Excavations at Jebel Faya were first conducted between 2003-2010 by Simon J. Armitage, Sabah A. Jasim, Anthony E. Marks, Adrian G. Parker, Vitaly I. Usik, and Hans-Peter Uerpmann.[1] Knut Bretzke, Nicholas J. Conard, and Hans-Peter Uerpmann also reported on the FAY-NE1 sequence after conducting excavations between 2009-2013.[8] Additional excavations have studied the site's environmental and geologic context (see Bretzke et. al. 2013, Parton et. al.