Abu Salabikh Excavations

1 primary work

Two Early Dynastic houses: living with the dead (Abu Salabikh Excavations, Volume 5 - part 1 and 2)

by Michael P. Charles, Sarah Collins, Jane Gaastra, Tina Greenfield, Edward M. Luby, Wendy Matthews, J. Nicholas Postgate, Caroline S. Steele, and David C. Thomas

Published 31 January 2023

This fifth volume of Abu Salabikh Excavations is the definitive account of the excavation of two large domestic residences at the Early Dynastic III city at Abu Salabikh, in south Iraq 15 km to the north of Nippur. It describes and illustrates the houses and their contents, in particular the intramural burials, with coverage of the human osteology, and botanical, zoological and micromorphological studies.