MEGA-Jordan Site Report

Primary Site name: BAB EDH-DHRA

Other Site Names: باب الذراع, باب الدراع, BAB EDH- DHRA, JADIS: 2007001

Governorate: KARAK Sub-governorate: Ghor Mazra'ah

MEGA Number: 4481

Site Map:

Coordinates (Long Lat): 35.51868 31.25067, 35.51948 31.25081, 35.52089 31.25091, 35.52378 31.2509, 35.5262 31.25041, 35.52862 31.25072, 35.52967 31.25057, 35.53014 31.24998, 35.53021 31.24922, 35.52996 31.24871, 35.52777 31.24828, 35.52669 31.24778, 35.52551 31.2474, 35.52403 31.24734, 35.52324 31.24718, 35.52254 31.24698, 35.52076 31.24597, 35.51939 31.24529, 35.51785 31.24587, 35.51779 31.24702, 35.51815 31.2489, 35.51868 31.25067

Total Area (m²): 456702.2; Perimeter (m): 3080.3

Buffer Zone (m): 100

Period(s) Recorded for Site:

9008 (Neolithic, Pre-pottery); 9012 (Neolithic, Pottery); 9019 (Early Bronze I); 9020 (Early Bronze II); 9022 (Early Bronze III); 9023 (Early Bronze IV (EB-MB)); 9999 (Unspecified/Unknown Period)

DoA Office Responsible:

Karak Antiquities Office

Site Investigators:

Investigator(s): Gaetano Palumbo, WMF; None

Investigation Date: None

Site Comments: [e.g., accuracy of coordinates; directions to Site]

Site Significance:

Scientific Value
Historical Value
Aesthetic Value
Social Value
Spiritual Value

Surveys:

Record History:

Last Modified By Samar Habahbeh

Last Modified On March 21, 2013

Record Created By ORIGINAL IMPORT

Record Created On July 1, 2010

Record Review Status:

Status: Under Review

Reviewer: None

Review Date: None

Comments:

The following 21 site element(s) have been recognized at this site:

MEGA Number	Element Type	Period(s) Recorded for Site Element:
21683	513 Settlement, Fortified	9022 Early Bronze III
21682	408 Cemetery	9020 Early Bronze II
21681	418 Tomb, Rock-cut Shaft	9020 Early Bronze II
21701	514 Settlement, No Fortifications (Village)	9023 Early Bronze IV (EB-MB)
21700	408 Cemetery	9019 Early Bronze I
21698	408 Cemetery	9022 Early Bronze III
21697	408 Cemetery	9023 Early Bronze IV (EB-MB)
21696	418 Tomb, Rock-cut Shaft	9022 Early Bronze III
21694	514 Settlement, No Fortifications (Village)	9008 Neolithic, Pre-pottery
21693	514 Settlement, No Fortifications (Village)	9019 Early Bronze I
21692	417 Tomb, Rock-cut with Simple Entrance or Dromos	9019 Early Bronze I
21691	513 Settlement, Fortified	9020 Early Bronze II
21690	899 Unspecified/Unknown General Site Element (Specify)	9999 Unspecified/Unknown Period
21689	308 Temple	9022 Early Bronze III
21688	418 Tomb, Rock-cut Shaft	9019 Early Bronze I
21687	501 Camp/Nomadic Camp	9023 Early Bronze IV (EB-MB)
21685	501 Camp/Nomadic Camp	9019 Early Bronze I
21699	418 Tomb, Rock-cut Shaft	9023 Early Bronze IV (EB-MB)
21695	308 Temple	9020 Early Bronze II
21686	499 Unspecified/Unknown Funerary	9022 Early Bronze III
21684	901 Sherd/Flint Surface Scatter (Unexcavated)	9012 Neolithic, Pottery

Site References:

