Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Presented by Yorke Rowan, Senior Research Associate Professor in Archaeology, Oriental Institute
"Petroglyphs and Kites in the Black Desert, Jordan: Connecting Art and Landscape"
**This is an at home lecture, please excuse the audio and video quality.
The eastern panhandle of Jordan includes the Black Desert, a harsh basalt-strewn region with a single asphalt road and few water sources. Few archaeological research projects operated in the region with the exception of pioneering investigations by Betts and Helms in the 1970s and 1980s. With the initiation of the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project in 2008, Rowan and his team began to recognize that thousands of structures, previously unknown, undated, and of unknown function, clustered the landscape. In this lecture, Yorke Rowan discusses techniques used to map and identify petroglyphs and kites, animal hunting traps, in this isolated region of Jordan.
To learn more about the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project, click this link:
https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/proj...
Our lectures are free and available to the public thanks to the generous support of our members. To become a member, please visit: bit.ly/2AWGgF7
2020, Oriental Institute
Photo credits: Chad Hill
Music credit: bensound.com
Presented by Yorke Rowan, Senior Research Associate Professor in Archaeology, Oriental Institute
"Petroglyphs and Kites in the Black Desert, Jordan: Connecting Art and Landscape"
**This is an at home lecture, please excuse the audio and video quality.
The eastern panhandle of Jordan includes the Black Desert, a harsh basalt-strewn region with a single asphalt road and few water sources. Few archaeological research projects operated in the region with the exception of pioneering investigations by Betts and Helms in the 1970s and 1980s. With the initiation of the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project in 2008, Rowan and his team began to recognize that thousands of structures, previously unknown, undated, and of unknown function, clustered the landscape. In this lecture, Yorke Rowan discusses techniques used to map and identify petroglyphs and kites, animal hunting traps, in this isolated region of Jordan.
To learn more about the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project, click this link:
https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/proj...
Our lectures are free and available to the public thanks to the generous support of our members. To become a member, please visit: bit.ly/2AWGgF7
2020, Oriental Institute
Photo credits: Chad Hill
Music credit: bensound.com
