Keshia A.N. Akkermans is an alumna of the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, where she specialized in the archaeology of the ancient Near East. She has worked for the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), and is currently doing her doctoral research at the University of Liverpool. Her research includes studies on the rock art and the desert tombs of the Jebel Qurma region in north-east Jordan, funerary practices of the Middle Assyrian period, and ground stone tools in Pre-Pottery Neolithic Anatolia. Keshia has been involved in fieldwork in the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Oman, Cyprus, Jordan, and Turkey.