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Beautiful weather as we get started. #KitesinContext2023

Followed by slightly less nice weather. #KiC2023 #Fieldwork #Jordan

Lots of rain means rapids running in the wadi. Photo by Blair Heidkamp

Sadly, lots of rain also meant flooding in camp and a quick move to higher ground! #KiC2023 #Fieldwork #Jordan

So much water. #KiC2023 #Jordan #Fieldwork

The flooding has gone down, but the routes into and out of our camp remain impassable! (At least for our trucks, a friend has been able to get in, to check on us, with a better truck). #KiC2023 #Fieldworkproblems

More than a week after the unusual desert deluge the Qa is still filled with water and impassable. #Jordan #climatechange KitesinContext

Beginning the last week of the season with a well earned cheese plate before dinner. Our dig is very fancy. (Before/after) #KiC2023 #Fieldwork #Jordan

Leaving the desert KitesinContext

This season was only a success because of our intrepid and hardworking crew. #Fieldwork #Crew #Teamwork #KiC2023 #polaroid

The Kites in Context project, funded by the National Science Foundation and ASOR and staffed by friends of ACOR, had a busy season dealing with floods from unseasonable rains. The project is documented on their twitter account (x.com/KitesinContext). (1/)

Thanks for the shout out! Here's an image of 2 kites. jeroline UPenn Anthropology Yorke Rowan Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures U.S. National Science Foundation

After Burning Man, the Kites in Context (ISAC/UPenn) archaeological team are experiencing deja vu from their own unexpected, unusual desert floods while in the field this summer in the Black Desert of eastern Jordan.

KiC project field director Blair Heidkamp giving an excellent paper on her work with prehistoric spindle whirls for the prehistory session at ASOR #ASOR2023

Check out the new Photo Essay in Journal of Field Archaeology about our experiences with extreme weather in 2023: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… With: jeroline Yorke Rowan Morag M. Kersel Blair Heidkamp

Excellent editorial by C. Luke about the new initiative by Journal of Field Archaeology to include photo essays in an effort to “support our authors in their effort to convey the rich diversity of what happens in a place at a specific time”.

We’re excited that the new ISAC Museum special exhibition “Pioneers of the Sky: Aerial Archaeology and the Black Desert” is opening this Thursday, April 25! The exhibition will include a video that introduces museum visitors to the stunning landscape of the Black Desert of Jordan

We are very excited about this new exhibit at Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures which features several contributions from the Kites in Context project, Yorke Rowan, and jeroline, including this overhead drone video of the project in action!

‘Kites in Context’ project in the Black Desert: Focusing on Ancient Jordanian desert kites shar.es/agt3eE via The Jordan Times KitesinContext #traps #Neolithic