Khirbet al-Batrawy. An Early Bronze Age Fortified Town in North-Central Jordan. Preliminary Report of the First Season of Excavations (2005) (= Rome «La Sapienza» Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine & Transjordan, 3), Rome 2006 (original) (raw)
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This report presents preliminary findings from the first season of excavations at Khirbet al-Batrawy, an Early Bronze Age fortified town in north-central Jordan, emphasizing its potential for advancing the understanding of urban origins in the region. The project aims to investigate archaeological features and promote the preservation and rehabilitation of the site, which provides insights into the urban development, flourishing, and eventual decline of early urban centers during the 4th and 3rd millennia BC.
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Jordan allowed to identify the previously unknown fortifi ed town of Khirbet al-Batrawy, dating back to the Early Bronze II-III, with an EB IV village on the top. Khirbet al-Batrawy, for its location (both in respect of the regional tracks-network through the Black Desert and the steppe towards the Arabian Peninsula, and the fl ourishing district of the Upper Wadi az-Zarqa, the easternmost perennial river in the Jordanian plateau) and its preservation state (almost without superimposition after the 3rd millennium BC), represents an extraordinary opportunity for a cantonal study of the origins, development and crisis of the Jordanian early urbanisation at the fringes of non-agricultural regions, where pastoralists and nomads interacted with this new social institution: the fortifi ed town. Its dimensions, the monumental defensive works all around it, and the discovery of a major temple inside it hint a the role of "central place" of the district played by Batrawy in the Early Bronze II-III and testify to its "urban" character.
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