Glenn M Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 126323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenn M Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenn M |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9103-8853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 234 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Excavation and Geophysical Survey at Kurd Qaburstan on the Erbil Plain, Field Season 2022
Fieldwork at Kurd Qaburstan (ancient Qabra?) on the Erbil plain of northern Mesopotamia (Kurdistan Region of Iraq) in 2022 acquired a variety of new evidence on the Middle and Late Bronze occupations at the 95-hectare walled urban site. Geophysical survey revealed the existence of a probable palace in the Lower Town East, where excavations exposed a set of baked brick structures that were probably used for institutional storage and food processin…
In the Darkest of Days
Mobility and connection among the Early Bronze Age Syrian elite
The archaeological site of Umm el-Marra (in the Jabbul plain, western Syria), is a large, fortified urban center. Excavations have uncovered ten tomb structures built during the Early Bronze Age (ca. 2600–2150 BCE) that possibly contain royalty as evidenced by lavish grave goods and paleopathological evidence suggesting sociocultural buffering from the harsh social and physical environments of agricultural urban centers in the Bronze Age Near Eas…
Towards a Radiocarbon-Based Chronology of Urban Northern Mesopotamia in the Early to Mid-Second Millennium Bc
Radiocarbon ( 14 C) data for 2nd millennium BC urban sites in northern Mesopotamia have been lacking until recently. This article presents a preliminary dataset and Bayesian model addressing the Middle and early Late Bronze Age (Old Babylonian and pre/early Mittani) strata of Kurd Qaburstan—one of the largest archaeological sites on the Erbil plain of Iraqi Kurdistan. The results place the large, densely occupied and fortified Middle Bronze Age c…
Kurd Qaburstan on the Erbil Plain
A 2016 study season and 2017 excavation season at the 95-hectare walled site of Kurd Qaburstan on the Erbil plain have generated a variety of new results. Geophysical survey on the lower town revealed details of the Middle Bronze occupation in the southeast part of the site, including the city wall, a large open area, streets, houses, and a monumental temple comparable to examples from Tell al Rimah, Aššur, and Larsa. Excavations confirmed the Mi…
Education for Leisure in Elementary School
In Brazil, many students dislike Physical Education classes because of content repetition, dissatisfactory curricular organization, among other factors. This work aims at assessing the efficiency of a proposal for Physical Education classes, which includes contents of physical activities and the use of comic books. This is a qualitative study and both bibliographic and field researches were carried out. Ten classes were held to a group of ninth g…
Excavations at Kurd Qaburstan, a Second Millennium b.c . Urban Site on the Erbil Plain
Excavations at the 109 hectare site of Kurd Qaburstan on the Erbil plain in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq were conducted by the Johns Hopkins University in 2013 and 2014. The Middle Bronze Age (Old Babylonian period) is the main period of occupation evident on the site, and the project therefore aims to study the character of a north Mesopotamian urban centre of the early second millennium b.c . On the high mound, excavations revealed three phases…
The Archaeological Study of Sacrifice
Sacrifice is one of the most common manifestations of human religious thought and behavior, yet archaeology has only recently begun to devote significant attention to the practice. This article reviews the diverse ways in which archaeologists have studied sacrifice and how work might proceed in the future. Both animal and human sacrifice are considered, along with the question of whether these two manifestations of ritual killing are significantl…
Memory and its Demolition
At Umm el-Marra in western Syria, a sequence of Bronze Age ritual installations facilitates the investigation of how Syrian elites employed memory, ancestor veneration, and animal (and perhaps human) sacrifice to reinforce their position, and how others used countermemory to contest it. Relevant data derive from an Early Bronze Age complex of elite tombs and animal interments and a Middle Bronze Age monumental platform and shaft containing animal…
Sacred Killing
Sacred Killing
From Urban Origins to Imperial Integration in Western Syria
The Umm el-Marra Project is investigating the genesis and early history of societal complexity at a “second-tier” center of western Syria, focusing on the Early, Middle, and Late Bronze Age occupations. In 2006 and 2008, important results were achieved for all three periods. Excavation of the Early Bronze Age elite mortuary complex on the acropolis supplies new data supporting the interpretation that the complex served to inscribe elite ideologie…
