Publications and Presentations
PUBLICATIONS
MacGinnis, J., Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2020
On the eastern frontier of Assyria: A newly discovered text from the Rania Plain in northeastern Iraq. State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 26: 89-112.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2020
Interaction and Culture Contacts in the Late Chalcolithic Period. New Evidence for the Uruk Culture in the Zagros Foothills. in: J. Eidem (ed.), Zagros Studies : Proceedings of the NINO Jubilee Conference and Other Research on the Zagros Region, PIHANS 130, Peeters, Leuven, p. 35-54.
Ghasrian, S.M., Zamani Dadaneh, M., Colantoni, C. and Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2019
Tepe Gryashan. Late Chalcolithic Pottery from the Region of Sanandaj, Western Iran. Ash-Sharq. Bulletin of the Ancient Near East: Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies. Vol 3, No 2. Archaeopress Journals, p. 38–53.
Dadaneh, M.Z., Ghasrian, S.M., Colantoni, C. and Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2019
The Marivan Plain Archaeological Project: western Iran and its neighbours in the Chalcolithic period. Antiquity Vol. 93 Issue 372 www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/marivan-plain-archaeological-project-western-iran-and-its-neighbours-in-the-chalcolithic-period/B696EDF0FD5080BC233DD2078942730F/core-reader
Dadane, M.Z., Ghasrian, S.M. and Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2019
Investigating Late Chalcolithic Period settlement on the Marivan Plain, western Iran. First insights from the Marivan Plain Survey project. Ash-Sharq. Bulletin of the Ancient Near East: Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies. Vol 3, No 1. Archaeopress Journals, p. 33–46.
Colantoni, C., Hald, M.M. and Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2019
Introduction. In: Brahe, H.: Arch Hands. Best Buy Broker: Copenhagen, p. 7. ISBN 978-87-971364-0-9.
Colantoni, C., Hald, M.M. and Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2019
On the threshold of cities: Archaeology in Northern Iraq. In: Brahe, H.: Arch Hands. Best Buy Broker: Copenhagen, p. 96. ISBN 978-87-971364-0-9.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. -with contributions. 2019
>Urbanism on the margins of Mesopotamia. Tracking the anatomy and development of early cities in the Zagros foothills - a case study from the Rania Plain, northeastern Iraq. The Results of the 2012-16 investigations by the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Iraq. Zagros Studies - PIHANS. Scheduled for 2019.
Colantoni, C., Makinson, M. and Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2018
The Assyrian eastern frontier. Girdi Gulak, a fortified settlement in the Zagros foothills. Preliminary results of the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Iraq. Ash-sharq. Bulletin of the Ancient Near East: Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies. Vol 2. No 1. Archaeopress Journals, p. 13-23.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2018a
The path to urbanism. Exploring the anatomy and development of early urbanism in northern Mesopotamia. Five years of investigations by the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Iraq. Ash-sharq. Bulletin of the Ancient Near East: Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies. Vol 2. No 1. Archaeopress Journals, p. 1-12.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2018b
Culture Contact and Early Urban Development in Mesopotamia. Is Garbage the Key to Understanding the “Uruk Expansion” in the Zagros Foothills of Northeastern Iraq? In the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Proceedings. Vol. 2, p. 639-652. Harrassowitz Verlag. Wiesbaden.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B., Colantoni, C. and Hald, M.M. 2017a
Innovative multi-scalar approaches to understanding complex urban settlement processes. Recent work by the DAEI on the Rania Plain, Iraq." Poster presented at the BANEA 2017 conference, 4-6. January 2017, Glasgow. Published on Academia, Researchgate and Facebook. THIS POSTER IS NOW AVAILABLE. SEE DOWNLOAD SECTION TO THE RIGHT.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B., Colantoni, C. and Hald, M.M. 2017b
The Danish Archaeological Expedition to Iraq – three years of pioneering archaeological investigations on the Rania Plain. Report to the Danish Institute in Damascus. August 2016. Published on Academia, Researchgate and here (download).
