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The Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land

 


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DAAHL Site Record for Bab edh Dhra:

DAAHL SITE #: 353100192
SIZE: 250000
ELEVATION: -163
SITE NAME: Bab edh Dhra
LATITUDE: 31.26430
LONGITUDE: 35.56710
NOTES: Elevation from Google Elevation Service.
Alternate Site Names:
MNEMONIC ARTICLE SITE NAME
BAB EDH-DHRA

Site Components:
PERIOD FEATURE TYPE SIZE (ha) DESCRIPTION
Unspecified Other / Unspecified Structure or Wall Foundations 0
Pre-pottery Neolithic Village Site (No Fortifications) 0
Pottery Neolithic Sherd / Flint Scatter 0
EB I Village Site (No Fortifications) 0
EB I Camp / Nomadic Camp
EB I Cemetery / Necropolis 0
EB I Rock-Cut Shaft Tomb/Cave 0
EB I Rock-Cut Tomb (Simple Entrance or Dromos) 0
EB II Fortified Settlement / Structure 0
EB II Temple / Shrine 0
EB II Cemetery / Necropolis 0
EB II Rock-Cut Shaft Tomb/Cave 0
EB III Fortified Settlement / Structure 0
EB III Temple / Shrine 0
EB III Cemetery / Necropolis 0
EB III Rock-Cut Shaft Tomb/Cave 0
EB III Other Type of Tomb
EB IV / MB I / Int. Bronze Village Site (No Fortifications) 0
EB IV / MB I / Int. Bronze Camp / Nomadic Camp 0
EB IV / MB I / Int. Bronze Cemetery / Necropolis 0
EB IV / MB I / Int. Bronze Rock-Cut Shaft Tomb/Cave 0

Condition Report: 1996-12-16
OVERALL CONDITION: Good
OVERALL RATING: Preservation Imperative
CUMULATIVE RISK: Unknown / Not Noted
SEVERITY OF RISK: Unknown
DATE VISITED: 1996-12-16
ENTERED BY: HA
DATE ENTERED: 1996-12-16
Threats in this Condition Report:
THREAT: Road or Highway (construction)
THREAT SEVERITY: Severe damage or total loss
THREAT: Quarrying
THREAT SEVERITY: Little or no damage
THREAT: Cultivation
THREAT SEVERITY: Little or no damage
THREAT: Erosion - General
THREAT SEVERITY: Severe damage or total loss
THREAT: Construction - General
THREAT SEVERITY: Significant damage
THREAT: Water Control Facility / Structure (operation)
THREAT SEVERITY: Little or no damage
THREAT: Other Development
THREAT SEVERITY: Significant damage
THREAT: Other Human Impacts - Other
THREAT SEVERITY: Little or no damage

Disturbances in this Condition Report:
DISTURBANCE: Archaeological Excavation
RISK: Unknown / Not Noted
TIMING: Unknown
DISTURBANCE: Clandestine Excavation/Vandalism
RISK: Unknown / Not Noted
TIMING: Unknown
DISTURBANCE: Erosion
RISK: Unknown / Not Noted
TIMING: Unknown

