Tell Abu al-Kharaz

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Tell Abu a-Kharaz (Arabic: “The Mound of the Father of the Beads”) is an archaeological site in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan.

The site lies in the ancient landscape of Gilead in the Transjordanian Central Jordan Valley and is a small stone-walled town, located just above the eastern border of the Jordan Valley, north of the perennial Wadi al-Yabis, about 4 km east of the Jordan River.

Palestine Grid Coordinate System E 206 196.54, N 200 623.07.

Tell Abu al-Kharaz has been identified by some with Biblical Jabesh Gilead.

Contents 1 Description 2 Bibliography 2.1 Excavation Reports 2.2 Derivative Studies 3 External links

Description

The summit of Tell Abu al-Kharaz lies 116.00 m below mean sea level. The valley floor level at this latitude lies approximately 250 m below mean sea level. The impressive isolated mound of Tell Abu al-Kharaz, from which large parts of the Jordan Valley can be controlled, lies close to the main road which runs along the Transjordanian Jordan Valley from north to south. The area occupied by the tell is approximately 300 m by 400 m, c. 12 hectares in surface area. The plateau on the summit of the tell measures about 120 m by 90 m.

Bibliography

Excavation Reports

• Fischer, Peter M. [1991], "Tell Abu al-Kharaz. The Swedish Jordan Expedition 1989. First Season Preliminary Report from Trial Soundings", ADAJ 35 (1991), pp.67-104.
  • [1993], "Tell Abu al-Kharaz. The Swedish Jordan Expedition 1991. Second Season Preliminary Excavation Report", ADAJ 37 (1993), pp.279-305.
  • [2006a], Tell Abu al-Kharaz in the Jordan Valley. Volume II: The Middle and the Late Bronze Ages, Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2006. ISBN 3700138156
  • [2006b], The Chronology of the Jordan Valley during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages: Pella, Tell Abu al-Kharaz, and Tell Deir ʿAlla, 2006. ISBN 3700138164
  • [2008], Tell Abu al-Kharaz in the Jordan Valley. Volume I: The Early Bronze Age, [Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie 48 / Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean 16], Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008. ISBN 9783700138808

Derivative Studies

• Fischer, Peter M. [2004], "Coast Contra Inland: Tell el-ʿAjjul and Tell Abu al-Kharaz during the late Middle and Late Bronze Ages", Ä&L 14 (2004), pp.249-264.
  • [2006], “Copper and Bronze Objects from Tell Abu al-Kharaz and Sahem, Jordan: Some Reflections on the Results of Atomic-Absorption Spectroscopy”, in Maeir, A.M. and Miroschedji, P. de (eds), “I Will Speak the Riddle of Ancient Times”—Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, Volume 1, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2006, pp.25-32. ISBN 1575061031
  • [2008], "Tell Abu al-Kharaz—A Bead in the Jordan Valley", NEA 71.4 (2008), pp.196-213.

• Fischer, P.M. and Herrmann, G. [1995], "A carved bone object from Tell Abu al-Kharaz in Jordan: A Palestinian workshop for bone and ivory?", Jevant 27 (1995), pp.145-164.

FISCHER, P.M., Acta Cypria. Acts of an international congress on Cypriote archaeology held in Gothenburg on 22-24 August 1991, Part 2 (Jonsered 1992), Cypriot finds at Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Transjordan , 84-90.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley, in "Archaeology of Jordan", American Journal of Archaeology 97:3 (1993), 477-8.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley, in "Archaeology of Jordan", American Journal of Archaeology 98:3 (1994), 536-7.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz. The Swedish Jordan Expedition 1992. Third season preliminary excavation report, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 38 (1994), 127-145.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley, in: "Archaeology of Jordan", American Journal of Archaeology 99:3 (1995), 514-515.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz. The Swedish Jordan Expedition 1993. Fourth season preliminary excavation report, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 39 (1995), 93-119.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz. The Swedish Jordan Expedition 1994. Fifth season preliminary excavation report, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 40 (1996), 101-110.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley, in: "Archaeology of Jordan", American Journal of Archaeology 100:3 (1996), 520-521.

FISCHER, P.M., The Mound of the Father of the Beads: Excavating in the Jordan Valley, Minerva 7:5 (1996), 30-33.

FISCHER, P.M., Svenska Jordanienexpeditionen 1989-1996. Tell Abu al-Kharaz i det bibliska landskapet Gilead, Medusa 17:3 (1996), 27-34.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abou al-Kharaz, la Yabesh biblique? le Monde de la Bible 104 (1997), 25-26; see also: le Monde de la Bible 101 (1996), 47.

FISCHER, P.M., Arkeologisk Expedition i Jordanien, Populär Arkeologi 15:1 (1997), 35-38

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz. The Swedish Jordan Expedition 1995 and 1996. Sixth and seventh season preliminary excavation report, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 41 (1997), 129-144.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz: Occupation Throughout the Ages. The Faunal and Botanical Evidence, Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 6 (1997), 159-165.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley, in: "Archaeology of Jordan", American Journal of Archaeology 101:3 (1997), 508.

FISCHER, P.M., A Late to Early Iron Age Tomb at Sahem, Jordan. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 21. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1997.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley, in: "Archaeology of Jordan", American Journal of Archaeology 102:3 (1998), 586-587.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz. The Swedish Jordan Expedition 1997. Eight season preliminary excavation report, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 42 (1998).

FISCHER, P.M., A Late Bronze to Early Iron Age Tomb at Sahem, Jordan, Near Eastern Archaeology 61 (1998), 4, 255.

FISCHER, P.M., Chocolate-on-White Ware: Typology, Chronology and Provenance. The Evidence from Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley, Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research 313 (1999), 1-29.

FISCHER, P.M., The Early Bronze Age at Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley: A Study of Pottery Typology and Provenance, Radiocarbon Dates, and Synchronism, Breaking with the Past: Ceramic and Changes in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant. Sheffield Academic Press, in press.

FISCHER, P.M., Egyptian-Transjordanian Interaction During Predynastic and Protodynastic Times: The Evidence from Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley, Egyptian-Canaanite Interaction: From the 4th through the Early 3rd Millennia B.C. Jerusalem in press.

FISCHER, P.M., The "Jebusite" Burial Place in Jerusalem: Chocolate-on-White Ware and Chronology, Jerusalem before Islam, Amman in press.

FISCHER, P.M., White Slip I and II from Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley: Pottery Synchronism and Datings. White Slip Ware. A Conference in Honor of Malcolm Wiener, Leventis Foundation, Nicosia in press.

FISCHER, P.M., A Synthesis of Ten Campaigns at Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley: The Early, Middle, Late Bronze and Iron Ages. Proceedings of the first ICAANE, Rome in press.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley, and Cyprus: A Study of Bronze Age Interactions. Proceeding of the Conference Cypriote Archaeology, Gothenburg 1999, Gothenburg in press.

FISCHER, P.M., Tell Abu al-Kharaz. The Swedish Jordan Expedition 1998. Ninth season preliminary excavation report, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 43, in press.

FISCHER, P.M. and TOIVONEN-SKAGE, E., Metallic Burnished Early Bronze Age Ware from Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 5 (1995), 587-96.

FISCHER, P.M. and KEEL, O., The Saham tomb: The scarabs. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 111:2 (1995), 26-32.

External links

• the Swedish Jordan Expedition 1989-1997 - SCIEM 2000 web site dediacted to the site, published by Peter M. Fischer