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Cluster ROOTS Oct 17, 2024

For five years, the #ClusterROOTS, the #unistavanger and the Scientific Research Center of the #SoranUniversity have been jointly investigating questions concerning the economy, the exchange of knowledge and goods as well as social aspects of the Delzian Plain (now in the #KurdistanRegion of Iraq) 5000 to 8000 years ago. The #FromMoundtoCave project team is currently carrying out excavations again at Tell Gird-i-dasht. Read more: https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-roots/details/news/2024-10-17-from-mound-to-cave
#archaeology

Gird-i-Dasht: Excavations at an important hub of the Fertile Crescent

Successful collaboration between Soran University and the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence enters its fifth year.

Uni Kiel

Cluster ROOTS Oct 13, 2023

The #excavation at the Gird-i-Dasht tell in the Autonomous Region of #Kurdistan in northern #Iraq is completed. Cluster Roots member Tim Kerig explains some preliminary results.
#archaeology #UniStavanger #UniKiel #SoranUniversity #Chalcolithic #FromMoundtoCave

Cluster ROOTS Oct 10, 2023

From aerial drone imagery to hand-drawn plans, the #FromMoundtoCave excavation team uses a variety of complementary documentation techniques: »Even in times of advanced digital techniques of documentation we still need to hand-draw our sections and strata to improve our comprehension of the site.«
#Kurdistan #unikiel #soranuniversity #UniStavanger #archaeology #fieldworks #documentation

Cluster ROOTS Oct 6, 2023

The #FromMoundtoCave team is now exploring the surroundings of the Gird-i-Dasht Tell: "A geological survey in the vicinity of the tell allows us to get an idea where raw materials, lithics, stones for stone tools, could have been gathered in the past."
#Kurdistan #unikiel #soranuniversity #UniStavanger #archaeology #fieldwork #rawmaterials #lithics

Cluster ROOTS Oct 4, 2023

Documentation is very important on an #excavation, or as the #FromMoundtoCave team puts it: "As we can't take the finds - and in this case the pottery - back to Kiel, we document everything as good as we can before we leave so that we are able to work with our material after the excavation has ended".
#Kurdistan #unikiel #soranuniversity #UniStavanger #archaeology #fieldwork

Cluster ROOTS Sep 28, 2023

Update from the excavations at Gird-i-Dasht: The number of finds is already considerable. All finds need to be carefully attended to:

"Can you spot the best piece of the day? It's a tiny, tiny piece of ceramic."

"Washing sherds can be more challenging than one might think. You have to keep in mind where the sherds came from and you have to be careful not to wash away the colouring or any other materials from the sherds".

#FromMoundtoCave
#Kurdistan #unikiel #soranuniversity #UniStavanger

Cluster ROOTS Sep 20, 2023

The #FromMoundtoCave team has arrived at the tell of Gird-i-Dasht and starts its work:
"Drone flight over Gird-i-Dasht. We are documenting the current situation. Much has changed since last year." #archaeology #Kurdistan #unikiel #soranuniversity #UniStavanger @archaeodons

Cluster ROOTS Sep 19, 2023

"Welcome to the land of the sun and the mountains. #Kurdistan. We had a great welcome from Kaifi Mustafa Ali, General Director of Antiquities and Heritage" -
first update from the 2023 #FromMoundtoCave campaign.
#archaeology #UniStavanger #UniKiel #SoranUniversity

Cluster ROOTS Sep 19, 2023

The Autonomous Region of #Kurdistan in northern #Iraq is an important study area for research into the #humanpast. Since 2021, a Kurdish-Norwegian-German project has been investigating prehistoric settlement dynamics in the district of Soran: https://www.cluster-roots.uni-kiel.de/en/fieldwork-and-activities/fieldwork-and-activities-archive/gird-i-dasht-a-deep-late-chalcolithic-stratigraphy Now a new a four-week excavation campaign is about to start. Follow #FromMoundtoCave for updates directly from the team.

#archaeology #UniStavanger #UniKiel #SoranUniversity @archaeodons
Photo: Greta Rettler

Gird-i Dasht: A deep Late Chalcolithic Stratigraphy

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