ICHAJ 14 International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan

“Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts and Ideas”

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

N.B. Please remember to check the notice-board each day in ‘CAPPONI’, near the Secretariat, for updates of the program as well as the session program on the door of each session room

MONDAY, JANUARY 21ST

Palazzo Vecchio, Salone dei Cinquecento Piazza della Signoria

PLENARY OPENING SESSION

Welcome Addresses by the Scientific and Organizing Committees

Guido VANNINI – Director of the School of Specialization of the University of Florence

Yazid Hashem Mohammed ELAYAN - HE Director General of the Department of Antiquities

10.00-13.00 Welcome Addresses by the Civil and Academic Authorities

Guglielmo PICCHI – Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Giorgia GIOVANNETTI - Prorettore all'Internazionalizzazione

Costanza FARINA - UNESCO Representative to Jordan

Dario NARDELLA – Mayor of Florence

Eugenio GIANI – President of the Regional Council of Tuscany KEYNOTE Lectures

Oystein LABIANCA - Andrews University

“A ‘Global Turn’ for the History and Archaeology of Jordan:

Scholars Engaging a Planet and a Culture in Crisis”

Giovanni CURATOLA – University of Udine

“The Necessary Archaeology”

Welcome Addresses by

H.R.H. Prince EL-HASSAN BIN TALAL

MONDAY, JANUARY 21ST

University of Florence Via Capponi, 9

8.00-15.00 REGISTRATION

OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION The Land of Jordan: An Italian Perspective

Andrea ZORZI - Director of Dpt SAGAS

14.00 Fabio CASSESE – Ambassador of Italy to Jordan

Fayiz KHOURI –Ambassador of Jordan to Italy

Andrea POLCARO - Curator of Exhibition

14.00-15.00 WELCOME RECEPTION APERITIVE AFTERNOON SESSIONS University of Florence – Via Capponi, 9 UniFi – Via San Gallo, 10

Room 5 Room 13 Room 14 Room 16 Aula Magna

History and Archaeology of Science, Methods and Public Archaeology and History and Archaeology of History and Archaeology of Jordan Technology in Archaeology 1 Social-Economic Jordan Jordan Development 1 CLASSICAL PERIODS 1 LANDSCAPE STUDIES BRONZE AND IRON AGE 1 PETRA AND NABATEANS 1 AWARENESS AND EDUCATION

CHAIR: Paolo Liverani CHAIR: TBA CHAIR: Giorgia Cesaro CHAIR: Marina Pucci CHAIR: Megan Perry Ekhlass Al Qananweh Lauren N. Prossor Claudia Bührig, Bernd Müller-Neuhof Caroline Durand, A Study of Para-biblical Soil micromorphological Frank Andraschko No splendid isolation! Yvonne Gerber Texts of the Dead Sea investigation of early Natufian Sustainable Development for Characteristics and When Nabataeans settled in Scrolls site, Wadi Hammeh 27, Heritage and Nature localisation of external the Hejaz: new insights from the 15.00 Jordan Protection.Transfer and contacts of the LC/EBA Nabataean fine ware found in 15.20 Communication of Cultural culture in the Northern Hegra/Madā’in Sālih (North and Natural Heritage for Badia West Arabia) Children and Young Adults in Gadara/Umm Qays Debra Foran Lisa A. Maher, Katarzyna Radziwiłko Peter M.M.G. Akkermans Ueli Bellwald The ritual landscape of the Danielle A. Macdonald Heritage tourism and public Recent research into the Wadi Aglat Winery in Little ancient town of Nebo Place-Making in the Wetland: archaeology reflected by Bronze Age and Iron Age Petra, a Model for the 15.20 Microstratigraphic traces of sociological study and burial cairns of Jebel Nabataean Wine Production in 15.40 Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways at analysis conducted in Qurma, east of Azraq the Beidha – Ba’ja Area Kharaneh IV and beyond southern Jordan. Case of HLC 15.00-17.20 Project Danielle Steen Fatkin B. Lucke, N. Abu Jaber, Nofa Nasser Susanne Kerner David F. Graf Toward an Understanding P. Kouki The Archaeology Clubs in The Ritual Landscape of The Nabataean Crocodile Betyl 15.40 of the Nabataean-Judaean Sediments in ancient ruins in Schools in Jordan Murayghat, 5 years of 16.00 border Jordan as archives of dust excavation and survey deposition and land use Barbara Reeves Chiara A. Corbino, Franco Sciorilli Andrea Polcaro, Z. Al Salameen, F. Abudanah, L. Pictorial Graffiti Associated Paul Mazza Father Michele Piccirillo: An Juan Ramon Muniz Tholbecq with the Soldiers and Human-animal interaction in archaeologist dedicated to Jebel Al-Mutawwaq. Documenting the visible Civilians of Nabataean and Middle Islamic Jordan restoration Preliminary Report of the architectural remains of Kh. 16.00 Roman Humayma (Ayyubid and Mamluk 2016-2018 Excavation Braq (Greater Petra Area): a 16.20 periods) Seasons of the Spanish- new joint project between the Italian Expedition al-Hussein Bin Talal University (Ma‘an, Jordan) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) John Peter Oleson P. Kouki, B. Lucke, Lucilla Rami Ceci, E. Casadei, A. Caselli, F. Rojas, S. Newman, A Military Brewery in the N. Abu-Jaber Luigi Marino V. Alvarez Martinez, C. Nicosia Trajanic Fort at Geoarchaeological evidence Ruins and People. Economic J. Garcià del Riò Archaeological Investigations in Hauarra/Humayma, Jordan of cultivation and Crisis, global Tourism and Jebel Al-Mutawwaq. Petra’s Agricultural Hinterlands 16.20 environment in the Petra Enhancement of Heritage in Ceramic and Lithic Analysis 16.40 region Petra (Jordan) from the Spanish-Italian Expedition

