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).
Esri's ArcGIS Online has the capacity to share 3D web scenes of landscapes generated from drone data. Here's an example at Girdi Abdulaziz, an enormous mound just outside of Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Just appeared: Near Eastern Landscapes and Declassified U2 Aerial Imagery by Emily Hammer and Jason Ur. Read it online here (Open Access).
Abstract:
Recently declassified photographs taken by U2 spy planes in the 1950s and 1960s provide an important new source of historical aerial imagery useful for Eurasian archaeology. Like other sources of historical imagery, U2 photos provide a window into...