![]() | Stone Tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: Ground stone tools, rock-cut installations and stone vessels from Prehistory to Late Antiquity ANDREA SQUITIERI is a postdoctoral researcher working for the Peshdar Plain Project (based at the Ludwig-Maximilans University of Munich) focusing on the study of the eastern border of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. He obtained his PhD at University College London (UCL) in 2015 with a thesis on 'Stone vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period', published with Archaeopress. | DAVID EITAM is an archaeologist focussing on the study of stone tools and their implications on the prehistory and history of the ancient Near East, such as discovering the oil industry of the Kingdoms of Israel and Philistine Ekron in the Iron Age period, and the first systematic production of bread by the Natufian approximately 12,500 years ago. He obtained his PhD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (HUJ) with the thesis 'Late Epipaleolithic rock-cut installations and ground stones in the Southern Levant' partly published on PLOS One. |
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