Ancient Landscapes of Zoara I Surveys and Excavations at the Ghor as-Safi in Jordan, 1997–2018

Part I Introduction;  1. Location, topography and climate Konstantinos D. Politis;   2. Geology, geomorphology and landscape history R. Neil Munro;   3. Historical background Konstantinos D. Politis;   4. History of research Konstantinos D. Politis;   5. Surveys and excavation strategies Konstantinos D. Politis;   Part II The Pre-Pottery Neolithic periods;   6. Introduction and discoveries Konstantinos D. Politis;   7. Wadi Sharara excavations, 2011 Adamantios Sampson;   8. Wadi Hamrash excavations, 2009–2011 Adamantios Sampson;   Part III The Bronze Age periods;   9. The Early and Middle Bronze Ages Konstantinos D. Politis;   10. Observations on the Early Bronze Age cemetery at An-Naq‘ Eliot Braun;   Part IV The Iron Age II period;   11. The discovery of Tuleilat Qasr Mousa Hamid Konstantinos D. Politis;   12. Excavations at Tuleilat Qasr Mousa Hamid, 2000 Konstantinos D. Politis and Georgios A. Papaioannou;   13. Excavations at Tuleilat Qasr Mousa Hamid, 2015 Josephine A. Verduci;   Part V;   The Late Hellenistic and Nabataean period;   14. Introduction and regional survey Konstantinos D. Politis;   15. Umm Tawabin excavations, 2017 and 2018 Alexandra Ariotti;   Part VI The Early Byzantine period;   16. Archaeology and architecture Konstantinos D. Politis;   17. The Wadi al-Hasa hermitage Konstantinos D. Politis and Georgios A. Papaioannou;   Part VII The Abbasid and Ayyubid-Mamluk periods;  18. Archaeology and architecture Konstantinos D. Politis;   Part VIII The Ottoman period to modern times;   19. The Ottoman Ghor as-Safi Konstantinos D. Politis;   20. Ghor as-Safi and the Arab Revolt Penny Edwell;   21. From the British Mandate to the Hashemite Kingdom Konstantinos D. Politis;   Part IX Conclusion;   22. Conservation, heritage management and tourism development Konstantinos D. Politis

Biography

Konstantinos D. Politis is an archaeologist educated in Greece, the United States, Britain and Belgium. He is well-versed on the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean region from prehistory through to the medieval periods and focuses on Late Antiquity.