Tracing Connections: Pottery Typologies from Northern Jordan

This chapter focuses on the ceramic material recovered from the 2022 TYRAS survey. The aim is to consider the significance of survey data for capturing changes in settlement patterns across wider regions and identifying long term patterns of change. In this chapter, we discuss specific diagnostic examples from all sites with collected pottery, highlighting points of continuity and change in the recovered material. Similarities in ceramic form and ware are highlighted with material from the surrounding region – where possible – integrating a discussion of change and complexity in production and use beyond our surveyed area. The collected material shows continuity from the Early Bronze Age to the Roman period, with marked periods of abandonment and decline during the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze Age with reoccupation in the Iron Age. The presence of Early Bronze Age ceramics at all sites comes as a surprise, underlining the connection between early sites and later, fortified Iron Age tells.