Noor Mulder-Hymans R. Gabrielli, F. Sessa, A. Di The Oil Lamps from Tell Abu Savino, A. Angelini, E. Fidenzi, Sarbut Jordan E. Scopinaro, P. Galatà Research and development 16.40 of a methodology for a three- 17.00 dimensional representation of Jordan Cultural Heritage for blind and visually impaired people, through digital manufacturing techniques

Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja 17.00 The 2011-2018 work of the 17.20 Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project: Results and Perspectives

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22ND

MORNING SESSIONS (A) University of Florence – Via Capponi, 9 University of Florence – Via San Gallo, 10 Room 5 Room 13 Room 14 Room 16 Aula Magna Aula Parva

History and History and History and History and History and Science, Methods and Archaeology of Archaeology of Archaeology of Archaeology of Jordan Archaeology of Technology in Arch. 2 Jordan Jordan Jordan Jordan BRONZE AND IRON AGE LANDSCAPE STUDIES AERIAL MIDDLE AGES AND PETRA AND PREHISTORY 1 2 CLASSICAL PERIODS 2 AND HISTORICAL OTTOMAN PERIOD 1 NABATEANS 2 PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ARCHAEOLOGY

CHAIR: C. Pappalardo CHAIR: Leigh-Ann Bedal CHAIR: Domenico Lo Vetro CHAIR: Andrea Polcaro CHAIR: Ilaria Romeo CHAIR: Michele De Silva Julien Aliquot, Jennifer Ramsay, Geoffrey A. Clark Mohammed Alzahran Patric-Alexander Kreuz Stefano Anastasio Abdulqader Al Housan Megan A. Perry Pleistocene Forager Wadi Khuneizir Amoenitas in change. Historical photographs and St. John the Baptist’ Archaeobotanical Mobility in the west Astonishing Discoveries Decapolis urban archaeology: the case 9.00 church in Riḥāb: Evidence of Mortuary Jordanian Highlands – 2018. Unknown Tombs ambiences, 2ndto 6th study of K.A.C. Creswell’s 9.20 Epigraphy and history Behavior from the a Landscape from the Early Bronze centuries photographs pf the Amman Shaft Tombs at Petra Approach Age and Nabataean Citadel Periods Davide Bianchi Younis Alshdaifat, R. Jagher, D. Wojtczak, Meredith S. Chesson Nora Voss Mechthild Ladurner, A Cave to Live and Zeyad Al Saalmee M. Al Nahar, K. Abu There’s no place like Trade in the Dekapolis- Fawzi Abu Danneh Pray: Topography of El-khdari Ghaneimeh, F. home: an archaeology Region Ancient Farmsteads in the Monastic Hermitages Archaeological and Hourani, J.-M. Le of homemaking in EBA III Hinterland of Petra 9.20 in the Valleys of Nebo Epigraphic Survey Tensorer Numayra, Jordan 9.40 Project: The First The First Human Season 2017 Settlements on the 9.00-11.00 Left Bank of the Jordan Andrea Vanni- Marco Dehner A. Alsouliman, A. M. D’Andrea, Jeannette H. Boertien Dana Salamin, Desideri, Silvia Building a Capital - Nowell, C. E. Cordova, J. C. Long, S. Richard Flow of artifacts … Ahmad Shami Leporatti New Evidence for C. Ames, J. Pokines, D. New Insights about the Chalkstone Vessels The Middle Ghour (Dair Alla The rupestrian chapel construction Stueber, C. Walker Early Bronze Age from Tell Abu Sarbut and al Shonah aljanobieh) 9.40 of al-Wu’ayra and the techniques in Petra The paleoenvironment Sequence at Khirbat between documenting and 10.00 hermitic landscape of of Shishan Marsh I, a Iskandar: The 2016 protection using available Christian Petra Lower and Middle excavations satellite imagery and aerial Paleolithic site in the photographs Azraq Oasis, northeast Jordan Khaled Al Bashaireh Fawzi Abudanah J. Zakrzeńska, A. Steve Falconer, Mohammed Al Andrea Zerbini, 10.00 Ecclesiastical marble What does the Brzeska-Zastawna, M. Patricia Fall Nasarat Michael Fradley 10.20 trade in Jordan during archaeological Nowak, M. Wasilewski, Village Life at Tell Abu The Southern Jordan in Northern Jordan from the the Byzantine period: evidence tell us about B. Witkowska en-Ni‘aj during the Early the Notitia Dignitatum. air: landscape change in Case studies Petra and its Paleolithic of southern Bronze Age Urban Crisis A Historical – the mohafazhat of Irbid, discussion hinterland? Jordan as reflected by Geographical Ajlun and Jarash over the inventories from the Approach last 100 years site of Faysaliyya (Shawbak directorate) Robert Wenning D. Wojtczak, R. Jagher, Lorenzo Nigro, Pawel Filipczak Monther Jamhawi, Petraean Sculptures in M. al-Nahar, K. Abu Elisabetta Gallo The Province of Arabia Aktham Oweidi Context – Problems Ghaneimeh, F. Khirbet al-Batrawy 2015- in the Fourth Century Archaeological projects in and Insights Hourani, J.-M. Le 2017: the EB II-III four- AD. The voice of the Jordan in perspective Tensorer lined fortifications and rhetor Libanius 10.20 Early Middle the discovery of the EB 10.40 Palaeolithic sites from III City-Gate Jordan and their contribution in understanding of a laminar phenomenon in the Levant F. Sauer, J. Richter, Roser Marsal Dirk Leder Rainwater storage Late Pleistocene systems at the site of landscape and Sela: ancient water 10.40 human mobility east technology in Southern 11.00 of the Jordan Rift Transjordan Valley: Results of geoarcheological research in Wadi Sabra

