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PAPER ABSTRACTS BOOKLET ICHAJ 14 “Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts and Ideas” Co-organized with: PAPER ABSTRACTS BOOKLET ICHAJ 14 “Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts and Ideas” 1 ICHAJ 14 – Paper Abstracts Booklet ichaj.org Florence (Italy) 21-25 January 2019 ICHAJ 14 “Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts and Ideas” ICHAJ 14 TH 14 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF JORDAN “Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts and Ideas” 2 1 – 25 J ANUARY 2019 – F LORENCE (ITALY) 2 ICHAJ 14 – Paper Abstracts Booklet ichaj.org Florence (Italy) 21-25 January 2019 ICHAJ 14 “Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts and Ideas” 3 ICHAJ 14 – Paper Abstracts Booklet ichaj.org Florence (Italy) 21-25 January 2019 ICHAJ 14 “Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts and Ideas” PAPER ABSTRACTS BOOKLET 4 ICHAJ 14 – Paper Abstracts Booklet ichaj.org Florence (Italy) 21-25 January 2019 ICHAJ 14 “Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts and Ideas” 5 ICHAJ 14 – Paper Abstracts Booklet ichaj.org Florence (Italy) 21-25 January 2019 ICHAJ 14 “Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts and Ideas” Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................................................................................6 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................................7 COMMITTES AND STAFF ...................................................................................................................................... 10 GENERAL PROGRAM............................................................................................................................................. 12 CONFERENCE VENUES ......................................................................................................................................... 14 PAPER ABSTRACTS ............................................................................................................................................... 21 WORKSHOP ABSTRACTS ....................................................................................................................................120 POSTER ABSTRACTS ...........................................................................................................................................128 MAILING LIST....................................................................................................................................................... 134 6 ICHAJ 14 – Paper Abstracts Booklet ichaj.org Florence (Italy) 21-25 January 2019 ICHAJ 14 “Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts and Ideas” Introduction 1. Under the Patronage of HRH Prince El-Hassan Bin Talal, the Department of Antiquities of Jordan and the University of Florence organized the 14th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan. HRH Prince El-Hassan Bin Talal is the founder of this conference which is organized every three years started in 1980 in Oxford University. ICHAJ is becoming a prestigious and important event for the scientific community of archaeologists, historians and researchers who, at an international level, are interested and working in Jordan. So far, ICHAJ has been hosted at these places: 1980-Oxford (UK) 1983-Amman (Jordan) 1986-Tubingen (Germany) 1989-Lyon (France) 1992-Irbid (Jordan) 1995-Torino-(Italy) 1998-Copenhagen (Denmark) 2001-Syudney (Australia) 2004-Petra (Jordan) 2007-Washington (USA) 2010-Paris (France) 2013-Berlin (Germany) 2016-Amman (Jordan) In the closing ceremony of ICHAJ 13 that was held in Jordan at Princess Sumaya University for Technology, it was announced that 14th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan will be held in Florence, Italy, HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal passed a statement that ICHAJ 14 should focus on a theme "Culture in Crisis: Flows of People, Artifacts & Ideas", where UNESCO should play an active role in protecting cultural heritage and its people in the areas that are facing serious army conflicts. It’s certainly true that cultural heritage is in danger of destruction, looting, or illicit trafficking in many places around the world. It’s also true that new types of threats to cultural heritage have 7 ICHAJ 14 – Paper Abstracts Booklet ichaj.org Florence (Italy) 21-25 January 2019 ICHAJ 14 “Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts and Ideas” developed in the last few decades. These include: the easier movement of goods across national borders via online marketplaces like eBay, the spread of global banking, the outbreak of war and other forms of political instability and poverty, and the widespread availability of heavy machinery and explosive. The world is changing at a rapid pace, and research as well as academic training must keep up with these challenges. Cultural heritage is about identity, knowledge, and the future, as well as the past. 2. Observing the program and the set of abstracts that follow, a dynamic and original picture emerges for amplitude and objective systematicity between the complex of a rich and articulated archaeological research on a potentially extraordinary scenario for a long chronological period (with some analogy, in this respect, with Italy and certainly not many other districts) and a 'laboratory' where, on equally extraordinary contexts, innovative or even experimental forms of international archaeological research are experimented. It is a scenario that characterizes this 14th Florentine ICHAJ edition as the apex of a trend that structurally characterizes, in increasing terms for participations both in contributions and authors, a cultural event that, in the sector and at this level, objectively places Jordan alongside very few other countries. The ICHAJ, therefore, returns to Italy 24 years after the Turin edition, which made an important contribution to the insertion of the Jordanian archaeological reality into a Euro-Mediterranean network to which the organizer Giorgio Gullini had dedicated himself with his Center for archaeological research and excavations for the Middle East. The choice of the Scientific Committee (unanimously) of the Florentine setting as the seat of this return can be attributed to the recognition of the growing role and interest of Italian culture, not only archaeological, for the enhancement (between science and conservation) of the Jordanian heritage (not just stones, not just men ...) and the specific role, which now appears irreplaceable, that the courageous and generous country that is Jordan, is developing; and also the contribution that the culture and history of a place like Florence, even by recent tradition, can give to this difficult phase to a nearby region (as its history can testify). A more occasional element we would like to think was also constituted by the role (methodological, merit, but in particular 'public') that the Mission of the Florentine University, 'Petra medievale', could represent in its uninterrupted 33 years of activity, thanks to the 'sympathy' (I would say in the Greek sense ...) with which the DoA has supported and supported us (with the GDs I remember well one by one: Adnan al-Hadidi, Ghazi Bisheh, Safwan al-Tell, Fawwaz al-Khraysheh , Ziad al-Saad, Faris al- Hmoud, Monther Jamhawi, Yazid Elayyan, ...). For these reasons we tried to give the Florentine event also a national dimension, directly involving all the Italian archaeological missions supported by the MAECI; a presence that finds a moment of visibility in the small but accurate exhibition that exemplifies a work that for years has affected the entire chronological period of the long archaeological history of the country that hosts us, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. While among the sponsors who joined the organizers (Dpt of Antiquities of Jordan and the University of Florence, with the collaboration of CAMNES), are the main local institutions (Municipality of Florence, Tuscany Region), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Agency of Development and Cooperation and UNESCO). 8 ICHAJ 14 – Paper Abstracts Booklet ichaj.org Florence (Italy) 21-25 January 2019 ICHAJ 14 “Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts and Ideas” Cultural continuity rather than thematic, among the last ICHAJ, is certainly not random: from ‘Trasparents borders’ (ICHAJ-XI, a theme that was already at the centre of our reflections: ‘The Transjordan’ conference in XII-XIII cc and ‘The frontiers of the medieval Mediterranean’, Florence, Palazzo Vecchio-Palazzo Strozzi, 5-8 November 2008 and Exhibition ‘From Petra to Shawbak, Archeology of a frontier’, Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 2009) to Ethics in Archeology (ICHAJ-XIII) form the background of the theme that we are called to debate in Florence. In fact, ICHAJ 14 will devote much of its program to the discussion and development of new proposals and methodologies on the conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage, in Jordan and in other international contexts. A moment in which such a setting will emerge clearly, will be during the 'Special Event' (January 24th, 2019), promoted by Prince S.A. Hassan bin Talal to whom we owe the same foundation of the ICHAJ, organized by the Presidency of the Regional Council - sponsored and supported by MAECI and UNESCO - open to the public and, for the first time in the forty-year history of the 'ICHAJ, also addressing issues outside the national borders; the main focus will be the situation of prolonged crisis in the region and on the role that objectively and under different aspects,
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