HLC Project 2018 : Jagiellonian University excavations in southern Jordan

A complex picture of the prehistory in southern Jordanian emerges from the excavations of the Jagiellonian University team, which carried out in 2018 its second season of excavation at the sites of Munqata’a and Faysaliyya, even as analyses of the previous season’s nds were underway. Human communities living here between the Neolithic and early Bronze Age practiced both sedentary and mobile lifestyles. The changing landscape around them, caused by natural erosion processes and periodical climate changes, is also factored into the interpretation of the explored relics