The Emergence of Agro-Pastoral Villages in Jordan Hamamet al-Olaimat village as a Case Study

The Architectural Aspects of the Traditional Villages in Petra Region With Some Anthropological Notes

“…In the other side, opposite to the silos, similar space may be turned into warehouse .Extended families of the same clan have their houses of this type built attached to each other in a string of rooms with common activity area in front, "open-air courtyard" (figure 13). This type of houses is the predominant type in rural communities of the Mediterranean and the Near east in general and the Levant in specific (Rjoub and Mahmoud 2012;Mollenhauer 1997;Serghides 2010). In rural Palestine it was classified by Ron Fuchs as a "single-space house' (Fuchs, 1996).…”