Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria: An Elite Mortuary Complex from Umm el-Marra

Glenn M. Schwartz

ISBN 10: 1950446425 / ISBN 13: 9781950446421

Edité par Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 2024

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Synopsis :

Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria: An Elite Mortuary Complex from Umm el-Marra, edited by Johns Hopkins professor Glenn M. Schwartz, is a final report of the excavation of Tell Umm el-Marra in northern Syria, conducted in 1994-2010. It is likely the site of ancient Tuba, capital of a small kingdom in the Early and Middle Bronze periods, in the Jabbul plain between Aleppo and northern Mesopotamia. Its study advances our understanding of early Syrian complex society beyond the big cities of Antiquity. Of particular importance in the Early Bronze excavations are the results from the site necropolis, tombs of high-ranking persons containing objects of gold, silver, and lapis lazuli. Separate installations hold kungas (donkey x onager hybrids), sometimes along with human infants. This site provides the first archaeological attestation of the kunga equids, unique in the archaeology of third-millennium Syria and Mesopotamia.

À propos de l'auteur:

Glenn Schwartz is a Near Eastern archaeologist at Johns Hopkins University, whose research focuses on the emergence and early history of urban societies in Syria and Mesopotamia.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early ...
Éditeur : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Date d'édition : 2024
Reliure : Hardback
Etat : New