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Wadi Ramm Recovery Project
http://www.arts.mun.ca/mouseion/1997/dudley/
From Classical Views 61. Report on the excavation of this Nabatean site.
Petra: Myth and Reality
http://almashriq.hiof.no/jordan/900/930/petra/myth/
Philip C. Hammond discusses the various myths about Petra. From Aramco World Magazine.
Petra: An Eroding Ancient City
http://www.geotimes.org/june04/feature_petra.html
From Geotimes. A discussion on how flash floods were controlled by the Nabateans and how they, and tourists, are threatening to destroy Petra.
GIS-Based Excavation Recording in Jordan
http://weber.ucsd.edu/Depts/Anthro/classes/tlevy/Fidan/JHF/Levy_saa.pdf
From SAA Archaeological Record 1(3). Describes the use of GIS in the Jabal Hamrat Fidan Project.
Geophysical Surveys in the Jebel Hamrat
http://weber.ucsd.edu/Depts/Anthro/classes/tlevy/Fidan/JHF/witten_levy_geo.pdf
From Geoarchaeology 15(2). Discusses the use of electromagnetic induction, ground-penetrating radar, and magnetometry techniques.
Excavations at Tubna, Wadi Ziqlab
http://www.arts.mun.ca/mouseion/1997/banning/
From Classical Views 61. Brief report on this Chalcolithic site.
Excavations at Tell Fendi
http://www.arts.mun.ca/mouseion/1997/blackham/
From Classical Views 61. A brief report on this Late Chalcolithic site in the Jordan Valley.
Excavations at a Geometric Kebaran site in Wadi Ziqlab
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/Maher/maher.html
From Antiquity 77 (no 295). Brief report on the excavation of the site of 'Uyyun al-Hammam.
Early Bronze Age Metallurgy
http://weber.ucsd.edu/Depts/Anthro/classes/tlevy/Fidan/JHF/KHI_antiquity.pdf
From Antiquity 76 (no 292). Thomas E.Levy et al describe the discovery of the largest Early Bronze Age copper manufactory in the Middle East, found in the Wadi Faynan area.
Christianity at Humayma
http://198.62.75.1/www1/ofm/sbf/Books/LA45/45319RS.pdf
From Liber Annuus 45. Report on the excavations of four Byzantine churches from this site in southern Jordan.