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Whiting Professor of Archaeology
B.A., Yale University, 1976
M.A., M.Phil., Yale University, 1980
Ph.D., Yale University, 1982
E-mail: schwartz@jhu.edu
Glenn Schwartz is a Near Eastern archaeologist whose research focuses on the emergence and early history of urban societies in Syria and Mesopotamia. His current field project at Tell Umm el-Marra, western Syria, concentrates on the problems of origins, collapse and regeneration of an early urban center. The results from the site, inhabited ca. 2700-1200 BC with some later reoccupation, include a remarkable intact "royal" tomb from the Early Bronze Age, ca. 2300 BC as well as diverse data from many other periods.
Schwartz's previous excavation project (like Umm el-Marra, a joint expedition with the University of Amsterdam) was based at the small third millennium BC village of Tell al-Raqa'i in northeastern Syria. The research focus at Tell al-Raqa'i concerned the role of small rural communities in early urban and complex societies. The larger problem of rural archaeology was addressed in the book Archaeological Views from the Countryside: Village Communities in Early Complex Societies , co-edited by Schwartz and Steven Falconer.
Schwartz has also done work on Syrian chronology ( A Ceramic Chronology from Tell Leilan: Operation 1 ), on the problem of the fourth millennium colonial "Uruk expansion," and on pre-state and state societies in Syria and northern Mesopotamia. Together with department colleague Jerrold Cooper, he co-edited The Study of the Ancient Near East in the 21st Century: The William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference . In 2003, Professor Schwartz and Peter Akkermans co-authored The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Urban Societies, ca. 16,000-300 BC , published by Cambridge University Press. In 2006, the University of Arizona Press published After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies, edited by Schwartz and Hopkins PhD. graduate John Nichols.
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