Sharon R SteadmanLaura Battini is a researcher specialising in Mesopotamia (II-I millennia BC), currently at the French National Centre of Scienfic Research. Laura created a new journal for the Ancient Near East (Ash sharq, Archaeopress), and is the editor of the seres Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology. Aaron Brody is the Robert and Kathryn Riddell Professor of Bible and Archaeology and Director of the Bade Museum at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. His research interests include archaeology of the southern Levant, religion, society, economy, identity and ethnicity, postcolonialism, and maritime and deepwater archaeology. Sharon R. Steadman is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. She codirects the archaeological excavations at Cadir Hoyuk and also serves as field director. Her research focuses on domestic architecture and spatial analysis in prehistoric settlements. Read More Read Less