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Batey, Ernest K.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2011   Tell Umm el-Marra (Syria), Seasons 2000-2006
Bioarchaeology of the Near East<\/em> 5:1-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bennett, E., J. Weber, W. Bendhafer, S. Champlot, J. Peters, G. Schwartz, T. Grange, and E. Geigl<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2022 The Genetic Identity of the Earliest Human-made Hybrid Animals, the Kungas of Syro-Mesopotamia 
Science Advances 8\/2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cooper, J., G. Schwartz, and R. Westbrook<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>, vol. 15, (General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 11\/1). Bethesda: CDL Press, pp. 41-56<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Curvers, H. and G. Schwartz<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1997   Umm el-Marra, A Bronze Age Urban Center in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria
American Journal of Archaeology<\/em> 101: 201-227<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1997   Umm el-Marra
in H. Weiss (ed.), \u201cArchaeology in Syria,\u201d American Journal of Archaeology<\/em> 101: 147-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1998   Umm el-Marra 1997
Chronique Arch\u00e9ologique en Syrie<\/em> 2: 203-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2004   Archaeological Research at Tell Umm el-Marra (1994-2004) (in Arabic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2005    Annales arch\u00e9ologiques arabes syriennes<\/em> 47-48: 23-34, 329-31<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2020 Achaemenid to Hellenistic Period Transition at Tell Umm el-Marra (Syria) and Beirut (Lebanon) in W. Held (ed.), “The Transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic Period in the Levant, Cyprus, and Cilicia: Cultural Interruption or Continuity?” Marburg:Eigenverlag des Arch\u00e4ologischen Seminars der Philipps-Universit\u00e4t Marburg, pp. 41-50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dunham, S.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1997   Remarks on Some Objects from Umm el-Marra, 1994-1995
American Journal of Archaeology<\/em> 101: 228-39<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dunham, Sally and Glenn M. Schwartz<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 179-183<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nichols, J. and J. Weber<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, pp. 38-57.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Petty, Alice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2006   Bronze Age Anthropomorphic Figurines from Umm el-Marra, Syria: Chronology, Visual Analysis and Function<\/em>.
Oxford: BAR International Series 1575<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schwartz, Glenn M.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2007    Hidden Tombs of Ancient Syria
Natural History<\/em> 116\/4: 42-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/em>.
Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, pp. 39-68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2009    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<\/em>. Hama: al-Baath University, 15-28<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2010    Early Non-Cuneiform Writing?: Third-Millennium BC Clay Cylinders from Umm el-Marra
in: S. Melville and A. Slotsky (eds.), Opening the Tablet Box: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Benjamin R. Foster<\/em>, Leiden: Brill, 375-95<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2012a  Archaeology and Sacrifice
in: A. Porter & G. Schwartz (eds.), Ritual Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East<\/em>. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1-32<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2012b  Era of the Living Dead: Funerary Praxis and Symbol in Third Millennium BC Syria
in: P. Pf\u00e4lzner, H. Niehr, E. Pernicka & A. Wissing (eds.), (Re-)Constructing Funerary Rituals in the Ancient Near East<\/em>. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 59-78<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2013 Memory and its Demolition: Ancestors, Animals and Sacrifice at Umm el-Marra, Syria
Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23\/3: 495-522<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2016 After Interment\/Outside the Tombs: Some Mortuary Particulars at Umm el-Marra
in: C. Felli (ed.), How to Cope With Death: Mourning and Funerary Practices in the Ancient Near East<\/em>. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 189-215.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2016 Umm el-Marra (Aleppo)
in: Y. Kanjou and A. Tsuneki (eds.), A History of Syria in One Hundred Sites<\/em>. Oxford: Archaeopress, 128-30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2018 Late Bronze Chronology at Umm el-Marra: Problems and Possibilities
in: A. Otto (ed.), From Pottery to Chronology: The Middle Euphrates Region in Late Bronze Age Syria<\/em>. Gladbeck: Pe-We Verlag, 19-46<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2021    Non-Cuneiform Writing at Third-Millennium Umm el-Marra, Syria: Evidence of an  Early Alphabetic Tradition?  
