Ian Kuijt is a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. His interests include mortuary analysis, the forager–farmer transition, the ancient Near East, and Irish historical archaeology. Colin P. Quinn is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Michigan, where he works at the Museum of Anthropology. His research interests include a global ... Read moreperspective on increasing social complexity and material culture use; his current research focuses on monitoring long-term dynamics in the interaction of mortuary practices, settlement patterns, and metal procurement in Bronze Age Transylvania. Gabriel Cooney is the professor of Celtic archaeology in the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests focus on Ireland in the wider European context and include early farming societies, particularly prehistoric use of stone and mortuary practices. Show Less