University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Papers and Anthropology 7-2000 Excavation and Survey in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria: The mmU el-Marra Project 1996-1997 Glenn M. Schwartz Hans H. Curvers Fokke A. Gerritsen Jennifer A. Maccormack Naomi F. Miller University of Pennsylvania,
[email protected] See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.upenn.edu/penn_museum_papers Part of the Near Eastern Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Schwartz, G. M., Curvers, H. H., Gerritsen, F. A., Maccormack, J. A., Miller, N. F., & Weber, J. (2000). Excavation and Survey in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria: The mmU el-Marra Project 1996-1997. American Journal of Archaeology, 104 (3), 419-462. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/507225 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. http://repository.upenn.edu/penn_museum_papers/37 For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Excavation and Survey in the Jabbul Plain, Western Syria: The mmU el- Marra Project 1996-1997 Abstract The 1996 nda 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 regeneration of urbanism in MB II. Faunal and archaeobotanical analysis broaden our understanding of these developments, attesting to an economy overwhelmingly dependent on the steppe environment, with an emphasis on large-scale onager hunting in MB II.