Emilie Sibbesson Editor

Penny Bickle is a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, University of York. The main focus of her research is Neolithic Europe, especially in the application of bioarchaeological methods to various sites and time periods to inform on issues of identity and social diversity. She has a particular interest in the examination of burial practices to uncover the social lives and lifeways of the earliest farmers in Europe. Dr Emilie Sibbesson is senior lecturer in prehistoric archaeology at Canterbury Christ Church University. She specialises in Neolithic archaeology, food technology, and prehistoric ceramics. She is co-editor of Neolithic Bodies (Oxbow, in prep.) and has contributed to two major food studies encyclopaedias: Food Issues (ed. Ken Albala, SAGE Reference 2015) and Archaeology of Food (eds. K. Metheny & M. Beaudry, Rowman & Littlefield 2015). She is secretary of the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group and has led scientific analysis of pottery assemblages from a series of Neolithic sites in East Anglia, Oxfordshire, and Gloucestershire.