Chagar Bazar IX (Syria): A key Halafian site in the Sixth Millennium cal. BC

Anna Bach Gómez is an archaeologist and associated lecturer at Department of Prehistory (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and member of the Mediterranean and Middle East Archaeological Research Group (G.R.A.M.P.O.). She has participated in several archaeological fields in the Near East and she is a specialist in pottery technology of the VI millennium cal BC. She obtained her PhD in 2011 focused on Halaf period, more specifically in ceramic production studies. She holds a PhD in Art, History and Archaeology from Liège University (Belgium) and a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology from Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain).

She has worked as a director of numerous archaeological sites, especially from the Neolithic period, in the area of Catalonia. Since 2000 she has cooperated with several Near Eastern sites, being head of sector fieldworks at sites like Tell Halula and Chagar Bazar in Syria (2000-2011) and co-director at the sites of Gird Banahilk (2017-ongoing), Soran area surveys (2016-ongoing) and Gird Lashkir (2015-ongoing) in Iraqi Kurdistan. She has contributed to numerous publications from the western and eastern Mediterranean Sea, Upper Mesopotamia and southern Europe. She is the co-director of this publication project along with Dr. Walter Cruells Banzo.