Legal Threats to Cultural Exchange of Archaeological Materials
Legal action on behalf of victims of terrorism has attempted to force the sale of cultural artifacts on loan to U.S. institutions in order to compensate those victims. Such action jeopardizes the participation of American institutions in international cultural exchanges. The authors maintain that archaeological artifacts should not be sold to satisfy a court judgment, regardless of the actions of a particular regime, and that it should be possibl…
A Third-Millennium B.C. Elite Mortuary Complex at Umm El-Marra, Syria
Excavations at Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria, in 2002 and 2004 revealed that the elite Tomb 1 discovered on the site acropolis in 2000 was part of a mid to late third-millennium B.C. mortuary complex devoted to individuals of high rank. The complex included a sequence of at least six tombs as well as installations with evidence of the ritual sacrifice of equids and perhaps human infants. Mortuary data allow for the consideration of the role of social …
Céramique de l'Âge du Bronze en Syrie, 1
Excavations at Tell Brak, vol. 4
A Third-Millennium B.C. Elite Tomb and Other New Evidence from Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria
The 1999-2000 excavations by the Dutch-American team at Tell Umm el-Marra, western Syria, achieved significant new results on the history and character of Bronze Age and later occupation at the site. Of particular note was the discovery of an intact high status (royal?) tomb of the Early Bronze Age (ca. 2300 B.C.) in the site center, providing data for testing hypotheses on the character and ideology of Syrian elites in this period. Important new…
Excavations at Tell Brak, Vol. 1
Excavation and Survey in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria
The 1996 and 1997 seasons of the Hopkins-Amsterdam project in the Jabbul plain, western Syria, have generated new results on Bronze Age urbanism at Tell Umm el-Marra and elucidated longer-term settlement patterns in the Jabbul region. Excavation results have documented the foundation of Umm el-Marra as a regional center in the Early Bronze Age, provided new data on a period of decentralization in Middle Bronze I, and supplied evidence of the rege…
A 3rd-millennium BC élite tomb from Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria
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Tell Sabi Abyad, the Late Neolithic Settlement
Mésopotamie
Archaeological Views from the Countryside
Umm el-Marra, a Bronze Age Urban Center in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria
A team from the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Amsterdam has initiated a multistage program of excavation and regional analysis based at Tell Umm el-Marra in the Jabbul plain east of Aleppo. Archaeological and textual evidence from Ebla and elsewhere has demonstrated that the Aleppo region was an important center of early complex society in western Syria, and the joint project will focus on tracing its developmental trajectory. As…
Archaic Bookkeeping
The Structure and Dynamics of Dry-Farming States in Upper Mesopotamia [and Comments and Reply]
The Uruk Expansion
The Archaeological Study of Sacrifice
Sacrifice is one of the most common manifestations of human religious thought and behavior, yet archaeology has only recently begun to devote significant attention to the practice. This article reviews the diverse ways in which archaeologists have studied sacrifice and how work might proceed in the future. Both animal and human sacrifice are considered, along with the question of whether these two manifestations of ritual killing are significantl…
Excavation and Survey in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria
The 1996 and 1997 seasons of the Hopkins-Amsterdam project in the Jabbul plain, western Syria, have generated new results on Bronze Age urbanism at Tell Umm el-Marra and elucidated longer-term settlement patterns in the Jabbul region. Excavation results have documented the foundation of Umm el-Marra as a regional center in the Early Bronze Age, provided new data on a period of decentralization in Middle Bronze I, and supplied evidence of the rege…
A Third-Millennium B.C. Elite Mortuary Complex at Umm El-Marra, Syria
Excavations at Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria, in 2002 and 2004 revealed that the elite Tomb 1 discovered on the site acropolis in 2000 was part of a mid to late third-millennium B.C. mortuary complex devoted to individuals of high rank. The complex included a sequence of at least six tombs as well as installations with evidence of the ritual sacrifice of equids and perhaps human infants. Mortuary data allow for the consideration of the role of social …
A Third-Millennium B.C. Elite Tomb and Other New Evidence from Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria
