Is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on the ways that people used (and use) material culture and the remains of the dead to create, enhance, and challenge sociopolitical difference. Her research in Portugal has concentrated on the Neolithic through the Bronze Age (4000-1000 BC). She is the author of Heraldry for the Dead: Memory, Identity, and the Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia (University of Texas Press, 2008). She is the director of the Bolóres excavations.
Joe Artz
Directs the Geospatial Program at the Office of the State Archaeologist at the University of Iowa, USA. He specializes in studying the soils and sediments at archaeological sites, particularly in stream valleys. His second research emphasis is on computerized mapping. He serves in both capacities as a member of Dr. Lillios' team in the Sizandro and Albrachel valley.
Jonathan T. Thomas
Is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. His research and fieldwork have centered on questions related to the evolution of social complexity in Late Neolithic Iberia, and the emergence of behavioral modernity in the African Middle Stone Age. He specializes in material analysis and experimental archaeology, with a particular emphasis on understanding how the production of material culture reflects social organization.
Anna J. Waterman
Is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Iowa and serves as the biological anthropologist for the Bolóres excavations. Her dissertation research is focused on diet, health, and social differentiation in late prehistoric Portugal.