Alexander Wasse
Biographic Data
| ID | 1723835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Wasse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Wasse |
| SIGNATURE | WASSE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yeditepe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Desert Air Routes Project
Considerable attention has in recent years been devoted to ‘regimes of mobility’ (Tejel and Öztan 2022: 3) in the bordered yet globalising post-Ottoman Middle East (Jaquier 2022, 2023, 2024). The d...
Not a place for respectable people, but the ends of the earth converge there
New data, recovered by the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project, from substantial structures at Wisad Pools have provided insights into the nature and context of eastern Jordan’s Black Desert Neolithic cultural complex, dating to between c. 7000 and 5000 cal. BC. Hunter-herder-trapper communities, with economies based partially on ante-mortem exploitation of domestic sheep, were adept at maintaining a balance between local and non-local adaptatio…
Mesopotamian fallow deer and the chase in later Neolithic Cyprus
The nature of Neolithic hunting in the Near East and on Cyprus was different. • Neolithic hunting in the Near East may have included the commodification of prey. • Neolithic hunting in the Near East may have been linked to risk-buffering. • Neolithic hunting on Cyprus was probably the result of low occupation intensity. • The steppe is likely to have been an important source of wild-animal products. This article compares and contrasts the role of…
The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an)
Local-scale environmental gradients in ‘snail-shell’ stable isotopes from Holocene Jordanian archaeological sites
Reconstructing environments around archaeological sites is complicated by past land management practices and regional-scale climate proxies that can be contradictory and are often located at a distance from the sites themselves. Here we explore environmental information from fossil snail shells which, even when few in number on an archaeological site, may prove invaluable in constructing site-specific data. The palaeoecology of fossil snails and …
Inscribed landscapes in the Black Desert
Petroglyphs are well known in the Negev, eastern and southern Jordan, and the Arabian Peninsula. Intensive documentation of hundreds of petroglyphs at the site of Wisad Pools in the Black Desert of eastern Jordan records animals, humans, hunting traps and geometric designs, connecting people and places to the larger landscape. These were recorded at the landscape scale with drones and photogrammetry, and the local scale through the construction o…
Time out of joint
This article proposes that the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) hunter-forager-cultivator introductions to Cyprus from the northern Levant had a much more enduring impact on the Cypriot Aceramic Neolithic than subsequent agricultural introductions associated with the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB). The presence at Ayios Tychonas-Klimonas of imported wild emmer wheat, a chipped stone assemblage bearing strong similarities to Mureybet IIIA and …
The Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan (2010–2012)
The Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey (SAAS) is the latest in a series of surveys in central and southern Jordan directed by MacDonald since 1979. Taken together, these surveys have sampled a substantial block of upland territory between Wadi al-Hasa in the north and Ras an-Naqab in the south, with extensions down to the rift margins in the west and out towards the Desert Highway in the east. The SAAS study area comprised ca. 590 km2 of the s…
The Late Neolithic Presence in the Black Desert
Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric periods (ca. mid-seventh through fourth millenna B.C.E.). General syntheses rarely include more than cursory mention of the more arid regions of the southern Levant (Negev, eastern and southern Jordan). The Eastern Badia Archaeological Project [EBAP] study area comprises a west–east transect across the southern part of the eastern badia, selected to inclu…
First chronometric results for 'works of the old men
The “land of conjecture
Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric periods (ca. late 7th–4th millennia b.c.). Agropastoralists expanded into areas previously only sparsely occupied and secondary animal products played an increasingly important economic role. In the arable parts of the southern Levant, the olive in particular became increasingly significant and may have played a part in expanded exchange contacts in the r…
The Wadi Sirhan Project
This report describes the results of a short archaeological reconnaissance of two areas in the greater Wadi Sirhan basin, the Wadi Hudruj gorge in the south and the Jibaal al-Tharwa in the north. This resulted in the discovery of over twenty new sites, ranging in date from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Analysis of the results exposed significant differences between the two areas. Although northern parts of the Wadi Sirhan basin…