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2016a
Early urbanism on the margins of Upper Mesopotamia - Complex settlement patterns and urban transformations on the Rania Plain in northeastern Iraq. In Trajectories of Complexity. Socio-economic Dynamics in Upper Mesopotamia in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods, Iamoni, M. ED. Studia Chaburensia Vol. 6, p. 1-26, Harrassowitz verlag.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2016b
First Results of the Rania Plain Survey. Salvage Operations in the Dokan Dam Inundation Zone. In Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East June 9-13, 2014, University of Basel. Volume 3: Reports. Harrassowitz Verlag, p. 131-145.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2016c
Tracking early urbanism in the hilly flanks of Mesopotamia - three years of Danish archaeological investigations on the Rania Plain. In Kopanias, K. and MacGinnis J. Eds. Archaeological Research in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Adjacent Regions. Oxford: Archaeopress, p. 411-415.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B., Colantoni, C. and Hald, M.M. 2016
Why manage garbage? New light on the management of garbage in early urban societies.
Poster presented at the to 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 25-29. April, 2016, Vienna, Austria. Published on Academia and Facebook. THIS POSTER IS NOW AVAILABLE. SEE DOWNLOAD SECTION TO THE RIGHT.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2015
Rania Plain: University of Copenhagen Archaeological Project. In Kopanias, K., MacGinnis, J and Ur, J. Eds. Archaeological Projects in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. The Directorate of Antiquities of Kurdistan, 2015, p. 39.
Eidem, J. and Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2015
Rania Plain Survey. In Kopanias, K., MacGinnis, J and Ur, J. (eds.). Archaeological Projects in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. The Directorate of Antiquities of Kurdistan, 2015, p. 40.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2014
Damage assessment of Iraq’s past: Archaeological Heritage Management on the Rania Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan. Middle East – Topics & Arguments (META) Vol. 3: 41-54.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B., Hald, M.M., Colantoni, C., Weber, J., Nielsen R.B., Thaarup, G.B. and Brahe, H. 2014
Arkæologi i vandkanten – redningsundersøgelser langs Dokan-søen i det nordøstlige Irak. National Museets Arbejdsmark 2014, p. 144-157
Skuldbøl, T.B.B., Hald, MM., and Colantoni, C., 2013
Danske arkæologer skal redde Iraks kulturarv. www.videnskab.dk (December 2013). Online periodical of the Danish Ministry of Research. http://videnskab.dk/miljo-naturvidenskab/danske-arkaeologer-skal-redde-iraks-kulturarv
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2013
På kanten af Zagros bjergene. Tidskriftet Sfinx, nr. 2013-1: 20-23.
REPORTS
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2019
The Danish Archaeological Expedition to Iraq. Report on the autumn 2018 investigations. Report to the Directorates of Antiquities, Raparin: 1-26.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2017
The Danish Archaeological Expedition to Iraq. Report on the autumn 2017 investigations. Report to the Directorates of Antiquities, Raparin: 1-21.
See: https://urbarch.tors.ku.dk/fieldwork/2017-report
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2017
The Danish Archaeological Expedition to Iraq. Report on the investigations in the autumn of 2016. Report to the Directorates of Antiquities, Raparin: 1-20. See: www.urbarch.tors.ku.dk/fieldwork/2016-autumn-report
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2016a
The Danish Archaeological Expedition to Iraq. Report on the investigations in the autumn of 2015. Report to the Directorate of Antiquities, Sulaimaniah: 1-16.
See: www.urbarch.tors.ku.dk/fieldwork/2015-autumn-report
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2016b
University of Copenhagen Archaeological Project on the Rania Plain. Report on the spring 2015 investigations. Report to the Directorate of Antiquities, Sulaimaniah: 1-14.
