Claudia Glatz is a Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her main research interests include archaeological approaches to empire, culture contact, the relationship of craft production and political power, as well as settlement and landscape studies, especially in border and transitional regions. She co-directs the Cide Archaeological Project, a survey on the west-central Turkish Black Sea coast, and the Sirwan Regional Project in the Kurdish Region of Iraq. Susan Sherratt is a Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology, Sheffield University, UK, and one of the world’s preeminent experts in the interaction of pre- and protohistoric societies in the Bronze Age Mediterranean and surrounding regions. One of her current research projects is The Linking up of the Mediterranean, 3000-700 BC. She has published extensively on various aspects of early interaction networks, their local and large-scale consequences. Dr. Sherratt is currently involved in fieldwork on the central Turkish Black Sea as a member of the Sinop Regional Archaeological Project. Alexander Bauer is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. He co-directs the Sinop Regional Archaeological Project (SRAP) in the Black Sea region of Sinop, Turkey, with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Georgraphic Society. His research focus is on Bronze Age cultural interconnections across the Black Sea region, a subject on which he has published several articles. He has organized several conferences and workshops on a variety of topics and has been the Editor-on-Chief of the International Journal of Cultural Property since 2005.