Primary Author	Date	Title
ABEL F.-M.	1929	Chronique : Notes complementaires sur la Mer Morte
ADOVASIO J.M. & ANDREWS R.L.	1981	Textile Remains and Basketry Impressions from Bab edh Dhra and aWeaving Implement from Numeira = RAST & SCHAUB eds.
ADOVASIO J.M. & ANDREWS R.L.	1982	Selected Perishable Artifacts from Bab edh-Dhra
ADOVASIO J.M. ET AL.	1978	Textile Remains and Basketry Impressions from Bab edh-Dhra' , 1975
ALBRIGHT W.F.	1966	Remarks on the Chronology of Early Bronze IV - Middle Bronze IIA in Phoenicia and Syria-Palestine
ALBRIGHT W.F.	1926	The Jordan Valley in the Bronze Age
ALBRIGHT W.F.	1924	The Archaeological Results of an Expedition to Moab and the DeadSea
ALBRIGHT W.F.	1968	Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan , London,p.55,56,n 27. (= JordanLectures in Comparative Religions 7)
BEN-TOR A.	1975	Bab edh-Dhra'
BENNETT C.-M.	1980	Soundings at Dhra', Jordan
BENOIT P.	1949	Notes d'archeologie transjordanienne. III. Poteries de Bab ed-Dhra'
CALLAWAY J.A. & WEINSTEIN J.M.	1977	Radiocarbon Dating of Palestine in the Early Bronze Age
CLARK V.A.	1979	Investigations in a Prehistoric Necropolis near Bab edh Dhra'
DEVER W.G.	1973	The EB IV - MB I Horizon in Transjordan and Southern Palestine
DONAHUE J.	1981	Geological Investigations at Early Bronze Sites = RAST & SCHAUBeds.
DONAHUE J.	1985	Hydrologic and Topographic Change During and After Early BronzeOccupation at Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira
DONAHUE J.	1980	Part D. Geology = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
FINNEGAN M.	1978	Faunal Remains from Bab edh-Dhra', 1975
FINNEGAN M.	1981	Faunal Remains from Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
HARLAN J.R.	1982	The Garden of the Lord : a plausible reconstruction of natural resources of Southern Jordan in Early Bronze Age
HARLAND J.P.	1943	Sodom and Gomorrah
HARLAND J.P.	1942	Sodom and Gomorrah
HAZAN F.	1970	Dictionnaire archeologique de la Bible , Paris.
HELMS S.W.	1975	Posterns in Early Bronze Age Fortifications of Palestine
HELMS S.W.	1982	Paleo-Beduin and Transmigrant Urbanism
HENNESSY J.B.	1969	Recent Acquisitions
HESSE B. & WAPNISH P.	1981	Animal Remains from the Bab edh-Dhra Cemetery = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
IBRAHIM M.	1972	Archaeological Excavations at Sahab, 1972
IBRAHIM M.	1975	Excavations in Jordan in 1975
JOHNSTON R.H. & SCHAUB R.T.	1978	Selected Pottery from Bab edh-Dhra', 1975
KAUTZ J.R.	1981	Tracking the Ancient Moabites
KOCHAVI M.	1970	Bab edh-Dhra
LAPP N.L.	1981	Bab edh-Dhra Tomb Groups on Display
LAPP P.W.	1968	Bab edh Dhra' Tomb A 76 and Early Bronze I in Palestine
LAPP P.W.	1968	Chronique Archeologique : Bab edh-Dhra'
LAPP P.W.	1975	The Tale of the Tell , Pittsburgh.
LAPP P.W.	1966	Chronique Archeologique : Bab edh-Dhra'
LAPP P.W.	1966	The Cemetery at Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan
LAPP P.W.	1970	Palestine in the Early Bronze Age
LAPP P.W.	1965	Bab edh-Dhra
LAPP P.W.	1967	The Cemetery at Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan
LAPP P.W.	1968	Bab edh-Dhra', Perizzites and Emim = J.AVIRAM ed., Jerusalem Through the Ages, Jerusalem,p.1-24,fig.1,pls.1-3.
LEE J.R.	1982	Early Bronze Age Game Stones from Bab edh-Dhra, Jordan
MALLON A.	1924	Flint Implements and Megalithic Monuments
MCCONAUGHY M.A.	1979	Formal and Functional Analyses of the Chipped Stone Tools from Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan , Ann Arbor University Mircrofilms.
MCCONAUGHY M.A.	1981	A Preliminary Report on the Bab edh-Dhra Site Survey = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
