Publications

Akkermans, P.M.M.G., August 2024: Jebel Qurma 2022-2023. In: Archaeology in Jordan 4.
Jordan Times, March 23, 2024: Weaponry Tales from Jebel Qurma: Decoding figurative art, tombs’ preservation.
Jordan Times, May 23, 2022: Archaeological explorations in Eastern Badia reveal ancient caravan routes.
Della Puppa, C. (2022): The Safaitic scripts: paleography of an ancient nomadic writing culture The Safaitic scripts: paleography of an ancient nomadic writing culture.
Jordan Times, August 29, 2021: New book offers insight into archaeological discoveries in Jordan’s desert region.
Brusgaard, N.Ø. and Akkermans, K.A. (2021), Hunting and Havoc: Narrative Scenes in the Black Desert Rock Art of Jebel Qurma, Jordan. In: Making Scenes: Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art. New York/Oxford, Berghahn Books.
Boschloos, V. and Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (2021), From a Land Far Away: Egyptian(izing) Amulets from Jebel Qurma, Black Desert, Jordan. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, vol. 29, 1-22
Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (Ed.) (2020), Landscapes of Survival – The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan’s North-Eastern Desert and Beyond, Leiden, Sidestone Press.
Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (2020), Jebel Qurma Archaeological Landscape project 2018-2019. In: Archaeology in Jordan 2.
Akkermans P.M.M.G. & Brüning M.L. (2020), East of Azraq: Settlement, Burial and Chronology from the Chalcolithic to the Bronze Age and Iron Age in the Jebel Qurma Region, Black Desert, North-East Jordan. In: Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (Ed.) Landscapes of Survival – The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan’s North-Eastern Desert and Beyond. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 185-216.
Akkermans K.A.N. (2020): Bows on Basalt Boulders: Weaponry in Safaitic rock art from Jebel Qurma, Black Desert, Jordan. In: Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (Ed.) Landscapes of Survival – The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan’s North-Eastern Desert and Beyond. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Berghuijs, K. (2020): ‘Your own mark for all time’: on wusūm marking practices in the Near East (c. 1800-1960 AD). In: Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (Ed.) Landscapes of Survival – The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan’s North-Eastern Desert and Beyond. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Brüning, M.L. & Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (2020): Een onherbergzaam landschap met een rijk verleden: graftombes in de Zwarte Woestijn, In: Phoenix 66.1: 6-21
Brusgaard, N.O. (2020): Depicting the camel: representations of the dromedary in the Black Desert rock art of Jordan. In: Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (Ed.) Landscapes of Survival – The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan’s North-Eastern Desert and Beyond. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Huigens, H.O. (2020): Identifying nomadic camp sites from the Classical and Late Antique periods in the Jebel Qurma region, north-eastern Jordan. In: Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (Ed.) Landscapes of Survival – The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan’s North-Eastern Desert and Beyond. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Akkermans P.M.M.G. & Brüning M.L. (2020), A Late Roman Pastoralist Ironworking Site in the North-Eastern Black Desert, Jordan. In: Ahrens A., Rokitta-Krumnow D., Bloch F., Bührig C. (Eds.) Drawing the Threads Together: Studies on Archaeology in Honour of Karin Bartl. Münster: Zaphon Verlag. 209-226.
Akkermans P.M.M.G., Brüning M.L., Arntz M., Inskip S.A. & Akkermans K.A.N. (2020), Desert Tombs: Recent Research into the Bronze Age and Iron Age Cairn Burials of Jebel Qurma, North-East Jordan, Proceedings of the seminar for Arabian Studies 50: 1-17.
Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (2019): Living on the Edge or Forced into the Margins? Hunter-Herders in Jordan’s North-Eastern Badlands in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies 7(4): 412-431
Akkermans, P.M.M.G. and Huigens, H.O. (2019): Long-Term Settlement Trends in Jordan’s Northeastern Badia:The Jabal Qurma Archaeological Landscape Project. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 59:503-515
Brusgaard, N.O. (2019): Carving Interactions: Rock art in the nomadic landscape of the Black Desert, north-eastern Jordan. Archaeopress, 2019
Huigens, H.O. (2019): Mobile Peoples – Permanent Places: Nomadic Landscapes and Stone Architecture from the Hellenistic to Early Islamic Periods in North-Eastern Jordan. Oxford: Archaeopress 2019
Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (2018): Jabal Qurma 2016 & 2017 Seasons. In: Archaeology in Jordan Newsletter – 2016 and 2017 Seasons. Edited by John D.M. Green, Barbara A. Porter, and China P. Shelton. ACOR/The American Center of Oriental Research, Amman, 2018, pp. 3-4.
Berghuijs, K. (2018). Reizen in Arabia Deserta: Europeanen en de Archeologie van de Zwarte Woestijn. Phoenix 64.3
Huigens, H.O. (2018). The identification of pathways on harra surfaces in north-eastern Jordan and their relation to ancient human mobility. Journal of Arid Environments.
Akkermans, P.M.M.G. & M.L. Brüning (2017): Nothing but Cold Ashes? The Cairn Burials of Jebel Qurma, Northeastern Jordan. Near Eastern Archaeology 80(2): 132-139.
Della Puppa, C. (2016): Notes on ḥwb in Safaitic. In: Nehmé, L., Al-Jallad, A. (Eds.) To the Madbar and Back Again: Studies in the languages, archaeology, and cultures of Arabia dedicated to Michael C.A. Macdonald. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics no. 92 Leiden: Brill. 69-80.
Bartl, K. & P.M.M.G. Akkermans (2016): Khirbat al-ʿUmari: The Rediscovery of an Early Islamic Site South of Azraq. Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 9: 200-221.
Newspaper article on the Landscapes of Survival project (Mare, 8 December 2016)
Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (2016): Jabal Qurma Archaeological Landscape Project. American Journal of Archaeology 120(4): 633-634.
Al-Jallad, A.M. (2016): New evidence from a Safaitic inscription for a late velar/uvular realization of *ṣ́ in Aramaic. Semitica 58: 257-270.
Interview (2016) with team member Nathalie Brusgaard on her research: Bringing a Forgotten Society Back to Life, in: Perspectives on the past, Research at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.
Brusgaard, N.Ø. (2015): Pastoralist rock art in the Black Desert of Jordan. XIX International Rock Art Conference IFRAO 2015. Arkeos 37: 761-767.
Huigens, H.O. (2015): Preliminary Report on a Survey in the Hazimah Plains: a Hamad Landscape in North-Eastern Jordan. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 174 (3): 180-194.
Huigens, H.O. (2015): Ways of life and death in a pastoralist landscape: an archaeology of nomadism in Jordan?’s Black Desert between Hellenistic and Early Islamic times. Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 53: 54.
Akkermans, P.M.M.G., H.O. Huigens, M.L. Bruning (2014): A Landscape of Preservation: Late Prehistoric Settlement and Sequence in the Jebel Qurma Region, North-Eastern Jordan. Levant 46 (2): 186-205.
Akkermans, P.M.M.G. (2014): Jabal Qurma Archaeological Landscape Project. American Journal of Archaeology 118 (4): 628-630.
Akkermans, P.M.M.G., H.O. Huigens(2014): De Archeologie van de Zwarte Woestijn: Jebel Qurma in Noordoost-Jordanië O.E. Kaper en J.G. Dercksen (red.), Waar de geschiedenis begon: 277-286.

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The Jebel Qurma Archaeological Landscape Project