Acknowledgements
The Petra Garden Feasibility Study was funded by a project grant from Dumbarton Oaks (Trustees of Harvard University) and field research funds from a CAORC Fellowship provided form the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan. We wish to thank Dr. Edward Keenan, Dr. Michel Conan, Dr. Jefferey Quilter and Dr. Alice-Mary Talbot, and the Senior Fellows of the Landscape Studies Program at Dumbarton Oaks for their encouragement and support. We are grateful for the assistance of the ACOR staff, with particular thanks to Drs. Pierre and Patricia Bikai, Fatma Marii, and Kirk Zamora. The project was made possible with the cooperation of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, with the approval of Dr. Fawwaz al-Kharaysheh and Dr. Mohammed Najjar, and representation by Huda Kilani. The project's staff included Dr. Kathryn L. Gleason (landscape archaeologist, Cornell University), Dr. John E. Foss (agronomist, Unviersity of Tennessee), Dr. Talal Akasheh and Fawwaz Ishakat (surveying, Hashemite University), Dr. Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos (architect), Dr.Aicha Malek (excavator, Dumbarton Oaks), James Schryver (excavator, Cornell University), and Kelly Cook (SUNY Syracuse). Special thanks also to Dakhilallah Qoblan, Haroun Dakhilallah, and a fantastic team of Bedouin workers who helped make it all possible. Many thanks to Carol Taylor for website design and consultation.