Edward B Banning
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3578008 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Edward B Banning |
| PRENOMES | Edward B |
| SOBRENOME | Banning |
| ASSINATURA | BANNING E B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4281-7639 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 383 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Bayesian optimal allocation of effort in archaeological survey
Paradise Found or Common Sense Lost? Göbekli Tepe’s Last Decade as a Pre-Farming Cult Centre
The spectacular finds at Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe have fired the imaginations of archaeologists and the general public alike. Reflecting on developments at and about the site since the 2011 publication of a critique of the site’s dominant interpretation as a hunter-gatherer cult centre, this article shows that some elements of that critique, including assertions about roofing and a residential population, have gained traction, while others have fall…
Sampled to Death? The Rise and Fall of Probability Sampling in Archaeology
After a heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, probability sampling became much less visible in archaeological literature as it came under assault from the post-processual critique and the widespread adoption of 'full-coverage survey.' After 1990, published discussion of probability sampling rarely strayed from sample-size issues in analyses of artifacts along with plant and animal remains, and most textbooks and archaeological training limited sampling …
Stone Artifacts
Bone and Shell Tools
Soils, Sediments, and Geoarchaeology
Birkenfeld Michal 2018. Changing systems
Michal Birkenfeld’s monograph on PPNB settlement patterns in Lower Galilee is the published version of his 2017 doctoral dissertation at Hebrew University. It reviews all the known PPNB and probable PPNB sites in the region but with particular focus on Kfar Hahoresh. Birkenfelds’s aim is to investigate, at the regional scale, the socio-economic organisation and structure of the PPNB settlement system in the lower Galilee—from the Zevulon/Acco pla…
The Archaeological Impacts of Metal Detecting
In a comment on two recent articles on the archaeological impacts of metal detecting, this paper advocates clearer and more valid measures of those impacts and more nuanced classification of the legal and cultural environments in which metal detecting takes place. The need to rely on open-source, online data for transnational analysis makes the former challenging but not impossible. Using the example of Canada, the paper shows that jurisdictional…
Morphometric and refitting analyses of flaked stone artifacts from Tabaqat al-Bûma and al-Basatîn, northern Jordan
Jawafat Shaban and the Late Neolithic in Wâdî al-Bîr, Northern Jordan
Au cours du mois d’août 2014, une équipe de l’université de Toronto a effectué des sondages en trois points du bassin de Wadi Quseiba, à l’ouest d’Irbid, en Jordanie. L’un d’eux était un «site candidat » mis au jour lors de la prospection du Wadi Quseiba à Wadi al-Bir, l’un des principaux affluents de Wadi Quseiba, au cours de la saison 2013. Il révéla des traces certaines d’occupation pendant le Néolithique récent (ou Chalcolithique ancien), qui…
Marjorie H. Akin , James C. Bard & Kevin Akin . Numismatic archaeology of North America
Marjorie H. Akin , James C. Bard & Kevin Akin . Numismatic archaeology of North America: a field guide. 2016. 289 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. New York & London: Routledge; 978-1-61132-920-9 paperback £37.99. - Volume 91 Issue 355
Novel survey methods shed light on prehistoric exploration in Cyprus
Evidence for the earliest occupation of Cyprus (c. 11000-8500 cal BC) has been elusive as it often consists of small, diffuse and unobtrusive scatters of debris from stone tool manufacture. Yet tracing these sites is crucial if we are to understand how humans first explored the island, learned to exploit its resources and introduced useful flora and fauna from elsewhere. Our approach to this problem is to employ new methods of pedestrian survey a…
Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th millennium BC
This paper explores the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and eastern and central Sahara) during the ‘long’ 4th millennium (∼4500–3000) BC. Twenty terrestrial and 20 marine climate proxies are used to identify long-term trends in humidity involving transitions from humid to arid conditions and vice versa. The f…
Quality Assurance in Archaeological Survey
To have confidence in the results of an archaeological survey, whether for heritage management or research objectives, we must have some assurance that the survey was carried out to a reasonably high standard. This paper discusses the use of Quality Assurance (QA) approaches and empirical methods for estimating surveys' effectiveness at discovering archaeological artifacts as a means for ensuring quality standards. We illustrate with the example …
Modernizing Spatial Micro-Refuse Analysis
Two Early Epipalaeolithic Sites in Wadi Taiyiba, Northern Jordan
Deux sites de l’Épipaléolithique ancien, localisés dans le Wadi Taiyiba en Jordanie, se trouvent dans une situation géologique tout à fait différente de celle des sites comparables dans la vallée voisine, le Wadi Ziqlab. En effet, ces deux sites étaient probablement à proximité de l’ancien Lac Lisan : le premier est un site peu profond, sur une pente près de la rive du Lisan, tandis que le second comporte des dépôts stratifiés plus épais à l’avan…
