Islamic archaeology at a difficult age

Johns, Jeremy

doi:10.1017/s0003598x0006720x

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“…The number of such sites is growing but still modest in total, and few have been investigated in any detail. Islamic archaeology in general is a poor cousin to prehistoric or Roman archaeology in the Middle East (Johns 2010). The transition phase from Late Roman to Islamic is especially difficult partly because much of the evidence lies in marginal areas that have tended to be neglected by scholars and partly because the quality of the structures was often poor.…”

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Recovering the past from above Hibabiya — an Early Islamic village in the Jordanian desert?

Kennedy

2011

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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Britain and the Middle East were the two areas in which the technique of aerial archaeology was pioneered in the 1920s. Overwhelmingly the latter took place in Syria where a French Jesuit priest, Antoine Poidebard, worked for a generation. Further south in Transjordan — as it then was — three men presided over a brief (1927–1929) but fruitful period: an archaeologist with a passion for the newly developing technique (O.G.S. Crawford) and two pilots of the Royal Air Force with an amateur interest in what they saw beneath their wings (Flt. Lt. P.E. Maitland and Gp/Capt L.W.B. Rees). An aerial photograph published at the time seemed to identify a ‘village’ as prehistoric. Over eighty years later and just after it was destroyed, a fresh examination and the rediscovery of some crucial dating evidence have combined to identify it as, probably, an early Islamic village on the desert fringe.

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Section: The ‘Village’mentioning

confidence: 99%