| The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions Contributor(s): Kopanias, Konstantinos (Editor), Macginnis, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1784913936 ISBN-13: 9781784913939 Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Middle East - Iraq - History | Ancient - General |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 7.9" W x 11.4" (3.40 lbs) 474 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The burgeoning of archaeological research in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq is one of the great success stories of world archaeology today. For twenty years it was impossible for western archaeologists to work in Iraq, and for most of this time there were also heavy restrictions on the activity of Iraqi archaeologists. In addition to this Kurdistan remains a region never systematically explored. The conference presented the first opportunity for the leading figures in this renaissance of research in the area to gather and present all the key new projects which are revolutionising our understanding of the region. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kopanias, Konstantinos: - KONSTANTINOS KOPANIAS is Assistant Professor of Ancient Civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean at the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He studied at the same university and also at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Athens, as adjunct faculty at the University of Crete and as Allgemeiner Referent at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens. Since 2011 he has been the director of the University of Athens excavaton in Tell Nader and Tell Baqrta in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq.Macginnis, John: - Dr. MacGinnis did both his degree and his PhD at Cambridge and is a specialist in the archaeology and inscriptions of ancient Babylonia and Assyria, on which he has published extensively. He has worked on sites across the middle east including Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Sudan as well as his work in Turkey. He has also worked in India and Pakistan. Dr. MacGinnis is a consultant for UNESCO on the cultural heritage of ancient Mesopotamia and has been Field Director of the British Expedition to Ziyaret Tepe, a provincial capital of the ancient Assyrian empire, since the commencement of the work in 2000. |