Dolmenology

Dr. Kennett Schath has worked on dolmens since 2009, when he first supervised the survey of the Matabi, Aw-Rawdah, Hisbon, El-Quttein, and Adiemeh dolmen fields. He has worked nearly exclusively on dolmens and megalithic phenomena since 2012. testing theory with the Department of Antiquities and being a vocal advocate of dolmen conservation. He has spent more than sixty weeks in the field and countless hours researching his and others' documentation. As codirector with Perugia University, Italy, he located a field showing separation of discrete dolmen fields and indicating organized sedentary settlements. Codirecting with Yarmouk University, Jordan, he confirmed the presence of several village in dolmen groups. He is codirector of Al-Araqa Heritage Development projects. Hussein Al-jarrah was district director for the Department of Antiquities for fifteen years. He surveyed Damiya 2005 and Matabi 2007 and 2009 dolmen fields, and he worked in countless dolmen fields consulting with his co-author. He worked with many noted archaeologists in the field surveying and studying dolmens as a representative of the Department of Antiquities, Jordan. He pushed forward the theory of passages as valuable architectural components for evaluating dolmens. His work with dolmens has spanned twenty-five years, and he has a total of twenty-five years in archaeology. He is codirector of Al-Araqa Heritage Development operations.