Book
Early village life at Beidha, Jordan: neolithic spatial organization and vernacular architecture, the excavations of Mrs Diana Kirkbride-Helbæk
Oxford University Press • (2) • Published In 2005 • Pages: iii-xiv, 442
By: Byrd, Brian F., Kirkbride-Helbæk, Diana.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Byrd describes the excavations at Beidha, one of the few sites that has been substantially excavated, giving us a better idea of what a complete village would have looked like. The excavatons were conducted under the direction of the late Diana Kirkbride-Helbaek. Brian Byrd participated in the final season of excavations and wrote this document. He describes the excavations, the organization of the field notes and photographs, the stratigraphy, the architecture and village layout, and briefly describes some of the artifacts found within the buildings. Beidha was occupied in the late Epipaleolithic, the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, and the Nabatean. This report focuses on the PPNB settlement and its architecture and discusses the rise of private property.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Dwellings
- Religious and educational structures
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Property in movables
- Archaeological excavation methods
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aceramic Neolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1983
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B; 9178 BP- 8596 BP (7178 BC-6596 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Beidha, Jordon
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Brian F. Byrd
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-144)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2005282423
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Architecture, Domestic--Jordan--Beidha Site/Excavations (Archaeology)--Jordan--Beidha Site/Vernacular architecture--Jordan--Beidha Site/Community organization--Jordan--History--To 1500/Beidha Site (Jordan)