Tall D¿miya (volume I), Kartoniert / Broschiert

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This monograph presents the results of nine seasons of archaeological excavations (2004-2019) at Tall Dmiya, a key site in the Central Jordan Valley. Situated just south of the confluence of the Az-Zarqa and Jordan rivers, near one of the region's few natural river fords, the settlement mound has long served a vital crossroads of cultures.

Founded in the Late Bronze Age, Tall Dmiya developed into a prominent cultic centre in the Iron Age. In the second half of the first millennium BCE, it was repurposed as a storage site for mobile pastoralists, later serving as a graveyard in the Byzantine and Ottoman periods - before becoming a battleground in the twentieth century.

Presented in three volumes, this joint Jordanian-Dutch project explores how people lived in and moved through the arid Jordan Valley over time, offering a comprehensive reconstruction of Tall Dmiya's settlement history and shedding new light on its long and varied afterlives.

This is Part 1 of a 3 part volume.