The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions

The burgeoning of archaeological research in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq is one of the great success stories of world archaeology today. For twenty years it was impossible for western archaeologists to work in Iraq, and for most of this time there were also heavy restrictions on the activity of Iraqi archaeologists. In addition to this Kurdistan remains a region never systematically explored. The conference presented the first opportunity for the leading figures in this renaissance of research in the area to gather and present all the key new projects which are revolutionising our understanding of the region.

Table of Contents

Archaeological investigations on the Citadel of Erbil: Background, Framework and Results (Dara Al Yaqoobi, Abdullah Khorsheed Khader, Sangar Mohammed, Saber Hassan Hussein, Mary Shepperson and John MacGinnis)

The site of Bazyan: historical and archaeological investigations (Narmin Amin Ali and Vincent Deroche)

Short notes on Chalcolithic pottery research: The pottery sequences of Tell Nader (Erbil) and Ashur (Qal’at Sherqat) (Claudia Beuger)

New Evidence of Paleolithic Occupation in the Western Zagros foothills: Preliminary report of cave and rockshelter survey in the Sar Qaleh Plain in the West of Kermanshah Province, Iran (Fereidoun Biglari and Sonia Shidrang)

Activities of Sapienza-University of Rome in Iraqi Kurdistan: Erbil, Sulaimaniyah and Duhok (Carlo Giovanni Cereti and Luca Colliva)

The Achaemenid Period Occupation at Tell ed-Daim in Iraqi Kurdistan (John Curtis and Farouk al-Rawi)

‘Inscription D’ from Sennacherib’s Aqueduct At Jerwān: Further Data and Insights (Frederick Mario Fales and Roswitha Del Fabbro)

The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project: A Preliminary Overview on the Pottery and Settlement Patterns of the 3rd Millennium BC in the Northern Region of Iraqi Kurdistan (Katia Gavagnin)

Animal husbandry and other human-animal interactions in Late Ubaid-Early Uruk northern Iraq: the faunal remains from the 2012 excavation season at Tell Nader (Angelos Hadjikoumis)

Hawsh-Kori and Char-Ghapi: Why the Sassanids built two monuments in the west of Kermanshah and the south of Iraqi Kurdistan (Ali Hozhabri)

Across millennia of occupation: the Land of Nineveh Archaeological project in Iraqi Kurdistan: The prehistory and protohistory of the Upper Tigris rediscovered (Marco Iamoni)

The Iraqi Institute: Education for Archaeological Research and Conservation (Jessica Johnson, Abdullah Khorsheed and Brian Michael Lione)