Konstantinos D. Politis is an archaeologist educated in Greece, the United States, Britain and Belgium. He is well-versed on the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean region from prehistory through to the medieval periods and focuses on Late Antiquity.

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• Part I Introduction; 1. Location, topography and climate Konstantinos D. Politis; 2. Geology, geomorphology and landscape history R. Neil Munro; 3. Historical background Konstantinos D. Politis; 4. History of research Konstantinos D. Politis; 5. Surveys and excavation strategies Konstantinos D. Politis; Part II The Pre-PotteryNeolithic periods; 6. Introduction and discoveries Konstantinos D. Politis; 7. Wadi Sharara excavations, 2011 Adamantios Sampson; 8. Wadi Hamrash excavations, 2009–2011 Adamantios Sampson; Part III The Bronze Age periods; 9. The Early and Middle Bronze Ages Konstantinos D. Politis; 10. Observations on the Early Bronze Age cemetery at An-Naq‘ Eliot Braun; Part IV The Iron Age II period; 11. The discovery of Tuleilat Qasr Mousa Hamid Konstantinos D. Politis; 12. Excavations at Tuleilat Qasr Mousa Hamid, 2000 Konstantinos D. Politis and Georgios A. Papaioannou; 13. Excavations at Tuleilat Qasr Mousa Hamid, 2015 Josephine A. Verduci; Part V; The Late Hellenistic and Nabataean period; 14. Introduction and regional survey Konstantinos D. Politis; 15. Umm Tawabin excavations, 2017 and 2018 Alexandra Ariotti; Part VI The Early Byzantine period; 16. Archaeology and architecture Konstantinos D. Politis; 17. The Wadi al-Hasa hermitage Konstantinos D. Politis and Georgios A. Papaioannou; Part VII The Abbasid and Ayyubid-Mamluk periods; 18. Archaeology and architecture Konstantinos D. Politis; Part VIII The Ottoman period to modern times; 19. The Ottoman Ghor as-Safi Konstantinos D. Politis; 20. Ghor as-Safi and the Arab Revolt Penny Edwell; 21. From the British Mandate to the Hashemite Kingdom Konstantinos D. Politis; Part IX Conclusion; 22. Conservation, heritage management and tourism development Konstantinos D. Politis