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This volume is replete with richly detailed, meticulously presented data on an early third-millennium BC town in southern Jordan. Scholars of early urbanism in the Levant will find in this volume a highly valuable trove of information and ideas on architecture, the agricultural economy, daily life, and social organization. -Glenn M. Schwartz, Whiting Professor of Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University Chesson, Schaub, and Rast's Numayra is an exemplary publication of a classic excavation. It should serve as a reference point for any understanding of how people lived, worked, and flourished in the small fortified settlements of the Early Bronze Age Levant. -Raphael Greenberg, Tel Aviv University

Chesson, Schaub, and Rast's Numayra is an exemplary publication of a classic excavation. It should serve as a reference point for any understanding of how people lived, worked, and flourished in the small fortified settlements of the Early Bronze Age Levant. -Raphael Greenberg, Tel Aviv University This volume is replete with richly detailed, meticulously presented data on an early third-millennium BC town in southern Jordan. Scholars of early urbanism in the Levant will find in this volume a highly valuable trove of information and ideas on architecture, the agricultural economy, daily life, and social organization. -Glenn M. Schwartz, Whiting Professor of Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University

Chesson, Schaub, and Rast's Numayra is an exemplary publication of a classic excavation. It should serve as a reference point for any understanding of how people lived, worked, and flourished in the small fortified settlements of the Early Bronze Age Levant. -Raphael Greenberg, Tel Aviv University This volume is replete with richly detailed, meticulously presented data on an early third-millennium BC town in southern Jordan. Scholars of early urbanism in the Levant will find in this volume a highly valuable trove of information and ideas on architecture, the agricultural economy, daily life, and social organization. -Glenn M. Schwartz, Whiting Professor of Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University

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Meredith S. Chesson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. R. Thomas Schaub was codirector of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan. He retired as Professor Emeritus at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Walter E. Rast was codirector of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan. He retired as Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University.

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