Yabroud, Syria and Other Localities
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Solecki, Ralph S.
label: Collection Creator
content: Solecki, Rose L.
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content: Ralph S. and Rose L. Solecki papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1950-2017
label: Date
content: bulk 1964-1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2016-29, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series 2 is divided into 8 subseries: (2.1) Yabroud Shelter I and IV Excavation Field Notebooks, Excavation Catalogs, and Notes, 1950-2018; (2.2) Field Data Cards, 1964-1992; (2.3) Excavation and Artifact Analysis, 1950-2009; (2.4) Writings and Publications, 1960-2012; (2.5) Correspondence and Administrative Files, 1958-2017; (2.6) Illustrations and Maps, 1963-2004; (2.7) Photographs, 1950-2007; and (2.8) Film, [1953- circa 1965]
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series comprises materials relating to Ralph and Rose Solecki's excavations and analyses of  Yabroud Shelter I and Shelter IV sites in 1963-1964, as part of the Columbia Near Eastern Expedition (C.U.N.E.), and in 1988-1989 and their travels in other locations in Syria as well as their reappraisal of previous excavations at the Yabroud Shelter I site by archaeologist Alfred Rust (1900-1983). Material from 1963 excavations at the Suberde site in Turkey is also present. The analytical and administrative files relating to the excavations date between 1950 and 2018 with the bulk dating from 1964-1988.

Included are field notebooks of the Soleckis and their students, field and artifact catalogs, field and artifact data cards, research files, drafts and manuscripts, publications, correspondence, maps of the sites and geographical region in Syria, illustrations of artifacts and site sequencing, and photographs and slides of Yabroud Shelter I and Shelter IV and other locations in Syria and Suberde, Turkey.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Archaeological material excavated by Ralph Solecki from the Yabroud sites is held at the National Museum of Damascus in Syria.The NMNH Department of Anthropology's Collections also holds uncatalogued material from the Yabroud sites as well as material from Turkey potentially excavated during the 1963 field season.