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<< Our Photo Pages >> Jawa - Ancient Village or Settlement in Jordan

Submitted by mrcrow on Sunday, 10 March 2024  Page Views: 62

Multi-periodSite Name: Jawa
Country: Jordan Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Dayr Al Kahf
Latitude: 32.335500N  Longitude: 37.003400E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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mrcrow visited on 1st Jan 0000 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 1

Jawa
Jawa submitted by mrcrow : Gravity dam at Jawa in Jordan. Located at center, this is the oldest known, human-made gravity dam in the world, dating back to 3,500 BCE. Water flow in the wadi (seasonal) is from left-to-right in the photo. The dam is located at 32.3499°N, 36.9808°E. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Jordan

Jawa is the oldest known, early bronze age, town site in Jordan. The site consists of a hill top town site; several irrigation fields; and the oldest known, human-made, gravity dam in the world, dating back to 3,500 BCE.

There are several good journal articles and books that describe the site in more detail. Below are links to some.

Early Bronze Age Jawa - An Artificial Oasis in the Basalt Desert, Meister, Julia & Krause, Jan & Müller-Neuhof, Bernd., 2018
Early Bronze Age Jawa - An Artificial Oasis in the Basalt Desert

Jawa, Lost City of the Black Desert, Helms, S. W. (Svend W.), 1980, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press
Jawa, Lost City of the Black Desert
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Jawa submitted by mrcrow : Panorama inside the Jawa hill settlement, looking east (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Jawa submitted by mrcrow : Looking south on top of the western wall of the Jawa hill settlement (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Jawa submitted by mrcrow : Looking north along the western edge of the Jawa hill settlement (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Jawa submitted by mrcrow : Looking west, up the hill to the Jawa settlement (Vote or comment on this photo)

Jawa
Jawa submitted by mrcrow : Gravity dam at Jawa in Jordan. Located at center, this is the oldest known, human-made gravity dam in the world, dating back to 3,500 BCE. The dam is located at 32.3499°N, 36.9808°E. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Jawa submitted by motist : A section of an ancient, double-face fortification wall discovered in Jawa. Credit: B. Müller-Neuhof / Dai-Orientabteilung

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Jawa submitted by motist : The dam at Jawa.

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