Using Google Earth to identify site looting in Jordan: Images

Dan Contreras and Neil Brodie

The following are images of the 23 sites in Jordan that were identified in the study of looted sites using Google Earth carried out by Dan Contreras and Neil Brodie. On this page you will also find tabulated data of the sites and a Bibliography for the research. You can also view the related Chart and Tabular data. Results of the Jordan study can also be found in the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Azziya

Period: Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine

Looted area (m2): 6747

Date of imagery: 2004

References: Glueck 1951

Photos (June 2009):

   

Bab edh-Dhra

Period: Early Bronze Age

Looted area (m2): 74377

Date of imagery: 2007

References: 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

Photos (June 2009):

   

Da’ajaniya 9

Period: Late Roman, Early Byzantine

Looted area (m2): 4935

Date of imagery: 2004

References: Rucker 2007

Photos (June 2009):

   

Dharih

Period: Late Roman/Nabatean/Early Christian

Looted area (m2): 2522

Date of imagery: 2005

References: Lenoble, Al-Muheisen, et al. 2001; MacDonald 1988

Photos (June 2009):

    

 

Fayfa

Period: Early Bronze Age

Looted area (m2): 62170

Date of imagery: 2004

References: MacDonald 1992; MacDonald, Clark et al. 1987; Rast & Schaub 1974

Photos (June 2009):

  

Feinan

Period: Roman/Byzantine

Looted area (m2): 6934

Date of imagery: 2004

References: Barker, Gilbertson et al. 2007; Mattingly, Newson et al. 2007

Photos (June 2009):

    

 

Feinan – South Cemetery

Period: Late Roman – Early Byzantine

Looted area (m2): 9674

Date of imagery: 2004

References: Barker, Gilbertson et al. 2007; Findlater, El-Najjar et al. 1998; Mattingly, Newson et al. 2007

Photos (June 2009):

     

 

Qazone

Period: Nabatean

Looted area (m2): 80469

Date of imagery: 2007

References: Politis 1998a, 1999

Photos (June 2009):

  

 

Safi

Period: Early Bronze Age

Looted area (m2): 194735

Date of imagery: 2004

References: 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

Photos (June 2009):

  

 

Yasileh

Period: Late Roman–Byzantine

Looted area (m2): 10672

Date of imagery: 2004

References: Al-Muheisen 1991; Rose & Burke 2004

Photos (June 2009):

   

 

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Introduction

Methodology

Jordan

Chart and Tabular data: Jordan

Peru

Images: Peru

Bibliography