February 20, 2015
This exhibition, curated by Harvard University students, faculty, and staff in 2009, explored the uses of aerial and satellite imaging not only to examine ancient cities in the Middle East and South America, but also to view these sites in context, as systems or landscapes, in relation to other sites nearby. These images reveal the extent of Assyrian imperial irrigation in Iraq, forty-five-hundred-year-old track networks in northeastern Syria, and the transient passages of nomadic herders in Iran and Turkey.
It was curated by students of Anthropology 97x, Sophomore Tutorial in Archaeology and graduate student, Adam Stack, with Professor of Anthropology Jason Ur and Associate Curator of Visual Anthropology Ilisa Barbash.