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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology


 

 

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3188
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This bibliography lists publications and resources relevant to or produced by the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project. It is not intended to be comprehensive, but we do hope to expand it based on the input of BUPAP project members, colleagues, and other interested individuals.

This page is divided into the following topical sections:


BUPAP Publications

Alcock, S.E. and A.R. Knodell. 2012. Landscapes North of Petra: The Petra Area and Wadi Silaysil Survey (Brown University Petra Archaeological Project, 2010-2011). In L. Nehmé and L. Wadeson (Eds.), The Nabataeans in Focus: Current Archaeological Research at Petra. Papers from the Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Held on 29 July 2011. Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 42. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 5-16.

Alcock, S.E. and C.A. Tuttle. 2010. Brown University Petra Archaeological Project - 2010 Season. Munjazat.

Alcock, S.E. and C.A. Tuttle. 2011. Brown University Petra Archaeological Project - 2011 Season. Munjazat.

Alcock, S.E. and C.A. Tuttle. 2012. Brown University Petra Archaeological Project - 2012 Season. Munjazat.

Berenfeld, M.L., J.A. Dufton, and F. Rojas. "Green Petra: Archaeological Explorations in the City's Northern Wadi's" Levant 48(1): 79-107.

​Keller, D. and C.A. Tuttle. 2010. Archaeology in Jordan, 2008 and 2009 Seasons. American Journal of Archaeology 114(3): 505-545. (See section on the 2009 season of the Brown University Petra Upper Market Project, pp. 536-538)

Knodell, A.R. and S.E. Alcock. 2011. Brown University Petra Archaeological Project: The 2010 Petra Area and Wadi Silaysil Survey. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 55: 489-508.

Mickel, A.J., and A.R. Knodell. 2015. “We Wanted to Take Real Information: Public Engagement and Regional Survey at Petra, Jordan.” World Archaeology 47(2): 239-260.

Rojas, F.A. and M.L. Berenfeld. 2012. Lücken schliessen: Archäologische Forschungen in Petras nordweslichen Wadis. In Petra: Wunder in der Wüste. Auf den Spuren von J.L. Burckhardt alias Schiech Ibrahim, edited by E. van der Meijden Zanoni. Basel: Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig.

Sinibaldi, M. and C.A. Tuttle. 2011. Brown University Petra Archaeological Project: 2010 Excavations at Islamic Bayda. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 55: 431-450.

Urban, T.M., S.E. Alcock, and C.A. Tuttle. 2012. Virtual Discoveries at a Wonder of the World: Geophysical Investigations and Ancient Plumbing at Petra, Jordan. Antiquity 86(331): https://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/urban331/.

Urban, T.M., E. Bocancea, C. Vella, S.N. Herringer, S.E. Alcock, and C.A. Tuttle. 2013. Investigating Ancient Dams in Petra with Ground-Penetrating Radar. The Leading Edge 32(2): 190-192.

Urban, T.M., C. Vella, E. Bocancea, C.A. Tuttle, and S.E. Alcock. 2014. “A Geophysical Investigation of a Newly Discovered Early Bronze Age Site Near Petra, Jordan.” ​Journal of ​A​rchaeological ​S​cience​ 42: 260-72.

Vella, C., E. Bocancea, T. Urban, A.R. Knodell, C.A. Tuttle, and S.E. Alcock. 2015. “Looting and Vandalism around a World Heritage Site: Documenting Modern Damage to Archaeological Heritage in the Hinterland of Petra.” Journal of Field Archaeology 40(2): 221-235.

Vella, C., T.M. Urban, E. Bocancea, C.A. Tuttle and S.E. Alcock. 2012. Discovery of an Early Bronze Age settlement at Jabal al-Qarn near Petra, Jordan. Antiquity 86(334): https://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/vella334/.

 

BUPAP Academic Presentations

Alcock, S.E. 2011. What to do with a Wonder of the World? The Puzzle of Petra. Getty Villa Lecture. 27 October 2011.

Alcock, S.E. and A.R. Knodell. 2011. Petra in a Landscape Mode: The 2010 Petra Area and Wadi Slaysil Survey. Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. 6-9 January 2011.

Alcock, S.E., A.R. Knodell, C.A. Tuttle, and T.M. Urban. 2013. Data and Other Revolutions in the Countryside of Petra. The Seventh World Archaeology Congress, Dead Sea, Jordan, 14-18 January 2013.

Berenfeld, M.L. and F.A. Rojas. 2011. Minding the Gaps: Traffic and Infrastructure in Petra’s Northwest Wadis. Wadi Musa, Jordan. 9 June 2011.

