Settlement dynamics and shifts in northern Jordan

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Published Jul 22, 2021

Settlement dynamics and shifts in northern Jordan during the Late Bronze and Iron Age
Prof. Dominik Bonatz, Freie Universität Berlin

Wednesday, July 21, 2021
5 pm - Rome, Paris, Berlin (CET / GMT+2)
6 pm - Istanbul, Damascus (EET / GMT+3)
11 am - New York (ET / GMT-4)

Organizer(s): Tara Steimer and Sebastiano Soldi

For long, northern Jordan has been rather neglected in the research of settlement developments and dynamics during the Late Bronze and Iron Age in the southern Levant. However, already its geographic position on the crossroads of the main routes coming from Syria and Northern Mesopotamia and going down to the Red See and west to the Mediterranean speaks for an important role in the socio-political, economic and cultural processes that distinguish both periods such as the political hegemony and international exchange of the so-called Amarna period, the transition to tribal-state organizations in the Early Iron Age and the emergence of new kingdoms (Ammon and Moab) in the Middle Iron Age. New archaeological evidence from sites in the Jordan Valley, in the Wadi Zarqa and on the northern Jordanian Plateau indeed contribute to a better understanding of this critical moments in the early history of the Levant. The lecture will resume this evidence and introduce a region, which apparently will cause more research interest in future.