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The Johns Hopkins/University of Amsterdam Joint Expedition to Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria
Introduction
Region and Site
Urban Origins: The Early Bronze Age (ca. 2700-2000 BC)
Collapse: Middle Bronze I (ca. 2000-1800 BC)
Urban Regeneration: Middle Bronze II (ca. 1800-1600 BC)
Imperial Absorption: Late Bronze (ca. 1600-1200 BC)
Occupation after the Bronze Age
Conclusions and Acknowledgments
Life in the Field
Publications
News and Notes
Publications:
Cooper, J., G. Schwartz, and R. Westbrook
2005 A Mittani Era Tablet from Umm el-Marra
in: D. Owen and G. Wilhelm (eds.), Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, vol. 15,
(General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 11/1). Bethesda: CDL Press, pp. 41-56
Curvers, H. and G. Schwartz
1997 Umm el-Marra, A Bronze Age Urban Center in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria
American Journal of Archaeology 101: 201-227
1997 Umm el-Marra
in H. Weiss (ed.), “Archaeology in Syria,” American Journal of Archaeology 101: 147-8
1998 Umm el-Marra 1997
Chronique Archéologique en Syrie 2: 203-7
2004/ Archaeological Research at Tell Umm el-Marra (1994-2004) (in Arabic)
2005 Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes 47-48: 23-34, 329-31
Dunham, S.
1997 Remarks on Some Objects from Umm el-Marra, 1994-1995
American Journal of Archaeology 101: 228-39
Dunham, Sally and Glenn M. Schwartz
2003 Tell Umm el-Marra
in: Joan Aruz (ed.), Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New York:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 179-183
Nichols, J. and J. Weber
2006 Amorites, Onagers and Social Reorganization in Middle Bronze Age Syria
in: G. Schwartz and J. Nichols (eds.), After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, pp. 38-57.
Petty, Alice
2006 Bronze Age Anthropomorphic Figurines from Umm el-Marra, Syria: Chronology, Visual Analysis and Function.
Oxford: BAR International Series 1575
Schwartz, Glenn M.
2007 Hidden Tombs of Ancient Syria
Natural History 116/4: 42-7
2007 Status, Ideology and Memory in Third Millennium Syria: "Royal" Tombs at Umm el-Marra
in: N. Laneri (ed.), Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean.
Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, pp. 39-68.
2008 Recent Archaeological Results on the Uses and Symbolism of Animals in Bronze Age Syria
in: D. Tabbaa (ed.), Proceedings of the Conference on Animals in Ancient Syrian Civilization. Hama: al-Baath University, 15-28
Schwartz, Glenn M. and Hans H. Curvers
2007 Urban Origins, Collapse and Regeneration in the Jabbul Plain
Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes 45-46 (2002/2003): 75-83
Schwartz, Glenn M., Hans H. Curvers, Sally Dunham and Barbara Stuart
2003 A Third-Millennium BC Elite Tomb and Other New Evidence from Tell Umm el- Marra, Syria
American Journal of Archaeology 107: 325-61
Schwartz, G., H. Curvers, S. Dunham, B. Stuart, and J. Weber
2006 A Third-Millennium B.C. Elite Mortuary Complex at Umm el-Marra, Syria : 2002 and 2004 Excavations.
American Journal of Archaeology 110: 603-41
Schwartz, G., H. Curvers, F. Gerritsen, J. MacCormack, N. Miller, and J. Weber
2000 Excavation and Survey in the Jabbul Plain: The Umm el-Marra Project 1996-1997
American Journal of Archaeology 104: 419-462
Schwartz, G., H. Curvers and B. Stuart
2000 A Third Millennium B.C. Elite Tomb from Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria
Antiquity 74: 771-2
Schwartz, Glenn M. and Naomi F. Miller
2007 The “Crisis” of the Late Third Millennium B.C.: Ecofactual and Artifactual Evidence from Umm el-Marra and
the Jabbul Plain in: C. Kuzucuoglu and C. Marro (eds.), Sociétés humaines et changement climatique à la fin du troisième
millénaire: une crise a-t-elle eu lieu en Haute Mésopotamie? (Varia Anatolica XIX), pp. 179-204.
Paris: De Boccard/Institut français d’études anatoliennes Georges-Dumézil – Istanbul.
Weber, Jill A.
2008 Elite Equids: Redefining Equid Burials of the Mid- to Late 3rd Millennium BC from Umm el-Marra, Syria
In E. Vila et al (eds.), Archaeozoology of the Near East VIII, tome II. Lyon: Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, 499-519
2008 New Research on a “Royal” Animal of Ancient Syria
in: D. Tabbaa (ed.), Proceedings of the Conference on Animals in Ancient Syrian Civilization. Hama: al-Baath University, 29-40
Ph.D. Dissertations utilizing Umm el-Marra data:
Nichols, John
2004 Amorite Agro-Pastoralism and the Early-to Middle Bronze Age Transition in Syria.
Department of Near Eastern Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
Petty, Alice
2004 Bronze Age Figurines from Umm el-Marra, Syria: Chronology, Style and Function.
Department of Near Eastern Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
Weber, Jill
2006 Economic Developments of Urban Proportions: Animal Exploitation at Hajji
Ibrahim/Tell es-Sweyhat and Tell Umm el-Marra, Northern Syria, during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages.
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania