One tell to rule them all: surveying the multiperiod site of Zambut Meleik, northern Jordan

This paper describes the results of a recent, intensive survey of the multiperiod tell site of Zambut Meleik in northern Jordan. The site was discovered in the 1940s but has received little attention until now. The surface finds collected in the survey represent mainly Bronze and Iron Age cooking and storage vessels, but the monumental structures exposed in recent looter’s pits and the apparent centrality of the site in a wider network of tells suggest that it may have been more than just a rural settlement. Recent intensification in the looting of archaeological sites in Jordan puts this and other tells in the region at risk.Peer reviewe