Bocancea, E. and T. Sandiford. 2010. Dammed! Exploring an Ancient Water Management System in Wadi Beqaa (Petra, Jordan). Brown Bag Series in Archaeology, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University. 28 October 2010.

Knodell, A.R. and S.E. Alcock. 2011. Landscapes North and Nearby Petra: The Petra Area and Wadi Silaysil Survey (BUPAP 2010-2011). Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 16-19 November 2011.

Knodell, A.R., and S.E. Alcock. 2013. The Petra Area and Wadi Silaysil Survey, 2010-2012: Motivations, Methods, and Preliminary Results. Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, 3-6 January 2013.

Sekedat, B.M. 2011. Placing the Quarries of Petra in their Context. Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. 6-9 January 2011.

 

Brown University Great Temple Excavations

A full list of bibliography related to the Great Temple Excavations from 1993-2008 is available on the Great Temple Excavations website, and can be found here: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/Petra/excavations/site-bibliography.html.

 

Select General Bibliography on Petra

Crawford, G.A. 2003. Petra and the Nabataeans: A Bibliography (ATLA Bibliography Series v. 49). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Augé, C. and J.-M. Dentzer. 2000. Petra: Lost City of the Ancient World. New York: Abrams.

Bowersock, G.W. 1983. Roman Arabia. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press.

Joukowsky, M.S. 1998. Petra Great Temple: Brown University Excavations 1993-1997. Providence, RI: Brown University Petra Exploration Fund.

Joukowsky, M.S. 2007. Petra Great Temple, Volume II: Archaeological Contexts of the Remains and Excavations. Providence, RI: Brown University Petra Exploration Fund.

Kanellopoulos, Ch. 2004. The Temples of Petra: An Architectural Analysis. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern.

Lindner, M. 1997. Petra und das Königreich der Nabatäer: Lebensraum, Geschichte und Kultur eines arabisch. München: Delp.

Markoe, G (Ed.). 2003. Petra Rediscovered: The Lost City of the Nabataeans. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with the Cincinnati Art Museum.

McKenzie, J. 2005. The Architecture of Petra. Oxbow Books, Oxford.

Rababeh, S.M. 2005. How Petra Was Built: An Analysis of the Construction Techniques of the Nabataean Freestanding Buildings and Rock-Cut Monuments in Petra, Jordan. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Roche, M.-J. 2009. Pétra et les Nabatéens. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.

Taylor, J. 2005. Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans. London: The Folio Society.

Weber, T. and R. Wenning (Eds.). 1997. Petra: Antike Felsstadt zwischen arabischer Tradition und griechischer Norm. Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern.

 

PAWS Survey Area

‘Amr, K. and al-Momani, A. 2001. Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Component of the Wadi Musa Water Supply and Wastewater Project (1998-2000), Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 45: 253-285.

‘Amr, K., al-Momani, A., Farajat, S., and Falahat, H. 1998. Archaeological Survey of the Wadi Musa Water Supply and Wastewater Project Area, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 42: 503-548.

Banning, E. and Kohler-Rollefson, I. 1983. Ethnoarchaeological Survey in the Beidha Area, Southern Jordan. ADAJ 27: 375-383.

Banning, E. and Kohler-Rollefson, I. 1992. Ethnographic Lessons for the Pastoral Past: Camp Locations and Material Remains near Beidha, Southern Jordan, in Bar-Yosef, O. and Khazanov, A. (eds.), Pastoralism in the Levant: Archaeological Materials in Anthropological Perspectives. Prehistory Press, Madison, pp. 181-204.

Bikai, P.M. 2004. Beidha al-Amti. Pages 439-441 in Savage, S.H., Zamora, K.A., and Keller, D.R. Archaeology in Jordan, 2003 Season. AJA 108(3): 527-555.

Bikai, P.M. 2005. Beidha. Pages 550-552 in Savage, S.H., Zamora, K.A., and Keller, D.R. Archaeology in Jordan, 2003 Season. AJA 109(3): 527-555.

Bikai, P.M., C. Kanellopoulos, S.L. Saunders. 2005a. Beidha Documentation Project. ADAJ 49: 339-344.

Bikai, P.M., C. Kanellopoulos, S.L. Saunders. 2005b. The High Place at Beidha. ACOR Newsletter 17(2): 1-3.

Bikai, P.M., C. Kanellopoulos, S.L. Saunders. 2006a. Beidha Documentation Project, in Out of the Desert (Exhibition Catalogue). Amman: Darat al Funun, Khalid Shoman Foundation, pp. 6-11 (Arabic) and 30-35 (English).

Bikai, P.M., C. Kanellopoulos, S.L. Saunders. 2006b. Beidha. in Savage, S.H and Keller, D.R. Archaeology in Jordan, 2005 Season. AJA 110(3): 471-491.