10.40-11.10 COFFEE BREAK

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22ND

MORNING SESSIONS (B) University of Florence – Via Capponi, 9 University of Florence – Via San Gallo, 10 Room 5 Room 13 Room 14 Room 16 Aula Magna Aula Parva

History and History and Public Archaeology History and History and Science, Methods and Archaeology of Archaeology of and Social-Economic Archaeology of Archaeology of Technology in Archaeology 3 Jordan Jordan Development 2 Jordan Jordan LAND RESOURCES CLASSICAL PERIODS 3 PETRA AND AWARENESS AND MIDDLE AGES AND BRONZE AND IRON MANAGEMENT NABATEANS 3 EDUCATION/ILLICIT OTTOMAN PERIOD 2 AGE 3 TRAFFICKING

CHAIR: TBA CHAIR: TBA CHAIR: Barbara Porter CHAIR: A. Vanni Desideri CHAIR: Lorenzo Nigro CHAIR: TBA Claudia Bührig Pauline Piraud-Fournet Ahamad Elamaireh, Robert W. Smith Mohammad Najjar, Amer Alsouliman Ancient Gadara and its Houses of Nabataean Amjad Awad The Development of Steven Collins Pre-oasis culture in the Hinterland and Roman eras at Madaba Institute for the Abila/Quwaylibah Rethinking the Middle northwest Arabian Peninsula Dharih and elsewhere Mosaic Art & Pilgrimage Site in Bronze Age of (Mid-Holocene Qulban Bni Restoration and its role Byzantine 'Palaestina Southern Jordan Mura Jordan) 11.10 in pioneering and Secunda' and Valley in the light of 11.30 restoration of mosaic Umayyad 'Jund al- the new discoveries at floors and training and Urdunn' the site of Tall al- teaching Hammam, Jordan Valley 11.10-12.50 IN ARABIC Brita Jansen Megan A. Perry Abdel H. Al Husban Basema Hamarneh Steven Edwards Saba Farès, The Hellenistic Petra in Crisis? Disease Discontinuities Rural Properties in ‘Ayn Qusayba: Vincent Ollive fortification of Seleukeia and mortality of city (Physical, Emotional Byzantine and Islamic Excavations at a GIS mapping of long-term Gadara (Umm Qays) residents on the eve of and Cognitive) and Arabia and Palaestina Middle Bronze Site in human interaction and water 11.30 the Roman cultural heritage in Tertia: Church, State Northern Jordan access in Wadi Ramm 11.50 Annexation Jordan: Illicit and Landowning élite trafficking of archaeological objects David Boyer Mark Abbe, Michael Ahmad Shami Piero Gilento Ismaeel Melhem Claudine Dauphin, Water storage in the Morris, Megan Perry The obsession of Umm as-Surab: The Unique Funerary Mohamed Ben Jeddou context of Gerasa’s Two Newly Discovered searching for Archaeology and Objects in the Burial of Reconstructing a late water management Marble Statues of treasures: its negative Architecture in a Saham al-Kfarat. From antique, anthropized, rural system in the Classical Aphrodite from Petra’s impact on Northern Jordanian the late Bronze Age landscape: the dynamics of 11.50 period North Ridge archaeological sites Village. Data from the and its Technical, Byzantine wadi agriculture 12.10 and the role of 2017 and 2018 Social and Economic and viticulture at Umm ar- awareness in Fieldwork Seasons Connotations Rasas (Mefaa) preserving them IN ARABIC

Craig A. Harvey Thibaud Fournet, Morag M. Kersel P. Nocuń, A. Margreet L. Steiner Margherita Azzari, The Cylindrical François Renel From the Mound to Węgrzynek, A. Ochał- The Late Bronze Age Chiara Marcotulli Heating Pipes of the On the steps of the the Mantelpiece – The Czarnowicz Temple at Deir Alla - A Surveying the villages: a first Roman Bath at ‘Ayn Qasr al-Bint: New Movement of Early First results of the new Reassessment systematic approach to the 12.10 Gharandal architectural study on Bronze Age Pots from archaeological archaeological 12.30 the temple area the Dead Sea Plain in projectat Qasr ed-Deir contextualization and the (Petra) Jordan (Tafila) cultural tourism developing of the rural settlements in the Municipality of Shawbak Thomas M. Weber- François Renel M. Jamhawi, S. Khouri, Maher Tarboush Karyotakis Imported pottery in O. Nofal Preliminary results of The Marble Statuary the Qasr al-Bint area: Modern Technology Tell Al-Husn Deposit in the Eastern an image of the for Documentation excavations – North Baths of Jerash international trade in and Safe-guarding of Jordan 12.30 Petra (3rd c. BC – 6th c. Movable and 12.50 AD) Immovable Antiquities in the Department of Antiquities

12.50-14.30 LUNCH BREAK

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22ND AFTERNOON SESSIONS University of Florence – Via Capponi, 9 University of Florence – Via San Gallo, 10 Room 5 Room 13 Room 14 Room 16 Aula Magna Aula Parva

