Pella

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Pella is the common name given to the important Transjordanian site of Tabaqat Fahl, located in the central Jordan Valley opposite Beth Shean.

In the early Roman Empire, Pella was one of ten cities that belonged to the Decapolis.

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Bibliography

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Excavation Reports

  • Bourke, S.J. and Sparks, R.T. [1995], "The DAJ Excavations at Pella in Jordan in 1963/64", in Bourke, S. and Descoeudres, J.-P. (eds), Trade, Contact, and the Movement of Peoples in the Eastern Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of J. Basil Hennessy, [Mediterranean Archaeology Supplement 3], Sydney, pp.149-167.
  • Smith, R.H. [1973], Pella of the Decapolis, Volume 1: The 1967 Season of The College of Wooster Expedition to Pella, Wooster, Ohio,
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Derivative Studies

  • Bourke, Stephen J. [1993], "Pella in Jordan 1992: Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Discoveries", in de Vries, B. (ed.) "Archaeology in Jordan" 1993, AJA 97 (1993), pp.467-468.
    • [1996], "Pella in Jordan 1994-95", in Bikai, P. and Egan, V. (eds), "Archaeology in Jordan", AJA 100 (1996), pp.522-523.
  • Bourke, Stephen J. and Eriksson, Kathryn O. [2006], "Pella in Jordan, Royal Name Scarabs and the Hyksos Empire: A View from the Margins", in Czerny E., Hein I., Hunger H., Melman D. and Schwab A. (eds), Timelines - Studies in Honour of Manfred Bietak, [Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 149], Leuven: Peeters, Volume II, 2006, pp.339-348. ISBN 904291730X
  • Edwards, P.C. "The Wadi Hammeh", AfO 32 (1986), pp.222-226.
    • [1988], "Natufian settlement in Wadi al-Hammeh", Paléorient 14.2 (1988), pp.309-315.
  • Edwards, P.C., Bourke, S.J., Da Costa, K., Tidmarsh, J.C., Walmsley, A.G. and Watson, P.M. [1990], "Preliminary Report on the University of Sydney's Tenth Season of Excavation at Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) in 1988", ADAJ 34 (1990), pp.58-93.
  • Knapp, A.Bernard [1986], "Micros, MINARK and data processing at Pella in Jordan", Advances in Computer Archaeology 3 (1986), pp.1-21.
    • [1987], "Pots, PIXE and Data Processing at Pella in Jordan", BASOR 266 (1987), pp.1-30.
    • [1993], Society and Polity at Bronze Age Pella, Sheffield, 1993.
  • McLaren, P. Bruce [2003], The Military Architecture of Jordan during the Middle Bronze Age: New Evidence from Pella and Rukeis, [BAR International Series 1202], Oxford: Archaeopress, 2003. ISBN 1841715670
  • McNicoll, A.W., Edwards, P.C., Hosking, J., Macumber, P.G., Walmsley, A.G. and Watson, P.M. [1986], "Preliminary Report on the University of Sydney's Seventh Season of Excavation at Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) in 1985", ADAJ 30 (1986), pp.155-198.
  • McNicoll, A.W., Smith, R.H. and Hennessy, J.B., Pella in Jordan 1: An Interim Report on the Joint University of Sydney and The College of Wooster Excavations at Pella 1979-1981, Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1982.
  • Macumber, P.G. [1992], "The Geological Setting of Palaeolithic sites at Tabaqat Fahl, Jordan", Paléorient 18.2 (1992), pp.31-44.
  • Potts, Timothy F. [1987], "An Ivory Box from Pella in Jordan and its Foreign Relations", SHAJ 3 (1987), pp.57-73.
  • Potts, T.F., Bourke, S.J., Edwards, P.C., Richards, F. and Wightman, G.J. [1988], "Preliminary Report on the Eighth and Ninth Seasons of Excavations by the University of Sydney at Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) 1986", ADAJ 32 (1988), pp.115-149.
  • Smith, R.H. [1985], "Excavations at Pella of the Decapolis, 1979-1985", National Geographic Research 1 (1985), pp.470-489.
    • [1987], "Trade in the Life of Pella of the Decapolis", in Hadidi, A. (ed.), Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan III, 1987, pp.53-58.
  • Smith, R.H. and Day, L.P. [1986], Pella of the Decapolis Vol. 2, Wooster, Ohio, 1986.
  • Smith, Robert H. [1990], "The Floruit of Hellenism in the Southern Levant", Levant 22 (1990), pp.123-130.
  • Smith, R.H., Maddin, R., Muhly, J.D. and Stech, T. [1984], "Bronze Age Steel from Pella, Jordan", Current Anthropology 25.2 (1984), pp.234-236.
  • Walmsley, Alan G. [1992a], "Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) 1980", RB 89 (1992), pp.245-247.
    • [1992b], "The Social and Economic Regime at Fihl (Pella) between the 7th and 9th Centuries", in P. Canivet & J.-P. Rey-Coquais (eds), La Syrie de Byzance à l'Islam, VII-VIII Siecles: Actes du Colloque International, Institut Francais de Damas, Damascus, pp.249-261.
  • Watson, P. and Tidmarsh, J. [1996], "Pella/Tall al-Husn Excavations 1993. The University of Sydney - 15th season", ADAJ 40 (1996), pp.293-313.

