The following report covers two full seasons of work at Abu Salabikh, breaking with our previous practice of writing a report for this journal after each season. As well as reducing the space absorbed by each season, this has the advantage that work which was conceived on a two-season schedule as a single programme can be presented together. There was no work at the site in 1984, and none is planned on the Early Dynastic mounds in 1987; provisionally we propose to conduct another two seasons of work there in 1988–89, followed by a break in 1990. It is hoped that during the fallow years it will be possible to keep the programme of final publications going.
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Matthews et al. (1987) studied this question.