Burton MacDonald, Larry G. Herr, D. Scott Quaintance, Geoffrey A. Clark & Michael C.A. Macdonald. The Ayl to Ras an-Naqab archaeological survey, southern Jordan 2005–2007 (American Schools of Oriental…
Burton MacDonald, Larry G. Herr, D. Scott Quaintance, Geoffrey A. Clark & Michael C.A. Macdonald. The Ayl to Ras an-Naqab archaeological survey, southern Jordan 2005–2007 (American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Report 16). 2 volumes, xvi+534 pages, 188 b&w illustrations, 24 tables, CD. 2012. Boston (MA): American Schools of Oriental Research; 978-0-89757-085-56 hardback £ 95. - Volume 87 Issue 338
A Unique Human-Fox Burial from a Pre-Natufian Cemetery in the Levant (Jordan)
New human burials from northern Jordan provide important insights into the appearance of cemeteries and the nature of human-animal relationships within mortuary contexts during the Epipalaeolithic period (c. 23,000-11,600 cal BP) in the Levant, reinforcing a socio-ideological relationship that goes beyond predator-prey. Previous work suggests that archaeological features indicative of social complexity occur suddenly during the latest Epipalaeoli…
Sweep widths and the detection of artifacts in archaeological survey
Oasis or Mirage? Assessing the Role of Abrupt Climate Change in the Prehistory of the Southern Levant
Few prehistoric developments have received as much attention as the origins of agriculture and its associated societal implications in the Near East. A great deal of this research has focused on correlating the timing of various cultural transformations leading up to farming and village life with dramatic climatic events. Using rigorously selected radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites and palaeoenvironmental datasets, we test the predominat…
So Fair a House
Archaeologists have proposed that quite a number of structures dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and B in southwest Asia were nondomestic ritual buildings, sometimes described specifically as temples or shrines, and these figure large in some interpretations of social change in the Near Eastern Neolithic. Yet the evidence supporting the identification of cult buildings is often equivocal or depends on ethnocentric distinctions between sacred …
Houses, Households, and Changing Society in the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant
Characteristics of the built environment provide a source of evidence for the complex social landscapes of the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant. Rather than an inexorable evolutionary progression, this evidence suggests considerable variability and fl exibility throughout these periods. At various times and places, individual houses isolated themselves from the rest of their settlement within a walled courtyard that also pro…
Early Bronze I Occupation at al-Basatîn, in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan
Excavations at al-Basatîn in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan, have recovered evidence for an EB I occupation at the site, in addition to strata dating to the Late Neolithic and Classical periods. Artifacts and a series of radiocarbon assays indicate this occupation dates to the early EB I. Analyses of the pottery, stone tools, and faunal remains suggest the site was a small, perhaps somewhat isolated, farmstead that was engaged in a variety of domes…
Multiple-Spouted Jars of the Early Bronze I in Northern Jordan
The 1999 discovery of an unprecedented multi-spouted jar at an Early Bronze I site in Wadi Ziqlab, followed by the discovery of two more near Tell ash-Shûna North the following year, suggests the possibility that this vessel type is specific to a small region in northern Jordan. They exhibit similarity to a variety of vessels at Early Bronze sites in northern Israel and Jordan and the Jordan Valley, but none of these have more than one spout, and…
People who lived in big houses
So Fair a House
Archaeologists have proposed that quite a number of structures dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and B in southwest Asia were nondomestic ritual buildings, sometimes described specifically as temples or shrines, and these figure large in some interpretations of social change in the Near Eastern Neolithic. Yet the evidence supporting the identification of cult buildings is often equivocal or depends on ethnocentric distinctions between sacred …
Subsistence practices and pottery use in Neolithic Jordan
Wadi Rabah and Related Assemblages in the Southern Levant
Current lack of consensus on how to date or even classify “Late Neolithic” or “Early” or “Middle Chalcolithic” assemblages in the southern Levant is due not only to a past shortage of radiocarbon evidence but to misapplication of such evidence as we have an inconsistency in terminology. This paper presents some typological analyses of several assemblages with claimed “Wadi Rabah” and “Middle Chalcolithic” affinities as well as Bayesian analyses o…
The Late Neolithic of the Southern Levant
While the predominant view of the Late Neolithic in the southern Levant remains that population density was well below that of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, several sources of bias may have caused researchers to underestimate both population levels and the importance of this period. As a result of geomorphological and other factors, surveys have underrepresented sites at the foot of slopes and on stream terraces which may have been the prefered lo…
