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Department of
Anthropology Harvard University 11 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138
USA Phone: (617)
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS |
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John L. Loeb Associate Professor of
the Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Harvard
University (July 2011-present). [website] Associate Professor, Department
of Anthropology, Harvard University (July 2009-June 2011). Assistant
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
(July 2005-June 2009). Lecturer, Department
of Anthropology, SUNY Stony Brook (Jan
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EDUCATION |
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University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations: Ph.D. in
Mesopotamian Archaeology, awarded with honors, December 2004. [Abstract]
[PDF] University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology:
B.A. cum laude, Spring 1994 |
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FIELD PROJECTS |
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Erbil
Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS), Erbil Governorate, Kurdistan Region of
Iraq. Project Director (Summer 2012). Jemez Fire & Humans in Resilient Ecosystems Project
(FHiRE), Jemez, New Mexico. Surveyor
(Summer 2012). French
Mission to Qasr Shemamok, Erbil Province, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Surveyor (Fall 2011). Hirbemerdon
Tepe Survey, Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Field Director (Summer 2007, 2008, 2009,
2011). [website] Kavuşan
Höyük Regional Survey, Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Gülriz Kozbe and Jason Ur, Project
Directors (Summer 2009). Tell
Brak Project, Syria. Suburban Survey
Team Leader (Fall 2003, 2005, 2006), Survey Team Member (Fall 2002), Area TC
J Supervisor (Spring 2002). [website] Mughan
Steppe Archaeological Project, Iran.
Survey Team Member (Winter 2004-2005). [website] Syrian-American
Hamoukar Expedition, Syria. Survey
Team Leader (Fall 1999, 2000), Area H Supervisor (Fall 2001). [website] Syrian-British-Belgian
Chagar Bazar Excavations, Syria. Area
B Supervisor (Spring 1999), Area G Supervisor (Spring 2000, 2001). Syrian-European
Tell Beydar Project, Syria. Survey
Team Supervisor (Summer 1998). [website] Oriental
Institute Dhamar Project, Yemen.
Supervisor and Survey Assistant (Winter 1998). Northwestern
University Hacinebi Archaeological Excavation, Turkey. Area C Operation 5 Asst. Supervisor (Summer
1997). Giza
Plateau Mapping Project, Egypt. Square
D14 Supervisor (Winter 1997). Tell Madaba Project, Jordan. Field A Supervisor (Summer 1996). University of Arizona Archaeological Field
School. Student (Summer 1993). |
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PUBLICATIONS (*
Peer Reviewed) |
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Books *Ur, J. A. 2010.
Urbanism and Cultural Landscapes
in Northeastern Syria: The Tell Hamoukar Survey, 1999-2001. Oriental Institute Publications 137. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the
University of Chicago. [pdf] [order] See review in the American Journal of Archaeology 117.1 (2013) [html]
[pdf]. Books in
Preparation *Ur, J. A. in preparation. The Evolution of Mesopotamian Cities. Journal Articles
Published *Ur, J. A. 2013. Spying on the Past: Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photographs and Near Eastern Landscapes. Near Eastern Archaeology 76: 28-36. *Menze, Bjoern H., and Jason A. Ur. 2012. Mapping Patterns of Long-Term Settlement in Northern Mesopotamia at a Large Scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109:E778-E787. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1115472109. [online] *Al Quntar, S., L. Khalidi, and J.A. Ur. 2011. Proto-Urbanism in the late 5th Millennium BC: Survey and Excavations at Khirbat al-Fakhar/Hamoukar, Northeast Syria. Paléorient 37:151-175. *Ur, J. A., P. Karsgaard, and J. Oates. 2011. The Spatial Dimensions of Early Mesopotamian Urbanism: The Tell Brak Suburban Survey, 2003-2006. Iraq 73: 1-19. [pdf] *Colantoni, C., and J. A. Ur. 2011. The Architecture and Pottery of a Late 3rd Millennium BC Residential Quarter at Tell Hamoukar, Northeastern Syria. Iraq 73: 21-69. [pdf] *Ur, J. A. 2010. Cycles of Civilization in Northern Mesopotamia, 4400-2000 BC. Journal of Archaeological Research 18:387-431. [abstract] [post-print] *Wilkinson, T. J., C. French, J. A. Ur, and M. Semple.
2010. The Geoarchaeology of Route Systems in Northern Syria. Geoarchaeology 25:745-771. [abstract] Laneri, N., and J. A. Ur. 2010. The Hirbemerdon Tepe
Archaeological Project 2008: A Preliminary Report. 31. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı 31:213-229. [pdf] *Ur, J. A., and E. L. Hammer. 2009. Pastoral Nomads of
the Second and Third Millennia AD on the Upper Tigris River, Turkey:
Archaeological Evidence from the Hirbemerdon Tepe Survey. Journal of Field Archaeology 34:37-56.
[post-print] Laneri, N., M. Schwartz, J. A. Ur, S. Valentini, A.
D'Agostino, R. Berthon, and M. M. Hald. 2008. The Hirbemerdon Tepe
Archaeological Project 2006-2007: A Preliminary Report on the Middle Bronze
Age ‘Architectural Complex’ and the Survey of the Site Catchment Area. Anatolica 34: 177-240. [abstract] *Ur, J. A., P. Karsgaard, and J. Oates. 2007. Urban
Development in the Ancient Near East. Science
317:1188. [abstract]
[full text] *Oates, J., A. McMahon, P. Karsgaard, S. al-Quntar, and
J. Ur. 2007. Early Mesopotamian Urbanism: A New View from the North. Antiquity 81 (313): 585-600. [abstract] *Alizadeh, K., and J. A. Ur. 2007. Formation and
Destruction of Pastoral and Irrigation Landscapes on the Mughan Steppe,
North-Western Iran. Antiquity 81
(311): 148-160. [abstract]
[pdf] *Wilkinson, T. J., J. Christiansen, J. A. Ur, M.
