Russell B Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 4185130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell B Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell B |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Something old, something new
The long-term research projects within the Faynan Basin of southern Jordan continue to yield new and unexpected finds of all periods. This report focuses upon the investigation of the region in the Faynan floodplain, an area known from previous archaeological survey and limited excavation. Renewed investigation in 2019 focused upon analysis of the environmental impact of early metallurgy upon the ancient population through the excavation of five …
Floodwater farming and quarrying at Jabal Hamra Arlbieg in the Jordanian desert
Fragments of an early Islamic Arabic papyrus from Khirbet Hamrā Ifdān
Excavations in 2013 at the site of Khirbet Hamrā Ifdān in the Faynān revealed several pieces of an Arabic papyrus, the first ever found in Jordan. Although the papyrus is poorly preserved, a detailed analysis of the fragments based on parallels have suggested that it dates to the late seventh/early–mid‐eighth century AD . This article discusses the papyrus fragments and places them within their papyrological and archaeological contexts
The geoarchaeology of “waste heaps” from the ancient mining and beneficiation of copper-rich ores in the Wadi Khalid in southern Jordan
Inscribed in Clay
Archaeology of Sinai
Culture through Objects
The Social Context of Technological Change
Early Urbanizations in the Levant
Reassessing the chronology of Biblical Edom
An international team of researchers show how high-precision radiocarbon dating is liberating us from chronological assumptions based on Biblical research. Surface and topographic mapping at the large copper-working site of Khirbat en-Nahas was followed by stratigraphic excavations at an ancient fortress and two metal processing facilities located on the site surface. The results were spectacular. Occupation begins here in the eleventh century BC…
External Inluences at Faynan During the Early Bronze Age
This paper reviews the evidence from the Deutsches Bergbau Museum excavations at Barqa el-Hetiye 'House 1', located in the Faynan district of southern Jordan. It presents a re-interpretation of the site and its data and links technological changes in the production of copper that take place at Faynan during the later Early Bronze Age (EBA II–III) to changes in the material culture at Barqa el-Hetiye which suggest influences from the western Levan…
Early Bronze Age metallurgy
Recent excavations in southern Jordan have revealed the largest Early Bronze Age (c. 3600-2000 BC) metal manufactory in the ancient Near East. On-site Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyses of the finds provide new evidence concerning the scale and organization of metal production at a time when the first cities emerged in this part of the Near East. Materials and lead isotope analyses of the metallurgical finds provide important data for …
Archaeology and Desertification in the Wadi Faynan
This report describes the fourth season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers working together to reconstruct the landscape history of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan. The particular focus of the project is the long-term history of inter-relationships between landscape and people, as a contribution to the study of processes of desertification and environmental degradation. The 1999 fieldwork contributed si…
Geophysical Surveys in the Jebel Hamrat Fidan, Jordan
The Jebel (Jebel is mountain in Arabic) Hamrat Fidan marks the “gateway” to the Feinan district of southern Jordan—one of the largest sources of copper during the prehistoric and Early Bronze Ages in the eastern Mediterranean. Preliminary excavations and surveys at sites along the Wadi Fidan have revealed a long history of settled occupation extending from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (ca. 6,500 B.C.) to early medieval times. Because of this long hi…
Geophysical Surveys in the Jebel Hamrat Fidan, Jordan
The Jebel (Jebel is mountain in Arabic) Hamrat Fidan marks the “gateway” to the Feinan district of southern Jordan—one of the largest sources of copper during the prehistoric and Early Bronze Ages in the eastern Mediterranean. Preliminary excavations and surveys at sites along the Wadi Fidan have revealed a long history of settled occupation extending from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (ca. 6,500 B.C.) to early medieval times. Because of this long hi…
Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan
This report describes the third season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers working to reconstrnct the landscape history of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan over the past 200,000 years. The particular focus of the project is the long-term history of inter-relationships between landscape and people, as a contribution to the study of processes of desertification and environmental degradation. The geomorpholo…
The Jabal Hamrat Fidan Project
This report describes the excavation and preliminary analysis of the Wadi Fidan 40 cemetery by the Wadi Fidan Regional Archaeological Project during 1997. The cemetery is a large, enigmatic funerary complex. Previous work suggested a link to the nearby Early Bronze Age site of Wadi Fidan 4. During the 1997 season 62 grave features were excavated and human remains of 87 individuals recovered. The aceramic nature of the cemetery and other finds sug…
Soundings at Ash-Shorabat and Khirbat Dubab in the Wadi Hasa, Jordan
The objective of the fieldwork was to test whether or not the sites have a stratigraphic sequence covering Late Bronze-Iron I-Iron II. The stratigraphy was published in Levant 29 (1997). This paper is the final report on the pottery. The complete sequence from Ash-Shorabat Area I is published, demonstrating that the only in situ remains dated to Iron II. Out-of-context Early Bronze I pottery, mostly from Area II, is also presented. From Khirbat D…
Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan
This report describes the second season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers integrating geomorphological, palaeoecological, archaeological and hydrological studies to construct a model of landscape development for the past 10,000 years in the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan. Geomorphological fieldwork has provided further understanding of the sedimentary fills of the survey area, and underlined the importanc…
Soundings at Ash-Shorabat and Khirbat Dubab in the Wadi Hasa, Jordan
The objective of the fieldwork was to test whether or not the two sites have a stratigraphic sequence covering Late Bronze-Iron I-Iron II, as implied by MacDonald's and Miller's surveys. This paper is the final report on the stratigraphy. Two soundings at Ash-Shorabat consisted of several phases, all entirely within Iron II, but with out-of-context Early Bronze I pottery. Eight soundings at Khirbat Dubab uncovered several phases of Nabataean to L…
Excavations at Wadi Fidan 4
The site of Wadi Fidan 4 can now be definitively dated as an extended village settlement of the Chalcolithic period. Excavation in Areas A, Band D as well as surface survey of the site indicate that the entire surface of the plateau was covered by buildings. At present no full botanical or faunal reports are available, and as a result little can be said about the subsistence economy. It is clear however from the metallurgical finds and mining pic…
The Wadi Fidan Project, Jordan, 1989
The initial season of explorations of the Wadi Fidan Project was carried out by a joint team of postgraduate and undergraduate students from the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield and the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada, over a four-week period from August 14September 15, 1989. The Wadi Fidan Project is a multi-disciplinary project, whose long term aim is to examine the archaeological remai…
Excavations at Wadi Fidan 4
The site of Wadi Fidan 4 can now be definitively dated as an extended village settlement of the Chalcolithic period. Excavation in Areas A, Band D as well as surface survey of the site indicate that the entire surface of the plateau was covered by buildings. At present no full botanical or faunal reports are available, and as a result little can be said about the subsistence economy. It is clear however from the metallurgical finds and mining pic…
Reassessing the chronology of Biblical Edom
An international team of researchers show how high-precision radiocarbon dating is liberating us from chronological assumptions based on Biblical research. Surface and topographic mapping at the large copper-working site of Khirbat en-Nahas was followed by stratigraphic excavations at an ancient fortress and two metal processing facilities located on the site surface. The results were spectacular. Occupation begins here in the eleventh century BC…
Early Bronze Age metallurgy
Recent excavations in southern Jordan have revealed the largest Early Bronze Age (c. 3600-2000 BC) metal manufactory in the ancient Near East. On-site Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyses of the finds provide new evidence concerning the scale and organization of metal production at a time when the first cities emerged in this part of the Near East. Materials and lead isotope analyses of the metallurgical finds provide important data for …
External Inluences at Faynan During the Early Bronze Age
This paper reviews the evidence from the Deutsches Bergbau Museum excavations at Barqa el-Hetiye 'House 1', located in the Faynan district of southern Jordan. It presents a re-interpretation of the site and its data and links technological changes in the production of copper that take place at Faynan during the later Early Bronze Age (EBA II–III) to changes in the material culture at Barqa el-Hetiye which suggest influences from the western Levan…
The geoarchaeology of “waste heaps” from the ancient mining and beneficiation of copper-rich ores in the Wadi Khalid in southern Jordan
The Wadi Fidan Project, Jordan, 1989
The initial season of explorations of the Wadi Fidan Project was carried out by a joint team of postgraduate and undergraduate students from the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield and the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada, over a four-week period from August 14September 15, 1989. The Wadi Fidan Project is a multi-disciplinary project, whose long term aim is to examine the archaeological remai…
Excavations at Wadi Fidan 4
The site of Wadi Fidan 4 can now be definitively dated as an extended village settlement of the Chalcolithic period. Excavation in Areas A, Band D as well as surface survey of the site indicate that the entire surface of the plateau was covered by buildings. At present no full botanical or faunal reports are available, and as a result little can be said about the subsistence economy. It is clear however from the metallurgical finds and mining pic…
Soundings at Ash-Shorabat and Khirbat Dubab in the Wadi Hasa, Jordan
The objective of the fieldwork was to test whether or not the two sites have a stratigraphic sequence covering Late Bronze-Iron I-Iron II, as implied by MacDonald's and Miller's surveys. This paper is the final report on the stratigraphy. Two soundings at Ash-Shorabat consisted of several phases, all entirely within Iron II, but with out-of-context Early Bronze I pottery. Eight soundings at Khirbat Dubab uncovered several phases of Nabataean to L…
Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan
This report describes the second season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers integrating geomorphological, palaeoecological, archaeological and hydrological studies to construct a model of landscape development for the past 10,000 years in the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan. Geomorphological fieldwork has provided further understanding of the sedimentary fills of the survey area, and underlined the importanc…
Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan
This report describes the third season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers working to reconstrnct the landscape history of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan over the past 200,000 years. The particular focus of the project is the long-term history of inter-relationships between landscape and people, as a contribution to the study of processes of desertification and environmental degradation. The geomorpholo…
The Jabal Hamrat Fidan Project
This report describes the excavation and preliminary analysis of the Wadi Fidan 40 cemetery by the Wadi Fidan Regional Archaeological Project during 1997. The cemetery is a large, enigmatic funerary complex. Previous work suggested a link to the nearby Early Bronze Age site of Wadi Fidan 4. During the 1997 season 62 grave features were excavated and human remains of 87 individuals recovered. The aceramic nature of the cemetery and other finds sug…
Soundings at Ash-Shorabat and Khirbat Dubab in the Wadi Hasa, Jordan
The objective of the fieldwork was to test whether or not the sites have a stratigraphic sequence covering Late Bronze-Iron I-Iron II. The stratigraphy was published in Levant 29 (1997). This paper is the final report on the pottery. The complete sequence from Ash-Shorabat Area I is published, demonstrating that the only in situ remains dated to Iron II. Out-of-context Early Bronze I pottery, mostly from Area II, is also presented. From Khirbat D…
Archaeology and Desertification in the Wadi Faynan
This report describes the fourth season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers working together to reconstruct the landscape history of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan. The particular focus of the project is the long-term history of inter-relationships between landscape and people, as a contribution to the study of processes of desertification and environmental degradation. The 1999 fieldwork contributed si…
Geophysical Surveys in the Jebel Hamrat Fidan, Jordan
The Jebel (Jebel is mountain in Arabic) Hamrat Fidan marks the “gateway” to the Feinan district of southern Jordan—one of the largest sources of copper during the prehistoric and Early Bronze Ages in the eastern Mediterranean. Preliminary excavations and surveys at sites along the Wadi Fidan have revealed a long history of settled occupation extending from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (ca. 6,500 B.C.) to early medieval times. Because of this long hi…
Geophysical Surveys in the Jebel Hamrat Fidan, Jordan
The Jebel (Jebel is mountain in Arabic) Hamrat Fidan marks the “gateway” to the Feinan district of southern Jordan—one of the largest sources of copper during the prehistoric and Early Bronze Ages in the eastern Mediterranean. Preliminary excavations and surveys at sites along the Wadi Fidan have revealed a long history of settled occupation extending from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (ca. 6,500 B.C.) to early medieval times. Because of this long hi…
Early Bronze Age metallurgy
Recent excavations in southern Jordan have revealed the largest Early Bronze Age (c. 3600-2000 BC) metal manufactory in the ancient Near East. On-site Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyses of the finds provide new evidence concerning the scale and organization of metal production at a time when the first cities emerged in this part of the Near East. Materials and lead isotope analyses of the metallurgical finds provide important data for …
External Inluences at Faynan During the Early Bronze Age
This paper reviews the evidence from the Deutsches Bergbau Museum excavations at Barqa el-Hetiye 'House 1', located in the Faynan district of southern Jordan. It presents a re-interpretation of the site and its data and links technological changes in the production of copper that take place at Faynan during the later Early Bronze Age (EBA II–III) to changes in the material culture at Barqa el-Hetiye which suggest influences from the western Levan…
The Social Context of Technological Change
Early Urbanizations in the Levant
Reassessing the chronology of Biblical Edom
An international team of researchers show how high-precision radiocarbon dating is liberating us from chronological assumptions based on Biblical research. Surface and topographic mapping at the large copper-working site of Khirbat en-Nahas was followed by stratigraphic excavations at an ancient fortress and two metal processing facilities located on the site surface. The results were spectacular. Occupation begins here in the eleventh century BC…
Culture through Objects
Archaeology of Sinai
Inscribed in Clay
The geoarchaeology of “waste heaps” from the ancient mining and beneficiation of copper-rich ores in the Wadi Khalid in southern Jordan
Fragments of an early Islamic Arabic papyrus from Khirbet Hamrā Ifdān
Excavations in 2013 at the site of Khirbet Hamrā Ifdān in the Faynān revealed several pieces of an Arabic papyrus, the first ever found in Jordan. Although the papyrus is poorly preserved, a detailed analysis of the fragments based on parallels have suggested that it dates to the late seventh/early–mid‐eighth century AD . This article discusses the papyrus fragments and places them within their papyrological and archaeological contexts
Floodwater farming and quarrying at Jabal Hamra Arlbieg in the Jordanian desert
Something old, something new
The long-term research projects within the Faynan Basin of southern Jordan continue to yield new and unexpected finds of all periods. This report focuses upon the investigation of the region in the Faynan floodplain, an area known from previous archaeological survey and limited excavation. Renewed investigation in 2019 focused upon analysis of the environmental impact of early metallurgy upon the ancient population through the excavation of five …
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