The city and landscape of Ur: an aerial, satellite, and ground reassessment
New fieldwork at Ur has begun to investigate urban scale, city organization, and the environment of the city's hinterland. Analysis of new sources of declassified aerial and satellite imagery from the 1950s and 1960s, recent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photos, and a systematic surface collect...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2019
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Iraq
Année: 2019, Volume: 81, Pages: 173-206 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Ur
/ Missiles
/ Photographie
/ Histoire 1894 avant J.-C.-1595 avant J.-C.
/ Histoire 626 avant J.-C.-539 avant J.-C.
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| RelBib Classification: | HH Archéologie TB Antiquité |
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| Résumé: | New fieldwork at Ur has begun to investigate urban scale, city organization, and the environment of the city's hinterland. Analysis of new sources of declassified aerial and satellite imagery from the 1950s and 1960s, recent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photos, and a systematic surface collection show that Ur may have expanded to between 120–500 hectares in size during its later periods of habitation, far larger than the sixty hectare maximum size previously estimated. Traces of buried architecture visible in the UAV photos and topographic models generated from UAV photos allow for the generation of hypotheses about the city plan of Ur during the Late Larsa/Old Babylonian and Neo Babylonian periods. Relict watercourses mapped in the vicinity of the main mound indicate how the city might have been supplied with water in some periods. Alongside this site-based work, historical aerial and satellite imagery provide an updated picture of ancient hydrology, environment, and settlement patterns around Ur. |
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| ISSN: | 2053-4744 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Iraq
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/irq.2019.7 |