Dr Rebecca Repper is a research associate working with archaeological and cultural heritage collections at the University of Western Australia. She has previously worked with the Aerial Archaeology in Jordan project, the Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East, Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa, and Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia projects.Dr Mike Bishop is a freelance writer, publisher, and archaeologist, and has worked in legacy post-excavation, commercial field archaeology, archaeological publishing and research. He is a specialist in the Roman army, and founding editor of the Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies.Dr Robert Bewley is a prehistorian, an aerial archaeologist, and former Director of the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project (2015–2020) University of Oxford. He is Director of the Aerial Archaeology project in Jordan and the Aerial Archaeology in Oman project, and manages the Aerial Photographic Archive of Archaeology in the Middle East.

• List of figuresList of platesList of tablesForeword by HRH Prince El Hassan bin TalalChapter 1. Introduction: Reframing the “Desert Frontier”Part 1: Revisiting the Roman recordChapter 2. The identity of Roman Isauria: An archaeological approach by Hugh EltonChapter 3. Freedmen in Roman Hegra by Zbigniew T. FiemaChapter 4. Every cloud has a silver lining: Revisiting the “military” coin hoards from Dura by Peter EdwellChapter 5. Unmasking Roman Pella by Margaret O’HeaChapter 6. Brünnow and Domaszewski’s Die Provincia Arabia (1904–1909): The why and the how by Phil Freeman, with a contribution, “Looking for Marguerite Brünnow”, by Naomi Aliza RubinsteinPart 2: Reframing the recordChapter 7. An early archaeological landscape map of the Azraq lava fields by Michael FradleyChapter 8. Origins, legacy and recent developments in aerial archaeology in the Middle East by Robert BewleyChapter 9. Looking back to Kennedy and Riley’s Rome’s Desert Frontier from the Air (1990) by Ross BurnsChapter 10. Gottlieb Schumacher and Pella by Stephen Bourke and Sandra GordonChapter 11. From survey to further research: Several sites of the Roman (Nabataean) period in southern Jordan by Burton MacDonaldChapter 12. Early visitors to the site of Ḥumayma: Their contributions to our understanding of the region and its people by John Peter OlesonPart 3: Hinterland studiesChapter 13. Changes in settlement patterns in the territory of Gerasa (Jarash): A synthesis by David (Don) BoyerChapter 14. Vignettes of sprawling townships of Roman Gerasa revealed by pottery clusters from the periphery of the walled city by Ina Kehrberg-OstraszChapter 15. Private estates or private villages? Land tenure in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Jordan by Basema HamarnehChapter 16. The archaeology of the Safa region, southern Syria by Karin BartlChapter 17. Al-Bādiyah landscapes in fifth- to tenth-century Jordan: A barometer of change by Alan WalmsleyPart 4: Sky, sand and basaltChapter 18. Understanding Ḥumayma from aerial photographs by M. Barbara ReevesChapter 19. Field survey and aerial reconnaissance: The mutual interaction of survey methods in the Jawa Hinterland Project by Bernd Müller-NeuhofChapter 20. The multifaceted site of Wisād Pools, Black Desert by G. Rollefson, A. Wasse, Y. Rowan, W. Abu-Azizeh and A.C. HillChapter 21. The AAKSA Project: A multi-scalar methodology for documenting the archaeological landscapes of AlUla and Ḥarrat Khaybar, Saudi Arabia by Melissa Kennedy, Rebecca Repper, Hugh Thomas, Matthew Dalton, Jane McMahon, David Boyer and Lauren SwiftIndex