The archaeological sequence begins with the Lapita pottery traditions (3000–2800 BP), progressing through various phases, including the Arapus, Erueti, Early Mangaasi, and Late Mangaasi ...

in no small part due to the establishment of a reliable and stratigraphically linked pottery sequence from excavations at sites such as Amman Citadel, Jerash, Pella and Aqaba. The 1990’s were ...

In 1932, Sir Max Mallowan, the eminent British archaeologist, dug a deep sounding which reached virgin soil ninety feet below the top of the mound of Nineveh; this gave a pottery sequence back to ...