Fuad Hourani

Fuad Hourani
University of Jordan | UJ · Faculty of Archaeology and Tourism

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This project, focusing on the Palaeolithic period of the Upper Jordan Valley between the Yarmouk River and Dayr 'Alla, is a joint Jordanian-Swiss research venture of the University of Basel, the University of Jordan, and Yarmouk University. Two hundred and nineteen Palaeolithic sites and 96 undiagnostic sites of unknown age were located during thre...
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This is the first book to present a comprehensive, up to date overview of archaeological and environmental data from the eastern Mediterranean world around 6000 BC. It brings together the research of an international team of scholars who have excavated at key Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in Syria, Anatolia, Greece, and the Balkans. Collectively...
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The 2018 field season was carried out between 3 September and 29 September with a team of seven to eight scientists and students from the University of Basel and Jordan University. Field seasons of the Jordan Valley revealed a rich Palaeolithic legacy along the eastern foothills of the Jordan Valley dating from at least the Middle Pleistocene (i.e....
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At the end of the 8th millennium cal BC contacts of Cyprus with the continent seem to decrease gradually. From then on, the Island follows an individual path, apparently apart from continental influences, and develops an original civilization which finds its full achievement with the so-called ‘Khirokitia Culture’ or the Recent Aceramic Neolithic o...
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This paper focuses on early Holocene rapid climate change (RCC) records in the Mediterranean zone, which are under-represented in continental archives (9.2 to 8.2 ka events) and on their impact on prehistoric societies. This lack of data handicaps the general interpretation of climate impacts on human societies, which flourished in recent years. Ke...
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Methodological developments and new paleoanthropological data remain jointly central to clarifying the timing and systemic interrelationships between the Middle-Upper Paleolithic (MP-UP) archaeological transition and the broadly contemporaneous anatomically modern human-archaic biological turnover. In the recently discovered cave site of Mughr el-H...
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Recent palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data from the Middle Jordan Valley give evidence of important geomorphic modifications during the Late Chalcolithic and the early beginning of the Bronze Age. Significant human settling/resettling activities were also identified during this period and found to be concurrent with these modifications. A m...
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L'étude géoarchéologique conduite sur le bassin du Maroni dans les environs du village néolithi-que de Khirokitia a permis d'identifier plusieurs changements dans l'évolution hydrogéomorpho-logique de la rivière avant et pendant l'occupation sur le site. La nature et l'ampleur des événements observés témoignent de conditions pluviométri-ques oscill...
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This paper presents a selection of stratigraphical sequences from various micro-regions of the Jordan Valley and the palaeoenvironmental interpretation of their pedo-sedimentary features. Three morpho-climatical phases have been recognised for a period that ranges from early to mid-Holocene. The first phase (10,500-8,000 BP) corresponds to the deve...
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Outside of the Jordan Valley the Early Bronze Age II of northern Jordan remains largely uninvestigated , though surveys have identified EB II sites throughout the region. Surface collections and test excavations at Tell es-Sukhne North in the central Zarqa Basin provide evidence of settlement and economic organization at a multi-component EB II sit...

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