Domesticating the Sumerians in Mandate Iraq: Contextualising Woolley's excavations at Ur (1922-1934)

该项目将探索在现代科学考古学的萌芽和伊拉克现代民族国家诞生的交汇点上，中东考古的动机和方法，以及这些发掘对公众对过去的理解的持久影响。该项目将以伦纳德·伍利(Leonard Woolley)对伊拉克南部古城乌尔(1922-34年)的重要考古探险为主要案例。它将受益于大英博物馆和宾夕法尼亚博物馆目前正在进行的Chaldees项目的Ur，该项目提供对伍利挖掘的完整发现和记录的综合数字访问。这个项目位于研究伊拉克委任统治和考古史的新方法的交汇点。考虑到广泛的来源和可能的方法，学生将有足够的机会根据自己的强项和兴趣来定制项目。该项目将支持至少一次到费城查阅那里的档案的资助旅行；也有可能到Ur本身进行一次短途旅行(安全情况允许的话)。

The project will explore the motivations and methods in Middle Eastern archaeology at the nexus of the infancy of modern, scientific archaeology and the birth of the modern nation state of Iraq, and the lasting impact of these excavations on public understanding of the past. The project will take as primary case study Leonard Woolley's important archaeological expedition to the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq (1922-34). It will benefit from the Ur of the Chaldees project, currently underway at the British Museum and Penn Museum, which is providing integrated digital access to the complete finds and records of Woolley's excavations. This project sits at the intersection of new approaches to the study of Mandate Iraq, and to the history of archaeology. Given the vast range of sources, and possible approaches to them, there will be ample opportunity for the student to tailor the project to their own strengths and interests. The project will support a minimum of one funded trip to Philadelphia to consult the archives there; there is also the potential for a short trip to Ur itself (security circumstances permitting).