All Stories

  1. Physical and Cultural Landscapes of Assyria

    Article • April 2017, Wiley

    Jason Ur

  2. The Birth of Cities in Ancient West Asia

    Article • August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jason Ur

  3. Challenges in Early Urbanism: A View from Mesopotamia

    Article • Norwegian Archaeological Review, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Jason Ur

  4. Tony Wilkinson and the water history of the Near East

    Article • Water History, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jason Ur

  5. Households and the Emergence of Cities in Ancient Mesopotamia

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Jason Ur

  6. Jane Jacobs was wrong about cities preceding agriculture

    Article • International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, April 2014, Wiley

    Michael Smith, Jason Ur

  7. Ancient Cities and Landscapes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey 2012 Season

    Article • Iraq, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Jason Ur

  8. SPYING ON THE PAST: Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photographs and Near Eastern Landscapes

    Article • Near Eastern Archaeology, January 2013, The American Schools of Oriental Research

    Jason Ur

  9. CORONA Satellite Imagery and Ancient Near Eastern Landscapes

    Article • November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jason Ur

  10. Multi-Temporal Classification of Multi-Spectral Images for Settlement Survey in Northeastern Syria

    Article • November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jason Ur

  11. Southern Mesopotamia

    Article • April 2012, Wiley

    Jason Ur

  12. Michael E. SMITH, ed. The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxii + 334 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-19791-5 (hbk.); 978-0-521-14212-0 (pbk.). $99.00 / £60.00 (hbk.); $32.99 / £19.99 (pbk.).

    Article • Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, January 2012, Brill

    Jason Ur

  13. The Architecture and Pottery of a Late Third-Millennium Residential Quarter at Tell Hamoukar, North-Eastern Syria

    Article • Iraq, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Jason Ur

  14. The Spatial Dimensions of Early Mesopotamian Urbanism: The Tell Brak Suburban Survey, 2003–2006

    Article • Iraq, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Jason Ur, Philip Karsgaard

  15. Proto-Urbanism in the Late 5th Millennium BC: Survey and Excavations at Khirbat al-Fakhar (Hamoukar)

    Article • Paléorient, January 2011, PERSEE Program

    Jason Ur

  16. The geoarchaeology of route systems in northern Syria

    Article • Geoarchaeology, October 2010, Wiley

    Jason Ur

  17. Cycles of Civilization in Northern Mesopotamia, 4400–2000 BC

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Research, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jason Ur

  18. The Hirbemerdon Tepe Archaeological Project 2006-2007

    Article • Anatolica, May 2008, Peeters Publishers

    Jason Ur

  19. Early Mesopotamian urbanism: a new view from the north

    Article • Antiquity, September 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Jason Ur

  20. Formation and destruction of pastoral and irrigation landscapes on the Mughan Steppe, north-western Iran

    Article • Antiquity, March 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Jason Ur

  21. CORONA Satellite Photography and Ancient Road Networks: A Northern Mesopotamian Case Study

    Article • Antiquity, March 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Jason Ur

  22. Surface Collection and Offsite Studies at Tell Hamoukar, 1999

    Article • Iraq, January 2002, JSTOR

    Jason Ur

  23. Surface collection and offsite studies at Tell Hamoukar, 1999

    Article • Iraq, January 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Jason Ur

  24. Patterns of Settlement in Sumer and Akkad

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Jason Ur

  25. 9. Emergent Landscapes of Movement in Early Bronze Age Northern Mesopotamia

    Article • University of Pennsylvania Press

    Jason Ur