Jason Ur

Jason Ur is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.  He specializes in early urbanism, landscape archaeology, and remote sensing, and has conducted field surveys in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran.  He is the author of  Urbanism and Cultural Landscapes in Northeastern Syria: The Tell Hamoukar Survey, 1999-2001 (2010).  He is currently leading an archaeological survey in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, and preparing a history of Mesopotamian urbanism.