A New Archaeological Frontier: Urban Settlements and Landscapes in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq

The past four years have seen a renaissance in the archaeology of Mesopotamia. Although fieldwork has been suspended in Syria, and most of Iraq continues to be unsafe, the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq has become a welcome home for new research into some of the most important questions of early social complexity. This session brings together new scholarship that bears on questions of early urbanism, imperial power, settlement patterns, and landscape evolution.