Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Solecki, Ralph S.
- Solecki, Rose L.
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- Ralph S. and Rose L. Solecki papers
- Sponsor
- Funding for the partial processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund
- Date
- 1950-2017
- bulk 1964-1988
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.2016-29, Series 2
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Ralph S. and Rose L. Solecki papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Arrangement
- 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]
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Scope and Contents
- 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.
- Record ID
- ebl-1646252400288-1646252402272-0
