The Madaba Plains Project (MPP) has been involved in the archaeology of Jordan since 1968. MPP is currently conducting excavations at Tall al-'Umayri, Tall Hisban and Tall Jalul. Previous excavations were conducted at a number of small hinterland sites. In addition to these excavations, archaeological, environmental, and ethnographic surveys were carried out in the hinterland of each excavation site.
This page is meant to provide a convenient link to web publications on the archaeology of the Madaba Plain in Jordan and to survey data from the MPP hinterland surveys. The survey data section is new, and currently there is not much here, but there are links to GIS data for the 'Umayri survey and in the months to come, there will be additional data posted here.
Maps of the Hinterland Surveys
Hisban Hinterland Survey Data
Jalul Hinterland Survey Data
Umayri Hinterland Survey Data
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.
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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
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Summary Descriptions of Archaeological Sites from the Survey at Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan
Christopherson, Gary L. & Tisha K. Entz
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Field Testing ARC GRID-Based Archaeological Probability Models in Jordan (Arc/INFO User Conference, 2001)
Christopherson, Gary L. & D. Philip Guertin
Christopherson, Gary L., D. Philip Guertin, & Karen A. Borstad
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GIS and Archaeology: Using ARC/INFO to Increase Our Understanding of Ancient Jordan (ARC/INFO User Conference, 1996)
Christopherson, Gary L., Larry G. Herr
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Madaba Plains Project: Archaeological Survey Manual (October, 1997)
Christopherson, Gary L., Patrick Barabe, Peter S. Johnson
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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)
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A Kid's View of Archaeology in Jordan
Groves, Jennifer L., Karen A. Borstad, & Gary L. Christopherson
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A Preliminary Report on the Tall Jalul Surface Sherding Project (ASOR 1995)
Harrison, Timothy P.
LaBianca, Oystein S.
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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
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Report on the 1996 Field Season of the Madaba Plains Project
Ray Jr., Paul J. & Oystein S. LaBianca
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Sedentarization and Nomadization in Transjordan in the Early Islamic Period: The Khirbet Rufeis Cave Complex Excavations and Wusum (ASOR, 1995)
Sayej, Ghattas J.
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The Prehistory of the Hesban Region. The Results of the 1998 Survey: A Preliminary Report (1999)
Sunday, February 6, 2011
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