Azraq Basin News Today

Global group seeks sustainable water solutions to improve human health

Jordan ranks second among countries with the lowest access to water and is expected to reach water insecurity by 2030.

<p>UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science is leading an international consortium called the Global Center on Climate Change, Water, Energy, Food, and Health Systems to address the impacts of climate change in the climate-vulnerable communities in Jordan.</p>

In the Azraq Basin of eastern Jordan, dramatic landscape changes from wetlands to desert resulted in major shifts in settlement and land use over time. Palaeoenvironmental research here suggests that, like today, water availability was a crucial factor for past populations. Recent work at Kharaneh IV (19.8-18.6 kya) indicates settlement of this aggregation site around the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; 26.5-19 kya) and abandonment by the start of a second drying period, Heinrich Stadial 1...

The Azraq oasis in the Eastern Desert of Jordan has produced considerable stone artefacts attributed to the early Palaeolithic, yet relatively few data are available regarding the chronology and palaeoenvironmental contexts of the remains. In this study, we present stratigraphic, sedimentological, and micropalaeontological analyses of the Late Acheulean site SM1 located within the former Shishan Marsh, which we combine with geochronological and sedimentological data from 13 neighbouring geologic...

AMMAN — Scholars predominantly began exploring Jordan’s prehistory in the mid-1970s, according to a Jordanian archaeologist.“The archaeological excavations at the Natufian/Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of Beidha were the only systematic and intensive work at a Jordanian prehistoric site before the 1970s,” said Professor Emeritus Zeidan Kafafi.He said that the turning point was