Description: Humayma was the only significant settlement in the Hisma. Founded by a Nabataean king in the late first century B.C., the site flourished for 750 years as a Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic settlement. In 25 years of survey and excavation, the author has recovered unique architectural and artifactual remains of these cu
Brief description: John Peter Oleson is a Canadian classical archaeologist and historian of ancient technology. His main interests are the Roman Near East, maritime archaeology, and ancient technology, especially hydraulic technology, water-lifting devices, and Roman concrete construction. Currently, Oleson is Professor in the Deptartment of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria in Canada, at which he has taught since 1976.
Review Quotes: "This volume has been eagerly anticipated by scholars of antiquity in the southern Levant...[it] will have a broad interdisciplinary appeal for an audience that ranges from scholars of Near Eastern antiquity to modern geographers, environmental scientists, and hydraulic engineers." -- Tina M. Niemi, University of Missouri-Kansas City "This first volume of the Humayma Excavation Reports constitutes an important addition of high quality to the research of Nabataean cultural landscape outside Petra, covering important groundwork for future work on this subject in this region." -- Anne Lykke, Review of Biblical Literature, 05/2014