Widell, and M. Altaweel. 2007. Urbanization within a Dynamic Environment:
Modelling Bronze Age Communities in Upper Mesopotamia. American Anthropologist 109:52-68. [abstract] Wright, H. T., E. S. A. Rupley, J. A. Ur, J. Oates, and
E. Ganem. 2006-2007. Preliminary Report on the 2002 and 2003 Seasons of the
Tell Brak Sustaining Area Survey. Les
Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes 49-50:7-21. [PDF] *Menze, B. H., J. A. Ur, and A. G. Sherratt. 2006.
Detection of Ancient Settlement Mounds: Archaeological Survey Based on the
SRTM Terrain Model. Photogrammetric
Engineering & Remote Sensing 72:321-327. [PDF] Alizadeh, K., and J. Ur. 2006. Mughan Steppe
Archaeological Survey. Iranian Center
for Archaeological Research Archaeological Reports 4:49-56 (In Farsi). [PDF] Ur, J. A. 2005. Les imatges per satèllit i l’estructura
dels paisatges antics: exemples del Pròxim Orient. Cota Zero 20:129-138. [PDF] *Ur, J. A. 2005. Sennacherib's Northern Assyrian
Canals: New Insights from Satellite Imagery and Aerial Photography. Iraq 67:317-345. [PDF] *Wilkinson, T. J., E. Wilkinson, J. A. Ur, and M.
Altaweel. 2005. Landscape and Settlement in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Bulletin of the American Schools of
Oriental Research 340:23-56. [PDF] Ur, J. A. 2004-2005.
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"المسح
الاثري و
دراسات
المشهد
الطبيعي في منطقة
تل حموكار1999- 2001 Les
Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syrienne 47-48:9-21 (Arabic Section) .
Translated by S. al-Quntar.
Submitted January 2004. [Arabic] [English] *Ur, J. A. 2003. CORONA Satellite Photography and
Ancient Road Networks: A Northern Mesopotamian Case Study. Antiquity 77:102-115. [PDF] Ur, J. A. 2002. Settlement and Landscape in Northern
Mesopotamia: The Tell Hamoukar Survey 2000-2001. Akkadica 123:57-88. [abstract]
[PDF] *Ur, J. A. 2002. Surface Collection and Offsite Studies
at Tell Hamoukar, 1999. Iraq
64:15-44. [PDF] Journal Articles
In Preparation/In Press Ur, J. A., and Karim Alizadeh. in
press. The Sasanian Colonization of the Mughan Steppe, Ardebil Province,
Northwestern Iran. Journal of Iranian
Archaeology. Submitted 27 February
2013. Ur, J. A. in press. The Morphology
of Neo-Assyrian Cities. Submitted to Subartu 1 June 2012. *Ur, J. A., L. de Jong, J. Giraud,
J.F. Osborne, and J. MacGinnis. In press. Ancient Cities and Landscapes in
the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey 2012
Season. Submitted to Iraq, 3
January 2013, accepted 27 March 2013. *Smith, M.E., J.A. Ur, and G. Feinman.
In press. Archaeological Fieldwork Reveals the Fallacy of Jane Jacobs' Cities
First Model. International Journal of
Urban and Regional Research.
Submitted 2 February 2013, accepted 17 April 2013. Laneri, N., M. Schwartz, J. A. Ur,
R. Berthon, A. Cross, A. D'Agostino, and M. M. Hald. In preparation. The
Hirbemerdon Tepe Archaeological Project: A Northern Mesopotamian Ceremonial
Site and its Region during the Middle Bronze Age. Ur, J. A., and A. Al Hamdani. In
preparation. أنماط
الاستيطان
في سومر واكد (Settlement
Patterns in Sumer and Akkad). To be submitted to Sumer. Ur, J. A., and J. F. Osborne. in
preparation. "Patterns of Settlement in the Neo-Assyrian Empire." Book Chapters *Ur, Jason A. 2013. "CORONA Satellite Imagery and
Ancient Near Eastern Landscapes," in Mapping
Archaeological Landscapes from Space. Edited by Douglas C. Comer and
Michael J. Harrower, pp. 19-29. New York: Springer. *Menze, Bjoern H., and Jason A. Ur. 2013. "Mapping
Anthrosols in Multi-Spectral Images using a Multi-Temporal Classification
Strategy: An Approach to Settlement Survey at a Large Scale in the Upper
Khabur Basin, Syria," in Mapping
Archaeological Landscapes from Space. Edited by Douglas C. Comer and
Michael J. Harrower, pp. 209-218. New York: Springer. Ur, J. A. 2013. "Patterns of Settlement in Sumer
and Akkad," in The Sumerian World.
Edited by H. Crawford, pp. 131-155. London: Routledge. Ur, J. A. 2012. "Southern Mesopotamia," in A Companion to the Archaeology of the
Ancient Near East Vol. 1. Edited by D. T. Potts, pp. 533-555. Malden and
Oxford: Blackwell. [PDF] Ur, J. A. 2012. "Spatial Scale and Urban Evolution
at Tell Brak and Hamoukar at the End of the 3rd Millennium BC," in Looking North: The Socio-Economic Dynamics
of the Northern Mesopotamian and Anatolian Regions during the Late Third and
Early Second Millennium BC, Studien zur Urbanisierung Nordmesopotamiens
Serie D Band 1. Edited by Nicola Laneri, Peter Pfälzner, and Stefano
Valentini, pp. 25-35. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. [PDF] Ur, J. A. 2012. "Landscapes of Movement in the
Ancient Near East," in Proceedings
of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near
East, 12-16 April 2010, the British Museum and UCL, London, Volume 1.
Edited by R. Matthews and J. Curtis, pp. 521-538. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Ur, J. A. 2011. "Ancient Landscapes in
Southeastern Anatolia," in Oxford
Handbook of Ancient Anatolian Studies. Edited by S. R. Steadman and G.
