Christoph Bachhuber is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Area Studies and the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Free University of Berlin. His most recent work, entitled Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age in Anatolia, was published in November 2014 as Volume 13 in the series Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology (London: Equinox).
Maria Carme Belarte is an ICREA research professor based at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC), Tarragona, Spain. Her research interests include domestic architecture, social use of space and hierarchy in Catalonia and southern France during the Iron Age, funerary customs and rituals in Catalonian protohistory, and protohistoric societies in north Africa. Recent publications have appeared in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology 30 (2011, with Eric Gailledrat and Jordi Principal), Lattara 21 (2010) and the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22 (2009).
Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri is Professor of European Protohistory at the University of Salento, Lecce (Dipartimento di Beni Culturali). Her research explores relationships between Italy and the eastern Mediterranean, the Bronze and Iron Ages of Latium Vetus, Sicily from the Copper to Iron Ages, Italian metal production and its connections with the eastern Mediterranean and Europe, and the site of Frattesina in northeast Italy and its role in the Bronze Age economy. In 1996, she was awarded the Europa Prize for her work on the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell’Osa (Rome). Her most recent book is L’Italia nell’età del bronzo e del ferro (Rome: Carocci, 2010).
Emma Blake is Assistant Professor of Archaeology in the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona. She co-directs the Marsala Hinterland Survey in Sicily. She has published numerous articles on Bronze Age Sardinia and Sicily, and is currently at work on a book on social networks in Bronze Age Italy.
Helena Bonet-Rosado’s field of interest is the Iron Age in the Iberian Peninsula in general and Iberian culture more specifically. During the last 30 years, she has conducted extensive fieldwork, both surveys and excavation, in the Valencia region. She is currently the Director of the Servei d’Investigació Prehistòrica de Valencia (Research Service of Prehistory in Valencia) and the Museu de Prehistòria de Valencia (Museum of Prehistory in Valencia).
Shlomo Bunimovitz is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University. His fields of teaching and research include theoretical archaeology, archaeology of the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Levant, and Aegean and Cypriot archaeology. Since 1990, Bunimovitz and co-author Lederman have co-directed the Renewed Excavation Project at Tel Beth-Shemesh, Israel. Their book – Tel Beth-Shemesh: A Border Community in Judah. Renewed Excavations 1990–2000: The Iron Age (Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology) – is now in press.
Despina Catapoti is a lecturer in Cultural Theory and Digital Culture in the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, Greece. She is among the founding members of AEGEUS – Society of Aegean Prehistory and also part of the editorial team for the Society’s journal Aegean Studies. Along with Dr Maria Relaki, she has co-edited the book An Archaeology of Land Ownership (London: Routledge, 2013).
John F. Cherry is the Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology in the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and Professor of Classics and Anthropology at Brown University, Rhode Island. He co-edits the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology (with A. Bernard Knapp and Peter van Dommelen), is general editor of the series Joukowsky Institute Publications, and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, the American Journal of Archaeology and Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology. His most recent book is Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2005), co-edited with Despina Margomenou and Lauren E. Talalay.
Derek B. Counts is Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Associate Director of the Athienou Archaeological Project. He has recently published The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography (Budapest: Archaeolingua, 2010), co-edited with B. Arnold, and Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley (Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2011), co-edited with M.K. Toumazou and P.N. Kardulias. Counts serves as Co-Editor for Book Reviews for the American Journal of Archaeology.
Mariassunta Cuozzo is Associate Professor of Etruscology and Italian Archaeology at the University of Molise and at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. She is currently director of the excavations in the Etruscan-Campanian settlement of Pontecagnano. She has published widely on Campanian, Greek, Etruscan and Italic archaeology and on theoretical issues in European archaeology. She is author of the monograph
Reinventando la tradizione.
Immaginario sociale, ideologie e rappresentazione nelle necropoli orientalizzanti di Pontecagnano (Paestum: Pandemos, 2003).
