Nathan Schlanger Editor & Author

Laurence Manolakakis is a researcher at the CNRS, and director of the laboratory “Trajectoires” (CNRS/Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne University). A specialist of lithic technology and resource procurement from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in Europe, in both the Balkans and in Northern France, her research interests include funerary assemblages, territories and socio-economic organisation. Her main publications on the Balkan Copper Age are: Les industries lithiques énéolithiques de Bulgarie (2005), Open−cast flint mining, long blades production and long−distance exchange: an example from Bulgaria (2008), Le mobilier en silex taillé des tombes de Varna I (2008), A flint deposit, a tell and a shaft: a lithic production complex at Ravno 3-Kamenovo? (Early Chalcolithic, North-East Bulgaria) (2011). Nathan Schlanger is professor of archaeology at the Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris. His research interests include prehistoric archaeology, material culture studies, archaeological heritage management, and the history and politics of archaeology. Among his recent publications: Marcel Mauss. Techniques, technologie et civilization (ed. 2012), European Archaeology Abroad. Global Settings, Comparative Perspectives (ed. 2013), Year 5 at Fukushima. A ‘disaster-led’ archaeology of the contemporary future (2016) and Back in business. History and evolution at the new Musée de l’Homme (2016). He has worked at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA, Paris), the Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (INRAP) and the Ecole du Louvre, and is now professor of archaeology at the Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris. Anick Coudart is Research Professor at Arizona State University, and formerly Directeur de recherche at the CNRS. She was the co-founder and long-time editor-in-chief of the professional journal Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie. A specialist in European Neolithic, ethno-archaeology and material culture, she has co-directed during 25 years a large archaeological rescue project (from Neolithic to Iron Age) in the Aisne Valley, France. She has also developed research in Papua New-Guinea on traditional dwellings and material culture, highlighting the relationship between dwelling diversity and temporal rhythms of change. An avid photographer, she has produced a very large documentation on traditional techniques and material culture around the world. Among her main publications : L’Archéologie de la France rurale de la préhistoire aux temps modernes (ed. 1987), Architecture et société néolithique. L’uniformité et la variance de la maison danubienne (1998), Habitat et société (ed. 1999), Archéologie et société. Construction(s) de l’archéologie (ed. 2008), “The reconstruction of the Danubian Neolithic house and the scientific importance of architectural studies” (2013), “The Bandkeramik longhouses. A Material, Social, and Mental Metaphor for Small-Scale Sedentary Societies” (2015), “Longtemps durant… le Genre ne fut pas un genre français sinon qu’il était du genre masculin… E pur si muove” (2015).