Across millennia of occupation: the Land of Nineveh Archaeological project in Iraqi Kurdistan: the prehistory and protohistory of the Upper Tigris rediscovered

Thanks to the occurrence of favourable socio-politicalconditions, Iraqi Kurdistan is now home to many new archaeological projects which promise to yield data of crucial importance for many research topics of Near Eastern archaeology. The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project (LoNAP) is in this respect one of the most potentially fruitful investigations, thanks to the extensive area under examination and the various issues addressed. In particular LoNAP offers fresh evidence for starting a new sub-project in the pre- and protohistoric field which will investigate the ancient environment and its impact on relationship with different subsistence strategies, the related settlement patterns and the dynamics of socio-economic complexity that characterised the region throughout the 7th-4th millennia BC.