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Tawara International Summer School: Archaeology Practical Course and Dig Summer 2019

1. The document announces three archaeology courses running in August 2019 based in Amman, Jordan and focusing on Greco-Roman sites including Jerash. 2. The courses will involve visits to sites in Amman and Petra, and a residential stay in Jerash to join local archaeologists in excavating parts of the Roman city. 3. Participants will learn archaeological skills through hands-on excavation and will study different historical periods represented at Jerash from the Bronze Age through Islamic occupation.

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Tawara International Summer School: Archaeology Practical Course and Dig Summer 2019

1. The document announces three archaeology courses running in August 2019 based in Amman, Jordan and focusing on Greco-Roman sites including Jerash. 2. The courses will involve visits to sites in Amman and Petra, and a residential stay in Jerash to join local archaeologists in excavating parts of the Roman city. 3. Participants will learn archaeological skills through hands-on excavation and will study different historical periods represented at Jerash from the Bronze Age through Islamic occupation.

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Thursday, 06 August 2020 Om Ware, IN753, 0013

TAWARA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL


Archaeology practical course and dig summer 2019
Our new international course August 2019 (A1901) and the second on the twenty first

Tawara Summer Schools are well known for their of August (A1902). The last one starts in the last week of

quality summer courses which provide a wealth of August. They will be based in Amman in Jordan and will

varied, interesting studies across a hugge range of focus on Greco-Roman sites.

subjects. Until now all our courses have been based in Visits
our home town, but this year we are ventureing abroad There will be visits to the amphitheatre in Amman

with a new course. The subject will be practical and to the fascinating remains in Petra. There will also

archaeology and will be based near the site of a Roman be a detailed study of the city of Jerash, just to the north

city where there will be opportunities to practise the of Amman. The highlight of this part of the course will

skills of finding, recovering and recording of artefacts. be the opportunity to join local archaeologists in

Dates investigating new parts of the city. This will be a

There are three archaeology on-site courses residential part of the course with travel to, and

running this year. The first starts on the seventh of accommodation in, Jerash itself.

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Why Jerash? inhabitants such as Mamluks, Jewish and Muslim

settlements.

The city The destruction of the city


flourished through In 749, a powerful earthquake destroyed many

many periods of buildings; columns that collapsed along the main street

civilisation as a Greek, can still be seen in situ today. Gradually the city became

then Roman trading centre. Its history dates back much buried, and was almost forgotten, but in recent times,

further to the Bronze Age. The remains that have been more and more has been uncovered with much more

uncovered reveal many buildings and structures of the remaining to be excavated (some of it under present day

Roman city. Following occupation in the Byzantine Jerash).

period, it continued to flourish under Arabic rule. While What remains of the city?
it appears to have been deserted for several centuries There is much preserved of the Roman city

until records of its habitation reappear under the including the main street through the centre of the city.

Ottoman Empire, new research is finding evidence of This is bordered by impressive columns, some of which

are still standing. There is the forum flanked by

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colonnades, a triumphal arch dedicated to the emperor finds such as the reconstruction of a recently discovered

Hadrian, an amphitheatre and fountains. At the north end mosaic floor.

of the city is the hippodrome; a race course for horses Field trip studies options
Historical era On site Activities
and chariots. Much of the city is remarkably well
location
The Bronze Age Trench Signs of human
preserved.
activity
The Greek era The Greek style pottery
Purpose of the field courses. Hippodrome
Members of our two courses (which overlap) will Domestic Roman Mosaic Preservation and
life reconstruction
join together to take part in archaeological digs on the The Islamic town A mosque Reconstruction of an
ancient building
site. This operation will be led by a team of local Delegates can choose the option that is most

archaeologists and will teach practical skills of finding, relevant to their own studies.

identifying, recording and preserving artefacts found on

the site of the dig. Small teams will focus on different

aspects of the history of Jerash. There will be

opportunities to explore different ages of the occupation

of the town from Bronze Age relics to more “modern”

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