Georgi Nekhrizov Editor

Shawn Ross is a Professor in the Department of Ancient History, Maquarie University, Sydney. His research interests include the history and archaeology of pre-Classical Greece, oral tradition as history (especially Homer and Hesiod), the archaeology of prehistoric and ancient Thrace, Greece in its wider Mediterranean and Balkan context, and the application of information technology to the humanities. Adela Sobotkova is a Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History, Maquarie University, Sydney researching socio-cultural evolution among the Ancient Thracians. Her research interests include the archaeology and history (both environmental and socio-cultural) of the Black Sea region and northern Balkans, with a special focus on local trajectories of (non-)state formation Julia Tzvetkova, of the Department of Ancient History, Thracian Studies and Medieval History, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" researches in the History of Geography, Cultural History and Historiography. Her research interests include the history of Ancient Greece and Thrace, ancient the Early Iron age and Classical archaeology and GIS in Archaeology and Ancient History Georgi Nekhrizov is an archaeologist at the National Archaeological Institute and Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria. His main scientific interests are in the field of Thracian culture. Dr Simon Connor is a research fellow and Academic Programs Manager at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on the long-term interactions between humans and environments in the world's biodiversity hotspots.