History and History and Public Archaeology History and History and Science, Methods and Archaeology of Archaeology of and Social-Economic Archaeology of Archaeology of Technology in Arch. 4 Jordan Jordan Development 3 Jordan Jordan CONSERVATION AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSES AND CLASSICAL PERIODS 4 MIDDLE AGES AND SITE MANAGEMENT 1 BRONZE AND IRON PREHISTORY 2 NEW TECHNOLOGIES OTTOMAN PERIOD 3 AGE 4 CHAIR: Laura Buccino CHAIR: Basema Hmarneh CHAIR: TBA CHAIR: Susanne Kerner CHAIR: Maysoon Nahar CHAIR: Ziad Al Saad Bilal Annan Zakariya Na'imat Farah Abu Naser P. M. Michèle Daviau T. Richter, A. Arranz- Diala Atiyat, A Multifaceted Death: De-marginalizing the A Comprehensive Figurines and Statues Otaegui, M. Jones, Ali Abu Ghanimeh Funerary Portraiture in margins: the essence Conservation Plan from Khirbat al- J. Roe, L. Yeomans The role of Smart tourism tools Roman Jordan and functions of the and 3D Mudayna Thamad Environmental Crisis in heritage city context Umayyad Qusūr Reconstruction at and Societal Collapse: 14.30 reconsidered Umm Qais, Jordan Was the Younger 14.50 Dryas a significant factor in triggering the transition from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic in the Levant? Jolanta Młynarczyk, G. De Palma, M. José Győző Vörös Mohammad H. Phillip Edwards R. Gabrielli, A. Albiero, Mariusz Burdajewicz Mano, G. Sobrà The Archaeological Jaradat The origins of a E. S. Malinverni, R. Pierdicca, On the north-eastern The restoration works in Site Management, The Techniques of Natufian ‘base- D. Scortecci border of ancient Qusayr ‘Amra: an Preservation and Mud Bricks camp’: new evidence Development of a 14.30-16.30 Capitolias. opportunity for an in- Conservation of Manufacturing from Wadi Hammeh management system for the 14.50 Archaeological depth knowledge on Machaerus/Mukawir, & Its construction 27 analysis and dissemination of 15.10 research by the the Umayyad mural Overlooking the Dead Deir Alla / Jordan Santo Stefano Church’s University of Warsaw in paintings Sea in Jordan Valley mosaics in Umm ar Rasas Beit Ras 2014-2016 (Jordan)

Mohammad Mubarak Ahmad Lash Duha Al Hwayan Katharina Schmidt Adam M. Valka G. Cesaro, G. Delmonaco, M. Roman Mausoleums of Restoration of Al-Qastal Tourism in Jordan Was there Glass Technological Jamhawi, S. Farajat, Khrebit es Souq – Mosque Reality and State in Production or Glass Developments and T. Salhi, H. Al Taher, Northern Mausoleum The Light of Arab Manufacturing at Tall Continuity in the Late H. Lawamah, K. Amryyin, H. 15.10 (Qasir El Redini) and Spring Case Study: Zirāʿa? An Evaluation Epipalaeolithic Jordan Hjazeen 15.30 Eastern Mausoleum Jerash and Petra of the Archaeological Valley: The Lithic Slope consolidation works in and Archaeometrical Assemblages from the the ‘Siq’ of Petra: a IN ARABIC Material Lower Deposits of pioneering approach Wadi Hammeh 27 Khaled Al Hawawrah, Raffaella Pappalardo M. El Khalili, M. Stefanie P. Elkins M.-L. Chambrade, R. Gabrielli, G. Caruso, Basem Mahamid Life after the Jamhawi, N. Al The Khirbat ‘Ataruz S. L. Smith G. Delmonaco, C. Intrigila The Roman Tomb earthquake: an early Adarbeh, A. Al Bawab Cult Stand Investigating the Seismic vulnerability 15.30 (Mausoleum) of Abbasid domestic The Amman Prehistoric Landscape investigations on the Stylite 15.50 Dhiban assemblage from Nymphaeum of the “Black Desert”: Tower at Umm ar-Rasas Jerash Archaeological Park: Results of the “Western IN ARABIC Conservation and Harra Survey” Rehabilitation Project Adeeb Abushmais Ahmad Yousef Omar Al Ghul Gary Rollefson G. Delmonaco, M. Jamhawi, Sundial discovered in The role of the The Assyrian Contacts Omnem movere A. Shhaltough Amman Citadel 2009 Directorate of Internal with the Jordan Valley lapidem (“To Move Karak Castle instability: from 15.50 Monitoring in during Iron Age II Every Stone”, Latin damage analysis to 16.10 Preserving the Cultural proverb) consolidation works Heritage

IN ARABIC Thomas M. Weber- Hani Hayajneh A. Polcaro, M. D’Andrea, Karyotakis Nomadic Mobility R. Gabrielli, M. Cozzolino, Mobility within the during the late 2nd G. Batocchioni, L. Romagnoli, Limits of the Roman Millennium BC and V. Gaspari, Empire: Early 1st Millennium AD B. Lucherini, F. Sciorilli, 16.10 Arabs in Roman among Arabian D. Clark, S. Richard 16.30 Germany and Safaitic Tribes in the The Madaba Regional Germans in Roman Jordanian Badiya and Archaeological Museum Arabia Beyond: An Project: a multidisciplinary Epigraphical and approach to preserving the Philological Approach archaeological park while envisioning a new museum

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23RD MORNING SESSIONS (A) University of Florence – Via Capponi, 9 University of Florence – Via San Gallo, 10 Room 5 Room 13 Room 14 Room 16 Aula Magna Aula Parva

History and History and Public Archaeology History and Jordan in Global Science, Methods and Archaeology of Archaeology of and Social-Economic Archaeology of Histories Technology in Arch. 5 Jordan Jordan Development 4 Jordan CONSERVATION AND THE LAND OF PEACE 1 3D DOCUMENTATION AND PREHISTORY 3 MIDDLE AGES AND SITE MANAGEMENT 2 BRONZE AND IRON VIRTUAL REALITY OTTOMAN PERIOD 4 AGE 5 APPLICATIONS

