Abstract
Four reports were given in the Seminar on the Archaeology of Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East at Columbia University during the academic year: Pyramid Building and the Chronology of the Fourth Dynasty, by Dieter Arnold; Correlation of Archaeological and Written Evidence for the Study of Mesopotamian Institutions and Chronology, by Maria deJ. Ellis; Early Minoan and Middle Minoan Chronology, by Gerald Cadogan; Excavations at Shortughai in Northeast Afghanistan, by Henri-Paul Francfort. Dieter Arnold has published the material on chronology in Uberlegungen zum Problem des Pyramidenbaues, MittKairo 37 (1981) 15-28. The results of Arnold's excavations at Dahshur appear in Dieter Arnold and Rainer Stadelmann, Dahschur erster Grabungsbericht, MittKairo 31 (1975) 169-74; Dieter Arnold and Rainer Stadelmann, Dahschur zweiter Grabungsbericht, 33 (1977) 15-20; Dieter Arnold, Dahschur dritter Grabungsbericht, 36 (1980) 15-21; the fourth preliminary report is in press. Summaries of the other three communications follow below.
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