PIs Aja Lans and Jason Ur will be studying the presence of enslaved people in Cambridge's Old Burying Ground. This project is within the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery. The project will involve UAV mapping, ground penetrating radar, and...
Just published: the proceedings from the 2017 conference at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC, Landscapes of Pre-Industrial Cities. Prof. Ur's contribution examines three phases of urbanism in Mesopotamia, each with dramatically different structures, and each differing from the expectations of Gordon Childe's classic model of early cities. Click ...
The latest issue of In Situ, the newsletter of Harvard's Standing Committee on Archaeology, features a heavily-illustrated piece on the use of drones in the landscape archaeology of Kurdistan (Iraq).