Edwin C M Van Den BrinnkEdwin C.M. van den Brink was employed as research archaeologist at the Israeli Antiquities Authority prior to his retirement in 2020. He is coauthor of Two Bronze Age Cemeteries in the Qirya Quarter of Tel Aviv (Zaphon, 2022) and coeditor of Egypt an the Levant: Interrelations from the 4th Through the Early 3rd Millennium B.C.E. (T&T Clark, 2001). His specializations and interests concern different aspects of material culture from Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt and the pottery of the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age period in the Southern Levant. Matthew J. Adams is director of The Center for the Mediterranean World, a nonprofit research institute focusing on the archaeology and history of the region. He received his PhD in History from the Pennsylvania State University in 2007, specializing in Egyptology and Near Eastern Archaeology, and was formerly the Director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem (2014-2022). He is codirector of the Tel Aviv University Megiddo Expedition (Israel), director of the Jezreel Valley Regional Project (Israel), and assistant director of the Penn State excavations at Mendes (Egypt). Read More Read Less