McMahon, pp. 836-857. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Menze, B. H., and J. A. Ur. 2011. "Detection of
Early Settlements in the Central Tigris Region by Classifying Multi-Spectral
Satellite Imagery: A Remote Sensing Approach to Map Early Settlements in the
Near East," in Between the
Cultures: The Central Tigris Region in Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st
Millennium BC, Heidelberger Studien zum Alten Orient 14. Edited by Peter
Miglus and Simone Mühl, pp. 361-367. Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag. *Ur, J. A., and C. Colantoni. 2010. "The Cycle of
Production, Preparation, and Consumption in a Northern Mesopotamian
City," in Inside Ancient Kitchens:
New Directions in the Study of Daily Meals and Feasts. Edited by E.
Klarich, pp. 55-82. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. *Ur, J. A. 2009. "Emergent Landscapes of Movement
in Early Bronze Age Northern Mesopotamia," in Landscapes of Movement: Paths, Trails, and Roads in Anthropological
Perspective. Edited by J. E. Snead, C. Erickson, and W. A. Darling, pp.
180-203. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum Press. [PDF] Ur, J. A., and T. J. Wilkinson. 2008. "Settlement
and Economic Landscapes of Tell Beydar and its Hinterland," in Beydar Studies I. Edited by M. Lebeau
and A. Suleiman, pp. 305-327. Turnhout: Brepols. [PDF] *Wilkinson, T. J., M. Gibson, J. Christiansen, M.
Widell, D. Schloen, N. Kouchoukos, C. Woods, J. C. Sanders, K.-L. Simunich,
M. Altaweel, J. A. Ur, C. Hritz, J. Lauinger, T. Paulette, and J. Tenney.
2007. "Modeling Settlement Systems in a Dynamic Environment: Case
Studies from Mesopotamia," in The
Model-Based Archaeology of Socionatural Systems. Edited by T. A. Kohler
and S. van der Leeuw, pp. 175-208. Santa Fe: School of American Research. Sallaberger, W., and J. A. Ur. 2004. "Tell
Beydar/Nabada in its Regional Setting," in Third Millennium Cuneiform Texts from Tell Beydar (Seasons 1996-2002),
Subartu 12. Edited by L. Milano, W. Sallaberger, P. Talon, and K. Van
Lerberghe, pp. 51-71. Turnhout: Brepols. [PDF] Wilkinson, T. J., J. A. Ur, and J. Casana. 2004.
"From Nucleation to Dispersal: Trends in Settlement Pattern in the
Northern Fertile Crescent," in Side-by-Side
Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World. Edited
by J. Cherry and S. Alcock, pp. 189-205. Oxford: Oxbow Books. [PDF] Book
Chapters In Press/In Preparation Ur,
J.A. in press. "Physical and Cultural Landscapes of Assyria," in Blackwell Companion to Assyria. Edited
by E. Frahm. Oxford: Blackwell.
Submitted to editor 21 June 2011. Ur,
J. A. in press. "Urban Adaptations to Climate Change in Northern
Mesopotamia," in Ancient Society
and Climate. Edited by S. Kerner, R. Dann, and P. Bangsgaard Jensen.
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
Submitted to editors 10 November 2010. *Ur, J. A. in press. "Urban Form at Tell Brak
Across Three Millennia," in Preludes
to Urbanism: Studies in the Late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia in Honour of
Joan Oates. Edited by A. McMahon and H. Crawford. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for
Archaeological Research. Submitted
July 2008. Ur, J. A. in preparation. "Kish and the Spatial
Organization of Cities in 3rd millennium BC Southern Iraq." Ur, J. A. in preparation. "The Rural Landscape of
the Assyrian Heartland: Recent Results from Arbail and Kilizu
Provinces," in Proceedings of the
Conference on the Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire. Edited
by John MacGinnis. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Ur, J. A. in preparation. “Umma. B. Archäologische.” Reallexikon der Assyriologie und
Vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Ur, J. A. in preparation. "Central Planning and
Urban Emergence in Early Bronze Age Cities of Northern Mesopotamia." Widell, M., C. Hritz, J. A. Ur, and M. Altaweel. in
preparation. "Land Use and Land Tenure of the Model Communities,"
in Models of Mesopotamia: How
Small-Scale Processes Contributed to the Growth of Ancient Cities. Edited
by T. J. Wilkinson, M. Gibson, J. C. Christiansen, and M. Widell. Oxford:
Archaeopress. Wilkinson, T. J., J. A. Ur, and C. Hritz. in
preparation. "Settlement Archaeology in Mesopotamia," in Models of Mesopotamia: How Small-Scale
Processes Contributed to the Growth of Ancient Cities. Edited by T. J.
Wilkinson, M. Gibson, J. C. Christiansen, and M. Widell. Oxford: Archaeopress. Book Reviews Review of A. Hausleiter et al. (eds.), Material Culture and Mental Spheres.
Rezeption archäologischer Denkrichtungen in der Vorderasiatischen
Altertumskunde. Internationales
Symposium für Hans J. Nissen, Berlin, 22.-24. Juni 2000, to appear in Bibliotheca Orientalis. Review of M. E. Smith (ed.), The Comparative Archaeology of Complex
Societies. Journal of the Economic and
Social History of the Orient 55 (2012): 860-864. The Myth of Isolated Civilizations (Wengrow’s What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near
East & the Future of the West), in Current Anthropology 52/4 (2011): 607-608. [JSTOR] Review of E. Peltenburg (ed.), Euphrates River Valley
Settlement: The Carchemish Sector in the Third Millennium BC, in Bulletin of the American Schools of
Oriental Research 359 (2010): 77-78. Review of R. Matthews (ed.), Exploring
an Upper Mesopotamian Regional Centre, 1994-1996, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 65 (2006): 313-315. Review of J.N. Postgate (ed.), Artefacts of Complexity: Tracking the Uruk in the Near East, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 65
(2006): 127-128. Review of C. Postgate et
al., The Excavations at Tell
al-Rimah: The Pottery, in Journal
of Near Eastern Studies 64 (2005): 65-68. Review of D. Oates et al.,
Excavations at Tell Brak, Vol. 2.,
in Journal of Near Eastern Studies
63 (2004): 107-110. Newsletters/Other Ur, J. A. 2012. The Present and Future of Archaeology
in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. TAARII
Newsletter 7-1 (Spring 2012): 20-23. [PDF] Ur, J. A. 2008. The Origins and Development of the
First Cities in the Near East. Symbols
Spring 2008: 9-10, 21. [PDF] Laneri, N., M. Schwartz, and J. A. Ur. 2008. The
Hirbemerdon Tepe Archaeological Project. Antiquity Project Gallery. Ur, J. A. 2007. Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in
the Near East: Case Studies using CORONA Satellite Photography. ArchAtlas, October 2007,
2.1 Edition. Ur, J. A. 2006. Google Earth and Archaeology. The SAA Archaeological Record 6 (3):
35-38. [PDF] Ur, J. A. 2004. CAMEL Laboratory Investigates the
Landscape of Assyria from Space. Oriental
Institute News & Notes Spring 2004:6-7. [PDF] Ur, J. A. 2002. The Collapse of an Early Urban Center
in Northern Mesopotamia: The Case of Tell Hamoukar. American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter 52:8-9. [PDF] |
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EXHIBITS |
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Spying on Antiquity: Declassified
Intelligence Satellite Images and Archaeology. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnography, Harvard University.
