A third-millennium B.C. elite tomb and other new evidence from Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria

American Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 325-361

  Schwartz, Glenn M ^a   Curvers, Hans H ^a   Dunham, Sally ^a   Stuart, Barbara ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.3764/aja.107.3.325     Document Type: Article

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