Lindy Crewe Editor & Author

Edgar Peltenburg is Emeritus Professor in Archaeology at Edinburgh University. His research interests include small-scale society dynamics, archaic states and early technology, especially vitreous materials and he has undertaken extensive fieldwork in Canada, the Middle East and Cyprus where he is director of the Lemba Archaeological Research Centre. Diane Bolger is a Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh where she has worked since 2002. She specialises in ceramics of early societies of the ancient Near East, with a particular focus on ceramics of the 4th-3rd millennia BC in Cyprus, where she has conducted research annually since the mid-1980s. She is also a specialist in gender archaeology and has written and edited four books and a number of articles on gender in prehistoric Cyprus and the ancient Near East. Lindy Crewe has recently been appointed Director of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia. Since completing her job as Field Director of excavations at the Souskiou Laona cemetery (2001–2006), she has been directing excavations annually at the Middle Bronze Age site of Kissonerga Skalia near Paphos.