Curated with students of Anthropology 97x, Sophomore Tutorial in
Archaeology and graduate student, Adam Stack, with Associate Curator of
Visual Anthropology Ilisa Barbash. April
29, 2010 through February 7, 2011. [website] [Boston Globe review] |
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CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PAPERS PRESENTED |
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Upcoming |
“The Landscape of the Assyrian Heartland:
New Archaeological Research in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.” Lecture to be delivered to the St.
Augustine Archaeological Association, St. Augustine, FL, 25 November 2013. “Archaeological Landscapes of the Erbil
Plain, Kurdistan Region of Iraq.”
Paper to be presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research
annual meeting, Baltimore, MD, 20-23 November 2013 (Jason Ur and James
Osborne). |
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2013 |
“Scale and Intensity in Near Eastern
Survey: Case Studies from Syria, Turkey, and the Kurdistan Region of
Iraq.” Paper presented at the
International Mediterranean Survey Workshop, Groningen Institute of
Archaeology, Groningen University, Netherlands, 27 April 2013. “Ancient Cities and Landscapes in the
Kurdistan Region of Iraq.” Lecture
given at Leiden University, 24 April 2013. “Water Systems in the Core of the Assyrian
Empire.” Paper presented at the
symposium “Between Human Niche Construction and Imperial Power: Long-Term
Trends in Ancient Water Systems,” Delft University of Technology, Delft, the
Netherlands, 22-23 April 2013. “Cities, Landscapes, and Water in the Core
of the Assyrian Empire.” Lecture given
at the Assyrian Landscapes Research Group meeting, University of Udine,
Italy, 18 April 2013. “The Rural Landscape of the Assyrian
Heartland: Recent Results from Arbail and Kilizu Provinces.” Presentation for the Historiography of the
Ancient Near East workshop, Harvard University, February 20, 2013. *“The Emergence of Cities in
Mesopotamia.” Invited lecture at the
Department of Anthropology, University of California at San Diego, February
11, 2013. “On the Grounds of Gaugamela: Imperial Landscapes
in the Erbil Plain.” Paper to be
presented at the 114th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of
America, Seattle, Washington, January 4, 2013 (Lidewijde de Jong and Jason
Ur). |
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2012 |
“The Rural Landscape of the Assyrian
Heartland: Recent Results from Arbail and Kilizu Provinces.” Paper presented at the Provincial
Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire conference, University of Cambridge,
December 13, 2012. “The Tell Baqrta Project in the Kurdistan
Region of Iraq.” Paper presented at
the Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire conference, University of
Cambridge, December 15, 2012 (Konstantinos Kopanias, Claudia Beuger, John
MacGinnis, Jason Ur). “Remote Sensing of Sites and Landscapes in
the Kurdistan Region, Northern Iraq.”
Presentation at the conference Modern Techniques and Archaeological
Sites in Iraq, Iraqi Cultural Center, Washington DC, December 8, 2012. “New Archaeological Research in the
Kurdistan Region of Iraq.” Lecture
presented at the Harvard Club of Boston/Harvard Alumni Association “Saturday
of Symposia,” December 1, 2012. “Archaeological Landscapes in the Core of
the Assyrian Empire.” Paper presented
at the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Chicago,
November 17, 2012. “Water and Early Civilization in
Mesopotamia.” Presentation at the
symposium “Water in Context: Exploring Water in the Middle East through GIS
Mapping and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives,” Harvard University Center for
Middle Eastern Studies, September 28, 2012. “New Research in the Kurdistan Region of
Iraq.” Presentation at Anthropology
Day, Harvard University, September 14, 2012. “The Erbil Plain Archaeological
Survey.” Presentation to the Erbil
International Study Group, Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, September 6,
2012. “Archaeological Survey on the Erbil
Plain.” Lecture given at the Iraqi
Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage (IICAH), Erbil,
Iraq, September 4, 2012. “The Landscapes of States and Empires in
Northern Mesopotamia.” Presentation at
the University of Copenhagen, June 11, 2012. “Agency
and Emergence in the Formation of Ancient Landscapes.” Keynote address presented at the 2nd
International Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC2012), Freie Universität
Berlin, Germany, June 7, 2012. “The
Comparative Morphology of Neo-Assyrian Cities.” Paper presented at the 8th International
Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (8ICAANE), Warsaw,
Poland, April 30-May 4, 2012. “Frogs
Orbiting the Pond: Case Studies from the Near East.” Paper delivered in the session “Frogs
Crossing the Pond: New Frontiers in Regional Archaeology” at the 77th Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tennessee, April
21, 2012 (Jason Ur and Bjoern Menze). Discussant for the session “Socio-Natural
Systems in Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Societies: Archaeological
Investigations of Pastoral Landscapes” at the 77th Annual Meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tennessee, April 19, 2012. “The Engineered Settlement Landscape of the
Assyrian Empire.” Presentation given
at Stony Brook University, Department of Anthropology, March 14, 2012. “The Landscapes of States and Empires in
Northern Mesopotamia.” Presentation
delivered at the Old World Archaeology Seminar, Department of Anthropology,
University of Connecticut, February 16, 2012. |
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2011 |
“Forms and Stages of Urban Settlement in
Early Mesopotamia.” Paper delivered at
the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November
19, 2011. “Ancient Landscapes in Iraqi
Kurdistan.” Presentation to the Erbil
International Study Group, Ankawa, Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, November
6, 2011. “Ancient Landscapes in Northern Iraq: The
Current State of Knowledge and Prospects for the Future.” Presentation at the Intemational Meeting on
Iraqi Archaeology, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, November 1, 2011. “Spying on Antiquity: Declassified US
Intelligence Satellite Imagery and Near Eastern Archaeology.” Baylor University Institute of Archaeology
Distinguished Lecture, March 18, 2011. |
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2010 |
“Spying on Antiquity: Declassified US
Intelligence Satellite Imagery and Near Eastern Archaeology.” Nineteenth annual Breasted Lecture to the
Rockford (IL) Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, April 22,
2010. “Landscapes of Movement in the Ancient Near
East.” Keynote lecture at the 7th
International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, British
Museum/University College London, April 12, 2010. [abstract] “Cities and Landscapes of the Later 3rd
Millennium BC in Northern Mesopotamia.”