Bikai, P.M., C. Kanellopoulos, S.L. Saunders. 2007. Gods and Vineyards at Beidha, in T.E. Levy, P.m Michéle Daviau, R.W. Younker, and M. Shaer (eds.), Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan. Equinox, London, pp. 369-374.

Bikai, P.M., C. Kanellopoulos, S.L. Saunders. 2008. Beidha in Jordan: A Dionysian Hall in a Nabataean Landscape. American Journal of Archaeology 112(3): 465-507.

Byrd, B. F. 1988. The Natufian of Beidha. Report on Renewed Field Research, in Garrard, A.N. and Gebel, H.G. (eds.), The Prehistory of Jordan: The State of Research in 1986. BAR International Series 396 (i), Oxford, pp. 175-197.

Byrd, B. F. 1989. The Natufian Encampment at Beidha: Late Pleistocene Adaptation in the Southern Levant. Jutland Archaeological Society Publications Volume 23. Aarhus.

Byrd, B. F. 2005. Early Village Life at Beidha, Jordan: Neolithic Spatial Organization and Vernacular Architecture. The Excavations of Mrs. Diana Kirkbride-Helbæk. Oxford University Press.

Field, J. 1989. Geological Setting at Beidha (Appendix A). In Byrd 1989: 86-96.

Gebel, H.G. 1990. TAVO B I, 15, Map III "Sulaisil".

Gebel, H.G. 1988. Late Epipalaeolithic – Aceramic Neolithic Sites in the Petra-Area, in Garrard, A.N. and Gebel, H.G. (eds.), The Prehistory of Jordan: The State of Research in 1986 BAR International Series 396 (i), Oxford, pp. 67-100.

Gebel, H.G. and J.M. Starck. 1985. Investigations into the Stone Age of the Petra Area. ADAJ 29: 81-114.

Kirkbride, D. 1960. The Excavation of a Neolithic Village at Seyl Aqlat, near Petra. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 92: 136-145.

Kirkbride, D. 1961. Ten Thousand Years of Man's Activity around Petra: Unknown and Little Known Sites Excavated or Explored. Illustrated London News 239: 448-451.

Kirkbride, D. 1962. Excavation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Villae at Seyl Aqlat, Beidha. ADAJ 6: 7-12.

Kirkbride, D. 1966. Five Seasons at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Village of Beidha in Jordan. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 98: 8-72.

Kirkbride, D. 1967. Beidha I965: an interim report. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 99:5-10.

Kirkbride, D. 1968. Beidha 1967: An interim report. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 100: 90–96.

Kirkbride, D. 1984. Beidha 1983: An Interim Report. ADAJ 28: 9-12.

Lindner, M. 1978. Die 3. archäologische Expedition der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft Nürnberg nach Jordanien. Jahresmitteilungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft Nürnberg: 81-96.

Lindner, M. 1986. Archäologische Erkundungen in der Petra-Region 1982-1984. In M. Lindner (Ed.), Petra - Neue Ausgrabungen und Entdeckungen. Bad Windscheim-München, pp. 87-170.

Lindner, M. 1999. Late Islamic Villages in the Greater Petra Region and Medieval “Hormuz,” ADAJ 43: 479–500.

Lindner, Manfred and Elisabeth Gunsam. 1995a. A Newly Described Nabataean Temple Near Petra: the Pond Temple. SHAJ 5: 199–214.

Lindner, Manfred and Elisabeth Gunsam, 1995b. The Unique Nabataean High Place of Ras Slaysil Northwest of Petra and its Topographical Context. ADAJ 39: 267–280.

Lindner, Manfred and Elisabeth Gunsam. 2002. A Fortified Suburb of Ancient Petra: Shammasa. ADAJ 46: 225–242.

Lindner, M., Hübner, U., Genz, H. 2001. The Early Bronze Age Settlement on Umm Saysaban North of Petra (Jordan) and its Topographical Context. Report on the 1998–1999 Survey. ADAJ 45: 287–310.

Mortensen, P. 1970. A Preliminary Study of the Chipped Stone Industry from Beidha. Acta Archaeologica 41: 1-54.

Nasarat, M., F. Abudanh, and S. Naimat. 2012. Agriculture in Sixth-Century Petra and Its Hinterland, the Evidence from the Petra Papyri. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 23: 105-115.

Salameen, Z. al-. 2005. Nabataean Winepresses from Bayda, Southern Jordan. Aram 17: 115–127.

Zayadine, F. 1986. A Symosiarch from Petra, in L.T. Geraty and L.G. Herr (eds.), The Archaeology of Jordan and Other Studies Presented to Siegfried H. Horn. Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press, pp. 465-474.

