Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. S. Thomas Parker: Education, Archaeological Field Experience and Publications xxi
5. Abbreviations xli
6. Archaeological Survey
7. Neolithic Period (ca. 9,700–4,900 BCE) Presence in the Southern Transjordan Plateau, the Southern Ghors, Wadis Fidan and Faynan, and the East Side of Wadi ʿArabah 3
8. A Revaluation of Iron Age Fortified Sites on the Karak Plateau 35
9. The roads leading to Zoara in the Roman and Byzantine Periods 63
10. Material and Written Culture
11. An Assessment and Re-examination of the American Expedition in Petra Excavation in the Residential Area (Area I), 1974–1977: The Early House and Related Ceramic Assemblages 91
12. Exploring the Egyptian “Frog” Lamps Unearthed at the Red Sea Port of Roman Aila (Aqaba) and the Roman Fortress of Legio IV Martia at el-Lejjūn, Jordan 151
13. From Opaque to Transparent: Colorless Glass and the Byzantine Revolution in Interior Lighting 165
14. A Nabataean Inscription from Bir Madkhur With an Excursus on Basileophoric Names and the Nabataean Dynastic Cult 185
15. Military
16. Following the Roman Paymaster 225
17. The Modular Planning of Roman Fortifications in the Near East: Principles and Process 237
18. The Military Presence in Petra during the Roman-Byzantine Period 273
19. Economy
20. The Economy of Caesarea Palaestinae in Late Antiquity: Structure and Scale 291
21. “So dearly do we pay for our luxury and our women”: Women and the Margins of the Roman World 327
22. Human Population Increase and its Effects on the Arid Landscape of Southern Jordan: An Archaeobotanical Study 349
23. Index 385