Presentation at Northeast by Northeast: Workshop on the Archaeology of
NE Syria, Yale University, New Haven, CT, March 6, 2010. |
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2009 |
“New Research on the Origins of Urbanism in
Ancient Mesopotamia.” Invited
presentation at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, Beijing, China, December 11, 2009. [more] “Spying on Antiquity: Declassified US
Intelligence Satellite Imagery and Near Eastern Archaeology.” Invited lecture to the School of Archaeology,
Peking University, Beijing, China, December 9, 2009. “Climatic
Variation and Social Change in the Near East.” Keynote address to the Climate and Ancient
Societies Conference, University of Copenhagen, October 22, 2009. [Website] “Extensive Settlements as Precursors to the
Earliest Mesopotamian Cities.” Paper
presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Atlanta,
Georgia, April 23, 2009 (session organizer and chair). “Nomadic Pastoralist Landscapes Along the
Upper Tigris.” Paper presented at the
Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April 23,
2009 (Emily Hammer and Jason Ur). “Spying on Antiquity: Declassified US
Intelligence Satellite Imagery and Near Eastern Archaeology.” Invited lecture to the Department of Near Eastern
Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, March 23, 2009. “Fresh Evidence on the Origins of Urbanism
in Ancient Mesopotamia.” Lecture
presented at the Harvard Semitic Museum, Cambridge, MA, March 5, 2009. “Spying on Antiquity: Declassified US Intelligence
Satellite Imagery and Near Eastern Archaeology.” Invited lecture to the Archaeological
Institute of America Finger Lakes (Ithaca) Society at Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York, February 24, 2009. |
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2008 |
“Pastoral and Agricultural Landscapes on
the Margins of the Upper Tigris River, SE Turkey.” Paper delivered at the American Schools of
Oriental Research Annual
Meeting, Boston, November 22, 2008. “Spying on Antiquity: Declassified US
Intelligence Satellite Imagery and Near Eastern Archaeology.” Invited lecture to the Archaeological
Institute of America New Brunswick (Canada) Society at the University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, November 14, 2008. “Spying on Antiquity: Declassified US
Intelligence Satellite Imagery and Near Eastern Archaeology.” Invited lecture to the Archaeological
Institute of America Worcester, MA Society at the Worcester Art Museum, November 12, 2008. “New Research on the Origins of Urbanism in
Ancient Mesopotamia.” Lecture at the
St. Augustine Archaeological Association, Flagler College, October 30, 2008. “New Research on the Origins of Urbanism in
Ancient Mesopotamia.” Invited lecture
to the Archaeological Institute of America Central Florida Society at the
University of Florida, October 29, 2008. “The Assyrians and their World.” Lecture given at the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston in conjunction with the exhibition Art
and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum, October 16,
2008. “Hirbemerdon Tepe Archaeological Project
2007,” Nicola Laneri and Jason Ur.
Paper presented at the 30th International Symposium of Excavations,
Surveys and Archaeometry, Ankara University (Turkey), May 28, 2008. “Remote Sensing of Ancient Near Eastern
Irrigation: Case Studies from Iraq and Iran.”
Invited lecture at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), May
22, 2008. “CORONA Satellite Photography and the
Structure of Ancient Near Eastern Landscapes.” Invited lecture delivered at the Università
degli Studi di Firenze (Italy), May 12, 2008. “Northern Mesopotamian Cities and their
Hinterlands: Tell Brak and Hamoukar in the late 3rd and early 2nd millennia
BC.” Paper presented at the 6th
International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Sapienza
Università di Roma, May 7, 2008. “Cyclical Patterns of Landscape
Transformation in the Near East.”
Paper read at the 109th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute
of America, Chicago, Illinois, January 5, 2008. |
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2007 |
“CORONA Satellite Photography and the
Structure of Ancient Near Eastern Landscapes.” Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas, April 26, 2007. “Surveying and Mapping Near Eastern
Settlement Mounds from Space,” Bjoern Menze, Simone Mühl, Jason Ur. Paper presented at the Computer
Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology annual meeting, Berlin,
April 4, 2007. “Classification of Multispectral ASTER
Imagery in the Archaeological Survey for Settlement Sites of the Near East,”
Bjoern Menze and Jason Ur. Poster
presented at the 10th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and
Signatures in Remote Sensing, Davos, Switzerland, March 13, 2007. “Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in
the Near East: Case Studies using CORONA Satellite Photography. Presentation at the workshop Mapping Human
History From Space: Tells, Routes, and Archaeogeography in the Near East,
University of Sheffield, March 3, 2007. “State-Sponsored Irrigation around
Sennacherib’s Nineveh: Interpretations from Royal Inscriptions and Landscape
Archaeology.” Presentation to the
Ancient Near Eastern History and Historiography Workshop, Harvard University,
February 21, 2007. “Spying
on the Ancient World: Archaeological Applications of Declassified US
Intelligence Satellite Photography in the Near East.” Presentation and poster at the Harvard
University Center for Geographic Analysis’ Workshop on Remote Sensing,
Cambridge, MA, February 16, 2007. [video]
[slides]
[poster PDF] |
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2006 |
“The Evolution of Settlement at Tell Brak:
New Data on Urban Emergence.” Paper
presented at the American Schools of
Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., November 16, 2006. (Co-authored by Philip Karsgaard.) “Emergent Landscapes of Movement in Early
Bronze Age Northern Mesopotamia.”
