Artefact Biographies from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe and Beyond

Annemieke Verbaas is a use-wear specialist and experimental archaeologist at the Leiden University and Stichting LAB. She has studied archaeological Sciences at Leiden University. She has worked on the objects from many contract archaeology sites in the Netherlands and several large research projects.

Geeske Langejans is an Assistant Professor and prehistoric archaeologist, specialised in material analysis. Her lab at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, combines practical material analysis of objects, computational modelling, ethnography and experimental archaeology to unravel ancient technological systems and the evolution of technological behaviour.

Aimée Little is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, University of York where she Directs the Centre for Artefacts and Materials Analysis (CAMA) and the York Experimental Archaeological Research (YEAR) Centre and co-Directs the Masters in Material Culture and Experimental Archaeology programme. Her primary research specialism is prehistoric hunter-gatherer material culture, with a focus on the Northern European Mesolithic.

Ben Chan is a prehistoric archaeologist and a lithics analyst focusing on all forms of techno-typological analyses and use-wear analysis. He has a particular interest in settlement archaeology and the archaeology of craft and subsistence practices. Ben has worked extensively on the Neolithic landscapes of Stonehenge, Avebury, and Orkney. He currently works at the University of Bristol having previously held a Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship at Leiden University.