CHAIR: Gary Rollefson CHAIR: TBA CHAIR: Hanadi al-Taher CHAIR: Omar Al-Ghul CHAIR: Robert Schick CHAIR: Paola Zamperlin J. Schoenenberg, J. M. Nucciotti, C. T. Al Salhi, M. Y. Elayan, R. Hunziker- Randall W. Younker Ziad Al Saad Richter, F. Lehmkuhl, Marcotulli, C. Luschi Jamhawi, G. Cesaro, Rodewald The flow of peoples, The use of 3D technologies in M. Al Nahar The 12th century castle A. Orbasli, The Citadel of artifacts and ideas cultural heritage 10 years of research of Al-Habis in Petra: a H. Taher, I. Farajat, S. Rabbat-Ammon in the through Jalul interpretation and into the Palaeolithic Light Archaeology of Farajat, H. Hjazeen Early Iron Age: A presentation: a case study 9.00 Archaeology of the "longue durée" Management Center of Influence from Jordan 9.20 Wadi Sabra / Southern planning as a Jordan participatory and consultative process: the example of the Petra Integrated Management Plan Yorke Rowan Carmelo Pappalardo, Tariq Al Mhairat Roumel Gharib Hashem Khries R. Gabrielli, A. Angelini, R. Distribution of Anna Lena Assessment of Northern Borders of Evidence of Franchi, Petroglyphs at Wisad “The Remains of Interpretation & Ammonite Kingdom administration linked E. Fidenzi 9.00-11.00 Pools, Black Desert, Nothing”? Pre- Presentation Methods (Zarqa) through to the Persian The Palace Tomb. A Jordan Crusader materials in Archaeological sites Excavations domination in the methodological approach for 9.20 from the excavation in Madaba Levant in the light of the survey of one of the most 9.40 of the “Medieval Petra architectural important monument of Petra – Shawbak Castle discoveries Archaeological Park Project” of the University of Florence: residuality and other issues S. Smith, Z. Collier, Micaela Sinibaldi Fadi Bala'awi Paul Z. Gregor Oystein S. LaBianca Björn Anderson B. Finlayson Settlement in Crusader Conservation work Khirbet Safra: A Jordan in Global Immersive technology, What does it all Transjordan (1100– based on rapid military installation or Histories: the view from Cultural Heritage and Public 9.40 mean? Taphonomy, 1189): condition assessment: regular settlement Tall Hisban Humanities and ‘Virtual Petra’ 10.00 space and chipped a Historical and Is it realistic? stone at PPNA WF16, Archaeological Study southern Jordan Karin Bartl Elisabeth Holmqvist- Husam Hjazeen Lorenzo Nigro, Konstantinos D. Politis K. Kopij, J. Bodzek, Ł. Miszk, Mushash 163: A Sipilä Local Community Roumel Gharib The movement of M. Bernaś, H. Dec, K. Sawicka, settlement of the late Ceramic evidence for Development in The Iron Age IIB-C peoples, their material A. Słodowska, PPNA/ early PPNB in movement and Heritage at Amman Ammonite strongholds culture and ideas in K. Widuch the Northwestern economies in southern Citadel (Jabal al- of Jamaan and Rujm the Gawar al-Safi ArTu:DTu – Laser scanning Badia Jordan and the Negev Qal'a) al-Jamus, north- during Hellenistic, and close range 10.00 during the early Islamic central Jordan Roman, Byzantine and photogrammetry in Dajanyia 10.20 period the Islamic periods and Tuwaneh, South Jordan

J. José Ibáñez, J, E. Vigouroux, F. Muhammad Al-Absi Aaron Schade, Walter Ward P. Drap, O. Papini, M. Ben Muñiz, E. Iriarte, L. Imbert, R. Elter Survey of most Chango-Ho Ji Urbanism in the late Ellefi, D. Merad, M. Motasem Teira, J. Santana, F. The Ayyubid complex common deterioration Khirbat Ataruz in the antique Decapolis: Nawaf, Borrell, M. Monik, L. of Khirbat al-Dusaq: types and factors of Late Iron IIB and Iron Jerash and J.-P. Royer, M. Saccone, E. Gourichon, A. Arranz- nature and raison archaeological IIC Periods: Scythopolis compared Pruno, Otaegui, M. Portillo d’être columns in Jordan Synthesizing 15-Years M. Nucciotti, G. Vannini 10.20 Kharaysin (Zarqa): A of Archaeological From ontology to virtual 10.40 PPNA and PPNB Excavation Findings reality: photogrammetry megasite by the Zarqa survey for medieval River archaeology

Hans Georg K. Gebel Lorenzo Fragai Yousef Abu Ali The LPPNB Mega-Site The Ayyubid Qāʿat al- Development and Phenomenon: Nāṣiriin Kerak Castle: Promotion of the Promoters of Rise and archaeological Tourist Site of Umm El- Collapse Revisited analysis and historical Jimal 10.40 contextualization of a 11.00 Middle Islamic palace (13thcentury)

10.40-11.10 COFFEE BREAK WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23RD MORNING SESSIONS (B) University of Florence – Via Capponi, 9 University of Florence – Via San Gallo, 10 Room 5 Room 13 Room 14 Room 16 Aula Magna Aula Parva

History and History and Public Archaeology History and Science, Methods and Jordan in Global Histories Archaeology of Jordan Archaeology of and Social-Economic Archaeology of Technology in Arch. 6 Jordan Development 5 Jordan THE LAND OF PEACE 2 PREHISTORY 4 BIG DATA AND MIDDLE AGES AND LOCAL COMMUNITY BRONZE AND IRON INFORMATION OTTOMAN PERIOD 5 ENGAGEMENT AGE 6 TECHNOLOGY

