Two Seasons of Excavations at ʿAin el-Assad near Azraq, Eastern Jordan, 1980-1981

摘要: Large numbers of Acheulian artifacts were discovered at 'Ain el-Assad ("Lions' Spring") in the deserts eastern Jordan (figs. 1, 2) course digging a sump for accumulation spring water 1958 (Harding 1967: 155). A collection 1979 bifaces, flake tools, cores, and debitage from backdirt piles excavation revealed extraordinary character elAssad occupations, especially terms large relative frequency Late cleavers close similarity between tool component here those two Palestinian sites (Rollefson 1980). Based on abundance chipped stone backdirt, archaeological excavations carried out three months 1980 nine weeks 1981.1 Both seasons produced wealth stratified preceramic Neolithic implements additional reworked layers. Although bedrock was reached trenches