Program

Research Programs: Archaeology Projects

Period of Performance

5/1/1993 - 10/31/1996

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$85,000.00 (approved)
$85,000.00 (awarded)


Excavations at Umm el-Marra, a Bronze Age Urban Center of Western Syria

FAIN: RK-20017-93

Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218-2608)
Glenn Schwartz (Project Director: October 1992 to February 1997)

To support three years of excavation and study at the Early Bronze through Late Bronze, c. 2400-1600 B.C., site of Umm el-Marra, in western Syria. Urban life and relations between Syrian cities and Mesopotamia will be explored.