Southern Levantine Pier Houses
L'analyse des variations observables dans les structures domestiques de divers sites du Proche-Orient, plus spécifiquement à 'Ain Ghazal et à Jéricho, révèle au niveau de leur conception certains modèles formels. La forme de construction que nous désignons sous le terme de « pier house », diffère beaucoup, tant par ses dimensions que par son organisation, de celle des maisons multi-cellulaires contemporaines attestées à Abu Hureyra et à Bouqras. …
The Neolithic Period
The impressive list of the achievements of the Neolithic of the southern Levant encompasses village life, crop domestication, ceramic technology, and life-like plaster sculpture. Together, these "revolutions" (V. Gordon Childe) make the period one of the most attractive and compelling objects of archaeological inquiry. Moreover, the study of the Neolithic takes place at the busy intellectual cross-roads of biblical archaeologists, prehistorians, …
Houses and the Changing Residential Unit
The exceptional preservation of structural detail at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of ‘Ain Ghazal allows analysis of techniques of house building, and of sequences of construction and modification of houses. Frequent remodelling was common, with a trend towards smaller residential areas. The concept of the ‘development cycle’ is applied, to explain the structural modifications in terms of the changing nature of the co-residential group
Oasis or Mirage? Assessing the Role of Abrupt Climate Change in the Prehistory of the Southern Levant
Few prehistoric developments have received as much attention as the origins of agriculture and its associated societal implications in the Near East. A great deal of this research has focused on correlating the timing of various cultural transformations leading up to farming and village life with dramatic climatic events. Using rigorously selected radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites and palaeoenvironmental datasets, we test the predominat…
Houses, Households, and Changing Society in the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant
Characteristics of the built environment provide a source of evidence for the complex social landscapes of the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant. Rather than an inexorable evolutionary progression, this evidence suggests considerable variability and fl exibility throughout these periods. At various times and places, individual houses isolated themselves from the rest of their settlement within a walled courtyard that also pro…
Modernizing Spatial Micro-Refuse Analysis
Housing Neolithic Farmers
The world's earliest houses were not merely shelters from the elements or the setting for food preparation, childrearing and other domestic activities, but mysterious places rich with symbolism and even magic. The author synthesizes decades of research on the Neolithic, one of the most critical stages in human development, and addresses the many questions that remain about the relationship of early farmers to their domestic environment and the im…
Sweep widths and the detection of artifacts in archaeological survey
Interobserver bias in enumerated data from archaeological survey
Alternative Approaches for Exploring Levantine Neolithic Architecture
Several authors have emphasized the role of social changes in the development of village economies and complex political systems. Architectural variations are one source of evidence for these changes. We compare one class of Neolithic building, that occurs at 'Ain Ghazal, Beisamoun, Jericho and Yiftahel,with simpler and more "complex" multicellular structures that occur in many Neolithic settlements. Some of the approaches with which we are explo…
Quality Assurance in Archaeological Survey
To have confidence in the results of an archaeological survey, whether for heritage management or research objectives, we must have some assurance that the survey was carried out to a reasonably high standard. This paper discusses the use of Quality Assurance (QA) approaches and empirical methods for estimating surveys' effectiveness at discovering archaeological artifacts as a means for ensuring quality standards. We illustrate with the example …
Late Neolithic Settlement in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan
Research in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan, has focused on the discovery and excavation of Late Neolithic sites in an attempt to understand its regional settlement system in the sixth millennium cal. BC. Previous evidence suggested that small hamlets or farmsteads may have characterized this settlement system, as represented at Tabaqat al-Bûma. Recent excavations at a site downstream, al-Basatîn, have revealed evidence for a settlement that was par…
Time and Tradition in the Transition from Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic
Banning Edward B. Time and Tradition in the Transition from Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic: Summary and Conclusions. In: Paléorient, 2007, vol. 33, n°1. pp. 137-142
Middle Epipalaeolithic Sites in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan
L 'étude des outils microlithiques de deux sites épipaléolithiques de la vallée du Wadi Ziqlab, au nord de la Jordanie, résiste à l 'application simple des systèmes typochronologiques ordinaires. L 'examen systématique des caractères individuels, de ces typologies, permet d'attribuer les deux assemblages à l'Epipaléolithique Moyen, malgré les différences qu'ils présentent. Cette interprétation et l 'association de ces sites avec un paléosol disti…
