Aaltje Hidding, Alexandra Konstantinidou and Håkon Teigen joined our team. While Aaltje will concentrate on the socioeconomic profiles of the communities under study in DEChriM and Håkon on the Manichaean and Melitian material, Alexandra will work on the non-textual artefacts of the 4CARE database as well as the monograph on our excavation at Ganub Qasr al-Aguz.