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About the Editors Glenn M. Schwartz is Whiting Professor of Archaeology at the Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the emergence and early history of complex societies in Syria and Mesopotamia, and his current field project at Tell Umm el-Marra in western Syria concentrates on the origins, collapse, and regeneration of an early urban center. Schwartz’s previous fieldwork was based at the third millennium bc village of Tell al-Raqa’i in northeastern Syria, in a project focused on the role of small rural communities in early urban societies. The issue of rural archaeology was addressed in Archaeological Views from the Countryside: Village Communities in Early Complex Societies (1994, edited with Steven E. Falconer). Schwartz is author, co-author, and co-editor of several additional books, including, most recently, The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies, ca. 16,000–300 bc, co-authored with Peter Akkermans. John J. Nichols received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in Near Eastern archaeology in 2004. He has participated in archaeological fieldwork in Syria, Egypt, and the United States, and his Ph.D. dissertation concerns the transition from the Early to the Middle Bronze Age in western Syria and the problem of Amorite ethnicity. ...

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