Paper contributed to the Penn International Research Conference Landscapes of Movement: Trails, Paths, and
Roads in Anthropological Perspective, University of Pennsylvania Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology, May 29-June 2, 2006. “State-Sponsored Irrigation Systems in the
Assyrian Heartland, 702-681 BC: Reconstructions Using Declassified Intelligence
Satellite Imagery and Aerial Photography.”
Poster presented at the Harvard University Center for Geographic
Analysis Launch Event, May 5, 2006. [poster PDF] “Emergent Landscapes of Intensification in
Early Bronze Age Northern Mesopotamia.”
Paper presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 29, 2006 (Session co-organizer). “Satellite
Imagery and the Structure of Ancient Landscapes: Case Studies from the Near
East.” Invited paper presented to the
Columbia Seminar on the Ancient Near East, Columbia University, April 6,
2006. |
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2005 |
“Irrigation Landscapes of Ancient Empires:
An Assyrian Case Study.” Paper
presented at the 4th Biennial International Water History Association, Paris,
December 3, 2005. “Landscapes of Irrigation and Pastoralism
in Northwestern Iran.” Paper read at
the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November
19, 2005 (co-authored by Karim Alizadeh). “Irrigation and Pastoralism on the Mughan
Steppe, Northwestern Iran.” Lecture
presented at the Harvard University Department of Anthropology Lunch Seminar
Series, November 9, 2005. “Recent Fieldwork on Ancient Landscapes in
Syria and Iran.” Lecture presented at
the 2005 East Coast Marching and Chowder Society meeting, Philadelpia,
October 29, 2005. "The
Classification of Urban Settlement Systems in Northern Mesopotamia in the
Fifth to First Millennia BC."
Paper presented at the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale,
Chicago, July 21, 2005 (Landscape Archaeology Workshop organizer). |
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2004 |
"The Evolution of Settlement at Tell
Brak, Syria: Preliminary Results of the 2003 Surface Collection." Paper
delivered at the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting,
San Antonio, November 20, 2004. (Co-authored with Philip Karsgaard.) "Urbanism and Landscape in Bronze Age
Northern Mesopotamia." Lecture delivered
at Harvard University, Anthropology Department, November 4, 2004 (invited
lecture). "The
Social Context of Food Consumption in Early Urban Northern Mesopotamia."
Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Montreal, Canada, April 3, 2004. |
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2003 |
"Urbanism and Social Complexity in
Early Bronze Age Northern Mesopotamia."
Paper delivered at the Sixth Biennial Meeting of the Complex Societies
Group, UCLA, November 8, 2003 (Invited Presenter). "A GIS-Based Reassessment of the
Waters of Nineveh." Paper
delivered at the 49th Annual Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, London,
July 8, 2003. "Remote Sensing and GIS Applications
in the Study of North Mesopotamian Road Networks." Paper delivered at the 68th Annual Meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 12,
2003. "The Use of Site Area and Cultivated
Territory to Provide Cross Checks on Ancient Population Estimates," T.J.
Wilkinson and Jason Ur. Paper delivered at the 68th Annual Meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 10, 2003 "Recent Survey and Landscape
Archaeology in the Upper Khabur Basin."
University of Chicago Workshop on Archaeological Survey, January 31,
2003. |
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2002 |
"Third Millennium Road Systems in
Upper Mesopotamia." Paper
delivered at the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting,
Toronto, November 21, 2002. "Settlement and Landscape in Northern
Mesopotamia: The Tell Hamoukar Survey 1999-2001." Paper delivered at the 3rd International
Conference on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Université de Paris
I, April 17, 2002. "Remote Sensing and GIS in
Archaeological Field Methodology: Applications to Site Survey and Landscape
Archaeology in the Upper Khabur Basin."
Remote Sensing and GIS Methods and Applications in Southwest Asia
Workshop, University of Chicago, February 23, 2002. |
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2001 |
"Urbanization and its Impact on the
Landscape of the 3rd Millennium B.C. Upper Khabur Plain, Northeastern
Syria." Paper presented at the
American Schools of Oriental Research Annual meeting, Denver, November 16,
2001. "Settlement
and Landscape Reconstruction in the Upper Khabur Basin, Northeast
Syria." Lecture presented for the
University of Chicago Committee on Archaeological Studies' Interdisciplinary
Archaeology Workshop, February 22, 2001. |
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2000 |
"Looking at Ancient Cities from Space:
Using Satellite Images to Study Early Urbanism in Northern
Mesopotamia." Lecture presented
to the South Suburban Archaeological Society, July 20, 2000. "Ancient Route Systems and Urbanism in
the 3rd Millennium BC Upper Khabur Basin." Paper delivered at the 2nd International
Conference on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, University of
Copenhagen, May 23, 2000. |
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1999 |
"Ancient Route Systems and Satellite
Photography in Northeast Syria."
Lecture presented for the University of Chicago Committee on
Archaeological Studies' Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop, February 4,
1999. |
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1998 |
"Seal Inheritance and Iconography in
the Kassite Administration of Nippur."
Paper delivered at the 45th Annual Rencontre Assyriologique
Internationale, Harvard University, July 5-8, 1998. |
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CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP SESSIONS
ORGANIZED/CHAIRED |
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2013 |
Archaeological
Site Preservation, Block 2: Survey Approaches. Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of
Antiquities and Heritage, Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. May 12-23, 2013. |
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2012 |
Mesopotamian
Civilization: New Directions in Iraqi Archaeology. American Schools
of Oriental Research 2012 Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 17, 2012 (Jason
Ur and Carrie Hritz, co-organizers and Chairs). Two sessions, twelve papers. [abstracts] |
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2011 |
New
Directions in Archaeology, Harvard
University, Cambridge MA, April 15-16, 2011 (Rowan Flad, Jason Ur, Matt
Liebmann, Susanne Ebbinghaus, Ruth Bielfeldt, and Michael McCormick,
co-organizers). Sponsored by the
Standing Committee on Archaeology. Eight
papers, sixteen discussants. |
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2010 |
Settlement
and Society in the Ancient Near East. American
Schools of Oriental Research 2010 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 19, 2010
(Jason Ur and Jesse Casana, co-organizers and chairs). Two sessions, 7 papers. Northeast
by Northeast: Workshop on the Archaeology of Northeastern Syria. New Haven, CT,
March 6-7, 2010 (Harvey Weiss, Richard Meadow, and Jason Ur,
co-organizers). 7 participants. |
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2009 |
Chengdu
Plains Archaeological GIS Workshop. Chengdu
Municipal Institute of Archaeology, Chengdu, China. Five-day intensive introduction to GIS and
remote sensing for Chinese archaeologists, December 14-18, 2009. 40 participants. Settlement
and Society in the Ancient Near East. American Schools of Oriental Research 2009
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 18-21, 2009 (Jesse Casana and Jason Ur,
co-organizers and chairs). Two
sessions, 10 papers planned. Responses
of Complex Societies to Climatic Variation. University of Copenhagen Climate and
Ancient Society Conference, October 20-24, 2009. 12 papers. [Website] Recent Research in Mesopotamian
Urbanism: Origins, Structure, Economy. Society for American Archaeology 2009
Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April 22-26, 2009.
9 papers. |
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2008 |
Settlement and Society in the Ancient
Near East. American Schools of Oriental Research 2008
Annual Meeting, Boston, November 22, 2008 (Jason Ur and Jesse Casana,
co-organizers and chairs). 6 papers. |
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2007 |
Spying on
the Past: Archaeological Applications of Declassified Intelligence Satellite
Photography.
Session at the Society for American Archaeology 2007 Annual Meeting,
Austin, April 2007. 7 papers. |
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2006 |
Landscapes
of Intensification.
Session at the Society for American Archaeology 2006 Annual Meeting,
San Juan, April 29, 2006 (Jason Ur and Verónica Pérez Rodríguez,
co-organizers). 11 papers. |
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2005 |
Landscape
Archaeology Workshop.
Session at the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique
Internationale, Chicago, July 18-22, 2005. |
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GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS,
HONORS |
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2013-2015 National Science Foundation
Senior Research Grant BCS-1261118, $197,075 (for The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey) [abstract] 2013 National Geographic Society, Committee
for Research and Exploration Grant 9277-13, $15,870 (for The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey) 2013 Dumbarton Oaks, $10,000 (for The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey) 2008-2009 Kershaw Lecturer, Archaeological
Institute of America 2008 Harvard University Tozier Fund, $5,950
(for Ancient Landscapes of the Near
East, Viewed from Space) 2003-2004 Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellow 2003 Ben Cullen Prize (awarded by the
Trustees of Antiquity for best
contribution by a junior scholar) 2002 University of Chicago Walsh Award (for
computing in the Humanities Division) 2001 Dorot Travel
Grant (ASOR) 2000-2001 American Schools of Oriental
Research Mesopotamian Fellowship 2000-2001 University of Chicago Ryerson
Fellowship 1996-2002 University of Chicago Oriental
Institute Helen Rich Travel Fund awards |
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PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES |
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Society for American Archaeology
(SAA) American
Anthropological Association (AAA) Archaeological
Institute of America (AIA) American Schools
of Oriental Research (ASOR);
member of the Damascus Committee; member of the Committee on Mesopotamian
Civilization; Editorial Board member, Near
Eastern Archaeology British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI,
formerly British
School of Archaeology in Iraq) The American Academic Research Institute in
Iraq (TAARII);
Institutional representative, Harvard University British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) American School of Prehistoric Research
(ASPR); Board member (2009-present) Editorial Board member, Water History, journal of the
International Water History Association Scientific Committee member, Center for
Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies Manuscript reviewer, Antiquity, Science, Journal
of Archaeological Science, Geoarchaeology,
Journal of Archaeological Research,
Bulletin of the American Schools of
Oriental Research, Irrigation and Drainage, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Journal of Field Archaeology, Cotsen
Institute of Archaeology Press, University of Arizona Press Grant Application Reviewer, National
Science Foundation, National Geographic Society |
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY SERVICE |
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Undergraduate
Courses Taught: Anthropology 97x:
Sophomore Tutorial in Archaeology (Spring 2010) Anthropology
1010: Introduction to Archaeology (Fall 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2012 with R.
Flad, 2006 with N. Tuross, 2009 with M. Liebmann) Anthropology
1045: Ancient Settlement Systems (Spring 2007) Anthropology
1155: Before Baghdad: Cities of Ancient Mesopotamia (Spring 2009) Anthropology
1150: Ancient Landscapes (Fall 2009) Ancient Near East
155r: Ancient Mesopotamia: Archaeology and Texts (Spring 2012 with P.
