Edwin C.M. van den Brink was employed as research archaeologist at the Israeli Antiquities Authority prior to his retirement in 2020. He is coauthor of Two Bronze Age Cemeteries in the Qirya Quarter of Tel Aviv (Zaphon, 2022) and coeditor of Egypt and the Levant: Interrelations from the 4th Through the Early 3rd Millennium B.C.E. (T&T Clark, 2001).Matthew J. Adams is director of The Center for the Mediterranean World, a non-profit research institute focusing on the archaeology and history of the region. He is codirector of the Tel Aviv University Megiddo Expedition, director of the Jezreel Valley Regional Project, and assistant director of the Penn State excavations at Mendes.