Peder Mortensen Author & Editor

Tobias Richter obtained his BA and MPhil from the University of Wales, Lampeter, and his PhD from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. He is currently Associate Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Early Agricultural Societies at the University of Copenagen. Hojjat Darabi is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Razi University, Iran. He received his BA, MA and PhD from the Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, between 2002–2011. His main research interest is the Neolithic period in the Zagros region. Peder Mortensen is a former curator at the National Museum of Denmark, lecturer and dean at Aarhus University, director of Moesgaard Museum and inaugural director of the Danish Institute in Damascus. He is now retired and an affiliated professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen.