Join us Monday, 10/16 @ 12pm for our next colloquium with Emily Hammer, Assistant Professor of @UPennNELC and Price Lab for the Digital Humanities at Penn! "SPATIAL ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY OF CHANGE IN MOBILE PASTORALIST AND MARSH-DWELLING COMMUNITIES"

Excited to have made the cover of AJA! New article out with Angelo Di Michele exploring the extent and chronology of suburbs at the early Mesopotamian city of Ur. Thanks to the editors for choosing our paper to be #OpenAccess! https://t.co/f7OTVSM6mT

New issue of American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 127, No. 4 (2023) https://t.co/oy90YQ3HWr @ChicagoJournals @archaeology_aia @LR_Brody

NEW multiscalar research at Lagash (🇮🇶) reveals dense urbanism, neighborhoods and economic specialization in ancient #Mesopotamia. One of the earliest and largest cities in the world was also a centre of #urbanisation and #industry 🆓 https://t.co/BqbxWU5fqU

V proud of this one, and the #Lagash team. #Mesopotamia

NEW multiscalar research at Lagash, modern Iraq, reveals dense urbanism, neighborhoods and economic specialization in ancient Mesopotamia. #OpenAccess 👉 https://t.co/fMcIXUKHZm

New OpenAccess article on the #Lagash 2019 excavations and remote sensing in @AntiquityJ. #Mesopotamia https://t.co/VRJVWbOoCj

The finding that early residents of the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash appear to have lived on a number of mounds bounded by walls or waterways is one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2022. https://t.co/kYqZZuQZhT

Landscape archaeology and remote sensing work on the urban form of the early Mesopotamian city of #Lagash has been selected as one of the top 10 discoveries of 2022 by @archaeologymag!

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology article focused on integration of image analysis & geophysics, with discussion of implications for models of ancient urbanism, "Multi-centric, Marsh-based Urbanism at the early Mesopotamian city of Lagash":

For those with institutional access, links to publishers' versions: @IraqJournal article focused on image analysis w/@Augusta_McMahon & E. Stone "The Structure & Hydrology of the Early Dynastic City of Lagash (Tell al-Hiba) from Satellite & Aerial Images":

Drone photos & magnetic gradiometry at #Lagash show a discontinuous, multi-centric, marshy early Mesopotamian city. I have two new articles in JAA & @IraqJournal, latter w/@Augusta_McMahon & Elizabeth Stone. Green #OpenAccess interactive StoryMap of JAA:

Prof. Emily Hammer of @UPennNELC is featured in @ScienceNews about her findings which reveal an early Mesopotamian city made of marsh islands using remote-sensing data, mostly gathered by a specially equipped drone. https://t.co/jRwB7UyLbY @Penn

If you live in Philadelphia or find yourself there (over the next year), visit the new exhibit @pennmuseum that I curated, "U-2 Spy Planes & Aerial Archaeology"! Opens today!

📣👩‍💻Virtual Conference👨‍💻📣 We are pleased to announce our virtual conference “Human Movement and Mobility in HighLandScape Environments”, 27-29 April 2022 For registration, please contact Maziar@em.uni-frankfurt.de https://t.co/PDNM11fQgy

For those with institutional access, the Publisher’s Version is here:

Declassified #HEXAGON spy satellite photos show ancient sites, landscapes, and heritage preservation in the Middle East. My article with Mack FitzPatrick and @jasonalikur is now in @AntiquityJ FirstView. Green #OpenAccess interactive StoryMap here: