People

Project team

 

  Director

• Takahiro Odaka (Associate Professor, Kanazawa University)

  Vice-director

• Osamu Maeda (Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba)
  

  KRG Representative

• Rawa K. Salih (Staff, Slemani Antiquities and Heritage Directorate)
• Perween Yewer (Staff, Slemani Antiquities and Heritage Directorate / 2022)
• Nawshirwan A. Mohammed (Head of Excavation Department, Slemani Antiquities and Heritage Directorate / 2019)

  Archaeologist

• Kazuya Shimogama (Researcher, Chiba Institute of Technology)
• Takehiro Miki (Assistant Professor, Keio University)
• Shumpei Kuroda (Graduate Student, Kanazawa University)
  

  Geologist

• Yuichi S. Hayakawa (Associate Professor, Hokkaido University) 

  Archaeometrist

• Yu Itahashi (Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba)

  Zooarchaeologist

• Saiji Arai (Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo)
• Hideaki Kojima (Curator, Wakasa-Mikata Jomon Museum)

  Advisor

• Yoshihiro Nishiaki (Professor, University of Tokyo)
• Hussein Hama Gharib (Director, Slemani Antiquities and Heritage Directorate)
• Kamal Rasheed (Former Director, Slemani Antiquities and Heritage Directorate / 2019-2022)

Our partners

• General Directorate of Antiquities and Heritage, KRG
• Slemani Antiquities and Heritage Directorate   http://www.slemani-antiquities.com/
• Slemani Museum   http://slemanimuseum.org/
• Shahrizor Survey Project   http://www.vorderas-archaeologie.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/shahrizor/index.html
• Excavations at Gird-i Shamlu   https://www.shamlu.net/
• Excavations at Tell Begum   https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2013/07/rescuing-tell-begum

Special thanks to

• Mr. Kaifi Mustafa Ali (General Directorate of Antiquities and Heritage, KRG)
• Mr. Hashim H. A. Abdullah (Slemani Museum)
  
• Prof. Hirotoshi Numoto (Kokushikan University)
• Dr. Olivier Nieuwenhuyse† (Leiden)
• Dr. Simone Mühl (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
• Mr. Felix Wolter (Berlin)
• Dr. Maria Bianca D'Anna (Austrian Academy of Science) 
• Mr. Max Berghof (Universität Wien)
• ...and the local people supporting us!  

Shakar Tepe, 2023

Shaikh Marif, 2022

Shakar Tepe, 2019