Explore the Data
CZAP aims to make all our research open access, including publications and the underlying data. This archive contains the core data records from the investigations at Bestansur, Shimshara and Zarzi between 2012 and 2017. From here you can access and download the excavation data recorded during our excavation seasons. This data is now freely available from the Archaeology Data Service.
A volume including final reports by the large-scale interdisciplinary team is available to purchase and for Open Access download.
Please contact us if you have any queries.
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Context data

Sample data

Small Find data

Bulk Find data

Space data

Building data

Wall data

Feature data

Plan data

Section data

Trench data

Site data
View the paper records
CZAP Volume 2 Appendices
In: Matthews, R., Matthews, W., Rasheed Raheem, K. & Richardson, A. (eds). 2020. The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan. CZAP Volume 2. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Chapter 11
Dating of Early Neolithic sites in the Zagros and adjacent regions
Pascal Flohr, Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Amy Richardson and Dominik Fleitmann

Chapter 18
The charred plant remains from Early Neolithic levels at Bestansur and Shimshara: supplemental data
Jade Whitlam, Charlotte Diffey, Amy Bogaard and Mike Charles