Editorial board
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Directors of Paléorient
Johnny Samuele Baldi (CNRS, UMR 5133 Archéorient, Lyon – France)
Benjamin Mutin (Sorbonne Université, UFR d’Histoire de l’Art et Archéologie, UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerranée, Paris – France)
Representatives of CNRS Éditions
Marie-Pauline Gacoin (executive director of CNRS Éditions)
Simon Robert (project manager, CNRS Éditions)
Editor of Paléorient
Clémentine Siméon, clementine.simeon@cnrs.fr
Members of the editorial board
Victoria de Castéja (CNRS, UMR 7041 ArScAn, Nanterre – France, until 2024), Archaeology of the Near and Middle East
Lionel Gourichon (CNRS, UMR 7264 Cultures – Environnements. Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge, Nice – France), Archaeozoology
Françoise Le Mort (CNRS, UMR 5133 Archéorient, Lyon – France), Biological anthropology
Anne-Marie Tillier (CNRS, Directrice de recherche honoraire, Bordeaux – France), Biological anthropology
Gilles Berillon (CNRS, UMR 7194 HNHP, Paris – France), Biological anthropology
Scientific committee
Hizri Amirkhanov (Moscow – Russia), Palaeolithic/Neolithic/Middle East/Caucasus
Laurence Astruc (Nanterre – France), Neolithic/stone tool industry/traceology
Edward B. Banning (Toronto – Canada), Methodology/7th–4th millennia BC/Southern Levant
Emmanuel Baudouin (Toulouse – France), Recent prehistory/architecture/Mesopotamia, the Caucasus
Mark Beech (Abu Dhabi – United Arab Emirates), Archaeozoology/Arabian Peninsula
Anna Belfer-Cohen (Jerusalem – Israel), Prehistory/Southern Levant/Caucasus
Fereidoun Biglari (Tehran – Iran), Prehistory/Iran
Didier Binder (Nice – France), Neolithic/stone tool industry
Éric Coqueugniot (Lyon – France), Archaeology
Odile Daune-Le Brun (Nanterre – France), Archaeology
Henri-Paul Francfort (Nanterre – France), Archaeology/Central Asia
Marcella Frangipane (Rome – Italy), Recent prehistory/Türkiye/Caucasus
Hans-Georg K. Gebel (Berlin – Germany), Neolithic/Jordan/Iran/Syria
Naama Goren-Inbar (Jerusalem – Israel), Early Prehistory/Southern Levant
Nigel Goring-Morris (Jerusalem – Israel), Neolithic/Southern Levant
Caroline Hamon (Paris – France), Recent prehistory/technology/macro-tool traceology/Caucasus
Andreas Hauptmann (Bochum – Germany), Archaeometallurgy
Barbara Helwing (Berlin – Germany), Protohistory/Central Asia/Iran
Susanne Kerner (Copenhagen – Denmark), Recent prehistory/Southern Levant
Ian Kuijt (Notre Dame – United States), Neolithic/Jordan
Alain Le Brun (Paris – France), Archaeology/theories/Cyprus/Iran
Augusta McMahon (Chicago – United States), Archaeology/Early Bronze Age/Mesopotamia
Marjan Mashkour (Paris – France), Archaeozoology/Iran/Gulf
Liliane Meignen (Nice – France), Archaeology
Sophie Méry (Rennes – France), Archaeology/Arabian Peninsula and Gulf States
Naomi F. Miller (Philadelphia – United States), Archaeobotany
Miquel Molist (Barcelona – Spain), Archaeology
Yoshihiro Nishiaki (Tokyo – Japan), Neolithic/Northern Levant
Mihriban Özbaşaran (Istanbul – Türkiye), Neolithic/Türkiye
Daniel Potts (New York – United States), Chalcolithic/Neolithic/Bronze Age, Iran, Arabia
Michel Rasse (Lyon – France), Geoarchaeology
Gary Rollefson (Walla Walla – United States), Neolithic/Southern Levant
Steven Rosen (Ben Gurion – Israel), Prehistory/The Levant
Martin Sauvage (Nanterre – France), Archaeology of the Pre-Classical Near and Middle East
Lynne Schepartz (Tucson – United States), Biological anthropology
Philippe Sorrel (Lyon – France), Geology
Honorary member: Trevor Watkins (Nth Queensferry, Fife – Great Britain), Neolithic/theory
Honorary member: Henry T. Wright (Ann Arbor – United States), Archaeology