1987 Sambrook, P.N., Browne, C.D., Eisman, J.A. and Bourke, S.J., 'A Case of Crush Fracture Osteoporosis from Late Roman Pella in Jordan', OSSA 13, 167-172.

1988 Edwards. P.C., Bourke, S.J., Colledge, S.M. & Macumber, P.G., 'Late Pleistocene prehistory in Wadi al-Hammeh, Jordan Valley' in A.N. Garrard & H.G. Gebel (eds), The Prehistory of Jordan: the state of research in 1986, BAR International Series 396, 525-565.

1988 Walmsley, A.G., 'Pella/Fihl after the Islamic Conquest: a convergence of literary and archaeological evidence', Mediterranean Archaeology 1, 142-59.

1989 Edwards, P.C., 'Problems recognizing earliest sedentism: the Natufian example', Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 2.1, 5-48.

1989 Edwards, P.C., 'Pleistocene Sites in Wadi al-Hammeh', in D. Homes-Fredericq & J.B. Hennessy, (eds), Akkadica: supplement VI-VIII. Foundation Assyriologique Georges Dossin, Leuven.

1989 Edwards, P.C., 'Revising the Broad Spectrum Revolution: and its role in the origins of Southwest Asian food production', Antiquity 63, 225-46.

1989 Bourke, S.J. 'Pella in the Bronze and Iron Ages', in D. Homes-Fredericq & J.B. Hennessy, Archaeology of Jordan 2, 414-425.

1990 Edwards, P.C., 'Kebaran occupation at the Last Glacial Maximum in Wadi al-Hammeh, Jordan Valley', in C. Gamble & O. Soffer (eds), The World at 18 000 BP, vol. 2: Low Latitudes, London, 97-118.

1990 Edwards, P.C. & Edwards, I.W., 'Heat treatment of chert in the Natufian period', Mediterranean Archaeology 3, 1-5.

1991 Macumber, P.G. & Head, M.J., 'Implications of the Wadi al-Hammeh sequences for the terminal drying of Lake Lisdan, Jordan', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimate, Palaeoecology 84, 163-173.

1991 Edwards, P.C., 'More than 1, less than 500: comments on communal hunting and faunal remains', Journal of Medieterranean Archaeology 4.1, 109-120.

1991 Edwards, P.C., 'Wadi Hammeh 27: an Early Natufian site at Pella, Jordan' in O. Bar-Yosef & F.R. Valla (eds), The Naturian Culture in the Levant, International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor, 123-148.

1991 Walmsley, A.G., 'Abbasid Fihl: implications for the cultural history of Jordan', in M.A. Bakhit, and R. Schick (eds), Bilad al-Sham During the Abbasid Period, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference - English and French section, Amman, 135-59.

