Browsing by Author "Ur, Jason"
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Ancient Cities and Landscapes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey 2012 Season
Ur, Jason Alik; De Jong, Lidewijde; Giraud, Jessica; Osborne, James F.; MacGinnis, John (British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2013)In 2012, the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) conducted its first season of fieldwork. The project’s goal is the complete mapping of the archaeological landscape of Erbil, with an emphasis on the Neo-Assyrian and ... -
Archaeological Projects in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq
Kopanias, Konstantinos; MacGinnis, John; Ur, Jason Alik (The General Directorate of Antiquities of the Kurdistan Regional Government, 2015) -
The Architecture and Pottery of a Late 3rd Millennium BC Residential Quarter at Tell Hamoukar, Northeastern Syria
Colantoni, Carlo; Ur, Jason Alik (British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2011)The 2001 excavations in Area H on Hamoukar’s lower town produced a wealth of information on a residential neighbourhood of a late third-millennium BC city. The excavations were intended to address several issues, including ... -
CORONA Satellite Photography and Ancient Road Networks: A Northern Mesopotamian Case Study
Ur, Jason Alik (Antiquity Publications, 2003)Landscape archaeology has emphasised the role of the entire landscape in ancient life, rather than putting an exclusive focus on those loci of intensive behaviour we call “sites.” The broader area of interest requires a ... -
Cycles of Civilization in Northern Mesopotamia, 4400-2000 BC
Ur, Jason (Springer, 2009-08-18)The intensification of fieldwork in northern Mesopotamia, the upper region of the Tigris-Euphrates basin, has revealed two cycles of expansion and reduction in social complexity between 4400-2000 BC. These cycles include ... -
Early Mesopotamian Urbanism: A New View from the North
Ur, Jason Alik; Oates, Joan; McMahon, Augusta; Karsgaard, Phillip; Al Quntar, Salam (Antiquity Publications, 2007)For many years, the southern Mesopotamia of Ur and Uruk, ancient Sumer, has been seen as the origin centre of civilisation and cities: ‘The urban implosion of late-fourth- and early-third-millennium Mesopotamia resulted ... -
Early Urban Development in the Near East
Ur, Jason Alik; Karsgaard, Philip; Oates, Joan (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007) -
Formation and Destruction of Pastoral and Irrigation Landscapes on the Mughan Steppe, North-Western Iran
Alizadeh, Karim; Ur, Jason Alik (Antiquity Publications, 2007)CORONA satellite photography taken in the 1960s continues to reveal buried ancient landscapes and sequences of landscapes – some of them no longer visible. In this new survey of the Mughan Steppe in north-western Iran, the ... -
Hellenistic Landscapes and Seleucid Control in Mesopotamia: The View from the Erbil Plain in Northern Iraq
Palermo, Rocco; De Jong, Lidewijde; Ur, Jason (University of Chicago Press, 2022-07-01)In this article we discuss the archaeological landscapes of the Erbil plain during the Hellenistic period (late fourth century BCE–mid second century BCE) based on the data collected during the Erbil Plain Archaeological ... -
The Hirbemerdon Tepe Archaeological Project 2008: A Preliminary Report
Laneri, Nicola; Ur, Jason Alik (Ministry of Culture and Tourism for Turkey, 2010) -
Households and the Emergence of Cities in Ancient Mesopotamia
Ur, Jason Alik (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014)The world’s first cities emerged on the plains of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria) in the fourth millennium BC. Attempts to understand this settlement process have assumed revolutionary social change, the disappearance ... -
The Hydraulic Landscape of Nimrud
Ur, Jason Alik; Reade, Julian (Institute of Archaeology, University of Tornio, 2015) -
Is Poverty in Our Genes?
d’Alpoim Guedes, Jade; Bestor, Theodore C; Carrasco, David L.; Flad, Rowan K.; Fosse, Ethan A; Herzfeld, Michael F; Lamberg-Karlovsky, Carl C.; Lewis, Cecil M.; Liebmann, Matthew Joseph; Meadow, Richard Henry; Patterson, Nick; Price, Max Daniel; Reiches, Meredith Wayden; Richardson, Sarah S; Shattuck-Heidorn, Heather; Ur, Jason Alik; Urton, Gary; Warinner, Christina (University of Chicago Press, 2013)We present a critique of a paper written by two economists, Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor, which is forthcoming in the American Economic Review and which was uncritically highlighted in Science magazine. Their paper claims ... -
Jane Jacobs' ‘Cities First’ Model and Archaeological Reality
Smith, Michael E.; Ur, Jason Alik; Feinman, Gary M. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)In The Economy of Cities, Jane Jacobs conjectured that the world's first cities preceded the origins of agriculture, a proposition that was most recently revived by Peter Taylor in the pages of this journal. Jacobs' idea ... -
Local Landscapes of Pastoral Nomads in Southeastern Turkey
Hammer, Emily (2012-11-15)The important historical role of pastoral nomads in Mesopotamia stands in stark contrast to the dearth of archaeological data on pastoral nomadic groups of any pre-modern period. Archaeological models neglect not just a ... -
Mapping Patterns of Long-Term Settlement in Northern Mesopotamia at a Large Scale
Menze, Bjoern; Ur, Jason Alik (National Academy of Sciences, 2012) -
Metal Production in the Land of the Golden Fleece: Economic Organization and Technological Change in the South Caucasus, 1500-500 BC
Erb-Satullo, Nathaniel L. (2016-05-20)Analyzing the causes and consequences of technological change is essential not only for the reconstruction of ancient social dynamics, but also for understanding how present-day societies confront the process of innovation. ... -
The Morphology of Neo-Assyrian Cities
Ur, Jason Alik (2013-07-14) -
Multitemporal Fusion for the Detection of Static Spatial Patterns in Multispectral Satellite Images--with Application to Archaeological Survey
Menze, Bjoern H.; Ur, Jason Alik (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)We evaluate and further develop a multitemporal fusion strategy that we use to detect the location of ancient settlement sites in the Near East and to map their distribution, a spatial pattern that remains static over time. ... -
Pastoral Nomads of the Second and Third Millennia AD on the Upper Tigris River, Turkey: Archaeological Evidence from the Hirbemerdon Tepe Survey
Ur, Jason; Hammer, Emily (Boston University, 2009)The importance of non-sedentary pastoralist groups in the social and political history of Mesopotamia has long been appreciated from the perspective of ancient texts and ethnohistorical sources, but empirical evidence from ...