The Baltic in the Bronze Age

Dr Daniela Hofmann is Associate Professor at the University of Bergen, but has previously worked in Germany and the UK. She teaches and researches chiefly on the Neolithic of central Europe. Her main areas of interest are the application of scientific methods to narratives of prehistoric life, notably concerning migration and mobility, as well as the role of material culture and social practices (burial, structured deposition, figurines, architecture) in bringing about or resisting change.

Prof. Dr Frank Nikulka is currently Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Hamburg. His main research interests include the Bronze and Iron Ages of Europe, as well as the Slavic period, the economic and social implications of metallurgy, variability in burial rituals and cultural contacts throughout Iron Age Europe.

Dr Robert Schumann is currently substitute professor at Heidelberg University. Prior to that, the worked and researched in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich after receiving his PhD from Munich in 2014. His research interests include Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, social archaeology and social organisation, contemporary archaeology and the history of archaeology.