Report on the Biblical Archaeology Review

The Kani Shaie Archaeological Project: Investigating Early Bronze Age Kurdistan

By Steve Renette, André Tomé and Ricardo Cabral

AbstractDuring the first season of excavations in September 2013, the Kani Shaie Archaeological Project (KSAP)1 explored the history of occupation at Kani Shaie in the Bazyan Valley in Iraqi Kurdistan. In this short report, the directors of KSAP describe the preliminary results of the first systematic investigation in the region of a center dating to the late fourth and early third millennium B.C.E.

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