In this major work Professor MacDonald chronicles an intensive and systematic archaeological survey of the southern flank of the Wadi el Hasa in West - Central Jordan. The survey resulted in the recovery of human evidence spanning the Lower Paleolithic to the Ottoman period (500,000 B.C. - A.D. 1918). The area is cut by a number of impressive and deep, south - to - north flowing wadis. As a region marginal for farming but stable for grazing, it would...