Final Results of an Analysis of the Sheep and Goat Bones from Ain Ghazal, Jordan
This report presents the final results of an analysis of Neolithic sheep and goat bones from Ain Ghazal, Jordan. It proposes that domestic goats were present at Ain Ghazal from the time of the settlement's establishment at c. 9250 BP, that Persian wild goats were hunted in the vicinity of Ain Ghazal until c. 8500 BP, that domestic sheep were introduced to Ain Ghazal in small numbers some time before c. 8500 BP and that their numbers subsequently …
The Wild Goats Of Lebanon
This article discusses the biogeography of Persian wild goat in an attempt to identify the most likely early centres of goat domestication in the Levant. It is suggested that Persian wild goat may have been first domesticated in or immediately adjacent to the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains during the mid-tenth millennium BP (uncalibrated), approximately a millennium earlier than has been previously assumed. Goat domestication may therefore ha…
The “land of conjecture
Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric periods (ca. late 7th–4th millennia b.c.). Agropastoralists expanded into areas previously only sparsely occupied and secondary animal products played an increasingly important economic role. In the arable parts of the southern Levant, the olive in particular became increasingly significant and may have played a part in expanded exchange contacts in the r…
Inscribed landscapes in the Black Desert
Petroglyphs are well known in the Negev, eastern and southern Jordan, and the Arabian Peninsula. Intensive documentation of hundreds of petroglyphs at the site of Wisad Pools in the Black Desert of eastern Jordan records animals, humans, hunting traps and geometric designs, connecting people and places to the larger landscape. These were recorded at the landscape scale with drones and photogrammetry, and the local scale through the construction o…
The Late Neolithic Presence in the Black Desert
Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric periods (ca. mid-seventh through fourth millenna B.C.E.). General syntheses rarely include more than cursory mention of the more arid regions of the southern Levant (Negev, eastern and southern Jordan). The Eastern Badia Archaeological Project [EBAP] study area comprises a west–east transect across the southern part of the eastern badia, selected to inclu…
First chronometric results for 'works of the old men
Local-scale environmental gradients in ‘snail-shell’ stable isotopes from Holocene Jordanian archaeological sites
Reconstructing environments around archaeological sites is complicated by past land management practices and regional-scale climate proxies that can be contradictory and are often located at a distance from the sites themselves. Here we explore environmental information from fossil snail shells which, even when few in number on an archaeological site, may prove invaluable in constructing site-specific data. The palaeoecology of fossil snails and …
The Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan (2010–2012)
The Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey (SAAS) is the latest in a series of surveys in central and southern Jordan directed by MacDonald since 1979. Taken together, these surveys have sampled a substantial block of upland territory between Wadi al-Hasa in the north and Ras an-Naqab in the south, with extensions down to the rift margins in the west and out towards the Desert Highway in the east. The SAAS study area comprised ca. 590 km2 of the s…
The Wild Goats Of Lebanon
This article discusses the biogeography of Persian wild goat in an attempt to identify the most likely early centres of goat domestication in the Levant. It is suggested that Persian wild goat may have been first domesticated in or immediately adjacent to the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains during the mid-tenth millennium BP (uncalibrated), approximately a millennium earlier than has been previously assumed. Goat domestication may therefore ha…
Final Results of an Analysis of the Sheep and Goat Bones from Ain Ghazal, Jordan
This report presents the final results of an analysis of Neolithic sheep and goat bones from Ain Ghazal, Jordan. It proposes that domestic goats were present at Ain Ghazal from the time of the settlement's establishment at c. 9250 BP, that Persian wild goats were hunted in the vicinity of Ain Ghazal until c. 8500 BP, that domestic sheep were introduced to Ain Ghazal in small numbers some time before c. 8500 BP and that their numbers subsequently …
The Wadi Sirhan Project
