🇯🇴Jordan

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city

Dhra‘ (Wadi Dhra‘)

PPNA (c.9300–8600 BCE) · Sultaniyean PPNA

PPNA village (c.9300–8600 BCE) on the Lisan Peninsula at -200 m beside the Dead Sea, excavated by Bill Finlayson. Rectan...

🇯🇴 Jordan · Temple complex

Petra – Al-Khazneh & Ad-Deir Precincts

Nabataean 1st c BCE–1st c CE · Nabataean

Detailed precinct within Petra (already listed as city) – but as distinct temple elaboration: Al-Khazneh 40 m façade and Ad-Deir 50 m, both tombs-temples with Hellenistic façades.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works

Jawa South Dam & Reservoir System (Wadi Rajil South Extension)

EB I (Proto-urban Chalco–EB transition) · Jawa proto-urban Black Desert (Chalcolithic-EB)

South satellite of Jawa's 3300 BCE basalt dam system: 52-m curvilinear dam impounding 2,000 m³ on Wadi Rajil.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph

Wadi Al-Qattafi Central Gorge Slot Kites (Central Arm Narrows)

PPNB Late to PN (7000–5800 BCE) · Central Qattafi gorge bottleneck trappers

7 bidirectional central gorge kites 710 m in 3.2 km 25 m-deep narrows — 150 m walls plus deepest 1.6 m pits with 21 gazelle skeletons in situ.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph

Maitland East Ridge Chapel Kites (Eastern Jabal Maitland Sacred Ridge)

PPNB Late–PN (7100–6000 BCE) · Maitland Mesa chapel-associated trappers (SE Badia Late Neolithic)

8 Maitland triangular-pen kites 750 m with chapel 40 m from pen QEM-03 — quern butchery slab and infant burial chapel.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph

Maitland's Mesa Kite Enclosure (Maitland's Hillfort Mesa)

PPNB to Late Neolithic · Harrat pastoral foragers

Historic type-site where RAF pilot Maitland coined 'desert kite' (1927): 11 kites and cairn chain on basalt mesa.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Earthwork

Wadi al-Khub Mustatils

Late Neolithic, Eastern Badia Neolithic · Eastern Badia Late Neolithic hunters

7 mustatil enclosures (5500-5100 BCE) on Wadi al-Khub hammada, northernmost Levantine mustatil bridging Arabia to Jordan kite province.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph

Qasr Azraq North Kite Field (Azraq Oasis Northern Fringe)

PPNB to Pottery Neolithic (wetland phase) · Azraq wetland foragers

Oasis-edge kite group on the Azraq mudflat–hamada beach ridge: 12 low-angle V-traps for wetland fauna.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Rock art

Jebel Qurma Safaitic Rock Art — Black Desert

Hellenistic to Early Islamic (Safaitic literacy 100 BCE–400 CE) · Nomadic Safaitic pastoralists (North Arabian Old Arabic literate nomads)

Harra Black Desert 4500 Safaitic basalt camel–kite petroglyphs 200 BCE–800 CE, Leiden Jebel Qurma project.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph

Maitland South Cairn-Connector Kites (Southern Cairn Chain Kites)

PPNB Late to Late Neolithic (7000–5500 BCE) · South Maitland cairn-alignment community (Maitland Badia Late Neolithic)

9 linearly cairn-connected kites 715 m: 280–650 m walls linked by 2-m cairn chain every 45–80 m to Qasr Usaykhim.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph

Harrat Al-Sham West Edge Kites (Western Harra Scarp Line)

PPNB Late–PN (7500–6000 BCE) · Harra west scarp Harra limestone–basalt contact trappers

12 scarp-edge hybrid kites 820 m: 250–720 m split-material walls (basalt vs limestone) converging to brink chute with 8–12 m natural drop.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph

Wadi Rashid North Meander Kites (Northern Loop Meander Field)

PPNB Late–PN · Wadi Rashid meander peninsula trappers

1 peninsula meander kite 700 m: only 500 m artificial walls (220+280) closing 320° natural cliff loop peninsula with star pen 24 m.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Rock-cut

Ed-Deir, Petra

Nabataean kingdom

Ed-Deir (Arabic: الدير, lit. 'The Monastery'), also spelled el-Deir and ad-Deir/ad-Dayr, is a monumental building carved out of rock in the ancient city of Petra in southern Jordan.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works

Anabata (Anabeta) Reservoir Old City (Wadi Abu al-Qittayn Cistern City)

Hellenistic to Byzantine 250 BCE–450 CE · Hellenistic Balqa then Roman Decapolis chora

Walled twin cisterns 22×12×6 m 2,800 m³ with 420-m channel + 18 m dam closing gully — Hellenistic cistern-city 580×320 m.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village

Ain Ghazal Courtyard Shrine East Terrace — Northern Annex

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8500-6500 BCE) · PPN Culture

Ain Ghazal Courtyard Shrine East Terrace — Northern Annex in Amman Governorate, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8500-6500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village

Ba'ja Clifftop Cistern Terrace North — Southern Extension

Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) · PPN Culture

Ba'ja Clifftop Cistern Terrace North — Southern Extension in Petra region, Ma'an, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village

Ba'ja Clifftop Cistern Terrace North — Eastern Outlier

Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) · PPN Culture

Ba'ja Clifftop Cistern Terrace North — Eastern Outlier in Petra region, Ma'an, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village

Ba'ja Clifftop Cistern Terrace North — Western Terrace

Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) · PPN Culture

Ba'ja Clifftop Cistern Terrace North — Western Terrace in Petra region, Ma'an, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Rock art

Wadi Rum Petroglyphs and Thamudic Inscriptions

Neolithic to Islamic (Thamudic–Nabataean–Islamic) · Neolithic pastoralists, Thamudic tribes, Nabataean caravan masters, early Arabs

Wadi Rum desert cliffs with 25,000 petroglyphs and Thamudic texts, UNESCO landscape.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph

Wadi al-Hasa Desert Kites (Karak Plateau)

Neolithic (PPNB to Late Neolithic) · Southern Jordan Neolithic

Southernmost Jordanian kite field on the Karak limestone plateau (620 m, 31°03′N 35°45′E) above Wadi al-Hasa gorge (tributary of Mujib).

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city

Wadi Faynan Copper Smelting Site 15

Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age

Wadi Faynan Copper Smelting Site 15 in Tafilah, Faynan, Jordan is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village

ʿAin Ghazal

PPNB → PPNC → Yarmoukian · Levantine PPNB/Yarmoukian

Mega-village (7250–5000 BCE) covering 15 ha, one of the largest Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic sites in the Near East.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder

Khirbet edh-Dharih

Khirbet edh-Dharih (Arabic: خربة الذريح) is a multi-period archaeological site which mainly flourished during the Nabataean period, when a prosperous settlement with a religious sanctuary stood there.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph

Harrat al-Sham Kite Chain

Pre-Pottery Neolithic · PPN pastoralists

58-kite chain (8000–5500 BCE) along Harrat al-Sham — cross-border spine of kite province.