Walking Through Jordan - Essays in Honor of Burton MacDonald - Michael Neeley
An Early Bronze Age Basalt Bowl and Macehead from Khirbat al-‐Mudayna ath-‐Thamad
Walking Through Jordan - Essays in Honor of Burton MacDonald - Michael Neeley
Steven Edwards [+]
University of Toronto
Steven Edwards is a Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Toronto, and has worked on excavations and surveys in Jordan since 2004. He is currently a surveyor and field supervisor for the Khirbat al-Mukhayyat Archaeological Project, Jordan.
Description
During the 2010 and 2011 seasons at Khirbat al-Mudayna ath-Thamad, an Early Bronze Age basalt bowl and a piriform macehead were recovered from an Iron Age domestic context. The best parallels for these objects come from the EB I tomb assemblages at Bab adh-Dhraʿ. Given the lack of Early Bronze Age tombs in the vicinity of Mudayna Thamad, it is proposed that these objects are the product of tomb looting from the Dead Sea Plain in antiquity.