Paradise Found or Common Sense Lost? Göbekli Tepe’s Last Decade as a Pre-Farming Cult Centre
The spectacular finds at Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe have fired the imaginations of archaeologists and the general public alike. Reflecting on developments at and about the site since the 2011 publication of a critique of the site’s dominant interpretation as a hunter-gatherer cult centre, this article shows that some elements of that critique, including assertions about roofing and a residential population, have gained traction, while others have fall…
Detection Functions for Archaeological Survey
This paper presents the results of several experiments to investigate how the detection functions of surveyors vary for different artifact types on surfaces with differing visibility when visual surface inspection ('fieldwalking') is the survey method. As prospecting theory predicts, successful detection declines exponentially with distance away from transects and detection as a function of search time displays diminishing returns. However, these…
Sampled to Death? The Rise and Fall of Probability Sampling in Archaeology
After a heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, probability sampling became much less visible in archaeological literature as it came under assault from the post-processual critique and the widespread adoption of 'full-coverage survey.' After 1990, published discussion of probability sampling rarely strayed from sample-size issues in analyses of artifacts along with plant and animal remains, and most textbooks and archaeological training limited sampling …
Two Early Epipalaeolithic Sites in Wadi Taiyiba, Northern Jordan
Deux sites de l’Épipaléolithique ancien, localisés dans le Wadi Taiyiba en Jordanie, se trouvent dans une situation géologique tout à fait différente de celle des sites comparables dans la vallée voisine, le Wadi Ziqlab. En effet, ces deux sites étaient probablement à proximité de l’ancien Lac Lisan : le premier est un site peu profond, sur une pente près de la rive du Lisan, tandis que le second comporte des dépôts stratifiés plus épais à l’avan…
The Archaeological Impacts of Metal Detecting
In a comment on two recent articles on the archaeological impacts of metal detecting, this paper advocates clearer and more valid measures of those impacts and more nuanced classification of the legal and cultural environments in which metal detecting takes place. The need to rely on open-source, online data for transnational analysis makes the former challenging but not impossible. Using the example of Canada, the paper shows that jurisdictional…
Jawafat Shaban and the Late Neolithic in Wâdî al-Bîr, Northern Jordan
Au cours du mois d’août 2014, une équipe de l’université de Toronto a effectué des sondages en trois points du bassin de Wadi Quseiba, à l’ouest d’Irbid, en Jordanie. L’un d’eux était un «site candidat » mis au jour lors de la prospection du Wadi Quseiba à Wadi al-Bir, l’un des principaux affluents de Wadi Quseiba, au cours de la saison 2013. Il révéla des traces certaines d’occupation pendant le Néolithique récent (ou Chalcolithique ancien), qui…
Revolutionary Developments in Carbon-14 Dating
The conventional carbon-14 method relies on the accurate measurement of a beta-ray decay rate to determine the age of the sample. The new method instead uses an ultrasensitive mass spectrometer to count the individual carbon-14 atoms in a sample. The advantages of this approach are many. The problem of cosmic ray background does not arise. Shorter counting times on samples 1,000 times smaller will be possible. One result will be the production of…
Revolutionary Developments in Carbon-14 Dating
The conventional carbon-14 method relies on the accurate measurement of a beta-ray decay rate to determine the age of the sample. The new method instead uses an ultrasensitive mass spectrometer to count the individual carbon-14 atoms in a sample. The advantages of this approach are many. The problem of cosmic ray background does not arise. Shorter counting times on samples 1,000 times smaller will be possible. One result will be the production of…
The Architecture of PPNB ʿAin Ghazal, Jordan
Peasants, Pastoralists and "Pax Romana"
Data from the 1979 season of the Wadi el Ḥāsa Survey tested alternative hypotheses concerning the relationship between settled agriculturists and mobile pastoralists during Roman and Byzantine times in southern Jordan. The research hypothesis of symbiosis or "mutualism" between agriculturists and pastoralists seems to have a higher probability than the competing hypotheses of hostility between nomads and settled peoples and of ethnic uniformity w…
De Bello Paceque
Houses and the Changing Residential Unit
The exceptional preservation of structural detail at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of ‘Ain Ghazal allows analysis of techniques of house building, and of sequences of construction and modification of houses. Frequent remodelling was common, with a trend towards smaller residential areas. The concept of the ‘development cycle’ is applied, to explain the structural modifications in terms of the changing nature of the co-residential group
Southern Levantine Pier Houses
L'analyse des variations observables dans les structures domestiques de divers sites du Proche-Orient, plus spécifiquement à 'Ain Ghazal et à Jéricho, révèle au niveau de leur conception certains modèles formels. La forme de construction que nous désignons sous le terme de « pier house », diffère beaucoup, tant par ses dimensions que par son organisation, de celle des maisons multi-cellulaires contemporaines attestées à Abu Hureyra et à Bouqras. …
