The Iron 1 Western Defense System at Tell El-ʿUmeiri, Jordan
From moat to rampart and casemate wall to collared storejar, Tell el-˓Umeiri, south of Amman in central Jordan, offers an astonishingly complete and tantalizingly early Iron Age defense system. After four seasons of excavations, the richness of this complex continues to emerge, suggesting challenges...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Scholars Press
1994
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The Biblical archaeologist
Year: 1994, Volume: 57, Issue: 3, Pages: 138-148 |
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| Summary: | From moat to rampart and casemate wall to collared storejar, Tell el-˓Umeiri, south of Amman in central Jordan, offers an astonishingly complete and tantalizingly early Iron Age defense system. After four seasons of excavations, the richness of this complex continues to emerge, suggesting challenges to prevailing views of the emergence of the region's Iron Age societies. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeologist
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210409 |