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Jason Ur
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    Jason Ur is Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.  He specializes in early urbanism, landscape archaeology, and remote sensing, particularly the use of declassified US intelligence imagery.  He has directed field surveys in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran.  He is the author of  Urbanism and Cultural Landscapes in Northeastern Syria: The Tell Hamoukar Survey, 1999-2001 (2010).  Since 2012, he has directed the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey, an archaeological survey in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq.  He is also preparing a history of Mesopotamian cities.

    jasonur@fas.harvard.edu

Latest News

  • The Legacy of Slavery in Cambridge's Old Burying Ground
  • Just Published: Report on EPAS, 2012-2020 in the journal Iraq
  • Declassified spy photos in the NYT
  • New EPAS publication: Ur and Giraud, "vers une histoire du peuplement de la plaine d'Erbil"
  • Jason Ur joins the Board of Trustees for ASOR
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Jason Ur on Twitter

  • jasonalikur
    jasonalikur Here's a first attempt at a #GoogleEarth Studio visualization. Pretty cool! A bit more intuitive than ArcGIS Pro. More experiments to come... t.co/9B7pDR6rG4
    13 min 17 sec ago.
  • jasonalikur
    jasonalikur @RoccoPalermo Were you there? Did you take this photo?!
    6 days 20 hours ago.
  • jasonalikur
    jasonalikur Archaeologists have become very sophisticated with models of climate and society, but in the ancient near east, a simplistic & environmentally deterministic model of sociopolitical collapse has persevered for 30 years. Here’s the latest evidence against. t.co/Oph08RTr1q
    1 week 1 day ago.
  • jasonalikur
    jasonalikur @davidwengrow I love this photo.
    2 weeks 1 day ago.
  • jasonalikur
    jasonalikur I wish identity were this accessible in landscape archaeology. t.co/XxOj9AHhz3
    2 weeks 4 days ago.
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