 
References:
REFERENCE: ADOVASIO J.M. & ANDREWS R.L.1981
TITLE: Textile Remains and Basketry Impressions from Bab edh Dhra and aWeaving Implement from Numeira = RAST & SCHAUB eds.
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 46,p.181-185.
REFERENCE: ADOVASIO J.M. & ANDREWS R.L.1982
TITLE: Selected Perishable Artifacts from Bab edh-Dhra
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 247,p.59-69,fig.1.
REFERENCE: ADOVASIO J.M. ET AL.1978
TITLE: Textile Remains and Basketry Impressions from Bab edh-Dhra' , 1975
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 43,p.57-60.
REFERENCE: ALBRIGHT W.F.1924
TITLE: The Archaeological Results of an Expedition to Moab and the DeadSea
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 14,p.2-12,1 fig.
REFERENCE: ALBRIGHT W.F.1926
TITLE: The Jordan Valley in the Bronze Age
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TITLE: Remarks on the Chronology of Early Bronze IV - Middle Bronze IIA in Phoenicia and Syria-Palestine
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 184,p.26-35.
REFERENCE: ALBRIGHT W.F.1968
TITLE: Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan , London,p.55,56,n 27. (= JordanLectures in Comparative Religions 7)
REFERENCE: BEN-TOR A.1975b
TITLE: Bab edh-Dhra'
SERIAL NAME: EAEHL 1,p.149-151,3 pls.
REFERENCE: BENOIT P.1949c
TITLE: Notes d'archeologie transjordanienne. III. Poteries de Bab ed-Dhra'
SERIAL NAME: RB 56,p.298,pl.11.
REFERENCE: CALLAWAY J.A. & WEINSTEIN J.M.1977
TITLE: Radiocarbon Dating of Palestine in the Early Bronze Age
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 225,p.1-16.
REFERENCE: CLARK V.A.1979
TITLE: Investigations in a Prehistoric Necropolis near Bab edh Dhra'
SERIAL NAME: ADAJ 23,p.57-77,figs.1-10,pls.32-34.
REFERENCE: DEVER W.G.1973
TITLE: The EB IV - MB I Horizon in Transjordan and Southern Palestine
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 210,p.37-63,figs.1-6.
REFERENCE: DONAHUE J.1980
TITLE: Part D. Geology = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 240,p.47-52,figs.22-23.
REFERENCE: DONAHUE J.1981
TITLE: Geological Investigations at Early Bronze Sites = RAST & SCHAUBeds.
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 46,p.137-154,figs.1-16.
REFERENCE: DONAHUE J.1985
TITLE: Hydrologic and Topographic Change During and After Early BronzeOccupation at Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira
SERIAL NAME: SHAJ 2,p.131-140,figs.1-9.
REFERENCE: FINNEGAN M.1978
TITLE: Faunal Remains from Bab edh-Dhra', 1975
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 43,p.51-54.
REFERENCE: FINNEGAN M.1981
TITLE: Faunal Remains from Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 46,p.177-180,tables 1-2.
REFERENCE: HARLAN J.R.1982
TITLE: The Garden of the Lord : a plausible reconstruction of natural resources of Southern Jordan in Early Bronze Age
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REFERENCE: HARLAND J.P.1942
TITLE: Sodom and Gomorrah
SERIAL NAME: BA 5,p.17-32,figs.1-8.
REFERENCE: HARLAND J.P.1943
TITLE: Sodom and Gomorrah
SERIAL NAME: BA 6,p.41-52.
REFERENCE: HAZAN F.1970
TITLE: Dictionnaire archeologique de la Bible , Paris.
REFERENCE: HELMS S.W.1975b
TITLE: Posterns in Early Bronze Age Fortifications of Palestine
SERIAL NAME: PEQ 133,p.133-150,figs.1-7.
REFERENCE: HELMS S.W.1982
TITLE: Paleo-Beduin and Transmigrant Urbanism
SERIAL NAME: SHAJ 1,p.97-113,19 figs.
REFERENCE: HENNESSY J.B.1969a
TITLE: Recent Acquisitions
SERIAL NAME: AJBA 1:2,p.79-85,2 figs.
REFERENCE: HESSE B. & WAPNISH P.1981
TITLE: Animal Remains from the Bab edh-Dhra Cemetery = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 46,p.133-136,figs.1-2,tables 1-2.
REFERENCE: IBRAHIM M.1972b
TITLE: Archaeological Excavations at Sahab, 1972
SERIAL NAME: ADAJ 17,p.23-36,93,pls.1-7.
REFERENCE: IBRAHIM M.1975b
TITLE: Excavations in Jordan in 1975
SERIAL NAME: ADAJ 20,p.15-22. (Arabic)
REFERENCE: JOHNSTON R.H. & SCHAUB R.T.1978
TITLE: Selected Pottery from Bab edh-Dhra', 1975
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 43,p.33-49,figs.1-15,3 pls.
REFERENCE: KAUTZ J.R.1981
TITLE: Tracking the Ancient Moabites
SERIAL NAME: BA 44,p.27-35,12 figs.,1 map.
REFERENCE: KOCHAVI M.1970
TITLE: Bab edh-Dhra
SERIAL NAME: EAEHL,p.27. (Hebrew)
REFERENCE: LAPP N.L.1981
TITLE: Bab edh-Dhra Tomb Groups on Display
SERIAL NAME: BA 44,p.181-183,4 figs.
REFERENCE: LAPP P.W.1965b
TITLE: Bab edh-Dhra
SERIAL NAME: Newsletter ASOR 8,p.3.
REFERENCE: LAPP P.W.1966a
TITLE: The Cemetery at Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan
SERIAL NAME: Archaeology 19:2,p.104-111,15figs.,2 maps.
REFERENCE: LAPP P.W.1966b
TITLE: Chronique Archeologique : Bab edh-Dhra'
SERIAL NAME: RB 73,p.556-561,pls.30b-32.
REFERENCE: LAPP P.W.1967
TITLE: The Cemetery at Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan
SERIAL NAME: ADHL,p.35-40,7 figs.,2 maps.
REFERENCE: LAPP P.W.1968a
TITLE: Bab edh-Dhra', Perizzites and Emim = J.AVIRAM ed., Jerusalem Through the Ages, Jerusalem,p.1-24,fig.1,pls.1-3.
REFERENCE: LAPP P.W.1968b
TITLE: Bab edh Dhra' Tomb A 76 and Early Bronze I in Palestine
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 189,p.12-41,figs.1-16.
REFERENCE: LAPP P.W.1968c
TITLE: Chronique Archeologique : Bab edh-Dhra'
SERIAL NAME: RB 75,p,86-93,fig.1,pls.3-6a.
REFERENCE: LAPP P.W.1970b
TITLE: Palestine in the Early Bronze Age
SERIAL NAME: NEATC,p.101-131.
REFERENCE: LAPP P.W.1975
TITLE: The Tale of the Tell , Pittsburgh.
REFERENCE: LEE J.R.1982
TITLE: Early Bronze Age Game Stones from Bab edh-Dhra, Jordan
SERIAL NAME: Levant 14,p.171-174,pls.14-15.
REFERENCE: MALLON A.1924b
TITLE: Flint Implements and Megalithic Monuments
SERIAL NAME: BS 81,p.271-275.
REFERENCE: MCCONAUGHY M.A.1979
TITLE: Formal and Functional Analyses of the Chipped Stone Tools from Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan , Ann Arbor University Mircrofilms.
REFERENCE: MCCONAUGHY M.A.1980
TITLE: Part F. Chipped Stone Tools = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 240,p.53-59,figs.25-29.
REFERENCE: MCCONAUGHY M.A.1981
TITLE: A Preliminary Report on the Bab edh-Dhra Site Survey = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 46,p.187-190,fig.1,table 1.
REFERENCE: MCCREERY D.W.1980b
TITLE: Part E. Paleobotany = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 240,p.52-53.
REFERENCE: MCCREERY D.W.1981
TITLE: Flotation of the Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira Plant Remains = RAST &SCHAUB eds.,
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 46,p.165-170,figs.1-3.
REFERENCE: MEYERS E.M.1970
TITLE: Secondary Burials in Palestine
SERIAL NAME: BA 33,p.1-29,figs.1-14.
REFERENCE: OLANIYAN O.1984
TITLE: Sedimentological and multivariate analyses at two Early Bronze Age Sites, Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira, Southeast Dead Sea Graben, Jordan. (Thesis, Ann Arbor University Microfilms)
REFERENCE: ORTNER D.J.1979
TITLE: Disease and Mortality in the Early Bronze Age People of Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan
SERIAL NAME: Amer. Journ. of Physical Anthropology 51,p.589-598
REFERENCE: ORTNER D.J.1981
TITLE: A Preliminary Report on the Human Remains from the Bab edh DhraCemetery = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 46,p.119-132,fig.11,tables 1-2.
REFERENCE: PARR P.J.1972
TITLE: Settlement patterns and urban planning in the ancient Levant: the nature of the evidence = P.J.UCKO & R.TRINGHAM & G.W. DIMBLEBYeds., Man, settlement and urbanism , London,p.805-810.
REFERENCE: RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.1974
TITLE: Survey of the Southeastern Plain of the Dead Sea, 1973
SERIAL NAME: ADAJ 19,p.5-53,figs.1-12,pls.1-11.
