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HLC Project 2018: Jagiellonian University excavations in southern Jordan

2019, 28, No. 2

Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Institute of Archeology

Jagiellonian University, Institute of Archaeology

Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Institute of Archeology

Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Institute of Archeology

Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Institute of Archeology

Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Institute of Archeology

Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Institute of Archeology

Jagiellonian University, Institute of Archaeology

Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Institute of Archeology

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Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Institute of Archeology


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31.12.2019

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Abstract

A complex view of the prehistory in southern Jordan emerges from the excavations of the Jagiellonian University team, which carried out in 2018 its second season of fieldwork at the sites of Munqata’a and Faysaliyya, even as analyses of finds from the previous season were underway. Human communities living here in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age practiced both sedentary and mobile lifestyles. The changing landscape around them, caused by natural erosion processes and periodical climate change, is also taken into consideration while interpreting the explored relics.

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