In the past two decades, Iranian archaeologists have conducted numerous surveys and
stratigraphic soundings throughout the Zagros region of western Iran. Their published work …

Kani Shaie is a small archaeological site in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, centrally located in
the Bazian Basin, a narrow valley at the western edge of the Zagros Mountains along the …

The site of Jarmo in Iraqi Kurdistan has yielded key archaeological evidence which supports
its interpretation as a large PPNB village. As such, it is the perfect candidate for the study of …

The possibility to conduct new fieldwork projects in previously largely unexplored Iraqi
Kurdistan during the past decade has reinvigorated research into the transformative fifth to …

Abstract The Late Chalcolithic (LC; c. 4500-3100BCE) was an important period in the
developmental history of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, north-eastern Syria and south …

Excavations at Surezha, on the Erbil plain in Iraqi Kurdistan, yielded 89 sherds of Dalma
style pottery from 5th millennium BC contexts. Dalma ceramics are widespread in …

ABSTRACT The Shahrizor Plain is in a mountainous basin in the eastern part of the
Sulaymaniyah Governorate, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where evidence of prehistoric …

A 2016 study season and 2017 excavation season at the 95-hectare walled site of Kurd
Qaburstan on the Erbil plain have generated a variety of new results. Geophysical survey on …

One of the milestones in the trajectory of economic and social change that spurred
increasing societal complexity, and urbanization was the commodification of natural …

In this work we examine developments in ceramic use through the Ubaid and Late
Chalcolithic 1 periods in Greater Mesopotamia. Our paper is a heuristic study of ceramic …