Old Data, New Ideas: Analyzing Legacy Survey Data at Khirbat al-Mukhayyat, Jordan

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 2000–2001, the Tall Madaba Archaeological Project of the University of Toronto conducted an archaeological survey of the site of Khirbat al-Mukhayyat (Jordan) in anticipation of future archaeological excavation, though ultimately, no excavation of the site was conducted. With the formation of the Khirbat al-Mukhayyat Archaeological Project in 2014, an important aim was to analyze this extant, legacy material culture from survey. The first goal of this analysis was to create robust hypotheses concerning fluctuations in occupation and the nature of human activity at the site that could be tested against future excavation, and the second goal centered around a test of the methodological extent to which previous survey data of this type may be used in archaeological interpretation. This paper presents the results of this analysis that includes an examination of the ceramics based on chronology and form, as well as distributional maps that identify areas of intensified activity on the site by period. These results are compared with recent excavations at the site. Ultimately, this paper highlights the trajectory of human activity at the site from the Early Bronze Age through to the modern period.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36998.0