The Jordon Valley Survey, 1953: Some Unpublished Soundings Conducted
The Jordon Valley Survey, 1953: Some Unpublished Soundings Conducted by James Mellaart by Albert
English | Sep 1, 1992 | ISBN: 0931464722 | 199 Pages | PDF | 8 MB
English | Sep 1, 1992 | ISBN: 0931464722 | 199 Pages | PDF | 8 MB
During the spring of 1953 the Department of Antiquities, on behalf of the Department of Water Resources and Agricultural Development of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, conducted one of the first archaeological impact studies in the Levant: the Point IV Irrigation Project. The archaeological fieldwork of this project, which consisted of the recording and sampling of more than a hundred sites in the Yarmouk and Jordan Valleys, was carried out by Henri de Contenson and James Mellaart under the supervision of G. Lancaster Harding. In addition to the preparation of collections from the surface of individual sites, the Jordanian Department of Antiquities at that time allowed survey projects to conduct brief soundings (usually limited to five days) to be made at the more promising sites in order to establish a stratigraphical sequence that would add the vertical control of excavation to the impressions derived from the horizontal sampling of the surface.