAA Archaeological Record. Levy, T.E., Anderson J. D., Waggoner, M. Smith, N., Muniz, A., and Adams, R.B. Vol. 1, No.3, May 2001, pp. 23-29.

"The Jebel Hamrat Fidan Project: Excavations at the Wadi Fidan 40 Cemetery". Levy, T.E., Adams, R.B., Shafiq, R., Jordan (1997)." Levant XXXI, 299. (1999) (16 pages)

"Early Metallurgy, Interaction, and Social Change: The Jebal Hamrat Fidan (Jordan) Research Design and 1998 Archaeological Survey: Preliminary Report". Levy, T.E., Adams, R.B., Witten, A.J., Anderson, J., Arbel, Y., Kuah, S., Moreno, J., Lo, A. and Wagonner, M. " In Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan (Vol. 7) ­ Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Archaeology of Jordan, Copenhagen, 1998, edited by G. Bisheh. (In Press)

Levy, T.E. in press The Transmission and Assimilation of Culture in the Near East : Theory and Methods for the 21st Century. In Joanne Clarke (ed) The Transmission and Assimilation of Culture in the Near East Conference, sponsored by the Council for British Research in the Levant, 28 February ­ 3 March, 2000. London: CBRL.

Witten, A.J., Levy, T.E., Adams, R.B. and Won, I.J. "Geophysical Surveys in the Jebel Hamrat Fidan, Jordan." Geoarchaeology Vol 15, No. 2. 135-150 (2000)

Newsletters

American Schools of Oriental Research

Early Metallury and Social Evolution- Levy, Adams, Najjar

Jabal Hamrat Fidan (2000 JHF Project)

Miscellaneous Articles

UCSD McNair Quarterly, V 4,3- McNair Took Me to the Wadi- Arias