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Jason Ur

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Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis Jason Ur has pioneered the use of drone aircraft to aid his research efforts for years, most recently using them to quickly create 3-D maps of ancient sites in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, such as this aerial survey of Girdi Dowlabakra.

Drone's-eye view

Center for Geographic Analysis hosts conference on using drones for academic research

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DateMay 5, 2017December 10, 2018

Jason Ur, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, is breaking new ground with a Harvard-led archaeological project in the war-torn nation of Iraq. He is focusing on a 3,200-square-kilometer region around Irbil, the capital of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq, for signs of ancient cities and towns, canals, and roads.

Ancient Iraq revealed

Harvard illuminates ‘richest archaeological landscape in the Middle East’

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DateNovember 26, 2012

A comparison of the results of the ASTER classification (left) and the distribution of surface artifacts at Tell Brak, northeastern Syria. The analyses show a remarkably close correspondence.

New frontier in archaeology

Harvard’s Ur uses satellite images to search for ancient settlements

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DateMarch 23, 2012July 25, 2019

A 1969
CORONA spy satellite view of an ancient canal north of Nineveh (modern Iraq).

Getting a bird’s-eye view of the past

Archaeological work using satellite photos featured in Peabody exhibit

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DateApril 29, 2010

Investigating canals across time, from space

Ur takes a step back to see ancient networks

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DateMarch 16, 2006