Water in the Desert: Human Resilience in the Azraq Basin and Eastern Desert of Jordan
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Water in the Desert: Human Resilience in the Azraq Basin and Eastern Desert of Jordan" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
For thousands of years, plants and animals including humans moved back and forth along the Levantine corridor—a geographic region that connects Africa to Eurasia. At the margin of this corridor lies the Azraq Basin in the Eastern Desert of Jordan, which previously had extensive spring-fed wetlands at its center. These wetlands remained intact until the early 1990s when the combination of climate change and years of water overdraw led to desiccation of the springs. This session explores human resilience in the face of climate change and documents the shifting relationships between people, plants, animals, and objects in this challenging ecosystem from the Lower Paleolithic to historic times.
Other Keywords
Geoarchaeology •
Paleolithic •
Landscape Archaeology •
Neolithic •
Environment and Climate •
Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers •
Protein Residue Analysis •
Settlement patterns •
Digital Archaeology: GIS •
Dating Techniques: Radiometric
Geographic Keywords
Republic of Turkey (Country) •
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Country) •
Republic of Iraq (Country) •
Islamic Republic of Iran (Country) •
State of Israel (Country) •
Lebanese Republic (Country) •
Syrian Arab Republic (Country) •
West Bank (Country) •
Republic of Cyprus (Country) •
Arab Republic of Egypt (Country)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-6 of 6)
- Documents (6)
- From Wetlands to Deserts: The Role of Water in the Prehistoric Occupation of Eastern Jordan (2024)
- Human-Environment Dynamics at the Arid Margin of the Levant: Fluctuating Freshwater Resources between 400,000 and 40,000 Years Ago in the Greater Azraq Oasis Area, Jordan (2024)
- The Late Neolithic Expansion in the Black Desert, Jordan (2024)
- Orbiting the Oasis: Protein Residue Analysis Illuminates Past Interspecies Interactions in Jordan (2024)
- Paleoenvironmental Signatures of a Persistent Place at Kharaneh IV, Jordan (2024)
- Settlement Patterns, Water Accessibility, and Circulation in the Azraq Watershed during the Neolithic Colonization (Seventh–Sixth Millennium BCE) (2024)