Zayadine, F. 1992. L'espace urbain du grand Pétra, les routes et les stations caravaniéres. ADAJ 36: 217-240.

Zayadine, F. and Farajat, S. 1991. Excavation and Clearance at Petra and Beida. ADAJ 35: 275-300.

 

The Islamic Village at Bayda

Bikai, P.M., C. Kanellopoulos, S.L. Saunders. 2005. Beidha Documentation Project. ADAJ 49: 339-344.

Bikai, P.M., C. Kanellopoulos, S.L. Saunders. 2006. Beidha Documentation Project, in Out of the Desert (Exhibition Catalogue). Amman: Darat al Funun, Khalid Shoman Foundation, pp. 6-11 (Arabic) and 30-35 (English).

Bikai, P.M., C. Kanellopoulos, S.L. Saunders. 2007. Gods and Vineyards at Beidha, in T.E. Levy, P.m Michéle Daviau, R.W. Younker, and M. Shaer (eds.), Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan. Equinox, London, pp. 369-374.

Bikai, P.M., C. Kanellopoulos, S.L. Saunders. 2008. Beidha in Jordan: A Dionysian Hall in a Nabataean Landscape. American Journal of Archaeology 112(3): 465-507.

Sinibaldi, M. 2007. Crusader Archaeology in Southern Jordan. American Center for Oriental Research Newsletter 18.

Sinibaldi, M. 2009. The Franks in Southern Transjordan and the contribution of Ceramic Studies. A Preliminary Report on the Pottery Assemblages of Bayda and Wadi Farasa. ADAJ 53.

Sinibaldi, M. 2010. Villages of Crusader Transjordan: A Survey of Archaeological Sources. Bulletin of Council for British Research in the Levant.

Vanini, G. and A.V. Desideri. 1995. Archaeological Research on Medieval Petra: A Preliminary Report. ADAJ 39: 509-540.

 

Architectural Studies at Petra

Augé, C. 2005. Nouvelles recherches autour du Qasr al-Bint à Pétra (Jordanie), RA 186-192.

Bedal, L.-A. 2003.  The Petra Pool-Complex. A Hellenistic Paradeisos in the Nabataean Capital.  Piscataway, Georgias Press. 

Bedal, L-A., Gleason, K.L., Schryver, J.G. 2007. The Petra Garden and Pool Complex, 2003-2005. ADAJ 51, pp. 151-176.

Bessac, J-C. 2007. Le Travail de la Pierre à Pétra: Technique et Économie de la Taille Rupestre. Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, Paris.

Bowersock, G.W.  1971. A Report on Arabia Provincia, JRS 61:219-242.

Bowersock, G.W. 1983. Roman Arabia. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Fiema, Z.T. 2002. Late-antique Petra and its Hinterland: Recent Research and New Interpretations, in Humphrey, J.H. (ed.), The Roman and Byzantine Near East, Vol. 3.  JRA Supplement 49. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, RI, pp.191-252.

Fiema, Z.T. 2003. Roman Petra, 106-363. A Neglected Subject. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 119: 38-58.

Graf, D.F. 2007. In Search of Hellenistic Petra: Excavations in the City Center, in T.E. Levy, P.m Michéle Daviau, R.W. Younker, and M. Shaer (eds.), Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan. Equinox, London, pp. 333-339.

Graf, D.F., Bedal, L.-A. and Schmid, S.G. 2005. The Hellenistic Petra Project: Excavations in the Civic Center, Preliminary Report of the First Season, 2004. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 49: 417-441.

Hammond, P.C. 1965. The Excavation of the Main Theater at Petra, 1961-1962. Final Report. Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London.

Hammond, P.C. 1973. The Nabataeans: Their History, Culture and Archaeology, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 37, Aström, Gothenburg.

Joukowsky, M.S. 1998. Petra Great Temple: Brown University Excavations 1993-1997. Providence, RI: Brown University Petra Exploration Fund.

Joukowsky, M.S. 2007. Petra Great Temple, Volume II: Archaeological Contexts of the Remains and Excavations. Providence, RI: Brown University Petra Exploration Fund.

Kanellopoulous, C. 2001. The Architecture of the Shops and Colonnaded Street in Petra.” BASOR 324: 9-22.

Kanellopoulous, C. 2002. A New Plan of Petra's City Center. Near Eastern Archaeology 65: 251-254.

Kanellopoulous, C.  2003. The Layout of the Garden and Pool Complex in Petra.  A Metrological Analysis.  ADAJ 47: 149-157.

Kanellopoulous, C. and Akasheh, T.S. 2001. The Petra Map. BASOR 324: 5-7.

Kennedy, A.B.W. 1935. Petra: Its history and monuments. Country Life, London.

