Petra Great Temple, Volume III, Now Available
We are completely delighted to announce that Martha Sharp Joukowsky's book, Petra Great Temple, Volume III: Brown University Excavations 1993–2008, Architecture and Material Culture, is now available from Oxbow Books and Casemate Academic.
Introduction:
Brown
University
professor emerita Martha Sharp Joukowsky
directed the archaeological excavations of the Great Temple
at Petra, Jordan, from 1993-2008. Although the excavation was funded by Brown University
as part of its programs in Anthropology
and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World (formerly the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art), it is also an international and interdisciplinary
project, with the active involvement of the American
Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) located in Amman, and the Department
of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Archaeological work continues at Petra, with a new phase of fieldwork underway, led by Brown University's Felipe Rojas, Associate Professor of Archaeology and Assyriology. Beginning in 2018, the Brown University Petra Terraces Archaeological Project (BUPTAP) is working to refine scholarly understanding of the history and dynamics of Petra's agricultural landscapes, concentrating on the agricultural hinterlands immediately north of Petra and, more specifically, on the Wadi Baqa' east of the road between Umm Seyhoun and Bayda and west of the rock of Shammasa.
Petra Great Temple Excavations
Brown University, Box 1837
Providence, RI 02912, USA
To begin, feel free to browse:
- A short history
of Petra and the Nabataeans.
A tour of the Great Temple,
detailing the various components of the temple, with maps and photos.
There is also a page with photographs of finds
from the Great Temple.- Details of Brown
University's excavations
at the Petra Great Temple, by year. Information as well on previous
excavations, on the technology
used by the Brown team, and on the conservation
and preservation of the Great Temple.
- The staff
of Brown University's excavations at the Great Temple.
- Details on sponsors and acknowledgements
- A list of the publications on the Great Temple.
- The Petra National Foundation: supporting efforts to protect and preserve the site and surrounding area
Other Petra Great Temple Websites:
- 2007 (Web pages and for digital videos and 3D images) The Joukowsky Institute website The Petra Great Temple Database Project or Open Context. The Petra Great Temple data sets include aerial photographs of the site by year, 1993-2006 site plans of trenches excavated, 1998-2006 ADAJ reports, 1993-2006 catalog, coin catalog, architectural fragment and Grosso Modo databases, phasing charts of every trench and locus, architectural and artifact drawings, and trench reports.
- 2003. LEMS SHAPE Lab
- 2003 May/June issue of Higher Learning. Higher Learning pp.18-19 Published by TEACH Magazine, 258 Wallace Ave. Ste 206 Toronto, Ontario, M6P 3M9, Canada.
- Bazin, P. L. and A. Henry 2003 Wall Drawer: A Simple Solution to Traditional Drawing and Photographic Recording of Archaeological Features.
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