#  Jason Ur 

 



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Jason Ur is Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He specializes in early urbanism, landscape archaeology, and remote sensing, particularly the use of declassified US intelligence imagery. He has directed field surveys in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. He is the author of  *Urbanism and Cultural Landscapes in Northeastern Syria: The Tell Hamoukar Survey, 1999-2001* (2010). Since 2012, he has directed the [Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey](/pages/erbil), an archaeological survey in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. He is also preparing a history of Mesopotamian cities.



 

##  Latest News 

 



  [### The 2023 field season of the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey is underway, follow us on Twitter

 ](/news/2023-field-season-erbil-plain-archaeological-survey-underway-follow-us-twitter) September 07, 2023 

 

   [### The Legacy of Slavery in Cambridge's Old Burying Ground

 ](/news/legacy-slavery-cambridges-old-burying-ground) April 06, 2022 

 

   [### Just Published: Report on EPAS, 2012-2020 in the journal Iraq

 ](/news/just-published-report-epas-2012-2020-journal-iraq) May 22, 2021 

 

   [### Declassified spy photos in the NYT

 ](/news/declassified-spy-photos-nyt) January 16, 2021 

 

   [### New EPAS publication: Ur and Giraud, "vers une histoire du peuplement de la plaine d'Erbil"

 ](/news/new-epas-publication-ur-and-giraud-vers-une-histoire-du-peuplement-de-la-plaine-derbil) December 07, 2020 

 

  

 

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