Intent on the Paleolithic

Gerrit L. Dusseldorp is a Stone Age archaeologist focussing on Pleistocene societies in both Europe and Southern Africa. His PhD work on Neanderthal foraging behaviour was co-supervised by Prof. Corbey. He currently directs work on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition Umhlatuzana rockshelter, South Africa. He is also involved in the multidisciplinary project "Liveable Planet" to develop strategies to develop more sustainable human societies. He is currently appointed as associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University and as senior research fellow at the Paleo-Research Institute at the University of Johannesburg. Wei Chu is a Palaeolithic archaeologist focussing on the late Pleistocene of Europe. His PhD focused on experimental archaeology and taphonomy. He currently leads a project focused on the early Upper Palaeolithic in East-Central Europe. He is currently appointed as assistant professor at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University. Corrie Bakels has held the chair in palaeoeconomy at Leiden University, the Netherlands, since 1988. Her specialisations are prehistoric and early historic agriculture, archaeobotany and vegetation history. She graduated in 1978 on an analysis of early farming societies in the Netherlands and Bavaria, Germany. Since then she has participated in many archaeological projects in Western Continental Europe. A synthesis of her work on the agrarian history of the Western European loess belt, 5300 BC - AD 1000 has appeared in 2009.

After her retirement, she continued working at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. Her current research concerns: 1. former environments from the Eemian up to the 19th century; 2. farming practices in the past. Marie Soressi is a Palaeolithic archaeologist working with paleogeneticists and geoarcheologists to better reconstruct the demise of Neandertals and their interactions with Homo sapiens. Since 2021, she has served as the head of the Human Origins Research Unit at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, a position previously held by its founder, Will Roebroeks.