2008
For a period of six weeks, from 20th July till 30th August 2008, the CZAP team conducted excavations at the two sites of Sheikh-e Abad and Jani.
Government support was kindly provided throughout the season by:
- Dr Leila Khosrawi ICAR Representative, Tehran
- Sa’id Dustani ICHHTO, Kermanshah Asadolahe Beyranvand ICHHTO, Kermanshah
- Mozafar Sohrabi ICHHTO, Kermanshah
- Mr Rashnou ICHHTO, Eslam Abad
The 2008 team included specialists and students from all three universities as well as from Tehran University:
- Dr Timothy Astin: geophysics, topographic survey
- Garrard Cole: osteoarchaeology and zooarchaeology
- Hengameh Ilkhani: archaeobotany
- Sarah Luddy: archaeobotany
- Dr Gundula Müldner: isotopes, osteoarchaeology
- Hojjat Darabi: excavation, lithics
- Lisa Marie Shillito: excavation, micromorphology, phytoliths, organic residues
- Helen Taylor: excavation, lithics, data-base
- Cecilie Lelek Tvetmarken: excavation, zooarchaeology
- Behzad Balmaki: excavation, illustration
- Mehdi Daryaie: excavation
- Ardeshir Javanmard: excavation, topographic survey
- Ahad Momenpor: excavation, micro-artefacts
- Dr Michael Seymour: excavation, site presentation
- Jennifer Booth: conservation
- Parinaz Bahar Aghdam: illustration
- Parvin Ranjbary Ahsan: illustration
- Nazli Niazi: illustration
- Margaret Mathews: post-excavation illustration
- Helen Stokes: post-excavation data-base, micro-artefacts