Radial route systems and agro-pastoral strategies in the Fertile Crescent: New discoveries from western Syria and southwestern Iran

► Previously undocumented examples of ancient radial route are reported. ► Discoveries are made possible using a new, online database of CORONA satellite imagery. ► Route systems are much later in date than third millennium BC examples in northern Mesopotamia. ► Morphology and distribution of radial route systems is compared. ► Idiosyncratic aspects of agricultural, settlement, and pastoral strategies are explored.