Corinna Riva (Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow) received her PhD in Etruscan archaeology from the University of Cambridge in 2001. From 2000-2005 she was a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. Her research interests include the Iron Age of Etruria, Italy and the Central Mediterranean, interaction between east and west Mediterranean during the first half of the first millennium BC and landscape studies. Since 2002, she has been co-director of the Upper Esino Valley Survey in ancient Picenum, in eastern central Italy. Nicholas C. Vella (Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Malta) received his PhD in Phoenician archaeology from the University of Bristol in 1998. His research interests include later Mediterranean prehistory, landscape archaeology with an emphasis on the study of spatial perceptions in antiquity, and the development of archaeological traditions in Malta. He has been Assistant Director of the University of Malta excavations at the site of the Phoenician sanctuary at Tas-Sil in Malta since 2000.