#  13ICAANE Symposium: Ongoing Archaeological Research on the Erbil Plain 

 



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*Organizers - Petra Creamer (Emory University), Rocco Palermo (Bryn Mawr College), Jason Ur (Harvard University)* *Location - University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities, Room 15A.2.11 Date and Time - Monday, May 22nd / 2-6 pm*

 2:00-2:15: **Introduction** - Kak Kaify Ali (General Director of Antiquities, Kurdistan Region of Iraq), Petra Creamer (Emory University, USA), & Rocco Palermo (Bryn Maw College, USA / University of Pisa, Italy)

 2:15-2:40 **From the dawn of the urbanization to the great empires of Mesopotamia: A Summary of the stratigraphic sequences at Helawa and Aliawa in the south-western Erbil Plain (Kurdistan Region of Iraq)** - Luca Peronel and Agnese Vacca (University of Milan. Italv)

 2:40-3:05 **Gird Lashkir: A New Site and Sequence to Enlighten the Early Bronze Age in the Erbil Plain** - Francesc Xavier Garcia-Ramis, Aziz Zebari, Hawkar A. Abdullrahman, Joaquim Sisa, Alicia Dominguez-Gluitz, Anna Bach, Miquel Molist (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

 3:05-3:30 **Kurd Qaburstan 2022: Excavation and Geophysical Survey of a Second Millennium BC City** - Glenn Schwartz (The Johns Hopkins University, USA)

 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break

 4:00-4:25 **Salvage Excavations at Gird Qalachogan, Erbil Plain, 2022** - Timothy Matney (University of Akron, USA), Petra Creamer (Emory University, USA), Kyra Kaercher (Cambridge University, UK) & Glynnis Maynard (Cambridge University), UK

 4:25-4:50 **Segments of a Stratigraphic Record: French Excavations at Qasr Shemamok** - Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - PSL University, Sorbonne, France) & Ilaria Calini (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - PL University, Sorbonne, France)

 4:50-5:15 **Excavations at Qach Rresh: The Rural Landscapes of Iron Age Imperial Mesopotamia Project** - Petra M. Creamer (Emory University, USA)

 5:15-5:45 **Conclusions - Retrospective and Future Views of Archaeological Research on the Erbil Plain** - Petra Creamer (Emory University, USA) & Rocco Palermo (Bryn Mar College, USA / University of Pisa, Italy)