Land Use and Settlement: Land Use and Settlement Patterns Book

	Abbreviations
	List of Figures
	Preface
	Introduction, by G.R.D. King	1
1	Villages du Proche-Orient protobyzantin (4eme-7eme s.). Etude regionale	17
2	Settlements and Settlement Patterns in Northern and Central Transjordania, ca 550-ca 750	49
3	From Scythopolis to Baysan - Changing Concepts of Urbanism	95
4	Settlement Patterns, An Archaeological Perspective. Case Studies from Northern Palestine and Jordan	117
5	The Settlement Pattern of Southern Jordan: The Nature of the Evidence	133
6	The Misr of Ayla: Settlement at al-'Aqaba in the Early Islamic Period	155
7	Al-Fustat: The Riddle of the Earliest Settlement	171
8	Settlement in Western and Central Arabia and the Gulf in the Sixth-Eighth Centuries A.D.	181
9	Late Ancient and Early Mediaeval Yemen: Settlement Traditions and Innovations	213
10	Land Use and Settlement Patterns in Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Iraq	221
11	Archaeology and New Urban Settlement in Early Islamic Syria and Iraq	231
	Concluding Remarks	267
	Figures	271