Bones at a crossroads

Wild, MarkusDr Markus Wild studied in France and Germany and works as postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology, Germany. His research projects try to elucidate human behavioural evolution and particularly focus on the material culture and chronology of the Upper Palaeolithic to Mesolithic in northwestern Europe. He has developed expertise in technological analysis and radiocarbon dating of worked bone. His research interests also include risk management in hunter-gatherer societies, children's learning, and interdisciplinary approaches to archaeology.

Thurber, Beverly A.Dr Beverly A. Thurber is an independent scholar based in the Chicago area whose main research interest is early ice skating, especially bone skates. She has four degrees in four different things, including a PhD from Cornell University, and has studied in the US, the UK, and Germany. From 2009 to 2017, she taught a variety of courses in mathematics, science, and the humanities at Shimer College. Her book Skates Made of Bone: A History was published in 2020.

Rhodes, StephenStephen Rhodes MSc is a zooarchaeologist interested in the shift from hunting to herding in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia. He has worked in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, and since 2017 is involved in an ongoing project in Kvemo Kartli, Georgia. The large numbers of bone tools recovered from the excavations in Georgia have led him to incorporate these objects, and the perishable technologies they represent, into his analysis of Neolithic subsistence change. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Gates St-Pierre, ChristianDr Christian Gates St-Pierre is Assistant Professor at the Université de Montréal, Canada. His research projects are focusing on the subsistence and material culture of Pre-Contact Iroquoian societies in Northeastern North America. He has developed an expertise in the technological and functional analysis of worked bone, including microwear analysis. His research interests also include social archaeology, ethical issues, and the politics of archaeological heritage.