Maria Ivanova Editor & Author

Maria Ivanova is lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg. Her research area includes the Neolithic and Copper Age of East and Southeast Europe, with a particular focus on ancient technology, spheres of exchange, and the transmission of innovations. She is currently conducting research on the farming transition in the Balkans, the main corridor for the introduction of plant cultivation and animal herding from Anatolia into Europe. Bogdan Athanassov is an Assistant Professor for prehistoric archaeology and director of the Archaeometry and Experimental Archaeology Lab at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia. He studied archaeology in Bulgaria, Greece and Germany and his research focuses on archaeology of space, frontiers, and spatial and social marginality. Together with Philipp W. Stockhammer he co-directs the Bresto excavations in Southwest Bulgaria. Vanya Petrova lecturer in Textile Archaeology at St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. She completed her PhD at the University of Sofia in 2011. Her main research interests are focused on the Bronze Age in Southeastern Europe, pottery and textile technology, environmental dynamics and subsistence strategies as factors in cultural transformation. Philipp W. Stockhammer is professor for prehistoric archaeology with a focus on the Eastern Mediterranean at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich and co-director of Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, Jena. His research focuses on the transformative power of intercultural encounters, human-thing-entanglements, social practices and the integration of archaeological and scientific interpretation.