Roger Matthews

Roger Matthews has been Professor of Archaeology of the Near East at the University of Reading since 2011. Previously he was Director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq (1988-1996), Director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara (1996-2001), and Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL (2001-2010). He has directed surveys and excavations in Iraq, Iran, Türkiye and Syria. His most recent publications include The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent (Oxbow, 2020) and, with H. Fazeli Nashli, The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire Routledge, 2022).