Shkarat Msaied: The 2005 Season of Excavations.: A Short Preliminary Report

In 2005, two short campaigns were undertaken at the Neolithic site of Shkarat Msaied, Southern Jordan (Fig. 1), under the direction of Charlott Hoffmann Jensen (spring), Ingolf Thuesen (fall) and Bo Dahl Hermansen (spring and fall) and with Talal al-Amarin as representative of the Department of Antiquities. This year's efforts turned out to be fruitful, especially in four areas of research