A New Archaeological Frontier: Urban Settlements and Landscapes in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)
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.
Other Keywords
Kurdistan •
settlement survey •
Social Complexity •
Land Use •
Settlement Pattern •
Archaeology •
Survey •
Satellite Imagery •
Landscape Archaeology •
Landscape
Geographic Keywords
West Asia
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- Documents (7)
- Assyrian Landscape Planning in the Core of the Empire (ca. 900-600 BC) (2016)
- The Cultural Landscape of the Region of Koi-Sanjay (Koya) (2016)
- Kurd Qaburstan, A "Second Generation" Urban Site on the Erbil Plain (2016)
- The Origins of Social Complexity in Chalcolithic Northern Mesopotamia: Excavations at Surezha (2016)
- The Qara Dagh Archaeological Landscape: The Relation Between Settlement Patterns and Environmental Contexts (2016)
- The Rowanduz Archaeological Program - Results from the 2015 field season (2016)
- Settlement Systems and Land Use Strategies in the Upper Diyala/Sirwan River Valley, Kurdistan Region of Iraq (2016)