Kolb, B. 2001. A Nabataean Mansion at Petra. Some Reflections on its Architecture and Interior Decoration, in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 7, Department of Antiquities, Amman, pp. 437-445.

Kolb, B. 2002. Petra__From Tent to Mansion. Living on the Terraces of Ez-Zantur, in Markoe, G. (ed.), Petra Rediscovered. Lost City of the Nabataeans. Harry N. Abrams, New York, pp. 230-237.

Lindner, M. (ed.) 1970. 40 Jahre Ausgrabungen in Petra (1929 bis 1969). Petra und das Königreich der Nabatäer: Lebensraum, Geschichte und Kultur eines Arabischen Volkes der Antike. Delp Verlag, Munich.

Lindner, M. and Zeitler, J.P. (eds.). 1991. Petra, Königin der Weihrauchstrasse. UKA-Verlag, Fürth

McKenzie, J. 2001. Keys from Egypt and the East: Observations on Nabataean Culture in the Light of Recent Discoveries. BASOR 324: 97-112.

McKenzie, J. 2005. The Architecture of Petra.  Oxbow Books, Oxford.

McKenzie, J. and Phippen, A. 1987. The Chronology of the Principal Monuments at Petra. Levant 19: 145-165.

Nehmé, L. 1997. La Géographie des Inscriptions de Pétra (Jordanie), in Sérandour, A. (ed.), Des Sumériens aux Romains d’Orient:  La Perception Géographique du Monde.  Espaces et Territoires au Proche-Orient Ancien. Actes de la table ronde du 16 novembre 1996 organisée par l’URA 1062 “Études sémitiques.” Libraire d’Amérique et d’Orient, Paris.

Nehmé, L. 1997. L’espace cultuel à Pétra à l’époque nabatéene. Topoi 7: 109-131.

Nehmé, L. and Villeneuve, F. 1999. Pétra: Métropole de l’Arabie Antique. Éditions de Seuil, Paris.

Ortloff, C.R. 2005. The Water Supply and Distribution System of the Nabataean City of Petra (Jordan), 300 BC – AD 300.  Cambridge Archaeological Journal 15: 93-109. 

Parr, P.J. 1960. Excavations at Petra, 1958-59. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 92: 124-135.

Parr, P.J. 1962. Le ‘Conway High Place’ à Pétra,” Revue Biblique 69: 64-79.

Parr, P.J. 1968. Découvertes Récentes au Sanctuaire du Qasr à Pétra.  I. Compte Rendu des Dernières Fouilles. Syria 45: 1-66.

Rababeh, S.M. 2005. How Petra Was Built: An Analysis of the Construction Techniques of the Nabataean Freestanding Buildings and Rock-Cut Monuments in Petra, Jordan. BAR International Series 1460, Oxford.

Schmid, S.G. 2000. The ‘Hellenistic’ Tomb Façades of Nabataean Petra and their Cultural Background. Graeco Arabica 7-8: 485-509.

Schmid, S.G. 2001. The Nabataeans:  Travellers between Lifestyles, in MacDonald, B., Adams, R., and Bienkowski, P. (eds.), The Archaeology of Jordan. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, pp. 367-425. 

Schmid, S.G. 2007. Nabataean Funerary Complexes. Their Relation with the Luxury Architecture of the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean, in al-Khraysheh, F. (ed.), Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 9, Department of Antiquities, Amman, pp. 205-219.

Schmid, S.G. 2009. Nabataean Royal Propaganda: A Response to Herod and Augustus? in Jacobson, D.M. and Kokkinos, N. (eds.), Herod and Augustus: Papers Presented at the IJS Conferenece, 21st-23rd June 2005.  Brill, Leiden, pp. 325-359.

Schmid. S.G. and Kolb, B. 2000. Petra ez Zantur II: Ergebnisse der Schweizerisch-Liechtensteinischen Ausgrabungen. Pt. 1: Die Feinkeramik der Nabataer; Pt. 2: Die spatantiken Wohnbauten. Terra Archaeologica, vol. 4. Verlag Philipp Von Zabern, Mainz.

Wenning, R. 1987. Die Nabatäer. Denkmäler und Geschichte. Vandenhoek & Ruprecht/Universitätsverlag, Göttingen.

Zayadine, F. Larché, F. and Dentzer-Feydy, J. 2003. Le Qasr al-Bint de Pétra. L’architecture, le décor, la chronologie et les dieux. Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, Paris.

 

Survey and Landscape Archaeology in Jordan

Adams, R. McC., Parr, P. J., Ibrahim, M., Mughannum, A. S. al-. 1976. Saudi Arabian Archaeological Reconnaissance – 1976. Preliminary Report on the First Phase of the Comprehensive Archaeological Survey Program. Atlal 1: 21–40.