The 1999-2000 excavations by the Dutch-American team at Tell Umm el-Marra, western Syria, achieved significant new results on the history and character of Bronze Age and later occupation at the site. Of particular note was the discovery of an intact high status (royal?) tomb of the Early Bronze Age (ca. 2300 B.C.) in the site center, providing data for testing hypotheses on the character and ideology of Syrian elites in this period. Important new…
From Urban Origins to Imperial Integration in Western Syria
The Umm el-Marra Project is investigating the genesis and early history of societal complexity at a “second-tier” center of western Syria, focusing on the Early, Middle, and Late Bronze Age occupations. In 2006 and 2008, important results were achieved for all three periods. Excavation of the Early Bronze Age elite mortuary complex on the acropolis supplies new data supporting the interpretation that the complex served to inscribe elite ideologie…
The Ninevite V Period and the Development of Complex Society in Northern Mesopotamia
L''existence de grandes villes fortifiées et d'états au milieu du 3e millénaire dans le nord de la Mésopotamie et en Syrie a été récemment mise en évidence grâce aux fouilles de Tell Mardikh (Ebla) et à l'identification de villes contemporaines à Leilan, Mozan, Chuera, Khoshi et Tara. Les processus qui ont mené, à la période précédente Ninive V. à l'urbanisation et à la naissance de l'état sont passés ici en revue. Ce développement au milieu du 3…
Umm el-Marra, a Bronze Age Urban Center in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria
A team from the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Amsterdam has initiated a multistage program of excavation and regional analysis based at Tell Umm el-Marra in the Jabbul plain east of Aleppo. Archaeological and textual evidence from Ebla and elsewhere has demonstrated that the Aleppo region was an important center of early complex society in western Syria, and the joint project will focus on tracing its developmental trajectory. As…
Memory and its Demolition
At Umm el-Marra in western Syria, a sequence of Bronze Age ritual installations facilitates the investigation of how Syrian elites employed memory, ancestor veneration, and animal (and perhaps human) sacrifice to reinforce their position, and how others used countermemory to contest it. Relevant data derive from an Early Bronze Age complex of elite tombs and animal interments and a Middle Bronze Age monumental platform and shaft containing animal…
Excavations at Tell Brak, vol. 4
Tell al-Raqā'i 1989 and 1990
Two final seasons of excavation at Tell al-Raqā'i in northeastern Syria have provided new information on the nature of a rural community in the early to middle third millennium B. C. and its involvement in the development of urbanization and sociopolitical complexity in the region. The large Rounded Building, which dominated the site, was found to contain well-preserved vaulted storage facilities and can be interpreted, along with other structure…
Excavations at Tell al-Raqā'i
The site of Tell al-Raqā'i in the middle Ḫabur valley is the focal point of an excavation project investigating the social and economic organization of a small rural community during the emergence of urban systems in northern Mesopotamia in the mid-third-millennium B. C. Three seasons of excavation, exposing the majority of the two latest third-millennium occupation levels, have supplied evidence of an architecturally diverse community engaged in…
Towards a Radiocarbon-Based Chronology of Urban Northern Mesopotamia in the Early to Mid-Second Millennium Bc
Radiocarbon ( 14 C) data for 2nd millennium BC urban sites in northern Mesopotamia have been lacking until recently. This article presents a preliminary dataset and Bayesian model addressing the Middle and early Late Bronze Age (Old Babylonian and pre/early Mittani) strata of Kurd Qaburstan—one of the largest archaeological sites on the Erbil plain of Iraqi Kurdistan. The results place the large, densely occupied and fortified Middle Bronze Age c…
The Ninevite V Period and current research
Des fouilles récentes dans le Nord de la Syrie et en Iraq ont permis une réévaluation des éléments qui constituent l'assemblage céramique Ninive V, de sa distribution dans le temps et dans l'espace et des traits culturels qui se sont manifestés au cours de cette période. La période Ninive V se présente comme une phase de transition dans le développement de l'urbanisation du Nord de la Mésopotamie
The Ninevite V Period and current research
Des fouilles récentes dans le Nord de la Syrie et en Iraq ont permis une réévaluation des éléments qui constituent l'assemblage céramique Ninive V, de sa distribution dans le temps et dans l'espace et des traits culturels qui se sont manifestés au cours de cette période. La période Ninive V se présente comme une phase de transition dans le développement de l'urbanisation du Nord de la Mésopotamie
