WEB PUBLICATIONS

The links on this page take you to web published documents dealing with archaeology on the Madaba Plain in Jordan. They are listed alphabetically by author/s. If they were presented at professional meetings the name and date of the meeting follows the title of the paper.

If you have papers that you wish to link to this page or are looking for a web host for your paper, please email me and I will post appropriate links.


Christopherson, Gary L.

A Regional Approach to Archaeology on the Madaba Plain: Random Survey and Settlement Patterns (ASOR, 1997)

Using ARC/GRID to Calculate Topographic Prominence in an Archaeological Landscape (Arc/INFO User Conference, 2003) Note that the links to graphics for this paper are broken. Since it is hosted by ESRI, I don't have control over this probelm. If you are interested in the graphics, follow this link to an html version of the paper -- topographic prominence html

   

Christopherson, Gary L., Robert G. Boling, Jon A. Cole, David C. Hopkins, Gerald L. Mattingly, Douglas W. Schnurrenberger, & Randall W. Younker

Summary Descriptions of Archaeological Sites from the Survey at Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan

Christopherson, Gary L. & Tisha K. Entz

Field Testing ARC GRID-Based Archaeological Probability Models in Jordan (Arc/INFO User Conference, 2001)

Christopherson, Gary L. & D. Philip Guertin

Soil Erosion, Agricultural Intensification, and Iron Age Settlement in the region of Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan (ASOR, 1995)
Visibility Analysis and Ancient Settlement Strategies in the Region of Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan (ASOR, 1996)

Christopherson, Gary L., D. Philip Guertin, & Karen A. Borstad

GIS and Archaeology: Using ARC/INFO to Increase Our Understanding of Ancient Jordan (ARC/INFO User Conference, 1996)

Christopherson, Gary L., Larry G. Herr

Madaba Plains Project: Archaeological Survey Manual (October, 1997)

Christopherson, Gary L., Patrick Barabe, Peter S. Johnson

Using ARC GRID's PATHDISTANCE Function to Model Catchment Zones for Archaeological Sites on the Madaba Plain, Jordan (ARC/INFO User Conference, 1999)

Christopherson, Ruth A. (written in 1996, when she was 8 years old)

A Kid's View of Archaeology in Jordan

Groves, Jennifer L., Karen A. Borstad, & Gary L. Christopherson

A Preliminary Report on the Tall Jalul Surface Sherding Project (ASOR 1995)

Harrison, Timothy P.

Tell Madaba Archaeological Project: 1996 Preliminary Report
Tell Madaba Archaeological Project: 1998-2000 Preliminary Report
Tell Madaba Archaeological Project: 2001 Preliminary Report
Tell Madaba Archaeological Project: 2002 Preliminary Report

LaBianca, Oystein S.

Daily Life in the Shadow of Empire: A Food Systems Approach to the Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire (Conference on Ottoman Archaeology, 1996)
Indigenous Hardiness Structures and State Formation In Jordan: Towards a History of Jordan's Resident Arab Population (Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, 1995)
A Forest That Refuses to Disappear: Cycles of Environmental Degeneration and Regeneration in Jordan (Report to the National Geographic Society Research Grant Number 5758-96)

LaBianca, Oystein S. , Larry G. Herr, Randall W. Younker, Lawrence T. Geraty, Douglas R. Clark

Report on the 1996 Field Season of the Madaba Plains Project

Ray Jr., Paul J. & Oystein S. LaBianca

Sedentarization and Nomadization in Transjordan in the Early Islamic Period: The Khirbet Rufeis Cave Complex Excavations and Wusum (ASOR, 1995)

Sayej, Ghattas J.

The Prehistory of the Hesban Region. The Results of the 1998 Survey: A Preliminary Report (1999)

Watson, Richard P. & Douglas W. Schnurrenberger

Azraq Basin Prehistory and Paleoenvironment Project (ASOR, 1996) (broken link)