Historical place profile

Jawa (Dair El-Kahf)

A proto-urban center in Jordan's Black Desert (Dair El-Kahf subdistrict) dating from the late fourth millennium B.C. This place should not be confused with Tall Jawa in central Jordan.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:546227067
Catalogue ID
pleiades:546227067
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
32.335780, 37.003862
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

A proto-urban center in Jordan's Black Desert (Dair El-Kahf subdistrict) dating from the late fourth millennium B.C. This place should not be confused with Tall Jawa in central Jordan.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Pleiades

Source and reuse

This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.

Research path

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