Publications

Books

• Orazi R. (ed.) 2019 – The Archaeological Environmental Park of Sennacherib’s Irrigation Network. Recording, Conservation and Management of the Cultural Heritage of the Northern Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, Italian Archaeological Mission to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (IAMKRI) 1, Forum, Udine.

Journal Articles

• Conati Barbaro C., Moscone D. 2020 – Going to the source: new perspectives in the study of Canaanean Blade Technology from the Northern Iraqi Kurdistan, in  Manclossi F., Marchand F., Boutoille L., Cousseran-Néré S. eds., Stone in Metal Ages, Archaeopress: Oxford: 52-63.
• Coppini, C. 2020 – Settling the land: settlements pattern and ceramics in the land behind Nineveh from the Middle Bronze Age to the establishment of the Middle Assyrian State, in: Coppini C., Simi F. (eds.), Interactions and New Directions in Near Eastern Archaeology. Proceedings of Broadening Horizons 5 International Conference “Cultures in Contact” (West & East Monografie, 4), Trieste: pp. 93-109.
• Iamoni, M. 2020a – “Social Life and Social Landscapes Among Halaf and Ubaid Communities: A Case Study from the Upper Tigris Area”, in: D. Lawrence, M. Altaweel, and G. Philip (eds.), New Agendas in Remote Sensing and Landscape Archaeology in the Near East. Studies in Honour of Tony J. Wilkinson. Archaeopress, Oxford: 26-40.
• Iamoni, M. 2020b – “The social landscape of Upper Mesopotamia: a preliminary overview of the Late Chalcolithic evidence from the Eastern Upper Tigris region”, in: M. Iamoni (ed.), From the Prehistory of Upper Mesopotamia to the Bronze and Iron Age Societies of the Levant. Proceedings of the 5th “Broadening Horizons” Conference (Udine 5-8 June 2017). West & East Monografie 2. Trieste: 89-106.
• Morandi Bonacossi, D. 2020 – Funerary Landscapes in the Land of Nineveh. Tracking Mobile Pastoralists in the Transtigridian Piedmont of Northern Iraq, in D. Lawrence, M. Altaweel, and G. Philip (eds.), Studies in Honor of T.J. Wilkinson. New Agendas in Remote Sensing and Landscape Archaeology in the Near East, Archaeopress, Oxford.
• Moscone D., Eramo G., Caggiani M.C., Morandi Bonacossi D., Conati Barbaro C. 2020 – First compositional features of chert from the Jebel Zawa mines (Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan), Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 29.
• Simi F. 2020 – The Tell Gomel Archaeological Survey.Preliminary Results of the 2015-2016 Campaigns, in: Coppini C., Simi F. (eds.), Interactions and New Directions in Near Eastern Archaeology. Proceedings of Broadening Horizons 5 International Conference “Cultures in Contact” (West & East Monografie, 4), Trieste: 279-292.
• Conati Barbaro C., Iamoni M., Morandi Bonacossi D. Moscone D., Qasim H.A. 2019 – The Prehistory and Protohistory of the northwestern region of Iraqi Kurdistan: Preliminary results from the first survey campaigns, Baldi J. S., Gomez Cach A., eds. Thematic issue Between Tigris and Zagros: Rediscovering the Prehistory of Iraqi Kurdistan, Paléorient 45/2: 207-229
• Coppini, C. 2018 – The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project: preliminary results from the analysis of the Second Millennium BC pottery”, in Salisbury R.A., Höflmayer F., Bürge T. (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Volume 2: Prehistoric and Historical Landscapes & Settlement Patterns, Economy and Society, Excavation Reports and Summaries, Wiesbaden: 65-82.
• Morandi Bonacossi, D.,  H.A. Qasim, C. Coppini, K. Gavagnin, E. Girotto, M. Iamoni and C. Tonghini 2018 – The Italian-Kurdish Excavations at Gir-e Gomel in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Preliminary Report on the 2017 and 2018 field seasons, Mesopotamia LIII: 67-162.
• Morandi Bonacossi D. and C. Tonghini 2018 – The Many Facets of Heritage Destruction in
  Iraq, KASKAL 15: 267-276.
• Morandi Bonacossi, D. 2018 – Twelve Royal Stelas for Twelve Great Gods: New Discoveries at the Khinis Monumental Complex, Ash-Sharq 2/2: 76-97.
• Morandi Bonacossi, D. 2018 – Water for Nineveh. The Nineveh Irrigation System in the Regional Context of the ‘Assyrian Triangle’: A First Geoarchaeological Assessment, in H. Kühne (ed.), Water for Assyria, Studia Chaburensia 7, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.