‘Amr, K. and al-Momani, A. 2001. Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Component of the Wadi Musa Water Supply and Wastewater Project (1998-2000), Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 45: 253-285.

‘Amr, K., al-Momani, A., Farajat, S., and Falahat, H. 1998. Archaeological Survey of the Wadi Musa Water Supply and Wastewater Project Area, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 42: 503-548.

Aurenche, O. 1983. Travaux d’ethnoarchéologie dans la region de Kérak et à Pétra: enquêtes 1982-1983. Syria 60(3-4): 329-331.

Aurenche, O. 1989. Petra: Ethnoarchaeological Survey I. In D. Hommès-Frédéricq and J.B. Hennessy (eds.), Archaeology of Jordan, II, 2: Field Reports. Akadica Supplementum, 7. Leuven: Peeters, p. 455.

Baird, D. 2001. The Analysis of Chipped Stone, in MacDonald, B., Adams, R., and Bienkowski, P. (eds.), The Archaeology of Jordan. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, pp. 639-652.

Banning, E. 1982. The Research Design of the Wadi Ziqlab Survey, 1981, American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter 8: 4-8.

Banning, E. 1985. Pastoral and Agricultural Land Use in the Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan: An Archaeological and Ecological Survey. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto.

Banning, E. 1988. Methodology, in MacDonald et al., The Wadi el Hasa Archaeological Survey 1979-1983, West-Central Jordan. Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, pp. 13-25.

Banning, E. 1996. Highlands and Lowlands: Problems and Survey Frameworks for Rural Archaeology in the Near East, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 301: 25-45.

Banning, E. 2001. Archaeological Survey in Jordan, in MacDonald, B., Adams, R., and Bienkowski, P. (eds.), The Archaeology of Jordan. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, pp. 631-638.

Banning, E. and Fawcett, C. 1983. Man-Land Relationships in the Ancient Wadi Ziqlab: Report of the 1981 Survey, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 27: 291-309.

Banning, E. and Kohler-Rollefson, I. 1992. Ethnographic Lessons for the Pastoral Past: Camp Locations and Material Remains near Beidha, Southern Jordan, in Bar-Yosef, O. and Khazanov, A. (eds.), Pastoralism in the Levant: Archaeological Materials in Anthropological Perspectives. Prehistory Press, Madison, pp. 181-204.

Bar-Yosef, O. and Goren, N. 1980. Afterthoughts Following Prehistoric Surveys in the Levant, Israel Exploration Journal 27: 291-309.

Barker, G., Gilbertson, D., and Mattingly, D. (eds.) 2007. Archaeology and Desertification: The Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, Southern Jordan. Oxbow Books, Oxford.

Betts, A. 1984. Black Desert Survey, Jordan: Second Preliminary Report, Levant 25-34.

Betts, A. 1988. The Black Desert Survey. Prehistoric Sites and Subsistence Strategies in Eastern Jordan, in Garrard, A.N. and Gebel, H.G. (eds.), The Prehistory of Jordan: the State of Research in 1986 British Archaeological Reports International Series 396, Oxford, pp. 369-391.

Betts, A. 1992. Eastern Jordan: Economic Choices and Site Location in the Neolithic Periods, in Zaghloul et al. (eds.), Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan, IV, Department of Antiquities, Amman, pp. 111-114.

Betts, A. 2001. Pastoralism, in MacDonald, B., Adams, R., and Bienkowski, P. (eds.), The Archaeology of Jordan. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, pp. 615-620.

Bienkowski, P. A. 1989. Petra. Ethnoarchaeological Survey, II. In D. Homès-Frdericq and J. B. Hennessy (eds.), Archaeology of Jordan, 2.2: Field Reports, Leuven, pp. 455–457.

Bienkowski, P., and Galor, K. (eds.). 2005. Crossing the Rift. Resources, Routes, Settlement Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah. Oxford: Council for British Research in the Levant and Oxbow.

Bikai, P.M. 2007. Conservation and Preservation of Archaeological Sites in Jordan: Archaeology Initiatives of the American Center of Oriental Research, in T.E. Levy, P.m Michéle Daviau, R.W. Younker, and M. Shaer (eds.), Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan. Equinox, London, pp. 87-94.

Bliss, F.J. 1895. Narrative of an Expedition to Moab and Gilead in March 1985. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement, pp. 203-235.

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Kuijt, I. 2000. People and Space in Early Agricultural Villages: Exploring Daily Lives, Community Size, and Architecture in the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19(1):75-102.

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Canaan, T. Studies in the Topography and Folklore of Petra. Jerusalem: Beyt-Ul-Makdes Press.

