Laura Proctor
Biographic Data
| ID | 732811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Proctor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Proctor |
| SIGNATURE | PROCTOR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9769-8211 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Excavation and Geophysical Survey at Kurd Qaburstan on the Erbil Plain, Field Season 2022
Fieldwork at Kurd Qaburstan (ancient Qabra?) on the Erbil plain of northern Mesopotamia (Kurdistan Region of Iraq) in 2022 acquired a variety of new evidence on the Middle and Late Bronze occupations at the 95-hectare walled urban site. Geophysical survey revealed the existence of a probable palace in the Lower Town East, where excavations exposed a set of baked brick structures that were probably used for institutional storage and food processin…
A Multi-Proxy Investigation of the Anthropogenic Landscape Near the Early Bronze Age Building VII at Al-Khashbah, Oman
The Early Bronze Age in southeastern Arabia is characterized by a significant shift in the archaeological record that coincides with the regional deterioration of climatic conditions associated with the end of the Holocene Humid Period. This study presents evidence for human modification of the local landscape around Building VII, a large circular structure at Al-Khashbah, Oman dating to the late third millennium BC. Through multiproxy analyses c…
Exploring Neolithic resilience and mobility in the Omani interior at Al-Khashbah KHS-A
A newly discovered Neolithic site at Al-Khashbah KHS-A (Oman) reveals local adaptations to climate change in the Holocene. Results from radiocarbon dating show repeated occupations over 1000 years and key artefacts indicate coastal connections. KHS-A served as a short-term camp, enhancing our understanding of Neolithic lifeways in Arabia
Preliminary Results of the Rural Landscapes of Iron Age Imperial Mesopotamia Project’s 2022–2023 Seasons at Qach Rresh (Kurdistan Region of Iraq)
This article presents the preliminary results of investigations at the site of Qach Rresh on the Erbil Plain of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, conducted by the Rural Landscapes of Iron Age Imperial Mesopotamia project (RLIIM). The site of Qach Rresh is estimated to have been founded in the mid–eighth century B.C.E., at the height of the Assyrian Empire, and continued to be utilised in varying capacity until the onset of the Hellenistic period ( c.…
Examining long-term fuel and land use patterns at Ziyaret Tepe, Türkiye using an integrated analysis of seeds, wood charcoal, and dung spherulites
This study presents the results of a combined dendrological, macrobotanical, and dung spherulite analysis of flotation samples collected from Bronze Age, Late Assyrian, and post-Assyrian contexts at the site of Ziyaret Tepe, located on the southern bank of the Tigris River in southeastern Anatolia. The results of this study show shifting fuel resource exploitation between pre-urbanized phases of the site (ca. 3000-1600 BCE), the urbanized Late As…
Archaeobotanical and dung spherulite evidence for Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic fuel, farming, and feasting at Surezha, Iraqi Kurdistan
Agropastoral subsistence practices can provide important insight into economic organization and surplus production, both integral factors in the emergence and development of socioeconomic inequality during the Chalcolithic Age of Southwest Asia. In this study, we examine evidence for plant husbandry, fuel use, and feasting in northern Mesopotamia during the Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic 1–2 periods (ca. 5200–3800 BCE) at the site of Surezha. Archae…
Excavations at the Darband-I Rania Pass, Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Report on the 2016 and 2017 Seasons
This paper presents the results of the work of the new field initiative launched by the British Museum at the Darband-i Rania pass in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The pass is located at the northeastern corner of Lake Dokan, where, though now subsumed into the lake, the Lower Zab flows from the Peshdar into the Rania Plain. It is a strategic location on a major route from Mesopotamia into Iran, and control of both the road and the river must alw…
Agropastoralism in middle bronze through early iron age Naxçıvan: Zooarchaeological and paleoethnobotanical data from Qızqala
The burning issue of dung in archaeobotanical samples: A case-study integrating macro-botanical remains, dung spherulites, and phytoliths to assess sample origin and fuel use at Tell Zeidan, Syria
Since Naomi Miller’s first discussion of dung fuel within macro-botanical samples from Malyan, Iran, considerations of dung fuel across Southwest Asia have become commonplace, yet archaeobotanists remain divided on: (1) the extent to which dung fuel contributed to archaeobotanical assemblages relative to remnants of repeated crop processing and household activities; and (2) the plant-based, middle-range theories that should be used to infer the p…
Examining Fuel Use in Antiquity: Archaeobotanical and Anthracological Approaches in Southwest Asia
This article considers the study of wood and dung fuel use in antiquity across Southwest Asia by anthracologists and archaeobotanists. In recent years, the socially conditioned nature of fuel use has been highlighted and many scholars are stressing the central importance of fuel to pre-modern societies as on par with subsistence and tool use. By elevating and unifying the study of ancient fuel through anthracological, archaeobotanical, geochemica…
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Pc-Kimmo: A Two-Level Processor for Morphological Analysis
Natural Language Processing Technologies in Artificial Intelligence: The Science and Industry Perspective
Natural Language Generation
Computer Translation of Natural Language
This book attacks the problems of natural language translation on two fronts. The first part is concerned with the general problems associated with the machine translation of natural languages. A survey is presented of the various approaches that have been used, leading up to the most recent advances and current avenues of research in language translation and understanding. In the second part, a simplified method is presented which translates ind…
The burning issue of dung in archaeobotanical samples: A case-study integrating macro-botanical remains, dung spherulites, and phytoliths to assess sample origin and fuel use at Tell Zeidan, Syria
Since Naomi Miller’s first discussion of dung fuel within macro-botanical samples from Malyan, Iran, considerations of dung fuel across Southwest Asia have become commonplace, yet archaeobotanists remain divided on: (1) the extent to which dung fuel contributed to archaeobotanical assemblages relative to remnants of repeated crop processing and household activities; and (2) the plant-based, middle-range theories that should be used to infer the p…
Examining Fuel Use in Antiquity: Archaeobotanical and Anthracological Approaches in Southwest Asia
This article considers the study of wood and dung fuel use in antiquity across Southwest Asia by anthracologists and archaeobotanists. In recent years, the socially conditioned nature of fuel use has been highlighted and many scholars are stressing the central importance of fuel to pre-modern societies as on par with subsistence and tool use. By elevating and unifying the study of ancient fuel through anthracological, archaeobotanical, geochemica…
Examining long-term fuel and land use patterns at Ziyaret Tepe, Türkiye using an integrated analysis of seeds, wood charcoal, and dung spherulites
This study presents the results of a combined dendrological, macrobotanical, and dung spherulite analysis of flotation samples collected from Bronze Age, Late Assyrian, and post-Assyrian contexts at the site of Ziyaret Tepe, located on the southern bank of the Tigris River in southeastern Anatolia. The results of this study show shifting fuel resource exploitation between pre-urbanized phases of the site (ca. 3000-1600 BCE), the urbanized Late As…
Archaeobotanical and dung spherulite evidence for Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic fuel, farming, and feasting at Surezha, Iraqi Kurdistan
Agropastoral subsistence practices can provide important insight into economic organization and surplus production, both integral factors in the emergence and development of socioeconomic inequality during the Chalcolithic Age of Southwest Asia. In this study, we examine evidence for plant husbandry, fuel use, and feasting in northern Mesopotamia during the Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic 1–2 periods (ca. 5200–3800 BCE) at the site of Surezha. Archae…
Computer Translation of Natural Language
This book attacks the problems of natural language translation on two fronts. The first part is concerned with the general problems associated with the machine translation of natural languages. A survey is presented of the various approaches that have been used, leading up to the most recent advances and current avenues of research in language translation and understanding. In the second part, a simplified method is presented which translates ind…
Natural Language Generation
Natural Language Processing Technologies in Artificial Intelligence: The Science and Industry Perspective
Pc-Kimmo: A Two-Level Processor for Morphological Analysis
Newsbriefs
Newsbriefs
Newsbriefs
Examining Fuel Use in Antiquity: Archaeobotanical and Anthracological Approaches in Southwest Asia
This article considers the study of wood and dung fuel use in antiquity across Southwest Asia by anthracologists and archaeobotanists. In recent years, the socially conditioned nature of fuel use has been highlighted and many scholars are stressing the central importance of fuel to pre-modern societies as on par with subsistence and tool use. By elevating and unifying the study of ancient fuel through anthracological, archaeobotanical, geochemica…
