Alana Pengilley, Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Alana Pengilley is an archaeology PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include the application of geochemical techniques to archaeological and geological assemblages to study
past trade and exchange systems and how they impacted inter and intra-regional community interaction. Her current research is focused on understanding the lithic economy of the Preclassic Lowland Maya, with a focus on the procurement and distribution of chert utilitarian tools. She is currently developing a methodology of the sourcing of Mesoamerican chert artifacts that employes geoarchaeological techniques, primarily focused on petrological, mineralogical, and geochemical methods. This research is currently supported by grants from the Geological Society of America, The Society for American Archaeology, and the University of Texas.

Ahana Ghosh, Archaeological Sciences Centre, Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar; email Ahana

Ahana Ghosh is a doctoral scholar and teaching assistant at the Archaeological Sciences Centre, under Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. Previously she also held an Early Career Researcher position in the Rewriting World Archaeology program at Durham University and Antiquity. She is using scientific tools like lipid residue analysis to understand the ancient foodways of the Harappan culture. Her work also focuses on the concept of the culinary landscape and different aspects of realities and representations of food. Before joining IITGN, she held a position as Visiting Researcher at Archaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden. Ahana has been awarded the Student Research Support Award by The Society of Archaeological Sciences for conducting a substantial part of her doctoral research. Recently, she has also been nominated as a Fulbright-Nehru doctoral research scholar for the year 2023 -2024.

Iride Tomažič, Department of Anthropology, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan, 610 E University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Iride Tomažič is a PhD candidate in Anthropological Archaeology at the University of Michigan. Prior coming to Michigan, she earned a MA in Archaeology at the University of Cardiff, Wales and a BA in History at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia. She has conducted extensive fieldwork (research and CRM) and laboratory work in continental Europe, the UK, Peru, and North America. Her research interests include human/environment/animal relationships in relation to technological changes. Her current research examines the impacts of metallurgy on communities, their animals, and the environment by tracking changes over time from the Copper Age to the Bronze Age in the Southern Carpathian Basin with ICP-MS and LA-ICP-MS techniques.

Panagiotis Koullouros, PhD candidate (Archaeobotany at the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC) – The Cyprus Institute). This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Panagiotis Koullouros PhD candidate (Archaeobotany at the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC) – The Cyprus Institute) Panagiotis is a PhD candidate in Archaeobotany at the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC). He has received his Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from Queen Mary University of London (2017) and his Master’s degree in Environmental Archaeology from the University of Reading (2018). His research focuses on the study of charcoal materials from Greece and Cyprus during the 1 st  Millennium BCE. He is interested in the reconstruction and evolution of past vegetation cover in the region of the Eastern Mediterranean during this period with emphasis on its impact on human societies and their practices. Research interests: Anthracology, 1 st  Millennium BCE, Eastern Mediterranean, Paleoclimate, Climate Change and Human Societies. FB: Panagiotis Koullouros (https://www.facebook.com/pkoullouros); X: Panagiotis Koullouros/ @PanKoull (https://twitter.com/PanKoull).

Cleopatra Chatzipetrou, Groningen Institute of Archaeology, The Netherlands. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

I am Kleopatra Chatzipetrou and I am currently in the process of graduating from my Research Masters in archaeology at the University of Groningen. My research interests include the paleoenvironment of the Bronze Age and how humans have impacted shifts of said environment. I have worked on various archaeological projects in Greece (Naxos, Delos, Thessaloniki and more). My current work focuses on using stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes to explain the collapse of the Late Bronze Age systems around the eastern Mediterranean. I hope that this current master thesis work will progress into a PhD into the near future. LinkedIn: Kleopatra Chatzipetrou; Twitter: @ChCleopatra.