The series presents the results of research carried out in the Iraqi Kurdistan from 2012
through 2017. During this time an extremely rich group of heritage monuments was registered on
an area of 3058 km2 located on both banks of the Greater Zab at the foot of the Kurdistan
mountains. More than 300 archaeological sites 4 rock reliefs nearly 80 cultural heritage
monuments (cemeteries Christian Muslim and Jewish architecture industrial installations) and
over 100 caves illustrate nearly 10.000 years of the region's history from the Neolithic
period to the mid-20th century AD. The SHIK will consist of two introductory volumes (an atlas
and a volume on the project's methodology) eight volumes presenting the dataset for settlement
sites (six volumes) caves and heritage monuments (one volume each) and a volume analyzing the
development of the settlement during particular periods. The second volume of the site
catalogue contains a complete dataset for 34 archaeological sites documented in 2013 2014 and
2015 on a stretch of land connecting the Navkur Plain and the Greater Zab river valley along
the Karbk stream. The flat area between the Sart mountains in the north and the Zark Barda as
hills in the south up to 10 km in width offers very good conditions for travel in the
east-west direction and was used by the King Road of the Persian period if not earlier.
Additionally the volume contains an analysis of relevant images of U2 and CORONA spy missions
and contemporary satellite imagery a discussion of relevant maps from the Atlas of
Archaeological Sites in Iraq and indexes.
