Animals, ancestors, and ritual in early Bronze age Syria : an elite mortuary complex from Umm el-Marra / edited by Glenn M. Schwartz

"This is a final report of the excavation of Tell Umm el-Marra in northern Syria, conducted in 1994--2010. It is likely the site of ancient Tuba, capital of a small kingdom in the Early and Middle Bronze periods, in the Jabbul plain between Aleppo and northern Mesopotamia. Its study advances ou...

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Superior document:Monumenta archaeologica 50
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Place / Publishing House:Los Angeles : The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Monumenta archaeologica 50
Physical Description:xx, 696 Seiten; Illustrationen
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and Research Objectives / Glenn M. Schwartz
  • Architecture and Stratigraphy / Glenn M. Schwartz
  • The Pottery of Third-Millennium BC Umm el-Marra / Glenn M. Schwartz
  • Small Finds / Sally S. Dunham, Albert Jambon, Anne-Sophie Laurent, Romain Prévalet, David S. Reese, Glenn M. Schwartz, and Avary Rhys Taylor
  • Bioarchaeology at Tell Umm el-Marra / Ernest K. Batey, III
  • The Faunal Remains from Third-Millennium Umm el-Marra / Jill A. Weber
  • Discussion and Conclusions / Glenn M. Schwartz