Scientific Committees
With the high number and variety of archaeological site entries, forming editorial and scientific committees is a natural organizational approach. Each archaeological period will have a scientific committee of one or two scholars with relevant specialization. Each committee has the responsibility to suggest site entries for inclusion into the Gazetteer, as well as (co-)author, solicit, collate, and edit site entries in their assigned field. They will also be responsible for communicating with other committees to produce site entries in cases where a single site spans multiple time periods. Seven committees can be envisioned at this point: The Prehistoric committee dealing with sites ranging in date from Paleolithic to Neolithic; the Bronze Age sites; the Iron Age sites and all that fall within Proto-historic times, including the sites associated with the Medes; the sites of the Elamite period; Achaemenid and Post-Achaemenid sites; Seleucid and Parthian sites; Sasanian and early Islamic sites. The following is a tentative list of committees and their members:
| Committee | Members |
|---|---|
| Prehistoric | Fereydoun Biglari (The National Museum of Iran) |
| Abbas Moghadam (Iranian Center for Archaeological Research) | |
| Kourosh Roustaei (The Iranian Center for Archaeological Research) | |
| Bronze Age | Holly Pittman (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Ali Mousavi (University of California, Los Angeles) | |
| Iron Age | Mehrdad Malekzadeh (Iranian Center for Archaeological Research) |
| Ali Mousavi (University of California, Los Angeles) | |
| Elamite Period | Elizabeth Carter (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Babak Rafiee (University of Isfahan) | |
| Achaemenid Period | Mohammad Taghi Atayi (Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| Ali Mousavi (University of California, Los Angeles) | |
| Seleucid and Parthian Periods | Pierfrancesco Callieri (Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Bologna) and Lara Fabian (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods | Yusef Moradi (SOAS, University of London) and Lara Fabian (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Persian period sites in Egypt | Marissa Stevens (University of California, Los Angeles) and Johnathan Winnerman (University of California, Los Angeles) |