Walking Through Jordan - Essays in Honor of Burton MacDonald - Michael Neeley

Walking Through Jordan - Essays in Honor of Burton MacDonald - Michael Neeley

The Iron Age Pottery from Burton MacDonald's Last Three Surveys in the Highlands of Southern Jordan

Walking Through Jordan - Essays in Honor of Burton MacDonald - Michael Neeley

Larry G. Herr [+-]
Burman University
Larry G. Herr (PhD Harvard 1977) has taken part in 30 excavations in Jordan, Israel, and Tunisia, co-directing the Madaba Plains Project excavations at Tall al-ʿUmayri, Jordan—first with Larry Geraty and then Douglas Clark. After completing his doctorate, he taught near Manila in the Philippines from 1978 to 1984, and at Burman University in Alberta, Canada since 1985. He has produced 24 volumes, 216 articles, 17 book reviews, and has made 86 presentations at professional conferences. In addition, he was Associate Editor of the Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research (BASOR) for 17 years. His research interests include the development of ancient pottery in Jordan. Two of his edited volumes won awards from the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) and the Biblical Archaeology Society. He has also won two awards from ASOR for publications and field archaeology. He has worked as a consultant for several excavations, primarily in ceramic chronology.

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This paper attempts to outline the development of the Iron Age pottery in the highlands of Jordan south of the Wadi al-Ḥasa, the region often called “Edom” during the Iron Age. The corpus discussed here was gathered during the last three archaeological surveys conducted by Burton MacDonald in this region: The Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey (TBAS), the Ayl to Ras an-Naqab Archaeological Survey (ARNAS), and the Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey (SAAS). Because ceramic styles were similar over large areas during Iron I and because there are no Iron I excavated sites in our area, parallels from territories north of the Ḥasa are used to help establish the assemblage of that period. Parallels from closer to home during the Iron II period are used, because of increasing territorialism in ceramic forms at that time. As a result, we are able to suggest broad lines of development for the Iron Age.

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Herr, Larry. The Iron Age Pottery from Burton MacDonald's Last Three Surveys in the Highlands of Southern Jordan. Walking Through Jordan - Essays in Honor of Burton MacDonald. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 151-182 Nov 2017. ISBN 9781781792834. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=28926. Date accessed: 11 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.28926. Nov 2017

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