Project Leadership
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William A. Parkinson is Curator of Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his BA in Anthropology from University of Illinois at Chicago, and his MA and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1999). He has been involved in research in the USA, Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Serbia, and Hungary for over 20 years, with support from major grants from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Bill is American Director of the Körös Regional Archaeological Project in Hungary and Co-Director of The Diros Project in Greece.
| American Director
Attila Gyucha is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Georgia and Research Associate at the Field Museum of Natural History. He received his BA and MA from the University of Szeged and Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (2010). He has carried out archaeological research in Albania, Greece, the Philippines, and Hungary in the past 25 years, with support from grants from the US and Hungarian National Science Foundations as well as the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Attila is the Hungarian Director of the Körös Regional Archaeological Project in Hungary.
| Hungarian Director
Richard W. Yerkes is Professor of Anthropology at Ohio State University, Columbus. He received his BA in Anthropology from Beloit College, and his MA and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984). He has been involved in archaeological research in the USA, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, and Israel for over 30 years, with support from major grants from the National Science Foundation.
| Field Director
William P. Ridge is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Georgia. He received his BA in Classics from the University of Arizona, and his MA and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago (2023). He has carried out archaeological fieldwork in Hungary and Greece for over 10 years, with support from the National Science Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Billy directs the Copper Age Settlement Project (CASP) and is a co-director of the Vésztő-Mágor Conservation and Exhibition Program (VMCEP).
| American Co-Director