Catherine M. Draycott is an Associate Professor of Archaeology at Durham University, UK. An expert in Classical, Anatolian and Achaemenid visual culture and archaeology, she has published numerous articles, co-authored Sculpture and Inscriptions from the Monumental Entrance to the Palatial Complex at Kerkenes Dağ, Turkey (Chicago OI 2008), and co-edited Dining and Death (Peeters 2016) and Visual Histories (Brepols 2019).
Scott Branting is an Associate Professor of Archaeology in the Anthropology Department of the University of Central Florida. He is the director of the Kerkenes Project in central Turkey. During his career he has worked on numerous projects spanning five different continents. He has authored 93 publications spanning topics from archaeology to computational techniques to cultural heritage in conflict situations.
Joseph Lehner is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award Fellow and Lecturer in Archaeology at The University of Sydney. He is co-director of the Kerkenes Project and assistant director of the Cape Gelidonya Shipwreck Project. In addition to his work in Turkey, his is also co-director of the Archaeological Water Histories Project in Oman.
Yasemin Özarslan (MSc, BA) is an independent researcher and a field archaeologist. She has 18 years of research, administration and fieldwork experience in Turkey, Greece, Saudi Arabia, and the UK. Currently she is a co-investigator of the Balkan-Aegean Dendrochronology Project. She served as an assistant director of the Kerkenes Project and as a research/teaching assistant at Koç University. She has also co-authored publications on Anatolian Iron Ages and dendroarchaeology.