Kaptijn Eva, Petit Lucas P. (eds.). A Timeless Vale. Archaeological and related essays on the Jordan Valley in honour of Gerrit van der Kooij on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday

Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2009. — 191 p. — (Archaeological Studies Leiden University 19). — ISBN: 978-90-8728-076-5.The Jordan Valley was and still is a place of many different facets: a barrier as well as a demographic centre, a steppe region as well as a fertile agricultural zone, and a region with a mix of different ethnic groups, cultures and ideas. The area forms a rich source of information for scholars of various disciplines and with different academic backgrounds.Dutch Cultural and Archaeological Activities in Jordan during the last fifty Years (Raouf Sa’d Abujaber).
Early Reports on the Zerqa Triangle. What was known when the Tell Deir ‘Allā Excavations started? (Eva Kaptijn).
Holocene Palaeoecology of the Hula Area, Northeastern Israel (Willem van Zeist, Uri Baruch and Sytze Bottema).
Khirbet Kerak Ware at Jericho and the EB III Change in Palestine (Lorenzo Nigro).
The Jordan Valley during the Early Bronze Age (Moawiyah M. Ibrahim).
Settling the Valley: Agrarian Settlement and Interaction along the Jordan Rift during the Bronze Age (Steven E. Falconer and Patricia L. Fall).
Textile Production at Tell ’Abū al-Kharāz, Jordan Valley (Peter M. Fischer).
The Archaeological Context of the Tell Deir ‘Allā Tablets (Zeidan A. Kafafi).
«Down the River…»: A Shrine Model from Tel Kinrot in its Context (Martti Nissinen and Stefan Münger).
A Wheel-made Anthropomorphic Statue from Iron Age Tell Dāmiyah, Jordan Valley (Lucas P. Petit).
Of Slag and Scales; Micro-Stratigraphy and Micro-Magnetic Material at Metallurgical Excavations (H. Alexander Veldhuijzen).
The Early Persian Period at Tell Deir ‘Allā: a Ceramic Perspective (Niels C. F. Groot).
Some Aspects of Sugar Production in Jericho, Jordan Valley (Hamdan Taha).