What thousands of hidden structures reveal about Jordan's harsh Black Desert landscape
In short: Yorke Rowan explores the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project's findings in Jordan's basalt-strewn Black Desert. This talk examines how ancient tombs, hunting traps, and stone houses suggest the region was once vastly different from the arid environment observed today.
The Black Desert, a remote region in Jordan's eastern panhandle, was historically overlooked by archaeological research, with only limited investigations conducted by Betts and Helms during the 1970s and 1980s. Since 2008, the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project has uncovered thousands of previously undocumented structures across the landscape.
These discoveries include complex chains of hunting traps known as kites, alongside petroglyphs, tombs, and well-constructed houses. The presence of these features indicates that the environment, now characterized by a lack of water and harsh basalt terrain, supported a much more active human presence in the past.
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