Marian H. Feldman is Professor of the History of Art and Near Eastern Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an ‘International Style’ in the Ancient Near East, 1400–1200 BCE (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). Recent articles have appeared in Interpreting Exile: Displacement and Deportation in Biblical and Modern Contexts, eds. B.E. Kelle, F.R. Ames and J.L. Wright (Ancient Israel and Its Literature 10; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011), and in Agency and Identity in the Ancient Near East: New Paths Forward, eds. S. Steadman and J. Ross (London: Equinox, 2010).
Kevin D. Fisher is Assistant Professor of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is co-director of the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project and is currently completing a book entitled Monumentality, Place and Social Interaction in Late Bronze Age Cyprus (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 14; London: Equinox). He is also co-editor (with Andy Creekmore) of Making Ancient Cities: Space and Place in Early Urban Societies (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Lin Foxhall is Professor of Greek Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester and has held posts at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and University College London. She has worked in Methana and the southern Argolid and Sparta (Greece) and Metaponto (Italy). She currently co-directs a field project in Bova Marina, southern Calabria, Italy. She has written extensively on agriculture, land use and gender in Classical antiquity, and she published Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Michael L. Galaty is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, Mississippi State University, Mississippi. He directs archaeological projects in northern Albania in the region of Shkodër and in southern Greece in the Diros region of the Mani, focused on Alepotrypa Cave. He recently co-edited (with William A. Parkinson) the book Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age (Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press, 2009).
Raphael Greenberg is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He directs the Tel Bet Yerah Archaeological Project and the Kura-Araxes Pottery Technology Project. In 2009, he co-edited (with Yuval Goren) the volume Transcaucasian Migrants and the Khirbet Kerak Culture in the Third Millennium BCE, a special issue of the journal Tel Aviv, volume 36.2.
Alessandro Guidi is Professor of Prehistory at the Roma Tre University. His research interests concern the origins of the state in protohistoric Italy and the history of prehistoric archaeology. In 2010, he guest-edited a special section about ‘Urbanization, Regional Diversity and the Problem of State Formation in Europe’ for the journal Social Evolution and History.
Yannis Hamilakis is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. His research interests are Aegean prehistory, the archaeology of the senses and the human body, the socio-politics of the past, and archaeological ethnography. He is the co-editor (with Aris Anagnostopoulos) of Archaeological Ethnographies (Leeds: Manney, 2009). His most recent book is Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Ömür Harmanşah is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He works, teaches and writes on issues of place, landscape and social memory, as well as architectural space and technologies of construction in the ancient Near Eastern world. He directs the Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Project, a regional survey in the Konya Province of Turkey. His first monograph Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East was recently published (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Tamar Hodos is a specialist in the archaeology of the Mediterranean during the Iron Age. Her areas of focus have been Sicily, Italy, Turkey and north Africa, and encompass themes such as post-colonial perspectives, globalisation and identity. She is the author of Local Responses to Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean (London: Routledge, 2006) and co-editor (with S. Hales) of Material Culture and Social Identities in the Ancient World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Until 2012, she was co-director of the Çaltılar Archaeological Project in Lycia, Turkey.
Sarah Janes is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow. Her main research interests are mortuary archaeology and identity theory in Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean 1100–475 BC. Her most recent publication is ‘Negotiating island interactions: Cyprus, the Aegean and the Levant in the Late Bronze to Early Iron ages’, in Material Connection in the Ancient Mediterranean, eds. P. van Dommelen and A.B. Knapp, 127–46 (London: Routledge, 2010).
Morag M. Kersel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at DePaul University. She co-edits (with Christina Luke) the Archaeological Ethics and Heritage section of Journal of Field Archaeology. Her most recent book, with Christina Luke, is entitled U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology: Soft Power, Hard Heritage (New York: Routledge, 2012).
Carl Knappett is Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair of Aegean Prehistory in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto. His most recent book is An Archaeology of Interaction: Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Zvi Lederman received his PhD from Harvard University and is affiliated with the Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University. His research interests lie in cultural changes in the Late Bronze and Iron Age southern Levant and in the development of digital field techniques and methods.
Thomas P. Leppard received his PhD in 2013 from the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, Rhode Island. His dissertation treated the extent to which initial agriculturalist colonising populations in two small archipelagoes (the Cyclades and the Caribbean Leeward Islands) adopted parallel strategies of settlement and resource exploitation. His most recent publication is ‘Expectation and Ambiguity in the Lower Palaeolithic of the Mediterranean Islands’, to appear in the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.2 (December 2014).