Pasiphae<\/em> XIII: 255-66         <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2023 A Burned Middle Bronze Age Gate from Umm el-Marra 
in: F. Mart\u00edn, C. Linares, M. Ramazzotti, and F. Gallardo (eds.), Ancora Vivi tra i sepolti. Omaggio a Maria Giovanna Biga<\/em> (Isimu 25). Madrid: Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid, 197-212     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2024 Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria: An Elite Mortuary Complex<\/em> from Umm el-Marra<\/em>. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schwartz, Glenn M. and Hans H. Curvers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2007    Urban Origins, Collapse and Regeneration in the Jabbul Plain
Annales arch\u00e9ologiques arabes syriennes<\/em> 45-46 (2002\/2003): 75-83<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2014 Umm al-Marra
Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Arch\u00e4ologie 14 (3\/4): 316-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schwartz, Glenn M., Hans H. Curvers, Sally Dunham and Barbara Stuart<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2003   A Third-Millennium BC Elite Tomb and Other New Evidence from Tell Umm el- Marra, Syria
American Journal of Archaeology<\/em> 107: 325-61<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schwartz, G., H. Curvers, S. Dunham, and J. Weber<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2012       From Urban Origins to Imperial Integration: Umm el-Marra 2006, 2008
American Journal of Archaeology<\/em> 116\/1: 157-93<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schwartz, G., H. Curvers, S. Dunham, B. Stuart, and J. Weber<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2006 A Third-Millennium B.C. Elite Mortuary Complex at Umm el-Marra, Syria : 2002 and 2004 Excavations.
American Journal of Archaeology<\/em> 110: 603-41<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schwartz, G., H. Curvers, F. Gerritsen, J. MacCormack, N. Miller, and J. Weber<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2000   Excavation and Survey in the Jabbul Plain: The Umm el-Marra Project 1996-1997
American Journal of Archaeology<\/em> 104: 419-462<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schwartz, G., H. Curvers and B. Stuart<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2000   A Third Millennium B.C. Elite Tomb from Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria
Antiquity<\/em> 74: 771-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schwartz, Glenn M. and Naomi F. Miller<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2007    The \u201cCrisis\u201d 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.), Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s humaines et changement climatique \u00e0 la fin du troisi\u00e8me mill\u00e9naire: une crise a-t-elle eu lieu en Haute M\u00e9sopotamie<\/em>? (Varia Anatolica XIX), pp. 179-204. Paris: De Boccard\/Institut fran\u00e7ais d\u2019\u00e9tudes anatoliennes Georges-Dum\u00e9zil \u2013 Istanbul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stantis, C., G. Compton, A. Kharobi, N. Maaranen, G. Nowell, C. Macpherson, E. Batey, and G. Schwartz <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2023 Mobility and Connection Among the Early Bronze Age Syrian Elite 
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 51. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jasrep.2023.104142<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weber, Jill A.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2008    Elite Equids: Redefining Equid Burials of the Mid- to Late 3rd<\/sup> Millennium BC from Umm el-Marra, Syria
In E. Vila et al (eds.), Archaeozoology of the Near East VIII, tome II<\/em>.  Lyon: Maison de l\u2019Orient et de la M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e, 499-519<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2009    New Research on a \u201cRoyal\u201d Animal of Ancient Syria
in: D. Tabbaa (ed.), Proceedings of the Conference on Animals in Ancient Syrian Civilization<\/em>. Hama: al-Baath University, 29-40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2012  Restoring Order: Death, Display and Authority
in: A. Porter & G. Schwartz (eds.), Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East<\/em>.
Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns: 159-90<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weber, Jill A. and Evan Malone<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2011    Exploring Virtual Material Culture: Cheap and Easy Methods to Preserve and Share Data
The SAA Archaeological Record<\/em> 11\/1: 15-18<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PhD Dissertations utilizing Umm el-Marra data:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nichols, John<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2004   Amorite Agro-Pastoralism and the Early-to Middle Bronze Age Transition in Syria.
Department of Near Eastern Studies, The Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Petty, Alice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2004   Bronze Age Figurines from Umm el-Marra, Syria: Chronology, Style and Function.
Department of Near Eastern Studies, The Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weber, Jill<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yukich, Sarah<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2013    Spatial Dimensions of Social Complexity: Environment, Settlement, and Social Complexity in the Jabbul Plain, Syria, 3000-550 BC.  Department of Near Eastern Studies, The Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maskevich, Adam<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2014 Umm el-Marra and the Westward Expansion of the Mittani Empire in Western Syria. Department of Near Eastern Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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