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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.

    Department of Anthropology
    Harvard University
    11 Divinity Avenue
    Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

    jasonur@fas.harvard.edu

Latest News

  • 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
  • New Publication: Space and Structure in Early Mesopotamian Cities (Dumbarton Oaks)
  • Harvard on the Map Radio Interview
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Jason Ur on Twitter

  • jasonalikur
    jasonalikur CORONA image of Nimrud, capital of the Assyria, taken 27 Feb 1967. You can see the city wall, avenues in the lower town, and (most interesting) a massive canal that brought water from 23 km away. This one's framed on the wall of my office. t.co/Vl1xJHWy76
    14 hours 28 min ago.
  • jasonalikur
    jasonalikur Come be my colleague! 1-2yr College Fellow in Anthro for Archaeological Science, starting Fall 2021. Please spread the word. t.co/FwqAYVgnxh
    15 hours 13 min ago.
  • jasonalikur
    jasonalikur @JaafarJotheri @Aqsumerian Thanks for the shout out @JaafarJotheri - I try to publish OA so it’s all easily available esp to Iraqi colleagues
    2 days 16 hours ago.
  • jasonalikur
    jasonalikur Drone orthophoto of Girdi Surezha, Kurdistan Region of Iraq with excavation trenches by @orientalinst excavations. A prehistoric village of ca. 5000-3000 BC. Bonus: can you find the flock of sheep? t.co/SiUM8IJgR1
    5 days 19 hours ago.
  • jasonalikur
    jasonalikur @Atomstrawberry @HardcoreHistory The fort survives as the broad elbow-shaped depression on the western end.
    6 days 22 hours ago.
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