Katina T. Lillios is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Heraldry for the Dead: Memory, Identity, and the Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008). She also edited Comparative Archaeologies: The American Southwest (AD 900–1600) and the Iberian Peninsula (3000–1500 BC) (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2011).
Consuelo Mata-Parreño’s research interests are Iberian culture and its diffusion. She is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Valencia and has conducted extensive fieldwork, both surveys and excavation, for more than 30 years in the Valencia region. At present, she runs a research project on flora and fauna in the Iberian Iron Age with funding from the Spanish National Department of Science and Technology.
Sandra Montón Subías is an ICREA research professor in archaeology based at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona with broad social and theoretical interests. She works on the archaeology of Bronze Age Argaric societies in southeastern Iberian, funerary behaviour, identity and gender and maintenance activities. She is also co-chair of the EAA working party on Archaeology and Gender in Europe. She has published in Norwegian Archaeological Review 43 (2010), Trabajos de Prehistoria 66 (2010) and Antiquity 83/322 (2009). She has co-edited Situating Gender in European Archaeologies (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010) and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Commensality Practices in the Prehistoric Societies of Europe and the Near East (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010).
Irene Nikolakopoulou is an archaeologist in the Greek Archaeological Service, where she works on the archaeology of the Dodecanese across a range of periods, from Bronze Age to Hellenistic. She is a specialist on the Middle Bronze Age Cyclades, working particularly on Thera at the Akrotiri excavations and publishing the Middle Cycladic pottery from this site.
Massimo Osanna is director of the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Pompei, Ercolano e Stabia and Professor of Archaeology at the University of Basilicata (Matera, Italy). His area of interest is Greek archaeology and the Iron Age in south Italy. His most recent books are Lo spazio del potere (two volumes: Venosa: Osanna Edizioni, 2009 and 2011) and ΑΜΦΙ ΣΙΡΙΟΣ ΡΟΑΣ. Nuove ricerche su Eraclea e la Siritide (Venosa: Osanna Edizioni, 2012), the latter co-edited with G. Zuchtriegel.
Giulio Palumbi received his PhD in Archaeology from ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome, and has been Research Fellow at Koç University in Istanbul and at the Collegium de Lyon. He collaborates with the archaeological expeditions at Arslantepe and Yumuktepe in Turkey and with the ‘Mission Caucase’ in Armenia. He is the author of The Red and Black. Social and Cultural Interaction between the Upper Euphrates and the Southern Caucasus Communities in the Fourth and Third Millennium BC (Studi di Preistoria Orientale 2; Rome: ‘Sapienza’ Università di Roma, 2008).
John K. Papadopoulos is Professor of Archaeology and Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Chair of the Archaeology Interdepartmental Program. His most recent book is a volume, co-edited with Gary Urton, entitled The Construction of Value in the Ancient World (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2012).
William A. Parkinson is Associate Curator of Eurasian Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. He co-directs the Körös Regional Archaeological Project on the Great Hungarian Plain in the Carpathian Basin and The Diros Project on the Mani Peninsula of southern Greece. He recently co-edited (with Michael L. Galaty) the book Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age (Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press, 2009).
Mieke Prent is a Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Near Eastern Studies at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is editor-in-chief of Pharos: The Journal of the Netherlands Institute at Athens. Her most recent publication is a thematic issue of Pharos co-edited with Christopher Mee and entitled Early Helladic Laconia (2012).
Damià Ramis is an independent archaeologist who received his PhD in prehistory from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, in 2006. His research focuses on the earliest human settlement and the Bronze Age in the Balearic Islands. He currently co-directs a long-term excavation project at the prehistoric settlement of S’Hospitalet Vell (Manacor), as well as a research project on the coastal Bronze Age fortified capes in the Balearics. He also participates in fieldwork and is responsible for faunal analysis at a range of other excavations on the Balearic Islands that cover everything from the Early Bronze Age to Late Antiquity.