CHAIR: Zeidan Kafafi CHAIR: É. Vigouroux CHAIR: Jehad Haron CHAIR: Emanuela Alberti CHAIR: Aktham Oweidi CHAIR: Giovanni Curatola Ingolf Thuesen, I. W. N. Jones, M. D. R. Clark, S. Richard, A. Lahelma, M. Omar Nofal Abeer Allahham Moritz Kinzel Najjar, T. E. Levy A. Polcaro, M. Lorenzon, R. Bonnie, E. Improvements the A Power-based reading of Shkārat Msaied as Islamic Faynan: The D’Andrea, B. Mahamid Holmqvist-Sipilä, P. Information the Muslim built environment Cultural heritage Settlement History of a The Madaba Regional Kouki, P. Miettunen, Technology in DOA & in the Middle East. An Ibn Mining Region in Archaeological S. Thomas ICHAJ Khaldunian Perspective Southern Jordan Museum Project Ancient Near Eastern 11.10 between the 7th and (MRAMP): Three Years Empires: Exploring the 11.30 19th centuries AD of Community long-term regional Archaeology impact of Empires upon fringe zone communities in the first millennium BCE

J. Moser, Reem Al Shqour Andrew M. Smith Constance E. Gane Hala Syoof Beatrice St. Laurent, D. Rokitta-Krumnow The Ayyubid and Cultural Heritage and Jalul on the Experience Exchange Isam Awwad The lithic finds of the Mamluk Khans at Economic Crossroads of the in the Archive and Who built the Dome of the 11.10-12.50 Gadara/Umm Qays Aqaba Development in Wadi Great Empires Documentation Rock: a re-evaluation? 11.30 hinterland survey Araba: Trials, Methods 11.50 Tribulations, and Opportunities IN ARABIC

W. Abu Azizeh, M. Elisa Pruno Maria Elena Ronza Rocío Da Riva J. Häser, B. Beitz, David H. Vila Tarawneh, R. Crassard, Sherds of Luxury: Is community The Rock-Inscription of S. Khouri Notes on a Possible Early J. Antonio Sanchez- Imported Pottery in engagement in King Nabonidus in DOJAM – A new Mihrab in the Area E church Priego Southern Transjordan archaeology building Sela: a Preliminary database for at Abila 11.50 Neolithic mass hunting the social capital in Study Jordanian museums 12.10 game traps (“Desert Jordan? Reasoning on kites”) and related a decade of hunters’ campsites in community oriented the Southeastern Badia projects in Jordan of Jordan Maysoon Al Nahar Elena Casalini Oroub El Abed, Aydah Samar Habahbeh B. de Vries, M. Hazza, M/LPPNB Human Skulls An Islamic Glass Disk Abu Tayeh, Zeena MEGA in action: D. Al Farraj, M. Al Haddad, J. and Yarmoukian Weight fragment from Sultan, Rudinah Assessing its Suleiman Findings at Tell Abu Shawbak Castle Momani contribution to the A Landscape of Peace at Suwwan: Results of the The Missed visibility of the Umm el-Jimal: using spaces of 12.10 2016 Excavation Season Opportunity: Neolithic Jordanian the mind and spaces on the 12.30 Past and Cultural archaeological and ground to link the Islamic Heritage in South historical heritage and Heritage of the Modern Jordan proposal to remedy its Community and the 'pre- shortcomings Islamic' heritage of archaeological site Aven Mazen Hmoud Al Musallam Al R. Bewley, B. Rouhani, E. Hatziminaoglou, M. Ben Jeddou, Qatameen Rawahneh A. Vafadari D. R. Clark C. Dauphin Neolithic Removed Skull: An Training in Archaeology meets From Khan to Encampment. An Interpretative Archaeological and Endangered Astronomy: in search Exploring the Pilgrim Sopovers 12.30 Perspective Chemical Study of Archaeology of our origins in Jordan on the Medieval 12.50 Ayyubid/Mamluk methodology for the and Ottoman Darb al-Hajj to Glazed and Painted Jordanian and Mecca Pottery Sherds from Al Palestinian Heritage Rabbah, Jordan Stakeholders A. Vernet, P.-M. Blanc, G. Davtian 12.50 The MHJ project in 13.10 Jordan: a multi-period recording system for local heritage

12.50-14.30 LUNCH BREAK

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23RD AFTERNOON SESSIONS University of Florence – Via Capponi, 9 University of Florence – Via San Gallo, 10 Room 5 Room 13 Room 14 Room 16 Aula Magna Aula Parva

