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: Giovanna Pizziolo 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