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Opening a scientific course for training and teaching in photogrammetry program

Training course on photogrammetry program was held from 18/2/2024 to 23/2/2024 in Slemani. The course was taught by archaeologist Tiago Costa for a few days

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In the land of the highlanders: from the kingdom of Simurrum to Mazamua in the Shahrizor

In the late third and early second millennium bc, the large plain known today as the Shahrizor and its surrounding region, located in the province of Suleymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan, likely formed an important region of the kingdom of Simurrum (Fig. 31.1; Altaweel et al. 2012). For much of the remaining second millennium bc and into the irst two centuries of the irst millennium bc, the region was a contested border zone between northern and southern Mesopotamian kingdoms or became splintered into small kingdoms.

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PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE CHARMO (JARMO) PREHISTORIC INVESTIGATIONS, 2022

The archaeological mission from the University of Tsukuba began to investigate the Neolithic sites in the Iraqi-Kurdistan region in 2014. The purpose of our investigations was to reconsider the issue of Neolithization in Iraqi-Kurdistan, where research began in the 1940s and 50s and was stalled by political issues starting in the 1960s. With the full support of the Directorate General of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Slemani Department of Cultural Heritage, we first began our research at the Qalat Said Ahmadan site, located in the Pshdar Plain. We were able to identify the cultural deposits of the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, those of the Hassuna, Samarra, Halaf, Ubaid, and Iron Age, and have clarified the nature of the Neolithic site located at the edge of the fan deposits [Tsuneki et al. 2015, 2016, 2019].

In the land of the highlanders: from the kingdom of Simurrum to Mazamua in the Shahrizor

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In the late third and early second millennium bc,  the large plain known today as the Shahrizor and  its surrounding region, located in the province of  Suleymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan, likely formed an  important region of the kingdom of Simurrum (Fig. 31.1; Altaweel et al. 2012). For much of the remaining second millennium bc and into the first two centuries of the irst millennium bc, the region was a contested border zone between northern and southern Mesopotamian kingdoms or became splintered into small kingdoms.

In 842 bc, the region became incorporated into the Assyrian provincial system under Shalmaneser III and remained part of the province of Mazamua until the fall of the Assyrian empire in the  late seventh century bc.

As archaeologists are now  embarking on projects in Iraqi Kurdistan, one major question that will certainly arise is how do setlements in the region transform in one period to the next under varying political and economic circumstances. While archaeological surveys will be critical in illing this knowledge gap, computational methods can be used to determine where major setlements should be generally located and what factors might cause deviations from expectations. When there are known historical shifts, such as during the Neo-Assyrian (NA) period, the same model is able to evaluate how setlement size hierarchies transform. This paper presents such a method and demonstrates how major sites, such as Yasin Tepe and Bakr Awa, could arise, while also presenting a method for assessing how sites transform between minor and major setlements and the interactions that enable such transformations.