REFERENCE: RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.1978
TITLE: A Preliminary Report of Excavations at Bab edh-Dhra', 1975
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 43,p.1-32,figs.1-27.
REFERENCE: RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.1980a
TITLE: The Southeastern Dead Sea Valley Expedition, 1979
SERIAL NAME: BA 43,p.60-61.
REFERENCE: RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.1980b
TITLE: eds., Preliminary Report of the 1979 Expedition to the Dead SeaPlain, Jordan
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 240,p.21-61,figs.1-29.
REFERENCE: RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.1981a
TITLE: eds., The Southeastern Dead Sea Plain Expedition : An Interim Report of the 1977 Season
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 46.
REFERENCE: RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.1981b
TITLE: Introduction : The 1977 Expedition to the Southeastern Dead SeaPlain, Jordan = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 46,p.1-5,fig.1.
REFERENCE: RAST W.E. & SCHAUB R.T.1982
TITLE: The Dead Sea Expedition Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira, May 24-July 10.1981
SERIAL NAME: Newsletter ASOR 4,p.4-12.
REFERENCE: RAST W.E.1977
TITLE: Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira
SERIAL NAME: BA 40,p.135.
REFERENCE: RAST W.E.1981a
TITLE: Patterns of Settlement at Bab edh-Dhra = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 46,p.7-34,figs.1-27.
REFERENCE: RAST W.E.1982a
TITLE: Expedition to the Southeastern Dead Sea Plain, May 24 - July 10,1981. (= National Geographic Society Research Reports)
REFERENCE: RICHARDSON J.B. & MCCREERY D.1978
TITLE: Preliminary Analysis of the Plant Remains from Bab edh-Dhra, 1975
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 43,p.55-56.
REFERENCE: SALLER S.J.1965
TITLE: Bab edh-Dhra'
SERIAL NAME: LA 15,p.137-219,figs.1-34.
REFERENCE: SCHAUB R.T. & RAST W.E.1984
TITLE: Preliminary Report on the 1981 Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain,Jordan
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 254,p.35-60.
REFERENCE: SCHAUB R.T.1973a
TITLE: The Early Bronze Ia-Ib Pottery of the Bab edh-Dhra' Cemetery, Jordan. (Thesis - Ann Arbor University Microfilms)
REFERENCE: SCHAUB R.T.1973b
TITLE: An Early Bronze IV Tomb from Bab edh-Dhra'
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 210,p.2-19,figs.1-8.
REFERENCE: SCHAUB R.T.1981a
TITLE: Patterns of Burial at Bab edh-Dhra = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 46,p.45-68,figs.1-27.
REFERENCE: SCHAUB R.T.1981b
TITLE: Ceramic Sequences in the Tomb Groups at Bab edh-Dhra = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 46,p.69-118,figs.1-20.
REFERENCE: SCHAUB R.T.1982
TITLE: The origins of the Early Bronze Age walled town culture of Jordan. An assessment of current theories in the light of recent evidence
SERIAL NAME: SHAJ 1,p.67-75,1fig.
REFERENCE: SEVERAL M.W.1975
TITLE: An Early Bronze Basalt Bowl in the Skirball Museum
SERIAL NAME: Levant 7,p.139-141,fig.1,pl.22b.
REFERENCE: SHANKS H.1980
TITLE: Have Sodom and Gomorrh Been Found ?
SERIAL NAME: The Biblical Archaeologist Reader 6:5,p.26-36,figs.
REFERENCE: SHORT S.K.1979
TITLE: A Preliminary Report on the Palynological Studies = RAST & SCHAUB eds.,
SERIAL NAME: AASOR 46,p.171-176.
REFERENCE: TADMOR M.1969
TITLE: Excavations at Bab edh-Dhra
SERIAL NAME: Qadmoniot 2,p.56-59,4 figs. (Hebrew)
REFERENCE: VAN HATTEM W.C.1981
TITLE: Once Again : Sodom and Gomorrah
SERIAL NAME: BA 44,p.87-92.
REFERENCE: WRIGHT G.E.1936
TITLE: The Chronology of Palestine in the Early Bronze Age
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 63,p.12-21,5 figs.
REFERENCE: WRIGHT G.E.1938
TITLE: The Chronology of Palestinian Pottery in Middle Bronze I
SERIAL NAME: BASOR 71,p.27-34,figs.1-2.