"McGovern is to be commended for the writing and editing of a near-perfect archaeological report of a group of burial caves in the Baq'ah Valley near Amman. It is comprehensive and far-ranging, thoroughly research and up-to-date, well designed and coherently written... A monumental research report, which can in many ways serve as an model for archaeological reporting ... deserves to be in every archaeological and anthropological library."-Journal of the American Oriental Society "McGovern turns the results of a relatively modest excavation into a monumental research report, which can in many ways serve as a model for archaeological reporting ... deserves to be in every archaeological and anthropological library."-Journal of the American Oriental Society

"McGovern is to be commended for the writing and editing of a near-perfect archaeological report of a group of burial caves in the Baq'ah Valley near Amman. It is comprehensive and far-ranging, thoroughly research and up-to-date, well designed and coherently written... A monumental research report, which can in many ways serve as an model for archaeological reporting ... deserves to be in every archaeological and anthropological library."-Journal of the American Oriental Society "McGovern turns the results of a relatively modest excavation into a monumental research report, which can in many ways serve as a model for archaeological reporting ... deserves to be in every archaeological and anthropological library."-Journal of the American Oriental Society

"McGovern is to be commended for the writing and editing of a near-perfect archaeological report of a group of burial caves in the Baq'ah Valley near Amman. It is comprehensive and far-ranging, thoroughly research and up-to-date, well designed and coherently written... A monumental research report, which can in many ways serve as an model for archaeological reporting ... deserves to be in every archaeological and anthropological library."-Journal of the American Oriental Society "McGovern turns the results of a relatively modest excavation into a monumental research report, which can in many ways serve as a model for archaeological reporting ... deserves to be in every archaeological and anthropological library."-Journal of the American Oriental Society