Excavations at the early Bronze Age I-II settlement at Umm Saisaban Near Petra

الملخص EN

Since 2011 university of Kiel (germany) has been conducting excavations under the directorship of Ulrich Hubner at the early bronze age site umm Saisaban in the Petra area in cooperation with the natural history society of Nuremberg.

it seems likely that the remote place was chosen for defensive purpose, and numerous store jars in houses and buildings suggest that the main purpose of the site was storing goods from agriculture and pastoralism.

since the storage was empty, it seems the place was orderly deserted.

probably umm Saisaban was destroyed after it had been evacuated.