See: www.urbarch.tors.ku.dk/fieldwork/spring2015
Skuldbøl T.B.B. 2015
The University of Copenhagen Archaeological Project on the Rania Plain. Report on the investigations in autumn 2013. Report to the Directorate of Antiquities, Sulaimaniah: 1-16. See: www.urbarch.tors.ku.dk/fieldwork/2013
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2012
Part II. Tell Bab-w-Kur. In Eidem, J. and Skuldbøl, T.B.B. The NINO Archaeological Project on the Rania Plain. Report on work September-October 2012. Tell Shemshara and Tell Bab-w-Kur. Report to the Directorate of Antiquities, Sulaimaniah: 31-41. see: www.urbarch.tors.ku.dk/fieldwork/2012
RECENT PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2020
On the frontier of cities and empires. Eight years of investigations on the Rania Plain by the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Iraq (DAEI).
Paper presented at the workshop: The Archaeology of the Raparin Region of Iraqi Kurdistan. A Review of Results from the Field and the Directions of the Further Research. A workshop held at the Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 9th of March 2020.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2019
The Danish Archaeological Expedition to Iraq. A Summary of 8 Years of Archaeological Research on the Rania Plain. Paper presented at the Rencontre "Archaeological Research in Iraqi Kurdistan" organized by the General Directorate of Antiquities (GDA) and the French Institute of the Near East (IFPO), October 10, 2019.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2018
Unravelling early urbanism and the dynamics of cultural encounters in Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia. New insights from the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Iraq (DAEI). Paper presented at the 11th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Workshop 7: The Late Chalcolithic of Upper Mesopotamia and the interaction with Southern Uruk communities: new data and interpretations for a better understanding of the early urban world, 3-7 April 2018, Munich, Germany.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B., Colantoni, C. and Hald, M.M. 2017
Landscapes of Exploitation. Exploring the specialised landscapes and organisational dynamics of early urban societies in Upper Mesopotamia. Paper presented at BANEA - the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology 2017, Glasgow, 4-6. January, Glasgow, Scotland.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B., Colantoni, C. and Hald, M.M. 2017
Innovative multi-scalar approaches to understanding complex urban settlement processes. Recent work by the DAEI on the Rania Plain, Iraq. Poster. BANEA - the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology 2017, Glasgow, 4-6. January, Glasgow, Scotland.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B., Colantoni, C. and Hald, M.M. 2016
Culture contact and early urban development in Upper Mesopotamia. New evidence from the Zagros foothills, northeastern Iraq. Paper presented at the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Section: 6. Excavation Reports & Summaries, 25-29. April, 2016, Vienna, Austria.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B., Hald, M.M. and Colantoni, C. 2016
Why manage garbage? New light on the management of garbage in early urban societies. Poster presented at the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 25-29. April, 2016, Vienna, Austria.
Colantoni C. 2015
Three seasons of work by the University of Copenhagen Archaeological Project on the Rania Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan. An investigation of early urbanism on the hilly flanks of Mesopotamia. School of Archaeology, Oxford University Seminar series. May 2015.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2015
Low‐density urbanism and urban sprawl in the Zagros foothills, northeastern Iraq. BANEA- the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology 2015, London. 7-9 January 2015.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2014
Urban trajectories and dynamics of complexity in the Upper Mesopotamia: a view from the Zagros foothills. NINO 75-Jubilee Conference, Zagros. National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, Holland, 1. December 2014.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B., Colantoni, C. and Hald, M.M. 2014
Early urbanism in the hilly flanks of Mesopotamia - The dynamics of settlement complexity and urban transformation on the Rania Plain in northeastern Iraq. ASOR - American Schools of Oriental Research 2014, San Diego, USA.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2014
Urbanism on the edge - Complex settlement patterns and urban transformations on the Rania Plain in northeastern Iraq. 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE 2014), Basel, Switzerland.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. and Colantoni, C. 2014
First Results of the Rania Plain Survey ‐ Salvage Operations in the Dokan Dam Inundation Zone. 9 t h International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE 2014), for the workshop “Trajectories of complexity in Upper Mesopotamia: processes and dynamics of social complexity and their origin in the Halaf period”. Basel, Switzerland.
Skuldbøl, T.B.B. 2014
First results of the University of Copenhagen Archaeological Project in Iraqi Kurdistan, Near Eastern Lecture Series - Archaeology and Assyriology, University of Copenhagen, 21. Marts 2014.