• Morandi Bonacossi, D. 2018 – The Creation of the Assyrian Heartland: New Data from the ‘Land behind Nineveh’, in B.S. Düring and T. Stek (eds.), The Comparative Archaeology of Imperial Countrysides. Investigating the Transformations of Rural and Peripheral Landscapes and Societies in Ancient Old World Empires, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Conati Barbaro C., Zerboni A., Moscone D., Cremaschi M., Iamoni M., Savioli A., Morandi Bonacossi D., 2016. The prehistory of the Land of Nineveh, Antiquity project gallery, February 2016, Antiquity Vol 90, issue 349.
• Fales, F.M. and Del Fabbro, R. 2016 – ‘Inscription D’ from Sennacherib’s Aqueduct At Jerwan: Further Data and Insights, in Kopanias, K., MacGinnis, J. (eds.), Archaeological Research in the Kurdistan and Adjacent Regions, BAR International Series, Archaeopress, Oxford, 65-73.
• Gavagnin, K. 2016 – The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project: A Preliminary Overview on the Pottery and Settlement Patterns in the 3rd Millennium BC in the Northern Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, in Kopanias, K., MacGinnis, J. (eds.), Archaeological Research in the Kurdistan and Adjacent Regions, BAR International Series, Archaeopress, Oxford, 75-86.
• Gavagnin, K., Iamoni, M. and Palermo, R. 2016 – The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project: The Ceramic Repertoire from the Early Pottery Neolithic to the Sasanian Period, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 375, 119-169.
• Iamoni, M. 2016a – Across Millennia of Occupation. The Land of Nineveh Archaeological project in Iraqi Kurdistan. The prehistory and protohistory of the Upper Tigris rediscovered, in J. MacGinnis and K. Kopanias (eds.) The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions. Proceedings of the conference on the Archaeology of Kurdistan held in Athens 1st -3rd November 2013, Oxford, 125-134.
• Iamoni, M. 2016b – Larger site, better life? Site dimensions and the path to socio-economic complexity in Upper Mesopotamia across the Halaf and Ubaid periods, in M. Iamoni (ed.) Trajectories of complexity. Socio-economic Dynamics in Upper Mesopotamia in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods, Studia Chaburensia 6, Wiesbaden, 57-84.
• Morandi Bonacossi, D. 2016 – The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project. Assyrian Settlement in the Nineveh Hinterland: A View from the Centre, in J. MacGinnis, D. Wicke, and T. Greenfield (eds.), The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire, McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 141-150.
• Palermo, R. 2016 – Filling the Gap: The Upper Tigris region from the fall of Nineveh to the Sasanians. Historical and Archaeological reconstruction through the data from The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project, in Kopanias, K., MacGinnis, J. (eds.), Archaeological Research in the Kurdistan and Adjacent Regions, BAR International Series, Archaeopress, Oxford, 266-276.
• Morandi Bonacossi, D. and Iamoni, M. 2015 – Landscape and Settlement in the Eastern Upper Iraqi Tigris and Navkur Plains (Northern Kurdistan Region, Iraq). The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project, Seasons 2012-2013, Iraq 77, 9-40.
• Fales, F. M. and Del Fabbro, R. 2014 – Back to Sennacherib’s Aqueduct at Jerwan: A Reassessment of the Textual Evidence, Iraq 76, 65-98.
• Morandi Bonacossi, D.  2014a -Back to Assyria. Cities, villages and canals in the Land behind Nineveh, The Ancient Near East Today II/1.
• Morandi Bonacossi, D. 2014b – River Navigation and Transport in Northern Assyria. The Stone Quay-Walls of the Rivers Gomel and Al-Khazir in the Navkur Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan, in S. Gaspa, A. Greco, D. Morandi Bonacossi, S. Ponchia, R. Rollinger (eds.), From Source to History. Studies on Ancient Near Eastern Worlds and Beyond Dedicated to Giovanni Battista Lanfranchi on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday on June 23, 2014, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 412, Münster, 441-453.
• Fales, F. M. and Del Fabbro, R. 2012-2013 – Ritorno a Gerwan. Nuove indagini su un acquedotto imperiale assiro (ca. 690 a.C.), Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Classe di scienze morali, lettere ed arti 171, 225-280.
• Morandi Bonacossi, D. 2012-2013 – Il paesaggio archeologico nel centro dell’impero assiro. Insediamento e uso del territorio nella ‘Terra di Ninive’, Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Classe di scienze morali, lettere ed arti 171, 181-223.

In press

• Palermo, R. – The Outback of a New World Order: Rural Landscape in Hellenistic North Mesopotamia, in Munn, M., and Z. Stomatopoulou (eds.), A New World Order: Hellenistic Monarchies in the Mediterranean World, SANER (Studies on the Ancient Near Eastern Records), De Gruyter.