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Submitted by mrcrow on Sunday, 10 March 2024 Page Views: 68
Multi-periodSite Name: JawaCountry: Jordan Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Dayr Al Kahf
Latitude: 32.335500N Longitude: 37.003400E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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mrcrow visited on 1st Jan 0000 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 1
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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