A third-millennium B.C. elite mortuary complex at Umm el-Marra, Syria: 2002 and 2004 excavations

American Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 603-641

  Schwartz, Glenn M ^a   Curvers, Hans H ^b   Dunham, Sally S ^c   Stuart, Barbara ^d   Weber, Jill A ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c c/o Solidere ^*  (United States)

^d BCD Archaeology Project   (Lebanon)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.3764/aja.110.4.603     Document Type: Article

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