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This volume focuses on early Christian pilgrimage in Jordan, the region east of the Jordan River which has so far been little explored by pilgrims and tourists to the Holy Land. Yet many biblical events are said to have taken place here: Moses' seeing the Promised Land, the ascension of the prophet Elijah, and John the...

In this major work Professor MacDonald chronicles an intensive and systematic archaeological survey of the southern flank of the Wadi el Hasa in West-Central Jordan. The survey resulted in the recovery of human evidence spanning the Lower Paleolithic to the Ottoman period (500,000 B.C.-A.D. 1918). The area is cut by a number of impressive and deep, south-to-north flowing wadis. As a region marginal for farming but stable for grazing, it would be the first to "empty out" and the last to "fill up" compared to more favourable regions. The methodology employed included a combination of...