Using Google Earth to identify site looting in Jordan: Chart and Tabular data

 

Dan Contreras and Neil Brodie

Chart data

Chart of looted areas in Jordan recorded

Tabular Data

Site Period Area looted (m2) Date of Imagery References
Azziya Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine 6747 2004 (Glueck 1951)
Bab edh-Dhra Early Bronze Age 74377 2007 (Fröhlich and Ortner 1982; Lapp 1966, 1968; McCreery 1996; Politis 1998a, 1999; Rast & Schaub 1974, 1979; Rast, Schaub et al. 1980; Schaub 1993; Schaub & Rast 1984, 1989)
Da’janiya Survey 2001 Site 6 Early Roman/Nabatean, Late Roman, Early Byzantine 2393 2004 (Rucker 2007)
Da’janiya Survey 2001 Site 9 Late Roman, Early Byzantine 4935 2004 (Rucker 2007)
Dharih Late Roman/Nabatean/Early Christian 2522 2005 (Lenoble, Al-Muheisen et al. 2001; MacDonald 1988)
Fayfa Early Bronze Age 62170 2004 (MacDonald 1992; MacDonald, Clark et al. 1987; Rast & Schaub 1974)
Feinan Roman/Byzantine 6934 2004 (Barker, Gilbertson et al. 2007; Mattingly, Newson et al. 2007)
Feinan – South Cemetery Late Roman – Early Byzantine 9674 2004 (Barker, Gilbertson et al. 2007; Findlater, El-Najjar et al. 1998; Mattingly, Newson et al. 2007)
Fukhar multi-period 7851 2004 (de Vries 1992)
Heri “Moabite” 1419 2003 (Kennedy & Bewley 2004)
Iktanu Early Bronze Age 2661 2006 (Kennedy & Bewley 2004)
Khirbet al Qurna 3642 2003
Numeira

Early Bronze Age 13163 2004 (Rast & Schaub 1974)
Qazone Nabatean 80469 2007 (Politis 1998a, 1999)
Quweilbeh Late Roman 6689 2005 (Bisheh 2001; Kennedy & Bewley 2004)
Safi Early Bronze Age 194735 2004 (Jones, Tompsett et al. 2000; MacDonald 1992; Papadopoulos, Kontorli-Papadopoulou et al. 2001; Politis 1994, 1998b, 2002; Politis, Kelly et al. 2005; Politis, O’Hea et al. 2007; Rast & Schaub 1974; Waheeb 1995)
SGNAS Site 014 Chalcolithic/ Early Bronze Age 4337 2004 (MacDonald 1992)
Tell Ramith 2004
Umm el Abar esh Sherquiye 2004
WHS 272 Nabatean 812 2005 (MacDonald 1988)
Yasileh Late Roman–Byzantine 10672 2004 (Al-Muheisen 1991; Rose & Burke 2004)
Zizia 19149 2004
Total looted area:

Results of the Jordan study can also be found in the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Introduction

Methodology

Jordan

Images: Jordan

Peru

Images: Peru

Bibliography