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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 @katie_at_sea @TBTCoalition Trawling in general is also devastating for underwater cultural heritage, in case you needed more reasons against.
    5 days 9 hours ago.
  • jasonalikur
    jasonalikur @orientalinst The entire volume Irrigation in Early States is available for purchase or #OpenAccess download at the Oriental Institute website. t.co/ljF0qaVJ97
    5 days 10 hours ago.
  • jasonalikur
    jasonalikur Just out, a review of remote sensing for studying ancient irrigation, with some Mesopotamian case studies. #OpenAccess PDF courtesy of the enlightened policies of the @orientalinst press! t.co/DFpwlaMm3O
    5 days 10 hours ago.
  • 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
    1 week 1 day ago.
  • jasonalikur
    jasonalikur @RoccoPalermo Were you there? Did you take this photo?!
    2 weeks 1 day ago.
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