Aerial view of the 2023 exposure in Area I at Shakhi Kora. Credit: Antiquityhttps://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.189 Excavations at a 4th millennium BCE settlement in Iraqi Kurdistan have revealed new clues about the origins of the world’s earliest governing institutions, suggesting they emerged partly from their ability to provide large-scale meals, potentially as payment for labor. However, the […]