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"Qasr al-Buleida" : a late Roman-Byzantine fortified settlement on the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan
- Title
- "Qasr al-Buleida" : a late Roman-Byzantine fortified settlement on the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan / Alexandra Ariotti.
- Author
- Ariotti, Alexandra.
- Publication
- Oxford, England : Archaeopress, 2009, ©2009.
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- Description
- xvi, 185 pages : illustrations; 30 cm.
- Summary
- On the basis of the settlement's material culture assemblages and archaeobotanical data, this investigation posits that the QB sites were most likely occupied by locally recruited soldiers known as limitanei who were enlisted by the State to police and monitor nearby Wadi al-Kerak, a major route of travel and trade between the fourth and sixth centuries C.E., as well as its perennial spring and surrounding arable farm lands, and to cultivate these lands (or parts of) for their own subsistence. This study has not only provided a precise chronological marker for the history of the Dead Sea Plain. but has also led to a re-evaluation of the hitherto accepted ceramic typologies and chronologies for the Nabataean and Late Roman-Byzantine periods in south Jordan. This research forms part of the Archaeology and Environment of the Dead Sea Plain Project jointly conducted by La Trobe and Arizona State Universities.
- This thesis focuses on Qasr al-Buleida (QB), a small hamlet located in the marginal environment of the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan. The hamlet comprises the remains of five freestanding, fortified architectural complexes, as well as an associated agricultural system that includes aqueducts, a dam or reservoir and terracing. Taken together, these structures and features form the QB settlement, an entity which has not been previously studied nor published in entirety. Through survey and excavation conducted over two field seasons (2002 and 2004), the investigation of Qasr al-Buleida has determined the chronology, cultural history and function of the five QB complexes as a settlement of fortified military farmhouses (or farmsteads) supporting the Roman-Byzantine limes Arabicus between the fourth and sixth centuries C.E.
- Series Statement
- BAR international series ; 2009
- Uniform Title
- BAR international series ; 2009.
- Subject
- Geschichte 350-600
- Geschichte 350-600
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Jordan
- Byzantine antiquities
- Classical antiquities
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Ausgrabung
- Funde
- Qaṣr al-Bulaydah Site (Jordan)
- Jordan > Antiquities, Roman
- Jordan > Antiquities, Byzantine
- Jordan
- Jordan > Qaṣr al-Bulaydah Site
- Jordanien
- Qasr al-Buleida
- Totes Meer > Region
- Qasr al-Buleida (Jordanie)
- Qasr al-Buleida (Jordanie) > époque impériale romaine > époque byzantine
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.) -- La Trobe University, 2006.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781407305851
- 1407305859
- LCCN
- 2009529361
- OCLC
- ocn467743743
- 467743743
- SCSB-1536487
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library