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2020
Mehrnoush Soroush, Alireza Mehrtash, Emad Khazraee, and Jason A. Ur. 2020. “Deep Learning in Archaeological Remote Sensing: Automated Qanat Detection in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”. Remote Sensing, 12, 3. doi:10.3390/rs12030500
Mehrnoush Soroush, Alireza Mehrtash, Emad Khazraee, and Jason A. Ur. 2020. “Deep Learning in Archaeological Remote Sensing: Automated Qanat Detection in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”. Remote Sensing, 12, 3. doi:10.3390/rs12030500
In this paper, we report the results of our work on automated detection of qanat shafts on the Cold War-era CORONA Satellite Imagery. The increasing quantity of air and space-borne imagery available to archaeologists and the advances in computational...
Mehrnoush Soroush, A. Mehrtash, E. Khazraee, and J. Ur. 2020. “Deep Learning in Archaeological Remote Sensing: Automated Qanat Detection in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”. Journal of Remote Sensing , 12, 3, Pp. 500
Mehrnoush Soroush, A. Mehrtash, E. Khazraee, and J. Ur. 2020. “Deep Learning in Archaeological Remote Sensing: Automated Qanat Detection in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”. Journal of Remote Sensing , 12, 3, Pp. 500
In this paper, we report the results of our work on automated detection of qanat shafts on the Cold War-era CORONA Satellite Imagery. The increasing quantity of air and space-borne imagery available to archaeologists and the advances in computational...
2019
Emily L. Hammer and Jason A. Ur. 2019. “Near Eastern Landscapes and Declassified U2 Aerial Imagery”. Advances in Archaeological Practice
Emily L. Hammer and Jason A. Ur. 2019. “Near Eastern Landscapes and Declassified U2 Aerial Imagery”. Advances in Archaeological Practice
Recently declassified photographs taken by U2 spy planes in the 1950s and 1960s provide an important new source of historical aerial imagery useful for Eurasian archaeology. Like other sources of historical imagery, U2 photos provide a window into the...
Jason Ur, Jeffrey Blossom, and Christian Harder. 2019. “Mapping Ancient Landscapes”. In GIS for Science: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics, edited by Dawn Wright, Pp. 142-65. Redlands CA: Esri Press
Jason Ur, Jeffrey Blossom, and Christian Harder. 2019. “Mapping Ancient Landscapes”. In GIS for Science: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics, edited by Dawn Wright, Pp. 142-65. Redlands CA: Esri Press
Racing against the clock as development encroaches on important Kurdish heritage sites, a team of landscape archaeologists deploys drones and comparative image analysis to capture previously undetected ancient settlements.
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2018
Jason A. Ur. 2018. “Water for Arbail and Nimrud”. In Water for Assyria, edited by Hartmut Kühne, Pp. 57-75. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
Jason A. Ur. 2018. “Water for Arbail and Nimrud”. In Water for Assyria, edited by Hartmut Kühne, Pp. 57-75. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
The imperial and provincial capitals of the Neo-Assyrian empire held populations far beyond the limits of the Bronze Age cities that preceded them. This accomplishment came in part from intensifying agricultural production on the lands adjacent to the...
Olivier Rouault, Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault, Ilaria Calini, John MacGinnis, Jason Ur, and Quentin Vitale. 2018. “Qasr Shemamok-Kilizu (Kurdistan D’Irak), les Campagnes de 2011 (9 Avril-15 Mai et 16 Octobre-5 Novembre)”. In Études Mésopotamiennes – Mesopotamian Studies No. 1, edited by Vincent Déroche, Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault, and Christophe Nicolle, Pp. 212-53. Oxford: Archaeopress
Olivier Rouault, Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault, Ilaria Calini, John MacGinnis, Jason Ur, and Quentin Vitale. 2018. “Qasr Shemamok-Kilizu (Kurdistan D’Irak), les Campagnes de 2011 (9 Avril-15 Mai et 16 Octobre-5 Novembre)”. In Études Mésopotamiennes – Mesopotamian Studies No. 1, edited by Vincent Déroche, Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault, and Christophe Nicolle, Pp. 212-53. Oxford: Archaeopress
Notre première mission au Kurdistan d'Irak, en avril-mai 2010, sur le site de Kilik Mishik dans la banlieue sud d’Erbil, – la première opération étrangère à obtenir un permis de fouille officiel du Ministère kurde responsable des fouilles – nous avait...
2017
Jason A. Ur. 2017. “Physical and Cultural Landscapes of Assyria”. In Blackwell Companion to Assyria, edited by Eckart Frahm, Pp. 13-35. Oxford: Blackwell
Jason A. Ur. 2017. “Physical and Cultural Landscapes of Assyria”. In Blackwell Companion to Assyria, edited by Eckart Frahm, Pp. 13-35. Oxford: Blackwell
The history of the land of Assyria is, to a considerable extent, the story of a continuous attempt by individuals, communities, states, and empires to define their places in their landscapes. In basic economic terms, people had to feed their families...
Jason Ur. 2017. “The Archaeological Renaissance in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”. Near Eastern Archaeology, 80, 3, Pp. 176-87
Jason Ur. 2017. “The Archaeological Renaissance in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”. Near Eastern Archaeology, 80, 3, Pp. 176-87
After an absence of over two decades, foreign archaeology has returned in earnest to one of the “cradles of civilization” in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Two wars, international sanctions, and internal unrest had together brought archaeological research...
Jason A. Ur. 2017. “The Birth of Cities in Ancient West Asia”. In Ancient West Asian Civilization: Geoenvironment and Society in the Pre-Islamic Middle East, edited by Akira Tsuneki, Shigeo Yamada, and Kenichiro Hisada, Pp. 133-47. Singapore: Springer
Jason A. Ur. 2017. “The Birth of Cities in Ancient West Asia”. In Ancient West Asian Civilization: Geoenvironment and Society in the Pre-Islamic Middle East, edited by Akira Tsuneki, Shigeo Yamada, and Kenichiro Hisada, Pp. 133-47. Singapore: Springer
Jason A. Ur. 2017. “The Topography of Nineveh”. In Nineveh, the Great City: Symbol of Beauty and Power, edited by Lucas P. Petit and Daniele Morandi Bonacossi, Pp. 58-62. Leiden: Sidestone
Jason A. Ur. 2017. “The Topography of Nineveh”. In Nineveh, the Great City: Symbol of Beauty and Power, edited by Lucas P. Petit and Daniele Morandi Bonacossi, Pp. 58-62. Leiden: Sidestone
2016
Jason Ur. 2016. “Commentary to Jennings and Earle, ‘Urbanization, State Formation, and Cooperation: A Reappraisal’”. Current Anthropology, 57, Pp. 487-88
Jason Ur. 2016. “Commentary to Jennings and Earle, ‘Urbanization, State Formation, and Cooperation: A Reappraisal’”. Current Anthropology, 57, Pp. 487-88
Konstantinos Kopanias, Claudia Beuger, John MacGinnis, and Jason Ur. 2016. “The Tell Baqrta Project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”. In The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire, edited by John MacGinnis, Dirk Wicke, and Tina Greenfield, Pp. 117-28. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Konstantinos Kopanias, Claudia Beuger, John MacGinnis, and Jason Ur. 2016. “The Tell Baqrta Project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”. In The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire, edited by John MacGinnis, Dirk Wicke, and Tina Greenfield, Pp. 117-28. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research