1992 Edwards, P.C., 'Demographic issues in Pleistocene prehistory: a perspective from Wadi al-Hammeh, Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan IV, Amman, 47-51.

1992 Richards, Fiona V. Scarab Seals from a Middle to Late Bronze Age Tomb at Pella in Jordan, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 117, Gottingen.

1992 McNicoll, A.W., Edwards, P.C., Hanbury-Tenison, J., Hennessy, J.B., Potts, T.F., Smith, R.H., Walmsley, A., & Watson, P., with contributions by Black, J.A., Bourke, S.J., Browne, C.D., Eastwood, G.M., Ewards, W.I., Gordon, S., Köhler-Rollefson, I., Koucky, F.L., Macumber, P.G., Rollefson, G.O. & Willcox, G., Pella in Jordan 2, Mediterranean Archaeology Supplement 2, Sydney.

1992

  • Walmsley, A.G., 'Fihl (Pella) and the Cities of North Jordan during the Umayyad and Abbasid Periods', in Bisheh, G. (ed.) Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan IV, Amman, 377-84.

1992 Walmsley, A.G. et al. 'Preliminary Report on The University of Sydney's eleventh season of excavations at Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) in 1989', ADAJ XXXV.

1993 Bourke, S.J., 'Pella in the Bronze and Iron Ages: A Report on the 1992 Field Season', Mediterranean Archaeology 5/6, 61-163.

1993 Walmsley, A.G., Macumber, P.G., Edwards, P.C., Bourke, S.J., Watson, P.M. with contributions by Wright, R.V.S., Churcher, B., Sparks, R., Rielly, K., da Costa, K., O'Hea, M., 'The Eleventh and Twelfth Seasons of Excavation at Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) 1989-1990', ADAJ XXXVII, 165-231.

1994 Bourke, S.J., Sparks, R.T.E., Sowada, K.N. & Mairs, L.D., 'Preliminary Report on the Fourteenth Season of Excavation by the University of Sydney at Pella in Jordan', ADAJ XXXVIII, 81-126.

1994 Bourke, S.J., 'Quantifying Culture Change in the Ancient Near East: Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Second Millennium BC Pottery from Pella in Jordan', in C.C. Sorrell & A.J. Ruys (eds), Proceedings of the International Ceramics Conference Austceram 94 (International Ceramic Monographs 1.1-2), 28-33.

1994 Sparks, R.T., "Using Pottery to Interpret the Past: Astarte Figurines in Late Bronze Age Palestine, a Case Study", in C.C. Sorrell & A.J. Ruys (eds), Proceedings of the International Ceramics Conference Austceram 94 (International Ceramic Monographs 1.1-2), 1994, 16-21.

1995

Edwards, P.C. & Macumber, P.G., 'The Last Half Million Years at Pella', in S. Bourke & J.-P. Descoeudres (eds), Trade, Contact, and the Movement of Peoples in the Eastern Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of J. Basil Hennessy, Mediterranean Archaeology Supplement 3, Sydney, 1-14.

1995 Wallace, S.-A., 'The Pella Collection in the Australian National Gallery, Canberra', in S. Bourke & J.-P. Descoeudres (eds), Trade, Contact, and the Movement of Peoples in the Eastern Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of J. Basil Hennessy, Mediterranean Archaeology Supplement 3, Sydney, 291-302.

1995 Watson, P.M., 'Ceramic Evidence for Egyptian Links with Northern Jordan in the 6th-8th Centuries', in S. Bourke & J.-P. Descoeudres (eds), Trade, Contact, and the Movement of Peoples in the Eastern Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of J. Basil Hennessy, Mediterranean Archaeology Supplement 3, Sydney, 303-320.

1995 Walmsley, A.G., 'Christians and Christianity at Early Islamic Pella (Fihl)', in S. Bourke & J.-P. Descoeudres (eds), Trade, Contact, and the Movement of Peoples in the Eastern Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of J. Basil Hennessy, Mediterranean Archaeology Supplement 3, Sydney, 321-324.

1997 Hennessy, J.B., 'Pella', in E. Meyers (ed.), Encyclopedia of Near Eastern Archaeology, New York.

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