History and Archaeology Science, Methods Public Archaeology History and History and Science, Methods and of Jordan and Technology in and Social-Economic Archaeology of Archaeology of Jordan Technology in Arch. 8 Arch. 7 Development 6 Jordan PREHISTORY 5 MIDDLE AGES AND ARTIFACT STUDIES CHEMICAL LOCAL COMMUNITY PETRA AND OTTOMAN PERIOD 6 ANALYSES ENGAGEMENT NABATEANS 4 MUSEUM AND COLLECTION CHAIR: TBA CHAIR: TBA CHAIR: Chiara Bonacchi CHAIR: L. Tholbecq CHAIR: TBA CHAIR: Konstantinos D. Politis Kevin Gibbs M. Naes, B. Suzie Thomas, Leigh-Ann Bedal Piotr Makowski Amjad Awad Excavations at a Kanngießer, B. Kolb Rick Bonnie It’s in the Pipeline: A step back into the past. Using Optical Emission Yarmoukian site in Wadi Painting with Gold in Collaborating at the chronology of The rise of the Islamic Spectroscopy (OAS) Quseiba, northern Jordan Nabatean Petra: home and abroad: ceramic pipelines plain handmade ware in and Atomic Absorption 14.30 microanalysis, Using museum in the Petra southern Jordan: the Spectroscopy (AAS) in 14.50 micromorphology exhibitions to engage Garden and Pool case study of Khirbat the analysis of and some with local and refuge Complex edh-Dharih archaeological artifacts conservation communities aspects Elizabeth Gibbon R. Franchi, R. Shatha Mubaideen, S. Thomas Parker Nicolò Pini Fatma Marii Late Neolithic Ceramic Gabrielli, E. Lupo, A. Enas Qasem Searching for “The Times They Are a- Recycling Glass in and Obsidian Networks in Angelini Rehabilitation of Iraq Petra’s Non-Elite Changin'”. Built Byzantine Period in the the Levant Multidisciplinary Al Amir Population on the environment as resilience Levant 14.50 approach to the archaeological site North Ridge marker of social identities 15.10 historical and artistic (Qasr Al-Abd) and its 14.30-16.30 heritage in the area Surrounding for of Petra Sustainable Cultural Tourism Purposes Zeidan Kafafi Sahar Al Bill Finlayson Cynthia Finlayson Bethany J. Walker Julia Burdajewicz Late Neolithic Settlement Khasawneh, A Wadi Grows Up Rethinking Resilience in the Face of Technical know-how in Patterns in Wadi az-Zarqa Nizar abu Jaber, Monument 468 Regional Crises: crisis? Technique of (Sixth and Fifth Millennia Catreena (The Berg-Berg Identifying local know- execution of wall BC) Hamarneh, Monument) on the how and decision- paintings in Byzantine 15.10 Andrew Murray Ad-Deir Plateau making at Mamluk-era period (AD 324-640) 15.30 Testing new Petra, Jordan Ḥisbān luminescence dating technique for the wide spread terraces structures in Petra region P. Kołodziejczyk, M. Mohammad Al Bushra Nabas Will M. Kennedy John B. Winterburn Danielle A. Macdonald, Nowak, M. Wasilewski, Shebli The Adaptive Reuse of Characterizing The Late Ottoman Period Lisa A. Maher J. Karmowski, M. conservation and Uncomfortable Terra Petraea – The Defended Landscapes of Artistic traditions in the Czarnowicz, J. restoration of Al- Heritage – How to Petra Hinterland in Southern Jordan Early and Middle Zakrzeńska, A. Brzeska- Qatraneh Fortress benefit from the Nabataean- Epipalaeolithic: 15.30 Zastawna, B. Witkowska project European Experience Roman Time Kharaneh IV in 15.50 Southern Jordan in the in Jordan perspective Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. New data from Polish archaeological project conducted in years 2014-2018 Pascal Flohr Jamelah Shtawey Robert Schick Protecting Prehistory: The Story of the Jordan at the Turn of the Finding Late Neolithic sites Museum at the lowest 18th-19th Centuries 15.50 in Jordan place on Earth/ Ghor 16.10 as-Safi

IN ARABIC Stephan G. Schmid, Zbigniew T. Fiema 16.10 Paul Schröder´s visit to 16.30 Petra and Transjordan in 1905

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23RD

Istituto degli Innocenti Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 12 Salone Brunelleschi, Sala Poccetti

20.30-23.00 ICHAJ 14 GALA DINNER offered by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24TH

Cinema-Teatro della Compagnia Via Camillo Cavour, 50/R

SPECIAL EVENT

Culture in crisis affected countries: The experience of Italy, Jordan and UNESCO in preserving Cultural Heritage

Welcome Addresses

Eugenio GIANI – President of the Regional Council of Tuscany 9.00 Guido VANNINI – Head of the ICHAJ14 Scientific Committee (University of Florence) Mirella LODA - Deputy of Un. of Florence for international cooperation

Interview by Giulia PRUNETI (Archeologia Viva) and Remarks by H.R.H. Prince EL-HASSAN BIN TALAL

Ettore JANULARDO – SSA Università di Firenze (chairman) Fabio CASSESE – Ambassador of Italy to Jordan Michele MORANA – Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), Director of Amman Office (TBC) Anna PAOLINI – UNESCO Representative in the Arab States of the Gulf and Yemen

Interview by Ettore Janulardo: testimonies by

Daniele MORANDI BONACOSSI The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project (IRAQ), University of Udine

Maria Teresa GRASSI Palmyra Pal.M.A.I.S. Mission (SYRIA), University of Milan

Serenella ENSOLI Cirene Archaeological Mission (LYBIA), University of Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli'

Moawiyah IBRAHIM Istiqlal University, Jericho (JORDAN)

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24TH University of Florence Via San Gallo, 10

13.00-14.00 LUNCH BREAK

WORKSHOPS

Aula Magna Aula Parva

Sustainable Cultural Heritage Through Engagement of Local Communities Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA). Project (SCHEP) Culture in Crisis - the role of digital documentation in heritage protection and management

CHAIRS: Nizar Al Adarbeh, Jehad Haron, and Jack Green CHAIR: Robert Bewley Nizar Al Adarbeh Robert Bewley The SCHEP Community Engagement Model Culture in Crisis and EAMENA – Current state of archaeology in Jordan with a brief introduction to the workshop and EAMENA project Jehad Haron Bijan Rouhani 14.00-15.40 The Site Stewardship Model Capacity building in digital documentation to strengthen heritage protection – The role of EAMENA Bert de Vries Morag Kersel Signage Manufacture at Umm el-Jimal: Creating a Microbusiness for Looting and illicit trade in antiquities Vandalism-Resistant Installations Kaelin Groom (key presenter), Casey D. Allen, George Bevan PANEL DISCUSSION The Rock-Art Rangers Program: Enhancing Tourism and Improving list of participants: Employment Outcomes in Wadi Rum Ziad Al Saad Douglas R. Clark, Marta D’Andrea Yazid Elayan Community Engagement in Downtown Madaba: The Madaba Regional Samar Habahbeh Archaeological Museum Project (MRAMP) Jehad Haron Jack Green, Franco Sciorilli Jutta Häser Emergency Conservation and Community Training at the Temple of the Monther Jamhawi Winged Lions, Petra Morag Kersel Carol Palmer

