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The Excavation Report of Burial Pits Associated with the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng

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This is the report on the excavation of the secondary pits associated with the tomb of Marquis Yi, ruler of the state of Zeng, who died in 433 BCE. The tomb is located at Suizhou in Hubei province, China. Excavated in 1978, it is the richest tomb known...

Sponsored Projects

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List of projects on terminated fieldwork sponsored by the White Levy Program for Archaeological Publications at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

Tell Tweini Excavations 1999-2007

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PUBLISHED 2019. Please visit the publication's webpage. The site of Tell Tweini is located on the southern bank of the Rumeilah River in the Syrian coastal plain, approximately 1,5 km east of modern-day Jebleh and 40 km south of Ras Shamra-Ugarit, capital...

Desert Chiefdom: Dimensions of Subterranean Settlement and Society in Israel's Negev Desert (c. 4500 – 3600 BCE) Based on New Data from Shiqmim

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PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage . This proposal seeks support to prepare a book-length publication concerning the Phase II excavations at Shiqmim, the largest and most deeply stratified Chalcolithic (ca. 4500 - 3500 BCE) site in...

Zeytinli Bahçe: the 1999-2007 excavations. The long history of a site at the crossroads of Mesopotamia and Anatolia

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The multi-layered mound of Zeytinli Bahçe is located on a low river terrace along the left bank of the Euphrates, immediately south of the modern city of Birecik, in the province of Şanlıurfa, in Southeastern Turkey (coordinates: 36°59'45"N; 37°58'45"E)...

Shiqmim: Subterranean Settlement & Society, Negev Desert Israel, ca. 4500-3500 B.C.E.

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PUBLISHED 2023. Please also visit the publication's webpage . The Chalcolithic period (ca. 4500–3600 BCE) in the southern Levant represents the rise of regional polities, the metallurgical revolution, and a set of other significant socio-economic changes...

North Sinai Archaeological Project, Tell el-Borg excavations

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PUBLISHED 2019. Please visit the publication's webpage. This grant will support the costs of preparing the second volume of the final report of the excavations at Tell el-Borg, which took place between 1999 and 2008. Tell el-Borg is an crucial military...

Field A at Tell Tweini

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PUBLISHED 2019. Please visit the publication's website. The site of Tell Tweini is located on the southern bank of the Rumeilah River in the Syrian coastal plain, approximately 1,5 km east of modern-day Jebleh and 40 km south of Ras Shamra-Ugarit, capital...

Chagar Bazar IX (Syria): A key Halafian site in the Sixth Millennium cal. BC

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Chagar Bazar is a cluster of mounds with human occupations from the Bronze Age but with a rich Neolithic sequence from the Halaf period. The settlement is a long-duration site located in Syria on the wadi Dara, a tributary of the Khabour River, c. 35 km...

The Pre-pottery Neolithic A Site of Zahrat Adh-'Dhra 2 and the Dawn of Farming by the Dead Sea

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The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) site of Zahrat Adh-'Dhra 2 lies on the barren and deeply dissected Dhra‘ Plain, at the south-east corner of the Dead Sea in Jordan. However, in its heyday (9,200 - 8,300 cal BC) during the early Holocene, the settlement...

The "Sea" and "Harbor" Gates of Akko: Publication of Areas F and P, Israel

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The goal of this project is to analyze and publish the stratigraphic data and finds from these remaining unprocessed areas of Tel 'Akko, and synthesize the results with these other areas, and in a broader eastern Mediterranean historical and...

Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece Fascicle 10. Franchthi Neolithic Pottery Volume 2

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PUBLISHED 1999. Please visit the publication's webpage: Franchthi Neolithic Pottery Franchthi Cave is located in a limestone headland north of Kiladha Bay, in the southern Argolid of Greece. Today it is a coastal site, but at the beginning of the...