This report describes the results of a short archaeological reconnaissance of two areas in the greater Wadi Sirhan basin, the Wadi Hudruj gorge in the south and the Jibaal al-Tharwa in the north. This resulted in the discovery of over twenty new sites, ranging in date from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Analysis of the results exposed significant differences between the two areas. Although northern parts of the Wadi Sirhan basin…
The “land of conjecture
Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric periods (ca. late 7th–4th millennia b.c.). Agropastoralists expanded into areas previously only sparsely occupied and secondary animal products played an increasingly important economic role. In the arable parts of the southern Levant, the olive in particular became increasingly significant and may have played a part in expanded exchange contacts in the r…
First chronometric results for 'works of the old men
The Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan (2010–2012)
The Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey (SAAS) is the latest in a series of surveys in central and southern Jordan directed by MacDonald since 1979. Taken together, these surveys have sampled a substantial block of upland territory between Wadi al-Hasa in the north and Ras an-Naqab in the south, with extensions down to the rift margins in the west and out towards the Desert Highway in the east. The SAAS study area comprised ca. 590 km2 of the s…
The Late Neolithic Presence in the Black Desert
Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric periods (ca. mid-seventh through fourth millenna B.C.E.). General syntheses rarely include more than cursory mention of the more arid regions of the southern Levant (Negev, eastern and southern Jordan). The Eastern Badia Archaeological Project [EBAP] study area comprises a west–east transect across the southern part of the eastern badia, selected to inclu…
Time out of joint
This article proposes that the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) hunter-forager-cultivator introductions to Cyprus from the northern Levant had a much more enduring impact on the Cypriot Aceramic Neolithic than subsequent agricultural introductions associated with the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB). The presence at Ayios Tychonas-Klimonas of imported wild emmer wheat, a chipped stone assemblage bearing strong similarities to Mureybet IIIA and …
Inscribed landscapes in the Black Desert
Petroglyphs are well known in the Negev, eastern and southern Jordan, and the Arabian Peninsula. Intensive documentation of hundreds of petroglyphs at the site of Wisad Pools in the Black Desert of eastern Jordan records animals, humans, hunting traps and geometric designs, connecting people and places to the larger landscape. These were recorded at the landscape scale with drones and photogrammetry, and the local scale through the construction o…
The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an)
Local-scale environmental gradients in ‘snail-shell’ stable isotopes from Holocene Jordanian archaeological sites
Reconstructing environments around archaeological sites is complicated by past land management practices and regional-scale climate proxies that can be contradictory and are often located at a distance from the sites themselves. Here we explore environmental information from fossil snail shells which, even when few in number on an archaeological site, may prove invaluable in constructing site-specific data. The palaeoecology of fossil snails and …
Mesopotamian fallow deer and the chase in later Neolithic Cyprus
The nature of Neolithic hunting in the Near East and on Cyprus was different. • Neolithic hunting in the Near East may have included the commodification of prey. • Neolithic hunting in the Near East may have been linked to risk-buffering. • Neolithic hunting on Cyprus was probably the result of low occupation intensity. • The steppe is likely to have been an important source of wild-animal products. This article compares and contrasts the role of…
Not a place for respectable people, but the ends of the earth converge there
New data, recovered by the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project, from substantial structures at Wisad Pools have provided insights into the nature and context of eastern Jordan’s Black Desert Neolithic cultural complex, dating to between c. 7000 and 5000 cal. BC. Hunter-herder-trapper communities, with economies based partially on ante-mortem exploitation of domestic sheep, were adept at maintaining a balance between local and non-local adaptatio…
Desert Air Routes Project
Considerable attention has in recent years been devoted to ‘regimes of mobility’ (Tejel and Öztan 2022: 3) in the bordered yet globalising post-Ottoman Middle East (Jaquier 2022, 2023, 2024). The d...
Archaeology (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · History (8 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (7 works) · Bronze Age (6 works) · Southern Levant (6 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (4 works) · Biology (4 works)