Olivier Nieuwenhuyse Editor

Akira Tsuneki is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. He has long been engaged in archaeological excavations in Syria, Iran and Iraq. Recent publications include A History of Syria in One Hundred Sites (editor, Archaeopress, 2016), and Ancient West Asian Civilization (editor, Springer, 2016). Olivier Nieuwenhuyse is a Dutch archaeologist affiliated with Leiden University, which has a long tradition of archaeological prehistoric research in the ancient Near East. He has conducted fieldwork in Lebanon, Turkey and Syria, and is currently active in northern Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan). He has published extensively, including several monographs. The prehistoric ceramic traditions of the Middle East have his special attention. He is is also active in international efforts to safeguard endangered archaeological heritage in Syria and Iraq. Stuart Campbell is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Manchester. He has excavated extensively in Iraq, Syria and Turkey with a particular interest in both the chronology and social context of the earliest ceramics of northern Mesopotamia.