The area of intervention of PARTeN is the Northern Iraqi Kurdistan. PARTeN’s purpose is to intervene in this area focusing on six cultural-scientific objectives:
1) Excavation aimed to obtain a complete and well stratified occupational sequence, that covers the period from prehistory to iron age;
2) Study of paleo-environment and paleo-climate for the reconstruction of the ancient environment of the area and its evolution as a consequence of climatic change and anthropic impact;
3) Cataloguing, documentation on the base of modern IT technologies, preservation, enhancement and management of the main open-air neo-Assyrian monumental site;
4) Monitoring of mountainous areas between Dohuk and Al-Khazir river in order to identify possible sites still unknown;
5) Reconstruction of the historical geography of the region, in particular of paleo, middle and neo-Assyrian age, on the base of a surface reconnaissance, of the results of excavation and data from cuneiform sources of II and I millennium A.C.;
6) Renovation and preservation of a big number of archeological finds from different zones of the region, stored at Dohuk Museum.