Investigating Early Bronze Age Urbanism at Tall al-Handaquq South - by Dr. Hanna Erftenbeck

One of Jordan's largest known Early Bronze Age sites, Tall al-Handaquq South, features residential spaces that provide unparalleled insight into daily life and food practices at a time when people were aggregating into larger, fortified settlements and facing difficult decisions, including how to feed, organize, and house their rapidly growing communities. Dr. Erftenbeck drew together legacy data excavated in the 1990s with new data collected during the 2025 survey by the Zeighan Ancient Landscapes Project to offer novel preliminary interpretations about the site's organization, significant size, occupation history throughout the Early Bronze Age, and abandonment, thus expanding our understanding of the site and its regional setting.