Linear hollows in the Jazira, Upper Mesopotamia

Abstract

O.G.S. Crawford, founder of A NTIQUITY , flew in the 1920s over an English landscape where the grooves and lines cut into unploughed downlands showed the courses of roads and tracks since earliest times. Similar patterns of crop- and soil-marks in the rain-fed agricultural zone of the Middle East, when studied in the same spirit, also reveal the local and the long-distance routes of a proven great age.