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Established in 1968, the American Center of Oriental Research has worked together with the Department of Antiquities of Jordan to support North American archaeologists working in Jordan. Together with the American Schools of Oriental Research, it organized the Tenth International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan, which aimed to highlight the contributions of North American scholars to the archaeology of Jordan. Editors Levy (anthropology and Judaic studies, U. of California at San Diego, US), Daviau (Near Eastern archaeology, Wilfrid Laurier U., Canada), Younker (Old Testament and biblical archaeology, Andrews University, US) and Shaer (Department of Antiquities of Jordan) present 54 papers from the conference. Following discussions placing Jordan within the wider theoretical developments of the field and providing an overview of the history of North American archaeological research in Jordan, seven papers discuss methodological contributions, including the use of geographic information systems, high precision radiocarbon dating, geoarchaeology, paleoecology, and conservation and preservation initiatives. These are followed by nine deep-time studies together with presentation of research on the prehistoric era, the Bronze Age, early states and the Iron Age, the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Nabatean civilization and its Jordanian heartland, the Byzantine period, and Islamic civilization in Jordan. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)