Publications

Where possible, the following references link to both the final, published version and a self-archived version. Links to self-archived versions are updated as publisher embargoes expire. If you would like an offprint of an embargoed publication, please feel free to contact me directly via email.

Articles

Jones, Ian W. N. 2021. “The southern Levantine earthquake of 418/419 AD and the archaeology of Byzantine Petra.” Levant (published online 13 May 2021). DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2021.1916157.

Howland, Matthew D., Ian W. N. Jones, Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy. 2018. “Quantifying the Effects of Erosion on Archaeological Sites with Low-Altitude Aerial Photography, Structure from Motion, and GIS: A Case Study from Southern Jordan.” Journal of Archaeological Science 90: 62-70. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2017.12.008.

Jones, Ian W. N., Erez Ben-Yosef, Brita Lorentzen, Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy. 2017. “Khirbat al-Mana‘iyya: an early Islamic-period copper-smelting site in south-eastern Wadi ‘Araba, Jordan.” Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 28(2): 297-314. DOI: 10.1111/aae.12096.

Jones, Ian W. N. 2017. “Fuel Provisioning for the Copper Industry in Islamic Period Southern Jordan.” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 149(1): 87-90. DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2016.1208963.

Jones, Ian W. N., Thomas E. Levy, and Mohammad Najjar. 2012. “Khirbat Nuqayb al-Asaymir and Middle Islamic Metallurgy in Faynan: Surveys of Wadi al-Ghuwayb and Wadi al-Jariya in Faynan, Southern Jordan.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 368: 67-102. DOI: 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.368.0067.

Levy, Thomas E., Mohammad Najjar, Aaron D. Gidding, Ian W. N. Jones, Kyle A. Knabb, Kathleen Bennallack, Matthew Vincent, Alex Novo Lamosco, Ashley M. Richter, Craig Smitheram, Lauren D. Hahn, and Sowparnika Balaswaminathan. 2012. “The 2011 Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project (ELRAP): Excavations and Surveys in the Faynan Copper Ore District, Jordan.” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 56: 423-445.

Savage, Stephen H., Thomas E. Levy, and Ian W. Jones. 2012. “Prospects and problems in the use of hyperspectral imagery for archaeological remote sensing: a case study from the Faynan copper mining district, Jordan.” Journal of Archaeological Science 39(2): 407-420. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.09.028.

Edited Books

Ben-Yosef, Erez, and Ian W. N. Jones, eds. In press. “And in length of days understanding” (Job 12:12): Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. (Forthcoming, August 2023.)

Levy, Thomas E., and Ian W. N. Jones, eds. 2018. Cyber-Archaeology and Grand Narratives: Digital Technology and Deep-Time Perspectives on Culture Change in the Middle East. One World Archaeology. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65693-9.

Book Chapters

Jones, Ian W. N. In press. “Fragments of an Archaeology of Late Roman Religion at Phaino (Khirbat Faynan, Southern Jordan).” In “And in length of days understanding” (Job 12:12): Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy. Erez Ben-Yosef and Ian W. N. Jones, eds. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. (Forthcoming, August 2023.)

Jones, Ian W. N., Kathleen C. Bennallack, Aaron Gidding, Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy. 2022. “Islamic Faynan: The Settlement History of a Mining Region in Southern Jordan between the 7th and 19th Centuries AD.” In Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan XIV: Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts, and Ideas. Fadi Balaawi and Pearce Paul Creasman, eds. Pp. 653-667. Amman: Department of Antiquities of Jordan.

Jones, Ian W. N. 2018. “Rural Communities and Labor in the Middle Islamic Period Southern Levant.” In The Social Archaeology of the Levant: From Prehistory to the Present. Assaf Yasur-Landau, Yorke M. Rowan, and Eric H. Cline, eds. Pp. 478-491. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781316661468.027.

Jones, Ian W. N., Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy. 2018. “The Arabah Copper Industry in the Islamic Period: Views from Faynan and Timna.” In Mining for Ancient Copper: Essays in Memory of Prof. Beno Rothenberg. Erez Ben-Yosef, ed. Pp. 332-342. Tel Aviv University Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series, Vol. 37. Winona Lake, IN and Tel Aviv: Eisenbrauns and Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology.

Jones, Ian W. N., and Thomas E. Levy. 2018. “Cyber-Archaeology and Grand Narratives: Where Do We Currently Stand?” In Cyber-Archaeology and Grand Narratives: Digital Technology and Deep-Time Perspectives on Culture Change in the Middle East. Thomas E. Levy and Ian W. N. Jones, eds. One World Archaeology. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65693-9_1.

Jones, Ian W. N. 2016. “Beyond Iron Age Landscapes: Copper Mining and Smelting in Faynan in the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries CE.” In Landscapes of the Islamic World: Archaeology, History, and Ethnography. Stephen McPhillips and Paul D. Wordsworth, eds. Pp. 111-128. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (JSTOR link to book.)

Jones, Ian W. N., Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy. 2014. “‘Not Found in the Order of History’: Toward a ‘Medieval’ Archaeology of Southern Jordan.” In From West to East: Current Approaches to Medieval Archaeology. Scott D. Stull, ed. Pp. 171-196. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

Knabb, Kyle A., Ian W. N. Jones, Thomas E. Levy, and Mohammad Najjar. 2014. “Patterns of Iron Age Mining and Iron Age Settlement in Jordan’s Faynan District – The Wadi al-Jariya Survey in Context.” In New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan: Surveys, Excavations and Research from the Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project (ELRAP), Volume 2. Thomas E. Levy, Mohammad Najjar, and Erez Ben-Yosef, eds. Pp. 577-625. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

Levy, Thomas E., Mohammad Najjar, Thomas Higham, Yoav Arbel, Adolfo Muniz, Erez Ben-Yosef, Neil G. Smith, Marc Beherec, Aaron Gidding, Ian W. N. Jones, Daniel Frese, Craig Smitheram, and Mark Robinson. 2014. “Excavations at Khirbat en-Nahas 2002–2009: Unearthing an Iron Age Copper Production Center in the Lowlands of Edom (Southern Jordan).” In New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan: Surveys, Excavations and Research from the Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project (ELRAP), Volume 1. Thomas E. Levy, Mohammad Najjar, and Erez Ben-Yosef, eds. Pp. 89-245. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

Savage, Stephen H., Thomas E. Levy, and Ian W. Jones. 2013. “Archaeological Remote Sensing in Jordan’s Faynan Copper Mining District with Hyperspectral Imagery.” In Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space. Douglas C. Comer and Michael J. Harrower, eds. Pp. 97-110. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology. New York: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6074-9_9.

Book Reviews

Jones, Ian W. N. 2022. “Review of Khirbat Faris: Rural Settlement, Continuity and Change in Southern Jordan. The Nabatean to Modern Periods (1st century BC – 20th century AD): Volume 1: Stratigraphy, Finds and Architecture by Alison McQuitty, Holly Parton, and Andrew Petersen and Ancient Landscapes of Zoara I: Surveys and Excavations at the Ghor as-Safi in Jordan, 1997–2018 by Konstantinos D. Politis.” Journal of Islamic Archaeology 9(1): 123-134

Jones, Ian W. N. 2019. “Review of Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961–1967, Volume VI: Sites on the Edge of the Ophel by Kay Prag.” Bibliotheca Orientalis 76(3/4): 388-394.