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Dispatches from Iraqi Kurdistan: Survey Far Beyond the Hilly Flanks

By: Marshall Schurtz

Survey in the newly opened archaeological frontier of Iraqi Kurdistan comes with many challenges. Other reports from University of Pennsylvania graduate students on the project about various aspects of our work have been put up on the Beyond the Museum Walls blog but my own work deals specifically with the survey in our area. This […]

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