Essay on the results of excavations at the site of Khirbet al-Batrawy (Jordan) and the earliest urbanization in the southern Levant

Recent discoveries at Khirbet al-Batrawy by Rome "La Sapienza" University Expedition to Jordan provide a new set of data to cope with the historical interpretation of the Early Bronze Age culture in Jordan and the Southern Levant. Did exist the "city" and was there an "urban" phenomenon in Southern Levant? The case study of Batrawy, with its impressive fortifications, a monumental temple, and a palace containing goods, precious and symbolic items, still in course of exploration, might contribute to a wide and complex debate, suggesting to deep and continue the investigation, and possibly to adapt our paradigms to varying specificities of cultural evidence.

Khirbet al-Batrawy: An Early Bronze Age city at the fringes of the desert / Nigro, Lorenzo. - In: SYRIA. - ISSN 0039-7946. - STAMPA. - 90:(2013), pp. 189-209.

Khirbet al-Batrawy: An Early Bronze Age city at the fringes of the desert

NIGRO, Lorenzo
2013

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Essay on the results of excavations at the site of Khirbet al-Batrawy (Jordan) and the earliest urbanization in the southern Levant
2013
Recent discoveries at Khirbet al-Batrawy by Rome "La Sapienza" University Expedition to Jordan provide a new set of data to cope with the historical interpretation of the Early Bronze Age culture in Jordan and the Southern Levant. Did exist the "city" and was there an "urban" phenomenon in Southern Levant? The case study of Batrawy, with its impressive fortifications, a monumental temple, and a palace containing goods, precious and symbolic items, still in course of exploration, might contribute to a wide and complex debate, suggesting to deep and continue the investigation, and possibly to adapt our paradigms to varying specificities of cultural evidence.
batrawy; wadi az-zarqa; jordan; processi di urbanizzazione; urbanism; archeologia del levante meridionale; early bronze age; khirbet al-batrawy
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Khirbet al-Batrawy: An Early Bronze Age city at the fringes of the desert / Nigro, Lorenzo. - In: SYRIA. - ISSN 0039-7946. - STAMPA. - 90:(2013), pp. 189-209.
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