MCCONAUGHY M.A.	1980	Part F. Chipped Stone Tools = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
MCCREERY D.W.	1980	Part E. Paleobotany = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
MCCREERY D.W.	1981	Flotation of the Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira Plant Remains = RAST &SCHAUB eds.,
MEYERS E.M.	1970	Secondary Burials in Palestine
OLANIYAN O.	1984	Sedimentological and multivariate analyses at two Early Bronze Age Sites, Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira, Southeast Dead Sea Graben, Jordan. (Thesis, Ann Arbor University Microfilms)
ORTNER D.J.	1979	Disease and Mortality in the Early Bronze Age People of Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan
ORTNER D.J.	1981	A Preliminary Report on the Human Remains from the Bab edh DhraCemetery = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
PARR P.J.	1972	Settlement patterns and urban planning in the ancient Levant: the nature of the evidence = P.J.UCKO & R.TRINGHAM & G.W. DIMBLEBYeds., Man, settlement and urbanism , London,p.805-810.
RAST W.E.	1977	Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira
RAST W.E.	1982	Expedition to the Southeastern Dead Sea Plain, May 24 - July 10,1981. (= National Geographic Society Research Reports)
RAST W.E.	1981	Patterns of Settlement at Bab edh-Dhra = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.	1981	Introduction : The 1977 Expedition to the Southeastern Dead SeaPlain, Jordan = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.	1980	The Southeastern Dead Sea Valley Expedition, 1979
RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.	1980	eds., Preliminary Report of the 1979 Expedition to the Dead SeaPlain, Jordan
RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.	1981	eds., The Southeastern Dead Sea Plain Expedition : An Interim Report of the 1977 Season
RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.	1974	Survey of the Southeastern Plain of the Dead Sea, 1973
RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.	1978	A Preliminary Report of Excavations at Bab edh-Dhra', 1975
RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.	1982	The Dead Sea Expedition Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira, May 24-July 10.1981
RICHARDSON J.B. & MCCREERY D.	1978	Preliminary Analysis of the Plant Remains from Bab edh-Dhra, 1975
SALLER S.J.	1965	Bab edh-Dhra'
SCHAUB R.T.	1982	The origins of the Early Bronze Age walled town culture of Jordan. An assessment of current theories in the light of recent evidence
SCHAUB R.T.	1973	An Early Bronze IV Tomb from Bab edh-Dhra'
SCHAUB R.T.	1973	The Early Bronze Ia-Ib Pottery of the Bab edh-Dhra' Cemetery, Jordan. (Thesis - Ann Arbor University Microfilms)
SCHAUB R.T.	1981	Ceramic Sequences in the Tomb Groups at Bab edh-Dhra = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SCHAUB R.T.	1981	Patterns of Burial at Bab edh-Dhra = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SCHAUB R.T. & RAST W.E.	1984	Preliminary Report on the 1981 Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain,Jordan
SEVERAL M.W.	1975	An Early Bronze Basalt Bowl in the Skirball Museum
SHANKS H.	1980	Have Sodom and Gomorrh Been Found ?
SHORT S.K.	1979	A Preliminary Report on the Palynological Studies = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
TADMOR M.	1969	Excavations at Bab edh-Dhra
VAN HATTEM W.C.	1981	Once Again : Sodom and Gomorrah
WRIGHT G.E.	1936	The Chronology of Palestine in the Early Bronze Age
WRIGHT G.E.	1938	The Chronology of Palestinian Pottery in Middle Bronze I

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