15.40-16.00 COFFEE BREAK

WORKSHOPS POSTER SESSION 16.00-17.40 Aula Magna EST 48 49 - antecedent Aula Magna Sereen Al Shoubaki The new discovery of the Bayt Ras Tomb New Mathematical and Artistic Approach CHAIR: Jehad Haron to the understanding of the facade of al- Mushatta Palace Director General of the Department of Antiquities Ann Andersson Bayt Ras Tomb importance The Ritual Landscape of Murayghat: The EBA and MBA Ceramic Assemblages from the 2014-2018 Excavations Amjad Bataineh Ezio Burri, Angelo Ferrari Bayt Ras tomb Ancient water supply systems in the Ma'An area (south Jordan) Nizar Al Adarbeh Ezio Burri, Andrea Del Bon, Pasquale Di Paolo, Angelo Ferrari, Massimo Mancini, Consortium Building as a Model of Cooperation Marco Meneghini, Pietro Ragni Rock dwellings in the Showbak castle area Jehad Haron, Ahmad Lash Gaia Cecconi Bayt Ras in Arabic resources Bone tools from the EB IIIB “Palace of the copper axes” at Khirbet al-Batrawy, Jordan Soizik Bechetoille Meredith S. Chesson, Morag M. Kersel Bayt Ras Tomb 2016: First chronological assessment of the various uses of the Excavating Extraordinary Archives: Transforming Archaeological Practice in Bayt Ras Tomb Jordan through the Lens of R. Thomas Schaub’s Correspondence for the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plains Julian Aliquot, Pierre-Louis Gatier, Jean-Baptiste Yon Samar Habahbeh, Omar Nofal The “Founder’s Tomb”: The New Painted Hypogaeum of Bayt Ras and the From JADIS to MEGA-Jordan Civic Foundation of Capitolias Giuseppe Delmonaco, Luca Maria Puzzilli, Francesco Traversa Geophysical Spyros Koulouris and geotechnical investigation for sustainable conservation of the Roman The Creswell online network: documenting Islamic architecture through early painted tomb in Bayt Ras photography Marie José Mano, Giorgio Sobrà Bassem Mahamid, Abdullah al Bawareed Conservation activity in Beit Ras The Rehabilitation Project of Madaba Cathedral Marzia Marcantonini Affect of man on the environment: a case of study in the Al-Korah District, Jordan, from the beginning of the Early Bronze Age to the Byzantine Period. Claude Vibert-Guigue Arwa Mas'deh The Bayt Ras painted tomb (2016) through the ongoing archaeological Balu' Between Site and People documentation Maria Elena Ronza, Eman Abdassalam Employment through Heritage Project - EHP Valentina Virgili Christian communities in Jordan during the first Arab domination through epigraphic sources

14.00-16.00 MINI TOURS

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25TH MORNING SESSIONS (A) University of Florence – Via Capponi, 9

Room 5 Room 13 Room 14

History and Archaeology of Jordan Science, Methods and Technology in Arch. 9 Public Archaeology and Social-Economic Development 7 PREHISTORY 6 ETHNO-ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHODOLOGIES MUSEUM AND COLLECTION

CHAIR: Piotr Kołodziejczyk CHAIR: Giorgio Sobrà CHAIR: Maria Elena Ronza Takuro Adachi, E. Jenkins, C. Palmer, Qais Tweissi Sumio Fujii S. Allcock, S. Elliot, The new Raqmu-Petra Museum, a step Chalcolithic Ritual Potteries from Harrat Juhayra D. Vos ahead for a modern collection 9.30 1 and 2, Southern Jordan Understanding construction and activity areas at management at Petra 9.50 Neolithic sites through combined ethnographic, phytolith and geochemical investigation

Sumio Fuji Maria-Louise Sidoroff Lina Bakkar 9.50 Harrat Juhayra 2: a Chalcolithic settlement and An ethnoarchaeological study of Zizia Pottery The role of Jordanian museums in activating 10.10 cemetery in the Jafr Basin, southern Jordan Factory in Jizza, Jordan national awareness 9.30-10.50 Moawiyah M. Ibrahim Elisa Pruno, Yosha Alamri Chalcolithic Sahab between Highland and Raffaele Ranieri Excavated, documented, and stored/ 10.10 Desert Material culture and residuality: methodological exhibited Is it Safe now? 10.30 perspectives. The medieval contexts of Shawbak

Alexander Ahrens Abdalla J. Nabulsi Connecting the Jordan Valley with the Unusual burials from Khirbet es-Samrā site 10.30 Transjordanian Highlands: Results of the Wadi 10.50 Shuʿaib Archaeological Survey Project, 2016– 2018

10.50-11.10 COFFEE BREAK

Aula Magna del Rettorato Piazza San Marco, 4

12.00-13.00 PLENARY CLOSING SESSION

Luigi DEI – Rector of the University of Florence

Yazid Hashem Mohammed ELAYAN - HE Director General of the Department of Antiquities

Michele NUCCIOTTI - ICHAJ14 Scientific Committee (University of Florence)

Giovanni BETTARINI - Councilor for International Relations, Municipality of Florence

Emanuela Claudia DEL RE – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

University of Florence Via Capponi, 9

13.00-14.00 FAREWELL APERITIVE

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