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Stanley Klassen is Collections Manager and Lab Technician of the Archaeology Laboratory in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. He has excavated in Israel, Jordan, and Turkey, and has published numerous studies on the Bronze and Iron Age pottery of the southern Levant and Egypt, with a special focus on their technological, mineralogical, and chemical properties.

Timothy Harrison (PhD University of Chicago 1995) is Director of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) and Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Chicago. He has directed excavations at the Bronze and Iron Age site of Tall Mādabā, Jordan and is currently directing the Tayinat Archaeological Project in southeastern Turkey. These projects form part of a wider, interregional research effort that seeks to shed light on the early development of urban life and state-ordered society within the diverse cultures that have given shape to the eastern Mediterranean world. As part of this effort, he launched the CRANE Project (Computational Research on the Ancient Near East), an international consortium of scholars and projects conducting research in the Orontes Watershed (www.crane.utoronto.ca). He served as President of the American Society of Overseas Research between 2008 and 2013. Prior to his appointment as ISAC Director, he was Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Toronto.