Corinna Riva is Senior Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London. Her specific area of study is Etruria and Iron Age Italy, on which she has published various articles and co-edited two books. She is co-director of the Upper Esino Valley Survey and is the author of The Urbanisation of Etruria: Funerary Practices and Social Change, 700–600 BC (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), also translated into Spanish (La urbanización de Etruria. Práticas funerarias y cambio social 700–600 a.C. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2010).
R. Gareth Roberts is co-ordinating editor of the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB) at the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford. He co-edited Forces of Transformation (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2009), along with Christoph Bachhuber, and at the time of writing is preparing for publication a volume entitled Sea Peoples and Egypt: Perception and Identity (Oxford: Griffith Institute).
Alonso Rodríguez Díaz holds the Chair of Prehistory at the University of Extremadura at Cáceres, Spain. He is the
co-editor (with Pavón Soldevila) of
Arqueología de la tierra (Cáceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 2007). His most recent book is
Campesinos y “señores del campo”. Tierra y poder en la protohistoria extremeña (Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2009).
Marisa Ruiz-Gálvez is Reader in the Department of Prehistory at the Complutense University, Madrid. She is currently conducting a research project in the Moroccan High Atlas together with Dr Youssef Bokbot (Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine du Royâume du Maroc, Rabat, Maroc). Her most recent book is Con el fenicio en los talones. Los inicios de la Edad del Hierro en la Cuenca del Mediterráneo (Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2013).
Joan Sanmartí is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona, and member of the Historical and Archaeological Section of the Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC, member of the International Academic Union). He co-edits (with Josep M. Gurt and Mercè Roca) the series Arqueo Mediterrània (University of Barcelona). His latest book is Althiburos I. La fouille dans l’aire du capitole et dans la nécropole méridionale (co-directed with Nabil Kallala) (Series Documenta. Tarragona: Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, 2011).
Davide Tanasi is Adjunct Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History at the Arcadia University, The College of Global Studies – AUMCAS, Siracusa, Sicily, Italy. His most recent book is a volume, co-edited with Nicholas C. Vella, entitled Site, Artefacts and Landscape: Prehistoric Borġ in-Nadur, Malta (Monza: Polimetrica, 2011).
Helena Tomas is Assistant Professor of Aegean Archaeology and Mycenaean Epigraphy and current Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests are focused on Aegean Bronze Ages scripts and administration, and Bronze Age relations between the Aegean, the Balkan peninsula and central Europe. She recently co-edited (with I. Galanaki, Y. Galanakis and R. Laffineur) the volume Between the Aegean and Baltic Seas: Prehistory Across Borders (Aegaeum 27; Liège, Belgium, and Austin, Texas: Université de Liège, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, 2007).
Carlo Tronchetti has retired from the positions of Archaeological Director in the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and of Director of the National Archaeological Museum in Cagliari. He has been long-term director of the archaeological sites of Sant’Antioco (ancient Sulci) and Nora (Pula, Italy). He served as co-editor of the Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica di Cagliari e Oristano. His most recent book is Metodo e strategie dello scavo archeologico (Roma: Carocci, 2003).
Nicholas C. Vella is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Head of the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Malta. He has co-edited (with Davide Tanasi) a collection of essays entitled Site, Artefacts and Landscape: Prehistoric Borġ in-Nadur, Malta (Monza: Polimetrica, 2011).
Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez has been Curator at the Museum of Prehistory in Valencia, Spain, since 2004. He is field co-director of the excavations at the Iberian settlement of la Bastida de les Alcusses from which he has recently co-edited (with H. Bonet Rosado) the book La Bastida de les Alcusses 1928–2010 (Valencia: Museu de Prehistòria de València, 2011).
Jennifer M. Webb is Charles La Trobe Research Fellow in the Archaeology Program at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, and editor-in-chief of the monograph series Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology (Uppsala, Sweden). Her most recent book is a volume, co-authored with David Frankel, entitled Ambelikou Aletri: Metallurgy and Pottery Production in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 138 (Uppsala: P. Åström’s Förlag, 2013).
Yuval Yekutieli is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Bible, Archaeology and the Ancient Near East, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, and Head of its Archaeology Division. His most recent publications deal with issues of power and control in antiquity, ancient colonialism and landscape archaeology.