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2016
Jason A. Ur. 2016. “The Challenges of Early Urbanism: A View from Mesopotamia (Commentary to Gaydarska, The City Is Dead! Long Live the City!)”. Norwegian Archaeology ReviewNorwegian Archaeology Review, 49, Pp. 70-72
Jason A. Ur. 2016. “The Challenges of Early Urbanism: A View from Mesopotamia (Commentary to Gaydarska, The City Is Dead! Long Live the City!)”. Norwegian Archaeology ReviewNorwegian Archaeology Review, 49, Pp. 70-72
Jason A. Ur. 2016. “Middle Eastern Archaeology from the Air and Space”. In Situ, Fall 2016, Pp. 1-4
Jason A. Ur. 2016. “Middle Eastern Archaeology from the Air and Space”. In Situ, Fall 2016, Pp. 1-4
Jason A. Ur and James F. Osborne. 2016. “The Rural Landscape of the Assyrian Heartland: Recent Results from Arbail and Kilizu Provinces”. In The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire , edited by John MacGinnis, Dirk Wicke, and Tina Greenfield, Pp. 163-74. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Jason A. Ur and James F. Osborne. 2016. “The Rural Landscape of the Assyrian Heartland: Recent Results from Arbail and Kilizu Provinces”. In The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire , edited by John MacGinnis, Dirk Wicke, and Tina Greenfield, Pp. 163-74. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
The world’s first empires were grand experiments in centralized political power and the territorial expansion of social control. The elite manifestations of empires are often prominent and have been studied intensively by historians and archaeologists...
2015
Jason A. Ur. 2015. “Urban Adaptations to Climate Change in Northern Mesopotamia”. In Climate and Ancient Societies, edited by Susanne Kerner, Rachael Dann, and Pernille Bangsgaard Jensen, Pp. 69-95. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press
Jason A. Ur. 2015. “Urban Adaptations to Climate Change in Northern Mesopotamia”. In Climate and Ancient Societies, edited by Susanne Kerner, Rachael Dann, and Pernille Bangsgaard Jensen, Pp. 69-95. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press
Nicola Laneri, Mark Schwartz, Jason A. Ur, Anacleto D’Agostino, Rémi Berthon, Mette Marie Hald, and Anke Marsh. 2015. “Ritual and Identity in Rural Mesopotamia: Hirbemerdon Tepe and the Upper Tigris River Valley in the Middle Bronze Age”. American Journal of Archaeology, 119, 4, Pp. 533-64
Nicola Laneri, Mark Schwartz, Jason A. Ur, Anacleto D’Agostino, Rémi Berthon, Mette Marie Hald, and Anke Marsh. 2015. “Ritual and Identity in Rural Mesopotamia: Hirbemerdon Tepe and the Upper Tigris River Valley in the Middle Bronze Age”. American Journal of Archaeology, 119, 4, Pp. 533-64
Excavations at the relatively small but strategically placed site of Hirbemerdon Tepe, located along the west bank of the upper Tigris River in modern southeastern Turkey, have yielded significant results. During the Middle Bronze Age (2000–1600 B.C.E.)...
Jason Ur and Julian E. Reade. 2015. “The Hydraulic Landscape of Nimrud”. Mesopotamia, 50, Pp. 25-51
Jason Ur and Julian E. Reade. 2015. “The Hydraulic Landscape of Nimrud”. Mesopotamia, 50, Pp. 25-51
Konstantinos Kopanias, John MacGinnis, and Jason Ur. 2015. “Archaeological Projects in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq”
Konstantinos Kopanias, John MacGinnis, and Jason Ur. 2015. “Archaeological Projects in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq”
Jason A. Ur and Maurits Ertsen. 2015. “Tony Wilkinson and the Water History of the Near East”. Water History, 7, Pp. 377-79
Jason A. Ur and Maurits Ertsen. 2015. “Tony Wilkinson and the Water History of the Near East”. Water History, 7, Pp. 377-79
2014
Michael Smith, Jason Ur, and Gary Feinman. 2014. “Jane Jacobs’‘Cities First’ Model and Archaeological Reality”. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38, Pp. 1525-35
Michael Smith, Jason Ur, and Gary Feinman. 2014. “Jane Jacobs’‘Cities First’ Model and Archaeological Reality”. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38, Pp. 1525-35
In The Economy of Cities, Jane Jacobs conjectured that the world’s first cities preceded the origins of agriculture, a proposition that was most recently revived by Peter Taylor in the pages of this journal. The repeated resurrection of Jacobs’ idea was...
Jason A. Ur. 2014. “Households and the Emergence of Cities in Ancient Mesopotamia”. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 24, Pp. 249-68
Jason A. Ur. 2014. “Households and the Emergence of Cities in Ancient Mesopotamia”. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 24, Pp. 249-68
The world’s first cities emerged on the plains of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria) in the fourth millennium BC. Attempts to understand this settlement process have assumed revolutionary social change, the disappearance of kinship as a structuring...
Jason Ur and Abdelamir Al Hamdani. 2014. “أنماط الاستيطان في سومر واكد”. Subartu, 8, Pp. 159-188 (in Arabic)
Jason Ur and Abdelamir Al Hamdani. 2014. “أنماط الاستيطان في سومر واكد”. Subartu, 8, Pp. 159-188 (in Arabic)
Jason A. Ur. 2014. “Urban Form at Tell Brak Across Three Millennia”. In Preludes to Urbanism: Studies in the Late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia in Honour of Joan Oates, edited by Augusta McMahon and Harriet Crawford, Pp. 49-62. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq
Jason A. Ur. 2014. “Urban Form at Tell Brak Across Three Millennia”. In Preludes to Urbanism: Studies in the Late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia in Honour of Joan Oates, edited by Augusta McMahon and Harriet Crawford, Pp. 49-62. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq
A common but implicitly held idea in Mesopotamian archaeology is that once urbanism appeared, Mesopotamia was thereafter an urban civilization. Despite various ups and downs through the millennia, which saw individual settlements wax and wane, the city...