Augusta McMahon

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Augusta McMahon is a senior lecturer in Mesopotamian archaeology and history in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She has excavated in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, and Turkey. Since 2006, she has been field director of the Tell Brak excavations in northeast Syria. Her research interests include economic complexity, the prehistory of violent conflict, early urbanism, and past urban landscapes.