Steinkeller) Undergraduate
Senior Theses Supervised: Chase,
Adrian, “Beyond Elite Control: Water Management at Caracol, Belize”
(Anthropology, Spring 2012) Pritchett,
Allyson, “Ancient Suburbia? A GIS Analysis of Tiwanaku Settlement Patterns”
(Applied Mathematics, Spring 2007) Graduate
Courses Taught: Anthropology
2020: GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology (formerly Anthropology 1065;
Spring 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012) Anthropology
2063: Ancient Landscapes (Spring 2006, Fall 2009) Anthropology
2065: Complex Societies of Northern Mesopotamia (Spring 2008) Anthropology
3000: Reading Course on the Archaeology of Anatolia (Fall 2008) Graduate
Student Advisory Committees: Ari Caramanica
(G2) Jonathan
Clindaniel (G1) Nathaniel
Erb-Satullo (G3, primary advisor) PhD
Dissertations Supervised: Michele Koons
(Anthropology), “Licapa II: Examining Moche Socio-Political Organization from
a Mid-Sized Center in the Chicama Valley, Peru,” Summer 2012 (committee
member). Emily Hammer
(Anthropology), “Local Spatial Systems of Nomadic Pastoral Land-use in
Southeastern Turkey,” Spring 2012 (Committee Chair). James Osborne
(Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), “Power and Space in an Iron Age
Kingdom: Spatial Analysis and Authority in the Iron II Kingdom of Patina,”
Spring 2011 (committee member) Adam Aja (Near
Eastern Languages & Civilizations), “Philistine Domestic Architecture of
the Early Iron Age,” Fall 2009 (committee member). Seong Hyun Park (Near
Eastern Languages & Civilizations), “Ashkelon in Iron Age IIB: Pottery
and Stratigraphy in the Assessment of Its Settlement and Culture,” Fall 2009
(committee member). PhD
Dissertation Committees: Karim Alizadeh
(Anthropology), “Social Inequality at Ravaz, an Early Bronze Age Settlement
in Iranian Azerbaijan.” Nathaniel Erb-Satullo
(Anthropology), “The Rise of Iron in the Land of the Golden Fleece: Metal
Production in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Colchis.” Janling Fu (Near Eastern
Languages & Civilizations), “Feasting in Ancient Israel during the United
Monarchy.” Price, Max
(Anthropology), “Pigs and Complexity: The Evolution of Swine Husbandry
Practices in Northern Mesopotamia from the Late Neolithic through the Early
Bronze Age (ca. 6500-2100 cal. BC).” Ramadan, Shilan
(University of Paris) Soroush,
Mehrnoush (NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World), “Irrigated
landscapes and Political Dynamics in Khuzistan: A landscape Study of the
Miān-āb Plain (Iran).” Anthropology
Departmental Service: 2008-2010,
2012-present Coordinator of the Harvard Archaeology Seminar (formerly the
Archaeology Wing Wednesday Lunch Seminar) 2008 Member,
Archaeology Wing Vision Statement Committee University
Service: 2009- present
Member, Standing Committee on Archaeology [website] 2008-2010
Freshman Faculty Advisor (4 students) 2008-present
Member, Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA)
Steering Committee 2006-2007 Member,
CGA Remote Sensing Workshop Advisory Committee 2006-2007 Member,
Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographic Information Science selection committee 2006 Member, CGA
Director/Professor of Engineering Search Committee |
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SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE
OF RESEARCH |
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Brumfiel, Geoff, “Shared
Intelligence.” Nature 477, September 22, 2011, pp. 388-389. [web] [pdf] Powell, Alvin, “Getting a Bird’s-Eye View
of the Past.” The Harvard Gazette, April 29, 2010, p. 4. [web] [pdf] Lawler, Andrew, “Out of Eden.” Discover Magazine, December 2009, pp.
64-68 [web] “Googling Discoveries.” Interview on National Public Radio’s Here and Now, October 23, 2008. [web] “Armchair archaeology.” The
Economist, September 4, 2008. [web] Lawler, Andrew, “66. Great Ancient City
Unearthed in Syria,” in “Top 100 Science Stories of 2007,” Discover Magazine January 2008. [web] Gleason, Paul, “Outside-In Ur-banism.” Harvard
Magazine, May-June 2008, pp. 12-13. [web]
[PDF]
[web extra] Pringle, Heather, “Tell Brak, Syria,” in
“Top Ten Discoveries of 2008.” Archaeology Magazine, January/February
2008, p. 25. [web] Maugh, Thomas, “Outskirts may have preceded
early city.” Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2007, p. A-13. [web] Lavoie, Amy, “New research challenges
previous knowledge about the origins of urbanization.” Harvard
University Gazette Online, August 31, 2007. [web] Powell, Alvin, “Investigating Canals Across
Time, from Space.” Harvard University
Gazette, March16, 2006. [web] Wilford, John Noble, “Satellites Uncover
Ancient Mideast Road Networks.” New
York Times, January 28, 2003, p. D3. [web] Robbins, Michael, “Cold War Spy Photos
Reveal Bronze Age Roads," in "100 Top Science Stories of
2003," Discover
Magazine January 2004, p. 65. [web] Curry, Andrew, “Spying on the Ancients.” Archaeology March-April 2003, p. 13. [web] Kreiter, Marcella, “Archaeologists Find
Ancient Road.” United Press
International, January 28, 2003. Moffett, Nancy, “Cold War Spy Photos Detail
Ancient Roads.” Chicago Sun-Times,
January 28, 2003. “Spy Photos Reveal Ancient Middle East Road
Network.” Reuters News Agency,
January 27, 2003. Lathrop, Stacy, “Ancient Mideast Road
System.” Anthropology News 44(3):27, March 2003. Cecilia, Lorella, “Un satellite per
l'antica Mesopotamica.” Archeo 19(3): 12-13, March 2003. Harms, William, “Satellite images lead to
ancient 'highways.'” University of
Chicago Chronicle Vol. 22 no. 9 (6 February 2003). pp. 1, 8. “Satellite Photos Reveal Ancient
Roads.” Archaeology Odyssey, May/June 2003, p. 20. “Un satellite militaire perce des secrets
de l'Antiquité.” Science et Vie 1028 (May 2003), p. 18. “Casus Uydular.” Atlas
(March 2003), p. 24. [Also appearances on Discovery Channel Canada's
"Daily Planet" program, BBC East Asia Service and BBC Radio Four,
29-30 January 2003.] |
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