Towards A Comprehensive Management Plan for Umm Qais Archaeological Site, Jordan

Monther Gamhawee*

Total Funding:2680                                             Funded by:Hashemite University

Acceptance Date: 24/4/2003                                Duration of Project : 12 months

ABSTRACT

This research aims to produce a comprehensive management plan for Umm Qais archaeological site that organizes and controls the conservation projects, excavations, safety and security measures of the site and its visitors, the interpretation, presentation and promotion of the site while permitting a development for the local community of Umm Qais Village.

It is hoped that this research, will suggest a working recommendations for the management and protection of the archaeological site of Umm Qais would present a framework that regulates and organizes the critical relation between the local people of Umm Qais and all activities running in the archaeological site.

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    * Faculty : Queen Rania’s Institute of Tourism & Cultural Heritage/Conservation Sciences .

    * Specific Specialization: Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage Sites and Monuments.

Continuation of Documentation of  Bethany Beyond the Jordan and Pilgrims Road

Mhammed Waheeb *

Total Funding:3075                                       Funded by:Hashemite University

Acceptance Date: 17/9/2003                           Duration of Project : 18 months

ABSTRACT

Documentation of Bethany Beyond the Jordan, such as continuation of drawing and photography in addition to study the discovered remains such as the churches the water system, the pools and caves of the monks

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    * Faculty : Queen Rania’s Institute of Tourism & Cultural Heritage/ Sustainable Tourism.

          * Specific Specialization :Archaeology of Bronze Age and History of Arts .

A Study of New Discovered Thamudic Inscriptions from al-Mrayghah – South-Eastern Jordan

Hseen AL Kedreh *

Total Funding:1880                                       Funded by:Hashemite University

Acceptance Date: 26/5/2003                            Duration of Project : 12 months

ABSTRACT

       This proposed research is an academic intensive study of some hitherto unknown Thamudic inscriptions from al-Mrayghah area in the South-Eastern Jordan.

Since the ancient inscriptions are reliable sources reflecting different cultural aspects of a geographical domain in a specific period, the intended study will focus on an intensive analysis, on the historical, social, economic, religious and linguistic issues of the Thamudians which are emerging from the inscriptions.

It is expected that this research study will figure out more information about the linguistic phenomena, social and religious lives of the people who left these inscriptions. In addition, new Thamudic personal names, Toponyms, verbs, tribal names, and rock drawings and their indications will be identified.

It is hoped also that these findings could be useful to other researchers, who are interested in the same field. In addition these findings might contribute to the wider study of the relationship between the Thamudic culture and other surrounding cultures related to the same period.

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     * Faculty : Queen Rania’s Institute of Tourism & Cultural Heritage/ Sustainable Tourism .

* Specific Specialization: Classical Archaeology / Epigraphy.

Urbanization during the Early Bronze Age in the Upper Wadi al-Zarqa

Khaled Douglas *

Total Funding:2760                                        Funded by:Hashemite University

Acceptance Date: 24/6/2003                              Duration of Project : 12 months

ABSTRACT

         The research is focusing on studying and identifying the main indicators of the urban life during the Early Bronze Age in the Upper Wadi al-Zarqa. The study area has been chosen after the results of the archaeological survey that took place in the Upper Wadi al-Zarqa by an Italian team from Rome University from 1993 until 2002. The survey project covered an area of 144 km² (12x12 km).

Several Early Bronze Age sites have been discovered in the survey area which diverse from fortified towns (cities) to rural sites (villages) and from large sites to small ones. Wad al-Zarqa region was entering the urbanization process during the Early Bronze Age II and III. The population grew during and after the period of transition from Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age in Jordan. This increase would have been intimately connected with the change in economy and would have had an important influence on the modifications of the social structure. A consideration of the question of population growth will be one of the important themes of the research.

Such fundamental changes in economy, social structure and human numbers would be reflected in the pattern of settlement. The distribution of sites across the landscape and their nature would depend upon all these factors. The internal arrangements of each site might also be expected to reflect the social organization of its inhabitants and the size of the group which lived on it.

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      * Faculty : Queen Rania’s Institute of Tourism & Cultural Heritage/ Sustainable Tourism .

*  Specific Specialization: Bronze Age Archaeology.

An analysis and documentation of the Nabataeans relief sculptures located in the  Siq ( the ceremonial entrance to Petra) with a dual focus examining their purpose and artistic origin.

Eyad Al-Masri*

Total Funding:500                                        Funded by:Hashemite University

Acceptance Date: 18/3/2003                              Duration of Project : 6 months

ABSTRACT

         To reach the goal of my research, I will study each statue alone from different aspects: the first will be the elements of art, its proportion, its situation, the techniques of producing used and the traces of the tools appeared on the sculpture itself. All of this will lead us to understand the styles and the schools the Nabataean sculptors used, why he moved from one style to another, and what makes him different than others.

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      * Faculty : Queen Rania’s Institute of Tourism & Cultural Heritage/ Sustainable Tourism .

 * Specific Specialization: Art History

مشاريع الأبحاث الأخرى المدعومة التي لم يتم موافاتنا بمعلومات حول ملخصاتها والأبحاث المنشورة للباحثين في معهد الملكة رانيا للسياحة والتراث