Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan: The Iron Age Artefacts Vol II (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East)

Daviau, Michèle

ISBN 10: 9004123636 ISBN 13: 9789004123632

Publisher: Brill, 2001

Synopsis

This volume presents a functional and typological study of the Iron Age artefacts recovered during six years of excavation at the site of Tall Jawa, in central Jordan. The introduction presents information on the recording and classification system used to identify artefact types. The main chapter presents each category of artefact with examples of the most representative items, and their parallels from sites in Israel and Syria. Examples include jewellery, figurines, weapons, food processing tools, and tools used in a variety of crafts and industries. A CD-ROM is included, containing the database and illustrations of all registered items dating to the Iron Age (100-600 BC).

About this title

Review:

'Jawa 2 is both a well-conceived and executed work as well as a welcome addition to the growing literature on archaeological sites in Transjordan.'
Paul J. Ray Jr., NEASB Vol. 49, 2004.

About the Author:

P.M. Michele Daviau, Ph.D. (1990) University of Toronto, is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada). She has published on religious iconography in Ammon and Moab during the Iron Age. Her interest in the artefacts of daily life is seen in a monograph, entitled Houses and their Furnishings in Bronze Age Palestine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 9004123636
• ISBN 13: 9789004123632
• Binding: Product Bundle
• Number of pages: 369