The Ninevite V Period and the Development of Complex Society in Northern Mesopotamia
L''existence de grandes villes fortifiées et d'états au milieu du 3e millénaire dans le nord de la Mésopotamie et en Syrie a été récemment mise en évidence grâce aux fouilles de Tell Mardikh (Ebla) et à l'identification de villes contemporaines à Leilan, Mozan, Chuera, Khoshi et Tara. Les processus qui ont mené, à la période précédente Ninive V. à l'urbanisation et à la naissance de l'état sont passés ici en revue. Ce développement au milieu du 3…
The Uruk Expansion
Excavations at Tell al-Raqā'i
The site of Tell al-Raqā'i in the middle Ḫabur valley is the focal point of an excavation project investigating the social and economic organization of a small rural community during the emergence of urban systems in northern Mesopotamia in the mid-third-millennium B. C. Three seasons of excavation, exposing the majority of the two latest third-millennium occupation levels, have supplied evidence of an architecturally diverse community engaged in…
Tell Chuēra in Nordost-Syrien
Tell al-Raqā'i 1989 and 1990
Two final seasons of excavation at Tell al-Raqā'i in northeastern Syria have provided new information on the nature of a rural community in the early to middle third millennium B. C. and its involvement in the development of urbanization and sociopolitical complexity in the region. The large Rounded Building, which dominated the site, was found to contain well-preserved vaulted storage facilities and can be interpreted, along with other structure…
Hama
Tell el-Fârʿah II, Le Bronze Moyen
Uch Tepe II
The Structure and Dynamics of Dry-Farming States in Upper Mesopotamia [and Comments and Reply]
Town and Country in Southeastern Anatolia
Archaic Bookkeeping
Archaeological Views from the Countryside
Archaeological Views from the Countryside
Umm el-Marra, a Bronze Age Urban Center in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria
A team from the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Amsterdam has initiated a multistage program of excavation and regional analysis based at Tell Umm el-Marra in the Jabbul plain east of Aleppo. Archaeological and textual evidence from Ebla and elsewhere has demonstrated that the Aleppo region was an important center of early complex society in western Syria, and the joint project will focus on tracing its developmental trajectory. As…
Mésopotamie
Tell Sabi Abyad, the Late Neolithic Settlement
Excavations at Tell Brak, Vol. 1
Excavation and Survey in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria
The 1996 and 1997 seasons of the Hopkins-Amsterdam project in the Jabbul plain, western Syria, have generated new results on Bronze Age urbanism at Tell Umm el-Marra and elucidated longer-term settlement patterns in the Jabbul region. Excavation results have documented the foundation of Umm el-Marra as a regional center in the Early Bronze Age, provided new data on a period of decentralization in Middle Bronze I, and supplied evidence of the rege…
A 3rd-millennium BC élite tomb from Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Third-Millennium B.C. Elite Tomb and Other New Evidence from Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria
The 1999-2000 excavations by the Dutch-American team at Tell Umm el-Marra, western Syria, achieved significant new results on the history and character of Bronze Age and later occupation at the site. Of particular note was the discovery of an intact high status (royal?) tomb of the Early Bronze Age (ca. 2300 B.C.) in the site center, providing data for testing hypotheses on the character and ideology of Syrian elites in this period. Important new…
Céramique de l'Âge du Bronze en Syrie, 1
Excavations at Tell Brak, vol. 4
A Third-Millennium B.C. Elite Mortuary Complex at Umm El-Marra, Syria
Excavations at Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria, in 2002 and 2004 revealed that the elite Tomb 1 discovered on the site acropolis in 2000 was part of a mid to late third-millennium B.C. mortuary complex devoted to individuals of high rank. The complex included a sequence of at least six tombs as well as installations with evidence of the ritual sacrifice of equids and perhaps human infants. Mortuary data allow for the consideration of the role of social …
Legal Threats to Cultural Exchange of Archaeological Materials
Legal action on behalf of victims of terrorism has attempted to force the sale of cultural artifacts on loan to U.S. institutions in order to compensate those victims. Such action jeopardizes the participation of American institutions in international cultural exchanges. The authors maintain that archaeological artifacts should not be sold to satisfy a court judgment, regardless of the actions of a particular regime, and that it should be possibl…
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