Roger Matthews is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Reading and Co-Director of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project (CZAP). He is President of RASHID International, an organisation concerned to protect and promote the cultural heritage of Iraq. He has directed excavations and surveys in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, and has published many books and articles on the archaeology of the Middle East with a focus on the Neolithic and the Bronze Age Wendy Matthews is Associate Professor in Archaeology at the University of Reading. She completed her PhD and was a Research Associate and Fellow at the University of Cambridge 1992-2000. She is Co-Director of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project. Her interdisciplinary research interests are in the built environment and sustainability from the origins of agriculture to today. Kamal Rasheed Raheem is Director of Sulaimaniyah Antiquities Directorate in the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq. He studied Archaeology at the University of Baghdad and under his supervision Sulaimaniyah Antiquities Directorate supports a broad spectrum of international, collaborative archaeological and heritage projects across Sulaimaniyah province Amy Richardson is a Senior Researcher at the University of Reading, where she completed her PhD in 2010. Between 2011 and 2014, Amy was CZAP Project Manager, before spending three years as the Wainwright Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research examines prehistoric material networks through the analysis of clay and stone artefacts, with a focus on knowledge exchange and social organisation.