A Damage Assessment of Iraq’s Past: Archaeological Heritage Management on the Rania Plain in Iraqi Kurdistan Tim Boaz Bruun Skuldbøl Carlo Colantoni Heritage Management Iraq Damage Assessment Archaeological Strategies and Methods Urban Developmental Pressure This paper advocates an increasing focus on damage assessment, monitoring and adaptation to the impact of urban development on archaeologically rich regions.As a case-study of the wider Middle East, this discussion focuses on archaeological strategies for damage assessment, monitoring and handling archaeological cultural resources on the Rania plain in the Kurdistan autonomous region of northeast Iraq. The pressures of modern development, with extensive infrastructure development, rapid expansion of population settlements and a hydro-electric dam, whose waters inundate a substantial proportion of the plain, make the recording of valuable cultural heritage a demanding task. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2014 2014-12-17 2018-01-31 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2014-45-21725 eng 2714728-9 3 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/article/download/2172/7538 10.17192/meta.2014.3.2172 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2014/45/2172