The Origins of Social Complexity in Chalcolithic Northern Mesopotamia: Excavations at Surezha

Summary

Although much scholarship has focused on the emergence of towns and cities in southern Mesopotamia, archaeologists still know very little about comparable developments in northern Mesopotamia and especially Iraqi Kurdistan, due to the rarity of archaeological fieldwork in those regions until recently. The excavation project based at Surezha on the Erbil plain aims to contribute to our understanding of Chalcolithic northern Mesopotamia and illuminate the development of social complexity in the region, as well as study its relationship with Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic southern Mesopotamia. Excavation results from Surezha thus far have included the documentation of a sequence of Late Chalcolithic levels, furnishing new information on 5/4th millennium developments on the Erbil plain

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• A New Archaeological Frontier: Urban Settlements and Landscapes in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq

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