Publication

Articles

  • T. Odaka, O. Maeda, T. Miki, Y. S. Hayakawa, Y. Itahashi, M. Oda, R. K. Salih and H. Hama Gharib (2025). Halaf and Late Chalcolithic occupations at Shakar Tepe in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: Preliminary report of the 2023 excavations. Archaeological Research in Asia 41: 100592. LINK 
  • T. Odaka (2024). Tell Begum, Shaikh Marif and Shakar Tepe: The Late Neolithic pottery in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan. in T. Richter and H. Darabi (eds.), The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent: Revisiting the Hilly Flanks, pp. 261-278. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. LINK
  • T. Odaka, O. Maeda, K. Shimogama, Y. S. Hayakawa, Y. Nishiaki, N. A. Mohammed and K. Rasheed (2023). Late prehistoric investigations at Shakar Tepe, the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: Preliminary results of the first season (2019). in N. Marchetti et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, vol. 2: Field Reports, Islamic Archaeology, pp. 415-428. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. LINK
  • T. Odaka, O. Maeda, T. Miki, Y. S. Hayakawa, P. Yewer and H. Hama Gharib (2023). Excavations at Shaikh Marif, Iraqi Kurdistan: Preliminary report of the first season (2022). Ancient Civilizations and Cultural Resources 1: 1-22. LINK 
  • Y. Nishiaki (2022). Neolithic lithic industries of the Eastern Wing of the Fertile Crescent: Paying homage to Professor Stefan K. Kozłowski. Światowit 61: 293-300. LINK
  • T. Odaka (2021). Neolithic potsherds from Tell Hassuna: The collection of the University Museum, the University of Tokyo. in R. Özbal, M. Erdalkıran and Y. Tonoike (eds.), Neolithic Pottery from the Near East: Production, Distribution and Use, pp. 169-179. Istanbul: Koç University Press. LINK
  • T. Odaka, O. Maeda, K. Shimogama, Y. S. Hayakawa, Y. Nishiaki, N. A. Mohammed and K. Rasheed (2020). Late Neolithic in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: New excavations at Shakar Tepe, 2019. Neo-Lithics 2020: 53-57. LINK
  • T. Odaka, O. Nieuwenhuyse and S. Mühl (2019). From the 7th to the 6th millennium BC in Iraqi Kurdistan: A local ceramic horizon in the Shahrizor Plain. Paléorient 45(2): 67-83. LINK
  • T. Odaka (2019). Neolithic potsherds from Matarrah, northern Iraq: The collection of the University Museum, the University of Tokyo. in S. Nakamura, T. Adachi and M. Abe (eds.), Decades in Deserts: Essays on Near Eastern Archaeology in Honour of Sumio Fujii, pp. 251-260. Tokyo: Rokuichi Syobou. LINK
 

Presentations

  • Y. S. Hayakawa, T. Odaka and O. Maeda (2024). Geomorphological settings of the Shahrizor Plain and its significance to Neolithisation in Iraqi Kurdistan. Annual Meeting 2024 of the Japanese Geomorphological Union. Tottori: Tottori University.
  • T. Odaka and O. Maeda (2024). Changes in material culture during the Late Neolithic in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan. 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan. Tokyo: Rikkyo University 
  • S. Kuroda, T. Miki, K. Shimogama and T. Odaka (2024). Regional characteristics of Ubaid pottery in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan. 29th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology. Nagoya: Nanzan University.
  • O. Maeda (2024). Pottery Neolithic societies in the eastern wing of the Fertile Crescent viewed from the lithic industries. 29th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology. Nagoya: Nanzan University.
  • T. Odaka, K. Shimogama, T. Miki and Y. Itahashi (2023). Absolute dates of Shaikh Marif II, Iraqi Kurdistan. 28th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology. Oyama: Hakuoh University.
  • T. Odaka, O. Maeda, T. Miki, Y. S. Hayakawa, P. Yewer and H. Hama Gharib (2023). Investigating the Late Neolithic in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: Excavations at Shaikh Marif, the first season (2022). 13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen (remote).
  • T. Miki and K. Shimogama (2023).  A new Ubaid ceramic assemblage in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan. 13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen.
  • O. Maeda (2022). Another lithic tradition in the Pottery Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent? Advancing Current Methods in Lithic Analysis: The 10th International Conference of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen (remote).
  • T. Odaka (2021). Investigating the Late Neolithic in the Shahrizor Plain: Tell Begum, Shaikh Marif and Shakar Tepe. International Conference, Revisiting the Hilly Flanks: The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic Periods in the Fertile Crescent. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen (remote).
  • T. Odaka, O. Maeda, K. Shimogama, Y. S. Hayakawa, Y. Nishiaki, N. A. Mohammed and K. Rasheed (2021). Investigating the Late Neolithic in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: Excavations at Shakar Tepe, the first season (2019). 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Bologna: University of Bologna (remote).
  • T. Odaka, O. Maeda, K. Shimogama, Y. S. Hayakawa, Y. Nishiaki, N. A. Mohammed and K. Rasheed (2020). Late Neolithic layer at Shakar Tepe, Iraqi Kurdistan. 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan. Nagoya: Nagoya University (remote).
  • T. Odaka, O. Maeda, K. Shimogama, Y. S. Hayakawa, Y. Nishiaki, N. A. Mohammed and K. Rasheed (2019). Late Neolithic in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: A new evidence from Shakar Tepe, the excavations in 2019. 9th International Conference on the PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East. Tokyo: University of Tokyo.
  • T. Odaka (2019). The regional variability of the so-called Hassuna Standard Ware. 24th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology. Tsukuba: University of Tsukuba.
  • T. Odaka (2019). Neolithic pottery collected at Tell Hassuna. 24th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology. Tsukuba: University of Tsukuba.
  • T. Odaka (2019). New insights into the regional variability of the Hassuna Standard Ware. 3rd International Workshop on Ceramics from the Late Neolithic Near East. Antalya: Koç University. 

Related articles

  • T. Odaka and O. Nieuwenhuyse (2022). Halaf pottery in the east end: Insights from Tell Begum, Iraqi Kurdistan. Orient 57: 113-124. LINK
  • O. Nieuwenhuyse, T. Odaka, A. Kaneda, S. Mühl, K. Rasheed and M. Altaweel (2016). Revisiting Tell Begum: A prehistoric site in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraq 78: 103-135. LINK
  • O. Nieuwenhuyse, T. Odaka and S. Mühl (2016). Halaf settlement in the Iraqi Kurdistan: The Shahrizor Survey Project. in K. Kopanias and J. MacGinnis (eds.), The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions, pp. 257-266. Oxford: Archaeopress. LINK