El-Hemmeh is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic archaeological site in Jordan. I have spent two field seasons excavating at el-Hemmeh and, back in the lab, analyzing objects of personal ornamentation. I wrote my master’s thesis at MIT on the production of stone beads at the site, which dates to around 10,000 years ago. It’s located in the Wadi el-Hasa, on the boarder between the Karak and Tafilah Governorates of Jordan, east of the southern tip of the Dead Sea. The wadi features a reservoir caused by the Tannur Dam, which can be seen in many of the photographs in this album.
