Looting and vandalism around a World Heritage Site: Documenting modern damage to archaeological heritage in Petra's hinterland

C Vella, E Bocancea, TM Urban… - Journal of Field …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In 2012 the ancient city of Petra celebrated the 200th anniversary of its Western re-
identification. The Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP) has sought to …

The Brown University Petra Archaeological Project: Landscape Archaeology in the Northern Hinterland of Petra, Jordan

AR Knodell, SE Alcock, CA Tuttle… - American Journal of …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
In three field seasons, between 2010 and 2012, the Brown University Petra Archaeological
Project (BUPAP) conducted a diachronic archaeological survey of the northern hinterland of …

A geophysical investigation of a newly discovered Early Bronze Age site near Petra, Jordan

TM Urban, C Vella, E Bocancea, CA Tuttle… - Journal of archaeological …, 2014 - Elsevier
The hinterland of the famed Nabataean city of Petra in southwestern Jordan has yielded
archaeological remains ranging from the Paleolithic to the Medieval Period, with a time-span …

Hiding in plain sight: the discovery of a new monumental structure at Petra, Jordan, using WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 satellite imagery

S Parcak, CA Tuttle - Bulletin of the American Schools of …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article describes the discovery and map** of a large, previously unknown
monumental structure at Petra, Jordan, using Google Earth, WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 …

Channels, terraces, pottery, and sediments–A comparison of past irrigation systems along a climatic transect in northern Jordan

B Lucke, S al-Karaimeh, G Schörner - Journal of Arid Environments, 2019 - Elsevier
This contribution compares the remains of irrigation systems along a climatic transect in
northern Jordan: Gadara (today Umm Qeis) in the north-west, Abila (today Queilbeh) in the …

We wanted to take real information: public engagement and regional survey at Petra, Jordan

A Mickel, AR Knodell - World Archaeology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Since 2010 the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP) has been
conducting a diachronic regional survey of the landscape north of Petra. In 2013 the authors …

[HTML][HTML] 7. The Udhruh region: A green desert in the hinterland of ancient Petra

M Altaweel, Y Zhuang - Water societies and technologies from the …, 2018 - muse.jhu.edu
This chapter presents the preliminary results of an ongoing fieldwork project in the region of
Udhruh (southern Jordan). It focuses on and discusses the ancient agro-hydrological …

Terraced Landscapes: The Historical Ecology of Agricultural Infrastructure

D Plekhov - 2022 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation is about why agricultural practices change and why they do so in certain
ways. Given the immeasurable diversity of crops, tools, inputs, labor regimes, and landscape …

[PDF][PDF] Discovering antimicrobial powers of some herbs used by Bedouin in the Jordanian Petra

J Karak - Ecol. Environ. Conserv., 2020 - researchgate.net
ABSTRACT Bedouin of Petra-Jordan have been using herbs in their foods and folk medicine
since ages. Although phytochemical properties of many of these plants were investigated in …

From Urban Oasis to Desert Hinterland

LA Bedal - Water and Power in Past Societies, 2018 - degruyter.com
During the height of the Nabataean kingdom (late first century BCE–first century CE), its
capital city, Petra, reflected its increasing wealth and status with all of the trap**s of power …