Alternative Approaches for Exploring Levantine Neolithic Architecture
Several authors have emphasized the role of social changes in the development of village economies and complex political systems. Architectural variations are one source of evidence for these changes. We compare one class of Neolithic building, that occurs at 'Ain Ghazal, Beisamoun, Jericho and Yiftahel,with simpler and more "complex" multicellular structures that occur in many Neolithic settlements. Some of the approaches with which we are explo…
Saracen Encounters
The Late Neolithic of the Southern Levant
While the predominant view of the Late Neolithic in the southern Levant remains that population density was well below that of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, several sources of bias may have caused researchers to underestimate both population levels and the importance of this period. As a result of geomorphological and other factors, surveys have underrepresented sites at the foot of slopes and on stream terraces which may have been the prefered lo…
Highlands and Lowlands
Since the 1970s, much archaeological work in the Near East has shifted from investigations of "urban" sites and monumental architecture towards analysis of economic systems and study of smaller rural sites. An increasing use of regional surveys to collect primary archaeological data has accompanied this shift. These surveys have encountered many methodological and theoretical problems but at the same time they show promise for addressing previous…
Hillslope processes and archaeology in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan
Record levels of precipitation during February 1992 generated 290 earth flows and earth slumps in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. Geomorphologic and sedimentological characteristics of these landslides and older colluvial deposits were used to identify the dominant mass-wasting processes active in the wadi. Earth flows in 1992 left long linear scars on the steep hillsides and deposited thin, fine and coarse-grained, sheets on the well-developed colluvial sl…
The Neolithic Period
The impressive list of the achievements of the Neolithic of the southern Levant encompasses village life, crop domestication, ceramic technology, and life-like plaster sculpture. Together, these "revolutions" (V. Gordon Childe) make the period one of the most attractive and compelling objects of archaeological inquiry. Moreover, the study of the Neolithic takes place at the busy intellectual cross-roads of biblical archaeologists, prehistorians, …
Middle Epipalaeolithic Sites in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan
L 'étude des outils microlithiques de deux sites épipaléolithiques de la vallée du Wadi Ziqlab, au nord de la Jordanie, résiste à l 'application simple des systèmes typochronologiques ordinaires. L 'examen systématique des caractères individuels, de ces typologies, permet d'attribuer les deux assemblages à l'Epipaléolithique Moyen, malgré les différences qu'ils présentent. Cette interprétation et l 'association de ces sites avec un paléosol disti…
Surveying Sites and Landscapes
Surveying the Future
Archaeological Survey
Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture
Geoarchaeological survey and the Epipalaeolithic in northern Jordan
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Sha'ar Hagolan, Volume 1. Neolithic Art in Context by Yosef Garfinkel, Michelle A. Miller
Interobserver bias in enumerated data from archaeological survey
Henri De Contenson with Marie-Claire Cauvin, Liliane Courtois, Pierre Ducos, Monique Dupeyron & Willem Van Zeist. Ramad
Henri De Contenson with Marie-Claire Cauvin, Liliane Courtois, Pierre Ducos, Monique Dupeyron & Willem Van Zeist. Ramad: site Néolithique en Damascène (Syrie) aux VIIIe et VIIe millénaires avant l'ère Chrétienne. vi+340 pages, 123 figures, 29 plates. 2000. Beirut: French Institute of the Archaeology of the Near East: 2-912738-06-7 paperback. - Volume 77 Issue 297
Housing Neolithic Farmers
The world's earliest houses were not merely shelters from the elements or the setting for food preparation, childrearing and other domestic activities, but mysterious places rich with symbolism and even magic. The author synthesizes decades of research on the Neolithic, one of the most critical stages in human development, and addresses the many questions that remain about the relationship of early farmers to their domestic environment and the im…
Tell Kosak Shamali, vol. 1
Detection Functions for Archaeological Survey
This paper presents the results of several experiments to investigate how the detection functions of surveyors vary for different artifact types on surfaces with differing visibility when visual surface inspection ('fieldwalking') is the survey method. As prospecting theory predicts, successful detection declines exponentially with distance away from transects and detection as a function of search time displays diminishing returns. However, these…
Time and Tradition in the Transition from Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic
Banning Edward B. Time and Tradition in the Transition from Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic: Summary and Conclusions. In: Paléorient, 2007, vol. 33, n°1. pp. 137-142
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