Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey

埃尔比勒平原考古调查

• 批准号: 1261118
• 负责人: Jason Ur
• 金额: $ 19.71万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1261118&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Erbil; Plain; Archaeological; Survey

With NSF support, the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) will investigate the landscape of the core of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (ca. 900-600 BC) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Evidence suggests that Assyrian kings deliberately transformed the landscape through forced migration of conquered peoples, the agricultural colonization of arable lands, and the modification of natural hydrology through dams and canals. EPAS will evaluate this hypothesis in the heart of the Assyrian empire by means of a 3-year archaeological survey of 3,200 km2. Despite its archaeological importance, the Assyrian heartland has never been surveyed systematically. The initial phase will employ satellite imagery to identify archaeological sites and landscape features (e.g., canals, subterranean karez water systems, trackways). Subsequently, these places will be visited, mapped, and surface artifacts collected. At the same time, the project will visit canals, trackways, and carved reliefs to confirm their identifications and map them. The project will describe the Neo-Assyrian landscape as well as earlier and subsequent patterns.This project will investigate the geographical consequences of forced migration and the power of early empires to redesign their environments, and will produce a model of an early imperial landscape. It will test a new satellite remote sensing methodology that has yet to receive rigorous ground truthing. Because of the fortuitous juxtaposition of new digital survey techniques, the history of research, and new political stability and desire for collaboration by Iraqis, this project has the potential to reconstruct ancient settlement and land use on a scale comparable to the great surveys of Sumer, Oaxaca, and the Valley of Mexico, but undertaken with spatial technologies unavailable to this earlier generation of projects.EPAS will train American and other Western graduate students in field survey, remote sensing, and spatial analysis. It will introduce these concepts to Iraqi archaeology students, who have been particularly disadvantaged in technical and methodological training. Field data from EPAS be a part of thesis research, conference presentation, and publication for all of these students. EPAS will form collaborations with Iraqi museums, universities, and antiquities directorates; these institutions and their personnel are now emerging from decades of international isolation, and in some cases persecution by the former Baathist government. The resulting inventory of sites and landscape features will be provided to Antiquities organizations at the local and national level, for incorporation into the national cultural heritage database. Iraq, and especially the Erbil region, is developing rapidly, and such a database is critical if the nation's cultural heritage will be taken into consideration in planning decisions. Finally, the trauma of forced migration at the hands of the state is an experience in the living memory of nearly every adult Kurd in Iraq. By documenting the spatial impact of forced migration, ancient and modern, this project will promote the awareness of its geographic and social consequences.

在NSF的支持下，Erbil Plain考古调查（EPAS）将调查伊拉克库尔德斯坦地区的新亚西亚帝国核心（公元前900 - 600年）的核心。 有证据表明，亚述国王通过强迫被征服的人民的强迫迁移，可耕地的农业殖民化以及通过大坝和运河修改自然水文学来故意改变了景观。 EPA将通过一项为期3200 km2的考古调查，在亚述帝国的心脏中心评估这一假设。 尽管其考古学重要性，但亚述心脏地带从未进行过系统的调查。 初始阶段将采用卫星图像来识别考古遗址和景观特征（例如运河，地下卡雷兹水系统，田径）。 随后，将访问，映射和表面伪像。 同时，该项目将访问运河，轨道和雕刻的浮雕，以确认其标识并绘制它们。 该项目将描述新的亚述景观以及以前的模式。该项目将调查强迫移民的地理后果以及早期帝国重新设计其环境的力量，并将产生早期帝国景观的模型。 它将测试一种新的卫星遥感方法，该方法尚未获得严格的地面移动。 Because of the fortuitous juxtaposition of new digital survey techniques, the history of research, and new political stability and desire for collaboration by Iraqis, this project has the potential to reconstruct ancient settlement and land use on a scale comparable to the great surveys of Sumer, Oaxaca, and the Valley of Mexico, but undertaken with spatial technologies unavailable to this earlier generation of projects.EPAS will tr​​ain American and other Western graduate students in field调查，遥感和空间分析。 它将将这些概念介绍给伊拉克考古学专业的学生，​​他们在技术和方法论培训中一直处于不利地位。 EPA的现场数据是所有这些学生的论文研究，会议演讲和出版物的一部分。 EPA将与伊拉克博物馆，大学和古物局合作；这些机构及其人员现在已经从数十年的国际隔离中出现，在某些情况下，前保制政府迫害。 由此产生的地点和景观特征的清单将提供给地方和国家一级的古物组织，以纳入国家文化遗产数据库。 伊拉克，尤其是埃尔比尔地区，正在迅速发展，如果在规划决策中考虑该国的文化遗产，那么这个数据库至关重要。 最后，在国家手中，强迫移民的创伤是几乎每个成年库尔德库尔德的生活经历。 通过记录强迫移民，古代和现代的空间影响，该项目将促进其地理和社会后果的认识。