The burning issue of dung in archaeobotanical samples: A case-study integrating macro-botanical remains, dung spherulites, and phytoliths to assess sample origin and fuel use at Tell Zeidan, Syria
Since Naomi Miller’s first discussion of dung fuel within macro-botanical samples from Malyan, Iran, considerations of dung fuel across Southwest Asia have become commonplace, yet archaeobotanists remain divided on: (1) the extent to which dung fuel contributed to archaeobotanical assemblages relative to remnants of repeated crop processing and household activities; and (2) the plant-based, middle-range theories that should be used to infer the p…
Excavations at the Darband-I Rania Pass, Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Report on the 2016 and 2017 Seasons
This paper presents the results of the work of the new field initiative launched by the British Museum at the Darband-i Rania pass in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The pass is located at the northeastern corner of Lake Dokan, where, though now subsumed into the lake, the Lower Zab flows from the Peshdar into the Rania Plain. It is a strategic location on a major route from Mesopotamia into Iran, and control of both the road and the river must alw…
Agropastoralism in middle bronze through early iron age Naxçıvan: Zooarchaeological and paleoethnobotanical data from Qızqala
Archaeobotanical and dung spherulite evidence for Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic fuel, farming, and feasting at Surezha, Iraqi Kurdistan
Agropastoral subsistence practices can provide important insight into economic organization and surplus production, both integral factors in the emergence and development of socioeconomic inequality during the Chalcolithic Age of Southwest Asia. In this study, we examine evidence for plant husbandry, fuel use, and feasting in northern Mesopotamia during the Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic 1–2 periods (ca. 5200–3800 BCE) at the site of Surezha. Archae…
Preliminary Results of the Rural Landscapes of Iron Age Imperial Mesopotamia Project’s 2022–2023 Seasons at Qach Rresh (Kurdistan Region of Iraq)
This article presents the preliminary results of investigations at the site of Qach Rresh on the Erbil Plain of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, conducted by the Rural Landscapes of Iron Age Imperial Mesopotamia project (RLIIM). The site of Qach Rresh is estimated to have been founded in the mid–eighth century B.C.E., at the height of the Assyrian Empire, and continued to be utilised in varying capacity until the onset of the Hellenistic period ( c.…
Examining long-term fuel and land use patterns at Ziyaret Tepe, Türkiye using an integrated analysis of seeds, wood charcoal, and dung spherulites
This study presents the results of a combined dendrological, macrobotanical, and dung spherulite analysis of flotation samples collected from Bronze Age, Late Assyrian, and post-Assyrian contexts at the site of Ziyaret Tepe, located on the southern bank of the Tigris River in southeastern Anatolia. The results of this study show shifting fuel resource exploitation between pre-urbanized phases of the site (ca. 3000-1600 BCE), the urbanized Late As…
A Multi-Proxy Investigation of the Anthropogenic Landscape Near the Early Bronze Age Building VII at Al-Khashbah, Oman
The Early Bronze Age in southeastern Arabia is characterized by a significant shift in the archaeological record that coincides with the regional deterioration of climatic conditions associated with the end of the Holocene Humid Period. This study presents evidence for human modification of the local landscape around Building VII, a large circular structure at Al-Khashbah, Oman dating to the late third millennium BC. Through multiproxy analyses c…
Exploring Neolithic resilience and mobility in the Omani interior at Al-Khashbah KHS-A
A newly discovered Neolithic site at Al-Khashbah KHS-A (Oman) reveals local adaptations to climate change in the Holocene. Results from radiocarbon dating show repeated occupations over 1000 years and key artefacts indicate coastal connections. KHS-A served as a short-term camp, enhancing our understanding of Neolithic lifeways in Arabia
Excavation and Geophysical Survey at Kurd Qaburstan on the Erbil Plain, Field Season 2022
Fieldwork at Kurd Qaburstan (ancient Qabra?) on the Erbil plain of northern Mesopotamia (Kurdistan Region of Iraq) in 2022 acquired a variety of new evidence on the Middle and Late Bronze occupations at the 95-hectare walled urban site. Geophysical survey revealed the existence of a probable palace in the Lower Town East, where excavations exposed a set of baked brick structures that were probably used for institutional storage and food processin…
Archaeology (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · History (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Mesopotamia (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Ancient Near East History (4 works) · Bronze Age (4 works)