Castlereagh, Viscount. 1847. A Journey to Damascus through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria, I-II. London: H. Colburn.

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Doughty, Charles M. 1888. Travels in Arabia Deserta, 1875-1877. Cambridge: University Press.

Dussaud, R. 1923. Les travaux et les découveries archéologiques de Charles Clermont-Ganneau. Syria 4: 140-173.

Edwards, B.B. 1837. Ruins of Ancient Petra. Biblical Repository and Classical Review 9: 431-457.

Forder, Archibald. 1923. Petra, Perea, and Phoenicia. London; Edinburgh: Marshall Brothers.

Hammond, P.C. 1987. Charles Doughty as a Source for Nabataean Archaeology. In S.E. Tabachnick (ed.), Explorations in Doughty’s Arabia Deserta Athens: University of Georgia Press, pp. 148-162.

Hart, Henry Chichester. 1885. A Naturalist’s Journey to Sinai, Petra, and South Palestine. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 17: 231-286.

Hill, Gray. 1897. A Journey to Petra-1896. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 29: 35-44, 134-144.

Holland, F.W. 1879. A Journey on Foot through Arabia Petraea. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 11: 59-72.

Hornby, Emily. 1901. Sinai and Petra: The Journals of Emily Hornby in 1899 and 1901. London: J. Nisbet and Co., Ltd.

Hornstein, C.A. 1898. A Visit to Kerak and Petra. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 30 (April): 94-103.

Huber, Charles. 1891. Journal d’un voyage en Arabie (1883-1884). Paris: Société Asiatique et la Société Geographie.

Hull, Edward. 1884. Narrative on an Expedition through Arabia Petraea, the Valley of the Arabah, and Western Palestine. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 16: 114-136.

Hull, Edward. 1885. Mount Seir, Sinai and Western Palestine: Beginning a Narrative of a Scientific Expedition. London: R. Bentley and Son.

Hull, Edward. 1886. The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoir on the Geology and Geography of Arabia, Petraea, Palestine, and Adjoining Districts. London: Palestine Exploration Fund.

Hull, Edward. 1903. Notes on Professor Libbey’s Account of the Jordan Valley and Petra. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 35 (January): 92-93.

Irby, Charles Leaonard and James Mangles. 1823. Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria and the Holy Land during the Years 1817-1818. London: T. White.

Kinnear, J.G. 1841. Cairo, Petra, and Damascus, in 1839, with Remarks on the Government of Mehemet Ali, and on the Present Position of Syria. London: John Murray.

Laborde, Léon, Marquis de. 1836. Journey through Arabia Petraea to Mount Sinai and the Excavated City of Petra, the Edom of the Prophecies. Translation of Voyage de l’Arabie Pétrée. London: Murray.

Lagrange, Marie-Joseph. 1897. Notre exploration de Pétra. Revue Biblique 6: 208-238.

Lagrange, Marie-Joseph. 1898. Notre exploration de Pétra. Revue Bilique 7: 165-182.

Legh, Thomas. 1819. Excursion from Jerusalem to Wadi Musa. In W. Macmichael, Journey from Moscow to Constantinople in the Years 1817, 1818 (Chapter 4). London: J. Murray.

Lenoir, Paul. 1872. Le Fayoum, le Sinaï et Pétra: Expédition dans la moyenne Égypte et l’Arabie Pétrée sous la direction de J.L. Gérome. Paris: H. Plon.

Libby, W. 1902. Notes on the Jordan Valley and Petra. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 34 (October): 411-413.

Libby, W. and F.E. Hoskins. 1905. The Jordan Valley and Petra. New York: Putnam.

Lindner, M. 1989. Petra – Entdecker, Reisende und Forscher. In M. Lindner (ed.), Petra und das Königreich der Nabatäer: Lebensraum, Geschichte und Kultur eines arabischen Volkes der Antike. 5th Edition. Munich: Delp; Nurnberg: Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, pp. 9-19.

Luynes, Honoré Théodoric Paul Joseph d’Albert duc de. 1874. Voyage d’exploration à la mer Morte, à Pétra et sur les rive gauche du Jourdain. Paris: A. Bertrand.

Lynch, W.F. 1849. Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard.

Martineau, H. 1875. Eastern Life: Present and Past. London E. Moxon.

Millard, David. 1843. A Journal of Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petrae, and the Holy Land During 1841-2. Rochester: E. Shepard.

Morris, Edward J. 1842-1843. Notes of a Tour through Turkey, Greece, Egypt, and Arabia Petraea to the Holy Land, I-II. London: N. Bruce.

Ogden, William Butler. 1888. Four Days in Petra. Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York 20(2): 137-153.

