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Whiting Professor of Archaeology
B.A., Yale
University, 1976
M.A., M.Phil., Yale University,
1980
Ph.D., Yale University,
1982
E-mail: schwartz@jhu.edu
Glenn Schwartz is a Near Eastern archaeologist whose research
focuses on the emergence and early history of urban societies in Syria and Mesopotamia.
His current field project at Tell
Umm el-Marra, western Syria, concentrates on the
problems of origins, collapse and regeneration of an early urban center.
The results from the site, inhabited ca. 2700-1200 BC with some later
reoccupation, include a remarkable intact "royal" tomb from the
Early Bronze Age, ca. 2300 BC as well as diverse data from many other periods.
Schwartz's previous excavation project (like Umm el-Marra, a joint
expedition with the University of Amsterdam) was based at the small third
millennium BC village of Tell al-Raqa'i in northeastern Syria. The
research focus at Tell al-Raqa'i concerned the role of small rural
communities in early urban and complex societies. The larger problem of
rural archaeology was addressed in the book Archaeological Views from the Countryside: Village Communities in
Early Complex Societies ,
co-edited by Schwartz and Steven Falconer.
Schwartz has also done work on Syrian chronology ( A Ceramic Chronology from Tell Leilan: Operation
1 ), on the problem of the fourth millennium colonial
"Uruk expansion," and on pre-state and state societies in Syria and northern Mesopotamia.
Together with department colleague Jerrold Cooper, he co-edited The Study of the Ancient Near East in the 21st
Century: The William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference
. In 2003,
Professor Schwartz and Peter Akkermans co-authored The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex
Hunter-Gatherers to Urban Societies, ca. 16,000-300 BC , published by
Cambridge University Press. In 2006, the University of Arizona
Press published After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies,
edited by Schwartz and Hopkins PhD. graduate John Nichols.
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