scholarly journals Revisiting the “Gercus Basalt within the Eocene Gercus Formation”: Implications for sedimentary origin of a basaltic body, Kurdistan Region, Northern Iraq

2020 ◽  
Vol 4-5 ◽  
pp. 100008
Author(s):  
Kamal Haji Karim ◽  
Polla Azad Khanaqa ◽  
Sardar Muhammed Babashekh
Keyword(s):  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Northern Iraq

THE LATER PREHISTORY OF THE SHAHRIZOR PLAIN, KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ: FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS AT GURGA CHIYA AND TEPE MARANI

Iraq ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 41-71
Author(s):  
Robert Carter ◽  
David Wengrow ◽  
Saber Ahmed Saber ◽  
Sami Jamil Hamarashi ◽  
Mary Shepperson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Ceramic Assemblage ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Northern Iraq ◽  
Halaf Period ◽  
Adjacent Site ◽  
Related Series ◽  
Southern Iraq

The Shahrizor Prehistory Project has targeted prehistoric levels of the Late Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic 4 (LC4; Late Middle Uruk) periods at Gurga Chiya (Shahrizor, Kurdistan region of northern Iraq), along with the Halaf period at the adjacent site of Tepe Marani. Excavations at the latter have produced new dietary and environmental data for the sixth millennium B.C. in the region, while at Gurga Chiya part of a burned Late Ubaid tripartite house was excavated. This has yielded a promising archaeobotanical assemblage and established a benchmark ceramic assemblage for the Shahrizor Plain, which is closely comparable to material known from Tell Madhhur in the Hamrin valley. The related series of radiocarbon dates gives significant new insights into the divergent timing of the Late Ubaid and early LC in northern and southern Mesopotamia. In the following occupation horizon, a ceramic assemblage closely aligned to the southern Middle Uruk indicates convergence of material culture with central and southern Iraq as early as the LC4 period. Combined with data for the appearance of Early Uruk elements at sites in the adjacent Qara Dagh region, this hints at long-term co-development of material culture during the fourth millennium B.C. in southeastern Iraqi Kurdistan and central and southern Iraq, potentially questioning the model of expansion or colonialism from the south.

scholarly journals New records of basidiomycetous macrofugi from Kurdistan region - Northern Iraq

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 209-219
Author(s):  
Q. Suliaman Sara ◽  
O. AL- Khesraji Talib ◽  
A. Hassan Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Northern Iraq

scholarly journals Monuments, civil war and local communities : Archaeological Heritage in the Duhok Region (Kurdistan Region of Iraq). Part 3

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Eszter Spät
Keyword(s):  
Local Population ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Indelible Mark ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Northern Iraq ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
The Social

This third and final part in a series of articles on the archaeological heritage of the Duhok Region of Iraqi Kurdistan will look at the heritage and its role in the life of local society from the aspect of destruction left by the Saddam regime. The decades of Saddam’s rule left an indelible mark on the social and cultural map of Northern Iraq, especially on the Kurdistan Region. His attempts at collectivization, sometimes in the name of modernization, sometimes as a punitive military measure against the local population, redrew the settlement pattern of the region, changed the traditional economic and social structure and destroyed much of the built heritage. Some of this were historical monuments like the medieval monastery of Seje described below. Others, like village mosques, churches, local shrines, graves of saints, even houses where generations grew up, were of importance “only” for the local communities. These buildings were not discussed by scholarly studies, and they mainly remained unrecognized by academic research. However, their annihilation represented a rupture in the cultural fabric of the region, a loss keenly felt to this day. This is the case of the old Yezidi village of Khanke and the shrine of Bayazid.

scholarly journals Petrographical and Diagenesis Characterestics of Benavi Ironstone in Kurdistan Region- Northern Iraq

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Taha Yassin ◽  
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Mudhafar M. Mahmoud ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Northern Iraq

scholarly journals Subsurface tectonic characterizations by the use of geo-electrical resistivity technique and their implications on environmental soil and groundwater at Erbil dumpsite, west of Erbil city – Iraqi Kurdistan region

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sirwa Qader Smail Gardi ◽  
Jamal Asfahani
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Resistivity ◽  
Groundwater Table ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Northern Iraq ◽  
Subsurface Structures ◽  
Iraqi Kurdistan ◽  
Geological Information ◽  
Exact Position

Abstract Twenty seven vertical electrical resistivity soundings (VES), distributed on three profiles, have been carried out around the Erbil city dumpsite location in northern Iraq, by using Schlumberger configuration. The main objective of those VES soundings is to characterize the subsurface structures and to detect the probable soil contamination zones at the dumpsite and the surrounding district. Bai Hassan aquifer in the study region is one of most important natural fresh water in the central sub-basin of Erbil. The 2D Pichgin and Habibulleav technique is applied herein to study and analyse the three VES profiles. Its application in the study region has highly demonstrated the efficacy of such a technique. In fact, the subsurface structures in the study area have been recognized, and the exact position, dip, direction of the faults and groundwater level were also precisely detected. The role of applying this technique together with the available geological information, while carrying out geo-electrical surveys is emphasized to obtain useful, cheap and fast lithological, groundwater table and structural subsurface information.

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