Olin, Stephen. 1843. Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land. 2 Volumes. New York: Harper and Brothers.

Palmer, Sophia M. 1883. An Adventure at Petra. Macmillan’s Magazine 47 (January): 187-197.

Roberts, David and George Croly. 1842-1849. The Holy Land: Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. London: Moon.

Robinson, Edward and Eli Smith 1841. Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838. 3 Volumes. London: J. Murray

Robinson, Edward and Eli Smith. 1856. Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of Travels in the Years 1838 and 1852. 2 Volumes. London: J. Murray.

Rüppel, Eduard. 1829. Reisen in Nubien, Kordofan, und dem Paträischen Arabien, vorzüglich in geographischstatistischer Hinsicht. Frankfort: Friedrich Wilmans.

Sandys, George. 1637. A Relation of a Journey Begun An. Dom. 1610, Foure Books: Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy, and Island Adjoyning. 4th Edition. London: Crooke.

Seetzen, Ulrich Jasper. 1854-1859. Ulrich Jasper Seetzen’s Reisen durch Syrien, Palästina, Phönicien, die Transjordan-Länder, Arabia Petraea und Unter-Aegypten. 4 Volumes. Berlin: G. Reimer.

Stephens, John Lloyd. 1851. Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land. Harper.

Stucky, Rolf A. 1993. Johann Ludwig Burckhardt alias Scheich Ibrahim, der Endecker Petras. In Rolf A. Stucky (ed.), Petra und die Weihrauchstrasse: Ausstellung Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig. Zurich: Le Point, pp. 72-78.

Stucky, Rolf A. 1997. Johann Ludwig Burckhardt und William John Bankes: Die ersten neuzeitlichen Europäer in Petra. In T. Weber and R. Wenning (ed.), Petra: Antike Felsstadt zwischen arabischer Tradition und griechischer Norm. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, pp. 5-13.

Wilson, E.L. 1885. A Photographers’ Visit to Petra. Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine  31 (November): 3-27.

Zayadine, Fawzi. 1984. La visited u Sultan Baibars à Pétra en 1276 et les routes caravaniéres. Le Nouvel Echo 3: 18-24.

 

People and Heritage at Modern Petra

Bienkowski, P. 1985. New Caves for Old: Beduin Architecture in Petra. World Archaeology 17(2): 149-160.

Bienkowski, P. and Chlebik, B. 1991. Changing Places: Architecture and Spatial Organization of the Bedul in Petra. Levant 23: 147-180.

Bille, M. 2009. Negotiating Protection Bedouin Material Culture and Heritage in Jordan. PhD Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University College London.

Cole, D.P. 2003. Where have the Bedouin Gone? Anthropological Quarterly 76(2): 235-267.

Comer, D.C. (ed.). 2012. Tourism and Archaeological Heritage Management at Petra: Driver to Development or Destruction? New York: Springer.

Kuijt, I. and Russell, K.W. 1993. Tur Imdai Rockshelter, Jordan: Debitage Analyis and Historic Bedouin Lithic Technology. Journal of Archaeological Science 20(6): 667-680.

McKenzie, J. 1991. The Beduin at Petra: The Historical Sources. Levant 23: 139-145.

Mustafa, M.H. and Abu Tayeh, S.N. 2011. The Impacts of Tourism Development on the Archaeological Site of Petra and Local Communities in Surrounding Villages. Asian Social Science 7(8): 88-96.

Ohannessian-Charpin, A. 1986. L’Utilisation actuelle par les Bedouins des grottes archéologiques de Pétra. ADAJ 30: 385-395.

Palmer, C. 2002. Milk and Cereals: Identifying Food and Food Identity among Fallahin and Bedouin in Jordan. Levant 34: 173-195.

Peake, F.G. 1958. A History of Jordan and its Tribes. Miami: University of Miami Press.

Russell, K.W. 1993. Ethnohistory of the Bedul Bedouin of Petra. ADAJ 37: 15-35.

Russell, K.W. 1995. Traditional Bedouin Agriculture at Petra: Ethnoarchaeological Insights into the Evolution of Food Production. Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 5: 693-705.

Shoup, J. 1985. The Impact of Tourism on the Bedouin of Petra. Middle East Journal. 39(2): 277-291.

Simms, S.R. and Russell, K.W. 1997. Bedouin Hand Harvesting of Wheat and Barley: Implications for Early Cultivation in Southwestern Asia. Current Anthropology 38(4): 696-702.

Simms, S.R. and Russell, K.W. 1997. Tur Imdai Rockshelter: Archaeology of Recent Pastoralists in Jordan. Journal of Field Archaeology 24(4): 459-472.

van Geldermalsen, M. 2006. Married to a Bedouin. London: Virago Press.


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