Dhiban: Valuing Sites Through Valuable Stories

Dhiban：通过有价值的故事来评估遗址

• 批准号: AH/S011714/1
• 负责人: Bruce Routledge
• 金额: $ 25.77万
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS011714%2F1
• 关键词: Dhiban; Valuing; Sites; Through; Valuable

The aim of this project is to strengthen the local stewardship of Tall Dhiban, a large mound 70 kms south of Amman Jordan, by enhancing its economic and social value. This will be achieved by increasing local connectivity with the site and improving on-site interpretation and management. Tall Dhiban is well-known as capital of the biblical kingdom of Moab and the find spot of the Mesha inscription (now in the Louvre), the longest Iron Age royal inscription from the Levant. Despite the strong historical narrative and biblical connections provided by the Mesha Inscription, the site is seldom visited by tourists and is poorly understood by local residents because the visible archaeological remains are difficult to interpret and partially obscured. Modern Dhiban is an adjacent Bedouin town of the Bani Hamida tribe that has been the site of economically motivated civil unrest since at least 2011. This unrest has led to increased looting of Tall Dhiban as well as violent confrontations between police and protestors on the site itself in 2016. This project aims to transform the site of Tall Dhiban into a cultural resource for the building of positive local heritage identities, as well as an economic resource for local businesses by increasing the number of external visitors to the site. In doing so, we also aim to build capacity in Jordan for public history and the management of cultural heritage sites. This will be pursued with a two-fold strategy. In town we will run a schools based public history programme working with teachers and Mutah University trainee researchers. This project will culminate with a History Festival, in which student family history projects and social media will be used to encourage residents of Dhiban to contribute their own stories, images and artefacts. A repository of these materials will be turned over to the community for self-directed public history projects in future. One emphasis of this public history project will be on the relationship between the town, tribe and the tell (archaeological mound) of Dhiban. On the tell itself we will work with Hashemite University students to prepare a site management plan and interpretive signs and related materials for presenting the site. We will also instigate a programme of site maintenance and cleaning, and the establishment of visitor pathways. Through a Jordanian non-profit (SELA Training) we will provide a nationally recognised vocational training programme in basic conservation techniques for dry-laid stone architecture to four unemployed youths from Dhiban, which should allow them to find more regular and better paid employment within the heritage sector in Jordan. It will also provide us with skilled technicians to help stabilise the exposed architecture from various phases of Dhiban's 5,000 year settlement history. Current visitor numbers for Tall Dhiban are very low, hence we expect that any improvement to the presentation of the site will lead to a proportionately significant increase in visitors and external income. It will also allow Tall Dhiban to be a potential stop on developing day-tour circuits within the Madaba Governate, where one already finds two UNESCO World Heritage Sites and several important concentrations of mosaics. The site will also serve as a point of integration between often intagible local historical narratives and the global and national narratives that dominate archaeological interpretation. Academically, we will trial best practices for realising this integration, articulating the histories of the town and the tell as intertwined and continuous. If successfully presented, the site will become easier to integrate into local cultural and educational activities and provide a more diverse and nuanced experience of Jordan for foreign tourists. It is already evident that engaging with recent histories will challenge academic approaches to tell sites that do not analyse them as places that are still in formation.

该项目的目的是通过提高其经济和社会价值，加强对约旦安曼以南70公里处的一个大土丘Tall Dhiban的地方管理。这将通过增加当地与现场的连通性和改善现场口译和管理来实现。高迪班是著名的圣经摩押王国的首都和米沙铭文（现藏于卢浮宫）的发现地，米沙铭文是来自黎凡特最长的铁器时代皇家铭文。尽管米沙铭文提供了强大的历史叙述和圣经联系，但该遗址很少有游客参观，当地居民也不太了解，因为可见的考古遗迹很难解释，部分被掩盖。现代的迪班是巴尼哈米达部落的一个相邻的贝都因城镇，至少自2011年以来一直是经济动机的内乱地点。这场骚乱导致了对Tall Dhiban的抢劫增加，以及2016年警察和抗议者之间的暴力冲突。该项目旨在将Tall Dhiban遗址转变为建设积极的地方遗产特性的文化资源，以及通过增加该遗址的外部游客数量为当地企业提供经济资源。在这样做的过程中，我们还旨在建设约旦的公共历史和文化遗产遗址管理能力。为此将采取双管齐下的战略。在城里，我们将与教师和穆塔大学实习研究人员合作，开展一个以学校为基础的公共历史项目。该项目将以历史节为高潮，学生的家庭历史项目和社交媒体将被用来鼓励迪班居民贡献自己的故事，图像和文物。这些材料的储存库将移交给社区，用于未来的自我指导的公共历史项目。这个公共历史项目的重点之一将是城镇，部落和迪班的告诉（考古冢）之间的关系。 在告诉自己，我们将与哈希姆大学的学生准备一个网站管理计划和解释性的标志和相关材料，介绍网站。我们还将发起一项场地维护和清洁方案，并建立游客通道。通过约旦的一个非营利组织（SELA培训），我们将为四名来自迪班的失业青年提供一个国家认可的职业培训计划，内容是干砌石建筑的基本保护技术，这将使他们能够在约旦的遗产部门找到更稳定、收入更高的工作。它还将为我们提供熟练的技术人员，以帮助稳定迪班5,000年定居历史各个阶段的暴露建筑。目前Tall Dhiban的访问者数量非常低，因此我们预计，对网站介绍的任何改进都将导致访问者和外部收入的相应显着增加。它还将使Tall Dhiban成为Madaba省内开发一日游线路的潜在停靠站，在那里已经发现了两个联合国教科文组织世界遗产和几个重要的马赛克集中地。 该遗址还将成为往往难以忘怀的地方历史叙事与主导考古解释的全球和国家叙事之间的整合点。在学术上，我们将尝试实现这种整合的最佳实践，阐明城镇的历史和讲述相互交织和连续。如果成功展示，该网站将更容易融入当地的文化和教育活动，并为外国游客提供更多样化和细致入微的约旦体验。很明显，研究近代史将挑战学术方法，即告诉那些没有分析它们的遗址仍在形成中。

项目成果

MOHOA 2. Our place, our stories: Public history journeys from Belfast to Dhiban, and back

MOHOA 2. 我们的地方，我们的故事：从贝尔法斯特到迪班并返回的公共历史之旅

• DOI: 10.1111/cura.12601
• 发表时间: 2024
• 期刊: The Museum Journal
• 作者: Purdue O