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The Legacy of Slavery in Cambridge's Old Burying Ground
PIs Aja Lans and Jason Ur will be studying the presence of enslaved people in Cambridge's Old Burying Ground. This project is within the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery. The project will involve UAV mapping, ground penetrating...
Just Published: Report on EPAS, 2012-2020 in the journal Iraq
Download the PDF here. The article features links to many online interactive maps and scenes, such as this one of Site 45 Girdi Khazna.
Declassified spy photos in the NYT
Great story in the NYT on the use of declassified CORONA satellite photographs in environmental research.
New EPAS publication: Ur and Giraud, "vers une histoire du peuplement de la plaine d'Erbil"
Just appeared: “ Vers une histoire du peuplement de la plaine d'Erbil.” in Arbela Antiqua, edited by Frédéric Alpi, Zidan Bradosty, Jessica Giraud, John MacGinnis, and Raija Mattila, 59-75. This chapter (in French) summarizes our research in the 2012-2013...
Jason Ur joins the Board of Trustees for ASOR
In November, Jason Ur was elected as an institutional member of the ASOR Board of Trustees [ more].
New Publication: Space and Structure in Early Mesopotamian Cities (Dumbarton Oaks)
Just published: the proceedings from the 2017 conference at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC, Landscapes of Pre-Industrial Cities. Prof. Ur's contribution examines three phases of urbanism in Mesopotamia, each with dramatically different structures, and...
Harvard on the Map Radio Interview
jenny_horowitz.png Jason Ur sat down with GSD graduate student Jenny Horowitz, Host of the Harvard On the Map radio show, to talk about GIS and web mapping. Listen here.
Drones Over Kurdistan in the new SCA Newsletter
The latest issue of In Situ, the newsletter of Harvard's Standing Committee on Archaeology, features a heavily-illustrated piece on the use of drones in the landscape archaeology of Kurdistan (Iraq).
Harvard Courses for Spring 2020
In the Spring term, Prof. Ur will be teaching Anthro 2020 GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology and Anthro 2064 Archaeology of Mesopotamia. Both are intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduate concentrators in archaeology and allied...
New Publication: Mapping Ancient Landscapes
Just appeared in print: " Mapping Ancient Landscapes" in GIS for Science: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics, a new book from Esri edited by Dawn Wright and Christian Harder. PDF available at the link above. For the full volume, with many case studies...
3D web scene modeling of archaeological sites using ArcGIS Online
Esri's ArcGIS Online has the capacity to share 3D web scenes of landscapes generated from drone data. Here's an example at Girdi Abdulaziz, an enormous mound just outside of Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.