Review of Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan. Vol. 4. The Early Islamic House by P.M. Michèle Daviau.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- A. Asa Eger, Full Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Central Transjordan in the Early Islamic period has received
steady attention from archaeologists, who have filled
in much-needed information on its cities, palaces, waystations
{qusur), and Christian churches. Surveys and excavations
at 'Amman, Jarash, Hisban, Madaba, Qasr al-Hallabät,and Umm al-Rasas have yielded new evidence on Umayyad
settlement, early Islamic urbanism, and Islamic-Christian
cultural exchange. Nonetheless, how rural communities
fared during and after the Islamic conquests in this region
and in relation to these more prominent sites is not well reflected
in the archaeological evidence. What is assumed is
that the countryside remained predominantly Christian. Yet
the intricate interplay of Christian-Islamic transition, not
always a linear or predetermined process, has remained elusive,
complicated by such factors as the presence of the Arab
Christian Ghassanid tribes who gradually converted. Departing
from the oft-discussed religious and ethnic transitions of
the landscape, the material culture of transition presents us
with another set of questions entirely. The publication of Êccavations
at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Volume 4: The Earty Islamic
House is, therefore, an important contribution that adds not
only to the growing body of evidence for central Transjordan,
but also to our understanding of non-urban Islamic
archaeology and the seventh- to eighth-century transition.
Review of Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan. Vol. 4. The Early Islamic House by P.M. Michèle Daviau.
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- Publication
- Language: English
- Date: 2013
- Keywords
- archaeology, book reviews, Jordan, central transjordan, early islamic period, oriental research